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propesh··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
The borderlands suffered annual Tatar invasions. From the beginning of the 16th century until the end of the 17th century, Crimean Tatar slave raiding bands[56] took about two million slaves from Russia and Ukraine.[57] According to Orest Subtelny, "from 1450 to 1586, eighty-six Tatar raids were recorded, and from 1600 to 1647, seventy."[58] In 1688, Tatars captured a record number of 60,000 Ukrainians.[59] The Tatar raids took a heavy toll, discouraging settlement in more southerly regions where the soil was better and the growing season was longer. The last remnant of the Crimean Khanate was finally conquered by the Russian Empire in 1783.[60]
propesh··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
Pale of Settlements is a good start.

The brutal murders of Jews and Poles occurred during the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648–1657 in present-day Ukraine.[22] Modern historians give estimates of the scale of the murders by Khmelnytsky's Cossacks ranging between 40,000 and 100,000 men, women and children,[23][24] or perhaps many more.[25]

propesh··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
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propesh··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
Agree.
propesh··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
Do you know that there has been Russian vs. Ukrainian fighting for nearly a 1000 years (maybe more)?

Russians were slaughtering Ukrainians before the world knew of the North American continent.

propesh··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
Ok, who is to blame outside the hand-waiving of the whole world? And I guess we should just throw out common criminal law foundations of 5000 years.

Fine, I say lets blame the sun.

propesh··on Be anonymous
Kidding aside, this is exactly how it will go down. Politician in a scrape of financial corruption or etc.? Deepfake s*x video or other viral blatant misinformation & obfuscation; what's the risk? Upside, no one knows what to believe. Exactly what various "countries" are doing. It will be extreme; to the point where, don't believe half of what you actually see.
propesh··on Israel rolls out laser defense system
Here is the article: https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/07/15/172055/an-explan...

Again, not sure if this turned out to be correct; but from reading reports on the ground and the lives Israel claimed it saved (and building more of them,) it seems evident he was in fact wrong.

propesh··on Israel rolls out laser defense system
Ill never forget when the Iron Dome was first rolling out, this rocket researcher on the internet said it couldn't be done. He explained it pretty well, and I was convinced. Search google for Iron dome doesn't work (looking back to 2010-14) And yet, it does work (mostly).

So basically what I'm saying, this stuff is hard, and few people in the world can even verify your claim, never mind have access to the tech or AI behind it. But i'd bet with the Israelis.

propesh··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
There is one true scotsman, amirite?
propesh··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
So the blood washes away the diamond?
propesh··on Richard Stallman Defends Epstein: Victims Were ‘Entirely Willing’
Sexual Morality has been a slippery slope for a long time; there is no real moral quality that we can asses. Its a moving goal post (in this case, seems like the elite are hoisted by their own petard, though I doubt the real powerful people ever get in trouble for their double standards)

In the end, I am guided by moral principles that increase fertility and increase family unity.

Seems like corporate America decided to kill sex and kids, so that their labor supply is increased and their employees will stay late. (And will eventually be hoisted by their own petard as the labor market shrinks, and consumer demand dries up.)

So it goes.

propesh··on Judge.me - A Private Small Claims Internet Court
Then the ruling can be attacked as capricious and arbitrary, thereby negating any value to the judgement in the first place. Curious how they are going to deal with that.
propesh··on What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?
I use FeedDemon. It has a feature called "Watches", which allows me to save terms I want to search. I have a deals Feed, and watch for whatever I want to buy. This feature is lacking in Google Reader.