drran

> This could be true.

It's written history. If you know Russian, just read chronicles.

> This is an ideologically-motivated delusion, more or less on the level of the Indians who are willing to claim that the Aryans were indigenous to the subcontinent while ignoring the linguistic and genetic evidence. Russia refers to the Rus in the same way that France refers to the Franks and Serbia refers to the Serbs.

Ideologically motivated delusion for Russian Empire was to be descendants of Rome Empire via Byzantine and Russia (Ukraine). No Emperor of the time wanted to draw their line from a bunch of bastards of unknown origin, which did raids on neighborhoods. The town of Russia moved up of the Russia (now Porussia) river, but it is still present on the map.

Russia is not a Slavic word, so you cannot draw such parallels. When Russians captured Kyїv (Oleg of Novgorod killed Ascold and Dir, Slavic rulers of Kyїv, in 882), Russians declared Kyїv as mother for Russian cities, but Russian were assimilated by Slavs, so they forgot their native language and started to use Slavic language, so, with time, name of their country was changed according to rules of Slavic language.

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> You need to work on your facts. The term was coined several hundred years before 1639.

Of course, the term «ukraine» was used for centuries before founding of Moscow, but in 17th century the set of ukraines was built on territory of former Russia (now Ukraine), so the whole territory of former Russia got name «Ukraine». From usage of the word it's easy to guess it's meaning: a land with fortification, which protects it.

> I would guess the /u/ - /o/ change happened for the same reason that the Russian word for "Russia", named after the Rus, is "Rossiya".

Rossiya is the late transcription of the word Russia to Cyrillic.

Originally, Russia meant the town of Russia (now: Old Russa, Старая Русса) or «red». In times of Justinianic plague (541–549 AD), original Russians abandoned their town and spread around large territory, between Azov sea and Spain, trying to avoid plague.

About century before that, Volyn kingdom, last kingdom of all Slavs, was broken into pieces when king Muzhyk (Brave) was captured by Greeks when he helped his brother to raid Byzantine. Russians (now Ukrainians) captured the city of Kyїv and start to rule 9 Slavic tribes in the freshly formed country. In Ukrainian, suffix -sia (-ся) means here/there/self, so it was dropped, thus the name of Russia shortened to just Rus, while keeping it original spelling at West.

When Moscow tsar Petro I captured Russia(now Ukraine), he appended «tsar of all Russia» to his title. Moscow tsar Caterina II, born in Prussia, renamed Moscow kingdom to Russian Empire and directed to return all correspondence sent to old name, so most Western countries started to call Moscow kingdom as Russia (except very few, which still know Ukraine as Russia, which is used by Russians to confuse people).

However, two Russia's created confusion in Moscow kingdom, so they refer to old one as Rus, while refer to modern one as Rossia. It has nothinh to do with «ou» to «o» (oh) and «u» (oo) transition.

It's similar to how RF captured their seat in UN: they never formally accepted into UN, so they just switched the country name on the table.

Ukraine is the post-nuclear country. Ukraine has 4 working weapons grade nuclear stations.

If Russian will capture nuclear reactor, they can convert it to nuclear landmine, because reactor uses enriched Uranium, to create equivalent of 10k Chornobyl's.

Ukraine has know-how and nuclear materials (Plutonium) to create nuclear weapons at will. The only thing that stopped us is USA, Britain, France, and Germany, which used Budapest memorandum as leverage against Ukraine to prevent that.

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Ukraine had no nuclear weapons 8 years ago. Ukraine has all required equipment and nuclear materials (weapon grade Uranium, Plutonium) to create nuclear weapons at will. Are you sure that Ukraine has no will to defend itself?

> The US and Russia have danced around very carefully in Syria; the only direct conflict I know of involved Russian "mercenaries".

Turkey shot Russian airplane.

> NATO operations in Ukraine carry a very large risk of accidental escalation, in addition to Putin's threats.

I'm sorry to inform you, but war between two nuclear nations has much larger risk of escalation when NATO will play the role of coward.

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Ukraine had nuclear weapons. Ukraine has weapon grade nuclear reactors, which produces plutonium. Ukrainian engineers developed equipment and rockets to produce nuclear weapons for USSR. Tactics of using nuclear weapons was part of my education.

> it literally translates to "borderland"

Can you tell us from which language you translate, please?

If you translate from Russian language, then note that Russian language was not existent when the term «Ukraine» was coined (1639). In Ukrainian and Polish languages, Ukraine means «fortified area» or «fortified country». Even Russian language has words like «укрепления» (fortifications), «укрытие» (cover) and «край» (land, area), thus meaning of word «украина» should be obvious even for Russians. However, they exchange Ukrainian word for Russian word «окраина» («outskirts», «околиця» in Ukrainian), to dismiss Ukraine as independent country.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Vasseur_de_Beaupl...

