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I think the appropriate response to this is to make AI videos of beatiful russian women telling russians to revolt against Putin
The appropriate response is sending more weapons and ammo to Ukraine
No need for AI slop. There are already young russian women speaking loudly against Putin. What is lacking is the ability for opponents to have their voice heard in Russia.
The Pussy Riot "girls" are in their thirties, approaching forty. They are exiled and declared to be a terrorist organisation. And they are feminists and Punk. Wonderful, strong, independent women.
If you want to use sex to sell the idea of a breakup of the Russian empire to Russian men, I'm not sure whether Pussy Riot will work.
Thirty is young enough, but if younger people want to speak then it's great. I hope it'd more convincing to have real humans speak out than bots.
Russians opposing Putin are eventually declared extremist and either in exile, poisoned, or sent to prison.
So the only persons alive and able to openly critize Putin are outside Russia.
Besides of the "This is the weapon of the enemy" frame from The Dark Knight Returns, let me remind you who runs and trains these AI models. They want the EU gone. At best, you'll be shoveling money into it, at worst your IP will be terminated for "spam".
They thought pushing UK out of the EU would break it And we grew stronger than ever.
Poland's exit isn't the breaking of the EU. It's proving a plan of attack that will break it.
Slowly chipping away at the edges. Attacking country by country with misinformation until every country is isolated again, ruled by whatever oligarch decides to set up shop there.
The point of a union is the united effort. If you start thinking in terms of what parts you can cut out without issue or to "grow stronger" then you might as well stop the charade and pick who's running the new empire.
didn't it only benefit like 5 wealthy shitstains?
At least one of which offshored his operations shortly afterwards.
If I lived in Russia, I probably wouldn't want to fight a civil war. I'd just leave.
I think that the problem that the Kremlin is going to face isn't a civil war, but a combination of population leaving and having a hard time attracting immigration. Like, sure, the people in power get control of mines and oil wells and such, but they're going to erode the country with policies like this.
All the best people left Russia already a decade ago.
Not the Ai War we deserve, but the Ai War we need.
i mean, guess the environment is in the crossfire now.
fair enough but maybe they will stop this stupidity if they realize it is very easy for this to backfire
Oh, no-no-no, they will not stop, and on top of it they will not realise it is easy to backfire. If anything I would expect them to double down, and even after revolt, if it ever comes their way, they will be puzzled as to what could've been wrong
War never changes.
I don't know if I should be happy or sad that this doesn't seem to be a thing yet.
Sad. It's pathetic that our society is captured by oligarchs that appreciate the brainwashing and have no desire to counter it.
If only one side is willing to use a weapon, only one side can see the value in negotiating it off the table. Russia needs a reason to agree to stop, and using these methods to topple Putin gets us closer to that discussion, but that would mean acknowledging the use of similar practices by corpo-fascists domestically.
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The easiest solution is to have the USA annex Russia. That stops the tomfoolery that Russia exerts in every area, including the US.
I don't want Russia.
Geographically, the US has the benefit of distance from other major powers, and that would in part go away. Russia already blows a bunch of money trying to secure the Far East by getting Russians to live out there.
Russia has a shit-load of problems that have to be solved, from political to AIDS epidemic.
We can already get population while filtering out people who don't want to be here by just allowing immigration. Annex something and you have to fight the people who don't want to be there. Immigration is a much better way to get people.
Russia has natural resources, but we have most of the same ones already in North America, and they aren't that valuable; resource extraction isn't most of our economy.
That's not easy at all with their useful idiot in the whitehouse.
You're right, the whole republican arm of our government supports Russia. However, Russia is both the ripest it has ever been and the most vulnerable it has ever been.