Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 2mo
Two particularly impressive Ukrainian operations I found videos of lately. A very nicely done FPV ambush against a group of Russian soldiers: https://video.nostr.build/fc58ab7b822f667a5a56695080bf2eb75f581686efb42a78bf133c3e57e18804.mp4 ...and an attack against a Russian fuel train – allegedly with long range drones – timed just right to destroy it in the middle of the central train station in Salsk, Russia: https://video.nostr.build/2ec49c595e20f0ce69627b14a43754a021ed105acb415d6de6bd571f55731b0b.mp4 Obviously, taking out the train station as well is a great use of all that fuel; 380km from the front line.
aco @aco - 2mo
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hzrd149 @hzrd149 - 2mo
What about this guy? https://cdn.hzrd149.com/2a89a12c263ea73a2404fd52343b806b777f7dd64def71e3d181a56e6b809909.webp I don't know your situation, but maybe don't celebrate death
He's a Russian soldier in Ukraine. It's highly likely that he's a volunteer who signed up for the massive pay given to Russian volunteers (it's illegal under Russian law to send conscripts to Ukraine itself, and this law is followed with rare exceptions). Ultimately he was trying to murder the Ukrainian soldiers who are in turn keeping me and everyone else in Kyiv safe. Fuck him. It's a good thing he's dead. Given the opportunity I would have no qualms killing him myself.
Given how quickly Ukraine was able to take territory in Kursk, it wouldn't be surprisingly if they were able repeat something like that again with a stockpile of saved up equipment. There's also evidence that Ukraine is scaling up their own Ukrainian produced ballistic missiles. A new push might also involve a bunch of Russian targets getting unexpectedly taken out.
You probably dislike him to say the least, but your ukrainian so I can understand that. my point was that all the Americans and other keyboard warriors online who get obsessed with this shouldn't be cheer-leading for a tragic war they have no part in and will never feel the effects of (loosing family and friends)
Cheering on Ukrainians killing Russians isn't "cheer-leading for a tragic war". It's cheering for victory over evil. As for "having no part in it", I'm literally in Kyiv right now, for good reasons. Among them being there's a big Bitcoin community in Ukraine and this trip I did two panels at Bitcoin events. You're ultimately just trying to make excuses to let evil go unpunished. Evil that if not stopped in Ukraine, will certainly continue to spread. Russia has been invading neighbors for centuries. As a Canadian I'm well aware of the fact that Russia and Canada share a long northern border, and Russia has been challenging Canadian sovereignty in the north.
You have a good point, but in my defense I am not a pacifist. I simply do no have an opinion on the war because I have not put the time and effort into gathering all the information and thinking through it. I'm in a somewhat privileged position where it does not effect me, so for my own sake I do not need to have an opinion, or at least not a strong one. I'm not trying to dismiss the war. I'm just tired of seeing people being radicalized over something that is on the other side of the world and isn't part of their lives.
Celebrating the deaths of evil people doing evil things is not radical or unjustified in any way. It's perfectly normal, and healthy. Any reasonable person should be able to figure out good-vs-evil in this conflict.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 1mo
...and yet again this morning: nostr:nevent1qqswa5hpdydy9jpe6lc7hzc7dx9gkn7xzvreqyn9cqcmdq5aku8pzpcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsve2jcud7fnjzmchn4gq52wx9agey9uhfukv69dy0v4wpuw4w53nqrqsqqqqqpn3v3v2 I actually heard that particular attack – and indirectly saw it reflected off a nearby building. An extremely loud attack even though I was multiple kilometers away from it.
