I know Star Wars is technically set in the past but I can't help but feel that George Lucas predicted the future by showing us a stupid trade war and a big fat slimy orange worm that forces itself onto women.
The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.
American men: why can’t our women be more like Slavic women? Docile, shy, submissive, pure, softly spoken, happy to serve, anti-feminist, respectful of their husbands
Everyone who has ever met a Slavic woman:
“Out of ten men,
one makes a sexual joke directed at a woman,
two laugh alone,
three don’t find it funny but still chuckle to fit in,
four say nothing, they pretend they didn’t hear it at all.
Not a single one speaks up,
not a single one stops it.
Later, aside from the man who made the joke, the other nine all believe the same thing - men like that are a minority, most men aren’t like this.
They all see themselves as part of the good majority.
But from the woman’s perspective, the one being harassed, there is no big difference between them.
The laughter, the silence, the looking away - all of it creates the same environment.
So when women say most men are the same, this is what they mean. Not every man harasses women but most men participate in protecting the system that does.”
There is no gender war.
There are young men radicalised online to be violent, discriminatory and abusive towards women because they feel powerless and ashamed.
And then there are the women who refuse to take it.
You know, I was born in 1993 — in an independent Ukraine.
Yet post-Soviet propaganda lived in our schools for a long time. We studied a triumphant, simplified, often fabricated history of the Soviet Union — a history in which the “side of the USSR” was automatically considered right and the only truth.
Everything that did not fit this narrative was either silenced or presented in a distorted way.
As I grew older and began to see the logical gaps in school textbooks, I started studying history on my own — not through official propaganda, but through the memoirs of people from different countries, different armies, and different ideologies.
For example, I only learned at 19, studying independently, that the USSR invaded Poland after Hitler. Yet only today, preparing this text and re-checking the facts, I discovered that it was actually a coordinated division of Poland between Hitler and Stalin, formalized in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols.
This means it is never too late to learn.
The Prime Minister of Belgium, @Bart_DeWever , was born in 1970.
By age and by office, he should know a little more than I do.
But I will allow myself to remind him of a few lessons from history — because they seem to be slipping from his rhetoric, whether due to fear or simple misunderstanding.
On the eve of the Second World War, Belgium — much like today — tried to remain neutral.
It believed that restraint and the desire not to “provoke” an aggressor would protect it from war.
But history knows no case in which fear stopped a rapist or a murderer.
On May 10, 1940, Hitler invaded anyway. Belgium fell in 18 days.
During the German breakthrough through Belgium toward France, approximately 6,093 Belgian soldiers were killed, and another 2,000 died in captivity.
The price of the illusion of safety turned out to be devastating.
In total, Belgium lost around 88,000 people during the Second World War — soldiers, civilians, victims of the Holocaust, repression, bombings, and forced labor.
After capitulation, the Belgian army was sent to prisoner-of-war camps.
And although it may sound strange, even Nazi Germany in many cases adhered to international rules concerning Western prisoners — unlike the USSR and unlike modern-day russia.
At the same time, German propaganda worked relentlessly. The Nazis managed to recruit 15,000–20,000 Belgian volunteers into the Flemish and Walloon SS divisions.
This is a telling number: occupation, fear, and propaganda always break a part of society — exactly as russia does today in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
So did fear and neutrality — the desire not to provoke the aggressor — save Belgium then? The question is rhetorical.
Now — to Prime Minister De Wever’s statements about russia
When Belgium says today that it fears confiscating russian assets because of the threat of retaliation from moscow — this is not just concern.
This is a repetition of the same logic that once opened the door to the Nazi blitzkrieg.
The rhetoric and behavior of the Belgian Prime Minister demonstrate not only the caution of a small state facing a large threat — they reveal a deeper problem.
His words reflect the mindset of someone who:
• does not believe in his own security,
• does not trust the strength of allies,
• is not convinced that Europe and NATO can protect him from an aggressor.
This is classic victim psychology:
fear paralyzes more than the threat itself, risks are exaggerated, one’s own capabilities are underestimated, and the aggressor gains influence simply from the fact of your fear.
And the main problem is not even that Belgium is afraid.
The problem is that it fears russia more than it trusts Europe and NATO.
Fear has never saved anyone from a killer.
Submission has never saved anyone from a rapist.
Appeasement has never stopped an aggressor — it only makes him bolder and whets his appetite.
Therefore, Belgium’s position is not just disagreement with the confiscation of russian assets.
It is a symptom of a crisis of Western political will, when part of Europe still thinks in categories of “better not provoke moscow” instead of “we are strong, we stand together, we defend freedom.”
This is not just submission — it is a stimulus to the appetite of the russians, and I hope Mr. De Wever understands that his fear is already an argument for russia to consider invading Europe.
If Europe continues responding with fear instead of determination, this will mark the beginning of the West’s defeat.
Europe must respond to such behavior.
Those who try to sit on two chairs must face sanctions as well.
This is not a time when one can remain neutral while standing on a battlefield.
The battlefield is all of Europe, and there is only one occupier here — russia.
All those who support it must be held responsible.
He was the worst President in history. And when he got voted out, he tried to stage a coup. Then he stole national secrets and sold the ones he didn't store in the bathroom.
He was convicted of fraud, found liable of sexual assault and convicted of 34 felonies. He is half a billion dollars in debt, owned by God only knows who, and the biggest national security risk the nation has ever had.
But at least he's not a Black woman.