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Its been pretty obvious for a long time that peaceful reunification is unlikely under current conditions and public desire for it is just being used as leverage. Every decade that rolls by the two nations move further apart culturally and economically, and the number of people who remember a unified Korea shrink.

One hour of surveillance a day, but you never know which hour it will be.

And not even the common courtesy of an off base Camaro with a custom exhaust at 60% APR? Savages.

Well I mean if Putin wants you gone he doesn’t need a rule to permit it, but his sort of law is about pushing that oppressive power down to lower levels of the chain. You dont need to catch the attention of anyone important, you can be oppressed by an anonymous low level clerk on a power trip.

I think its mostly just how thin his skin is and how hes publicising these events. Usually with a VIP political figure addressing the troops the big concern is physical security. They know full well that ~50% of the people in the room hate their guts, and they are totally ok with and used to that. They also know everyone will at least keep their mouth shut if they disagree.

They kind of have to. They can order to them to stand there for the speech and to cheer at the end, but there are a lot of ways to interpret that order. Better to hand pick people who want to be there, rather than deal with a bunch of sarcastic soldiers trying to make their displeasure known on camera.

Wait, Im confused. Which ones the hyper capitalist and which ones the fascist?

Probably not. Russia’s motives dont stem from a communications failure. They stem from predatory imperialist intent, and they arnt scared of the EU or Canada.

Only legally. If he was angling for a pardon the story would be he was a heroic innocent alpha male wrongly convicted by a woke liberal California court trying to silence him because of democrat feminism Obama.

In two generations well probably be banging rocks together in a irradiated hellscape and Ill hopefully be long dead.

Creating an enduring positive legacy takes effort, and neither Jobs or Bezos really made an attempt. Guys like Musk and Gates are making that effort and are likely to be remembered, although I think its pretty unlikely Musk will ever be able to restore a positive connotation to his name.

You know their name. Just about everyone reading your comment knows their names as well. Further, when most people hear their names the first thing that pops into their head is something positive and prestigious, not the awful things they did to make their fortunes. Many of their descendants are still wealthy and powerful to this day. It doesn’t really make much difference if people spend time looking at their portraits.

I dont think its even the money with these guys. They want worship and adulation, and MAGA is primed to do it. All the worst megalomaniacs are drawn to them like moths to a flame.

I doubt he ever knew that.

You arent wrong. Obamas great sin wasnt the tan suit, it was playing defense against Russia. It doest matter how strong you are or how weak your enemy is, if they only need to land one lucky shot to win you cant let them shoot indefinately without firing back. Then Biden made the same mistake…and here we are.

Everyone is calm because any analyst worth the name should have seen this coming since November, and its far too late to stop at this point.

I dont know why Europe didnt start rearming eight years ago, but now they are going to suffer for that oversight.

Its just a half assed plan. His leverage all comes from being head of the executive branch of the richest and post powerful country on Earth. Making that institution dysfunctional and unpopular only weakens his position.

Oh yea, they did such a great job last time.

Yea I dont think anyone is going to enjoy the “find out” phase of this one. Maybe Putin, if he lives that long.