I’m not suggesting that this is a good strategy, or that Russia doesn’t have their own strategy. I predict that if we see Russia begin to convincingly turn the tide (perhaps it has begun) we’ll see renewed aid to Ukraine-- maybe newer fighter planes. In general though, it doesn’t seem like Ukraine could really “win” on the terms they would like. Ultimately, as you mentioned, attrition favors Russia. You need soldiers to hold territory.

Again, the idea isn’t necessarily to make Russia lose. It’s to make them fight for a long time.

Flying back on a government plane? Lame.

Of course he knows. US support for Ukraine is perfectly calibrated to make sure the war remains at a stalemate. The whole idea is to keep Russia bogged down.

Find your people, and stop participating all together as a group!

I use Nextcloud myself, but if people don’t want to host a server or fuck with syncthing, they can sync it however they want as long as they use a strong enough master password/phrase (which they should be anyway.).

Vote for CIA, get CIA.

Sync however you want. Syncthing, Nextcloud, Dropbox, Gdrive etc.

You can get plastic, glass or bamboo ones too. Actually, the metal ones I have come with a little silicon extenter on the end :).

I love how this looks like an ad in a magazine.

If reforms from democrats was enough, we wouldn’t have Trump right now.

Some straws even come with the brush!

Easy. You get nice little brushes like a pipe-cleaner.

Gotcha, didn’t realize it was a blog post haha. As far as my personal experience, I never have to touch it. Once I did a dist-upgrade and broke it, but fixed it with a backup.

I’m rusty since it’s been awhile, but I don’t understand why you need two VPSs. I have a similar setup just using one. It was mainly to get around the ISP NAT. My DNS points to the VPS, and it forwards traffic to/from my home server over the WG connection with IPtables rules.

Convicted for one crime and sentenced for another? Sounds like freedom and democracy!

I know many people that struggle to meet their basic needs. I actually could be investing, but I have moral qualms about supporting or profiting from almost any of the companies in those index funds-- certainly the ones that make real returns.

Boomer slop.

Yes, I guess it did seem like a good idea at the time. Fake it (low birth rate) til you make it (improved living standards).

I’m not advocating for it. I’m just saying that over the course of the conflict, the US has held back certain kinds of military aid which may have given some advantage to Ukraine.