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Gripen is the Swedish one, France’s jet is the Rafale

But I mean either way it’s a fast jet made in Europe

Well I’m glad this is a hypothetical, you fucking war criminal

This is a consequence of the advertising market in Ukraine dropping in the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion

Congratulations on citing an article about what happened in 2022 to attempt to disprove my claim about what happened before 2014. Please learn to read dates. This is the third time in this thread that you have either gotten them completely wrong or actively misrepresented them.

You’re retreading the exact same ground that I already went over with Grapho in this same thread

I wasn’t there either, but I do know that on his inaugration he said “Ukraine’s integration with the EU remains our strategic aim.”

Are you saying that since he was more popular in the east, he must have been against EU integration?

Why did they vote in the guy that said “For Ukraine, association with the European Union must become an important stimulus for forming a modern European state,” and that he was going to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement? That does not seem at all contradictory to me. His sudden U-turn on that was what got the Ukrainian people so pissed at him

Ukrainians already wanted to align with the EU. The US didn’t need to do a damn thing to influence that, a long history of Russian imperialism did it all for them

America spent fuck all on Ukraine in the entire history of its independence up until Euromaidan (pg 167). They simply did not spend “all that money”, because a single digit millions of dollars a year is a rounding error in the US budget. American spending on Ukraine in 2013 was 0.00024% of the federal budget.

If America’s goal was to put Svoboda in power, they didn’t do a very good job of keeping them there, did they?

I have read the Nuland transcript. She’s talking about the existing leader of the opposition. Of course she said Yatsenyuk was the guy, he was the goddamn leader of the opposition. He was the one guy avalable with the best democratic mandate at the last election. Yanukovych even offered to make him prime minister at one point.

Russia put troops into Crimea before the referendum, and the referendum was run by the occupying army. Do you normally trust occupying armies to run referendums about whether or not they should get to keep the land they’re occupying?

Perhaps if Russia was so concerned about casualties in the Donbas, it should not have invaded and caused hundreds of thousands more casualties.

I did play it! But I found the significantly lower usage of level scaling made it much less of a problem. Like… it is still a car crash of a system, but I don’t have to compete with the fact that every enemy in the world is scaled to challenge me if I a) levelled perfectly and b) put every level into combat skills

The random hit chance thing is a separate issue though

long before Russia went in

There’s a problem with this, because Russia has had troops in Ukraine since early 2014, before Poroshenko’s government

I tried that once, found it too tedious, and just stopped levelling up instead

There is a group that’s remaking Morrowind in Skyrim, but I have absolutely no idea how far along they are https://tesrskywind.com/

Merz re-iterating the “no AfD coalition” statement has reassured me somewhat. If they need two other parties that’s probably even better, because it doesn’t seem like any of the other major players would tolerate being in an AfD coalition

I’m not German and don’t have any special insight into German politics, but until someone that knows better comes along I can at least offer that it’s Angela Merkel’s old party. Unless something has shifted drastically, it’s the Germany we’ve known for most of the past twenty years

Oblivion without the comically fucked-up levelling system sounds like a blast

Ooh, that’s interesting. I’m not really sure what to look for here, could you give me an example of a language/script that has that?

Some instances (kbin.earth in my case, which runs on mbin) show upvotes and downvotes separately. Your comment looks like this to me

It does not

It’s pretty normal for language to vary between generations, it’s just that we all communicate via text a lot more now, so differences in punctuation usage have become noticeable parts within those language variations

it’s not a grammar competition.

While I agree that there’s less of an expectation of grammar, informal text communication has definitely developed grammar of its own. OP mentioned full stops, for example — ending a message with one is a tone marker now

The mod and community were both on .ml until the mod’s account there got suspended, so it’s hardly a surprise that they’re taking up a pro-Russia position

Unfortunately it seems like the mod’s position on climate change in general, based on the discussion about the post that got them suspended, is that there is nothing we can do. Specifically because they think that the only solution would be population reduction and control, and that’s not politically viable. So I maybe wouldn’t bother listening to anything this persom says, because even if you think they are right there’s nothing useful to be done with the information