When people talk about a #war like #Russia vs. #Ukraine, it reveals a lot of weakness in ppl.s political thinking.

Like for instance, nobody would assume a war has to be fought from both sides #perspective. Even after a rational assessment of both sides this can well happen.

People always assume, one side is #evil the other side #good, or in worst cease (almost always) you decide for the "lesser evil".

People are entirely blinding out that from that point on only war is the way to go.

Another #weakness is the believe, that an action, like an offensive, must have had a good strategical #reason or a reason at all.

The #WSJ states, that US knew Ukraine couldn't win much in the counteroffensive and asked why it didn't told Ukraine.

What the WSJ is hiding, is that Ukraine knew that very well. I don't know (read) any neutral military expert that gave Ukraine a chance. That means usually that Ukrainian experts knew that too. That's why Zelensky postponed it for month.

In the end, it is neither a single man making decisions, it is even in a dictatorship a set of accumulated reasons, some are within group dynamics even unconscious to all actors.

So yes, it can happen, that a command leads to death of 100.000 humans (what soldiers are) and nobody wanted that even though, it was clear, that this would happen by these and that #decision.

THIS IS WHY WAR IS BAD! And not because of the ideological idiocies in your head. And this is the takeaway for a soldiers and anyone executing hierarchical commands: It can be, they send you to death, for no reason and they are not even mad with you or don't like you otherwise.

Your Russian reminder...

#Ukraine #Russia #cruelty #weakness #CivilianDeaths #War

@chowderman @amayer @buermoy plz don't use #LinkShorteners as they are susceptible to #LinkRot.

The lack of #Resolve by #NATO members #UK & #USA to follow their obligations as per #BudapestMemorandum are seen as a sign of #weakness.

For the UK this was evident with the lack of reaction regarding the #PRC's violation of the Joint #SinoBritishDeclaration in #Hongkong.

Thus the #MilitaryAid is a sorry excuse for the lack of #BootsOnTheGround that would be expectable as per treaty.

@DrJackBrown the fact that #Trump is not in a6'x6'x6' cell since #Jan6 is a sign of #weakness of the #state, and facists take notes!

A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
[Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/28291/

#quote #quotes #quotation #abilities #aging #doyourbest #endeavor #henoed #limitation #makethebest #oldage #strength #striving #weakness

Tails - Weak cryptographic parameters in LUKS1 https://tails.boum.org/security/argon2id/index.en.html #cryptsetup #parameter #dm-crypt #argon2id #weakness #crypto #pbkdf2 #tails #luks #kdf

A quotation from Baudelaire, Charles:

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O misery! misery! Time eats our lives,
And that dark Enemy who gnaws our hearts
Grows by the blood he sucks from us, and thrives.
[Ô douleur ! ô douleur ! Le Temps mange la vie,
Et l’obscur Ennemi qui nous ronge le cœur
Du sang que nous perdons croît et se fortifie!]
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https://wist.info/baudelaire-charles/61525/

#quote #quotes #quotation #aging #henoed #mortality #oldage #time #weakness

#Putin has #belarus president bail him out of #wagner armed rebellion. Obviously, a show of real strength there!

#weakness #chaos #russia

"Russia's weakness is obvious. A full-scale weakness. And the longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will create for itself. This is also obvious. Ukraine is able to protect Europe from the spread of Russian evil and chaos."

:telegram: Zelenskiy / Official

#Ukraine #Russia #Chaos #Weakness #EU #Europe #UkraineWar

I #jockey for sustenance, deeper into the #boundless abyss until I break down. In my #weakness, I find strength and realise I need to play it #piano. A ray of sun emerges from a #cloud, illuminates #bodacious flowers.

#whistpr #vss365 #rise365 #MastoPrompt #vssnature #brknshards
#WritingCommunity

@Devilstower
The #LackOfAccountability and #LackOfConsequences is seen as #weakness of the #State by the #facists, thus they see this as #SilentConsent by the Authorities do more (than) #StochasticTerrorism!

Remember: #WhatYouAllowIsWhatWillContinue - and that is espechally true for the executive and judicial branches of the government!

A quotation from Hand, Learned:

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A wise man once said, “Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.”
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/hand-learned/61148/

#quote #quotes #quotation #conformity #convention #orthodoxy #protection #weakness

''At 6 months after acute infection, COVID-19 survivors were mainly troubled with #fatigue or muscle #weakness, #sleep difficulties, and #anxiety or #depression. Patients who were more severely ill during their hospital stay had more severe impaired pulmonary diffusion capacities and abnormal chest imaging manifestations, and are the main target population for intervention of long-term recovery.''

#weakness : want of strength or firmness

- French: faiblesse

- German: Die Schwäche

- Italian: debolezza

- Portuguese: fraqueza

- Spanish: debilidad

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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time" – Thomas Edison

#quote #quotes #weakness #givingup #succeed #try #onemoretime #inspiration #motivation #mindset #coaching

A quotation from Repplier, Agnes:

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If a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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https://wist.info/repplier-agnes/60834/

#quote #quotes #quotation #alcoholism #character #drinking #excuse #flaw #mediocrity #promise #weakness

Just as nations crown their despots in their periods of weakness, so human nature in its periods of weakness craves for despots, more than it ever craved for liberty. It is a foolish feeling, and, perhaps an immoral one, but it has one quality which may slightly interest us, it is absolutely universal:
-GK Chesterton

"Sentimental Literature" #Despot #Dictator #Authoritarian #Weakness #Liberty #Immoral #Feeling #Sentiment #GKChesterton #Quotes http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/Spice_Of_Life.html#fiction

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time" – Thomas Edison

#quote #quotes #edison #weakness #givingup #succeed #try #onemoretime #inspiration #motivation #mindset #coaching

A quotation from La Bruyere, Jean de:

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Men don’t so much blush for their Crimes, as for their Weaknesses and Vanity.
[Les hommes rougissent moins de leurs crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanité.]
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https://wist.info/la-bruyere-jean-de/2333/

#quote #quotes #quotation #blushing #crime #failing #shame #sin #vanity #vice #weakness

@GottaLaff The sheer fact that #Trump isn't in a 6'x6'x6' cell awaiting his trial for high treason and insurrection speaks volumes about the #Weakness of the #USA as a whole.

He's not some hidden, underround-living "Red Army Faction" style "City Guerilla" robbing cash vans annually, but a spoiled brat who didn't even flee the country to this very day.

Seriously, no wounder scum like #Epstein didn't really get jailed...