Collatz_problem

Depending on how much money they have.

It's 8% raise every year.

1.615^(1/6) ~ 1.083

More like 75 years ago.

Russian ruling class is full of bootlickers. If America promises them guarantees for their power and wealth, they would betray everything and everyone in an instant. Luckily, American ghouls are too arrogant and dumb for this.

Disinformation age

"I can the better understand the inert blindness and defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant I was". - H. P. Lovecraft.

What is it with westerners and assuming they know more about Japan than actual Japanese people?

You can replace Japan with any non-Western country: China, Russia, Ukraine, India, Palestine.

Ew.

I don't quite understand the significance. Can someone explain?

They understand that to do imperialism efficiently you actually need domestic industry or other countries would just say to fuck off, but tariffs and subsidies are the only tools they have that don't significantly undermine internal power of the capitalist class.

The most idiotic thing about this is that English pronunciation of both Kiev and Kyiv is equally far from both Russian and Ukrainian pronunciation.

Technically true, they both are nearly useless.