Taiwan does consider itself China. In fact, declaring they’re not might verywellbe the trigger for the invasion. I get that they’re de facto two separate countries, but de jure, PRC and ROC are two sides of the world’s longest and coldest civil war.
If the kidnapping story is true, I’m guessing she’s the next legitimate president of Venezuela^tm
Why “overall”? What makes you think capitalism, as a system, cares about the economy “overall”?
Bait used to be believable.
Finally! A US political maneuver that actually came from Putin’s playbook!
Yeah, this is the correct take, I feel.
It’s not either-or, though. For instance, defending Belgium is not just a matter of keeping your word - It’s also a convenient excuse for getting involved in the mainland, which you wanna do to stop Germany from dominating it and outbuilding your fleet.
Political maneuver literally named after a US politician
“Wow, this is just like Foreignistan!”
…Why is the first sign different? The first two would be “e-lon”, right?
Yeah. Like, you read history and think “no, the medieval chronicler was trying to make a didactical point, it didn’t actually-” but no, it kinda just happens sometimes…
…Now that’s an idea.
I mean, who didn’t?
Tge thing with conservapedia is Poe’s law makes it impossible to moderate. A conservative (heh) estimate is that 70% of that site is trolling.
Then again, IIRC, when polled, a sizable percent of men though they could beat up a gorilla, so…
“Heartwarming: the worst people you know are all fighting”
This reads like a George Carlin bit
It’s the opposite, actually. Serbia recently entered year two of mass, country-wide anti-government protests. This is bribe to keep the government in the US’ good graces.
More like “the cops can’t get a search warrant, so they park outside and shoot through the windows, hoping someone fires back”.
To be fair, neither could Italy…