My grandpa was drafted right before Korea ended and he was also good at tennis. In the 50s he guarded operational plans and war gaming materials at an army base in Florida, mainly because it allowed the CO to have an elite tennis partner. He died a decade ago, but from conversations were with him, Israel and Saudi Arabia were already at the primacy for places America looked for alliances. So he probably isn’t wrong about where they were by 1970

For me: Hard boiled, shell on, sucked like a jawbreaker.

The Volga Germans are evidence we deserve the Caspian Sea!

It makes me think of nukes dropping on St Pete and Moscow and CNN reporting it as an assassination attempt on Putin

“All you want is there for the taking under a Zachary Taylor presidency! You want a better political system, only gonna happen under the whigs. Nothing you want will ever happen under Jacksonian Democrat control and voting for the third party’s that are actually anti slavery will just give the Jacksonian Democrats what they want.

If you are holding your nose to not vote for Zachary Taylor, when the alternative is insane slavery expansionist James K Polk that supports things like taking over Texas to give the slave states more senators, than you deserve to be vote shamed.

What I like for my president is a person who compromises so hard and so good that it feels like I’m losing.”

• an American rad lib 1849

Not even systemic failures. Any complaint a chud has is because communism. Literally like doing dishes instead of their wife doing it is a communist plot

Crimea is essential to securing Russias largest European port. Look at your own map. Boats enter through the Dardanelles and would be in striking distance of the caucus coastline and Sea of Azov. With the Sea of Azov and Crimea secure Russia adds 3+ deep water ports and a huge layer of security that prevents NATO from shutting down Russias water based trade with Asia.

Why would Russia deem Crimea essential if not for Black Sea trade? It’s integration is an aim of the conflict

So boats are a thing that take up room, sometimes these boats dock at a port. Ports are also a thing that only have so much room for boats to dock. Sometimes too many boats in one port means they can’t unload goods (also a thing) before they are expired. It ends up costing money (another thing), that could then over time incur a nation major losses. If you have more than one port, it becomes easier to get all the goods you need in a certain amount of time. sort of like why Philadelphia and Baltimore both have deep water ports, even though they are close together.

Does that make sense to you?

I mean sure, but shipping things from South East Asia to Russia is easiest through the Black Sea route.

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for thinking of a plan to have a successful revolution in America, but winning over the teamsters to help form a vanguard party (especially on the ideas of internationalism) to me feels as fantastical as a communist winning the presidency and dismantling the empire from the inside.

A slight majority of rank and file drivers in my local have attempted to vote for a local president that would liquidate non drivers as members, because the drivers think unskilled labor deserves to be min wage and unprotected, and they feel embarrassed to share a room with us at meetings.

The Maoist Communist Union is like “if we just organize the teamsters” and as a member I’m just shaking my head.

These drivers are gonna make up the brown shirts.

I’m a teamster (non driver) and I don’t participate at all because it’s literally the worst people among us. They would probably kill a stranger for an extra 5k when they already make 150,000k plus. Life is a hustle in their eyes and if you aren’t, you deserve death. I’m not joking

I am a casual gamer and have this on Steam. Should I attempt it or is it overwhelming. I needed strategy guides to beat both KOTORs and Dragon Age.

No it’s really really bad it’s only included in the ICC climate report as a solution so fossil fuel companies can still own the infrastructure of energy.

Even if the science gets expedentially better it is nothing compared to degrowth, agricultural changes, or nuclear fusion.

It’s an abomination and doesn’t need to be given a “well maybe” at all.

I personally think their demographics and population of 1.5 billion + makes it understandable. I don’t live there though so I don’t want to speak for the people

Taibbi was told off by progressives about 2020 protests and his reaction to just being told off was “I’m canceled by the woke mob”

Mao defeating khrushchev from the grave

I bet the two officials were King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah

Objectively, Kamala did do great for American politics and is hot for a politician.

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