That’s why for once, the press’ nuke metaphors are apt.

Everyone has the US by the balls, that’s what the USD being reserve currency means.

Everyone owns a lot of USD, both cash and securities, so when the US prints money, inflation hits all the world.

Dumping basically means saying “hey, I’ve got the entire US GDP here in cash USD, I’m selling it for 100 EUR”, and watching the US go hyperinflating.

The catch is that it would crash the world economy.

People are into sunk costs and book well in advance. A lot of that 30% is no-money-back cancellations.

Wait until you see next year.

You can’t use the think of the children line

Or having the members, the respective heads of states, on whose words the entire European and actually world press hangs, promote and politicise it.

Destroy state oversight of corporate oversight of media and communication.

The EC absolutely has the marketing budget to change that though.

Technically the Moskva was the Black Sea Fleet flagship, not the overall flagship of the Russian Navy.

That’s the aircraft carrier Kuznetsov, which can’t even move under its own power, and its air complement couldn’t be replenished since the 80s.

Why invade when they can colonise without invasion?

There is no point doing that as long as the Belt and Road takes over old Russian aligned states’ infrastructure and the kids of the Moscow elite start learning Mandarin, both of which is happening.

I expect when climate change melts the permafrost, the companies exploiting Siberia’s riches will be all Chinese. If Russia is luckier than most, they will at least employ Russians for the more menial jobs. As long as they can speak fluent Mandarin.

They were already importing arillery shells, and they are out of Soviet reserves.

They won’t collapse, but they will drift even more into the Chinese sphere of influence, while they have already lost their own.

Point is, the West and China can keep Ukrainians and Russians killing each other as long as they don’t stop funding either side, which will then collapse pretty much immediately.

In any case, Russia is pretty much done as a world power, and the only two questions is whether the US and the EU will become independent world players after Trump, and when the killing will actually stop.

It’s a purely political question, because both China and the EU can keep this up forever.

Collaboration and empathy raised us and made us dominant.

Sociopathy is a disease.

You guys are sanctioning the International Criminal Court, just saying

I think they call them customers, to be honest.

That’s what I love about my native Hungarian, even pronouns are ungendered.

Everything else is stupid complicated though. We have tonal harmony to worry about instead.

It’s pretty normal to need different ID cards to use some services in the EU.

You need student ID for student tickets, on the train if there is a senior or a youth discount they check for ID.

If you are an EU citizen, your ID is valid everywhere in the EU, no passport needed.

Didn’t the US already capitulate?

Putin wasn’t always privileged IIRC. He was a taxi driver at one point, and I also wouldn’t call being a paper-pusher for the KGB a laid back no-stress lifestyle.

I think this is a reserve service, similar to the US national guard as opposed to the army.

Couldn’t we buy from Taiwan? Or better yet, build our own devices with Taiwanese processors. It’s much harder to spy if the supplied components are simpler and the device is opaque to them but transparent to us.

It just came out recently that wealthy Americans and Russians came to the Balkans during the Yugoslav war to hunt and kill civilians for fun.