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Re:Ask HN: What makes you pessimistic about the future? by AnimalMuppet on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:37PM (#32102221)
That's not "full scale war"... yet. If Russia's emergency Duma meeting tomorrow is to institute a full mobilization, though, we'll be a lot closer...
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Re:Ask HN: What makes you pessimistic about the future? by dredmorbius on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:43PM (#32102717)
That's a pretty thin and legalistic (as opposed to pragmatic / de facto) distinction.
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Re:Ask HN: What makes you pessimistic about the future? by MichaelMoser123 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:42PM (#32102267)
there are entire cities that were utterly destroyed and millions of displaced persons - i mean that's quite a big one.
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Re:Ask HN: What makes you pessimistic about the future? by AnimalMuppet on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:49PM (#32102770)
Oh, I agree, it's a big one. It's just not "full scale" yet. There's a lot of room for it to get bigger.
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Re:Ask HN: What makes you pessimistic about the future? by MichaelMoser123 on Friday July 15, 2022 @04:11AM (#32105910)
that's as full scale as you can get, I mean if NATO gets involved then it would get nuclear, and in this case there would be no one left to discuss the issue...
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