You should look up what an acronym called THAAD stands for, the way that it (like most things) can be turned to other purposes, and the danger it could pose to you if it was on your border, like in say Ukraine if you happened to be Russia.

You should also look up a little thing called the Euromaidan revolution. And how that little bit of regime change was totally not pressed or supported by the EU and US at all to harm the Russian economy and put a NATO holding right next to Russia's border no sir!

Come to think of it, why does NATO even exist any more, since the Soviet Union and what would become the greater Warsaw pact (which since you don't know, that was what NATO was meant to fight) no longer does... As an aside, you should look up how the Warsaw pact only came to be because the US was arming Germany and the USSR were afraid Germany would start yet another war, or possibly be used by the US as a proxy to start a war with themselves, and the USSR's attempts to join NATO in order to prevent it being a bludgeon against them were refused by the US. Etc.



There is a lot of misinformation flying around, leading people to think the invasion is just because "Putin mad!" or "Putin just wants an empire" or a bunch of nonsense like that. The invasion seems to have been unnecessary to an outside observer (though you should keep in mind we lack as much information as national leaders), but it is not like it is out of the blue or the random acts of some "mad dog".

Backup your games to an external HDD, some DVDs, some pendrives, get an OS that doesn't rely on the internet and hope that your country's leader isn't designated as the world's nastiest worstest badman no.1. If he is, just peacefully eliminate him for the greater good and the companies will be happy to serve you, as you proven yourself worthy, and will take your money.

The message was clear from the start TBH.

It's not necessarily "make them murder him" or anything, but even dictators need a base of popular support. If you can make that base discontented you can incentivise the dictator into altering his policies in order to not alienate his base.

Admittedly, putting a stop to videogame sales is a weirdly minor thing to do, but I guess it's an "every little helps" kind of deal.

I'm sure it makes sense to some people theoretically but from a humanistic point of view, if you hurt the child to make his evil father's life difficult, all you're doing is serving yourself, not some greater good. Realistically, expecting people to go up against a well armed government is nuts, especially when other well armed governments fail to do so. And politically, a foreign power economically undermining a local government by (trying to) manipulate its subjects reeks of colonialism.

Please remove the pirate website's name from your post . Thank you .

I would have more important things to care about than buying games, like freeing my country from a dictator and stopping the war.
I know I'm not supposed to feed the troll, but after the Mariopol massacre this Russian trolls are even more disgusting. Buying videogames is not a life necessity.

Yup, Iran and North Korea? They're gonna rebel any day now. NATO really showed them. I bet lack of Apple and Netflix have pushed them to the cusp of revolution.

You, and your reaction, are part of the reason why the specific part of the Mariupol massacre you're likely upset about happened.

Some sides, which don't care about life too much, will station soldiers/fighters in and around vulnerable buildings like hospitals and schools. The reasoning is that the enemy will thus know it will be a PR disaster if they strike you. So they either do not, and you have free reign, or they do, and you can call it a massacre as part of your PR war for foreign support (as lies like the "Ghost of Kiev" or "Miss Ukraine = Rambo" only last so long).

If people like you wouldn't have this kind of near guaranteed reaction or even better if you ALSO condemned the side stationing soldiers and munitions in the buildings in the first place, things like this would no longer happen as there'd be no incentive to create the conditions for it to happen. And this has been a standard tactic since the 80's, so you should be aware of it by this point.


And a thing to keep in mind is that the Ukranian leadership knows that the Russians don't really care about civilian casualties. Hell they're happy to gas hundreds of thier own to death to stop a bunch of Chechens. They knew how it was going to end.

Not every country has a military like America where they're willing to take unnecessary casualties to avoid collateral damage.

I would follow your advice in the country of your profile. ;)



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Well said, Swissy.

If you wanted to stop war maybe you should have protested against NATO's militarization of Ukraine.

Warsaw Pact was dismantled a long time ago. NATO wasn't because warmongers love war.

Stop being retarded, GOG didn't take anything away, Russia users can still download and play their games as many times as they like, they just can't buy new ones.

It's probably illegal for GOG or Steam to actually remove software from your account permanently.