The internationality of the internet has always been inversely proportional to its accessibility to the masses.
Genuinely uncertain if this refers to Apple or the kremlin.
i think people are asking for it
The app store apps removal is very minor and does very little to further already existing divide.
And it was on the borders of both the USSR and the RSFSR as long as NATO has existed, which is considerably longer.
There's nothing NATO can do with Ukraine they couldn't already do with the Baltics.
It's a very 19th/20th century view on 21st century geopolitics, but hey, that's modern Russia for you.
Not anymore. This war has shown how crap Russian equipment is. Those who are not allowed to buy from US will start buying from China.
Hardware does not grow on trees. It has to be built with energy and resources. Where do those come from? Usually when you pick a fight with a big warmachine you don't just dive in nose first, you first build your energy independence and then join in not the other way round.
For example the "The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies" describes this shitshow in the following way:
> In short, US annual artillery production would at best only last for 10 days to two weeks of combat in Ukraine. If the initial estimate of Russian shells fired is over by 50%, it would only extend the artillery supplied for three weeks.
> The US is not the only country facing this challenge. In a recent war game involving US, UK and French forces, UK forces exhausted national stockpiles of critical ammunition after eight days.
[1] https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentar...
Are we going to ignore the fact Russia just started a draft? Russia is not winning this war. Ukraine isn't entirely either. Russia also has unsustainable casualties (evident by the draft) and military equipment. Russia is depleting it's modern equipment/weapons and relying on more old equipment/weapons that's less accurate and dependable.
If Russia didn't call for mobilization to replenish their forces, Ukraine is on it's way to bulldozing Russian defenses like they're currently doing in the Kharkiv offensive.
"A new poll suggests Americans are growing weary as the US supports Ukraine in its war against Russia."[1]
I think it's time you put your evil/good ideology aside and face the reality that most economic publications have admitted by now that Russia has by all accounts won the economic war and that there is absolutely no way that Ukraine(which is by the way in default, the US taxpayer is paying people in public office in Ukraine just like they did in Afghanistan before it collapsed) can win the war.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/new-poll-signals-americans-a...
The problem with people like you is that you don't actually listen. You don't really have to agree with what the other side says, but you should at least listen instead of just believing what you want to believe and what the voice inside of your own head says.
That was their grand plan. Take Kyiv in 3 days and subjugate the populace which is >90% hostile to you. Absolute madness. Dictator syndrome to the fullest. Only a chain of lies going to the top could have led Putin to believe it was possible.
In your opinion, what would be adequate rhetoric around a war?
This is one of the most insane things I've read on the internet today, and that's saying something. I'm sure that most of the "global population" is on the side of a genocidal psychopath who thinks that imperialism and wars for territory are still OK.
The modern world has moved past this, and past you. Please educate yourself or stfu.
Would you be able to back up this claim? I haven't seen any signs of support from Russia. Even China says Putin should try to solve the problem with diplomatic means. And India tells him it's not a time for war. I heard the leader of Nigeria supports Putin but I don't know if it's confirmed.
I'm Nigerian...This isn't true (even though our current leader is an oaf). Most African countries aren't supporting Russia...they're just not actively opposing them, and for the right reasons. We're too poor to attempt any sanctions, and we'll rather maintain as much trade as we can with any country.
It'll be dumb for countries whose economies are in shambles to enact sanctions against Russia like the rich western countries that can afford to weather economic pain in the short term.
- Ukrainians provoked this war because they were shelling Donbas for 8 years killing many people!
- You realize they wouldn't shell anyone if Putin hadn't started the war in 2014, right?
Sometimes they also argue that after the Euromaidan the Russian population felt "threatened" (which is not true BTW). To which I reply that most of these people are either refugees or dead now.
Sometimes they even use the official argument made by Putin that he had to start the war otherwise Ukraine would join NATO. Which is one of the most absurd arguments as Ukraine was repeatedly refused NATO membership and even joining the EU was considered a very delicate affair. Even now, when the cards are on the table, nobody is treating Ukarine's membership in NATO seriously - Zelenski realizes the future of his nation will be Israel-like, focused on external and internal security backed up by Western allies.
Great for deepening the divide between people & countries.