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Elerond
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4 hours ago, BruceVC said:
I am sure it was the UK who were the first who created property rights and also separated Church from state control ?
State where head of state is leader of state's official church?
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5 hours ago, Gorth said:
I suppose people call the US a republic because the people are not actually electing their leaders, but their representatives (and the representatives then appoint leaders for the people)? A question better asked of US citizens I guess, they would know better than I.
Funny thing about 'Republic, not a Democracy' is that it means that people feel that country is either oligarchy or autocracy with mix of democracy. Or maybe they just think that it does not feel like democracy but they know they aren't ruled by monarch, like for example Republic of Bureaucracy (Rule by a system of governance with many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials)
As Republic is form of government where primary positions of power are either appointed through democracy or mix of democracy and oligarchy or autocracy and most important thing is that the head of the state is not monarch.
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1 hour ago, Mamoulian War said:
Around the Moskva, there are slowly emerging rumours, that it might have carried Nuclear Missiles. Anyone here with a good knowledge into naval military stuff, who can do some theorycrafting, how plausible this statement might be?
It carried two types of ballistic missiles that have nuclear warhead variants. But It is unlikely that they have wasted storage base for ammunition that they aren't planning to use.
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1 hour ago, Gorth said:
Definitely not if they harbour some ambitions of joining the EU some day in the future. Won’t happen without Germany’s consent
I am pretty sure that Ukraine will not able to join as long as Hungary is member
11 minutes ago, Chilloutman said:hah with you Green party you are moving more and more to the left. I think they have huge gains in last what 10? years.
Two big misunderstandings about of European green parties are that they are left wing and that they support green energy.
As members of Greens are mostly urban capitalists, and their membership has higher percentage of private entrepreneurs than your typical economic conservative right wing parties. They also usually don't oppose fossil fuels even though they say that prefer renewable energy, but they are anti nuclear energy in their core, as protesting against nuclear energy was the thing that created 'green' movement .
As urban citizen they understandably are more interested of mass transits than private motoring.
Liberal societal views and refugee issues have made green parties become closer with modern left wing parties, even though their views of economy don't match, because their traditional right wing allies have started to take much more conservative stances.
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6 hours ago, Sarex said:
Even if Russia somehow lost this completely and there was a regime change in the country, who would invest trillions of dollars in to Ukraine?
USA has those hundreds of billions of Russian money they froze to give Ukraine
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45 minutes ago, 213374U said:
It's a muddy mess. Technically, no war has been declared, so what's the legal standing?
Technically all Russian soldiers in Ukraine are terrorists/murderers/other form criminals who aren't protected by any laws governing soldiers in war.
EDIT: But because most of world considers it as war they would be treated like they are soldiers in international courts and get protection from most acts that are done because they were commanded to do what they have done
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1 hour ago, Sarex said:
Twitter is so easy way to spread propaganda with only very few ever to check facts
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1 hour ago, Lexx said:
How big is the actual difference between being a generic POW and anything else in russia? Not a bait question, I'm genuinely curious.
If you are foreign mercenary you are most likely treated better as Russia will more likely use you in their propaganda
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2 hours ago, Chairchucker said:
Apparently France has preferential voting so they can still vote for their favourites and just preference Macron before Le Pen
EDIT: I'm wrong, you need an absolute majority and if not you vote again, weird
They use two phase election, in first phase there can be any number of candidates and if no one gets over 50% of vote then there will be second election where people vote between top 2 from first vote.
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25 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
" Carbon credits and Carbon Colonialism "
Sadly they aren't jokes.
Carbon credits were meant to be capitalistic way to steer companies to greener tech, but ability to buy credits from less developed countries is lead to situation where they just increase total emissions, because companies get credits so cheap that they don't have any incentive the switch greener techs and seller country uses money to support industry that uses fossil energy
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15 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
@Elerond were you aware of this?
yes
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6 hours ago, Zoraptor said:
Neither side constantly flies near civilian aircraft, it's rare enough to get some comment when it happens non incidentally. .
It is quite regular, which is why Finland rises Baltic Air space safety issue every time they have meeting with Russia, USA or NATO.
It is just not seen as issue by anyone else, except when they use it in their propaganda.
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12 minutes ago, Sarex said:
I mean, I'm unsure what you wanted to say with that statement, but ok. They invaded a bunch of countries too if that makes a difference.
I haven't seen them doing that with EU passenger planes. They were baiting another MH17.
They do it for Finland's Estonia's, Latvia's Germany's, passenger planes every month.
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1 hour ago, Sarex said:
NATO is bat**** crazy. They flew a eurofighter or some similar variant under a Serbian passenger plane near the Russia/Latvia border. The Russian asked the Serbian pilot to id the aircraft below it, after which the NATO fighter withdrew. Just in case anyone here wants to think there are actually any good guys in this whole mess... The **** they are willing the orchestrate to suit their needs...
