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Feliz_Desdichado t1_j9szcgr wrote

Reply to Blinken says India, South Africa are on slow trajectory away from alignment with Russia by Falls_stuff

Well, India can't really align with China since they're in an active territorial dispute, and america supports their biggest enemy which is also a nuclear power, so it's hard to see who could they align with.

I'm pretty sure most Indians remember that America knew about the Bangladeshi genocide and decided to fully back Pakistan either way.

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MGMAX t1_j9syuu5 wrote

Reply to comment by Orphasmia in Biden official says there’s no evidence that Ukraine is misusing US assistance by fghfghhh

Well don't get me wrong, we did have a corruption fiasco in defense ministry just recently, but that was about food products price gouging.

I'm sure that a couple of MREs and uniform kits are being lost along the way, but the propaganda points of Ukraine selling arms on black market is pure, distilled idiocy

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technicalCoFounder t1_j9sykpy wrote

Reply to Ukraine faces a mental health crisis among soldiers and civilians alike by Sxzym

It’s really hard interacting with Ukrainians right now. The first question I’m asked is whether I support their enemy. Then we have to preamble for a while about the war and I have to pass a series of tests to confirm I’m not their enemy too. It’s exhausting.

I get it: when you’re in a war that’s the only possible thing there is. Nothing else really exists until “after”.

You can easily tell how much it has affected their social interactions outside their country and outside their culture.

This was well studied in Dutch kids after WW2. Having been born to stressed mothers during the war or having grown up themselves during the war their entire epigenetic makeup, not to mention their mental health, was permanently skewed to a “fight or flight”, “feast or famine” war-footing.

Heck that’s probably the natural state of all humans. We’ve been fighting wars with each other for as long as we’ve existed. Every person alive today was born to those who happened to survive one war or another.

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rm-rd t1_j9syg5y wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Boris Johnson calls on UK to 'break the ice' by sending fighter jets to Ukraine - and warns China against 'historic mistake' by R1ckCrypto

IMO the most escalatory thing that can happen is the war drags on, without giving Putin an excuse to back out.

The evil NATO jets (as Russia will probably call them) could both shorten the war (thus fewer lives lost on both sides) and give Putin a scapegoat for his loss.

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VictoryVino t1_j9sxype wrote

Reply to comment by Shillofnoone in Blinken says India, South Africa are on slow trajectory away from alignment with Russia by Falls_stuff

Is India willing to accept a US Ambassador? I have no idea how any of that works but I'd be surprised if a country could just call up another, state there is an Ambassador coming, and expect the receiving country to just have a place ready for them. Is there already a vacant US Embassy there?

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zipzoupzwoop t1_j9sxg0j wrote

Reply to comment by Tomas0Bob in Ukraine suffered more data-wiping malware than anywhere, ever: Russia has greatly accelerated cyberattacks on its neighbor in the wake of its invasion by DoremusJessup

So they should be geofenced then. "The internet is a human right" doesn't really apply when the country already blocks the parts of the internet they don't want their people to see. I believe not getting hacked by governmental stooges to be a human right.

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stormelemental13 t1_j9swzwe wrote

Reply to comment by likebudda in Biden official says there’s no evidence that Ukraine is misusing US assistance by fghfghhh

> Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Fairly often, it is. For decades there wasn't any evidence of wolves in our county. Was that conclusive proof there weren't any, no, but in practical terms that didn't matter. Either there weren't wolves, or there were wolves that were having so little impact no one had noticed them, which worked for us.

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autotldr t1_j9swlcm wrote

Reply to Ukraine faces a mental health crisis among soldiers and civilians alike by Sxzym

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)

> From our special correspondent in Kyiv - One year on from the Russian invasion, Ukraine is in a state of mental health crisis as the war's horrors have traumatised combatants and civilians alike, leaving doctors with the task of putting their shattered psyches back together.

> Elsewhere, psychologists have put Ukraine's mental health crisis at the centre of public discourse, breaking taboos around the subject.

> The WHO is working to train all its medical staff in Ukraine in treating mental health issues and is trying to ensure that the prevalent mental health issues there are addressed immediately, instead of waiting for the war to end.

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