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Goodnight, everyone.

You forgot to include Mexico, but even with it it’s pretty high.

Dark Tranquility

Katatonia

Draconian

Omnium Gatherum

Insomnium

Fun story: me and my wife kept talking about our nasty neighbour we call “the slug” and she got “Slug removal tips” on her YouTube suggestions.

Tell me you never read Iain Banks without saying you never read Iain Banks.

You are forgetting The Wind Rises, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke at least.

Whatever stops them from doing their own Congress of Vienna II: Baghdad Boogaloo?

An average salary is 1250 euros, so it would be possible to save up enough in 3-5 years. Or save enough for a downpayment. However, a house like that would take twice the amount or more to become livable and the location is not the best.

A more decent home would cost between 50-100K, also possible on a mortgage with a decent salary, but not that cheap.

Houses next to big cities can get more expensive, but so do the salaries. Most city people don’t live in houses though, they go for apartments. Some of them are renovated. Mixed use buildings are also common.

Lithuania, Telšiai county

14000 Euros

4 rooms

66 square metres

25 ars of land

Link for even more curious

TIL. Cunk’s real name is Diane Morgan.

bread, butter and fresh peas makes a great summer snack

cucumber slice with honey is great

bread, butter, cheese and sliced apples is good sometimes

black olives with vanilla ice cream is a good sweet and salty dessert.

Does anyone else remember the “Yeah boiiii” game where you jump over obstacles?

I don’t know what any of this means, upvoted everything anyway.

I am not that old but I know that reference. :)

Thanks.

I avoid random X/Twitter links like the plague, since that platform is full of Deceptive Imagery Persuasion. Any video or photo can be taken out of context to mean the wrong thing. I could not find the CNN’s original video, maybe someday it will be easier to search for them.

I have been using Google for long enough to know that it often shows us what we want to see, not that which is most likely to be correct. :)

Characterizing the Influence of Confirmation Bias on Web Search Behavior It’s not just you, Google Search really has gotten worse

Now I see the foundations of your beliefs I can better understand your opinions. I still do not agree with them though, because I believe those foundations to be somewhere between flawed and ideology-driven.

First of all, Euromaidan was a coup, by it’s definition, but it was not instigated by the west, which I assumed was your opinion.

Regarding Russian economic data you seem to be flaunting, Russia has made it hard for outside sources to verify any of it.

Pollution Reveals What Russian Statistics Obscure: Industrial Decline Russian Economic Optimism Is Based on Suspect Data

I yet or bothered to translate the German or French links, but a lot of other articles I actually mostly agree with: Ukraine will struggle to achieve their objectives without western aid despite past successes.

You seem to derive a lot of your opinions from mearsheimer.substack.com source but the sources the author uses to prove your points often come from rt.com which is like, the worst source for this discussion.

I understand that these Internet debates are not for changing minds of my opponents, but to show my points to people who are not yet decided.

I will, however, refrain from posting on lemmy.ml in the future, because I can see that you are a mod of several communities on this instance and your overall conduct in this post has been rather childish and disrespectful. I feel like mods should hold themselves to a higher standard.

No, Ukraine has been engaged in atrocities in Donbas since 2014 as even western media reported at the time.

Russian propaganda talking point.

If the west didn’t run a coup to overthrow a democratically elected government then there would’ve been no troubles in Ukraine. Period.

Euromaidan was not a coup.

That’s complete and utter nonsense, and even western media now admits this.

Cite sources for the first point and military strategy analysts for the second.

Weaker Russia means lower need for future military spending, and it is cheaper to give old weapons to Ukraine than to dispose of them locally.

The actual truth is that it’s NATO that’s been constantly expanding towards Russia. It’s also NATO that’s been invading and destroying countries since the end of USSR. Syria, Libya, and Yugoslavia being some prominent examples.

False equivalence. Former USSR countries that joined NATO, did so to protect themselves from future Russian aggression. Like the one we now see in Ukraine. Intervention in Yugoslavia was to prevent atrocities and Syria and Libya had their own problems and dictatorships, which Russia tried to prop up and the West wanted to end.

Meanwhile, Russia tried to resolve this situation diplomatically since 2008 with Minsk agreements that western leaders now openly admit were a delaying tactic by the west.

Western leaders? Name them.

The whole legal basis for the existence of state of Ukraine is predicated on Ukraine staying neutral and not joining military blocs.

It is in fact the opposite. No neutral country stays that way for long when Russia wants it’s territory.

Ukraine broke the very basis of this agreement when it tried to join NATO.

Because Russia attacked them.

Now, thanks to western “help”, Ukraine will lose far more territory than it would have if the deal was done last year, and it may even cease to exist as a state. I can’t wait for you to explain how this actually helps people of Ukraine.

If the West had not helped, there would be no Ukraine either. We would be condemning them to a decade of guerilla warfare and oppression. Emboldened by his victory, Putin would look further west.

Ukrainians now fight Russia, both sides are getting exhausted and it all depends on what help Ukraine gets. Your magical peace treaty would just mean Russia trying this again in 5 years or less.

You could have used the same arguments to make peace with the Nazis in 1941 and the world would only be worse for it.

That would have been a peace deal that would have meant further hostilities down the line a few years later.

The main problem with the west is that they believe they can make a deal with Russia that they are going to honor. The truth is that Russia honors the deals when it suits them and breaks them the moment it’s useful. Any negotiation is and will always be seen as weakness from the Russian side.

As their propagandist said “We are Russian. We want the world. All of it if possible.”

A war with better armed Ukraine would be shorter.

We could make Russian dominance in the region history, just like the myth of their military competence is history.