Isn't that normal in Baltic sea area, both Russian and Nato military planes are constantly flying close by of civilian planes and violating air spaces of countries where they don't have authorization of flying. And they also often fly their transponders turned off so that civilian planes have hard time to detect them.
Such has been norm in that area over 20 years now.
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45 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
That is interesting, is that why some Finns aligned with the Nazis and had their own SS units ?
SS units were part of deal to get arms from Germany
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8 hours ago, ComradeYellow said:
*cough* This kind of rhetoric is similar to that of the Nazi's after the Winter War, hindsight is 20/20 but at the time the Germans were so confident that the Russian army was weak and inept after Winter War that it was the underlying motive to launch Barbarossa the way they did.
Just because Russians have a history of inept invasions doesn't mean they can't defend themselves if attacked
Finland almost added 50% to territory in beginning of Continuation War. But mainly Finnish forces stopped to Finnish borders before 1939.
One of main reason why Finland didn't continue to Leningrad and didn't destroy railways that supplied sieged Leningrad was that UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand declared war to Finland and USA started to supply USSR and threatened to declare war to Finland if Finland doesn't stop it attack against USSR. Which lead to Finland to move defend its territory.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/world/europe/bucha-ukraine-bodies.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
It seems that Russians for some reason let Ukraine/US framing/decor teams to set up scenes of civilian massacre weeks beforehand as it is seen in satellite images that shows the
propbodies on Bucha's streets for weeks (appeared in images between 9th to 11th of March)-
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Ukraine accuses Russian using very terrorist like tactics
QuoteUkraine’s attorney general is gathering a dossier of claims about the Russian use of local children to avoid fire when in retreat from around Ukraine’s capital and elsewhere.
Coaches of children were said to have been placed in front of tanks in the village of Novyi Bykiv, close to the encircled city of Chernihiv, 100 miles north of Kyiv.
It was further alleged that children had been taken as hostages in a number of conflict hot spots around the country to ensure locals would not give the coordinates of the enemy’s movements to the Ukrainian forces.
“Cases of using children as cover are recorded in Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia oblasts [regions],” said Lyudmila Denisova, Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman.
Colonel Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, spokesman for Ukraine’s ministry of defence, said the cases were being investigated by the country’s attorney general, but he was unable to provide further details. He said: “Enemies have been using Ukrainian children as a living shield when moving their convoys, moving their vehicles.
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15 minutes ago, Darkpriest said:
Hmm, i thought it was, they buy RUB at the bank and pay with them. Flow is similar but the FX risk is at a different party.
Scheme is that buyers pay to Gazprombank , which then exchanges euros/dollars to rubles and puts them for buyer's ruble account where the payment is forwarder to seller (so usually Gazprom). Idea is that because contract prices are in euros/dollars, then if rubles value crashes during payment process which can take over week, buyers need to pay more.
EDIT: which is probably unacceptable for Germany and France at least, so there is quite big possibility that they stop buying gas from Russia tomorrow.
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22 minutes ago, Darkpriest said:
So it happened.
April's Fools tomorrow... Lets see what happens over weekend.
Although they actually demand that buyers pay with euros and dollars to Gazprombank which then uses that money to buy rubles.
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2 minutes ago, Malcador said:
It is funny how everything they say remains gospel
Ah ok, was searching at 0100 without my glasses for the Russian equivalent of the B61 but nothing came to mind.
At least Kh-15, Kh-55 and Kh-59 are lighter Soviet/Russian air to surface missiles that have tactical nuclear warhead version
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3 hours ago, xzar_monty said:
While I have zero sympathy for the Russian side in this war and believe in nothing it says, it is also true that this particular cruelty has been a part of nearly every war, whenever it's been possible. This strategy is very, very old.
You should read how it was quite different level on Soviet army
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Russian are reportedly using Soviet era strategy against civilian women
1 hour ago, Malcador said:Was that confirmed? Article I saw earlier said Swedish military hadn't yet. - https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppgifter-ryska-planen-var-karnvapenbestyckade
Granted, had to rely on translation site. Honestly surprised an Su-24 would be kitted out with a nuclear weapon.
It is designed to carry nuclear weapons during war time
https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.php?aircraft_id=194
QuotePerhaps more important to students of the Cold War was the Su-24s clearance to field tactical nuclear-tipped bombs if required. Droptanks can take up the inner underwing weapon stations. Self-defense was handled by a up to four of AA-8 "Aphid" or (later) AA-11 "Archer" air-to-air missiles.
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1 hour ago, BruceVC said:
That case is still ongoing as far as I know, I can find out if you interested?
Normally people face 15 years for that type of white collar crime
I would say that in that case 5 years from first case seem bit harsh
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The All Things Political Topic - Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one
in Way Off-Topic
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https://casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SEL-in-Elementary-Math-8-20-17.pdf
SEL instructions for Elementary schools seem to focus on how students are able to focus better on studying and how to do group work and to link math to real world.
All things in that instruction sound pedagogically sound for me.