There were wars for less. As I understood the discourse, were talking about lots of oil that will be available there in the future - or will not, who knows.
Europe needs better safety measures than considering wars unlikely it stupid… I still can’t comprehend why the hell did Putin need to attack Ukraine, yet here we are 12/4 years after.
Time to ask my GP for a vaccine… I live in Europe, but tourists from USA come here fairly often.
I’m so happy Bonnie survived! I wish her a long a happy life!
Absolutely horrible. I hope USA democratic values would withstand this shitstorm. Right now I see Trump using Putin’s methods like a true fan.
Exactly! But developed countries largely still see immigrants as the source of all evil.
I disagree about Maduro, but I never supported US kidnapping him. I’d only approve of such intervention to Russia, which has completely different circumstances.
I’d rather he’d do it to Russia. I think both Trump and Maduro are despicable evil people, but if we’re seeing deterioration of international laws already, I’d rather watch Putin being arrested and Russia to be put under western control. But of course, Trump won’t bite the hand that allegedly feeds him.
Edit:typo
Note: as far as I know, this statistic does not include the instances when the train didn’t arrive at all. I wonder if there’re any numbers on the overall adherence to the schedule.
Crazy to be hear letters are rare in Denmark, I’m drowning in letters in Germany! If you apply for an official online service, they send you a letter with the pin code. Letters are kinda used as notifications here too.
There’s not enough protest against steady loss of privacy.
Agreed. Here in Germany there’s a big problem that even all business have to comply with many regulations meant for corporations, making the expenses for smaller companies enormous.
Given: not all of them are driving innovation, but my entrepreneur friends who run their businesses in Germany plan to move their endeavors elsewhere.
I’m all up for a social state, but not for the laws that only large corporations can easily follow.
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer or a businessman myself and only know about the matter anecdotally.
It’s a bit sad for my friends in Russia, but I do hope very much it signals the fall of the regime.
Recently, the Ministry of Education posted on the official report as their accomplishment that less young people go to universities than before, and instead of high school they choose labour professions.
I’ve nothing against handworkers, but where else in the world does the bloody Ministry of education celebrate the lower rate of education in their country?!
Source: podcast in Russian by polititologist Ekaterina Schulman, a bit lazy to find the link at the moment.
Thank you for sharing.
I’m from Russia, and I’ve seen thousands of people running from the police over a decade ago. I’ve left the country before the big invasion started, but I’ve heard of small, quiet protests, and even quieter, but organized sabotage of railways that run towards the border with Ukraine.
Many people still support Putin, might be hard to stand up to the empowered majority.
But my friends from Belarus participated in mass actions against Lukashenko; we know that the majority doesn’t support him at all, and yet nothing changed.
I’m not saying protest is ineffective, but sometimes it’s not, especially when the time passed and the system hardened.
It’s important to protest, a lot, especially when the situation is not dire yet. Not only when people are desperate, but when they’re in discomfort, when the politicians lie, when our rights are even slightly violated.
Now as a German citizen and resident I go to protests, sign petitions, and participate in other civil actions.
3 years might become 10, there’s such thing as a “carousel prosecution” in Russia: your sentence ends, you are ready to leave and get another one for some nonsense; rinse and repeat.
I hope this girl is not that important tho.
Don’t; no one deserves to be annexed by Russia. Or someone might be very happy making Hungarians very unhappy.
What a joke of a person. Wish he starts burning in hell yesterday.
I see. Thank you for a clarification!
I donate 0. I hope I’ll be able to do more once I get the new job. (I have a monthly donation budget, but it’s spent on other causes at the moment.)