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501  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 02, 2022, 05:04:53 PM
Has the united nations intervened yet ? Is this not the reason they built this up ?
They have Russian bodies amongst them, it's okay to stop the war now a lot have happened and died.
War is evil!
If this is not done by the united nations will they see the body scrapped off because they have failed to come as mediator between this countries.

It was flawed from start, because few countries have veto power, and those are biggest troublemakers at same time
502  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 02, 2022, 08:49:42 AM
Zero percent chance. Again, there are a million reasons why that would not happen. Definitely things that do not change "in a blink".

Last time it did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War



Conveniently forgetting to mention the fact that there was no Poland and no Ukraine a few years back. In 1798 Poland was invaded by Russia, Germany (Prussia) and Austria and wiped from the maps. This wasn't accepted by all countries. For instance, the Ottoman Empire continued to recognize Poland as a country. During that period, all occupants conscripted Polish people into their armies, changed names of towns and streets and forbid the use of polish language in schools. When Poland got back its independence in 1918 and expected the return of its former territories, but Ukraine put a claim to Lviv, which used to be a Polish city with a lot of Poles living there. In 1772 Lviv was taken over by Austria and became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, so it was natural for Poland to put a claim to it once the occupying forces left.

Once you know a little bit about history of these lands you start to understand why there was a conflict between Ukraine, that formed a sovereign republic in the same year (1918) and Poland, that saw another country forming in its old borders, pretty much in the same way that Donbas is trying to become a republic within the old borders of Ukraine.

However Russians will try to make it look, they were always an instigator of the conflicts in Europe and have always worked against a number of countries, like Poland and Lithuania. There was no Ukraine at the time, but now that it exists it's also an enemy of Russia and it will remain this way, because Russia can't exist without plotting against its neighbors.
Read about Treaty of the Three Black Eagles and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact among many other similar "agreements" set in motion by Russians.

Conveniently forgetting to mention that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupation of Moscow took place between 1610 and 1612 during the Polish–Muscovite War, when the Kremlin was occupied by a Polish-Lithuanian garrison under the command of Stanisław Żółkiewski.

See? I can do it too
503  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 02, 2022, 07:58:42 AM
Maybe President Zelensky doesn't understand that NATO and America, are only good at causing or aiding war, they hardly aid rehabilitation and reconstruction, after the war.

Pledging Armour tanks, Assault helicopters, and Armor tank destroyers is not what matters most, but would they also donate, and bring back the lost infrastructures and economy?

Yes, for the price. Weapons are also not "aid", they are paid, too

Interesting map

504  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 02, 2022, 07:16:34 AM
Zero percent chance. Again, there are a million reasons why that would not happen. Definitely things that do not change "in a blink".

Last time it did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War

505  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 01, 2022, 10:19:18 PM
Poland invaded Ukraine and Ukraine invaded Poland  17 times at least, so why stop now?
Poland has no current interest, nor strategic benefit from invading Ukraine.

Poland has a common enemy with Ukraine, (Russia), and attempting to invade Ukraine would make it difficult to jointly defend against any Russian attack.

That's what I said
506  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 01, 2022, 09:32:32 PM
Poland invaded Ukraine and Ukraine invaded Poland  17 times at least, so why stop now?
Lvov was #3 Poland city not that long ago, until Stalin gave it to Ukraine
Current geopolitical situation is not good for Poland retaking it, but that can change in a blink of an eye
507  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 29, 2022, 11:57:56 AM
OF course both USA and Russia will deny it but Ukraine is their playground for at least 20 years.
USA would do better for Ukraine by investing all those billions into Ukraine economy instead in arms,
maybe their GDP per capita would not be 1/3 of Russian

Except Kosovo is recognized by most countries.  So no.

If you meant "most USA colonies" then yes
508  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 29, 2022, 06:58:12 AM
I remember origins of conflict very well. Independence of Donbass and Luhansk, recognized by no one, backed just by Russia with their army in region. It's same like referendum in Crimea.

Or Kosovo.
509  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 29, 2022, 06:57:07 AM


NATO or US soldiers are not involved as such (thanks to suchmoon for stating the obvious), some of them have left their countries to fight in Ukraine. In fact, some of them are now deserters in their own countries because they left their countries' armies without permission.



That's usual way how you conduct covert operations...government officially can't be blamed for involvement, but of course
soldiers, UK government, and even Russia, all know UK government sent them. Just to be honest here, everyone do it the
same way, it fools only domestic populations (and not even all of them) or people who want to be fooled
510  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 27, 2022, 01:27:30 PM

Branko, you are suffering from confirmation bias. You only accept information that appears to prove your existing beliefs and disregard anything that may disprove it.

