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Calling it an invasion seems off, as their forces were already there. The Guardian has live updates at this page.
Are any Soylentils in or from the region? Do you have any insights to share?
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Breaking News: Russia Seizes Power in Crimea
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Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
(Score: 3) by unitron on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:27AM
Those whose primary motivation is to run around the internet looking for a place to talk about Ukraine and/or Russia aren't likely to wind up here.
But a small subset of those who are likely to wind up here because of the usual topics (computers, the internet, etc, just like at "the other place") might also have some insight into the issue and the situation, and we can learn something from them.
There's trouble right now in either Chile or Argentina, I forget which, and in Thailand, and that sucks for people there, but those are pretty much "local" stories. The Ukraine thing could lead to armed conflict between Russia and a number of as yet to be determined European countries or maybe even NATO--making it "Stuff that matters", not because these people are "white" and the others really aren't or anything like that, but because this has much more potential to spread.
Whether some other planet has water won't really matter if we don't survive to get there, but that's just one of several other front page stories you could read and comment on instead of this one, so you aren't being cheated out of anything.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday March 02 2014, @12:54PM
because of the usual topics
You can politely ask people to discuss the tech related issues, even in the summary. So who's github isn't getting commits anymore because they used to live at ground zero of the riots or who's seeing interesting new tech in the battles or who's seeing new techniques of astroturfing and censorship, perhaps even here?
If the vast majority of the comment authors insist on talking politics, if a very small minority don't like that, there's not much they can do about it other than try to convince the vast majority not to like what they like. Complaints to and about the editors will not have any effect on the beliefs and desires of the comment authors.