The Russians know that NATO are a defensive alliance only.
The whole "NATO aggression" thing is pure propaganda horse shit; they know it, we know it, everyone knows it, but they still need some fake ass bullshit to justify their unjustifiable rage and entitlement. They're bitter and angry at us for being broad-spectrum better them, so they're literally inventing excuses to feel assaulted and discriminated-against.
Fuck the "feelings" of these shitty, backwards, worthless people.
If they attack us, we'll be ready -- and they'll be sorry. Beyond that, I literally couldn't give a shit WHAT those stupid angry little barbarians think.
Glad to see somebody taking these Russian bullies down a few pegs.
Klepto-fascist Russia respects strength, and literally despises weakness. You earn their respect by drawing clear boundaries, and then punching them hard every time they step out of line.
You have to keep your pimp hand strong with these backwards bitches. There's no reasoning with them, because they are not civilised people of good will. You can't talk to Putinists like you talk to (say) the Americans or Europeans.
The Chinese steal, because they need to. Most of the stealing is Chinese stealing American and European IP. Why is that?
P.S. how's your domestic turbofan engine going?;-)
That is fucking HILARIOUS, because jet engine technology is about the only IP that cannot be stolen.
Interesting, that.
Like in the case of Nortel, where Huawei got rich by stealing Nortel's IP, destroying their business and sending them broke, throwing thousands of people out of work.
Then Huawei switching gear turned up made to stolen designs, running Nortel's stolen firmware.
The warped kleptocrat logic is that some Americans sailed close to the wind in the 1800s on IP... so China is now granted a perpetual license to steal expensively-produced from Western countries forever. Chinese thievery has ALREADY thrown thousands of Americans out of work, and cost people their pensions.
In mainland Chinese culture, there is no honour and morality beyond winning at any cost, even if it means fucking somebody else over and ruining their life. Cultural degeneracy spawned by the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution, and survives in billions of petty dishonest things that Chinese people do every single day.
PERCEPTION: invincible super-spies who can find anybody, kill anybody and hack anything on a whim.
REALITY: barely-competent two-bit thugs, who continually blow their operations and cause problems for their leadership through incompetence, mindless aggression and poor judgement. Scumbags who, if they weren't working for Putin, would be extorting shopkeepers and raping hookers in St Petersburg.
Amen. They don't care about Trump, and have actually gotten annoyed with him, because he is too erratic and unreliable to deliver sanctions relief.
The Russian game is to stir up conflict and chaos, to weaken the West, to set us at war continually with ourselves. They think they can destroy the West from within, and then step into the void.
From here on in, anybody in Western politics and media who are still actively fomenting hatred, hyper-partisanship and division, given what we know now about Russia stoking chaos, should be scrutinised very heavily.
Putinist sock-puppets are all over Slashdot like flies on shit.
Fairly sure of it, because normal geeks normally don't have strong opinions on things that Putin's Russia hates.
When I'm foolish enough to try and state some home truths, it gets really, REALLY obvious. I've been called "pidar", "urod", and "CIA spy and shill" repeatedly, if I challenge the pro-Putin narrative hard enough it's ridiculous. I've seen enough Russian false-equivalency, whataboutism and outright lies to melt a normal person's brain.
I know that Slashdot leans technolibertarian -- and it's known that technolibertarians have been targeted hard by the Putinist propagandists in their efforts to smear and discredit the NSA and normal spycraft in general (but of course, Russia and China gets a free pass).
While issues around liberty and privacy ought to be taken seriously -- don't take anything you read about teh ebil NSA at face value. Malevolent actors are TRYING to turn you us against ourselves.
Foolish man. He made himself a traitor because he drank deeply from the same poisonous Russian Kool-aid as the rest of the technolibertarian extremist idiots on here.
Actually, I think Snowden was groomed. KGB case officers are trained to groom people and lie effortlessly. Assange and Greenwald were brought in by the instigators.
Snowden will die cold and drunk in a piss-stained cardboard box.
But he put himself there, not because he explicitly set out to stab the free world in the back, but because the Russians whispered anti-Western poison in his ear, and conned him into believing that Russian was a bastion of freedom, rule-of-law and transparency.
A bit like the hordes of naive techno-libertarian sheep here, voting down the painful truth. Just like working-class Trumpers, you'll never admit to yourself that you've been brainwashed by Russian propaganda into believing that the West is evil.
Worse... you all think you're too clever to get conned, and the Russians know you are the easiest marks of all.
