FortifiedAttack

A 50/50 split to leave the EU is totally terrible, but a 50/50 split to join the EU is completely fine.

As for what NATO will do,well,I suspect we'll find out during Trump's second term that NATO is now a tiered subscription service and that, conveniently enough,Eastern European nations don't get the full premium package,but something like the Ukrainian subscription plan.

I've been expecting this for a while now. No way they are going to treat countries like Estonia on the same level as Germany, France and the UK.

Makes me want a Gollum emote

I love seeing NAFOs get mad at NATO for being less unhinged than them.

It's so funny, like a little doggie uselessly barking its heart out at its owner. Is that why they use these crumpled up dog avatars?

I'm lovin' it

The Ukrainians were warned that Russia was mobilising. But the Ukrainians, let's be honest, were fighting among themselves. The Ukrainian [politics] were deeply corrupt and I don't think they took the threat very seriously. So when the attack did come, it came as a big shock.

The Russians also believe that the Donbas region is Russian, because so many people there speak Russian, want to be Russian.

He knows that the Donbas region let the Russians in to help them fight the civil war. He's just playing stupid. He knows exactly what's going on here.

They are paranoid and they always will be because they think the West is technically better and richer.

The definition of

The way this downplays then fearmongers, then downplays then fearmongers again is just a trip on its own.

That's because he knows exactly what the truth actually is, and he's doing a very bad job pretending to be stupid.

He knows exactly what's going on here.

We can imagine him saying to the Russians: 'Ok, now you have a piece of Ukraine east of the Dnieper River, and I have a piece of Russia.' He knows that the only possible end for Ukraine is negotiations. There's not going to be a big victory over Russia, forget it.

But Zelensky knows that when the peace treaty comes and there will be peace talks, he has something to sell to Russia to balance Russia's claim to the Donbas.

They are so behind on their narrative switch that they are rolling this out at a time when Russia has already recaptured all sections of Kursk except Sudzha. They won't manage to hold the territory until the end of the year, let alone until any negotiations actually take place.

And a month after Ukraine is driven out of Kursk, this Bratwurst Brain is going to come out claiming that the real goal of the Kursk operation was always to inflict mass casualties on the Russians all along, a statement impossible to disprove by anyone since there's no accurate, unbiased information on casualties, let alone information that Westeners would actually believe.

Now that genocide has been normalized, there's nothing preventing liberals from bringing it home. Personally, I'm expecting homeless eradication squads next.

Nope.

I think the news mega is a good indicator -- as long as 99% of the links to "Twitter-like" social media sites are still Twitter links, then it isn't being replaced any time soon.

People were predicting the imminent doom of the site 2 years ago, and yet despite all the actions Musk has taken to worsen its chances of survival, it just keeps going.

And if Trump ends up returning to it, it might bounce back from the sheer attention he draws.

Finally I can begin flushing beer out of my doo doo ass like a champion. This is what I always dreamed of.

He'd win the popular vote and it would be president Bagger Vance