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Kremlin could be 'nervous' as angry Russians send messages to Putin amid Ukraine counterattack (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/world

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Angry Russians displaced after Ukraine crossed the border and invaded the Kursk region last week have vented their frustrations online to President Vladimir Putin.

The criticisms represent an unusually public show of defiance in a country where any cracks at the leader or military can draw harsh punishments.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I find it extremely difficult to believe two events over 70 years apart that I know are very different in many ways could ultimately have the same underlying cause.

And as you haven't actually made a point, just asserted they do, there's no reason to believe they do. LLM or not

[–] g0zer 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don’t know what to tell you. You can pretty easily look up the agreed upon causes of two pretty impactful and well known historical events. We aren’t talking about some small conflict in some small village in sub-Saharan Africa; the events in question are the Russian revolution and fall of the Soviet Union.

I’m sure you can find dissenting opinions, but what I commented is largely agreed upon.

Had I not been honest about using LLMs to summarize a few sentences, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion. If you want to play devils advocate, provide a differing opinion. Your only hang up seems to be that I used a LLM in any capacity.

I’m not even saying it’s the only cause, just that it contributed…