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I wrote that it is a smaller invasion, but sizeable enough to constitute an invasion and a war, I absolutely did not say that it is the same now as it was 8 years ago, don't strawman.
What are you saying again? That it is not a war if it is not large enough to be on the headlines you read every day? Because western media made a conscious effort to look the other way to avoid getting dragged into a conflict with russia for a country that had hardly an army to defend itself in 2014. If there were 30000 americans doing tours in Ukraine, you'd know. But there aren't even any foreign fighters of any kind inside russia, so that is no reason to think the USA is at war with russia, there is no analogy whatsoever with sending troops to Ukraine to back up the russian separatists. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-russia-soldiers/some-12000-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine-supporting-rebels-u-s-commander-idUSKBN0LZ2FV20150303/
I really don't get your point unless you're trying to be a russian troll.
Read the Nemtsov report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin._War
On August 15, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed DPR, stated that a reinforcement that came from Russia played a decisive role in the counter-offensive: "(There were) 150 units of combat armor, including about 30 tanks - the rest were AIFVs (Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicles) and APCs (Armored Personnel Carriers), and also 1,200 personnel who had undergone training during four months in the territory of the Russian Federation." Zakharchenko emphasized, "They were inserted here at the most critical moment." The decisive role played by the reinforcements arriving from Russian territory was confirmed in an interview in the newspaper “Zavtra” by the former33 DPR Minister Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov). The shifting of the front and in particular the deployment to Mariupol were achieved, in his words, "largely by vacationers, individual units of the militia which were subordinate to them.” "Vacationers" in Girkin's terminology are Russian military cadres who come to the territory of Ukraine with weapons in their hands but who are officially “on vacation.”
Vyacheslav Tetekin, a Russian State Duma deputy and a member of the Committee for Defense, estimated the number of "volunteers" who had taken part and were continuing to take part in combat actions in the Donbass to be 30,000 people. "Some fought a week there, some fought for several months, but according to the information of the authorities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics themselves, approximately 30,000 volunteers have gone through 4 9 combat," he emphasized. This same deputy submitted for State Duma review a draft law on conferring upon "volunteers" the status of participants 50 in combat with all the relevant benefits.
This is a sizable invasion too. Smaller, but enough to become a war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas--
But why do you need to go fetch Israel as the ultimate measure that you need to understand the egregiousness of what russia is doing to Ukraine...when what russia is doing to Ukraine is both the crimes of Israel and hamas combined:
the crime of Israel's brutality without regard for human life
and
the crime of hamas's terroristic persistent attempt to destroy their neighbour at the expense of its own people
...there is no comparison here.
That is fine, MPs surround themselves with influent unmarketable secretaries and advisors they need e.g. Dominic Cummings, but the elected officials need to be the face of the team. That is usually how ministers do not need to be experts in a subject, it is their deputies who do the actual technical work and usually never get elected, that is not their job, but sometimes they actually will.
Well, maybe all 500000 will "learn their lesson", like Assange...
haha, I was thinking about that exactly.
Fine, but you need to facilitate the acquisition of green tech on the part of poor countries to at least partially replace fossil capacity, like waiving patents (not gonna happen, look at COVID vaccines), relocating production there (muh jerbs), subsidies (no, lol)...?
Arrest all the Annas, when you have immunity, they let you do it if it is an official act.
Second phase of the fight is trying not to lose votes to fascists who pretend to be the democratic opposition while trying to enact socialist policies under neoliberal constraints and inevitably making a mess :(
6th front of WW3 in antarctica...ugh...
Some weigh the clothes and adjust the wash time or prolong the centrifuge cycle if the clothes are still too wet (not sure if this is using the scale or the water flow)...BOOM comes with AI now :D at this point we need certification labels to end this bullshit.