Ukraine - somebody explain to me

[Shaka]

Kim Dotcom sounds like an idiot.

Back in the late nineties, he was a famous hacker and actually had a pretty cool website featuring him in a Flash animated movie. It was actually good stuff. He was one of the original social media influencers and a cyber security guru. The U.S. has trying to extradite him for years. I haven't kept up with him but he became very wealthy and now lives in New Zealand.

[Commando]

How sad when someone has to go to the furthest, darkest reaches of Twitter in order to scratch their idiotic confirmation bias.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Back in the late nineties, he was a famous hacker and actually had a pretty cool website featuring him in a Flash animated movie. It was actually good stuff. He was one of the original social media influencers and a cyber security guru. The U.S. has trying to extradite him for years. I haven't kept up with him but he became very wealthy and now lives in New Zealand.

A target of US extradiction? Lol.

Why on earth would anyone take this guy seriously on what the US should and shouldn't be doing?

[PaloAltoCougar]

Imagine if the Kim Dotcom--Uncle Ted--Gary Johnson-type isolationists had held sway in the late 30’s and early 40’s and the U.S. had remained out of WW II (which, again, the isolationists would have loved). There would have been no Manhattan Project and the Third Reich would have developed nuclear weapons and its rocketry program unimpeded. What a wonderful world we could have lived in. Believing that giving even an inch to autocrats bent on expansionism is a good idea is reprehensible.

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[Jeff Lebowski]

Imagine if the Kim Dotcom--Uncle Ted--Gary Johnson-type isolationists had held sway in the late 30’s and early 40’s and the U.S. had remained out of WW II (which, again, the isolationists would have loved). There would have been no Manhattan Project and the Third Reich would have developed nuclear weapons and its rocketry program unimpeded. What a wonderful world we could have lived in. Believing that giving even an inch to autocrats bent on expansionism is a good idea is reprehensible.

[LVAllen]

Imagine if the Kim Dotcom--Uncle Ted--Gary Johnson-type isolationists had held sway in the late 30’s and early 40’s and the U.S. had remained out of WW II (which, again, the isolationists would have loved). There would have been no Manhattan Project and the Third Reich would have developed nuclear weapons and its rocketry program unimpeded. What a wonderful world we could have lived in. Believing that giving even an inch to autocrats bent on expansionism is a good idea is reprehensible.

This was the twist in the best Star Trek episode ever made.

[Shaka]

A target of US extradiction? Lol.

Why on earth would anyone take this guy seriously on what the US should and shouldn't be doing?

Fraud charges. I'm not defending the guy but twenty years ago he was considered one of the top cyber security guys on the planet. He's not dumb in his field but his politics are a little out there.

https://themusicnetwork.com/kim-dotc...ourt-decision/

[Pelado]

Fraud charges. I'm not defending the guy but twenty years ago he was considered one of the top cyber security guys on the planet. He's not dumb in his field but his politics are a little out there.

https://themusicnetwork.com/kim-dotc...ourt-decision/

This is definitely the guy we should be turning to for commentary on US international relations:

Dotcom has always denied wrongdoing and that he should ever face trial in the United States. “I never lived there, I never traveled there I had no company there, But all I worked for now belongs to the U.S.,” he wrote in a pinned tweet back in March 2015.

[Uncle Ted]

NATO soldiers fighting in Ukraine?

Ukraine war: Leak shows Western special forces on the ground
[...]
According to the document, dated 23 March, the UK has the largest contingent of special forces in Ukraine (50), followed by fellow Nato states Latvia (17), France (15), the US (14) and the Netherlands (1).

The document does not say where the forces are located or what they are doing.

The numbers of personnel may be small, and will doubtless fluctuate. But special forces are by their very nature highly effective. Their presence in Ukraine is likely to be seized upon by Moscow, which has in recent months argued that it is not just confronting Ukraine, but Nato as well.
[...]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65245065

[myboynoah]

Seems like there is well enough information in this article to figure out the identity of "OG". No matter the name, he is most definitely a small time Uncle Rico type who impressed a bunch of teenager gamers.

Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says

What a group of idiots.

Thousands of military personnel and government employees around OG’s age, working entry-to-low-level positions, could plausibly have access to classified documents like the ones he allegedly shared, according to U.S. officials and experts who have seen the documents reported in the media. Despite what his young followers thought, OG would have had no special knowledge compared with his peers. He possessed no special power to predict events. Rather, he appears to have persuaded some highly impressionable teenagers that he’s a modern-day gamer meets Jason Bourne.

The member said he’s confident the authorities will find OG. But when they do, he won’t be charged. Instead, he believes, OG will be imprisoned without due process at Guantánamo Bay or disappeared to a “black site,” if he’s not “assassinated” for what he knows.

The member, as well as the OG follower who corroborated his account, found no fault in their leader’s actions and insteadsaid they blame the teen who posted the documents on the wow_mao server for wrecking their community.

“Maybe we should have had better opsec,” the member said, harnessing the jargon of military and intelligence personnel for “operations security.”

He insisted said he will not divulge OG’s identity or location to law enforcement until he is captured or can flee the United States. “I think I might be detained eventually. … I think there might be a short investigation on how I knew this guy and they’ll try to get something out of me. They might try to threaten me with prison time if I don’t reveal their identity.”

[BlueK]

NYT reporting they have found the leaker and arrest is imminent. A 21 year old National Guardsman? Nuts.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/13/polit...eak/index.html

[SteelBlue]

NYT reporting they have found the leaker and arrest is imminent. A 21 year old National Guardsman? Nuts.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/13/polit...eak/index.html

Makes no sense to me. How can he have enough access to be the leaker as a 21 year old guardsman? Maybe he's the poster, but someone else had to leak it, no?

[Uncle Ted]

NYT reporting they have found the leaker and arrest is imminent. A 21 year old National Guardsman? Nuts.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/13/polit...eak/index.html

What is nuts is this guy has access to this kind of information.

[BlueK]

What is nuts is this guy has access to this kind of information.

I agree.