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Thanks champ Western Ukrainians are most certainly not cossack, regardless they all(including european Russians) fall under eastern slav Which conflict? Poles pretty salty about the WW2 massacres So 'eternal' enemies can make peace, that's my point

India and China remain rather 'neutral' and keep trade open, so that's a third of the world. The remaining third doesn't really care for either side and some are welcoming Russian influence, Sahel Africa and the like The days are over where the US and vassals can control the world. This may be...

The nuclear arms race for all nations bar one began on 06/08/1945. The only country to disarm is apartheid South Africa, we all know it's because they didn't trust the blacks The NPT, INF(withdrawn from by the US), few others did some things to limit it. Iraq and Libya abandoning their nuclear...

So Nuland's hand picked leader turns out to be the head of the Rada after the coup democratic revolution(where the Rada and presidential palace was occupied by armed far right militia, the judiciary was sacked, the leading political party was dissolved, CIA bases were set up etc). Fancy that...

lol, you missed something De-Stalinization (Russian: десталинизация, romanized: destalinizatsiya) comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power,[1] and...

Bet you wouldn't say that to someone who was in concentration camps liberated by the red army. A more conspiratorial mind than mine would think you're trying to lessen nazi crimes. The fact is Europe was carved up between the US and the USSR after(thankfully) defeating the Nazis

It's always been Pravda, same as radio free europe/asia or anything the NED is involved with VOA will represent America, not any single segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and comprehensive projection of significant American thought and institutions. VOA will...

Yeh fairo, I think I was converging a post of yours and the Romanian election This would be true of the global hegemon too, no? Social media has somewhat democratised the spreading of propaganda, it always existed but was in the hands of the more powerful Why though? Most of the countries...

It's cool and based when the US does it, re-doing elections when Russia does it is peak democracy etc https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa But while the gains of the orange-bedecked "chestnut revolution" are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated...

Yeh we're not fine, energy demand keeps going up and humans have never willingly given up a source Throw in jeavons paradox with regards to efficiency and it's going to require some heavy handed policy to get anything done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Yeh and their isn't enough of the metals required in the planet for the whole world to do this(at current demand). it's a solution for you, not the planet I'd guess you're limited on export because the grid can't absorb it on sunny days, which drives price gouging in peak periods without...

Horses, sustainable but don't trust them. Bikes are mature tech though

Electric car batteries weigh anywhere from 400-800kg(30l of petrol is like 20kg). That's some heavy industry and capital expenditure to set up a quick change station. Location and security of the battery is imperative to handling and safety of the car, unprotected on the bottom isn't exactly...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics Wasted? So you've overdone generation and underdone storage. That energy would go into the grid that someone else could use for bare necessities no?

So they include the previous years surplus with the deloitte(not treasury) forecast deficit to get to 49 billion dollar fall! AFR pumping the 'economic managers' thing. People really need to read some basic MMT stuff; a deficit is simply money made up by the govt going into the economy, a...

The alternative is mass transit. The alternative is reducing energy consumption to a bare minimum It's great we've got viable electric vehicles, we should use them for specific use cases. Moving around a single(few) person in a 2 ton steel box was never a great use of resources and is...

This is kinda meme history. Musk gave a bunch of terminals to Ukraine for 'humanitarian' reasons. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-curbed-ukraines-use-starlink-internet-drones-company-president-2023-02-09/ A last minute request was sent to Musk during a Ukrainian...

Bitcoin, much like debt and money in general only have value in the abstract, it's not real. A global debt jubilee would probably be a good idea at this point. Bitcoins use case is drug deals, sketchy pr0n, and pump and dump schemes. Get out while you can Evie, enjoy a nice scotch and a Bali trip

Terror weapon seems a stretch, kinetic and looked pretty accurate, probs targeted at a missile production facility and only 2 civies injured. Does pose an interesting proposition for any Euro nation that chooses to send troops, anywhere in Europe can be hit by a non nuclear weapon. Obviously...

He gave a speech. Not exactly known for their theatrical hand gestures the Russians. He probably died of cancer 2 years ago right?

From the link in the article from Churhill's statements This is but one of many such assertions. In his “Iron Curtain” Address at Fulton, Missouri in 1946, he declared his belief that the war could have been prevented “without the firing of a single shot.” This is most likely true, but not the...

According to the head of Ukraine's propaganda department it's genocidal, not exactly convincing. This has been a surprisingly clean war

source?

I don't trust any figures, war propaganda exists no? I don't think I've ever forgotten that

Yeh I'd agree with that

You speak Russian? They have been losing the war for that long? idk lol, Ukraine economy is borderline non existent. It requires foreign aid Russian economy is also in trouble but it's clearly in better shapes than Ukraine A little conspiratorial, but interesting argument You've got some...

I mean they've been using cluster munitions and mining the shit out of defensive positions. To draw the line at a short range ballistic missile would make no sense There's a limited supply of those(also storm shadow etc), it's a military decision not an environmental one

They kinda do act as artillery, hence the A. It's designed as a longer than artillery weapon for the army. Not a deep strike weapon Ukraine has been free to strike anything in the Donbass for ever Is it Kursk oblast, city, or the occupied territory? The latter for mine Russia has still not...

Does it ever get to the point when you think maybe the Ukrainians are being used to bleed Russia? Just enough weapons not to be overrun, never enough to turn the tide, never proper troops on the ground etc I think this is legit pentagon/CIA/state dept policy

I don't disbelive they expected a quick victory ala Georgia, but source? I think a lot of people/countries did. Which led to the later pumping of arms and now the predicament they find themselves, can't quit So he has avoided conscription right? Well they do have it, but 'legally not allowed...