It is completely consistent with the Russian mindset, to boorishly do victory laps after pulling something like this. You clearly haven't met many Russians in your life -- I have.
The Snowden operation was ordered by Putin to weaken the NSA, as it's the West's most powerful and effective intelligence agency. 80% of actionable intelligence comes from SIGINT. The CIA got targeted too by the Shadow Brokers, but that's a story for another time.
I'm actually beginning to wonder if you're Russian yourself. Certainly, vulgar language and deflection is what I see a lot from pro-Putin trolls.
Furthermore, the Russians colluded with Julian Assange and Glenn Greenwald to get him there. The Snowden operation was a carefully-planned premedidated attack by the Russians on Western intelligence, in preparation for the 2016 act of war that elevated Trump to power.
No, there is NO right to absolute freedom of speech, absolute privacy or absolute-anything, really.
In a dangerous world full of barbarians who would prey on us, we need our own strong people who would hold the line and defend our liberties from the fascists and religious extremists of the world. You may not like their methods (and our enemies spend a LOT of time and money conning you into hating on the people who are sworn to protect you), but you'd better learn to deal with it. Blame Russia, blame China, blame extremist Muslims and Christians -- but don't blame the people who spend their entire lives toiling in good faith to protect you from the scum who would murder and enslave you.
If you don't like this, move to Somalia and enjoy the anarchy.
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Russia has been constantly assaulting the West with constant acts of war for a couple of years now.
In fact, they just admitted their 2016 hack attacks on American and British democracy, as acts of war, as a defence against being sued by the DLC.
So if the West committed an "act of war" now, they'd merely just be evening the score.
Just waiting for somebody to use that Russian slur "pindostanis"...
So far, there's a lot of people rolling out all the shopworn, slightly-racist Russian stereotypes of the West and how it fights its wars.
Stereotypes, which incidentally, lulls them into a false sense of security, and occasionally gets them (literally) blasted off the battlefield.
That won't always be the case.
The Russians know that NATO are a defensive alliance only.
The whole "NATO aggression" thing is pure propaganda horse shit; they know it, we know it, everyone knows it, but they still need some fake ass bullshit to justify their unjustifiable rage and entitlement. They're bitter and angry at us for being broad-spectrum better them, so they're literally inventing excuses to feel assaulted and discriminated-against.
Fuck the "feelings" of these shitty, backwards, worthless people.
If they attack us, we'll be ready -- and they'll be sorry. Beyond that, I literally couldn't give a shit WHAT those stupid angry little barbarians think.
Glad to see somebody taking these Russian bullies down a few pegs.
Klepto-fascist Russia respects strength, and literally despises weakness. You earn their respect by drawing clear boundaries, and then punching them hard every time they step out of line.
You have to keep your pimp hand strong with these backwards bitches. There's no reasoning with them, because they are not civilised people of good will. You can't talk to Putinists like you talk to (say) the Americans or Europeans.
The Chinese steal, because they need to. Most of the stealing is Chinese stealing American and European IP. Why is that?
P.S. how's your domestic turbofan engine going? ;-)
That is fucking HILARIOUS, because jet engine technology is about the only IP that cannot be stolen.
Interesting, that.
It's a bit more obvious than that.
Like in the case of Nortel, where Huawei got rich by stealing Nortel's IP, destroying their business and sending them broke, throwing thousands of people out of work.
Then Huawei switching gear turned up made to stolen designs, running Nortel's stolen firmware.
THIS is the standard wu mao response.
The warped kleptocrat logic is that some Americans sailed close to the wind in the 1800s on IP... so China is now granted a perpetual license to steal expensively-produced from Western countries forever. Chinese thievery has ALREADY thrown thousands of Americans out of work, and cost people their pensions.
In mainland Chinese culture, there is no honour and morality beyond winning at any cost, even if it means fucking somebody else over and ruining their life. Cultural degeneracy spawned by the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution, and survives in billions of petty dishonest things that Chinese people do every single day.
How's the weather today? I hear St Petersburg is lovely at this time of year.
Everyone's so scared of the big, bad GRU now.
PERCEPTION: invincible super-spies who can find anybody, kill anybody and hack anything on a whim.
REALITY: barely-competent two-bit thugs, who continually blow their operations and cause problems for their leadership through incompetence, mindless aggression and poor judgement. Scumbags who, if they weren't working for Putin, would be extorting shopkeepers and raping hookers in St Petersburg.
