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No it had stated goals that were basically about reducing Federal expenditure that was considered wasteful and unnecessary And Musk was brought in because he claimed this would be " easy " Musk made a unexpected mistake of assuming public sector restructuring is the same as private sector restructuring which he had successfully done within his own companies But DOGE had an understandable objective. There are lots of Americans who think the Federal government is bloated and ineffective They just went about it a completely heavy handed and unsustainable way Im not sure why you think it was about Musk's enemies?

The reason why Russia "allows" europeans to protect Ukraine is that they know how little the help of Europe is worth it. We are too slow, too cautious, too much don't want to get involved. We all know that if this peace plan would be put into place, Ukraine will be over.

It was just a means to sabotage Musks enemies, guess they were successful.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/ DOGE has officially closed 8 months early What a disaster, it was hyped and sensationalized and now its over Musk should have stayed in his lane in the private sector, his sojourn into public sector was an unmitigated failure

There isn't really a comparison between the two. BM has literally no detail at all and its only 'enforcement' 'mechanism' is consultation. It's specifically written to avoid committing any of the big players to anything concrete. OTOH, language like "such actions as it deems necessary" is about as explicit as you can get in treaties. It's far more direct and committal than the contemporaneous ANZUS alliance's III/IV/V, for example. And so long as the eventual text includes an article 5 provision and a trigger mechanism ('art 4') it is effectively enforceable, even if it isn't a big T Treaty. If everyone is happy with it- or more realistically, not unhappy enough with it- you could even get it through the UNSC at which point it is to all intents and purposes an actual treaty. Yes, there are various ways it might not work out that way, and yes, even for NATO triggering article 5 does not necessarily mean the invoker gets exactly what they want. But there's literally no treaty anywhere that has literal forced compliance which isn't a surrender document; because in the end countries have the last resort of simply repudiating treaties and obligations whatever they state.

Udo Kier. I guess it's finally done, Yuri.

Proposed peace deal also is not a treaty (as joining to legally binding treaties demand quite long political and legal process in most of the countries and they don't have anyone that has authority to actually sign such deal without parliament vote), but BM like agreement. So if BM does not have any legal merits so does not this proposed peace deal. It is just agreement between countries without anything behind it to enforce it. And so like BM all the signatory countries can just abrogate it when they think they don't feel like it should beholden them. Even though politicians and media speak article 5 like security guarantees, those can't be given in proposed peace deal, because it would actually need Nato like organization behind it to enforce it, which the proposed peace deal says that Ukraine can't be member of. Also article 5 is not that strong guarantee of anything when you go just by the text.

We've done this before, but the BM is not a security guarantee since it isn't a treaty. It has all the legal weight of a new years' resolution. It's also been abrogated by every signatory to some extent- China the least- people just tend to ignore that it 'prevents' western interference in Belarus every bit as much as Russian interference in Ukraine. Article 5 does have legal weight though, which is why the 'article 5 like' usage is important in either document. The EU does actively extend/ renew the sanctions every six months, apart from the 19 packages that have been approved unanimously including one within the last couple of months. That includes Hungary, every time, and Slovakia every time. Orban's position is a lot closer to the old UK one- we want carve outs, to benefit Hungary- than actually being pro Russian. ie if he were pro Russian he'd veto the sanctions, not approve them. It was also the old stridently anti Russian Slovak government that got Slovakia's carve outs, not Fico. They obviously weren't pro Russian; Orban largely makes a convenient scapegoat for the sanctions not being anywhere near as effective as Europe hoped. That does make it beholden on you to show how it would actually be different to now; because per above they both approve sanctions, now. The weapons, I personally kind of agree that that reflects reality. But, at least in theory Europe itself does not agree at all. We get monthly news of supposed modern weaponry deals. 100 Rafales/ SAMPT++ this month, 100 Gripens++ last month, and there was a UK announcement a month before. German IRIST++ before that. Personally, yes, I reckon those deals are pie in the sky for a continent that cannot even spin up artillery production over nearly 4 years. But europe seems to expect people to take them seriosuly at least. (with the caveat that both documents are leaked/ 'leaked' so not definitive, where appropriate)

Same issue: took the Archive solo, after that I try to complete Auntie's Choice missions, it starts dialog with Auntie, but it interrupts. I cannot use HQ elevator, I cannot complete the Order missions - it makes Auntie's Choice aggressive.

Ukraine did have security guarantees from USA, UK and Russia also later on France and China promised to guarantee it borders as part of deal stop all nuclear weapon research. But any way it will be much more difficult to put sanctions and give weapons in future by European nations. Europe's political climate has changed from 2022 and support for EU level sanctions has dropped and also EU's Russia supporting block has got new members, in 2022 there was only Hungary, now there is also Slovakia, and in Czech the new prime minister Babis is not keen to put sanctions on Russia. Weapons are also much more difficult question now, for now EU countries have mostly given weapons from their old stock piles, but with modern weaponry countries have mostly said that they don't want to escalate the conflict. So in possible future conflict support is less certain and in case where USA is reluctant to offer support, then support that you can except from European Nato members, maybe next to nothing if security guarantees that they need to offer aren't clearly spelled out in the peace deal.

Fun game: replace every instance of Ukraine in that plan with Palestine. Does make you wonder if the whole point of that proposal is to make Euro politicians feel good about themselves. Doesn't even have the advantage of 'standing firm' or whatever, since it's notably worse for Ukraine than their previous 'proposals' that have been floated. I do rather like the blatant Trump sops though. Freeze along current lines- except Trump gets the energy infrastructure held by Russia.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/23/leaked-europe-rival-peace-plan-ukraine-full-russia-war/ European plan, that seems like a lead balloon

That's more than a little overstated. Ukraine demonstrably got 2/3 of the things listed without any security guarantee other than the BM, if you count that. They'd get the same, at least, again.

