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Notices by Paul Lammers (mplammers@fosstodon.org)

  1. Paul Lammers (mplammers@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-Feb-2022 09:13:33 UTC Paul Lammers Paul Lammers
    in reply to
    • wizzwizz4
    • Sotolf :arch: :vim: :terminal:

    @wizzwizz4 @sotolf Because a kg of coal contains ~8 kWh and costs only $0.19.

    In a way they are selling our collective future for personal profit today.

    In conversation Thursday, 24-Feb-2022 09:13:33 UTC from fosstodon.org permalink
  2. Paul Lammers (mplammers@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 12:20:33 UTC Paul Lammers Paul Lammers
    in reply to
    • Rysiekúr Memesson
    • Mike Harley

    @obsolete29 @rysiek Most countries in Europe are equipping the Ukraine with light defensive technology and threatening sanctions. So, not silent on the issue.

    But I do feel the language in the media is off. Putin is not really "planning to invade" if he has invaded already and is now occupying Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk at least to some extent.

    This Wikipedia page seems to describe a different reality:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas

    In conversation Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 12:20:33 UTC from chirp.cooleysekula.net permalink

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    1. War in Donbas
      The war in the Donbas, or the Donbas war, is an armed conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine, part of the broader Russo-Ukrainian War. From the beginning of March 2014, in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement, protests by Russia-backed anti-government separatist groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, collectively called the Donbas region. These demonstrations, which followed the February–March 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, and which were part of a wider group of concurrent protests across southern and eastern Ukraine, escalated into an armed conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR respectively), and the Ukrainian government. While the initial protests were largely native expressions of discontent with the new Ukrainian government, Russia took advantage of them to launch a co-ordinated political and military campaign against Ukraine. Russian citizens led the separatist movement in Donetsk from April until August 2014, and were supported by volunteers and materiel from Russia. As...
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