I just want russia to fuck back to its backward shithole, live in their own filth and violence and never come back. We won't touch russia's borders, we don't want reparations, just fuck back off to russia and nobody will bother you ever again. That's it. No nukes, no negotiations, no blackmail: never show up again and we won't either. If you don't want russians to see Ukrainians have a go at democracy, turn off your internet and turn russia into North Korea, Kim can give you some pointers on how to do that.
Well, 11 out of 37 total Eurovision participants are under threat of direct russian attack in the future, two of which already attacked and under occupation i.e. Georgia and Ukraine, so you'd ignore that at your own risk. Most eurovision countries have greater (urgent) self-interest in grounding russia before doing the same with israel, but I wouldn't say it is impossible, especially as genocide bibi starts to blame everyone for every stupid thing he does and diplomatic relations deteriorate.
I can see concepts of a theory of a plan of how the US could try to bring manufacturing back and it could work if they had a 20-year plan to raise tariffs by 1% a year and promote long-term subsidies for education and factory/infrastructure construction and to build a political consensus...but that would take lots of skill and discipline...this...dude wants to break everything, build factories and know-how overnight, lol. All while kicking out immigrants, so you have both a shortage of labour, inputs and products.
These are the countries that he decides to point his finger at? After participating in the defense against Iran, after looking the other way for months...what was he expecting?
All I'm saying is that Ukraine finally made strikingly clear that in the current configuration Europe is the junior partner in NATO and that Europe needs to have its own means in the future to defend its own interests (during the cold war, those interests were always aligned, so it was never a problem). But once that happens, Europe won't remain the junior partner anymore.
I can respect that, but this could easily be turned into blackmail i.e. "you either put up with me forever, or gang wars will be unleashed upon everyone", because he didn't really disband the gangs like he said he did.
Well, the alliance was not symmetric to start with, the US used to call the shots and the EU would follow if it wasn't a stupid decision or sit on its hands otherwise. russia's invasion and the US's passivity is challenging that.
That's a weak counterargument: that was 500 years before the cruzades. 500 years ago, Europe/Christians were doing slavery, giant wars of religion, the inquisition, genocide, etc. I like to think we've improved somewhat, but it's only been 80 years or more if you count from the declaration of rights of man.
I thought it was accepted as historical fact (for decades, this isn't some new "woke" reading) that the regressive/barbarian/terrorists were (mostly) the christians during e.g. the cruzades and the tolerant/intellectual/honorable were (mostly) the muslims in that time due to mass education (every muslim had to be able to read arabic) and feeling like the chosen people (which decayed after the sack of Baghdad by the Mongols, of all heathens)
Yeah, we gonna need loads of that for 7th gen fighters, resilient next-gen green smart grids, etc. Bon voyage!
PS: we're not better than the US, but at least our political systems can delay full fascist takeover for about 5-20 years...which may be enough time to reverse it politically or to at least create defenses against it.
I don't get it, why do these guys not just move to islamic countries? There are plenty to choose from and they can live the full holy life they want there, as Muhammad would have wanted them to. Nobody is forcing him to live surrounded by infidels.
Yeah, I think bibi may have finally worn out israel's permanent default monopoly on victimhood that made him think he could get away with anything forever.
I just want russia to fuck back to its backward shithole, live in their own filth and violence and never come back. We won't touch russia's borders, we don't want reparations, just fuck back off to russia and nobody will bother you ever again. That's it. No nukes, no negotiations, no blackmail: never show up again and we won't either. If you don't want russians to see Ukrainians have a go at democracy, turn off your internet and turn russia into North Korea, Kim can give you some pointers on how to do that.