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Considering the terrible crisis there is in Yemen, 1,2 billion for the whole world is really a very low sum.

Margarine?

Look at it this way. U think u have an issue but how can u tell? But by there nature they are working in the shadows. They don't exactly have a convient book that says they have this many operatives working in this country. Some don't even know they are operatives.

For all u know the greatest operative ring in the US could be an ally country or like Greenland.

At the start of the war I need to admit I had some part of me that kind of understood Russian agenda in Ukraine. I didn't support the war but I was buying in the "Russians needing to protect their west flank from American/Nato tampering", at least partially.

I kind of thought that Zelensky's hard stance against Russia rather than playing fool to catch wise could've added to the tension.

But with time I came to the conclusion that I was wrong. Plain and simple. I was naive.

This whole military action and Russian agenda has absolutely nothing to do with Russian's security (which is forever secured by a minimal investment in nuclear weapons to be honest, nothing can save anyone from them), Nato, and not even imperialistic ambitions by Putin. Even those are honestly idiotic. If Putin really has had such imperialistic ambitions he would've acted on them earlier.

Reality is that this is all about Putin's autocracy. Putin knows that Russians consider themselves and Ukrainians the same people, so even if he could and can sleep just fine with Finland or Sweden joining NATO, as this poses no threat to his regime nor Russia, he cannot sleep well knowing that his citizens can look at Ukraine and see that a really democratic government, one that fights corruption and works for its citizens is possible. Because the instant message for Russians is that an alternative to Putin's autocracy is possible and he's scared shitless of that.

He was burning classified documents in Berlin in the very same moment that people were bringing down the Berlin wall, he was a KGB officer there. He knows that change to autocratic regimes can come at any time and that this leaves people like him ousted, at the very least. He's scared shitless of "real" democracy.

It's incredible world is heading into global recessions, thousands are dying, tensions are rising, I'm paying more than 4 times the energy bills I paid just 18 months ago, all because this shithead wants to transform Russia in a tsardom again.

It's terrible, awful.

We all need to do our best and push our legislators to help Ukraine as much as possible.

Arm them, train them, send all the money we can, sanction any country doing business with them, whatever we can so we can make Russian population suffer as much as possible, at the end of the day, Russians aren't stupid, they overthrew not one but two regimes that looked impossible to overthrow (the Tsar first and the Soviet Union second), they can understand the world around them and they're aware that most of what they hear in their tv is straight propaganda.

I am honestly sorry for not emphasizing enough with Ukraine. I did donate 200 euros to Ukraine in recent days and I plan to donate 2% of my monthly income for the foreseeable future at each check I receive.

If Putin wins, it's not just Russia winning and Ukraine losing, Europe isn't threatened by Putin's army, they can barely fight against Ukraine, but if Putin wins this is a very huge setback for democracy globally, for our own life styles and dignity.

> Sea ice = floating ice. Its melting does not increase the average sea level.

As the article states:

"...the sea ice rings Antarctica's massive ice shelves, the extensions of the freshwater glaciers that threaten catastrophic sea level rise over centuries if they continue melting as global temperatures rise."

I might also add that ice reflects more sunshine than sea, and a reduction of ice, whether it is on land or sea, reduces the amount of solar energy that is reflected back into space:

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sea-ice-climate.html

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I think the Sami people has done enough losing at the hands of the Norwegian government…

They are not court ordered to take them down. The court just ruled them illegal to build in the first place….

2014 was a red alert only few countries besides Ukraine bothered to notice. Human complacency is such an amazing thing sometimes.

They had none.. Only mildly verbal reactions. The UE foreign affair is only (/mostly) commercial... And the business was bigger with Russia than Ukraine.

On external affairs, each country play on his own. For example France in Sahel had only token of help... Even when it was to liberate Timbuktu from salafists when Mali asked for help.

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This article is about the Antarctic ice.

Is it tank harvest season again?

According to the article Germany is actually doing more than Poland right now.

Do they even have defined the borders of those "annexed regions"?

Police said they become suspicious when the accused routinely visited Outback Steakhouse for the bloomin’ onion

Some animal poisons can kill for certain and very fast. Meanwhile, the best poison russians could develop most of the time fails. I guess the survivors are lucky that russians are so bad at everything they do.

Some of them are also Democrats. Remember, their job is further the divide.

I don’t disagree with you. Would be nice to put money elsewhere. Unfortunately, everyone will have LESS money to spend on the important stuff (the things you mentioned).

Did they drink all the (totally not vodka) alcohol based coolant from the aircraft?

Not really. The world's richest 10% produce 50% of global CO2 emissions, whereas the poorest 50% produce only 10% of emissions. And a similar difference is with resource usage.

So it's clear where the majority of the problem is.

Don't act like the US doesn't benefit from this arrangement themselves.

I wonder what was EU's plan had Putin's invasion come as planned. In case say, Russian military being indeed competent enough, Ukraine putting little to no resistance and White House being occupied by Trump? Not entirely fictional scenario just few years ago. What was Europe's plan back then?

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