Malcador

In day to day life dealing with individuals sure is corrosive and so on. Assuming diplomats and politicians are full of crap when they complain of injustice and speak of morality (highlight was the British official saying how dare a P5 member attack a smaller nation), not really. I've seen that enough in my brief time on this Earth. As for self loathing, what the **** are you on about ? As people told me when this war started, there are geopolitically revelant places and irrelevant ones, which was I getting at with my reply to Gfted1. Well complicated in that the situation needs explaining. See Yemen, Tigray, Myanmar.

Can never be too cynical when it comes to state's motivations for things. The people in those states probably even more so.

Well not all, freedom and democracy for those we need for money. The rest are too complicated so, who cares.

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/financial-war-and-its-discontents Speaking of the assets.

I don't think they will. Ukraine'll just have to suckle on the EU and US teat for a while.

How so ?

Pretty much. For some strange reason a lot of people in the West don't accept that as reality.

I am honestly surprised they're not calling for that - people already hate Qatar as host due to human rights (skeptical most people claiming that actually give a toss), timing (whiny Euros) or not being able to drink or something. Maybe should also make Zelensky the head of state of every country.

I don't see how it isn't - Ukraine had their chance to qualify as every other nation did and failed, so their wanting (ok, is just some clown from Shakhtar Donetsk) is whining and feeling entitled to getting in.

Waste of skin, really.

All we need now is Scooter to provide the soundtrack.

What poor young woman has he roped in, I wonder.

"The Barberini Museum said later Sunday that because the painting was enclosed in glass, the mashed potatoes didn't cause any damage." Meh.

Kicking Iran out is one thing, randomly giving to Ukraine because they whine is another. I guess it should be the UAE as they are next in line from that Confederation ?

Yep. But who knows, maybe they'll change the rules

Election in the city, sort of don't care as the mayor's not powerful and the city council doesn't have much power in the first place. Still amazed at the random cranks that show up. Will still go vote though, excuse to leave work for a bit.

EVE Online is the coziest game.

Tangential but an amusing bit of entitlement -

Israel bombed a drone factory the Iranians were operating in Syria. This is the rule based international order, right ? But at the least maybe that'll make people stop bashing Israel for not backing Ukraine to the hilt.

Also, can be poor maintenance combined with stress of wartime. Not quite sure it's worth the leap to Ukrainian saboteurs and such.

OW2 isn't all that fun, some tanks seem really OP. In a low ELO as well, as usual, so trying to be a healer when everyone's off being the MC in their own video game is an exercise in futility. Spent more time in Farthest Frontier, got to town hall level 3 so can make beer and such (I generate gold ingots from the pubs...but not really sure where the gold ingots are coming from, to be honest).

Know this truth - you have driven me to this.

Voronezh and Rostov are safe once more.

Getting the grandkid scammers calling me a lot this week. Should try to screw with them next time they call