The candy shop guy where I grew up was apparently a Serbian specops deserter of the Yugoslavian war.

So yeah, probs.

I think the prize is the pubicity, as well as a free ad spot for you when you get to perform as the halftime event at the next one, which was last year, and IIRC Nemo took the opportunity to call attention to Palestine as much as he they could there as well.

They are not “murky”, it’s completely merged and privatised to a centralised corporate entity.

Destroy state oversight of corporate oversight of media and communication.

Technically the Moskva was the Black Sea Fleet flagship, not the overall flagship of the Russian Navy.

That’s the aircraft carrier Kuznetsov, which can’t even move under its own power, and its air complement couldn’t be replenished since the 80s.

Why invade when they can colonise without invasion?

There is no point doing that as long as the Belt and Road takes over old Russian aligned states’ infrastructure and the kids of the Moscow elite start learning Mandarin, both of which is happening.

I expect when climate change melts the permafrost, the companies exploiting Siberia’s riches will be all Chinese. If Russia is luckier than most, they will at least employ Russians for the more menial jobs. As long as they can speak fluent Mandarin.

They were already importing arillery shells, and they are out of Soviet reserves.

They won’t collapse, but they will drift even more into the Chinese sphere of influence, while they have already lost their own.

Point is, the West and China can keep Ukrainians and Russians killing each other as long as they don’t stop funding either side, which will then collapse pretty much immediately.

In any case, Russia is pretty much done as a world power, and the only two questions is whether the US and the EU will become independent world players after Trump, and when the killing will actually stop.

It’s a purely political question, because both China and the EU can keep this up forever.

I think they call them customers, to be honest.

It’s pretty normal to need different ID cards to use some services in the EU.

You need student ID for student tickets, on the train if there is a senior or a youth discount they check for ID.

If you are an EU citizen, your ID is valid everywhere in the EU, no passport needed.

Didn’t the US already capitulate?

Putin wasn’t always privileged IIRC. He was a taxi driver at one point, and I also wouldn’t call being a paper-pusher for the KGB a laid back no-stress lifestyle.

I think this is a reserve service, similar to the US national guard as opposed to the army.

Unsurprisingly, the site has nothing on who owns it either

I guess the idea is that humanoid robots ideally require no adjustment to the factory, they can just use the tools made for human workers.

The US used the American engine of it before to exert pressure.

Maybe we should start fucking with the F-35 in turn.

Yeah I was going to say the same, “Berlin has its U-Bahn Museum, Stockholm boasts the Sparvagsmuseet, and London is home to the Transport Museum”, Budapest has the frickin BKK running buses and trams as old as your grandpa.

Oh yeah, the “peacekeepers” led by Trump and Tony Blair. Almost forgot about it.

Well really it’s “his” Gaza “peace” “accord” since Hamas hasn’t even signed yet IIRC? And Israel will break it either way, even if Trump did in fact win the PP, they can’t take it back, so let’s get back to the genocide.

This headline does not feel sane

The thing is, it was always okay. The reason we didn’t take on debt was because it benefited the German elite. And it’s not “everybody” going into debt, it’s the state going into debt. Which is in general okay, money itself is debt, and nobody wants to abolish that.

What we don’t need is excessive debt without getting anything in return. In a very simplified example, if we bought one tank per year so far, and we make the military budget five times as big, we should get five tanks, not one tank for five times the money. Because in the first place, the five tanks will need five times as many people to assemble it, while in the latter, the economic boost will only boost wealth figures.