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The real question is will the Russian government survive their disastrous war in some form? 50% of Russia's oil infrastructure and refining capacity has been taken out in the last six months. Do you think Russia will be able to survive that? Disruption of Russian critical infrastructure routes are getting worse by the day. In the border regions you can't even get a truck driver to agree to move a load for $10,000 across some of the highways of Russia that supply Crimea. Ukraine is doing more than just surviving. It is beating Russia.

> 50% of Russia's oil infrastructure and refining capacity has been taken out

No, it has been merely hit (usually once) and typically repaired in the span of a few days. The whole "double-digits percents have been destroyed" typically comes from not so high quality news agencies. Some things were destroyed more thoroughly, but their margin is largely negligible.

Ukraine has suffered much more material damage and loss of large swaths of land, and may have lost more civilians. Russia did lose a lot of troops, but their population is also larger. Russia did experience a brain drain, but Ukraine as well. I find "beating Russia" an odd take.

Ukraine’s drone strikes in Russia now exceed the number of drone attacks it receives from Russia: https://techwars.substack.com/p/ukraines-long-arm-how-kyiv-o...

Also, the Internet works fine in Ukraine (which is where I live and work on my tech startup), but Russia now has major problems because of the Yandex data center strikes.

I would call that “beating Russia”.

I'm glad to hear that

Zero censorship? Who do you think you are kidding?

I have to be careful with hyperboles, seems like my comment got flagged. I meant "the things I cannot find with Google I can find with Yandex". I actually have no idea about overall censorship, so "zero censorship" is a bit insane of me to proclaim in retrospect.

Zero censorship???

I guess what I meant was "I can always find what I want", I have not tried searching for things that the Russian regime may find sensitive. So the better term would be "censored very differently", so it fills up Google's blind spots nicely.

> It has zero censorship

My dude, it’s one of the most heavily censored search engines on earth

I think it entirely depends of what censorship you care about. If political censorship is irrelevant to you and puritanistic and copyright censorship is what's in you way then western search engines are more heavily censored.

This. Google like ChatGPT have started censoring content like people did not populate this earth by fornication. Yandex cares much less about this sort of censorship, at least from what I can tell. Even Bing fell from its throne. IYKYK.

It is also arm of fascist government comnmitting outright genocide with war which affected tens of millions and over million victims.

They absolutely censor all Ukrainian content, proactively collaborate with russian 'law enforcement' and just plain out owned by state.

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