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What is one aspect of the war that you feel is the most misunderstood by the average American? Historical origins? Locations of fighting? Psychological effects on the Ukrainian and Russian people? Something else? Political/Economic impacts?

Because he's essentially using the war in Ukraine as clout to advertise his startup. Also the company sounds horrible. Their product is, "risk free" access to outsourcing dev work.

You just described what a store is. Some stores are good, some are ok, some are bad. The store OP is running sells short term labor contracts to western start ups that can't afford to hire someone full time. They use thousands of developers with questionable qualifications living in low wage countries who set their own rates in competition against one another. It's an embodiment of the race to the bottom that is modern business.

On paper outsourcing is fine, but the reality is that you need full time employees to maintain and scale a growing product. Lemon.io doesn't provide employees they provide labor contracts. You can't hire these people because that would involve sponsorship. 90 out of 100 startups fail in their first year. The ones that succeed aren't outsourcing.

You're being downvoted but I think it's a fair question. Why Ukraine? Throughout history the US has abandoned allies like the Kurds; what factors have lead to the massive military investment into Ukraine?

My best guess is because Ukraine is a fairly "Western" nation despite not being a part of NATO and we want to prevent Russian/Chinese expansion.

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