It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Karl Marx (Marx Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 269.)
While I agree it sound like something reasonable from the point of view of the imperialists, it’s not like if they also didn’t lose anything. Maybe they didn’t lose men, but sure did a hell of equipment. Plus Russia didn’t lose gear that will never come back, they increased production, too, since they now actively need it.
At the time Lemmy was not federating and they wanted to add some stuff like stickers and some other cool stuff, so now that federation works it is more complicated.
As far as I know that happens because in Linux ctrl+v and middle click pastes are stored in different places and are considered different things, in fact there’s a third way to paste which I don’t remember. But basically the middle click paste is used whenever you select a string, there’s no need to copy it, and the ctrl+v paste works when you do ctrl+c.