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It's the same as acknowledging that the Taliban wouldn't exist without American and Russian interference in the region. Azov and the Taliban are bad, yeah. But they appeared becaus…

The very first paragraph of Wikipedia even says Azov formed as a consequence of something. That reason? To push Russian forces out of their country. If Russia weren't terrorizing t…

America has a large portion of English speakers. It historically had a large portion of people with direct ties to the UK. Haiti had plenty of people with ties to France and still …

Do you think Russia's funding of terrorist groups in the eastern portions of Ukraine known for atrocities against civilians could've influenced that decision? Or maybe going back f…

I don't think Ukraine was even being seriously considered for NATO until Russia decided to surround the country with its military recently. It's like punching someone, some guy pas…

"Expansion" makes it sound like something that happened to Eastern Europe against their will--not that those countries actively wanted to join. Those countries actively bid to join…

I remember seeing broken down cars pretty often as a kid. Just driving 30 minutes to the grocery store on weekends and seeing (or being) one wasn’t that uncommon. I noticed at one …

It doesn't explicitly. But in practice it would. If a kid asks "Why are there two daddies in the book?", a huge can of worms is opened. It'll be selectively applied by people with …

7/11 prepares their sandwiches in centralized factories. They’ll deep fry things in store, but anything chilled is shipped as-is from hours away.

Yeah. I always grab them from behind so I can immediately tell whether or not they’re completely empty bread. Most of the time they are. There’s no magic. They’re just sandwiches t…

Protein intake that low is just insane if you’re doing exercise that much. Your body will accumulate injuries fast, unless you’re defining exercise as lifting 1kg “dumbbells”. Cutt…

Plenty of people eat tomatoes and pasta quite often so it’s also not an unreasonable test case.

I once walked down a street that had hundreds of them. Being bored and interested in spiders, I picked up a twig to provoke them a bit and see how they responded. Some of them woul…

I mean there’s the Wagner Group very conspicuously using a German name despite being Russian and familiar skull design acting as a paramilitary organization in Russia’s “liberation…

Russia is also a known hotbed for neonazis. So is Alabama. Just because a region has small factions of race extremists it doesn’t mean they’re blowing up nuclear reactors. But Russ…

It’s useful to know what some people are fed and what the source of “their” opinions may be. It’s also useful to see what overdone propaganda is like to have a solid reference poin…

With a move away from fossil fuels, CO2 will become less of a concern.

So long as the people with guns have their bellies full, not much will happen in Russia. Just like as much as the world wants North Korea to change and become more free, most of th…

I'm guessing at this point it's dominate Ukraine at any means necessary and ride out sanctions until they start to slacken after countries like Germany, etc need gas and are willin…

White space and pop ups aren’t part of design? That’s a very strict definition. Design is also merely a function of market dynamics, hence why it changes with trends and not to imp…

Registration forms in Japan are definitely worse than anywhere else on earth. Strict text length limits (last name can’t fit in 4 characters? Sucks for you), randomly flip flopping…

I’ve come to prefer Japanese web design over western design in general. It can be messy at times, but you don’t have endless pop ups asking you to sign up for their “newsletter” ad…

Amazon item product pages are standardized. Rakuten item pages are basically all their own unique geocities webpage and even the ordering procedure isn’t fully standardized. It’s a…

The comments here are basically several variations of "I'm Russian and in the process of fleeing my country after getting beaten up by police" or "I'm Russian and actively against …

It seems like they're banning people who simply have a background in that country. There are a few words for that philosophy, and legality of that business practice becomes questio…