Ukraine means «fortified area»: укріплення (fortifications) + край (area) = україна (ookruhїnuh, Ukraine). It's a number of fortification lines built to protect Europe from eastern nomads. Russian are replacing Oo by Oh at the beginning to make «Outskirt» (of Moscow) in Russian language. Don't spread falsified version, please.

One of the French engineers, who built fortification lines, Guillaume de Beauplan[0], created the first map (1639) and wrote a book about Ukraine.

It was correct to refer to these fortifications as «The Ukraine» before Ukraine received independence from the Russian Empire, but no longer.

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When Russians will take Ukrainian nuclear reactor, this war will be nuclear regardless of what you want.

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It's FUD. Russians don't want to see as their families dies in flames.

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These 6000 nuclear warheads are expired. They need maintenance, which only Ukraine can do.

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It's FUD. Russians don't wand to die with their families. They know that USA already used nuclear bombs in war and will use them again when necessary.

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2 large nuclear forces are in conflict already. Ukraine is nuclear country.

Nothing nuclear happened during the war with soviets in Vietnam, Korea, etc., or with Russians in Syria. RF is much weaker than USSR.

Most of the replications failed, except some. My theory is that nuclear reaction in hydrogen loaded palladium is initiated by cosmic gamma rays or cosmic muons, thus those laboratories which were open to cosmic rays, such as at top floors or in mountain areas, are able to reproduce results, while shielded labs are unable.

I planned to set up a similar experiment and bombard a hydrogen loaded target with muons, or move the experiment to the top of a Carpathian mountain, but the institute of nuclear research in Kharkiv, Ukraine is under attack, so it's not possible.

The idea of using ErD3 instead of Nickel or Palladium is very good, because it saves weeks of time to load the target with Deuterium.

Cosmic rays and muons can initiate a nuclear reaction: they can have very high energy sometimes. If the metal plate is large enough, then it can be hit often enough to produce significant output, when it is not shielded from cosmic rays.

For example, lab at top floor or in mountain area may produce much more heat than lab in basement at sea level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

This was seen ages ago.

> In 1989, two electrochemists, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, reported that their apparatus had produced anomalous heat ("excess heat") of a magnitude they asserted would defy explanation except in terms of nuclear processes. They further reported measuring small amounts of nuclear reaction byproducts, including neutrons and tritium. The small tabletop experiment involved electrolysis of heavy water on the surface of a palladium (Pd) electrode. The reported results received wide media attention and raised hopes of a cheap and abundant source of energy.

> Doesn't change the fact though that they certainly are self-identifying Nazi, in a sad perversion of "the enemy of the enemy is my friend"

Are you member of Azov regiment or know them personally? If not, then list your arguments, please.

For Russians, anybody who is strong and against RF (or is ally of US) is Nazi, including Jews. It's like a gold medal for the enemy of RF.

[1]: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C...

Do Italian sabotage[0] (Итальянская забастовка[1]): execute all rules and laws as precisely as possible. It's the safest form of protest.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule

Why US was in Afghanistan in the first place? Uh, they blow up American city...

> what do you mean they are "explicitly neo-Nazi"?

Just looks at their crimes at Wikipedia:

> On 11 August, Azov battalion, backed by Ukrainian paratroopers, captured Marinka from pro-Russian rebels and entered the suburbs of Donetsk clashing with Donetsk People's Republic fighters.

They're killing Russians.

> In early September 2014, the Azov battalion was engaged in the Second Battle of Mariupol. Regarding the ceasefire agreed on 5 September, Biletskiy stated: "If it was a tactical move there is nothing wrong with it ... if it's an attempt to reach an agreement concerning Ukrainian soil with separatists then obviously it's a betrayal."

They don't believe Russians.

> As of late March 2015, despite a second ceasefire agreement (Minsk II), the Azov Battalion continued to prepare for war, with the group's leader seeing the ceasefire as "appeasement".

They don't believe Russians.

> In March 2015 Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced that the Azov Regiment would be among the first units to be trained by United States Army troops in their Operation Fearless Guardian training mission.

They cooperate with US.

> According to Minsk Ceasefire Agreements, foreign fighters are not allowed to serve in Ukraine's military. Despite the Minsk Ceasefire Agreements, the regiment still has foreign fighters, including an ex-British army serviceman Chris Garrett and a 33-year-old former soldier of the Greek army and French Foreign Legion known by the nom-de-guerre of "The Greek".

They allow British and French to kill Russians.

And so on.

> You are right, it was Putin not anyone else who made the decision to invade Ukraine

But you blame the victim anyway.

> Frankly speaking, the USA, EU, Ukraine share the same amount of blame for what is happening now.