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A comment on ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by vkou on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:55PM (#30544279)
We don't need to go as far back as Iraq.

The Saudis have been waging an offensive war for years in Yemen. Yet there hasn't been a single peep about cutting them off SWIFT, sanctioning their royal oligarchs, freezing their western assets, etc, etc.

It seems to send a message that yes, repressive petrostate dictatorships can get away with waging offensive wars... Well, at least some of them can.

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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by all2 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:56PM (#30545133)
Oil, and by proxy money, protect them from anything people might want to do to them. People want their money, want their oil, so they turn a blind eye.
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by 8note on Thursday March 03, 2022 @02:29PM (#30545571)
It's not shielding Russia nearly as strongly. Being a friend of the US is more important than having oil. American friends and allies can do no wrong to the eyes of the western world
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by all2 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @02:48PM (#30545843)
It is in China's best interest that Russia is hostile to the US. I wonder what it would take for the US to form a military alliance with Russia?
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by jl6 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:56PM (#30546881)
> I wonder what it would take for the US to form a military alliance with Russia?

A head-and-shoulders decapitation of a regime change in Russia, Chinese irredentism over outer Manchuria, a Han-supremacist lebensraum movement targeting Asia east of the Urals…

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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by cabalamat on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:16PM (#30550249)
Once Putin is gone, it may well happen that Russia and America become friendly.
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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by coliveira on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:17PM (#30547120)
Only a government change in the US would allow an alliance with Russia. Current US government is Russophobic to the core.
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