>Russia bit off way more than it can chew with them.
Did it?
Half of Ukrainians Want Quick, Negotiated End to War. [0]
‘Like dealing with cornered rats’: The men who force Ukrainians to the front lines. Recruitment officers are painted as brutal kidnappers willing to take extreme measures to reach their monthly quota of new military recruits. [1]
Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine’s forces at a crucial time in its war with Russia [2]
In every war each side hides or downplays its own losses and exaggerates the losses of the enemy.
Samuel Johnson in 1758: 'Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.'[0]
Quick question for you to ponder then; did you or did you not engage multiple times with a nationalist who is frequently flagged for starting and persisting in flamewars?
If you did then that would be what is being referenced .. there was no claim that you personally are a nationalist .. it would appear that you're "simply" being pedantic about terms here, which is passively engaging in the behaviour that the guidelines seek to discourage.
When I say "nationalistic flamewar" I simply mean people posting pejorative or inflammatory things about specific nations, and/or getting into flamewar-style arguments in the context of national disputes. There's no question that your account did that in this thread, multiple times and quite badly. That's against the HN guidelines, which is the only thing that matters from a moderation point of view.
If it helps at all, I didn't mean to imply that you are espousing nationalism.
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Half of Ukrainians Want Quick, Negotiated End to War. [0]
‘Like dealing with cornered rats’: The men who force Ukrainians to the front lines. Recruitment officers are painted as brutal kidnappers willing to take extreme measures to reach their monthly quota of new military recruits. [1]
Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine’s forces at a crucial time in its war with Russia [2]
[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/653495/half-ukrainians-quick-ne...
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/28/ukrainian-...
[2] https://apnews.com/article/deserters-awol-ukraine-russia-war...
Yes. 600,000+ Russian soldiers dead or wounded:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/us/politics/russia-casual...
A generation of Russian men wiped out in a pointless, needless war of choice waged for one man's vanity.
The war can end tomorrow. All Russia needs to do is get out of Ukraine. All of it.
Simple to do, easy to achieve. No more Russians need to die.
I see you have embraced the Russian mindset.
Samuel Johnson in 1758: 'Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.'[0]
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-21...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They don't care. They're nihilists.
This is poor judgement and unimpressive.
If you did then that would be what is being referenced .. there was no claim that you personally are a nationalist .. it would appear that you're "simply" being pedantic about terms here, which is passively engaging in the behaviour that the guidelines seek to discourage.
If it helps at all, I didn't mean to imply that you are espousing nationalism.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html