Fingers were crossed.

The premise is that crops have come under threat by climate change, on the one hand, and various blights such as mildew.

And raping EU funds by misusing them at every opportunity.

Rule of thumb: If Orbán doesn’t like it, it’s good.

Should be the other way around. Trump is the “serious” guy, while Putin is the one laughing in the back “holding the strings”.

I always wondered why they never made the jump accross the pond.

But traveling by bus kinda sucks.

You answered yourself already?

I see trouble on the way

Because GoT is more recent and probably more popular?

Well, I am impressed by what it can do. I am unimpressed by what higher ups claim it can do.

Now that’s quite a hot take. Various Felines are native to almost every part of the world, except, i.e. NZ.

The overpopulation is the issue. Not their existance.

Then they start hunting for sports.

Cats are an invasive species in NZ, which has a lot more small critters living on the ground because there are no native predators to them.

You have? Cause I haven’t.

I assume you will be delighted to learn that “Windsor” actually is just a cover name for Saxe-Coburg and Gotha because in 1917 having a German house on the British throne didn’t seem right.

Edit: Totally forgot that Mountbatten is also just a German housename in disguise.

Does it though?

Think of it this way: Article 5 is activated after an attack on its eastern members and Europe is mobilizing. German NATO command issues a marching order to all personal, which obviously includes US forces. However, a certain US president tells his troops to stand down for whatever reason. Who are they listening to? A foreign general or their commander in chief? With an US NATO commander there is at least a level of guarantee that US forces get involved.

Ramen!

Well, it’s the same here in Germany. Basically, every year someone announces “We are building 200k new homes” and when asked about what happened to the 200k promised last year the answer is something along the lines “To bad, but this is for real”!

Well, fuel consumption depends on the way you shift gears as well. But yes, it general it’s less.

What do you use the Trackpads for? I never felt the need so far and always wondered why they are there in the first place.

I recommend Carlo Masalas latest book “If Russia wins” if you are interested in how such a small scale invasion and it’s political fallout might look like.

The gist is:

• Take medium sized Baltic city, preferably with Russian minority and stop.
• Wait for a NATO response.
• If coalition forces arrive fall back behind border and go to damage control: “Lol just a prank, bro”!
• If none arrive watch NATO tear itself apart because Article 5 is worthless.
• Go wild in places like Moldova, Georgia and finally the Baltic’s proper because who is going to stop you?
• Profit

I don’t think we should fight fire with fire. IMHO the way forward is complete political and economical isolation and containment of Russia.

Step one is sanctioning any form of business with Russia and pressure neutral states via secondary sanctions to do the same. Yes, this means breaking up BRICS. Revoke any visas not related to diplomatic missions to make sure even the average citizen understands they are not welcome with this behaviour of their state. Side note: This does not mean turning away people seeking political asylum. As expansion of both earlier points expand seizure of assets of influencal Russian figures.

Next either finally give Ukraine what they need to take back their internationally recognized territory or directly intervene with troops. Push the Russians out of Ukraine, draw a big red line on the border and add some “Stay out” signs for good measure.

Thirdly drastically increase support for countries such as Moldova and Georgia which are under heavy pressure from Russian interference and pave the way towards EU membership if they so desire. Yes, this will be twisted into another “Russia is getting surrended” spin and guess what it is true: Russia is getting surrounded by people who are fed up with their bullshit.

Removal of sanctions gets tied to multiple factors. I.e. reparations to Ukraine and removal of senior political leadership including and foremost Putin from office.