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Earlier in this thread, @anon15383236 speculated whether China told Russia to wait until after the winter games to invade, setting them to get bogged down in the spring thaw. Who else could whisper, “you know what? You should shut off your internet. We did, it works great…” without mentioning the many years of prep it required and the limitations it currently faces.
It kind of makes me wonder if China’s real goal is not to tie more closely to Russia, but to hobble their largest neighbor.
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if you can trust this translation, they’re prepping to block all non ru domains.
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Finally, Russians can enjoy all of the same luxuries and modern conveniences as North Koreans.
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Will it be reciprocal? Think of all the malware we’ll be missing out on!
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Sorry, not ‘it’; that must have been someone else.
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Nvidia Stops All Product Sales to Russia. It’s unclear if the sales suspension affects RTX 3000 graphics cards sold by third-party vendors
more of effect on cryptocurrency than entertainment these days… probably should’ve been one of the first financial sanctions come to think of it
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Alex Jones is bad.
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This is why I try not to remember anything 
It was milliefink, here - my apologies to you both, and I’ll go edit my original
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No harm, no foul.
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Screenshot of part of a story here but Russia saying oh hey yeah we’ll help out your refugees by bringing them to Russia doesn’t sound super great.
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OTOH…
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ETA:
Thread by Andrei Kozyrev, Russian foreign minister from 1990 to 1996.
tl;dr Putin is rational and had mistaken but rational reasons for thinking that conquering Ukraine would be easy. Putin and the Russian elite are believing their own propaganda.
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Just FTR:
Same here.
Also, there is an important error in the report.
thermobaric missile-launchers, […] These weapons, considered illegal under the Geneva Conventions,
They are not on the list of illegal weapons, and while there is an argument that if they count as Incendiary Weapons according to Protocol III of the Geneva convention, they would be illegal, they effectively aren’t.
The US has thermobaric weapons, and uses them. The UK as well. We’ve seen them deployed recently by Russia. All members of the security council. Thus, the current prevailing perception there is effectively no way these will be made officially illegal under the regulation of the Geneva convention.
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Might as well link this again
Oops, I was wrong, Putin is fronting a kind of pan-Slavic religious nationalism where Russians are the master race of the Slavs and Orthodox Christianity has to defeat liberals, feminists, Jews, … (everybody knows the list by now)
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i don’t personally understand how anyone could think it was in any way a reasonable notion. it may be that the ease with which we were able to impose one on the iraqis has, in retrospect, deluded many americans into the belief that it is a simple and easy operation in general. it looks to me as if the manner in which i’ve read people suggesting it on twitter as though many people seem to think that all one must do is to declare it and the thing is done without reckoning on the fact that it would require our planes and anti-aircraft batteries to shoot down the planes of the opposition in order to enforce it which would create a shooting war between ourselves and russia, a situation likely to become a nuclear war,
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