Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 16h
Ukraine is the one being invaded. This is not a symmetrical situation. Also, claiming this is a matter of "lining pockets" is absurd defamation.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/04/23/a-cashless-society-risks-leaving-millions-behind-opinion/83217122007/# I was on a panel recently in DC with one of the sponsors of this bill, State Representative Warren Davidson. He's awesome. I didn't need to push the ideals of freedom. He did it for me. Ensuring that you can always pay cash is essential for financial freedoms; this bill is a very good start.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 18h
Ukraine is slowly winning. Slow is obviously bad here, as far too many innocent Ukrainians are dying in the process. If they had more support they could win faster, and fewer good people would die. That is obvious to any reasonable person. Clearly you are just a troll.
“I don't see any difference between Russians and Ukrainians” 😂😂😂 She is Ukrainian: https://image.nostr.build/2b46bd50fb37b9edcc63817b8799c68153cd97688b9678a9d5e4708e3380923f.jpg Ukraine isn't doing that. Ukraine didn't invade Russia. As I said, you're just a psychopath saying bullshit for social media points. Anyway, clearly this is a waste of my time.
Ukraine wants the constant stream of murders to stop. Russia is using attacks on civilians as a way to try to crush Ukraine and force them to surrender, precisely because Russia is not having success on the battlefield. And more generally, because Russians are hopelessly evil and have absolutely no sense of honor. https://image.nostr.build/2b46bd50fb37b9edcc63817b8799c68153cd97688b9678a9d5e4708e3380923f.jpg I know you know this. Which goes to show you're just a psychopath who is saying this crap for social media points.
You don't get to chose whether or not the other side forces you to “play”.
"The money was embezzled” 😂😂😂 This would be a good thing for defamation law to cover. You should know damn well that's it's obvious that Ukraine is in fact using donated military hardware and cash on defense, by the simple fact that Ukraine is successfully holding firm against Russian attacks. They're losing small amounts of territory in the east that Russia is taking at astronomical cost, while simultaneously being able to successfully take Russian territory, clear the black sea of Russian ships, and repeatedly hit military and industrial targets deep inside Russia. Just the other day Ukraine blew up a massive Russian ammo storage facility _north-east_ of Moscow: https://video.nostr.build/9cd271042be22240fe0901521a93a390035119c0bf522744d8d2dcaaf8037169.mp4 The evacuation zone was easily visible on traffic maps: https://image.nostr.build/6b36b26d984821e08a4575ad5299a70facfc0eddfc84acb5a5c41e427d87762f.jpg Now, think through where that facility was and what it must have took for Ukraine to blow it up. Claiming with zero evidence that Ukraine is just embezzling money on a significant scale rather than using it on defense is absurd. It would be perfectly reasonable for you to lose a few thousand dollars in a defamation claim over this. You're either hopelessly stupid – the sort of person who doesn't really matter – or actively malicious. Likely both. Either way, it's reasonable to assume you are intentionally lying to defame Ukraine and collect damages from you for it.
You don't get a choice how this ends. Getting angry because good people are using drones to kill bad people doesn't stop bad people from using drones to kill good people. It just means that good people won't be able to defend themselves when they get attacked. Hell, if Ukraine hadn't gived up their nuclear weapons most likely _none_ of this would have happened. Ukraine would have been able to threaten Russia with annihilation, and not a single Ukrainian child would have been murdered. Peaceniks like you have blood on your hands.
