Stamford Bridge Treaty!

She also asked that people do things that she specially could not do due to having no authority to enact policy, whereas Musk is interacting directly with levers of power (whether he has any legitimate/legal authority to do so).

There’s no such thing as ethnic cleansing. It’s just a weasel word for genocide. It’s all it ever has been. When “ethnic cleansing” was going on in the Balkans in the 90s, it was just a genocide that nobody was intervening to stop. Same for Myanmar in the mid 2010s And for Karabakh in 2020.

Russia’s search for alternatives in Algeria, Sudan, or Libya

The logistics of a Mediterranean naval base in Sudan would be something to behold. Seems like they’d have to cross the Suez. That or portage past the Aswan Dam.

A dumb sunuvabitch who didn’t respect civilian authority and you don’t know why a lot of the rest of society seems to love him?

Whenever people act like disruptive protest is such a terrible tactic, I have to wonder what they think would work instead. Like, do they think the letter writing campaigns that have gone exactly nowhere in 40 years are on the verge of a breakthrough?

Or would they prefer the environmental movement to compile an overly literal companion reader to Andreas Malm?

The Prime Minister is de jure the acting president in case of a vacancy. Given the strength of legal institutions in Russia Mikhail Mishustin would have some work ahead of him to actually hold power.

Society will have to relearn a lesson like this every so often, because people kind of yearn to offload the mental energy involved in controlling some aspect of their lives to someone else. And while they’ll probably start by offloading or to someone competent and with their best interests at heart, eventually someone who wants to extract wealth from that position will rise in such a space.

If they open too many more they’ll just have one big front.

Can’t get there. The Bosphorus is closed to warships

Little noise

Well, until you grab the wrong lever to brake.

Well, one of their founders and early PMs (and the grandfather of the ex-PM and recent assassination victim, Shinzo Abe) was one of the guys who ran Manchukuo (Manchuria under Japanese occupation in the run up to WWII). With these guys, you always have to wonder how much of the ‘rehabilitation’ took.

That’s a remake of (and is subtitled as) The Incredible Journey.

In the last decade? People who have lived there for generations but that the Tatmadaw, in an attempt to rally support from the majority population has declared to have immigrated illegally so that they can murder the ‘illegals’.

Nah it’s just Penn’s Woods. Transylvania is across the woods from… Hungary? Wallachia? Moldavia?

Yes, but they usually call it “the rest of Moldova” or “Moldavia”

Everybody who knows that every hardship he faced leading up to the incident was self-inflicted.

https://youtu.be/Yvl_7_Up7zU?si=2aURbtOlCKBflWQ5

He was said to have the best fed sharks in the Caribbean. Political dissidents had a tendency to disappear during his reign.

Not left, not right but center somehow ever farther right.

This is the only way they’ll play with a cat tree.