Japan to transfer $3 billion from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Japan to transfer $3 billion from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
In a phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Zelensky expressed his gratitude for Japan's previous aid to Ukraine, which has totaled $12 billion and "makes it possible to save thousands of lives."
Russia just hacked Japan Airlines in response. I swear I'll open a champagne when that evil empire will cease to exist
46They'll cease to exist the same way the Soviet Union did - silent for a while, then the same shit over again.
22The problem fundamentally is that the Russian people crave autocracy, maybe not on an individual level but certainly on a collective level.
Rural, uneducated, poor, hyperreligious, xenophobic bumpkins are always the foundation of support for every single autocrat in the last century.
3Yeah, it's true. Maybe this time, the root cause, the KGB, will finally be eradicated.
Also, though, the empire did shrink quite a lot last time, so hey, it's a step in the right direction lol
12Well, maybe we'll be a bit better prepared next time
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44So many Russians crying about this after opting in to an undemocratic fiat currency.
12When did they opt-in the fiat currency, exactly?
what other option did they have?
And, most importantly, what was the last product (other than fiat) you bought with crypto?
Stop burning our planet, billionaire wannabe.
2You're asking what other option they had out of one side of your mouth, while criticizing that option out the other side.
Why is my pizza place anecdotally accepting crypto important? If my answer was supposed to be "nothing [I just don't want it seized because I was born in an imperialist oligarchy too]", what was going to be your response?
Since you're not offering an alternative yourself, it sounds like you're suggesting they stay on the Ruble. Which hurts the environment even more (encourages consumption) and worsens inequality even more (Cantillon effect).
If you do have a better option, then I'd like to hear that!
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Why are there so many articles that drop the second Y from his name? It's Zelenskyy. I haven't seen an article on Lemmy in the past couple weeks that spelled his name right.
14His name is spelled Зеленський. Any conversion to English letters requires following a method of romanising Cyrillic letters. The most common method, which admittedly is used in Russia, is to represent the ий with just a single Y, but in Ukraine I believe it's more common to use two.
Nevertheless, people don't always use the same system, just as Chinese 北京 "Beijing" used to be written as Peking, due to the Romanisation system of the time.
With the current political climate, it's probably best to use the double Y spelling.
102Thanks for that breakdown. Very informative.
29I regret to inform you that my mind has been blown on this day.
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The literal translation would be Zelenskiy (he writes his own surname this way) but for English speakers it doesn't add any value to add an extra letter
12I think the I is a Russia thing I think the doubles y is Ukrainian
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Took their time for sure
5Sounds like money laundering to me.
-95Smartest tankie in the entire universe
3Classic lemmy.ml L take
42It is. That money was dirty with blood. Now it will be used to provide shelter and clean water for civilians. And hopefully drones for Russian invaders.
26What exactly do you think money laundering is?
10How is it money laundering?
It looks like a straight transfer of funds for the damages Russia caused.
41What's being hidden?
10Yes. Taking money from a dirty country (an empire in freefall) and putting it to a good cause!
26Get back in your shitty hole
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Thieves!
-98don't like it? talk to your handlers about not committing an unprovoked genocide
52wow, the sole comment of an account made two days ago. Not even trying anymore.
28Russia?
Yes.
60I hate the smell of astroturf in the morning
34Cry more Putin
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