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US : Saves USSR from Germans with Lend Lease US : Destroy all German production by bombing campaign and make Luffwaffe lose air superiority US : After WW2, convince Churchil to not launch Operation Unthinkable, to accept Yalta 2.0 US : Pressures Europeans to make Operation Keelhaul which killed 2 million people US : Gives a lot of German prisoners to USSR including Erich Hartmann US : Does nothing when soviet union starts developing nukes US : During the cold war, prevent at least 20 countries from getting nukes US : As soon as USSR collapses after spending decades subverting and trying to destroy the US, give huge sums of aid to RU US : Pressures Ukraine to not declare independence(Bush) US : Pressures Ukraine to denuclearize in exchange of security guarantees threatening to put diehard sanctions and even invade Ukraine. US : Pressures Ukraine to not try to take Crimea by force and sign Minsk agreements after RU broke its promises. RU on state TV : Nuke the US because they dared to refuse Yalta 2.0 in 2021!!! Russia only exists and has a nuclear monopoly in Eastern Europe thanks to the US. Insulting me, rate spamming me wouldn't change that reality. Memorial or not, be sincere. Do you take numbers from a the Unicorn country that preaches that their dear leader don't poop seriously? Yes or no? False. When one country leaves NPT, is easy to invade or sanction him. When you have dozens among the most developed economies in the world leaving the NPT, you can't do that. Non nuclear countries are not happy with RU actions. People love to think that Ukraine doesn't really see Russia as an existential threat. People asked Arthur Rehi if he doesn't fear Russian nukes. He said that he fears much more being dominated by Russia than its nukes. Making a analogy, one thing is a thug with a gun towards a disarmed person demanding his cellphone. Now, if the thug wants to drag that person into a torture basement, that person would consider living under the Thug rules as worse and threatening to shoot him wouldn't work. ____________________________ Even if Ukraine loses this war. What you think that will happen? That Zelensky (or a successor) signs → Ukrainian society meekly complies, nationalists disarm, oligarchs self-sabotage their defense assets, decommunization laws vanish, and everyone accepts the Russian historical narrative. I think that would happen: The greatest refugee crisis of human history. A Karelia evacuation scenario across the whole Ukraine. Farmers are salting their crops before leaving, and houses are burned to not allow Russians and Central Asians to settle in before Ukrainians enter evacuation trains and ships. The Ukrainian government moves to Warsaw. Laws across multiple countries giving residency to every Ukrainian that defects, similar to how the US had towards Cubans till Obama ended it. Defense assets transferred to Poland. Many NPT countries will reconsider their non-nuclear status. In South Korea, since the 2022 invasion, over 80% of its population is in favor of SK developing nukes. If the US + China + RU will maintain NPT working is another discussion. A cool video about it : Ukraine did tried to do it in the past. Sadly didn't had resources to do so.

Do you really, really takes NORTH KOREAN numbers seriously? ______ I do think that the west has a bit of fault in this war. If, in the moment that RU occupied Crimea, Japan, South Korea, Argentina, Germany, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, etc., announced that they would reconsider their membership in NPT, unless aggression towards a non nuclear state is severely punished and SWIFT ban tier sanctions were enforced back in 2014, alongside western forces deployed in the deoccupied Ukraine to dissuade aggression, RU wouldn't ever plan a full-scale invasion.

Just curious. Pillars of Eternity is such rich and interesting setting, with lots of interesting lore, Gods and factions. Considering the success of the survival craft game, games with relative low budget like Windrose, Soulmask and etc making huge profits. Many assets from Avowed could be used and there is packets that allow building and resource gathering on engines relative easy I do believe that in terms of ROI, a survival craft game that plkays like Windrose BUT with Pillars of Eternity iconic abilities would be great.

I will try to solo Pillars 1 as a Cipher. Thanks for the update. Any chance of bringing Deadfire subclasses into 1 too?

Most of the new recruits aren't volunteers. But no way does Ukraine have a 100% KIA ratio; I doubt that it is 10%, considering how we have over a thousand Brazilians fighting for Ukraine and only 22 confirmed dead (src in pt). Hence, there are a lot of people that have fought against Russia since 2014. And near all of the Azov leadership, Andriy Biletsky and Denis Prokopenko are alive, and they do command a lot of people that see Ukraine getting any pro-RU government as a one-way ticket to a show trial and life sentence in a gulag, like happened with many Azovstal defenders. They and a lot of wealthy people would never accept any form of "Ukraine defenseless" and note that this ends up bankrupting nations. The problem is that Russian demands NEVER lead to realistic peace. Less harsh demilitarization and humiliation radicalized all of Germany, economists like Keynes warned. Note that Versailles didn't want to force Germans to worship people that genocided Germans, like Moscow wants to force Ukrainians to allow Soviet symbols. Didn't wanted to ban Germany for having stuff like "pipe missiles".

