Iām not sure why they assume this is āmore than he anticipatedā. What lead them to this conclusion?
In any case, at the end of the day itās just some protests - Been there, done that, I doubt that is particularly frightening.
Ignore the conservative commentary if you so desire
Also, god American medias are so weird sometimesā¦
Iām not even completely certain you could call redstate ā(news) mediaā. Itās more akin to Alex Jones than to the New York Times.
Anyway I find that political debates in the US can be quite outrageous compared to what I am used to. Different culture I guess.
Itās an e-mail just sent by Toby Manning. I was in cc for some reason.
The issue is that Ukraine will likely soon be a Russian satellite state, akin to Belarus. Supporting Ukraine as a member nation in those organization while opposing Russia will be difficult once it is essentially the same.
BBC has an article on Russians seizing Chernobyl earlier and someone thought it was a good idea to plug HBOās series in there.
Iāll say insensitive but I mean worse words.
Yes, unless thereās active opposition that can garner support, but this doesnāt happen immediately.
And itās also a political decision of whether to accept new status quo or support fighters trying to overthrow foreign powers.
I donāt see another cold war happening (which somehow is an outcome to hope for in this scenario), since US seems to hold back as not to expose cracks in the armor.
Imagine a go club being against invasions 
clearly the British are weak at sabaki 
āinto the most serious armed conflict in Europe for at least a decadeā
Am I the only one who finds this sentence incredibly sad?
International PR is important for a government, I agree. Losing your sports venues and a couple of business friends is hard and may lead to loss of profit, I agree. However, is a government who crossed every uncrossable line going to cry bitter tears just because a few other countries decided the equivalent of a #cancelcaviar hashtag?
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I have a question about āswiftā. How does it hurt other countries if a country gets ousted? I didnāt understand that part of the āswiftā function.
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ETA
As for China
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They are not exactly discreet about it and never have been.
SWIFT is a banking system that facilitates payments between countries. It has been reported in the U.S. that Biden did not include SWIFT sanctions because several European countries asked him to hold off. Russia supposedly owes them money, and if they donāt get paid it would greatly damage their economies.
Between US snd Russia, who owes who?
I have no idea. Remember, I was just passing on info from two television news reports I saw last night. I donāt know whether the report is true, although it is certainly plausible. I would not expect any official confirmation of that because to say so would be undiplomatic toward our allies.
Macronās message was read in front of the national assembly Emmanuel Macron prĆ©vient que Ā«Ā les sanctions ne sont jamais sans consĆ©quences, y compris pour nousĀ Ā»Ā : suivez notre direct politique see between 14:36 and 15:10.
Anyone played Red Alert 2? I was too late to play the first one. And the third was already boring.
The red alert games had some interesting ideas of alternate history lines.
I believe in the first one, something mad like Einstein going back in time to kill hitler before he comes to power, and then the result ends up being that Russia becomes a superpower that invades most of Europe.
Then the second game red alert 2, is a sequel and it maybe naturally (in a biased sense, being a western game) picks the canon ending where the allies win in the first war. It follows with a soviet invasion of America.
It has a very ominous opening sequence, where the Soviets more or less secretly amass troops and then invade not long after itās spotted what they were planning.
They did recently do a remaster of the first game, useful since the original version eventually stopped working on newer machines, and one would have to rely on community driven implementations to play it. I think a lot of people also disliked the third game.
