Why few orders of magnitude greater effort cannot help Russia, while much smaller effort helps USA a lot?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19866310 and marked it off-topic.
(I’m not assuming competence here: I assume that’s random over time)
I don’t know what Russia’s self-image is, but the impression I have from the outside is that it might as well be “<green frog emoji> Работа для нас в государственной пропагандистской компании <Russian flag emoji>”.
[Citation needed]
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You have made several specific russophobic claims and I challenge you to substatiate them and not leave that as 'an exercise for the reader'.
Please, list claims you are interested to dig in.
It clearly contradicts your statement that Russia and the Ukraine are at war.
I quoted the sentence that needs factual proofs.
> It clearly contradicts your statement that Russia and the Ukraine are at war.
No, it displays inertia of two big and complex systems.
> I quoted the sentence that needs factual proofs.
You got them. The whole site is created by EU and dedicated to disproof Russian propaganda, with links to propaganda narratives and factual materials.
For example: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/figure-of-the-week-136000/
"it displays inertia of two big and complex systems"
Yeah, right, I can imagine the US trading with Japan during the whole war. Oh, wait, no, actually, I cannot.
"You got them"
That is a lie. Even the link you gave doesn't have to do much with your statement.
EU is a weird special case, as it’s more tightly integrated than anything else that isn’t a country, despite not being a country. This was one of the points used by both sides in Brexit.
As for the general argument the two of you are having, I no longer think “war” is a useful boolean state, just a political decoration sometimes associated with the use of force against the political interests of another nation (“nation” being another surprisingly fuzzy concept the closer I look).
Turkish, American, Israel's and Arab actions in Syria come to mind, but what else?