Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. The GP comment was bad*, but responding in kind is the opposite of what we're trying for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(* for reasons—I hasten to add—unrelated to which side of the conflict they or anyone else is identifying with)

It's almost funny how both of these descriptions can apply to either country.

You probably have to wait 2 more years to see if they're really a dictatorship, for the time being at least they still have an electoral mandate.

Not to mention atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 170,000+ deaths.

Who exactly are you talking about?

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