I am waiting for my trillion ruble note as a keepsake.

What do you want to bet the NSA has recordings of Musk’s phone calls? Probably the only thing preventing the feds from using these recordings would be they would have to let on they have this capability.

The envoy had probably never seen clean water before and wanted a closer look.

Fiber laser, ceramic disc laser, CO2 laser?

Hopefully they’ll take him to a place where Trump can’t find or pardon him.

The only real question left in this war is: if Putin orders a nuclear strike, will he be obeyed?

Especially if you have a media empire that is useful to discredit those opposing your invasion.

Does that mean Germany will have the exotic negative energy that makes constructing a wormhole possible?

Probably the best comparisons can be made to the Afghan War. However, Russia today is much weaker than the Soviet Union of the 1980s and the Ukrainian army is a more formidable adversary than the Mujaheddin. The potential for the war to be protracted, however, is great, as Putin likely sees defeat here as an existential threat to his power.