Accurately identifying traitors is harder than you seem to think. What if someone in authority claims YOU are the traitor? What if someone in authority IS the traitor. Your world seems so black and white, where identifying things is clear and obvious. Sure, we can identify some traitors that everyone agrees is clearly a traitor, but we can not identify all and in the attempt to identify all, we will strip ourselves of all Freedom and Liberty.
I genuinely wish that the world was as simple as you delude yourself into thinking it is.
That's what we have a judicial system, investigators and "innocent until proven guilty" for. It' not easy and I don't delude myself into thinking it is. However, it's really really important to do it. Also important to note is that you don't have to do it perfectly either. The fact you catch some provides a threat that dissuades others and also the risk of being caught limits people's ability to act. The situation improves considerably even if you only catch a small percentage of the traitors.
Look at Tucker Carlson and Hassan Piker right now. They have been openly going on trips to St Petersburg in service of Putin.
I should add here, that the fact that I have named both a left wing and a right wing extremist should make it clear that this should not be a partisan issue. Everyone should be able to come together and say that traitors have to be dealt with.
So Crimea, taken by Russia in the 18 century would be Russia by that description, right?! Should we consider the inclusion of Crimea in to the Ukraine state during the USSR as stolen by Ukraine when USSR broke apart and not return Crimea to Russia?
No, the Tatars are a unified Ukrainian people. Ideally anything that belonged to the Crimean Khanate, likely at it's greatest historical extent, and not including lands that belonged to Georgia, should be given to Ukraine. Georgia should get back anything that it possessed earlier.
However, the key priority is a buffer zone around the land borders to the North and East of Ukraine, where there's needed some form of trigger/buffer zone to limit future Russian aggression.
History is complex, that is why we have Belgium and Swiss, those lands change hands way too many times. Borders should not really exist, after the EU, most borders problems in member countries are just plain stupid and almost all disappeared
Lack of borders is in practice yet worse than the problems that borders cause. EU regulations around border zones (which guarantee access to work and trade for people living in border regions) show how consent and cooperation can eliminate almost all the problems borders cause whilst still maintaining most of the most important benefits.
How much value is there in reclaiming unusable wasteland?
If that wasteland provides a barrier which allows you to stop Russians invading your remaining valuable land then it is, actually, in itself valuable. Not brilliant, but better than losing more.
You do have a point though, and really the final resolution of the conflict in the distant future really should see Russia give up tracts of valuable land in compensation to the nations it has harmed including Ukraine and Georgia. How realistic that is will depend on all sorts of things, especially Russia's internal stability.
The way that they have already been identified. The crime is not the speech, the crime is taking money from the enemy to spread it. A number of the extremist bloggers have already been caught doing it. Where the typical penalty in history for treason has been execution, they have barely even been fined. Look at Tucker Carlson and Hassan Piker right now. They have been openly going on trips to St Petersburg in service of Putin.
You are replying to the wrong person because that was a quote on my part. On the other hand you have a point. Putin really is very afraid of the veterans so there's a good reason, beyond just hoping to use up drones and making Futurama quotes real why they are sending the crippled back to the front. They have already had some problems and so he rightly believes that dead people don't protest for veterans rights.
There's never a good time to rise up, but the Russians are going to keep suffering until they finally rid themselves of their current ruling class.
Obviously, the list of people killed issued by Russia will not contain the people that they don't want to admit to and will contain people who it suits them to include. Women are currently serving in the Russian armed services and 19, just after completing mandatory education and before they could have a settled life is approximately the most likely age that they would join. Releasing a list of women only is not a sign of innocence. It is a sign of Russian manipulation.
Instead of allowing quick access to the scene, we know that Russia staged the scene for two days. That is standard procedure in Russia where a mililtary target has been hit and means that almost certainly all of those killed were actually the members of the military targeted. Having said that, it is always possible that civilians were killed, we should not in any way accept that civilian deaths in this conflict are anyone's responsibility other than Russia which could stop this war immediately by withdrawing all Russians from the territory that Russia has stolen from Ukraine from 1919 onward, paying reparations for the damage they have done and injuries they have caused since that time and handing over Russia's weapons and diplomatic privileges to Ukraine.
Email just needs to die.
No, it is still the only non-monopolized communication protocol with a very wide audience, where everybody can participate without being at the mercy of some evil corporation. And you can use signed and end-to-end encrypted emails - even though many are too incompetent or ignorant to do so.
The only non-monopolized communication protocols available today are far from being omnipresent enough to be a viable replacement.
"Plan to throw one away. You will anyway." - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"