500-year-old from a regio X, a Venetian Boer from an old dragoman family. ex-IKI RAS, ex-LEGO Mindstorms
A war is a reaction of the deaf listening to a mute.
@Navsteva I think nobody has any illusions there.
Dmitriev should really do something else now, instead of vibe farming mutual mega-projects and investments.
First you win and then do the business.
Doing business while fighting is beyond the 'Nu, Pogodi!' scenario.
@FistedFoucault Tiberius, Claudius and Domitian led and showed the way; the Vatican failed to recognise and continue the approximated 30-year cycle yielding results.
@FistedFoucault In the 70s there was a discussion about how to tame Israel. The worst proposal was to nuke it before it spreads to where it is now. The best proposal was by Nasser's adjutant – cull them to a pre-1948 level.
@Navsteva Yes, Rubio and others want to see that.
He wants to wrestle Putin down to a ceasefire, including Europeans taking the lead role in that process.
Expect a catastrophe on that field, and hope for the Kremlin to nullify that using everything at its disposal to preempt that.
Le gravi e offensive parole del Presidente Trump nei confronti del Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni offendono tutta l’Italia. Per questo motivo ho deciso di annullare la mia visita negli Stati Uniti prevista per i prossimi 21 e 22 giugno.
@Navsteva At the time Moscow was much further from the first hypothetical missile attack than it is now.
From 15 minutes away to 5 minutes in 30 years.
@memizon@michaelshermer The word was that Stalin sent crashing some bolt-on German prototype wing plane filled with some mutated bodies as a warning against nukes and a penetration test on exactly those radar balloon experiments the US was doing.
Nobody asks Russians, but the archive is in Moscow.
@Navsteva It is not about nuking Ukraine at all. It is about finding the least destructive manner to stop NATO's drang nach and exsistance.
Nukes are for a long term territory denial.
@eurofounder@Polymarket The EU also promised 120 billions of € for development and building European CPUs and GPUs.
Thank god for Ukraine, as it is much better investment. If for nothing else it'll bring assured zero ROI.
And the nature and the climate will be grateful.
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@TheDuranReal If 7 drones that went through Russian AA and hit a few storage tanks in refinery 20 km away from Moscow are biggest ever never seen before attack let me offer this bridge over Dnieper at a very good price. Russia will follow its own narrative, not what NATO dictates.