Mindless hatred of Clinton is a surefire "tell" of Russians and Russophiles.
It's fascinating and tragic to see how the Ivans have managed to work themselves up into such an insane frenzy of mindless hatred against that woman.
Amen. They don't care about Trump, and have actually gotten annoyed with him, because he is too erratic and unreliable to deliver sanctions relief.
The Russian game is to stir up conflict and chaos, to weaken the West, to set us at war continually with ourselves. They think they can destroy the West from within, and then step into the void.
From here on in, anybody in Western politics and media who are still actively fomenting hatred, hyper-partisanship and division, given what we know now about Russia stoking chaos, should be scrutinised very heavily.
Putinist sock-puppets are all over Slashdot like flies on shit.
Fairly sure of it, because normal geeks normally don't have strong opinions on things that Putin's Russia hates.
When I'm foolish enough to try and state some home truths, it gets really, REALLY obvious. I've been called "pidar", "urod", and "CIA spy and shill" repeatedly, if I challenge the pro-Putin narrative hard enough it's ridiculous. I've seen enough Russian false-equivalency, whataboutism and outright lies to melt a normal person's brain.
I know that Slashdot leans technolibertarian -- and it's known that technolibertarians have been targeted hard by the Putinist propagandists in their efforts to smear and discredit the NSA and normal spycraft in general (but of course, Russia and China gets a free pass).
While issues around liberty and privacy ought to be taken seriously -- don't take anything you read about teh ebil NSA at face value. Malevolent actors are TRYING to turn you us against ourselves.
Foolish man. He made himself a traitor because he drank deeply from the same poisonous Russian Kool-aid as the rest of the technolibertarian extremist idiots on here.
Actually, I think Snowden was groomed. KGB case officers are trained to groom people and lie effortlessly. Assange and Greenwald were brought in by the instigators.
Snowden will die cold and drunk in a piss-stained cardboard box.
But he put himself there, not because he explicitly set out to stab the free world in the back, but because the Russians whispered anti-Western poison in his ear, and conned him into believing that Russian was a bastion of freedom, rule-of-law and transparency.
A bit like the hordes of naive techno-libertarian sheep here, voting down the painful truth. Just like working-class Trumpers, you'll never admit to yourself that you've been brainwashed by Russian propaganda into believing that the West is evil.
Worse ... you all think you're too clever to get conned, and the Russians know you are the easiest marks of all.
"cyka blyat!!"
How cute. ""Boy"" This vatnik yellow barbarian learned a new insult. Yawn.
Go away and die of cancer, vatnik.
It'll probably be less painful than the revenge we have planned for your shithole country, you yellow Tatar dog.
Chekists don't "do" subtle.
It is completely consistent with the Russian mindset, to boorishly do victory laps after pulling something like this. You clearly haven't met many Russians in your life -- I have.
The Snowden operation was ordered by Putin to weaken the NSA, as it's the West's most powerful and effective intelligence agency. 80% of actionable intelligence comes from SIGINT. The CIA got targeted too by the Shadow Brokers, but that's a story for another time.
I'm actually beginning to wonder if you're Russian yourself. Certainly, vulgar language and deflection is what I see a lot from pro-Putin trolls.
And yet you felt the need to reply.
I guarantee that the FSB does nothing, unless they know they're hurting a Westerner somewhere. You don't appreciate the pure evil of the KGB mindset.
The Russians call people like you 'useful idiots'. You clearly are one of the large number of people who have been taken in by Russia's long con.
He defected.
Furthermore, the Russians colluded with Julian Assange and Glenn Greenwald to get him there. The Snowden operation was a carefully-planned premedidated attack by the Russians on Western intelligence, in preparation for the 2016 act of war that elevated Trump to power.
I'll take a HARD pass on that traitor.
He defected to Russia, and lives in an FSB safe-house. What does that tell you?
No, there is NO right to absolute freedom of speech, absolute privacy or absolute-anything, really.
In a dangerous world full of barbarians who would prey on us, we need our own strong people who would hold the line and defend our liberties from the fascists and religious extremists of the world. You may not like their methods (and our enemies spend a LOT of time and money conning you into hating on the people who are sworn to protect you), but you'd better learn to deal with it. Blame Russia, blame China, blame extremist Muslims and Christians -- but don't blame the people who spend their entire lives toiling in good faith to protect you from the scum who would murder and enslave you.
If you don't like this, move to Somalia and enjoy the anarchy.