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There are people here on HN who do this, and not just the green-name accounts that get spun up, spew nonsense for a few days before being downvoted to the point that they're shadowbanned. There are years-old accounts who do carry a lot of water for Putin - a mixture of this blatant denialism and jUsT aSkInG qUeStIoNs.

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There's a practice of selling older and higher karma accounts on Reddit, that are then used for marketing or propaganda, since they can pass new account filters that many subs have. I wonder if that is the case for HN as well - because it does seem really strange when someone who spent years talking about docker, go, and react suddenly starts posting about "NATO expanded eastwards" or somesuch.

I don't know if that would be more less sad than the prosaic explanation of people just being evil and dumb.

It's pretty interesting that kremlinbots have recently started posting raw HTML links (<a href="...">). It's like they're working off a script and can't be bothered to make even slight changes to account for the fact that HN doesn't support HTML input.

Do you believe the US wanted to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine? Or that it was displeased with the invasion? Just asking questions.

Don't know if you're trolling, or making a joke but I'll bite just once: I believe it doesn't matter, that Russia was going to invade whether the US wanted to stop or encourage them, whether they were displeased or excited or even if they were indifferent to the matter altogether. There are a lot of people who remove any agency from Putin or Russia and talk like Joe Biden himself texted all the various Generals in the Russian Army instructing them to invade and that Putin just ran with it out of embarrassment.

You believe US motivation “doesn’t matter” here - why? Because it has no influence over the situation? In that case, idk what we’re even arguing about. If however the world’s dominant imperial superpower *does* have some influence, then its motivation and goals *do* matter. Right?

Ah ok you're one of those. Alright, have fun on HN :)

It’s ok, just put on some cable news and those pesky brain cramps should clear right up. Enjoy life :)

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