This person is a troll. For example here is one of their previous posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30681090
“Ask HN: Ukrainians, why don’t you surrender?”
“Ask HN: Ukrainians, why don’t you surrender?”
As to who decides, I believe it's a combination of user flagging and moderation by a few HN mods.
I don't get how people behave when you try to look from other people's perspective and share your opinion, if it doesn't match with their opinion, you immediately marked as "brainwashed", "troll", "stupid conservative" and so on.
Why on Earth we gave up diversity of opinions and started thinking only one side is always right.
* US can ban mass media - stopping propoganda. any other country banning media - violation of freedom of speech * US invades a country, destroys economy for another 50 years - fighting for human rights. any other country, aggressor * CIA tortures - that's fine, we need to get terrorists. any other country - human right violations. * US says something - right! any other person - ohh brainwashed, troll, as if we don't have a brain and we don't compare actions of governments
* George Bush
* Hillary Clinton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlz3-OzcExI happy for destroying a nation)
* Joe Biden (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=927i2HAgxms telling how he suggested bombing Belgrade)
* Colin Powell (famous lier, who lied to invade another country) and many more stupid politicians.
I don't trust Putin as well, but that's not main issue here, my concern is ordinary people, like you and me are dying! for what? they even don't know. Imagine you wake tomorrow with bombs are dropped in your neighborhood, would you care about what Biden or Putin is talking about? No, you will try to save your family, because they are civilians like you and me. My guess is, this war is because of geopolitical games (not my expertise, just thinking out loud), not because we deeply care about Ukrainian people or Russians, we just care about our pockets, and selfish imperialism. If they don't obey us, let the regime change!
We are human species, we haven't chose Earth, why millions should get killed for the ambitious of very small subset of humans
a) die, or,
b) fight to death with so-so chances of survival.
It is not a choice between:
x) to live under Russian rule(impossible as Russians don’t tolerate life)
x) or die(possible but not a choice).
As such, recommending a surrender is just trolling. Blame Russians for that!
Question sounds pathetic, sorry for that, couldn't find better words, but mostly civilians are suffering in this war, why don't you ask Zelensky to surrender and stop this war?
Here is my rationale:
* every single day of war costing more civilian lives from Ukrainian side
* every attack is destroying Ukraine
* every weapon sent by West as a "help" is going to increase resistance, which in turn makes war to last longer.
* don't expect intervention from West, otherwise we might see nuclear bomb thrown to somewhere
* we can ask same question to Putin, why don't you stop the war, but he started war, so he is not going to stop it unless agreement is reached
Let's talk about different cases of power balance:
1. Russia has more power: that means eventually Ukraine will be capitulated
2. Ukraine has more power: Ukraine will win this war, assuming it won't attack Russia, whole Ukraine will be in ruins, lots of lives lost, but in Russia side no civilians are killed, economy will recover, people will say Putin was to blame, now he died, include us to EU
3. equal power balance: war indefinitely
4. Someone from government kills Putin: Then they can say, look we killed him, we are not responsible, so lift the sanctions, similar situation to Option 2 will happen
Option 2 is unlikely at this moment, even if it happens, Ukraine won't win economically, look at what happened in Libya, Syria their economies didn't recover after war.
Stop the war, don't expect Putin is going to stop this war, don't fuel war with weapons.