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I, too, ate the spicy danger oats.

Fun fact: You have to give PII including street address to get a refund, and they reserve the right to do whatever they want with it as per their privacy policy.

That doesn't actually undercut my point. Yes, they carry important crap for the West too, and some amount amount of crap not ultimately for the West. It would still get there going via the Cape, and either way, the stakes are way higher for the Arabs than "more expensive stuff" and everyone knows it.

Escalate to what? They're already doing all kinds of pirate stuff, and I don't think they're strong enough to threaten anything else the West cares about on their own. What seems like the obvious Western play would be to keep intercepting attacks from warships for at least a few weeks. It's more expensive, but would give critical time to deal with all the other, bigger issues in the Middle East.

What are you talking about? We do have several surviving codices from the pre-Columbian Americas.

Exactly. I would fully support expanding welfare and funding the shit out of Ukraine, and then raising upper tax brackets to pay for it all (in my country or theirs). I doubt OP does, so obviously money's not the real problem.

Not necessarily. Israel has a lot of special carveouts built into US law specifically for it. For example, they're the only country that can spend US military aid money on their own suppliers.

Fingers crossed that they were literate and wrote on something sturdy.

Bring in the army before it's too late. /s

It's amazing how a white British aristo can fail so upwards.

neutrinopes

Pope number is conserved confirmed.

This time, nailed to someone's door:

"95 reasons why u r gae"

It never could have lasted millenia if it wasn't.

Smersh: why Putin has reinstated stolen the name of Stalin's notorious and much-feared anti-spy unit

Well, I don't remember the exact numbers from last time I checked, but on this side of the Atlantic it's a lot higher.

When a guy with a German or Italian surname in NA says "no immigrants" (which they occasionally do) they tend to get rightfully made fun of. The only guys that aren't from immigrant backgrounds are too busy just surviving to comment. All of that has "moved the needle" a bit.

I’m white and not Ukrainian though, so my experience is mostly Germans telling me that this would never apply to me,

Which, of course, is fucked up on it's own.

WTF, the Middle East is a powder keg right now, and they're, like, setting off a pinwheel on top of it.

I mean, the rest of us do too. That's just how the American system is set up.

Oh wait, was OP being ironic?

I mean, I don't even see a contradiction with OP there. The big boy stick comes out, Western politicians are seen doing something and don't get blamed for the higher prices on "TIEMAM banana-shaped egg holder for children yellow plastic food container", a few of the non-Western brown guys die, but not most of them, and history continues. I don't think that there's a good reason was implied.