If China produces a half-decent GPU for a Russian console then sure why not. A Steam-replacement seems trivial by comparison, at least if you cut all the bloat. Neither will be available in the West anyway, given how things are going.
Aside from all the political remarks the US and other NATO countries need to develop a way to block off and filter out any Russian sites.
Why? That would restrict all information from Russia, not just propaganda. Besides, the one upside of an uncooperative foreign state like Russia is that it serves as a sanctuary for information that your own state has censored. How about we educate people to use critical thinking instead?
Amazing how brainwashed most people are… Russia is doing pretty well and Putin is actually pretty popular in Russia. Don't believe what the media tells you about Russia as its mostly lies.
How is that take any less brainwashed? You've merely substituted one side's official narrative for the other.
Visit and see or at least watch videos on Youtube that are done by simple regular tourists.
North Korea also looks pretty great in tourist videos. Less so when the tourists ("spies") show up years later in a prisoner exchange looking like they've been staying at the Auschwitz Hotel.
In many ways, Russians have better standards of life than in the US.
Both have insane wealth inequality (I.e. very few people owning most of the capital), but even in that shameful competition Russia is quantifiably losing.
I am not a fan of Putin or Russia by any means, but its shocking how much it is being portrayed as the bad guys right now.
If you can't see what's "bad guy" about one strongman trying to wipe a neighboring country as if it never existed, and you even go as far as to say that the reaction is the shocking part, you are at the very least an unwitting tool of theirs.
Us, the West, we can go around bombing and destroying any country we want (in the name of democracy)… but we are never the bad guys somehow…
That's vague. When has "the West" (a collective of many independent countries) done anything like Russia surprise-cleansing Ukraine?
If your go-to is Iraq, that is notably not now an American state, nor being taught that it was always an American state. Rather it has been forgotten that Saddam invaded multiple countries and gassed his own civilians (that's as Nazi as it gets). So the act of toppling him was the international equivalent of street justice (the UNSC is only a Nuke Club after all), as deceitful and sloppy as the execution was. The ensuing civil war where most of the deaths occurred was an unintended consequence. The West was also deeply divided on invading Iraq from the beginning, that is significantly not the case on Russia & Ukraine.
