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Ukraine didn't release casualty figures for a long time (though to be fair, Russia government doesn't exactly post daily casualty figures either, the Russian casualty figure is divined by infering what we can from Russian media), the Western press released a figure for the Ukrainian forces, which is probably quite low, and the figure hasn't increased in almost a year.

It's sort of like how Western press has been claiming for over a year that 20,000 people have perished in Gaza, and the figure never goes up.

I follow a lot of Ukrainian commentary, it's hard for me to conclude Ukraine is doing well. They're having to conscript younger and younger people every day. No business is insane enough to invest in Ukraine at the moment. Some companies are crazy enough to try to ship goods in and out of Odesa, but its significantly less than pre-war. Every time the Ukrainian army tries to take back territory in the Donbas, the Russian army repels their forward strikes, and usually takes a few more feet of the Donbas in the process. It's really hard to win a war of attrition against the largest country in the world. The Russian army occupies some of the largest energy sources of Ukraine. I haven't investigated recently but I suspect Russia is still Ukraine's largest LNG provider.

I think that is generally true. But Poland had an AWFUL experience with the residents of western Ukraine during the 1940s.

Pol Pot tried that with Year Zero. It turned out poorly.

I follow the writings of Ben Aris, who focuses mostly on analyzing energy and capital markets in Russia.

He writes prolifically about Russia at https://www.intellinews.com/eastern-europe/

(and other places, at a lower URL path)

He believes that Russia's economy is not doing wonderfully, but not nearly as bad as the Western press says it is, and that whoever runs Russia is probably willing to put up with some pain a lot longer than Ukrainians can put up with no power no water no food, etc.

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40bneeditor%20russia%20...

> Not that you might care about the moral aspect of it, but we also finished Nazi Germany and prevented that horror from taking over the world.

There's a lot of research on how the Allies helped move many Nazi war criminals to safe havens in other countries, help the remaining Nazis into positions in government and business in West Germany, used the remaining Nazis as intelligence networks, helped them organize into wild-eyed anti-Communist cells all over the world, and of course absorbed several Nazi scientists into research institutions in the US.

In a moment of madness Churchill put out a plan to hire the Wehrmacht after their defeat to go invade the real enemy, the Soviet Union.

My theory is Russia can continue to produce long range weapons and drones in factories near the Urals or even beyond in Siberia, far out of reach of anything the Ukrainians can get their hands on, and just outproduce the Ukrainians as long as it takes.

They only need one working nuke out of their 6000. I'm sure at least one of them is operational.

The European countries that aren't closely allied with Russia and don't have nuclear power plants all over the place have collapsing economies because they're paying 5X what they used to for Russian gas.

It's really grim.

I don't think the EU thinks it can afford it at this time.

The US clearly donates obsolete weapons to Ukraine, and then ships the snazzy new super deadly stuff to Israel.

The Russian-leaning world remembers this event differently, they think of it as the US unilaterally bombing Yugoslavia, taking out a Chinese installation full of Chinese nationals, and facing absolutely no consequences or ill effects.

This was one of the factors that guided Putin's thinking when he took Crimea.

The US has successfully created a system that integrates the US economy with Europe, limiting Europe's choices and greatly enriching the US for decades... and then last week JD Vance in Munich yelled at everyone and claimed the EU was somehow stealing money from the US.

A++ gaslighting, great job.

It is interesting how the US's influence in the rest of the world is declining every day, and that it appears the main entity trying to tear it down as fast as possible is the US.

I don't get it.

I think Elon employees a lot of people who sit around and think of ways to be Elon in the most annoying extreme ways possible, then they run it by Elon, Elon nods, and they go do it.

someone tries to update the info with an updated PR almost every day.

Life expectancy in the northern portion of Korea was higher than in the southern portion up until the point the US bombed 2/3 of all buildings in the northern portion.

The way US sanctions against countries work is when we sanction a country, we also sanction any other country or entity or person who passes money or goods in return for money or goods from the targeted country.

It's not simply "We've decided to not buy and sell goods from a certain country."

more info here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/us-...

What really happens with US sanctions is the guys we sanction all decide to band together with each other and to oppose and hate America, and eventually withdraw from using the US Dollar, reducing the US's influence. That may be good or it may be bad but its definitely not what the US has in mind when it sanctions a country.

he hasn't merged a PR in 3 years but https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

I don't call Trump's recent actions as strictly Nazi, but they are definitely Fascist.

At least we'll start publicly funding religious evangelical Christian schools.

Miriam Adelson donates 10 million to Trump before you get up in the morning, every day.

The new Commerce secretary controls massive amounts of Tether.

I wish Trump wasn't able to act like he has a huge massive sea change mandate, when he only won by 1%

The experience of Vladimir Putin's parents in the siege continue to shape Putin's views.

doesn't matter. many of the entities investigating at the time have since destroyed their records.

I thought Facebook fired all the human moderators ?

you're really going to make us watch a 45 minute youtube video?

not this again

It's even more. You also need to fund power and maintain infrastructure to run the GPUs. You need to build fast networks between the GPUs for RDMA. Ethernet is going to be too slow. Infiniband is unreliable and expensive.

You're right, the agents actually smeared him with Campbell’s Chicken & Stars to make him look he just got strangled. You got me!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/how-the-feds-sta...

>Force got Green to sign a waiver, thereby commencing his role in an impromptu staged torture sting against DPR. Soon Green was being dunked in the bathtub of a Marriott suite by phony thugs who were in fact a Secret Service agent and a Baltimore postal inspector. Force recorded the action on a camera. “Did you get it?” Green asked, wet and wheezing on the floor. He’d felt like their simulation was a little too accurate. They dunked him four more times to get a convincing shot.

There used to be an online archive of every little bit of public information known about the Silk Road's administrators and their court cases. I can't find it anymore. It was over 10 years ago. All I can remember is the site had a weird url.