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Everyone is pretty snappy and annoyed in Kyiv today. Actually a big deal, this does not seem to be an especially unusual air raid night.. but it hit most people hard. Don't know why. I'm staying positive, but my positivity-juice is almost empty 😁

Trumpfall Arch 🤣

You're right. Got a bit dramatic and rearranged some facts. Caucasus is conquered by post-Catherine remnants of the Sich. The Hetmanate elites get Sloboda (bridgehead to the Khanate)

Dammit, even typing that, I get angry and start blaming all involved for everything, up to the pothole down the road

YouTube video by Signal Slice How American Politicians Nuked The Entire Tourism Economy

youtu.be/e6xlXYUcTI4?...

It was a grave mistake and they were in the following years as fucked as anyone who sacrifices basic values for immediate gain.

The Hetmanate has traded the freedom of their people for the right to colonize what is now Kuban. We also tend to skip over that part, but I am personally painfuly aware of this chapter in our history. It was not "empty land", the colonization was as brutal as any ru campaign. Deal with the devil..

They've accepted the deal of local elites keeping "the order" under threat of almost total extermination, it is more acin to Lithuania and it is only those elites that are "not afraid", because they have a deal with Lubjanka. The whole mess reignites as soon as Ramzan or putin will die.

Not quite, although it has been the Soviet narrative that portrayed Pereyaslav as "Ruš" reunification and skipped over inconvenient details. Nevertheless, Khmelnytsky is on our money ☺️ but.. it is IMO very different: Ichkers are terrified of ru. The second war was basically interrupted genocide.

I've heard an analyst once state: "Ukrainians are not afraid of ru, because they have been an integral part of the empire for too long and most of that time they were a huge chunk of the population: bigger than other ethnicities, comparable 2 "velykoros" population in numbers."

The way I see it, they now are at a crossroads and probably will shut down this NEP2 and recollectivise. They are already aggressively rolling back privatisation; their agrarian sector is fucked and some strategic industries already instated 3 day workweek. So old strategy and danger may come back.

That being said: I wouldn't fear the US, they have what I call Geopolitical ADHD. On the other hand ruskies already were poor and "weak" while dominating Europe. It's the Gendarme of Europe. Raw resources to export, low tech and poor as dirt, but willing to kill millions of own peasants for a goal.

Anything can happen, I will not repeat the old Ukrainian Jew mistake that went something like "hey those are just Germans, we've seen thema couple of years ago during the last war, anything is better than the Bolsheviks"

Pardon my chiming in: Willing to bet €20(inflation adjusted) that the UK will rejoin a reformed and slightly rebranded Union after WWIII or during/right after Cold War II. Am also pretty sure it is coming sooner than everyone thinks 😁

Very interesting! I am not judging one way or another ☺️ any decision is the sovereign decision for Puerto Ricans to make. Once more: my original post was a joke)) nevertheless getting info on how the political situation is viewed first hand is fascinating, thank you.

So it's fringe because "the mainland" does not roll out a "welcome back" carpet? So the logic is: we are citizens, maybe some day we and DC will get representation, no sense to exchange that for another nothing burger. And political resentment is channeled into an independence movement. Correct?

I was joking 😀 but!

Interesting. How so, from your perspective? EU member with an awesome climate is a gold mine + representation.

And how does it compare to movements for independence?

I know, that the movement to get US State status is strong, but never had the support needed in the US.

After the #badbunny american football freakout, someone ought to do a poll in Puerto Rico "would you support the reversal of the Treaty of Paris and changing your status from nonstate-US citizen to full fledged EU member?" 🤣

Many Khazakh still bleach their faces, 30 years after independence. Another 30 years of USSR and Latvians would be a minority in Latvia. And what the westerners never accept, although there are documents to prove it, is the fact that Holodomors were an ethnic cleansing by design. I can go on..

I'll always remember the Hakhas dude I met in Abakan in the early 2010s. Hakhas look like a mix between Koreans and Mongols and he was adamant in his "ja rusky" message, loathing the fact that his grandma sang lullabies "in that barbaric dialect".

More methodical 😊 I wouldn't underestimate moskaus' capacity, they just rewrite history to cover up their "wins". The language of Novgorod was further away from the moskau dialect they've renamed to "rushan" than Dutch from German. Kazan was a non Slavic Khanate, Hanty and Mansi were Hungaric etc.

It's interesting. Poland was sovereign and monoethnic + monoreligious for the first time in its history, right? Unique 30 years of history.

I never got those types. I guess doing research was very hard back then.. but still: those pan-slavs weren't moskau Orthodox, were they? Not a lot of people know even now, that Belarus has been greek-catholic before occupation. Has been, yea. Habsburg empire integrated all minorities. moskau? Hahah.

Excellent strategy for survival of a frontier State: have a couple of million people without representation 🤣 Someone really needs to tell these folks, that not having Ukrainians in their 2026 Sejm, brings them one step closer to the fight of having at least one Pole in their 2062 Duma.

Quick guide to Tomahawk cruise missile variants

TLAM - land attack

TSAM - anti-ship

GLCM - ground launched

TACTOM - improved “tactical” version

TACO - version talked about but never delivered to Ukraine

This.

~"I gave them more time to prepare"

You gave the German industrial lobby cheap energy, while placating the green lobby with the ability to kill Nuclear Power while keeping CO2 in check.

This is Chamberlain-Daladier level of bullshit at best. Active treason at worst.

Propaganda is best served hot, with a dash of truth.

Angela has previously broadcast two messages to us:
"I gave you time to prepare for the inevitable"
"I have credit for getting Poroshenko and putin into one room" (the famous "Володя я обижусь")

Schröder? Lol, he's just happy to have been on Gazprom payroll post Kanzleramt. Wasn't even hiding.

Lethal bayonet!

WHAT!? Is that a neck beard I see one on one of the nerds!?!?! Scrap the whole project! We'll just send in Hegseth with a bayonet after those pesky drones.

PS: "I wonder", if all of the engineers developing and deploying our systems are manly men without beards doing pushups. 🤣 Intimately knowing the industry: I am highly doubtful.