It's "not escalating the situation further" for the last few decades that's allowed this to happen. A good strong dose of escalation in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea might have nipped this in the bud. If we avoid escalating now, Taiwan is next.

The cost of inaction has gone up, and up, and up. Now the Ukrainian people are paying that price in blood and subjugation. How much higher should we allow it to go?

DDOS-ing a website is nonviolent. Severe, crippling economic sanctions are nonviolent. We should wage all-out economic war and accept the costs, which will be real and painful. Gandhi and other pacifist leaders didn't advocate inaction, he advocated forceful and determined nonviolent action that caused as much inconvenience and difficulty for his opponents as possible. We should at least be doing that, surely?

Escalating? You realize they just invaded a sovereign country?

Like Iraq?

What's your point? Hadn't the US been DDOSed, Iraq wouldn't have been invaded? Your comment makes no sense.

Iraq was a sovereign country. My point is that it is ok for "us" to invade sovereign countries for "reasons" but not for "them" for any reason. It is hypocritical.

Do you even know what the discussion was in this thread? Doesn't seem like it.

I don't remember discussions about DDOSing US when they invaded Iraq. Do you?

That's what I mean. I can see you are frustrated by downvotes and suspect this big anti-Russian conspiracy - but did it occur to you that people would respond differently if you actually read what threads are about rather than just spamming your talking points everywhere? Case in point: here, we talked about whether DDoSing is an escalation to an ongoing invasion or not.

I'm talking about dehumanization, about "one standards for us vs. another standards for them" It is so ingrained that people like you, don't see anything wrong with it.

P.S. I don't care about downvotes. I'm surprised the account is not shadow banned.

See, and people like you put words in other people’s mouths, are unable to understand and follow a conversation and then conclude that the whole world is against them. But that’s not a problem because they just want to hear themselves. It’s just annoying for everybody else.

Direct quote, nobody puts anything in other peoples' mouths: «Russians are pure terrorist nation. They have larges Russian IT-community called Habr (Habrahabr) and most of IT Engineers started supporting invasion and killing innocent children because "west started blocking IT services for us".» https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30641888

what you are doing is called gaslighting. Why bother?

DDoS attacks are a perfect example of nonviolence.

Delusional bot, there's invasion out there.

spammer, can anyone delete this message?

Account created one hour ago, just to come here and tell us not to do this?