Autopilot: "I've calculated your chance of survival, but I don't think you'll like it."
~L~
Nobody has the intention to invade Ukraine
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Autopilot: "I've calculated your chance of survival, but I don't think you'll like it."
~L~
Yeah, but I also have seen plenty of Germans and Poles having fun with the situation (Finding humor where one can). Like "So we're clear, we're being INVITED into Poland to fight the Russians this time. I just want clarification for any potential misunderstandings."
Followed up with: "Consent is important."
Now?
For once a heartwarming update. Currently unsanctioned Russian oligarch's bigass boat stuck in Norway because locals won't sell them fuel. Line of year suggesting they row or use sails to get home.
www.huffpost.com
Russian Oligarch's Superyacht Stuck In Norway After Locals Refuse To Fuel It
Owner Vladimir Strzhalkovsky is a former KGB agent and associate of President Vladimir Putin. One Norwegian oil supplier suggested the ship "row home."
Oh but that does make me smile...
Y'know, I've really been trying to stay away from P&R, just for mental health reasons, if nothing else, but seeing this jive unfold reminds me of a bit from 3001: Final Odyssey and I gotta bring it up.
Arthur C. Clarke describes how global economy and tourism lead to the end of open warfare. Basically, it becomes economically and politically infeasible to actually declare war against any given nation as it would, in turn hurt that country's own standing and finances. On top of which, there are, at any given time, there are citizens of multiple nations (including their own) traveling so an all out war would inevitably involve the counties of those staying there.
Like, I'm not naive enough to think we're at that point, but watching the other countries basically turn on Russia and exercise economic kneecapings does suggest there's some viability to that idea.
Arthur C. Clarke describes how global economy and tourism lead to the end of open warfare. Basically, it becomes economically and politically infeasible to actually declare war against any given nation as it would, in turn hurt that country's own standing and finances. On top of which, there are, at any given time, there are citizens of multiple nations (including their own) traveling so an all out war would inevitably involve the counties of those staying there.
Like, I'm not naive enough to think we're at that point, but watching the other countries basically turn on Russia and exercise economic kneecapings does suggest there's some viability to that idea.
Tourism has not much to do with it. As it stands: we're all currently inextricably economically linked. Most of egypt and saudia arabia don't want the jive in ukraine to drag on too long because they get most of their wheat from russia and ukraine. Europe wants this over so they can end the sanctions and get the flow of natural gas back on. Winter might be over with now, but there's still another coming half a year down the line. Russia flogs ungodly amounts of raw and refined titanium the world over, which is going to impact the aerospace industry in short order, and that whole "no space launches for americans" will affect the placement of a massive amount of GPS and telecommunication satellites. Canada gets a lot of fertilizer for our own agricultural industry from russia, and we're still in the process of recovering from the alternating droughts and floods last year, and now we have to hike up yields to help feed the world with only POLITICAL bullshit to fertilize the land? Nothing doing there.
It's already affecting the economy on a global scale, and it will only get worse even without the pandemic effects in there.
It's already affecting the economy on a global scale, and it will only get worse even without the pandemic effects in there.
Space Foundation censors Yuri Gagarin over Russia-Ukraine war
The Space Foundation changed the name of the fundraiser to 'A Celebration of Space: Discover What's next' from 'Yuri's night.' | OpIndia News
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these are just getting ridiculous. Gagarin died before we even reached the moon; what message is this supposed to send?!
Vlad: “It’s all the fault of the trans lobby for their cancellation of JK Rowling.”
Putin might be crazy, but we've gone over this: he literally cannot use nukes without ending all of russia. An ended russia in which the survivors will literally break his ass out of his bunker and very actually eat him alive.
Putin had most of the political opposition and independent media in Russia "cancelled" (aka shut down and murdered). So he's definitely a big fan of "cancel culture". He's just trying to appeal to Western conservatives like Tucker and Ben who care about this crap like how Osama Bin Laden suddenly caring about global warming when he was living in that house in Pakistan.
Much like the GOP, he loves cancelling until he's the one being canceled.
what's Russian for "Neidermeyer" ?
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Russian brigade commander killed by his own forces
Russian colonel is believed to have been deliberately run over by his troops, Western officials say.
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