Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’s key startup hub

Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by baq on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:56AM (#26887430)

you really think having a civil war right around the corner, practically on the other side of the fence, is something any country wants to have? not to mention having an armed rebellion means putin's intervention is guaranteed and then belarus just becomes another federal district.

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Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by baq on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:31AM (#26887656)

i'm sure all Belarusans would love to have two foreign armies marching through their homeland, both with words of liberation on their standards.

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Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by buran77 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:47AM (#26888327)

That's exactly what a hostage rescue should be like until there's no other option: negotiations, the peaceful plan.

So you know where the kidnappers live? You grab your shotgun to get them "Rambo style". Best case only the kidnappers get injured or killed. Worst case you and your family get killed.

It feels like too many people simply cannot go past the basic reaction "I find it may be a threat > shoot to kill". I find this a failure in education.

And while it may turn out at some point that for Belarus there was simply no other option, it still doesn't justify jumping straight to it. Just a bit of common sense can already tell you that the most likely outcome is that civilians will get killed by the thousands and this time it will be "justified" as defending against acts of war. Guns escalate everything. They may escalate your power but they also escalate the response.

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Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by La1n on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:24AM (#26888113)

Except in this case it's not "your family". People here are arguing for foreign intervention. Not everything that happens in another country you don't agree with should be solved with violent foreign intervention...

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Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by DyslexicAtheist on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:48AM (#26887786)

that's a bad-faith argument, it should instead be:

Do you really want to allow systematic killing of the opposition by current un-elected criminals holding on to power. Putin's intervention is not some kind of "hypothetical future danger or milestone in theoretic escalation" but has been fact since 1998.

Europe isn't going to do anything except sending their thoughts and prayers and direct intervention by the US is unthinkable (for now). Sending support (which includes arms, and mercenaries) is the only way that can protect the civilian population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Russia_relatio...

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Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by ceilingcorner on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:15AM (#26888020)

No, starting a civil war is exactly the wrong thing to do if you want to protect the civilian population.

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Re:Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’... by DyslexicAtheist on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:27AM (#26888145)

that's pretty hyperbolic. it's not "starting a civil war" it's leveling the playing field against those who are already brutalizing the population.

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