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The Winter War is a bad comparison. Finland didn't have massive international blocks backing it, nor did the Soviets. NATO -- 30, soon to be 31 countries -- are backing UKR, while India, China, Iran, and a few others are backing Russia to varying degrees.
The real comparison is probably closer to Iraq-Iran in the 1980's. Iraq launches a huge mechanized offensive, gets into Iran, runs out of steam, and slowly gets pushed back, at high cost for both sides. It gets ugly, fast, and kills a whole bunch of people. It goes in for ~8 years before it eventually just peters out, and lasts that long because of international support for each side: Iraq had the US and similar 1st worlders; Iran had the USSR and COMBLOC.
Iran nor Iraq shelled their own minority citizens leading up to and partially instigating the invasion. Additionally NATO was not knocking on either one’s doorstep.
Let’s see, lower inflation, growth projected gdp, efficiency in military spending, public health care, very low urban crime rates/homelessness, econ partnerships with 70% of world population, and almost no national debt. Compare those points to the US/TheWest…
How did big orange Ben always put it, “nuff said”.
I'm surprised that this article doesn't even mention the ongoing, continual attacks on the civilian Ukrainian electrical grid, in a concerted effort to take it out with thousands of cruise missiles and loitering drones.
Perhaps not all countries will be as determined as the Ukrainians are in their constant repairs, but even with half of their generation capability destroyed, and so many substations targeted, the effects are much like rolling blackouts.
My son has Ukrainian language lessons with teachers both in Donetsk and Kyiv several times a week, and only a single lesson has been missed despite the constant destruction that is ongoing. I'm astounded both by the resilience of the grid and the resilience of Ukrainians. I hope that if such a situation ever happens to the US, we will prove to be as resourceful.
This piece also completely ignores the ongoing changes to our grid as it is being revolutionized by distributed energy resources and storage. Soon, islanding of homes, and the spread of more micro grids, means that a lot of the older reasoning in this article won't make much sense. Already, many critical infrastructure from hospitals to data centers plan for independence during outages. This will become increasingly common as the more electric vehicles allow for vehicle to home usage, as well as charging directly from home solar. This is what wealthy people do today, and costs are falling to make this accessible to all. There's even a chance that islanding might be cheaper than the alternatives for a significant chunk of homes in the future.
Already the grid costs us more than electricity generation, something like $0.08/kWh of the average electricity price of $0.13/kWh in the US. As generation from renewables gets cheaper, and storage gets cheaper, and the grid remains stubbornly expensive, more and more people will be looking to abandon it for energy independence on their own, or in smaller micro grids.
Sincere question so please don't overreact as if I'm trolling. Why is your son learning Ukrainian! I could make a couple guesses but the subject is understandably too sensitive I'd like to just inform myself as to something I may be missing! I detest ignorance, above all especially my own.
I find account security horribly bloated thanks to tools like Podesta and such lame password creators. If ppl would simply make good passwords this would not be an issue. Google, Amazon, Valve/Steam, blah blah blah… we almost don’t need passwords anymore.
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By the numbers, around $34 million in funds is affected, mostly Ethereum. They say in the press release that they prevented most of the unauthorized withdrawals and reimbursed the remainder, but it’s unclear how much they had to pay for reimbursements.
For context, this is the startup that has been using Matt Damon as it’s face.
Ad even earlier started out with MCO as their iconic token, then shifted to a new crypto while leaving early stakeholders in the dark. Those early maneuvers were something of a red flag.