Who wants an intelligent sex bot? You could as well do regular dating.

Without any authority, I would say that from a Russian perspective, they weren’t there ‘yet’. Russia doesn’t want Ukraine to be the staging ground for an invasion.

I am sure I am not telling you something entirely new. There have been enough wars in recent times that it is not entirely unjustified for a country with many resources to assume that it is a target.

The problem in seeing the Russian perspective is that it feels a bit dirty to realize that we can reasonably be perceived as a threat.

This would require to accept that Putin is stupid. I don’t see that.

Russia is fighting this war to prevent troops in Ukraine. There is nothing unclear. Putin won’t talk about peace as long as the West doesn’t offer that.

That advantage could have been given up and shared. Instead it is defended, even with military power. Why fight those wars now and make enemies?

Thank you, but it doesn’t work for me:

!https://lemmy.world/post/26673110

How can I link a post without redirecting?

The surveillance of chats and the prohibition of encryption in many Western countries must have a purpose. It mostly makes sense if democracy is dismantled.

Since the West doesn’t show signs of sharing resources voluntarily, my prediction is that the West is willing to fight a nuclear war to preserve its lead which cannot happen in a democracy.

Without that war, Asia will take over as the center of commerce and innovation. The brightest will move there, which means that the remaining people in the West have to be innovative without the main ingredience for innovation.