Russia is still ramping up military production on a wartime economy, to be used after the Ukrainians stop fighting back. Also their production focuses on their modern options for land and air. I don’t know what their naval production is doing.

Your English was on point, and any outdoorsie types understood you. This is just one of those things that is called different names in different regions.

They want the Baltics, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, all to be like Hungary, or preferably like Belarus - slave/puppet authoritarian regimes. Finland too, really, but I think that the Finns scare them.

Sinophobia and russophobia are terms that refer to ethnic racism, heavy leveraged by tankies to position political disagreement as racist. In these cases I don’t think that the fear was a ethnic based, but rather capitalist or nationalist.

The fear is still unjustified. It’s like thinking that you can trust Amazon more than Ali, or Google more than Xiaomi.

There is plenty of racism against Chinese/Asian people, which is a different level of vile.

Does Nordstream connect Russia to the US?

Which one? The one where Russia is a threat to Europe?

I hate that this is accurate

The problem is that the quality of “just look it up” is seriously degraded these days (except Wikipedia)

He said “fully throated” on purpose

You are assumng that an educated population is a goal.

You are right

It is capitalist perspective, but not propaganda.

If there is meant to be capitalist competition then the competitors should not be massively funded by the government. China massively funds their electric car industry, principally because they own them.

That said, US carmakers get Government bailouts all the time.

Sunday is the first day for those who inherited Saturday as a holy day.

If I can copy and paste with thought having to install the offline plugin, then I’m in.

Americans are fucked. Political disagreement to be classified as a mental disorder? Y’all skipped the Hungary and Russia steps, and went straight to NK.

De facto yes, but not in law they don’t - no

The Canadians are apparently done separating the blues from the reds. Put them all in the dryer and maybe they will start to care about their politics again.

Ford is the Premier (Governor) of the Ontario province (state), which is like NYS And W. DC put together (and is across the pond from Rochester.) He is considered a dumpie leader, with no real accomplishments, and a silly approach to policy (let’s make sure that beer is affordable)- but generally an improvement on the previous corrupt/spend-thrift centrist party (even though they got some very good things done.)

Rob Ford was the maga major, who was also recorded by his crack dealer. Yes, they were brothers (Rob passed away years ago.)

This is about the only type of thing that the Fords are actually good at - you can give him credit for it without shame.