It’s full of tankies. Many of the mods of major subs such as politics or world news are tankies and will block anything remotely critical of Russia or China and censor anyone who says, for instance, that Ukraine has the right to take the fight to Russia. It’s definitely more covert than lemmygrad is, but after about 6 months there, it became abundantly clear to me that nothing good was coming out of that place.

Trust me, as someone who has been through this process, they manage to drive away all the normies pretty quickly.

You don’t have to use filters, just like you don’t have to subscribe to subreddits on Reddit. You can just use the default front page if you are afraid of tailoring it to your tastes.

You can listen to people try to convince you that Russia’s war is justified and that Tienamen Square never happened for a while if you want, then make up your mind and block them later ;-).

Yes, most people will want to do this at a minimum with Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml (actually most instances already have defederated with the second, but it doesn’t hurt).

The only ones who survive will be the ones who defect.

Yeah they’ve gotten really weird about forcing you to use their app and put a credit card on it constantly. Really annoying.

So you just had to wait 5 days

North Korean troops arriving at a training ground in Eastern Russia

This is true for basically everything in a war zone. Some idea is better than no idea IMO. Yes, you have to piece together your own assessment from the data, but I’d prefer to have the data than not.

The definition of “enemy combatant” was “anyone within the blast radius of a US strike”. I kid you not.

Unfortunately you can’t really turn off a nuclear reactor.

This was cringe even in the '90s.

This is exactly the point. They are already at full throttle war with the West. The only further escalation they could make would be nukes, which would be their end, NATO can take out all of Russias nuclear capacity and win the war in Ukraine all with conventional weapons.

Ah, should have checked the instance before bothering. Wasting my time on conversations with .ml bots again.

Russia’s inflation is among the highest in the world, interest rates are also at the level of credit cards elsewhere in the world, China’s banks are refusing to take Roubles now, Putin is burning through the sovereign wealth fund. They definitely do something. If maintained, they can provide some of the biggest headwinds to the war outside of simply providing tons of weapons to Ukraine. They just aren’t the instant fix that many people expect them to be.

That’s great, got any?

Ah that’s new case then. They have to evaluate each one and decide what’s safest then, my point being that sometimes the safest thing to do is to not shoot it down.

As they are flying through the airspace back into Ukraine, they don’t want to shoot them down in the risk that they fall on something in their country instead.