144 million is greater than 38 million
Even that understates the disparity. Ukraine certainly doesn't have 38 million now anymore and i highly doubt they had that much in February 2022 either. Their last census was over twenty years ago IIRC.
144 million is greater than 38 million
Even that understates the disparity. Ukraine certainly doesn't have 38 million now anymore and i highly doubt they had that much in February 2022 either. Their last census was over twenty years ago IIRC.
Either works.
Ah, i see another location has just become "strategically unimportant".
I used to think otherwise but as i've grown older i've come to understand that most of the time the only way that people learn that the stove is hot is by burning their fingers. China's going to need to get burned quite a few times, just like Russia and Iran, before they really understand who they're dealing with. Honestly the only country that has always understood exactly who the West is and how one must deal with them is the DPRK. Everyone else has to learn the hard way, sometimes many times over.
I’ve seen people accuse him of being a Russian propagandist
If you've never been accused of being a Russian/Chinese propagandist, you're doing something wrong.
It can feel that way because stimulants increase your heart rate. What size was it? I'd strongly advise against drinking an entire large can at once. When it comes to caffeine i find that less is more. I dilute my coffee with plenty of milk and when i do have energy drinks (though i generally try to avoid them) i will water them down in a 50-50 ratio.
The culture war has broken a lot of brains but the key to undoing that is to appeal to people's class interests. They may not consciously understand those interests but they instinctively feel them. They are looking for validation and explanation, but unfortunately oftentimes they will turn to conspiracy theories, identity politics and other forms of magical thinking for answers. Our task is to provide them a real, materialist explanation, but do so not in a condescending way (the most ineffectual way to do class consciousness raising propaganda is to talk to people in the kind of smug, accusatory, "better-than-you" way that liberals do) but in a way that makes them feel seen and feel that their material woes are being taken seriously.
That is completely understandable. It's impossible as a normal empathetic person to watch what is happening and not feel deeply affected.
They are incapable of comprehending the concept of two sovereign countries that aren't in an overlord-vassal relationship and also aren't enemies, because those are the only ways that the US relates to other countries.
It's pure virtue signaling. Russophobes competing among themselves who can do the stupidest PR stunt to "stick it to the Russians".
That's their job, to lie with impunity and to convince you to disbelieve your own eyes.