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That IA was simultaneously breached and assaulted with DDOS attack is unusual. I do not recall any service simultaneously experiencing both kinds of attacks as they are very different.
I enjoyed exploring the weird argument: Based on some vague statements in unknown context related second hand by an advisor and reported through a NATO outlet, we sacrificed the lives of over half a million Ukrainians and over $200B of our taxes to ensure that both houses of the Russian parliament do not approve conquering another European country.
Never mind that RF already has a vast territory of land and resources with not enough people to populate and tap it. Never mind that such an invasion would invoke article four of NATO and lead to world war three and probably go thermonuclear. Never mind that if RF survived the war, they would not be able to hold onto a territory where the residents oppose the occupiers.
Other countries must see us as stupid, insane, or both.
I provided only one article about the elections there, but it is well documented from many sources.
https://yandex.com/search/?text=donbas+elections+joining+rus...
The results were overwhelmingly in support of joining RF. The ease with which the Russians annexed the region is also evidence of how welcomed they were.
Every election everywhere has challenges. Other than minor complaints, there is no evidence of significant election tampering.
I don't know who Andrej Illarionov is or why I should trust what he says Putin wants.
To understand why this conflict was imposed upon them, look at the history. Russia was invaded by Napoleon and Hitler through Ukraine costing Russia ~23M people in the latter. James Baker and US representatives promised Gorbachev that NATO would not expand one inch east of Germany back in 92. They lied and many countries were brought under NATO. There is a long documented strategy to surround Russia, cause regime change, split up the country to smaller states, and exploit its $81T in resources in the ground. There is much more, but I think I have said enough.
My view on Putin is that he failed in many respects. He seemed to hope that NATO could be trusted to do business with. He may have been delusional or may not have had the support to strike back sooner. All trust between the two powers is now gone, and we are in a dangerous place now.
1. This is not run by Alex Jones, but to answer your question, I trust very little. Alex Jones is more trustworthy than most mainstream media. He voices much opinion and speculation, but he and his crew do not lie to manipulate us into war.
2. International observers oversaw the election and determined the elections to be free and fair. You are free to deny election results, but you should provide some kind of evidence to back your claims that it was unfair in some way.
These are mostly statements from other people rather than Kremlin officials speaking in any official capacity. I am sure some people in Russia in high positions of power fascinate about a greater Russia. The problem as I tried to explain is that Russia already has a massive country but not enough people to tap its massive natural wealth. Taking over other countries is a massive drain and doomed to fail when that population does not want to be ruled by another country. It simply makes no rational sense for RF to forcibly overtake other European countries. Ukraine conflict was forced upon them. They may debilitate the current government in Kiev, but they will not ultimately take over all the country that includes the staunch anti Russian Ukrainian population. That is called swallowing a porcupine.
Yes I should have stated more clearly that most of the people in the Donbas were either ethnic Russian or Russian speaking. Regardless of that, the majority wanted to join the RF.
https://nationalfile.com/donbas-region-overwhelmingly-votes-...2014 may not have looked like a coup from the media and is difficult to prove as one. Too much US state department involvement makes it look like one if you did deeper. Countless analyses by others with inside knowledge believe it was in the style of a color revolution. Too many sources to list here.
I suggest maintaining a neutral buffer zone between NATO and RF by not bringing Ukraine and other bordering nations into NATO. You found zero evidence that Russia wants to expand its borders. Although the communist party is the second largest in RF, its influence is relatively small and sees little likelihood of gaining significant power to restore the USSR.
The Donbas is populated mainly by Russian people who had been in a civil war with western Ukraine since the 2014 Maidan coup. They wanted to join the Russian Federation for years, but Russia did not want that until the situation became untenable.
Russia's economy is growing faster than the US and Europe. Perhaps that will encourage immigration. RF is implementing many policies to aid families to have more children and encourage controlled immigration. They could use about another billion people in that vast and rich territory.
Try researching these:
1. When was the last time Biden or anybody in the administration tried talking to the Kremlin to use diplomacy to end the conflict?
2. Try finding any evidence that Russia wants to expand its federation into Europe.
Russia is twice the size of the US with half the population. They have $81T of resources in the ground. They don't need any more land. They need people.
TMK most of the server code is open source but part is not. Therefore the service is not classified as open source. Try navigating into the spam-filter @ a30a761 folder to see that it is unavailable.
I am not worried. I do run my own servers for various comms and know what information an admin can monitor and collect.
Google has been blocked in all of China for many years. They mainly use AOSP (Android Open Source Project) and variants without any proprietary Google. Their IOS devices connect to servers in and run by China. Russia can do something similar, but they are giving people some warning and time to migrate. Russia has banned IOS for most government employees after the Operation Triangulation fiasco.
FUD is relevant when one needs to ensure his conversations and metadata are not being monitored. I can understand the Kremlin's concern and need for higher security.
I used Signal for many years and watched where it went. It was fine for talking to my family, but when people I know on government lists kept contacting me on Signal, I deleted it. Threat modelling can help you make the decision appropriate for you.
The server code went closed source over a year ago. Even if the published server code was open source, you are relying on the operators to be running the code they say they are running.
I think you mean to say Russia will not accept platforms controlled by NATO/US. Decentralized protocols such as XMPP, Matrix, Simplex, Session.. work fine and are not targeted for blocking.
Russia to block Google, IOS and Android.
Aleksei Didenko, a member of the Russian State Duma, has said that Google, including its Android operating system and Apple's iOS, will soon be blocked in Russia.
Didenko advised the public not to cling to services like YouTube, stating, "Soon Google will be blocked, along with Google Android. iOS will also be blocked, and this will not be our initiative."
t.me/ForeignAgentIntel
If Signal looks and quacks like a government operation, it probably is. You can find analysis from Kit Klarenberg and Yasha Levine explaining the detail.
More people are using more secure devices. Smart dust is also intended for deployment in battlegrounds or adversarial areas where devices are not under NATO control. China already mostly controls devices in use, and Russia is preparing to block all IOS and Google Android.
Yes it is one of many metasearch sites and not actually a search engine. Other engines include Kagi, Yandex, Brave, Mojeek, Quant, and something called Google.
IOS AI is also local, but that was exploited in Operation Triangulation to determine which photos to send back to the exploiter. My point is that even if the AI is local, if someone else can get access to the system as your boss and possibly MS or others can due to Windows and MS services already very network connected design, local AI can help them out.
I don't know of anything yet on desktop, but I have my own Nextcloud server that is advancing its local AI models quickly. You can run Nextcloud on just about anything, but to take advantage of the full AI capabilities, you need HW capable.
This highlights the need for access points that can broadcast a random BSSID periodically similar to how handset hotspots implement. I am looking for a new WIFI 7 access point and would love to find one that does this.
I assume all trending/recommended nudges on centrally controlled platforms are psychological operations. I see the absence of them on decentralized protocols such as NOSTR or the fediverse to be a feature.
We already have setup NOSTR and the fediverse that interoperate with each other. Many of us have set very simple rules to comply with the first amendment and legal precedent around it which is say anything as long as it is not illegal such as directing imminent harm on someone.
It is a claim or assumption that the Chinese government has direct control. NATO's sixth arena of operation, cognitive warfare, did not have as much direct control over the dials to employ weapons of mass deletion.