Ways you can avoid that:

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Seek contrary opinions, even if those opinions may seem uncomfortable to you at first.
Try to understand the rationale behind the contrarian opinions.
Do not rely on just one source of information to form opinions [...]. Look at multiple sources of information.
Knowledge is your biggest friend in overcoming  [...] biases..

https://www.miraeassetmf.co.in/knowledge-center/confirmation-bias






Funny, but I feel the same about you...with added bonus of oversimplifying complicated matters when it suits you
511  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 27, 2022, 12:29:43 PM
...

You eat too much western propaganda. I suggest reading

http://www.spectrezine.org/global/chomsky.html


Of course, I forgot that you are the owner of the truth and the knower of all objective information - for example Chomsky speaking about communism. You have to be kidding.

Anyway, please, give your version, how many people died under Stalin's regime (please include Holomordor, dying of hunger is a violent death IMO)? How many people died as a result of the invasion of France, Poland and the USSR by Nazi Germany? Hint: You will have to make some assumptions, none of that data is really uncontested.

Feel free to compare these, in reasonable terms with US wars or even US induced wars.

Bottom line, authoritarian regimes are much more prone to enter into wars. Most people by default do not want war, if given a voice, they would tend to request peaceful solutions. Tyrants need wars, countries ruled with strong military influence tend to like large armies and these tend to like waging war.

Collosally failed experiment of capitalism killed around 650 million people so far
Communism killed around 100 million

(I don't support either number, but you get those numbers when you apply same methodology of counting bodies
used by authors of "Black book of Communism" to both capitalism and communism)


Your "Bottom line, authoritarian regimes are much more prone to enter into wars." suggest USA is the most authoritarian regime ever
512  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 27, 2022, 12:15:01 PM


You consider that all governments are equally legit, so North Korea and Denmark are at the same level to you. I disagree - legitimacy comes from the will of people, period. Anything else is slavery and serfdom.

Ukraine, as far as I know, is not accepting NATO bases nor troops in its territory as of now, although the people could decide so if properly informed of the consequences. They certainly know now the consequences of not being protected. I never said that this lunch is free either, but stands a better chance of increasing living standards while keeping a reasonably representative government.

As said, if the people of the SI, properly informed of the consequences, decide to enter an (extremely asymmetric) treaty with the CCP, they are free to do so. The key is being properly informed and properly represented when making the decision. This is not entering and agreement with China, it is entering an agreement with a ruling elite that has China under their thumb.

On the Ukrainian topic, I partially agree. Would be an Ukraine under Putin's control be stable: most likely yes. Would that be a country that could develop, advance and have a choice about their destiny? Not a chance.

Again, if you take a short term and practical approach, Ukraine joining the EU and looking west makes no sense. If you look into the future and want a higher degree of freedom, social progress and development, it does.

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But in any case, as far as all regimes having issues, sure can't argue there, but then should we start with biggest offenders, those who start the most wars, who objectively caused the most loss of life, who's weapons kill the most people bar none?

Oh, sorry, I did not answer this. The regimes that have caused the most violent (no-defensive or otherwise reasonably justified) deaths are Communism under Stalin, Japan imperialism under the military junta, Nazi Germany and, to the scale of it's time, the Roman Empire. I you want to count the number of wars, the Roman Empire probably.

However the answer you are looking for, as profiting from war, US & Russia. Both are major weapons dealers.

You eat too much western propaganda. I suggest reading

http://www.spectrezine.org/global/chomsky.html

"Overcoming amnesia, suppose we now apply the methodology of the Black Book and its reviewers to the full story, not just the doctrinally acceptable half. We therefore conclude that in India the democratic capitalist "experiment" since 1947 has caused more deaths than in the entire history of the "colossal, wholly failed...experiment" of Communism everywhere since 1917: over 100 million deaths by 1979, tens of millions more since, in India alone. The "criminal indictment" of the "democratic capitalist experiment" becomes harsher still if we turn to its effects after the fall of Communism: millions of corpses in Russia, to take one case, as Russia followed the confident prescription of the World Bank that "Countries that liberalise rapidly and extensively turn around more quickly [than those that do not]," returning to something like what it had been before World War I, a picture familiar throughout the "third world." But "you can't make an omelette without broken eggs," as Stalin would have said. The indictment becomes far harsher if we consider these vast areas that remained under Western tutelage, yielding a truly "colossal" record of skeletons and "absolutely futile, pointless and inexplicable suffering" (Ryan). The indictment takes on further force when we add to the account the countries devastated by the direct assaults of Western power, and its clients, during the same years."
513  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 27, 2022, 09:26:54 AM

Cuba, Grenada, Serbia, ...


