I’m not suggesting they would or would want to take all of Ukraine, just that Ukraine isn’t likely to gain any ground or stop further Russian advance without outside aid.

I don’t really think I am, but fair enough.

Ukraine might have more advanced infrastructure than Afghanistan, but having that infrastructure within reach of Russian missiles and airstrikes means that they’d have to defend it or else lose the means to sustain a continued resistance. Again, I don’t think people appreciate just how much trouble Ukraine would be in if the west pulled support before a ceasefire deal is struck - Ukrainian forces aren’t guerilla fighters. If Russia didn’t already have the upper hand now, they certainly would once Ukraine was left to maintain their resistance alone - and then it would really only be a question of how long Russian citizens will put up with their wartime economy (and how many soldiers NK is willing to lose).

The one we’re talking about.

The taliban had the support of Pakistan, as well as Iran and Russia - that’s the only way that kind of war could last for 20 years. That’s essentially where we are now with western backing, but if the west pulls support… Ukraine can last only so long on will-power alone. The same could be said for Russia, but as far as I can tell there isn’t an active risk of their allies pulling support yet.

edit: far be it for me to point out that’s why there’s been so much circling of wagons to keep the US involved and so much panic about trump pulling us out

Huh? This conflict basically already is the Afghanistan war.

Yea I don’t disagree. It’s just an incredible claim and it’s surprising that it’s apparently not being scrutinized much in the reporting.

People really want to take this as granted, and that’s kinda the point of manufactured consent.

I don’t even have a horse in this race, but it’s kinda crazy how badly people seem to want to believe this one crazy detail of an already unbelievable conflict

• a: they’re paraphrasing zelenski there, and,

• b:

The BBC has not independently verified the claims.

They’re all reporting on the same tweet, it’s not surprising that none of them have been able to verify it

Whoosh

“Everything is very good, actually”

“Quit hitting yourself, quit hitting yourself, quit hitting yourself”

Are you really sure you want to be ascribing global trends to the US empire?

Not a chance lol

Most americans don’t know a single thing about China, but almost every one of them would tell you that it’s a anti-free speech hellscape.

The only thing that matters is that it originated in China. Nothing else they do could change the opinion of the american public.

Meta is already a willing partner of the USSD, they don’t need to ‘make an example’.

OK, so lets say they moderated it the same way here as they did in China… All good now?

I don’t think it matters at all how tiktok is actually being managed or moderated in the US - Americans simply do not trust anything Chinese.

The cold war never ended.

I honestly cannot tell if this is parody.

I’d imagine operating a quantum computer for blanket surveillance is cost-prohibitive, but yea, if you’ve given them reason to look at you just assume they have the means to break your encryption.

My favorite postmortem take so far has been “why don’t democrats get in line like republicans do??”

It’s just such perfect mask-off liberalism, I just want to make a supercut of it for next election when libs are whining about why their unpopular candidate/policies aren’t winning.

Would be, but unfortunately all I have are fluorescent troffers down there. But a single extension and splitter cable might still be acceptable. I also thought about getting some usb battery banks - the cameras run off a 5v power adapter, I think a 15000mAh battery might last a couple days or even just one (not sure how many watts they draw running the custom firmware).

I was hoping for a cleaner solution but it might be one of those “pick two” situations.

Person A: Expresses a liberal perspective “Watch as this person calls me a Lib” Person B: “… yes, that is common liberal perspective” Person A: “Called it”

I’m impressed that you can handle that many jellyfin users

The range of sofistication in this thread is actually kind of breathtaking

I was so close to asking what the hell that thing was