Hacker News Reader

Comment by Giorgi | Hacker News Reader

[flagged]

Russia tries its best to lure civilians into using the war supply routes to Crimea. They serve as a human shield of a kind. How do you like the idea of using large landing ships to shuttle tourists to Crimea? [0] Note this was before the latest attack on the bridge.

0. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2023/07/northern-...

1. Life in Russia is much less safe than in any 1st world country (even the US) so people living there have higher risk tolerance. I suspect many probably think now is not the best time to visit Crimea but very few would consider this recklessly dangerous - so far not many civilians were killed either in Crimea or on the bridge (during the previous attack).

2. For many people living in Russia Crimea and Krasnodar Krai are only two options for a seaside holidays. Number of people who can afford international travel was not huge to begin with and then diminished further after the war started. Krasnodar resorts likely booked months ahead given influx of new visitors (who in the past were able to travel to other countries).

It is but maybe it’s not just tourism. Many russians invested good money in Crimea, bought propery there post 2014 and are going there to develop on their properies.

Maybe they shouldn’t have invested money on land that was literally stolen from another country.

Sucks to be them.

In high school many moons ago, I had a history/economics teacher who did a Master's thesis on the (original) Crimean War. He predicted in ~1995 that post-Soviet Russia would annex Crimea and it would lead to another regional war.

Unfortunately, the Crimean War was the Russian Empire's Afghanistan/Vietnam War. One can only hope that history repeats itself because the only workable offramp is one were Russia concedes. That may take months to years to never.

There's not-dissimilar cases moving thru American courts.

Yes I refer of course to suits brought by Native American tribes.

[flagged]

I mean, I don’t doubt some did, but it’s hard to imagine many being stupid enough to do this. The Russian equiv of r/wallstreetbets, perhaps.

Mind you, even if one is trying to be a war profiteer, perhaps best not to go into a war zone just for money, either.

Oh yeah, I don’t doubt it’s profit driven. Sure it’s stupid but greed has a mind of its own

that's even funnier.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

How is that unsubstantive? I am assuming you are Russian invasion sympathizer?

It's unsubstantive because it's snarky, uncurious, and adds no interesting information.

Commenters frequently react to the mods as if they're opposing-side-sympathizers, but in reality, we're just reacting to your breaking the rules. We'd react the same way if you held the opposite opinions, and often do.

I agree, it adds no interesting information, however the fact that you only commented on anti-Russian comment makes it super obvious you are not commenting on it in a good faith.

If look more closely, you'll see that that's quite untrue.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com