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It's not like Britain could have kept energy prices down by not aiding Ukraine. It's also hardly realistic to suggest that British aid to Ukraine has come at a significant expense to the taxpayer, given the baseline defence spending by Britain to counter Russia.
Are you being deliberately dishonest or did you just misread something?
Luke discovered that a server belonging to him was compromised in November, yes. Much later, he found out that his personal devices were also compromised.
He has repeatedly stated that he did not keep any bitcoins on that server, and also repeatedly stated that his coins were stolen from cold storage.
It's possible these attackers had Lukes home computer compromised for years, his bitcoin holdings are not what makes him an interesting target. His ability to backdoor bitcoin core or other similar software just might.
Writing Russian names in Estonian script does not make them Estonian names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians
In Estonia these people are referred to as Russians too, because that is what they are and what they identify as.
Most of the Estonians with Russian names do identify as Russian, even if they aren't necessarily Russian nationals. It's an ethnic group, these are ethnic Russians.
> The reason it looks different, is because they're Estonian, so the name will be different
This is false. It's spelled the way it is spelled because that's how Estonian government wants names spelled. Also, because it would be awkward to interact with a society where most people do not know the Cyrillic alphabet.
How do you know this? Luke has denied this over and over again. It seems like you've invented this in order to defame him.
Looking up other Turõgins in Estonia, they all have very obviously Russian first names and zero obviously Estonian names.
There's no doubt that Ivan Turõgins parents fully intended to give him a Russian name, even if Estonia requires Estonian script on Estonian identity documents.
Even Estonians call these names "Russian names", that's what they are. If someone in Estonia decides to name their kid Muhamed, that doesn't magically become an Estonian name.
> Calling Estonians Russians is not taken well at all
I suspect that your comment wouldn't be taken very well by Estonian Turõgins
You generally can't buy the mentioned dual-use goods in your local electronics store. Look up the "EU dual use control list", it mostly covers exotic stuff like electronics adapted to operate in extreme (temperature, radiation) environments.