<story><title>Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-ukraine-calls-hacker-underground-defend-against-russia-2022-02-24/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simne</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m Ukrainian activist for 10+ years, have been on Maidan, etc, know many other activists.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, we have not seen understanding with any government.
Looks like, all people who got to government or state organizations, work on classical totalitarian scheme - &amp;quot;for friends all the best, for all others - severity of the law&amp;quot;.
Mean, system is so much disbalanced, that any government got totalitarian power and does not account on people. And laws are created, to make all people offenders, and with very wide possibilities of interpretation, so state officials and their friends become above law.&lt;p&gt;If you really want to help Ukraine, better to contact volunteers-entrepreneurs, who where on Maidan, and who struggle for economic freedoms, and support Ukrainian army as private persons, without government&amp;#x2F;state.&lt;p&gt;You could just donate, or you could create some business opportunity, so Ukrainians will make business, export working hours, or export some products to world.&lt;p&gt;Business opportunities much better, because Ukraine now have critically huge dependence on Russian market, close to 50% of all trade, need much-much more export to world.&lt;p&gt;Thank You!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>US folks: Call your congressional representatives and demand they back harsh sanctions against Russian oil&amp;#x2F;gas immediately.  Perhaps even a full embargo until aggression is stopped.  That is the _only_ leverage the US has against Russia, and as of yet the US has steadfastly refused to do anything that would interrupt the flow or price of oil to itself.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-ukraine-calls-hacker-underground-defend-against-russia-2022-02-24/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simne</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m Ukrainian activist for 10+ years, have been on Maidan, etc, know many other activists.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, we have not seen understanding with any government.
Looks like, all people who got to government or state organizations, work on classical totalitarian scheme - &amp;quot;for friends all the best, for all others - severity of the law&amp;quot;.
Mean, system is so much disbalanced, that any government got totalitarian power and does not account on people. And laws are created, to make all people offenders, and with very wide possibilities of interpretation, so state officials and their friends become above law.&lt;p&gt;If you really want to help Ukraine, better to contact volunteers-entrepreneurs, who where on Maidan, and who struggle for economic freedoms, and support Ukrainian army as private persons, without government&amp;#x2F;state.&lt;p&gt;You could just donate, or you could create some business opportunity, so Ukrainians will make business, export working hours, or export some products to world.&lt;p&gt;Business opportunities much better, because Ukraine now have critically huge dependence on Russian market, close to 50% of all trade, need much-much more export to world.&lt;p&gt;Thank You!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>&amp;gt; support Ukrainian army as private persons, without government&amp;#x2F;state.&lt;p&gt;How do you hope to defeat Russia without coordinating with the lawful and most powerful institutions in the country? Note also that probably all foreign government assistance, especially the motherlodes of assistance from NATO states, including cyber, will be going through the Ukranian government.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; You could just donate, or you could create some business opportunity&lt;p&gt;How will creating business opportunities do anything to protect the freedom of the Ukranian people or defeat the Russian invasion? It seems like a major distraction from a crisis.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; any government got totalitarian power and does not account on people&lt;p&gt;Calling the Ukranian government undemocratic is a leading talking point of Russia and their allies. How do we distinguish what you are saying from them?&lt;p&gt;All your points seem to reduce support for and divert it from the Ukranian government and their military. Isn&amp;#x27;t that absurdly dangerous in this moment?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m Ukrainian activist for 10+ years, have been on Maidan, etc, know many other activists.&lt;p&gt;With due respect, in this atmosephere, how can we take the word of an anonymous person on the Internet? Would you trust such a person? How would you distinguish them?</text></comment>