Fossil fuels are a hell of a drug.

They will run it at a loss until they can kill off game ownership, then they will force devs to run at a loss a la Spotify and fatten up their margins.

This game sort of has the opposite effect on me. I was never a big fan of the Metal Gear series, I’m too impatient. And a whole game set around doing deliveries seems boring to me, but it’s admittedly beautiful and has a lot of hype around it. Is it really a fun game?

Try a search with yandex in Russian.

No, saying absolutely nothing of substance is what made you wrong. Being from .ml just makes the fact that you say nothing of substance expected.

Maybe because it’s in Russian?

.ml is leaking again

.ml would beg to differ

That is not the case you originally made. Your original case was that the US was performing the same role in Gaza as Russia was performing in Ukraine.

You failed miserably to defend this point. You have subsequently gone back and edited all your arguments to try and change them to be about whether the US is involved at all in Israel in a cheap effort to win the argument.

As usual, cheap propagandist tactics from .ml. I’m done.

That’s not the comparison you made. You made a comparison with a directly invading army.

American soldiers have not been used in any combat in Gaza, nor have the US carriers. So again, not a valid comparison to Ukraine.

You could draw the parallel with Russian weapons being used by India against Pakistan, but you could hardly argue that Russia was directly fighting a war with Pakistan there.

I think he read it and executed the plan to the letter, including using the exact messaging prescribed by the book:

Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because “Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics”. Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible according to Western political standards. As mentioned, Western Ukraine (comprising the regions of Volynia, Galicia, and Transcarpathia), considering its Catholic-majority population, are permitted to form an independent federation of Western Ukraine but should not be under Atlanticist control.[9]

The Ukrainian separatists (little green men) were literally Russian soldiers, complete with marching papers, so that’s not an apt comparison. There are no US troops involved on the ground in this conflict.

The US sells arms to a lot of countries, as does Russia. A better comparison would be China, who Russia sells arms to, but has little control over policy-wise due to being another well armed rich nuclear power.

While the US isn’t doing what it should be in Gaza, I don’t think it’s fair to lay the blame entirely on the USA. The USA is not Israel and Israel certainly isn’t a US puppet state.

On Iraq, it’s true. But at least they didn’t ethnically cleanse or attempt to annex the lands to make them permanent vassals like Russia does. Not good but still better than what happens when Russia gets involved.

The US has done many of these things, it’s true. A few differences IMO are:

1. The US of the last century has had no ambitions to conquer countries militarily for the purpose of ursurping their land. These kinds of wars are the ones that cause the most death and destruction as we see in Ukraine.
2. The US doesn’t require nearly as many “puppet regimes” as Russia does. The US has had some in the past, but generally in most cases are happy as long as there are democracies in place. Russia requires near complete control of their puppet states like Belarus and Ukraine when they controlled it.
3. The US doesn’t directly commit genocide as we see happening in Ukraine or in almost every terriory Russia has ever brought under it’s rule.
4. Countries allied with the US generally become more prosperous and free, whereas those under the Russian umbrella tend to experience the opposite.

So, given the choice between being under US hegemony or Russian imperialism, I personally would choose to ally myself with the US. Though, as a resident of the EU, in a country formerly a Soviet sattelite state, I would prefer to be beholden to neither. In a small country as this one, I would prefer to have a strong united EU with it’s own strong military.

Edited original post, thanks.

The Great App Genocide of 2023.

They set out to make the truck version of the Delorean and succeeded.