navguy12
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Since Putins troll farms will be out of a job, they can use those servers…
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Russia/Ukraine conflict
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Their citizens will know about it because those who are still alive will see a mushroom cloud outside their window around the same time.
bkp_duke
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Russia does have their own, limited, chip fabrication facilities, and an in-country designed CPU. Although, frankly, their CPUs suck (badly). But servers they have in place now will probably be sufficient for a while.
They also are still trading partners with China, which sadly obtained a license from AMD years ago to produce a Ryzen gen1 clone that has decent performance (about 3 generations behind current CPUs).
Frankly, given that they will have a limited, domestic-only internet audience, they probably have more than sufficient servers to meet demand.
Prepared for this since 2021
www.reuters.com
Russia disconnects from internet in tests as it bolsters security - RBC daily
Russia managed to disconnect itself from the global internet during tests in June and July, the RBC daily reported on Thursday, citing documents from the working group tasked with improving Russia's internet security.
www.reuters.com
BrownOuttaSpec
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Maybe even 2019...Prepared for this since 2021
Russia disconnects from internet in tests as it bolsters security - RBC daily
Russia managed to disconnect itself from the global internet during tests in June and July, the RBC daily reported on Thursday, citing documents from the working group tasked with improving Russia's internet security.
"In June 2019, President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had to ensure that the 'Runet' could function in a reliable way to guard against servers outside of Russia's control in other countries being switched off and their operations compromised.......The law stipulates that tests be carried out every year, but operations were called off in 2020 due to complications with the COVID-19 pandemic, RBC said"
Russia is probably tired of getting their TV hacked, or they are afraid that their population is starting to learn the truth of the war.
That is my guess Ukraine didn't take this offer, because they think they can get a better one.
The only risk is Putin getting desperate enough to use tactical nukes, but if that happened to resolve on sanctions and possibly NATO involvement woupd harden.
Foreign ministers are now meeting in Turkey.
Russia is keen to do a deal now, in a weeks time they may even be desperate for a deal.
If Russia uses a tactical nuke, they can kiss their buddy buddy relationship with China goodbye. No way in hell China would risk the political fallout of supporting a country that just used a nuke. So to me, using a tactical nuke has never been on the table. Putin knows that.
So then, like you said, Russia's window for negotiating with strength gets smaller each day. Time is not on their side.
Apparently hacked by anonymous on 2 occasions early in the war and yesterday. The first hack was apparently verifed with a YouTube video showing evidence.
Question - when Russia moves to its own DNS domain, how feasible is it for groups like Anonymous to still pull off these types of things?
Is it possible Russia has a 'fry the internet whole' worm or virus that has never been viable for them to use as it takes out everything (what would that mean exactly? Not sure.) and migrating to the .ru domain with domestic servers would allow for its release without damage? Or is this too paranoid?
JRP3
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scubastevo80
Member
But is it? If the "close to death" narrative is true, does he care about allies? Let's be realistic given what's happening right now - the world hates him, most of his people dislike him, and he may be doing nothing more than try to play one last game of chess.
Given Putin is well aware of Yanokovych's failure at Maidan, you think he'd know that marching in and trying to break the Ukrainian people's will would be an impossible task. I agree his window gets smaller each day, but again - someone looking out for their own country and people would get the reality of the situation and do what's in the countries best interest. Someone who only cares for what gets written in the history books about himself would not.
bkp_duke
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IP addresses would be used instead of domain names. The hardest part is getting on an IP that Russia would allow through their firewall. But I'm sure there would still be plenty of 3rd-party countries open to the RU net that hackers could piggyback on.
Disconnecting from the internet entirely . . . that's REALLY hard. Possible, but that's really almost a "nuclear option". It would hurt Russia more than everyone else.
ZachF
Active Member
Well, Russia seems really prone to making bad decisions lately… Pakistan will probably have a larger GDP than Russia ~5 years from now.
CyberGus
Not Just a Member
They could install vision-only FSD on the missiles, but think of all the phantom braking
ZachF
Active Member
Your reminder that Russia is not the USSR:
The USSR circa 1965:
~11% of world economy
~7% of world population
~13% of world manufacturing
~30% of world military spending
~15% of world R&D spending
Russia circa 2021:
~1.8% of world economy
~2% of world population
~1.3% of world manufacturing
~3.5% of world military spending
~0.6% of world R&D spending
The USSR circa 1965:
~11% of world economy
~7% of world population
~13% of world manufacturing
~30% of world military spending
~15% of world R&D spending
Russia circa 2021:
~1.8% of world economy
~2% of world population
~1.3% of world manufacturing
~3.5% of world military spending
~0.6% of world R&D spending
adiggs
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Isn't this a pretty good working definition of negotiating from a position of weakness already?
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