The reality is that there are no rules on the level of state actors. If you can do it, you can do it. Ignoring this fact and pretending like the U.S. is omnipotent even next door to regional hegemons is how you end up sacrificing a million of your young men
Likely a self-fulfilling prophecy. Russia didn’t even want to invade Ukraine for very obvious geopolitical reasons, their hand was forced by NATO expansion and the cost has been predictably huge. The more preparation that is done to prevent an invasion, expedites it.
Pretty sure the first guy to say animals can go extinct was in the 1700s. Before that, if you found a Sauropod femur you pretty much had to assume it belonged to a creature that still existed somewhere
I love thinking about ancient people finding various megafauna bones after landslides and such before the concept of extinction. The looks on their faces, you know
Where else have I seen a historically disaffected population get on the coattails of imperialism and then be obsessed with claiming to be the originators of still-colonized cultural artifacts?