signpost[asciilifeform]: ru allowing an incursion into their own territory persuades me of asciilifeform's cosmology. appears to be precisely one sovereign on earth, much theater to the contrary notwithstanding.
signpost[asciilifeform]: tbh cannot believe this is permitted.
asciilifeform: signpost: fungus aint precisely 'a sovereign'
asciilifeform: it's rather like to say that cancer is 'sovereign'
signpost[asciilifeform] grants
signpost[asciilifeform]: maybe better to say that russia appears to care whether the craziest and most armed bastard on earth can behave rationally
signpost[asciilifeform]: I do not have a working model that explains why kiev isn't radioactive yet
asciilifeform: signpost: reich propaganda tries to paint current-day ru as a su continuation, but it aint, the place is actually run by folx with children at oxbridge and yaleward
asciilifeform: they aint aboutta deepfry'em
asciilifeform recalls trying to explain this in '22 and even earlier in '14 at the dawn of current ukrowankage
signpost[asciilifeform]: whether gun to their head, or their kids at yale, effect is they let ukr raid into their territory.
signpost[asciilifeform]: pretty bad look.
asciilifeform: signpost: long before this, 'they let' the situation even get to this point. i.e. for 8 yrs sat & watched the ukrs build up their 'mannerheim line' forts, crank up modern army, etc
signpost[asciilifeform]: apologies if I didn't properly represent your view in either case.
asciilifeform: it aint about what's happening this wk or the last, at all
asciilifeform: this week is a logical and predictable result of the ~3y of idiocy, and preceding 8y of 'peace processes' wankage