In western liberal democracies we enjoy widespread political freedom and a plurality of opinions and can think what we want as long as we are totally powerless. If we want to be allowed near the levers of power we have to demonstrate that we are among the adults in the room, those who knows that tough decisions must be made and who are not swayed by the populist mob of popular opinion or the naive utopianism of ideological integrity.
It might take a little adjustment to switch to Firefox (not that much really) but that is nothing compared to the stream of bullshit you'll have to keep dealing with if you continue using Chrome.
Somehow they will find a way to declare war on the Mediterranean.
The war in which NATO is part that is fought over NATO expansion is not about NATO.
Sure.
But I thought the west was really principled in their belief that every country has the inalienable right to freely choose their own military partnerships?
Taiwan is China, even the separatist regime in Taipei agrees on that.
If Romania is allowed to win this match, nothing will stop them from winning every single tournament!
In Danish media, so-called security experts are currently inventing a guy and getting scared of him.
In statements to media the experts speculate that Russia could use it's "shadow fleet" of oil tankers as "a weapon against the maritime environment" and deliberately cause an oil spill in Danish waters as part of hybrid warfare.
It goes without saying that no evidence is presented but as one expert is quoted for saying: "in a time with increasing Russian hybrid warfare, only imagination sets the limit".
Las time an environmental disaster was deliberately caused in Danish waters was when Nordstream 2 was blown up, most likely by the yanks.
The Kiev regime and their American masters are not the intended audience of this offer. Russia knows as well as anyone else that the chance of them taking the deal, or being allowed to take it, is miniscule.
There are two audiences for the offer. One audience is the Ukrainian public who are feeling the hardships of war. Knowing that a reasonable peace is possible will wear down their morale even more, disrupting Ukrainian war efforts.
The second audience is the international community. Russia is showing that they're being realistic and reasonable by offering a deal that mirrors reality in the ground. Meanwhile the golf course countries are meeting in Switzerland to make outlandish demands of Russian capitulation. To neutral third parties Russia comes out as being the most sane.
Here are some quotes from my country's government broadcaster about the west's Ukraine summit in Switzerland:
... large parts of the word stands behind Ukraine in the war against Russia while Russia today looks even more isolated
Even though several important countries made themselves noticed by not being present the summit has shown a solid global support for Ukraine
That [the absence of BRICS] doesn't change that a massive number of the world's countries has now sent a clear message that they back Ukraine in the struggle that once a peace agreement is to be signed it should be based on Russian withdrawal and that Ukraine's terrirtory should be what it was before Russia attacked
The purpose of the summit was to begin a proper peace process where all participating nations could present ideas on how to work towards a lasting peace in Ukraine.
About the Russia peace offer:
But his [Putin's] criteria for peace can best be described as an insult to the Ukrainians and the proposal was also blankly rejected by the summit's participants.
No wonder westoids think like they do when this is the reality that is presented to them.
By asking questions to poke him into new bizarre statements and observing them with the same morbid fascination that some people look at car crashes with.
My dad has some fabulous brainworms and talking to him is like staring into a maelstrom of western nastiness interspersed with a few inexplicably sane ideas that does not fit into any of the rest.
I believe him to be a completely ideologically representative sample of the average westerner.
No. That would be giving people something they like which is populism which is authoritarian and will destroy Our Democracy™.
Imagine being the supreme leader of the richest and most widespread empire in human history and then they can't even get you a suit that fits.
The weather in my part of Europe is absolute dogshit now, it doesn't get above 18C, it's windy and it fucking rains all the time. Those Terf Island ingrates don't know how good they have it with their 26C "heat wave".
The UK has the worst housing stock in western Europe. Homes are not only prohibitively expensive, they are also smaller, less energy efficient and in worse repair than in neighbouring countries.
In China the people who failed to do maintenance on the water mains would have been arrested, businesses would have been shut down if necessary and the PLA would have driven a fleet of trucks with water into town.
For some reason Star Wars fans are always way more into stormtroopers and Darth Vader stuff than the resistance stuff.
Both are fictional supervillains populating western imagination.
(Stalin might also refer to the historic leader of the Soviet Union on whom the fictional Stalin is roughly based)
He might not have been the most principled man, he had plenty of flaws but nobody can deny the role he has played in funnelling generations of people through the lib to leftist pipeline.May he rest in peace .He's not dead