I'm trying to complete the Stabbing at Shadows companion quest for Aza but both the main door and the secret side door say "The door is barred Shut". I've tried reloading saves, leaving the planet and returning, and restarting the game but I can no longer finish this quest now.

I completed all the tasks on the space station, but Tristan doesn't spawn on the ship to debrief with. The quest marker has him located 2m under the floor in the engine room under the ladder. This reddit post explains it exactly:

As it is, it does not provide any security guarantee, as it gives any signatory country to decide how they will help in case Ukraine is invaded. No troops, no weapons, no sanctions, nothing concrete is promised and as it also means that Ukraine can't join any military alliance not accepted by Russia it will most likely give even less security than guarantees given in Budapest Memorandum.

The "Accelerated Bursts" mod for Heavy Machine Gun increases its ADS damage by 25% (multiplicative bonus) in addition to increasing the rate of fire. The mod description doesn't mention this; plus, there's a typo - "... changes the weapon's aim down sight MORE to a 3 round burst." The same mod for Light Pistol & Bio-Mass pistol works correctly — i.e., it changes the fire mode without increasing the damage.

She did that with anything that was in her range. I think I oneshot the final boss (well oneshot the stages of the final boss)... Fun times.

Same here, bugged troophy, along with the one requiring characters leave or die. Annoying as I’ve got most of the rest, please fix.

Big drama this morning following from claims that Sec. Rubio personally told several senators the plan came from the Russians and is their wish list. Then, the State Dept issued an unusually strong rebuttal claiming what the senators were saying is "blatantly false." Rubio himself also said in a social media post the senators had "got him wrong," and that the plan is a US-authored plan taking into account input from both the Russians and Ukrainians. Then the Ukrainians said they had never been consulted on the plan and only saw its details when it was presented to them a few days ago as a take-it-or-leave-it plan, with a threat of an end to US support if they refused to accept it. Personally, I think the issue here is that Rubio is increasingly finding himself in a bind. He is the one guy (along with Wittkof, and that's why he has already announced he is quitting in January) in the Administration who is principled, and is unhappy with constantly having to go against his own principles in order to be a loyal team player within the Administration. That's what's playing out here, and I expect Rubio will call it quits pretty soon. The only reason he's stayed this long is because he gave up a very good and secure senate seat to take this job, and will now find himself without an alternative political career path for him. I did also see an Axios report providing more details of the deal. It does include a provision that explicitly says the US and European states will provide a security guarantee to Ukraine "equivalent to NATO's Article 5 guarantee." That, at least, is something. But for me, including in my capacity as an international security academic, the provisions limiting Ukraine's military size and weapons, and barring European states from deploying troops inside Ukraine are the truly bad provisions. The territorial concessions. as despicable as they are, cannot at this stage be avoided, because it is indisputable that Ukraine is losing and the Russians are winning on the battlefield.

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As @omgFIREBALLS already said: the fight is winnable without any DLC content. If you wait too long it might even feel too easy. Single target damage dealers like Rogues, Fighters, Paladins (unless they already have Sacred Immolation), Rangers etc. are not as useful in this battle because there will be so many enemies and targeting single enemies isn't as effective as targeting many. Although they can use spellbinding gear and scrolls of course. A high accuracy Fighter with good INT and MIG, equipped with Rotfinger Gloves for example is nice. Should you have a Rogue with Deathblows and high Lore then make sure a bunch of enemies suffers two afflictions that unlock Deathblows and then use a damaging AoE scroll (non-DoT) or spellbinding (Taluntain's Staff for Fireballs for example) with him: Deathblows will grant +100% dmg to those spells. AoE is king here, so bringing Wizard (Chillfog, Walls, Combusting Wounds, Kalakoth's Minor Blights + Blast/Citzal's Spirit Lance), Priest (Shining Beacon), Chanter (Dragon Thrashed), Druid (Relentless Storm, Overbearing Wave) and Cipher (see below) are good. Especially Ciphers can shine here because there's so many weak enemies to farm focus from - and then turning it into AoE CC and damage. Ring Leader or Amplified Wave are excellent tools in this fight (if you already have access to them). Monks with Torment's Reach and high INT as well as an Overseeing item are also very effective since it's easy to hit a lot of enemies at once. And it's also easy to get wounds... Barbarians can have good effect with an overbearing or stunning weapon and high INT - and if they already have Blood Thirst it should be a field day for them due to the many weaker enemies which will allow to proc Bloodlust and Blood Thirst often. If you have Heart of Fury already then combine it with a Wizard's Combusting Wounds and a dual weapon setup.

It's just not the final offer because everyone was crapping on it. If we are honest, this was the same offer as all the times before, nothing changed.

Without White March factions helping you, you only have one option during the event yes, and that's using whatever Defiance Bay faction supports you to take out the berserkers. Outside of the battle itself, you can improve your odds by hiring better mercenaries (costs 10k) and killing Captain Emery. Trying to get her to join your cause is pointless as far as the battle goes - she will only do it if you're already winning anyway. You can take the battle whenever you want though. You can wait until level 12 if you like. The game won't punish you for stalling. I've never used the WM options - you can certainly win without having every advantage possible. Besides, WM1 + WM2 equal higher level cap, more loot, more abilities, etc. There are so many ways they can make this battle (and other base game content) easier without involving the scripted options. I wouldn't imply some nefarious P2W scheme here