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> The rebranding is due to the disappearance of the Orgzly author

Internet disappearances have become more and more common since COVID times. Honestly scares me

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Same thing happened for the Emacs EXWM author Chris Feng:

https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

Or since the Ukraine War

The Russian war on Ukraine is the term you were looking for.

Better, the proxy war that is actually between USA-Russia.

Bullshit.

American weapons, American ISR, American planning, American funding... US politicians talk about a "good investment" and "to the last Ukrainian". I don't understand how you could NOT call it a US-proxy war.

Yeah. A proxy war doesn't mean that Ukraine doesn't deserve to be free.

We care about Ukraine and its people, the US care about money and power.

We don't call the Korean war the China and USSR-USA war either.

I don't think this is the argument you think it is...

As a Russian I'd rather call it the Putin's war.

What would you call the other wars then?

- Against Georgia (2008)

- against Ichkeria, twice (1994, 1999)

- against Afghanistan (Dec 24, 1979 – Feb 15, 1989)

Just to name a few. ‘As a Russian, I’d rather avoid any responsibility for the actions of my government and play a victim card, telling everyone I didn’t vote for it, so it’s everyone else’s problem.’ Yeah, sounds very Russian to me. Very Russian indeed.

I do wonder if this is the name that history will stick with. Ukrainian War or even Russo-Ukrainian War (the name for the broader conflict starting in 2014) is shorter.

Russo-Ukrainian war jives better with other historical conflicts.

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