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Both his parents are compliance lawyers, his father a professor at Stanford. How delusional could he and they be considering he bought them 130M of real estate ?

How do they know if said thingamajig is unidentified ?

Does he mean the one when Chamberlain convinced Czech Republic to give its larger army to Germany, it's superior tank factories, concede territory to both Germany and Poland, to re…

It's good never to underestimate your enemy out of pure spite, it prevents loss in battle and war. I also think you entire missed the tense of my answer, which is that they are _ge…

It's got about half of that combat troops, according to IISS Military Balance 2021, of which 400K are ground troops. What they do however is rotate them very often. Reportedly they…

Bureaucracy

If I'm not mistaken about the solar plant we're talking about, not quite : That Canadian-financed solar plant has basically been held hostage for the last 3 years by president Zele…

> Which countries' oil supply do you think would no longer reach them if Turkey refused to allow transit? - Current oil and gas from the Caspian Sea Basin, from the Azeris and Iran…

Except this isn't a competition of popularity, but geographic-politics. If you lose Turkey, consequences are: - Lose in max 20 years for good all of the Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaid…

Legends die hard.

We already stepped in it. A number of pundits and public figures have been tweeting (I know, ironic) sentences in substance similar to "Free speech advocates are the promoters of w…

> it like how all of the Mckinsey types who turned into counter-terrorism consultants around 2004. If you look at a number of developping political scandals, it seems they turned t…

That all nice and well. Not to sound to much of a "doomer": But, in the meantime, how are you going to manufacture all of the necessary inputs for the eco-transition if half of eur…

Or a horrible witch hunt if it isn't.

> I'm not GP, but thanks for this comment. No problem. Thanks for reading it. It was somewhat cathartic to write. > It just shows how we just see one side of the picture in the Wes…

(sorry, it's a long one, you caught me on a day off, so I wrote long) > Don't they have a right to decide? So why not let them take that risk if they wish? Of course they do, they …

Did I get this straight : The article says in essence says he supposedly replaced in his houselhold both known knowns and known unknowns with unknown unknowns in the interest of im…

Fair enough.

A caveat concerning my position: The Rubicon (or RubiDon would be more apt) has been crossed by Russia. Nobody in charge is actually interested in rehashing the morality of any rec…

I saved the article for later reading, but I can't fail to notice the formulation of the title. Merriam-Webster defines "rogue" as: > Who then get's to call another one a "rogue" ?…

Erm, not excusing this horrible invasion in any way, but c'mon, this is a near parody of a propaganda rewriting of recent history, but from the other side... They sought all ways o…

> The second best time is now? I don't disagree. I was merely pointing out it's going to be bad a lot until it gets good again.

Also, the guy is/was from the 77th, like Twitter's guy in charge of content moderation, or Facebook's, who was an aide to Nato's deputy secretary, so, take all of this "we wuz cham…

Duplicating factories takes time.