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Wtf are we even doing there? Even if we’re trying to sell out Ukraine, I don’t see much happening without Ukraine at the table. The motivators are going to be sticks and carrots. The best carrot I can see the US getting Ukraine is peace or ceasefire alongside the cessation of some of their land. But that ignores that Russia broached peace agreements twice in this mess. So it’s not possible to trust anything Russia offers (kudos on that 4D chess, Putin, you pathetic slobdog).
That leaves leaning on the rest of Europe and continuing the resistance as the only viable option. Unless we give them sticks, which would be insane and fully exile the US as a pariah state from the rest of the free world. It would kill trade and drop us into an instant depression. Which they might think they’re fine with, but that’s quite a shortcut to the guillotine.
What a damning question-dodge
Give them a nuke back. Them relinquishing theirs assuming good faith by the Russians is half the reason this mess started. If they get one back it makes a push for total control of Ukraine an existential risk for Russia.
Edit: Before someone points it out, yes I’m being wildly naive, let me dream about a good outcome a little.
Luckily we here in America have much more encouraging and progressive viewpoints from people like our VP nominee Vance who said the purpose of “postmenopausal females” is to provide backup childcare.
https://www.ibtimes.com/jd-vance-postmenopausal-female-economy-3739794
Ooo, do me next
“US PREEMPTIVELY INVADES China over collision in South China Sea with Philippines ship”
Fuck, that’s infuriating. Is there any way to get them off the mod team?
Yeah, I’ll throw my voice into the downvote chain and say you’re absolutely right. Saying crypto is tied to Moore’s law is hot garbage. I really, really don’t want to defend crypto here since 98% of its use now is for scamming people, but there are a lot of clever consensus algorithms now that escape scalability issues. Computational waste is still a problem across the board, but that trend is shrinking in some of the newer coins, not growing.
Like I said, I wouldn’t touch crypto with a ten-foot pole, but everything you said here is completely correct, right down to the co-optation of what started as a set of impressive enthusiast projects.