Mr. Tea
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Well duh. A lot of dead people would be alive, too. Such is war.would we be better off, in an economic sense let's say, if the ukraine war had never taken place?
Well duh. A lot of dead people would be alive, too. Such is war.would we be better off, in an economic sense let's say, if the ukraine war had never taken place?
The USA's military capability exceeds what it could reasonably require to defend itself many times over. I doubt the Chinese are going to attempt an invasion just because a few tanks have been sent overseas.it's not going to bankrupt the us, bit its military capability is clearly less, bc some of its resources have been eaten up by the war on ukraine
I disagree - as i think I said upthread - it's possible (not likely) that democratic states warring (even by proxy) with the world's biggest destabilising influence will pay off in the long run, and be good for our democracies. I forget who said it but I read online words to the effect "you won't want to live in a world where Russia is victorious in Ukraine". I felt like that after seeing what happened to Syria. Maybe this is a chance to readdress some of those wrongs.it's kind of obvious that war with russia has made us weaker, how could it be otherwise
It'll be a shame to see him die a natural death.Not gonna matter much longer cuz Putin's getting chemo and will die from cancer soon.
Perhaps an extremely intense round of radiotherapy is in his future.It'll be a shame to see him die a natural death.
I think Ukrainian is semi-comprehensible if you speak Russian and Polish is semi-comprehensible if you speak Ukrainian, but there's a big gap between those languages and the South Slavic ones.Struck by how different Serbian is from Russian, Liza always tells me that Slavic languages sound like primitive Russian to her but regardless of that I thought they would be able to kinda figure each other out so it's a surprise to me that they find it easier to communicate in English. I did notice the alphabet has a couple of extra letters that Russian doesn't have and I find it harder to read signs and get the sense of them.
I dunno if I said this but I'm in Serbia right now, and there are loads of Russians here. In fact there are Russians all over eastern Europe, my friend Taras claimed that Tblisi had grown in size by a quarter or something but who knows. Apparently in Novi Sad a medium size bottle of vodka is now 1l, a large is 2.5l - new development since thirsty Russians arrived.
Anyway this guy Ivan walked up to us in a bar asked if we wanna play darts - nope - next question "what do you think of the war, do you think it's the third world war?" - I really did not want to get into that, hadn't slept for days could barely speak...
Struck by how different Serbian is from Russian, Liza always tells me that Slavic languages sound like primitive Russian to her but regardless of that I thought they would be able to kinda figure each other out so it's a surprise to me that they find it easier to communicate in English. I did notice the alphabet has a couple of extra letters that Russian doesn't have and I find it harder to read signs and get the sense of them.
I saw Laibach play live a few years ago, which was a lot of fun, and Ms Spoiler (sic.) is indeed a mega hottie. Of course the tight-fitting military uniform helps too. Er, if you're into that sort of thing.Apparently Slovenian women are the most beautiful and having seen the extraordinary stunning beauty of some time Laibach singer Mina Spoiler I can believe it.
Russian troops who dug trenches in Chernobyl forest during their occupation of the area have been struck down with radiation sickness, authorities have confirmed.
You'll get the basics in the first 10m or so. The rest is very worthwhile IMO but you can make up yr own mind after the first 10mis there a tldr for this?