I mean actual sponsored government operation (from the looks of it), not just useful idiots

Correction - Ukraine is fighting against Russia and it’s allies, which is Iran. Even people who are against Israel fully understand that Iran is just… bad. There is no defending it, just like Israel.

EDIT: I’m not sure if this needs to be said, but I’m talking about governments, not the people. Iranians themselves tend to be quite cool and aren’t all that fond of their government.

There were some recent findings that Russian bots actively work on Lemmy too.

Why would you even want to fight for late stage capitalists. Yes, that’s what they are with oligarchy and few people owning most of the means of production and distribution

That’s weird. In 2025 alone they commissioned more than 50 new coal plants (78GW). At the end of 2025, nearly 300GW coal power capacity was under construction. If you look at any statistic, it’s pretty much shooting up.

EDIT: I guess this comparison explains the 50% more reasonably: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/China-energy-consumption-by-source.svg

Greece has enemies? I’m aware of history with Turkey, but… that’s history

China making an example out of AliExpress Jack Ma is probably leaving a lasting effect

friendly to the whole rest of the world right now.

Yeah, except for the support, drones, troop training, etc. to help invade an European country

Dislike is not comparable to genocide. I dislike all religions, including Judaism (Jews) and Muslims. That does not mean I’d personally do something, I just avoid it/disregard it/dismiss it.

While I’d probably protest any form of Islamification (sharia law) in my country, that does not imply I’m against Palestine. It’s just vastly different region. It’s safe to assume they’d protest against European values.

I get what you’re saying, but I think you meant Palestinians, not Muslims. US is in bed with some Muslim countries and much of Palestine is christian. Muslim is not a race, it’s the world’s largest religion spanning across all races and continents.

3 years is a long time. It still feels weird that they managed to level cities, but not presidential palaces, including kremlin

Huh? I’m talking about killing Putin. I’m not sure if you meant to reply to someone else, but you’re speaking of war itself, not why Ukraine just doesn’t finally kill Putin or why Russia doesn’t level presidential palace. Reminder that Russia still has plenty of ballistic missiles, drones so many they can easily overwhelm air defenses, etc. They really should not have a problem to strike a building.

I’m not denying that Russia is losing or Ukrainian intelligence is wrecking havoc, that was never the question.

When was the last time he targeted Mariinskyi (spoiler, 1 year ago, once)? Do tell me what I’m missing. Russia can clearly level the place with everyone inside, yet they don’t.

Putin respects things when he’s afraid. It’s reasonable to assume he’s afraid of what will follow next

I truly believe Ukraine and Russia has a secret agreement where they can’t kill each other’s president, otherwise what’s taking so long?

EDIT: Since this is getting downvotes fast, I might aswell share the words of Zelenskyy;

We will leave it to the tribunal," he stated.

https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/volodimir-zelenskij-mi-ne-atakuyemo-ani-putina-ani-moskvu-mi-82633

If businesses and governments are barres from using foreign tech that’s flagged as national security risk, you cannot compete. This is more for the people that were never going to pay for ChatGPT in the first place.

To understand the problem, I welcome you to try out Chinese models versus US models and ask them to criticize Trump and then criticize Xi.

This point from the article is very valid and proveable right now.

In China, there is no delineation between private enterprise and state security. The National Intelligence Law of 2017 mandates that all Chinese organizations and citizens must “support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence efforts.” Therefore, any Chinese AI startup, no matter how independently it markets itself, is ultimately subject to CCP directives. The risk is not in the visible code, but in the invisible training data, the alignment protocols, and the potential for future remote manipulation or data harvesting via associated cloud services

Are we sure we want AI models from authoritarian countries, especially when that country is aligned with BRICS and actively assists countries like Russia in their efforts against Europe, US, etc (especially training of Russian troops which are then sent to invade European country). You could argue US is a hellhole too, but I strongly believe only very temporary. I don’t see China changing anytime soon.

EDIT: Here are some keywords to use with Chinese LLM models. Good luck making an equalivent for ChatGPT or whatever;

动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门

I assumed “cockroaches” is something the government called them, but nope; https://www.cockroachjantaparty.com/

Not sure if this is 4d chess move

I mean, the numbers are there. I frequent combat footage communities and it’s honestly not that shocking. They have been reporting daily ever since war began, and by now it has pretty much peaked on troop casualty count per day which is why Russia is also recruiting much more aggressively, even just snatching people from the street like we’ve seen in many videos. They’re obviously becoming quite desperate in their attempts to replenish the lost troops.

The difference here is that Taiwan wants independence.

I think you’re confusing per day/per hour/per those 30 minutes.