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Ah yes, because crop rotation in the shit show that is northern soil would go so well. Where’s the evidence? Many Canadian soil science experts have written off the promise of boreal land: the soil would take decades if not centuries to rehabilitate.

Meanwhile, you don’t seem to understand that even small age gaps create marginal imbalances that need to be filled, which (if filled by small age gaps again) leads to a knock-on effect down the population pyramid.

Every government has corruption. Are you surprised by this? In an example that you will understand, US elections are horrendously corrupt because of rampant gerrymandering and no restrictions on corporate PAC donations. However, people still consider US elections to be “fair” and “just.” Ukraine’s elections have been no more corrupt than they usually are, which I proved to you and am happy to provide more sources for. To which point you… moved the goalposts with no evidence. At least put some effort into your argument, please.

A lack of evidence is either a lack of intelligence or deliberate bad faith.

To what extent? Greater than healthcare? Greater than the flagging economy? The government has limited money.

Russian soil in the North is inferior because it’s thin, has few nutrients, and tends to be acidic. Chernozem is Russia’s most productive soil and it’s predominantly concentrated in the south of the country. In fact, it’s the same soil that makes the Canadian Prairies so productive.

Again, do you not understand that people don’t need to have relationships where ages match?

What corruption (more than usual for Ukraine) was there in Poroshenko’s election? Weren’t there literally thousands of international observers for that election? Similarly, for Yanukovych’s election, where was the impact of this so-called interference? International observers were once again present and found no evidence of such wrongdoing. If you go back to 2004, the government had mechanisms to protect against explicit corruption (in case you forget, Yanukovych ended up losing that election in the re-run). Which of these governments are you calling illegitimate because of Russian electoral interference?

Why would they? There’s only 535 people in Congress. Giving each of them a million dollars in “donations” every four years is basically a rounding error.

China dumped $180b into solar?

Danielle Smith is the opposite of a fiscal conservative. Dumping $330m on the new Saddledome? Cleaning up for oil companies?

US policy at the time was that a quarantine was obviously not a blockade and thus not a declaration of war. Obviously.

The US and UK will lose some credibility internationally if they pull out now, but they’ll have more flexibility to address domestic issues that can help them in the next election. Given the relative strength of the opposition this election, they’ll need all the help they can get.

Zelensky buddy…

Biden’s polling below Trump in the US (Nov 2024), Sunak is doomed (Jan 2025), and Scholz is leading a flagging economy down the drain (Oct 2025).

Regardless of how people feel about Ukraine, Western support is not indefinite and at some point the Western powers will have to focus their efforts on domestic issues.

You have to read the whole article instead of Ctrl+Fing…

Yes but you see, no country has declared war based on the threat of nukes.

Quarantines are, of course, different. As are special military operations. Of course.

Dude’s from England, cut him some slack for being oblivious. Cuba was only part of the British empire for like a year.

A fair number of bombings have been attributed to defective Ukrainian munitions…

Sovereign nations like Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Cuba, right?

… right?

Then lastly on Sweden. First of all, it is historic that now Finland is member of the Alliance. And we have to remember the background. The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn’t sign that.

The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.

So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders.

At least quote the relevant section ffs

Russian arable land in the North is just not very productive. A longer growing season won’t offset the lost productivity that climate change will inflict in the South.

You do realize that you don’t need to have a relationship with someone the exact same age as you, right?

The article does address your points, for what it’s worth. Plus, as established by first party sources, Euromaidan was orchestrated by the US with extensive propaganda support… which to any degree detracts from what would otherwise seem to be legitimate reasons for overthrowing government.

To some extent, but not really? At the bachelor’s level I’d agree but at the doctorate level I really don’t think so… And honestly? That’s probably a good thing. Diversity of thought is important for innovation, but the problem is that these people leave and few return because the job market at the doctorate level is still superior in the US than it is in China.

Melted Siberian permafrost doesn’t make good agricultural land and people don’t need to be the same age to form relationships. People aren’t inelastic.

You may also want to read more about the Euromaidan protests, their motivations, and their support: https://jacobin.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea

Jacobin is a left-wing news outlet that’s generally considered to be factually accurate by American media.

Or, you might consider that the US 4th PsyOps Group considers Euromaidan to be one of their great successes, as shown by a recent recruiting video and by their other promotional materials.

It’s hard to argue that Boeing is churning out less efficient planes than Comac, that Comac is using the CFM LEAP, that the manufacturing of those engines uses technologies that no one else has mastered, and that the US approves the most new drugs by far.

These are essential not only for military applications but for logistical ones.