Can you please explain why?
P.S: I am not Russian, neither support Putin's invasion, English is not my first language, I do have both Ukrainian and Russian friends and it is sad for me to see them get into the contact with difficulties at the moment
I tried to find relevant comments by moderators I'm not sure how helpful it is but here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I agree that it's sad because then that seems like it means that you can't get the perspectives of various sort of intellectual interesting or intelligent people (may be in a similar career space to you) about topics which are contentious. So that gives the impression that these people are unable to think about or talk about those topics in a way that is sort of... Nice. Which doesn't bode well for society if some of the "smartest" cannot engage on issues they find important. But I think that's, maybe, just misperception because I think the cause of those types of flame wars is because human social cognitive emotional development / evolution at the present time is not equipped to do that kind of stuff without devolving and also that the nature of the text only forum mostly devoid of social cues and body language and nonverbal stuff and also where people are sort of freed from social or mostly reputational context by anonymous accounts I think those are some of the things that contribute to the intense interactions that can occur.
My suggestion is you just fire off a couple of random LinkedIn messages or emails to people whose views you're interested in or respect and ask them their opinion. I know it's not the same type of scatter shot wide net approach that you can get here with an Ask HN but it might help you get some feedback that you're looking for.
And I don't think there's much harm in at least trying to ask it here first and seeing you know if it gets flagged or not. Maybe doing that can also help you refine your views of what content this forum is seeking.
If you post in good faith and try to stay curious and sincere and well intentioned, even if you do something that is sort of against what the forum can handle, in my experience the moderators will let you know and they will help you turn it into an opportunity for you to create an improvement.
best i can offer is maybe ask same question, but extremely gently -- something so soft and gentle that it wouldn't even melt a snowflake.
1. Ukrainians resist because they do not accept this invasion. They do not welcome Russian invaders who wanted to kill their president and put a Russian puppet in power and annex more of their land and property. Now after many war crimes committed by Russian army, even people who perhaps supported Russia before, do not support it anymore.
2. Easter Europeans give humanitarian and military support because they see this as attack on themselves and they know that when Russia succeeds in Ukraine, they will be most likely next target.
3. Western Europeans perhaps do not feel this much threatened but they see this invasion as completely morally unacceptable against their principles - it is an attack on democratically elected government and independent country.
4. US supports most likely it because to have more control in territories close to Russia but it has not given too convincing support - this is also one of the main reasons why this war become possible at all.
At the moment Russian army is running out of resources to continue this war. This war has become very expensive for Russia to continue and those expense will grow with each day because more and more effects from sanctions kick in. Russian army soldiers are not motivated to fight.
It becomes more and more clear that Russia will want out of Ukraine because it was a huge miscalculation but it is not clear what terms will they accept.
It would be likely difficult to get reparations directly from Russia but their confiscated assets would be directed to Ukraine and Ukraine will receive sizable investments to rebuild and reform their country.
They have entry to EU and also possibly into NATO if they can swallow the fact that Russia has stolen some of their land.
Perhaps this is overly optimistic opinion but things do not look this bad for the future.