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Warm water port with access to the Black Sea, Med, Suez. They have easy eastern access via their northern ports. The Black Sea is easily controlled by NATO member Turkey should it decide to do so. The empire would like nothing better than removing it from Russian control. Perhaps looking/reading beyond the perspective afforded from your little portion of that Island might help your very narrow perspective.

Crimea is strategically important. It will not return to whatever Ukraine eventually ends up being.

Manufactured where...

Canada got involved in arresting an important Chinese national a few years back. Memory is important even though "we choose" to ignore it.

Murdoch didn't row in behind Trump until very very late in the day in 2016. I wonder who was more stimulated.... Nancy or Mitch.... or all the media orgs that are going to have a 2 fupping year field day with this again. Whatever about the creature trying to unseat him (Scott, FL), it would be a good day for America to see Mitch get the boot. The Dems are idiots for not moving Nancy aside to try and build for the future while they have the presidency... oh, there goes me thinking all democratic and such, silly boy.

Galicia must return to the motherland!

Anyone know if cities first dibs clause carried over to the new contract. I'd be amazed if they didn't take a serious look given he has proven himself in prem. Imho, he'd be mad to move mid season, especially to Juve or Barca given their financial/football state. Milan are a little dodgy too given their ownership group.

Well he had to make up for Maguire's pathetic position and treacle running for the Watkins goal. Got to keep Gareth looking good... for the King's sake.

My boys... hardly, but ok. It's more likely that this is some form of return to political politics is local normality. The Obama and Trump midterms were outliers only matched by Newt in 1994.

Comments on this should be good.

Ohio, Florida and Texas all firmly R now. The Georgia run-off is going to be an expensive shitshow.

You believe that the Ukrainians are in charge Capt. Manwaring.

There are ways to resolve this issue that don't require that. Too many absolutes in the air right now for that unfortunately.

Minsk II is the outline. Ukraine never in NATO is the redline.

These proposals present a fundamental absence of understanding of the Russian position. Also, modern delivery systems have at least 3 ways that render all the first strike fantasists quiver. (i) Orbital deployment (ii) Multi-warhead systems (iii) High mach delivery systems. This ignores more basic things such as submarine based coastal launches or terrain hugging delivery. Anti-missile systems only have a hope when the protection area is small and a direct impact is required by the attacking missile. Nuclear weapons are most effective when detonated in the air and their large impact radius means they can be aimed into a large area. The physics of this problem is well known. Magic bullets don't exist.

Ya, but Santa is on the USMNT side...

We likely won't know until Jan given GA is likely to go to a run off... unless there is a true wave type election. This is unlikely with some 40m votes already cast, significantly damping the momentum of any last minute surges. MI will be an interesting bellwether, with Whitmer somehow in a close race. I say this, as although she is self branded as a prog stalwart, she has on the whole governed from a fairly centrist position. Her national profile etc., may be her undoing.

This election is all about inflation. The Dems will get slaughtered because its midterms and inflation. If you are in charge, the big pile of steaming shit is yours. Same as it ever was.

That was lovely. It would be nice if someone could leave something in on Martinez... though being smoked by Bailey was nice! Casemiro is a twunt too.

Maybe... but, they've already been in a zero growth state for over ~25yrs and it's been dropping for the past 10. Their economy has rumbled along and general society too. It is a question of interest, how much their relative lack of diversity has helped with the end to endless growth. Of course, as an export economy, the rest of the world opening up has helped massively, so when global population levels off in 50 yrs... say add another 50 for an economic levelling of sorts and then we'll see. Perhaps that should be 75 or 25 rather than 50, tis happening regardless. We are continuously told about how the old people will be such a massive problem, but societies will find a way to muddle through. Public pensions etc. have only been a reliable thing for ~50yrs.

I missed you too.

That's a tad too deep down the hyperbole hole. The world now is not all that much worse than most of the last couple hundred years... at least.

Double digit inflation tends focus minds a little more than political grandstanding, and this on a day that the WH had to delete a propaganda style tweet claiming credit for the massive increases in social security payments to the elderly... until CNN etc slammed this given such inflation match rises are required by law. He would have been much better off attending the WS game with his wife last night, though may have had an issue staying awake for the ~3hr game. I think many dem candidates up for election next week would have preferred that too. Meanwhile... the (democratic) occupation of Syria continues.

Population decline is only a problem for those wedded to the current growth uber alles paradigm. Japan is the exemplar of how population decline is not the end of the world.

Our 17 month lad just tried and mastered down the stairs by himself as of yesterday... yay, no more taxi service. Well maybe a month or 2 of quasi-independent going down, but crazy watching him decide I can now do this. It's completely wild the discrete new things he can do on a weekly basis. Still partial to waking up a random night hours though.