I don't see Cuba conquered
...

I do not see Cuba supported.

Supported in what, invasion of USA?
514  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 27, 2022, 08:56:44 AM

Cuba, Grenada, Serbia, ...


I don't see Cuba conquered

Grenada was just colonialist escapade by USA, there was nothing
worth to invade there nor they were Russian ally

Serbia - well, Russia probably played game there as Kosovo
gave them great pretext for Crimea and Donbass. Even Serbs
knew it was gone

China probably activated Solomon Islands story to show
West hypocrisy vs similar situation in Ukraine, even if they
don't have short term plans
515  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: PhoenixMiner 6.1b: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux) on: April 27, 2022, 08:02:02 AM
hELLO,

is anyone can help me?

I try to start GPU of my EUROCOM P5 PRO with NVIDIA GTX 970M.

i have try all versions of Phoenix miner, but it still dont work.

It say that my drivers are too old...


And i mine SHIB with only CPU so.

Please help.


A fast Google search shows me this:

Code:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M can generate more than 7.92 USD monthly income with a 16.37 H/s hashrate on the BTG - ZHash (EWBF) algorithm.
With this old hardware, you may find some profitable coins but looks like you can't mine ETH.
Sorry, find out yourself what you can mine, or upgrade hardware.

Thats old info too

https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator/nvidia-gtx-970

but I think he's just trolling us with such ancient hardware Smiley
516  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 27, 2022, 07:13:56 AM

I'm not sure where did you got that Russian invasion become surprise for Ukraine, NATO and West. IIRC, few days before inavsion, USA intelligence warned that inavsion can begin at any moment, on 23th February state of emergency started in Ukraine. Though, Ukraine admitted that they didn't expected invasion in North, from Belarus side.
And I'm not sure why you're saying about too small forces, when there was close ti 200k troops near to Ukrainian border.


He is probably comparing that USA attacked 3 times smaller country (Iraq) with 5 times more soldiers (almost a million) and
only after 42 days of one of heaviest bombardment in history
517  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 25, 2022, 06:01:38 PM


Jokes aside, We need to put the Russian Oligarchs as well as Putin at a Nuernberg 2.0 Trial once this is over. The men manning the nuclear missles have heros like Stanislav Petrov in their ranks. Petrov, who disobeyed orders and saved the world from nuclear war. I doubt Russians will let Putin end the world. Russia needs to become a free democracy like Germany after WW2. Maybe the western world will even prop Russia up, like they did for Germany.  Their people will thank them in a few decades.



Germany free?  Grin
518  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 25, 2022, 04:59:30 PM

Isn't it amazing how Ukrainians are able to hold the Russian forces with their six remaining tanks.

That would maybe impress me if I didn't fight Serbian tanks without any tanks on our side,
and under NATO embargo (unlike Ukraine that is basically #1 country in the world by amount of antitank weapons,
mostly supplied by same NATO)
519  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 25, 2022, 04:20:15 PM
I have not seen reports that Ukraine claimed responsibility

I didn't say it did. However Russian propaganda destroyed two more TB2s (negative 10th and 11th I think) and also uncovered a secret Ukrainian plot to kill one of the esteemed propagandists. Same "plotters" were also planning to set army recruitment offices on fire, which is very convenient because such fires have been happening recently so now propaganda can blame Ukraine. Oh and the "plotters" had Hitler's photo with them. Just think about that one for a moment.

Normally I'd say people who read all that shit and think "yeah, this sounds plausible" must be utter morons, but this being Russia I guess we can make an allowance for extreme brainwashing.


Hey, at lest they didn't teleport tanks inside Moscow to ride over civilians or made up Ghost of Moscow to destroy 127 Ukrainian planes

That requires something few ranks below utter moron
520  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 25, 2022, 02:01:45 PM

The revolution in Russian is gathering steam, more targets are now under flame....

We witness history, the final disintegration of russia.

https://twitter.com/spook_info/status/1518428523484098560

using that logic, USA is done?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2LupUXRUxbA

I guess Texas and California are going back to Mexico soon  Grin
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