Aqarius

There were no (or only very few) cold warriors in the EU

Glances at the Baltics...

The point is, the "new cold war" crowd is imagining it invariably between "the west" and "the east", with them being inherently "the west"(it's why they instantly fell back on the old 'asiatic hordes' language). In actuality, the only reason the original cold war was between the Yanks and the SU was that Europe kneecapped itself twice in a row, and the vacuum left was filled by "the west" (US) and "the east" (USSR), and Europe split between them.

Before the Wars, you had, for example, the absolutist, profoundly religious Russian Empire ally with the secular French Republic against the Germans, because for all their differences neither could allow Germany to dominate the other, because they would be next. Meanwhile, you had the Austrians join their direct rival Germany and their ancient enemy Ottomans in an effort to contain Russia, for the same reason. Consequently, if you, now, have a severely weakened Russia, and a united Europe that is now rebuilding it's military and attempting to break away from US dominance, it wouldn't be that much of a surprise for the US to try and bolster Russia to counter a resurgent Europe - much to the disappointment of NAFO mouthbreathers.

Incidentally, now that I think about it, it's kind of a part of how WW1 started, IIRC: Kaiser Willy started a massive naval buildup, in his mind, against Japan, and was completely shocked when King Eddie took it entirely the wrong way...

> Looks inside

> Unreadable gibberish

I love it.

I fiuly agree. In fact, I have a multi-step suggestion:

In Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet.

The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

Not even stronger, per se, just strong enough. What the overeager cold warriors in the EU miss is that Russia isn't big enough to be the new Soviet Union... but the EU is.

Bob Altmeier makes the argument that it's not that they can't think, it's that they were taught not to. It helps reduce conflict when the people above you get things wrong.

Finally! A US political maneuver that actually came from Putin's playbook!

Yeah, no, I don't care what your flavor of crankdom is, not biting.

Look, I don't know what exact word game you're trying to play here, or why you're spamming this exact comment evey time someone uses the word "neoliberal", and to be perfectly honest I don't care. But if you're gonna pick a concept to be in denial of, I'd pick one without a wikipedia page.

I trust Dr. Pangloss of the neoliberal order to present his argument in a factual way that does not mention his links with Epstein.

Considering the make-work program that is the US editorial section important conversation is how the Overton window got as narrow as it is.

Yeah, this is the correct take, I feel.

The Pearl Harbour part is a message made to be understandable for Americans. That's why it's in English. If they were giving it to Putin, the reaction would be the same, except the banner would be in Russian, and be about something else. And yes, the braindead "Russian sphere of influence" take every idiot has on here about a country they know less than nothing about earns you a downvote fair and square.

The problem is neither him, nor America. The problem is the building is protected architecture, doubly so for it's history, and has been illegally offered to Kushner as a gift, to try and get the deeply unpopular government into the good graces of the Trump regime. It's a story of a traitor selling off the country piecemeal to foreign powers so he could cling on to power.

Not everything in the world revolves around the latest US boogeyman.