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  • So what do you do?

    Russia could stop making all of its neighbours feel like they need protection from it, perhaps.

    (mostly exclusive!) EU trade

    Alright, please explain to me step-by-step how you expect Ukraine to join two separate and incompatible free trade areas. Because that's what the argument at the time was about: which FTA to join, the EU-led DCFTA or the Russia-led CISFTA

    Russia pushed for a more Russia friendly regime

    "The EU wanted a trade deal with Ukraine and Russia wanted to choose Ukraine's government." Why are you acting like these are equivalent?

    But that doesn’t happen

    I don't think it's my place to tell Ukrainians to submit to subjugation

  • Public support for joining NATO among polled Ukrainians was very clearly the minority up until Russia invaded.

    But as is there is an overwhelming amount of pro-war sentiment.

    There's an overwhelming amount of anti-invasion sentiment. People that support arming Ukraine support Ukraine's right to not have chunks carved out of it just because its neighbour has a bigger army.

  • It’s not about moral arguments or right or wrong.

    Or

    It’s just baffling all the excuses that are made for US aggression vs Russian aggression

    It can't be both. Which is it? Because the point here is that America giving Ukraine weapons is more justified specifically because of Russia's aggression.

  • So invading Ukraine fixes what for Russia, exactly? The fastest way to make more of Russia's neighbours join NATO is to show them that they're safer in NATO. Like Finland.

    Ukrainians mostly weren't interested in joining NATO until Russia took Crimea. Russia pushed Ukraine towards NATO.

  • If this war was about having NATO on their doorstep, why is it an invasion of a non-NATO country twenty years after the first neighbours of Russia joined NATO? It's never seriously discussed because it's either a lie or unfathomably stupid, and whichever of those two it is doesn't much matter.

    Just for a second, imagine you're a neutral country in eastern Europe. Russia has been fucking with Georgia and Moldova since the fall of the Soviet Union, and now it invades Ukraine for the second time within a decade. Russia has never touched a NATO country despite bordering several of them for literally decades. And then Russia acts all shocked when you say you want into NATO

  • No luck, unfortunately. It appears that little to no fermentation took place; I still just have some water sweetened with honey. There has been a lot of heavy rain recently, so I suppose it's quite possible that too much wild yeast had been washed off by that

  • Feral

    Jump
  • I assume this is a reference to the various ethnic groups in the Congo Basin who are notably shorter on average than most humans, such as the Batwa and Bambuti. The different groups are often collectively referred to as "Pygmy peoples", but I don't feel super great about the way that sounds

  • It's isinglass rather that sulphites that makes a lot of beer and wine non-vegan. It's a type of collagen made from certain fish (not usually crustaceans, so far as I know) that makes the yeast suspended in the liquid sink and coalesce into a sediment that can be removed. If you try homebrewing you'll find that your own produce is hazy unless you use isinglass, although it doesn't significantly change the taste

  • There's someone in these comments claiming that they have orange juice with their coffee, so I'm willing to tolerate uphillbothways' bullshit at least until that war criminal is dealt with

  • Strictly speaking, the "half your age plus seven" rule says no to relationships for under-14s. If you're 14, half your age plus seven is, of course, 14. Any younger and you get a minimum that is older than you, and that person's own minimum will therefore exclude you. So in the vast majority of cases it actually kinda has your caveat covered already

  • Probably not. The image is from a stock image site but the creator is heavily into AI image generation, so that's probably what happened. The yellow-blue version does actually have some historical precedent, though, with flags like that being used by Ukrainian independence movements around the end of WW1 in particular.