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  • No, typically you use the DNS server of the domain provider.

    Hosting your own DNS server is possible, but if you don’t have a static IP address the other DNS servers will have no idea which server to ask when your IP changes, so in this specific scenario it wouldn’t work. And in general it isn’t really worth it as you get a DNS server with your domain included.






  • The typical Russian citizen living in the imperial holdings doesn’t aspire to US free market style conditions, but they can see on social media and from personal connections / travels that other often even Russian speaking people living in the Baltic states and (pre-war) Ukraine enjoy significantly more personal freedom and often also higher quality of life.

    This is a direct practical refutation of the dominant propaganda narrative of the Russian government that if anything changes it will only change for the worse.

    How people in the US or even western Europe live is entirely irrelevant to this perception.

    There is no point in asking what ifs, and the EU is certainly not trying to emulate the US even though it does have its own problems.





  • Again, have the US out for what? And why would Lithuania try to appease the agressor preemtively when it is far from certain that Russia will succeed in their campaign to destabilize the EU (which is currently supported by the US).

    The real fear the Russian government has is that some of their remaining imperial holdings also decide that enough is enough. So by attacking Ukraine and trying to cow the baltic states into submission, they are trying to frighten anyone that might see these states as positive examples how former soviet states can be much freer than they themselves are under Russian domination.



  • If there is no western European support (because for example Germany is ruled by the AfD, France by the FN and the UK by Reform… not exactly an unrealistic scenario right now, and the “algorithm” is helping them with that) then they can win, or at the very least pressure these smaller states to become vassals like Belarus is right now.

    But even if you personally disagree that this is a realistic scenario, it doesn’t change the fact that the large majority of the eastern European states believe so and thus will prevent any attempts at reconciliation with Russia on EU level.