And? Russia is murdering Ukrainians in their sleep with drones and ballistic missile attacks on apartment buildings. This photo is from yesterdays attack on Kyiv, a nearly daily event: https://image.nostr.build/2b46bd50fb37b9edcc63817b8799c68153cd97688b9678a9d5e4708e3380923f.jpg Killing Russian soldiers is no more terrible than capturing murderers or putting down rabid dogs. If you're a squeamish young kid it might be hard to watch. But adult men should be able to recognize that it has to be done. Since it has to be done, it should be done in the most effective way possible at the least risk to the good people doing it. Right now, that's with remote controlled drones.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 19h
The "peace" being proposed by Trump is a high-time preference surrender in disguise. Ukraine has already been through this before, many times over. Russia proposes a "peace", regroups, and attacks again. Russia did the exact same thing with Chechnya in the 90's: Russia lost the first war, signed a peace treaty, and just spent the next three years rearming to attack again. This time winning. European countries know this, especially ones bordering Russia. To achieve an actual peace Russia needs to be thoroughly defeated and permanently disarmed. Fucking up their economy is the most realistic way to do that. Fortunately, Russia makes its money via highly flammable oil and gas infrastructure: https://video.nostr.build/73d389454b6fe45c8a6f9b0893ee3b7a9a3191a6f2be6f83cd2010ea80de868c.mp4
Trump is hopelessly weak here. But one thing in particular is how he keeps on both-siding losses. Most Russian soldiers are dying from drones, like these men. Look at their faces: https://video.nostr.build/0f623a747fe1293a18f3d4dc97aed0038a5b622fffa70a7912ac4066b58d4b12.mp4 They're not young boys forced into war. They're older men who knowingly signed up to help slaughter Ukrainians for money. A lot of money. Enough of them survive to make it worth it. It's a good thing when these psychopaths are kille and injured. And Putin and Russian society in general don't give a fuck about their deaths. Trump appealing to humanity just goes to show he has absolutely no control over the situation.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 1d
In fairness, at the moment my python-bitcoinlib library isn't PGP signed for most users because PyPi made the idiotic decision to phase out PGP signatures. But my hands are tied on that; the entire software industry is incompetent.
10 years after I pointed out the risk of a Ripple backdoor due to Ripple not PGP signing their software or providing any other way to get it securely... there's a a Ripple backdoor due to an npm compromise. 😂 https://github.com/petertodd/ripple-consensus-analysis-paper/blob/master/paper.pdf https://image.nostr.build/550b7f806d3e02fa054601c999b5959743a5aa49fe5a4dcd80ae4bdc27e8ed38.png https://image.nostr.build/2910d114fd064fbfe0b42d3b06dde40feabd9cf40450ac0a4b42df6f9ec4ec39.png
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 2d
...and an Iraq that isn't a threat to anyone else. For the rest of the world that's a win. I wouldn't be so quick to argue they were better off with Saddam either. He and his regime were monsters that much of the population hated.
Neither is really pro-war. Trump is pro-war. He's trying to appease Russia for a short term political “win”, an action that will inevitably lead to an even bigger war later. Appeasement does not work. Killing scumbags does.
https://video.nostr.build/cc59e1c6c0b1c36544abe6f89c30ad74ffd174dc36fa06390acb41c7b3c3aa73.mp4 One of the many videos and photos that Russians on telegram are claiming to be from debris thrown by the ammo explosions. Pity it missed the house.
Cope.
https://video.nostr.build/c0a482198dc85b5c320b668c64f1e43f845cf8f85e2c40d8528ef17ba99ddb7b.mp4 Best video so far of the Russian ammo depot that Ukraine blew up today, 65km _north-east_ of Moscow. Not even the main explosion. Just a secondary. A 5km radius was evacuated, and Russians in the area complained of impacts from debris thrown by the explosions. NASA's fire monitoring satellite system shows an enormous fire: https://image.nostr.build/dffbad934ccc98e90a96286e71fa1828513cc51c778323b65645223d687ec7bd.jpg Fact is, if Ukraine can successfully, repeatedly, hit ammo depots right by Moscow they can destroy the Russian “civilian” economy and end the slaughter of Ukrainians. The only obstacles are funding, and the scumbags who keep complaining about the safety of Russian “civilians”. There is zero reason why Moscow's four airports should still be operating. At the very least, blow up the fuel tanks and destroy the ATC towers and radars. Shutting down convenient travel to Moscow would be a big hit to their economy.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 3d
https://youtu.be/4EdMImlZE2s
This is the US. Checks are still widely used.
