the fun part about this one is that it's actually true because the Russian thunder run to Kyiv was launched from Belarus, a CSTO member, and they've also been doing most of their sanction busting via shell companies based out of other members in Central Asia

I have a friend who looks like Zelensky and al-Sharaa combined lol

"Do you class it as anti-multicultural if--"

If you have to ask,

Learning to love the Other is the only thing that actually matters, the rest is filling.

On some level this is the one big problem I have with 70%-80% of politics Hot Takes. I think multiculturalism versus its idiot enemies is basically the most important battle of our time and people who say we should focus on other things are basically somewhere between mendacious and delusional.

That is not an army that can win this war.

Everyone can be a big old realist and go on about how they can't see Ukraine recovering all its territory and that might well be true, but the factual reality is that Russia has sought to scale the walls of a single fortress city for a year and a quarter and so far completely failed.

Absolute rock against the storm. As the Chechens once said to the Russians in Dƶoxar-Ġala - they brought the Russians a welcome to Hell.