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322 points atomroflbomber | 3 comments | 03 Aug 23 08:12 UTC | HN request time: 1.624s | source
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lelag ◴[03 Aug 23 09:52 UTC] No.36983601[source]▶
If 2023 ends up giving us AGI, room-temperature superconductors, Starships and a cure for cancer, I think we will able to call it a good year...
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treprinum ◴[03 Aug 23 11:07 UTC] No.36984116[source]▶
There is still the threat of WW3...
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benterix ◴[03 Aug 23 11:28 UTC] No.36984278[source]▶
Really? Putin seems to slowly change his mind, even as far as the aims of his "special military operation" are concerned. It looks like he is slowly realizing what he got himself into and his aim is to keep Ukraine unstable to prevent its association with the EU.
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jacquesm ◴[03 Aug 23 11:33 UTC] No.36984315[source]▶
There have been some incidents on the Polish border recently that put the whole thing on a knife edge.
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dekhn ◴[03 Aug 23 15:03 UTC] No.36986904[source]▶
No, that's just noise generated by the Russians and Belarus and then picked up by the press to make it sound dramatic. This is par for the course for Russian disinfo.
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1. dragonwriter ◴[03 Aug 23 21:45 UTC] No.36992424[source]▶
So the Belarus incursion that Belarus denies and the Polish publicly announced response are all Russian disinfo?
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2. benterix ◴[04 Aug 23 11:04 UTC] No.36998256[source]▶
The whole story is quite interesting. After Lukashenko falsified the elections (again) and Belorussians went on the streets (for the first time with such an intensity), in the end Lukashenko decided to fight for his life and visited Putin to get his support. After that, the protests were brutally ended, people dead or in prisons, and Lukashenko came from Moscow with full Putin support. But also with two strings attached: the first was organized transport of people from Africa etc. to Minsk and then to the forests near the borders with Poland and Lithuania. The other one was letting Putin use his land for attacks on Ukraine (which backfired in various ways; one of them was the rise of Belorussian resistance movement among railway workers who regularly sabotaged Russian railway transport near the border in Ukraine).

So the interesting question here that many people ask is, what game is Lukashenko playing here? I saw many comments that he just pretends he is stupid but in fact he is quite intelligent and he's doing what he can to keep his country as far away from war as possible. At the same time, he needs some tension and external enemy to help him keep the power (at least among the ~20% of Belorussians who actually believe the official propaganda and support him).

I very much hope I will live long enough to see the day when Belorussians finally get their freedom in a peaceful way and can enjoy living in peace, doing business with other countries and just be happy. I know many of them, they are very nice people, it's such a pity they need to go through this shit.

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3. jacquesm ◴[04 Aug 23 15:24 UTC] No.37001301[source]▶
> I very much hope I will live long enough to see the day when Belorussians finally get their freedom in a peaceful way

Seconded. I had such high hopes that they could push it through the last time around and what really irks me is that there are enough Belorussians still that keep this jackass in power, and that they will prioritize their own financial well being over their fellow citizens' lives. I was in Poland during the Solidarity uprising and I had such high hopes for the rest of the SovBloc but not everybody managed to take advantage of the momentum. Ironically, distance from German capital seems to have been a prime factor in the outcome.