• Chozo
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      Who do you think suggested the idea to them? $10 says Elon directed Russia straight to a backdoor. He’s been itching to see Ukraine fail this whole time, I wouldn’t put it past him to directly interfere in such a way.

      • @[email protected]
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        How exactly has he demonstrated his urge to see Ukraine fail?

        EDIT: Still waiting for examples of this

        • @[email protected]
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          461 month ago

          He has refused to allow Ukrainian troops to use Starlink within Russian occupied regions to avoid “conflict escalation”.

          • @[email protected]
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            It would be illegal to enable it within Russian/occupied territory because of US sanctions.

            • @CM400
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              He also doesn’t let Ukraine use starlink in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, according to a quick google search.

                • @lepinkainen
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                  111 month ago

                  So if a single Russian soldier enters the US, all of America must stop everything because of sanctions against Russsia?

            • @Passerby6497
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              Why? Can starlink not track which ones they give to Ukraine and not let any others work in the area? Or would that require competence that Leon Skum and company doesn’t have?

              • @[email protected]
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                21 month ago

                You’re asking the wrong person. I don’t work for U.S. goverment - I don’t know why the sanctions are what they are.

        • @orrk
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          IDK, maybe that whole thing where he likes to selectively turn off Starlink, or maybe that time he literally went to visit Putin and then spouted some Russian Blood and soil?

  • Kokesh
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    541 month ago

    I think they can ask muskrat directly, he would do it

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
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    It’s interesting the lengths Russia will go through to win this without becoming a half-decent country.

    • ZeroOne
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      But it is half-decent, look at their metro & compare it to America’s

      • @[email protected]
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        201 month ago

        Fucking Mussolini was said to have made the trains run on time again.

        Even if that were true, that doesn’t make him half decent.

        • ZeroOne
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          Who said I was simping for Putin

      • @Passerby6497
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        Well, what about if we compare ‘factories not on fire’ or ‘citizens lost on the battlefield in the last year (month)’ or even ‘incidents of explosive drone attacks’?

        Are they still half decent?

      • Zement
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        91 month ago

        That is Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

        Show me the Metro of Sotschi… or any other second class Russian city.

        Russia has literally only 2 Cities partially on western standard. I think most dictatorships manage this, even North Korea.

        • ZeroOne
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          It’s everywhere in Russia, the point is Russia is half-decent not like what the American kool-aid would have you believe, that is all there is to it No politics here, case closed

          • @Ansis100
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            11 month ago

            The grass is always greener on the other side

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        I mean that’s more because America’s metro fucking sucks. My country has better and I’m literally from a third world country.

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        51 month ago

        Removed by mod

      • HubertManne
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        by chicago you mean new york and chicago and such. America does quite well. russia has 7 metro systems while the us has 16.

        • ZeroOne
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          & all 16 look like toilets & those metro systems are dysfunctional considering how car-dependent US is

          • HubertManne
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            how are they dysfunctional? Chicagos system works quite well and dc’s one was somewhat decent. Having some fancy chandeliers does not make a metro system good.

            • @obre
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              • HubertManne
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                yeah but I think its good to challenge this shit. It likes to ride off the us transit bad thing. Which is true but then wants to combine it with, pretty russia train stations, when their infrastructure, including transit, is worse than ours. Which is saying a lot. Given china/india is doing a lot with their infrastructure, russia may find itself the backwater between two modern areas.