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Considering overall economic and political situation of Russia, someone from there who can just casually afford/allow themselves a vacation in Europe and then come back, is almost certainly a person one should not let in. 🌝

“Proxy war” take is literally just Russian propaganda meant to deprive Ukraine of agency in eyes of whoever that bullshit is targeted at.

It’s never Ukraine that fights back, it’s ye fiendish Anglo-Saxons, Americans, CIA, NATO mercenaries or whatever, especially with most successful operations like Moskva sinking and “Spiderweb”.

And that is just natural continuation of Russian attitudes since early 90’s, with first Yeltsin blabbing “they will all come crawling back”, while negotiating Russian military presence in Crimea, and then putin lamenting loss of Ukraine and Kazakhstan in early 2000’s. For Russians it’s simply inconceivable that colony would just break away given the chance, it must be someone else pulling the strings.

To be fair, they insisted that they were on good speaking terms. Seen from that one occasion where some article claimed that Linux was copied from MINIX and Tanenbaum dissed the article, defending Torvalds.

Would probably be better to completely ignore whatever Peskov, Lavrov or other ghouls are babbling.

Their opinions aren’t worth the kilobytes of disk space on servers where these news sites are hosted.

Russians know that nobody wants WW3, and they don’t want it too, actually. But they’re willing to exploit Western cautiousness on that matter - that’s why possibility of “limited incursions” has been brought up quite a few times recently, where they’ll just start chipping pieces of their neighbours, small enough for Russian friends like US to prevent organised collective defense answers.

These Romans were selfish assoles, for sure. Imagine writing massive encyclopaedias, detailing how people saw the world at the time, to only read them at family gatherings in best case, or just have them hidden away and eventually burned.

One of my favourite books that I definitely need to re-read, The Good Soldier Švejk, has a gag about an officer getting frustrated due to constant audible toilet flushing at floor above.

That thing once made me do a little research to find out that there was indoor plumbing at least in administrative buildings in my localty during Austria-Hungary times. My local school predates USSR and it had indoor toilets, that were partially disassembled during Soviet times and not used in favour of outhouse in school’s backyard. So when did my town started getting indoor plumbing again? - fucking 70’s. It’s such a little detail, but it just shows how USSR was actually un-civilizing places, not other way around.

Stalin, until his last days, was really pissy about the fact that he didn’t get to have entire Germany, not to mention initial pre-war plan to have entire Europe. Of course he was mad. 🌝

Putin himself was tightly linked to organised crime, part of “new Russians” back in 90’s, those that wore pink jackets.

And by mafia ways that country still lives - Wildberries was basically one big business eating smaller ones and making their owners their debt slaves. One has to sell shit with like 4x markup to turn any profit through that platform, and they all just went in like bunch of fucking sheep.

Man, the fact that in Türkiye, somewhat democratic country, you can be jailed for insulting election official is so wild for me (Context). Like, I’m 100% with Imamoglu on this one, those guys are morons and assholes.

Yeah, invasion of USSR by Germany already was a sketchy decision, with Göring and some other military leaders expressing doubts about whole “we only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down” plan.

But legit arguments didn’t really have a chance against fascist hubris, so initial top nazi officials attitude towards both invasion of USSR and Pearl Harbour was very positive.

Most of us believe in some weird shit. Now imagine being given intellectual authority by being recognised as one of the greatest minds - specialty becomes secondary matter here and journalists, for example, will just ask one whatever and that will just add sensationalism element to one’s weird shit beliefs - and bam, “Nobel disease”.