Currently in my country (Austria) there is a court process against an official who made register look-ups of critical journalists who live here and handed the address to FSB-Agents who later broke into this journalists apartment. The ruzzians are completely unscrupulous.

https://www.reuters.com/world/austrian-ex-intelligence-accus...

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joe_mamba 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The ruzzians are completely unscrupulous.

Wait a sec, isn't the Austrian intelligence officer to blame here for doing the spying on Russia's behalf?

And Austrian politics in general have historically been very pro-Russia since the cold war, with Putin visiting the wedding of Austrian officials, and Austrian politicians getting jobs at Russian oil and gas companies after the end of their mandates. Also, Austrian Raiffeisen bank still has operations in Russia.

So maybe Austria could have some introspection and drain the swamp of Russian assets instead of throwing all the blame on Russia as it has no agency in its internal politics and business tie with Russia.

	▲	lazide 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		To be fair, if you want a boogie man which won’t even mind being used as one - Russia is a great option.
	▲	preisschild 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Wait a sec, isn't the Austrian intelligence officer to blame here for doing the spying on Russia's behalf? Of course, but I'd argue russia trying to break into apartments of journalists and even planning to obduct/kill them is also morally not great

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ljsprague 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do we believe some countries' spy agencies are scrupulous?

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cestith an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I think people tend to have a range of scruples they expect. How someone is targeted is often far more lax on standards than who is targeted and for what reasons.

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preisschild 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which spy agencies go after journalists?

	▲	pydry an hour ago \| parent [-]
		70% of the journalists murdered last year were murdered by the US's closest ally. It was the worst year for journalist killings in a long time.

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lazide 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe one of the nearly powerless ones? Australia?

Hmm, nope.

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SanjayMehta 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In which language is "ruzzians" a valid spelling?

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jimbohn 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Became used in some circles due to russians using the symbol "Z" for their new great patriotic war. It can be seen as an attempt not to lump all russians together, but instead to distinguish the pro-war group (which, if you like limits, tends toward 1).

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throw20251220 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In a Cold Warrior language. Very often found in Southern US states (rednecks).

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cpursley 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is why I always flag these types of posts that are political and not tech related, they quickly devolve to Reddit-style racial / ethnic hatred if conversations about geopolitical rivals or regional hatred and name calling if domestic politics. There's other platforms for all that.

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dvfjsdhgfv 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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preisschild 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	SanjayMehta 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah so. And by swastika if you're referring to your infamous painter's symbol, it was actually a Hakenkreuz which that fellow saw in the Lambach Abbey. Nothing to do with Hindus or Buddhists.