I actually can.

The thing is, Vance is the same but without being a complete fecking moron. And if Trump dies, Vance will be POTUS. The same will continue, but in a way that is consequent. And horrible for the west.

I don't think he said U.S. would back them up.

What he said was that it's okay to do something bad to the Russia. I don't think he has said anything like that since year 2019 or 2020.

He'll flip-flop from it anyway, but like a curve that goes up and down and up and down but still has a rising trend, this also means that the lowest downs will be a bit higher up, and the highest ups will be a bit higher up as well.

It's a promising trend. And still: The wave will soon reach another bottom. That's how it goes with Trump.

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Each threadiverse community is visible as a single user in Mastodon. All the comments come into one pile, not organized into clear threads. It's a very rudimentary support. But yeah, you can join a threadiverse conversation from Mastodon, but you cannot share any Mastodon content in threadiverse.

From within Lemmy, there is zero possibility to utter anything on Mastodon, except as a reply to a message a Mastodon user has made in a threadiverse community.

It's actually very easy checking how this conversation looks from within Mastodon! Just go to any Mastodon instance (such as http://mastodontti.fi/ ) with your web browser, click the search tool and search for a "user" called @fediverse@piefed.social .

I wonder why he says that?

The Kursk operation made a huge difference in the Russia's diplomatic position.
Without that, they could have done "an act of goodwill" and "agree to" a ceasefire with the front line as a de facto international border, then gather their strength for a year or two and attack Ukraine for good.

This would have enabled Trump to drive home a "peace" in under 100 days, at least if he had gotten Germany and France to join the plan. And there was a high likelihood that they would have done that, "in the name of peace."

They couldn't do that when part of the front was inside the territory of the Russian Federation.

I always understood the Kursk operation as the most crucial part of Ukraine's front because it tied Putin's hands diplomatically, making it impossible for the Russia to convince the west to stop arming Ukraine claiming that would be "in the name of peace".

Now Trump has been president long enough that the momentum of "I'll get them to make peace within 100 days or at least only a bit more" is gone, it's not so important to have pieces of the Russia under Ukrainian rule.

Although, there's also a secondary reason why that territory was good to have:
While the Russia did use its inhumane tactics of obliterating people's homes even in Sudža, the intensity of that tactic was very visibly lesser than in Ukrainian villages. That meant, the Russia had to expend more soldiers in the fight than they would have expended in Ukraine. And then, when they do obliterate parts of a village, it's a thousand times better that it's a village in the Russia, not an Ukrainian village. They do that obliteration with all available resources and all resources spent for obliterating homes in the Russia are away from doing the same to Ukrainian homes.

I believe Zalužnyj has political reasons for saying it cost too much.

I had to google the Dead Sea Effect: it means that when a workplace has a bad culture, the most skilled and ambitious workers are first to leave and those who have a habit to do the minimum will remain.

Anyway, I'd say this effect is weaker in this situation, because many workers are there truly to serve their country, not merely as "generic workers". They might feel that they have something important to contribute to the society, which means there's an actual chance for even some of the best to return.

A container container container? Obviously, the planet Earth is a container for the oceans.

Or, to be more specific, a container container.

(Yeah. Just let the buffalo buffalo. Whatever.)

You still can ;)

It also contains containers!

Actually it's Euros to a barrel.

It does take a while to join all the communities you were subscribed to from your old instance, but I don't think it took close to an hour. Of course, my new instance accepting my application did take its time. And I think that was several hours. But still: You give a few details today and continue tomorrow by subscribing to a bunch of communities.