RSF continues with its wave of war crimes in Sudan. www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the AI folks making millions aren't spending most of their days posting on social media.

I guess they were on the same side of a major military conflict.

Minus the whole Russian occupation of chunks of Moldova and Georgia and the NATO bombing of Republika Srpska and Yugoslavia.

A good background on the Butcher of El Fasher. ca.news.yahoo.com/made-money-s...

The new ruler would be lucky to control the major cities. It's inconceivable they'd control the countryside. Especially when the military is dominated by Maduro loyalists who wouldn't be rushing to follow orders. Meanwhile, the cartels would have the most/biggest guns in much of the country.

Still not a front page story in the biggest Western publications. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

And that's how ethnic Russians make up a majority of all but a handful of Russia's Asian regions.

Penguins fan. One gram of hope. Only need a de-aging machine.

By contrast, the correlation between an NHL team's point total in the previous season and its point total in the current season is 0.54.

This is also what happens when you anger your own constituency while forgetting that opposition supporters live in an entirely different media ecosystem that will never give you credit, no matter how consistent your policies are with their previously stated preferences.

Putin wants legal recognition of Russia's military conquests. But getting that recognition would require Russia to give something in return. Meanwhile, Russia isn't actually offering a single concession. No, promising not to attack (especially given Russia's track record) isn't a serious concession.

The equivalent situation today would be for Russia to push for the annexation of the Crimea, with perhaps some form of an autonomous status (within Ukraine) with a Russian veto for certain decisions in Donetsk and Lugansk. The reason there is no chance for peace is Russia is asking for too much.

Alternatively, countries needed to achieve major military successes to annex a single region. This is because they realized that achieving international legal recognition of an annexation was worth more than military victory. Without such recognition, the value of the land was severely diminished.

Nominal GDP (in trillion $):

California: 4.10
Texas: 2.71
New York: 2.30
Russia: 2.08

Missouri: 0.45
Moscow: 0.42