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The ones being monkeybrained into celebrating ‘poetic justice’ for those they have been trained to perceive as entitled for making $70 games not worth it while being smug about an artistic vision and a ‘reality of the industry’ these dissatisfied customers supposedly don’t get. It’s the same vitriolic nonsense on social media as we see in politics. People’s perspective being pitted against each other without actually facilitated communication.

Given how you seem to need justifying your correction, I wonder what’s the point of it in the first place. I have used the term both with and without the article, obviously disregarding the political implications I am aware of.

You might want to look up the historic usage. And I don’t mean the slavic etymology nor soviet russia. It has been named both until the article became a politicized matter. So if you want to object to me accidentially implying I would not affirm the independence of Ukraine as a country, then I understand that.

Technically it’s both, given the etymology of the word.

https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/

It looks like there is more than just ‘nobody’ trying to stop his bs in the court rooms.

The problem is - while he might not be wrong, simply because it’s unlikely that Russia would accept a total territorial loss at the negotiation table - ceding anything to the Russian imperialists is an invitation to keep pushing.

The truth is that the US of course do not care about the Ukraine as a sovereign entity. They care only about maintaining their own geopolitical interests.

On the other hand do I doubt that Russia is interested in merely maintaining their territorial gains - maybe as a special zone of some sort - if that would mean that the Ukraine would pursue a proper membership in NATO.

So what we will likely see is that Russia will want to maintain or increase their presence in eastern Ukraine, maintain Crimea and want assurances that Ukraine will remain a neutral buffer state.

Leading to the Ukraine being screwed over either way.

Not wanting to defend google or any of the techbro vehicles, but it’s literally obeying the law in this case.

This is now on other countries to step up and enforce their nomenclature in accordance with historical use, in order to play this game and make these companies obey domestic requirements.

Imagine living in a year 2025 where some old soggy dipshit indulges in what is effectively larping as an imperialist. Remember those Mujahideen/freedom fighters/terrorists who opposed ‘american imperialism’? Guess they will pull a smug face now.