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That warning is kind of understated

Yeah, not this round imo. His past transgrations not withstanding. Not enough to illicit the response he got at least. The line here between accepteble and contentious is very thin. Between contentious and abhorrent sometimes non existant.

I think maybe you and ALC under different circumstances would be much closer to agree. There is a scale to things. the Russians machine turned it up to eleven so the discussion becomes polarized. Even at their worst, when the west is directly involved or the initiator like Afghanistan, Iraq...

Not that the russian mentality is a complex one but evidently up until now the west tried to stop the russian with diplomacy. I think the problem is that we refer to the "west" like it's a monolith. Poles and eastern europe understand the russian mentality and more importently the danger but I...

Egypt imports from Russia and Ukraine are 85%. They already sold 2bn in assets to UAE so they could subsides wheat so people wont starve. Syria also in deep trouble, middle eastern and some African countries will have huge issues going foreword.

This March alone Europe bought 15% more gas from Russia then the month before

She did a lot for transgender right, not so much for women drivers

To be frank it's not limited to Russia, everyone involved already lost. The only country who "won" here is the US

:tup: Yeah I meant it's only works in countries where there is representation by a geographical location. like districts/counties/states etc. Doesn't exist here so I'm less familiar with those election types. but I see how it can apply to a 2 rounds election. Learned something To the bold part...

Time for google lol Oh, it's only an American/federal thing if I understood it correctly. Not a bad system though

The way the media operates and the existence of social media lends itself to hyper partisanship and retarded politicians are rewarded with exposure. You can be the best legislature in the country and no one will know your name unless you say stupid or inflammatory shit on a regular basis...

It's probably both

Or butter

There is no right or wrong here. It depends on a lot of other factors, sepration of power, oversight, etc'. Electing the same pepole for endless terms without the above factors is a slippery slope. The neccesity depends on the country, in some there is an inherent risk, in some not.

American politics are basicly a reality show now

Yeah, flanking her from the right made her have more centrist appeal for sure.

Le Pen is also closing in. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/04/the-rise-and-rise-of-frances-far-right-marine-le-pen

This is also a good one https://www.allsides.com/media-bias

I understand your point, it's of course true and as the article suggest, at least as I read it, this war was a forgone conclusion and all roads taken for the last two decades lead us to here. Can't argue the west action since the war started weren't good, on the contrary. The was the lack of...