This picture disappearing from Twitter/X in 3, [MBS calling Musk], 2…

Good thing he’s Twitter’s second largest investor, so he can wave away this a well. Less messy than having to trick a reporter to go to his embassy and having him chopped up to bits to shut him up from Twitter.

First Larry David, now Trump!

Just when I warmed up to the idea that NATO was a necessary evil to counter Putin’s worse evil.

“The party of small government”. Tries to gobble up neighbours and allies.

Something something red line. Something something nuclear war. Same old boring saber-rattling which translates to “stop defending yourself!”

Neither does the U.S. Customs and CBP apparently.

Or maybe they play along hoping the next US election cycle allows them to join NATO.

Would it be better? Yes! Is it possible? That would depend on Russia and they don’t seem very eager.

As for Ukraine coinciding chunks of their country, it was tried before (Crimia) and the result was Russia getting overconfident and trying to grab the whole country. Sadly sometimes use of force is the only way. Hopefully, this increase will lead to forcing Russian to negotiate for peace.

I think you’ve misread the comment. Italians voted for his niece to the current government,

And special mention to Turkey for extraditing the artist to Iran over such bullshit.

Stalin as in an ally of Nazi Germany until Hitler betrayed him?

And that’s after being abandoned after fighting Saddam Hussein as well.

No, they are bombing rebels. But Assad backers are kind of tied up elsewhere between Ukraine and Israel.

A bunch of old, outdated guns?

More seriously they most certainly have their Swiss Army service weapons (Sig 550s).

Racists idiots being ignorant, illogical idiots? What else is new?

2 years? Ukraine has been fighting Russians since 2014.

Smaller scale back then but plenty of time to rotate soldiers and gain combat experience.

A great source of oil now it seems. Hence the renewed saber rattling.

And many flee civil wars which are more complicated than kicking out a foreign invaders.