• KrysTheVillainess@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    112·
    1 day ago

    Idk why anyone would be stanning for Russia of the modern day, theres no socialism or communism to be found there after the fall of the USSR… (not that the USSR was the most progressive place to begin with but eh)

    • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world
      1597·
      2 days ago

      At least we have elections. Ukrainians don’t. All opposition parties have been banned. All opposition media has been seized by the government. Men have to dress as old ladies in public so they don’t get kidnapped and pressganged ICE style.

      Victory or death.

      And why?

      👀👇

      • REDACTED@infosec.pub
        71·
        19 hours ago

        Wait, you actually, unironically, without trolling, while being sober, in all seriousness, think democracies should hold elections while being invaded? Thank god my country has a law that makes that illegal (not Ukraine, don’t know about Ukraine, but in any case that is extremely idiotic thing to do, so good on them for not doing it)

  • BilSabab@lemmy.world
    4213·
    2 days ago

    but no one believed that it was russian bots all along back when they were wrecking havoc over every other election across Europe and US…

  • TronBronson@lemmy.world
    112·
    1 day ago

    Idk why that wasn’t target number 1. They would’ve received a lot more global military support if they just blew up all those data centers before anything else.

    • drath@lemmy.drath.ru
      284·
      1 day ago

      Alright, this is getting unfunny now

      most likely resulting in slower internet services or complete disruption for the average Russian. Unfortunately, the ordinary Russian wouldn’t be able to use high-speed satellite internet as a backup, as Starlink does not work in Russia,

      What the fuck is he talking about. Yandex is not an ISP, it doesnt provide any internet access services to anyone. Its first and foremost a search engine, like google (the crawlers are most likely responsible for most of outgoing traffic, tagged as bot or otherwise), with crapload of affiliated services, like google, including their own payment system, like google, which is causing a lot of pain rn to those who chose to keep all of their savings in it, and their own cloud service, like google, which took down quite a lot of other sites with it, along with disruptions to TV’s (yandex OS is running on nearly half of them, like android) as well as, unlike google, taxi and food delivery services that they have near-monopoly on, so those effectively halted in the entire country. But, again, unlike google, they dont offer FTTH, residential or commerical internet access, or anything even remotely like that. What in the fuck’s sake satellite internet and starlink has to do with it, idk, thats just plain absolute worst journalism, just writing words without even a pinch of research.

      And no, despite of how funny it would’ve been, there isnt actually any report of reduced troll activity ofher than some weird chart some german politician pulled out of their ass without referencing any source. You can even go to xitter, type “яндекс” into search and find loads of actual Russians mass ratioing those few that chose to defend yandex, as well as their reps themselves trying to calm everyone down. If anything, Russian activity on foreign resources only increased because domestic resources are down.

    • glups@piefed.socialEnglish
      222·
      2 days ago

      Alternatively, you could blockade the tanker about to offload 300,000 tons of Russian diesel in Wilmington NC

      • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        1 day ago

        That deal was all about lifting sanctions on Russia and trying to open back usual trade relations with them.

        The amount of diesel agreed is laughable, I think it is few hours of US consumption. It won’t change prices at all. I think there might have been a private deal that benefits trump directly.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        62·
        2 days ago

        I’d actually put good money on this not happening. Russia isn’t really geared up to deliver oil like that they’re all about the pipelines.

        Also whatever tankers they do send will have to get past if fleet of pissed off European fleets. Remember countries like Estonia went through some relatively severe economic hardship in order to sanction Russia, and then the United States comes along and does a deal with Russia to save themselves from a war that they started. Perhaps maintaining good relations with the United States is no longer worth it? I could totally see an oil tanker getting bordered.

        • glups@piefed.socialEnglish
          5·
          1 day ago

          It already happened. It docked last night, it is currently offloading the diesel in the Wilmington port

          • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
            1·
            19 hours ago

            No it can’t of that’s got to be something else you couldn’t even get a ship from Russia to the US in that time. Do you have a source for that claim?

        • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world
          43·
          2 days ago

          Germany elected Nazis all because the center liberal parties pinned their policies to an unpopular war and sanctions that destroyed their economy.

          The only people who have benefited since the 2014 coup have been American corporations and American billionaires.

          Piracy is all they have now.

      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
        54·
        2 days ago

        I’m praying USA picks a fight with Ukraine…it will lose so badly actually, that it will finally collapse.

        EDIT: USA will lose, not Ukraine.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          6·
          2 days ago

          I have a recent newborn and I keep thinking that when he’s like 15 or so and starting to learn about world politics he’s not going to believe me that the United States was want to major world player. He is going to think I am lying to him. It would be like your parents trying to tell you that Africa was once a United country and had the largest military on the planet. Looking at it now it wouldn’t be believable.

          • logos@sh.itjust.works
            11·
            1 day ago

            Yeah Yanukovych was the last legit leader until the CIA poisoned him with dioxin… No wait…

            What the actual fuck are you talking about?

            • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world
              13·
              1 day ago

              Yes, Yanukovych was the last democratically elected leader before the Odessa Oblast, the Donbass and Crimea democratically seceded.

              That’s what I’m talking about. Voting. Democracy.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 days ago

      would loooove to see the admin stats for the lemmy verse

      although having said that the lemmy verse is tiny