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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

A nuclear weapon doesn't have to be more precise than needed to hit an average county, in US terms.

Yes, I know how nuclear weapons work, and usually a MIRV delivers warheads to airburst over military bases and population centers.

Also the Russian economy has done nothing of the sort. Its good, nice things dependent on Western companies have died, say, cars production.

I didn't make this claim that the Russian economy has evaporated. The person I responded to did.

What I actually think is that Putin is largely fucked if he can't convince Xi to create and enforce using an alternative to petro-dollars and SWIFT to BRICS.

Even if the North Koreans he's recently imported help him take Kyiv, he will need money to keep his proverbial boot heel on a guaranteed drawn out Ukrainian insurgency that will never let his army sleep.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago

Drawn out insurgency is something that won't happen the way you are talking about it, Chechens have already tried.

Admittedly, it was harder to feel compassion to them for the general population outside of Chechnya, because those "revered freedom fighters" even in the years of their "almost independence" would have people lynched on the streets, do kidnappings and slavery and what not. They were similar to ISIS.

Our world is, ahem, very complex. Propaganda may be clearly insincere, but match the general direction of what the population knows and how it feels.

Getting back to Ukraine - I feel that Putin's goal is not occupying whole of Ukraine, it's making it subservient.

About him being largely fucked - I remember people in 2008 saying that the whole of the Russian regime are dumb thieves and are largely fucked. I wouldn't such things about people holding such amounts of power for so many years.