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How is Deutsche Welle a weird source?

> Deutsche Welle or DW is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

Granted, "modern diplomacy" sounds a bit conspiracy leaning.

However, I think you missed my point. My point is not that Ukrainians are bad or Russians are justified. My point is that western media is making things oversimplified and polarized. Demonizing some people and cutting all support, treating others as heroes, arming them and forgetting their violations.

It's not about the % of extremists. It's that they committed several murders and went unpunished because the government / police turned a blind eye. It was convenient at the time because it silenced the pro-russian independent movements. Is that the hallmark of a western democracy?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-dead-o...

>> Here a follow-up how life worsened under Russia's annexation of Crimea

Again, I'm not arguing being under the thumb of an autocratic regime like Russia is good for anyone. But shouldn't populations make that decision themselves? Or do we get to decide what's best for them?

how about 'nomenklatura' by analogy to the soviet times?

> The killing of innocent Ukrainians must be stopped.

Were were you when the killing of innocent Russians was taking place in 2014? https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-the-forgotten-victims-of-donba...

What would you think if a region in Europe belonging to a larger country clamored for independence but was crushed by the military and by sanctioned militias which are antisemitic and right wing radicals? https://civic-nation.org/ukraine/society/radical_right-wing_...

How much do you really know about May 2nd 2014? https://www.dw.com/en/the-odessa-file-what-happened-on-may-2...

About the ties between radical anti-democratic para-military groups, the US and Ukraine? https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-go...

I don't know much, but would be surprised if it's as simple as: Russia = BAD, Ukraine = GOOD.

note that I'm not saying Russia is innocent or justified. Their war is unjustified and an atrocity. But Ukraine is not a beacon of democracy, respect and peace either. They are a country whose government has supported radical and violent tactics against some of its own ethnic groups.

Neither Russian nor Ukrainian civilians deserve any of this. In my opinion, protests, and sanctions should be very targeted (at leaders, companies and groups participating in these violent attacks: Now Russians ones, a few years ago Ukrainian ones).

I mostly talked to data-scientists in Europe and made interesting connections. I usually check people's LinkedIn, twitter, etc before agreeing to meet. So no, I haven't seen any MLM, but maybe I'm more strict in my filtering than others.

I found lunchclub.com useful for this.

the swords in those 3 links look just like the Asian ones you can see in Toledo. Hard to tell from the picture.

>> can not eaves drop

More precisely, it is possible to know if someone is eavesdropping and halt the key sharing.

QKD does not prevent it, but has a provable method to know that someone is listening (statistics of the measurements change).

They use trilateration to know where it came from. Since there are 3 observatories (Hanford, Livingston and Virgo) the waves will arrive at slightly different amplitudes / times / angles ... which allows you to estimate where in the sky it came from.

The waves also have different shapes (frequency, amplitude, shape) which tells us about the nature of the merger.