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You loose the war, your country gets occupied and your population suffers

My population suffers either way and losing a war to a dictatorship while being a dictatorship doesnt change much.

Ukraine doesn't have allies. If it did, they'd be at war with Russia too.

Most people decided millennia ago that man and woman have different duties in war times

Guess what, their decisions weren't limited by war times. Men and women had different duties in family, in communities, in positions of power, etc. And they had different rights then too, btw.

Why is it, that you have to bring up all these unrelated topics like patriarchy, privileges and nazism?

Dude, you have no idea what you're talking about.

This division of duties IS called a patriarchal system, where men lead and women follow. YOU are trying to defend it, not me.

People tend to have an attachment to the place where they live or have been born or with the people they live with.

Is that the reason they fled the country and want to move elsewhere and are now forced to go back? Interesting logic.

That is a privilege, no?

Yes, that is a privilege men don't have. That's inequality by definition.

As i said, women have different responsibilities in wartime.

I don't see women being forced out back to Ukraine to their responsibilities, though. Do you?

Or do you suggest to conscript women and send them to the front instead?

I suggest consistency. If they claim to aim for equality, that's the logical step. And not "instead" but along with men. If they think women should have different responsibilities, then please be consistent and force them to commit to their responsibilities (what are they though?).

My suggestion is not to exclude men from the temporary protection scheme. They're as much of humans as women are and they too want to live their lives peacefully rather than fight for God knows what and being forced to die in the meat grinder like cattle. At least give that to people who managed to escape the Ukrainian concentration camp.

Or, if you decide that men have duties that women don't, let's get back to the patriarchy and give the men the privileges they fight for (or have to fight for in case of a war).

And where does your inside info from the Kremlin and Putin's head is coming from?

It's coming from the fact that troops approaching Kyiv were supplied with 3 day rations and full dress uniforms, ready to hold a parade in Kyiv. It's also coming from US intelligence (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/russia...). And on top of that, russian propaganda literally repeated times and times again that this war will last for 3-4 days.

Putin was raised in the KGB, I think he knows a bit how to get intel

Are you saying he planned for 5 years of war and russian economy being destroyed and also planned for over a million casualties for his army?

underestimating the will of the ukrainians to hold their ground in the beginning of the war

There you go, you just said it yourself. That's the "insight".

Learning from the failures and being able to turn lessons into hardware/weapons modifications has *always* been a deciding factor in any conflict.

What's changed is this ability is now easily accessible.

"Air superiority" wouldn't do anything in 2026 unless you're fighting an African tribe with ak47s in a fullscale war and even then your enemies would probably supply the tribe with some air defense systems that would cause trouble for the pilots.

I often do the "background check" of the writers that smell propaganda/psyop. What did they write and when they wrote it.

If you do just a quick check of what this guy wrote, you'll see he isn't just "a critic".

His Ukraine-related articles are the real litmus test. He's literally spewing the russian propaganda nonsense.

"Come and see" and "20 Days in Mariupol". Both are about wars and both affect you the way nothing else does.

The last one is a documentary about the war in Ukraine. The actual raw uninterpreted reality of things that we read about in history books or in the news changes your perspective on many things, from politics to simple things in life that we often take for granted.

News stories force an agenda on you. History books may give you some knowledge about the reality we live in today. THIS lets you live through the traumatic experience of the history books and news story events.

I'm not sure if there are/were cases you're asking about, but tech companies like Google do have policies that don't allow "harmful" information to get through and be found.

It started in 2016 when Trump got elected after launching multiple successful online campaigns.

It was tested and improved during the covid outbreak and the latest US elections.

Now it's a huge gatekeeping machine that "protects you from mis- and disinformation online".

One of the criteria for allowing information on Google is "consensus". I assume legislation is considered consensus too.

One more use case for personas:

As someone who owns a popular website, I often receive guest writing inquiries (probably for links and SEO).

Most of the time it's either Indians or Eastern European guys. But for some reason they always use fake personas and names to sound/look more "western".

When I asked why do they do that, the answer was "it increases the conversion rates" among "western" publishers. Who also happen to be the most valuable prospects.

So, basically they exploit the conscious or subconscious xenophobic biases in people of western cultures towards people from other "foreign" cultures by creating fake personas. And it works! People are more likely to accept guest articles from someone who looks like them.

PS. You would be surprised to know how many contributors at Forbes, Inc, Entrepreneur, Tech Crunch, Mashable, etc are completely fake personas.