I watched Seinfeld and Frasier when I was in university and I absolutely loved both of those shows, despite how the leading actors have turned out to be.
Sometimes it's okay to live with a bit of cognitive dissonance.
Edit: Friends on the other hand was trite and full of stolen jokes, and mostly liberal nonsense.
That's Dune for you.
I still see fewer NAS motherboard options on Aliexpress than a year ago.
ABCs, New and improved by AI™
That's fair i guess.
For an outsider, it seems like Russia gets punished for the same crimes that other western nations have committed and continue to commit even today. Europe and America still continue to support invasions and occupations in the middle east and hence these sanctions seems especially hipocritical.
My comment on colonialism was in response to you mentioning Russia's historical conquest of Eastern Europe. European countries were busy colonising other parts of the world during the same time so they're not better than Russia.
Yeah colonialism and military conquest is only bad when it's done to you, not when it's done by you.
And as for the Copenhagen criteria are there any metrics that can be used to determine whether a country is a functioning market economy or politically stable enough, or is it just a set of vague guidelines to keep the membership limited to whoever they like?
You're getting down voted only because most people on this platform are from US and Europe.
While I get what Putin is doing now is indefensible, I have not heard a single explanation as to why Russia has been excluded from NATO and EU. Nor have I understood the western paranoia regarding China. And all I can surmise from this is that US and Europe have continued their exploitation of poor countries through corporations and tried to exclude Russia, China and their allies from the global order.
Does this include the spending done on AI and data centers? Imagine the state of the economy if there wasn't a debt fuelled economic bubble floating around.
Wealth and Asset Taxes now!
Why does this headline imply that the news might be untrue?