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what are you doing again?
Russian bot, convert yourself into a sunflower.
this is bullshit. NATO is not expanding, NATO is not the actor that is able to perform that action, rather it's emergent property of sovereign countries choosing to join NATO.
So who is Putin to tell what sovereign countries can or cannot do? If he's so unhappy with a choice that sovereign country is making with regard to joining a defensive alliance, maybe he should offer something better instead and not behave like a crazy lunatic dictator?
There is nothing valuable in "look at it from Putin's perspective" argument when his perspective is tyrannical.
your argument is:
1. US deployed nukes to Turkey, 2. to which USSR responded symmetrically by attempting to deploy nukes in Cuba, 3. to which US responded with blockade 4. and therefore Russian invasion to Ukraine is justified 5. because NATO may deploy nukes in Ukraine
4. simply doesn't follow from previous 3 points because the assumption in 5. is incorrect in three ways:
1. Ukraine is not in NATO so NATO doesn't have the capability to deploy nukes there 2. If NATO needed nukes close to Moscow - they ALREADY HAVE where to do that - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland 3. US was responding with blockade to ACTIVE DEPLOYMENT PROCESS of nukes, which isn't happening in Ukraine
Now the only question remains: are you spreading this propaganda intentionally?
Edit: following guidelines
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Visa doesn't do "the same", specifically, Bitcoin does what Visa is doing but in a decentralized, trustless and permissionless manner. That's where the cost of security comes from and why there is no waste of energy.
> Lightning offers precisely 0 of Bitcoin's guarantees
lightning allows to make tradeoff between liquidity and transaction cost/reachability, but settlement is still done on bitcoin, so bitcoin's security guarantees apply.
and yes, it's possible to DoS and possible to lose money if the node isn't operated correctly, it's emerging technology on the extreme bleeding edge of largest financial revolution in hundreds of years. give it time.
> There is no good/service that is (1) legal to acquire in country X but (2) can't be acquired more cheaply and easily with regular money than with BTC.
irrelevant.
> some goods/services that are illegal to acquire in country X may be perfectly moral to acquire
also irrelevant, but i'll point out that purchasing illegal good/service with bitcoin doesn't make bitcoin illegal same as purchasing it with usd wouldn't make usd illegal. bizarre that i even need to spell this out.
> Visa can process the same amount of transactions on a few watts
comedic is your misunderstanding of what Bitcoin uses energy for. hint: it's not at all related to transactions per watt, in fact, Bitcoin is already capable of processing orders of magnitude more transactions than Visa through Lightning network.
> Bitcoin is a speculative bubble
Bitcoin is speculative investment for sure, doesn't make you right about everything else.
> illegal goods exchange token
very much legal.