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BobbyP27 t1_ja759bm wrote

If that's what counts as a "win", then it does not bode well for Russia in the longer term if they do. The best they would get out of that is something like the situation in Northern Ireland, which involved decades of terrorist insurgency type fighting, and was only sort of resolved when the UK agreed to significant concessions of both autonomy and an agreed potential path to a united Ireland. Is Russia prepared to endure that?

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Tizzer3000 t1_ja756dq wrote

It has been called… tons of countries continue to keep providing aid to Ukraine in spite of these statements. Has been going on for months and I don’t see it stopping. Russia is trying everything they can to stop Ukraine from receiving aid because Russia can easily beat Ukraine in a war, what Russia can’t beat is Ukraine being supplied by every other major power on earth (nearly)

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Thue t1_ja74b5w wrote

Belarus is a semi-puppet state of Russia, with the unpopular dictator Lukashenko being kept in power by Russians military might. As a Russian puppet state, Russians keeps publicly trying to get Belarus to send their troops into Ukraine, but that would be extremely unpopular to the Belarusian population. So Lukashenko keeps making anti-Ukraine and anti-NATO noises to placate Putin, while at the same time doing everything he can to find and loudly talk about excuses to not actually send their troops into Ukraine.

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anti-DHMO-activist t1_ja742es wrote

It's tritium, which is practically rather harmless. And only ~2.2g of it. Even locally that's not going to have any serious impact.

La hague in france releases about 13 times that much, every year.

This is a complete non-issue.

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autotldr t1_ja73qnl wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)


> The first 2,000 inmates of a new prison built in El Salvador to accommodate more than 40,000 suspected gangsters targeted in President Nayib Bukele's "War" on crime, have arrived at the facility.

> Built on Bukele's orders after he declared a "War" on gangs last March, the prison in Tecoluca, 74 kilometres southeast of the capital San Salvador, consists of eight buildings made of reinforced concrete.

> "There will be no mattresses in the cells," the prison warden - who wore a ski mask to protect his identity - told journalists when the project was unveiled.


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bjarkov t1_ja736cd wrote

The Russian objectives of the war have changed since the invasion began, starting with most of Ukraine under Russian control, then moving on to recognized annexation of the regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zhaporizhzhia. Probably a Russian "win" would be recognized annexation of any of the above regions as well as a recognition of Krim as a Russian territory.

The question is if any of these objectives are compatible with a Western view of a Ukrainian "win", which so far amounts to reverting to pre-2014 borders.

The diplomatic and political price of a Russian win, however, looks like it will be very high and will affect regional safety politics for decades to come, firmly estranging Russian interests from the western world

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