It’s not just that this is some off-beat Putin opinion. Most of the older generations of Russians, especially retired, have a very strong opinion about “the motherland”.

I mean, if California succeeded from the US in an economic collapse, it’s pretty plausible to believe that Americans would still consider it to be an “American” territory, vassal, or rebellious state. If several states broke apart from the US, there would be a strong following of people who believe the US deserves to reclaim and reunite and that should be a political goal. Now imagine if Russia started arming these breakaway states.

It’s still an unjust and unethical war in Ukraine, but the perception in Russia is just different. Most of the opposers to the war are young people, who don’t have any government power.

To be clear I'm having a go at the likes of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage here, not the British public in general.

The NI protocol deal goes some way to improving relations with the EU and is a positive step forward. It's a minority of even Brexit supporters that will disagree with the deal.

Yeah but you need to let China state its position even if they lie

well indians hold a special value of russia in their heart cuz without russia usa would have nuked india

Ahhh, that makes total sense. Jesus, people can be just awful about money. Poor woman, I feel so bad for her. Cases like hers are why my family always told me to settle down with someone from a similar background.

Air defense.

Fuck ya

Reading back it does, I had those soldiers in mind, being sent to war, ill-equipped

Doesn’t China still execute people by firing squad? I think these people deserve worse, but at least most or all of them will be executed.

The scientific community learned from its mistakes… but did the media learn?

>Ground based radars are limited by the curvature of the earth; they can't see over the horizon.

Same with these. They just make the horizon further away.

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Every time I see news about Northern Ireland, the Star Trek prediction of Irish reunification by 2025 seems more likely

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 72%. (I'm a bot)

> Rishi Sunak has sealed a deal with the EU to end the dispute over the post-Brexit Northern Ireland protocol, a senior government source has said.

> At the heart of the revised pact are three main issues: physical controls and checks on trade to Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK, the role of the European court of justice and the application of EU law and the place of Northern Ireland in the UK's internal market.

> This is based on a proposal around Norway's relationship with the EU made by the former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain and may enable the EU to disapply new laws in Northern Ireland if objected by Stormont representatives.

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I wonder what would happen if Lukashenko dies suddenly

>(They have attained) ‘Victory’ and are now safely outside the country. Everyone has escaped.”

I see they adhere to the GWB school of victory conditions.

This is huge, let's see what the deal actually is. I cannot imagine how it will be similar to the Norway situation (as the article proposes). Probably a nothing burger...

It could be a good test to see how committed there soldiers are regarding this reason ( war ), especially if it is a Ukraine reason .

"He has said his army would fight only if Belarus was attacked."

Is it too optimistic to suggest this could actually be in response to the 'leaked' documents that suggested Russia was planning to take and claim Belarus by 2030?

Who started it without even talking ? It is the aggressors who must back down first before talking can happen .

I think he means for HIS survival.

Lol this is how you know china was definitely planning on sending military aid.

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Multiple other articles that have confirmed her father has it, as well. Those weren't bad translations.

Yup, and they are in for decades of being disingenious annoyed dicks. Populism, meet reality, problem is it's painful for everyone, including those who didn't want it.