Disagreed. The skill tree is too simplistic. Wizards in Deadfire, only counting the 1st, 2nd and 3rd tier spells have more spells than all Wizard spells in Avowed. That said, you can have a priest and choose a domain by once spending points, seeing a "list" of domains.

What do you guys think would be the most pro-Russian deal that Ukrainian leadership might accept? I'm not talking about what is acceptable for the average tankie/vatnik or defeatist that takes Mr. Cringeface, Willy AOM, and other analysts that make more false apocalyptic predictions than doomsday prophets. The deal must be acceptable for guys that command forces like Denys Prokopenko and Fire Point investors, not online tankies. My guess: an absolute NO. They would not accept even if Kyiv were encircled(ie - any of this demands would require not only total military victory but also ongoing occupation) : Destroy the defense base of Ukraine and unilaterally break ties with all western investors. Crippling disarmament is incredibly destabilizing even for countries less militarized than Ukraine. It would bankrupt not only the defense sector but also engine companies(Motor Sich, Luch)and cascade into mass bankruptions. Legalization of commie symbols and forcing pro-Soviet historical revisionism onto Ukrainians Russian language is the official language in WHOLE Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of battle-hardened veterans unemployed due to a worse-than-Versailles army cap Russia with control over Ukraine's constitution and foreign relations. What Ukraine might accept: A ceasefire at current borders plus referendums in Dongabe with votes counted by a third party, not by Russia Russian language as an official language in the regions that voted for Yuri Boyko in the last election. Removing the NATO bid in exchange for security guarantees that are not Budapest Memorandum tier. Like UN peacekeeping forces. Anything more pro RU than this and not even besieging Kyiv would grant it to Russia. Russia would need to maintain a costly full occupation for anything involving the "absolute NO"

Priest would be great too. Mainly if don't come only with healing.

So sad that they took away so many cool stuff. Honestly, I would pay AAA price for Cipher abilities.

Again, every country inflate enemy loses in war. And is not " without actual evidence, let alone proof", is corroborated by Russians themselves. Murz got "suicided" once he admitted taking heavy loses. And by satellite images and video footage. That said, Colombians, the ones who are deployed often to the most dangerous areas of the frontlines have roughly 10% KIA.

Again. By the 1515616855311653156156516th time. Is not a reliable metric as RU throws a lot of Russians and say that are Ukrainians, some clearly Buryat, a ethnic group very rare in Ukraine. Visual confirmation, satellite images and reports is much more reliable. ___________ What bugs me is the following. Lavrov understands that USA demands towards Iran are nothing but a pipedream and will probably backfire ( https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-says-it-has-seen-no-evidence-that-iran-was-developing-nuclear-weapons-2026-03-03/ ), yet, with Ukraine, somehow even worse demands. Demanding a much more crippling disarmament, demanding much more cultural impositions, in language, holidays and even street names, demanding the same level of control which a empire has towards a colony but without a costly occupation force, is somehow "essential and justified". Some vatniks even call it generous. It is ridiculous how selectively blind Russians higher ups are... Just like the US would need a very costly occupation and destabilizing occupation to enforce Trump demands, Russia would need a very costly and destabilizing occupation.

Again, Zopartor, the side that retreats has more harder time to recover bodies and RU throws Russian bodies in this exchanges. _________________ The US could lift sanctions on more Russian oil, says Bessent.https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/us-lift-sanctions-russian-oil-bessent/ The US says Russia sanctions relief is 'temporary.'https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-insights/latest-market-news/2797644-us-says-russia-sanctions-relief-is-temporary Last year, Russia had to sell oil at $40USD/bbl and spend resources bypassing sanctions. Now they can sell at nearly two and a half times last year's price without sanctions. For those who don't underestimate how significant it is, imagine that you get half your income from work and half from investments or landlordism. Imagine that before, you were struggling a bit to pay your bills but not close to bankruptcy. Now, you got a 3x wage increase. That is basically what happened to Russia. I wound't be surprised if they leave negotiations or demand something much, much worse than what Witkoff demanded. Among the most "propagandists" pro-Ukrainian that I follow, near everyone is celebrating US strikes on Iran. The best analysts, like Anders Puck, worry about this war's impact on oil prices, supply chain strain of interceptor missiles, normalization of crippling demands, destabilization of the Middle East, among other variables. He also criticizes the US for having too vague and extreme objectives and no strategy on how to get them.

Romances tends to be very shallow. IMO, the unique game that did romances right is Mount & Blade. IE - is pure "political" and alliance based marriage among nobles.

Russian posts from 4 years ago. Aged like milk. State media saying that Ukrainians where surrendering on mass. And that they lost in 1h23m.

“Afraid to show their society”: Moscow blocks online war casualty database that names Russia’s deadhttps://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/13/moscow-blocks-online-war-casualty-database-that-names-russias-dead/ Note : 156,000 dead, 96,000 wounded is only what is verified, with name, surname, cause of death, location of death. The real numbers are much, much bigger because is impossible to categorize so thirdly all loses.