The most relevant part is at the very bottom of the article:
There have been reports in recent months of small explosions across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), where Cologne is located, due to gang-related activity.
In the Netherlands, setting off small explosions outside buildings is a common intimidation tactic for some drug traffickers. NRW borders the Netherlands and is on the obvious route from there to central and eastern Europe, as well as the rest of Germany.
After seeing Perun’s video on how the Russian war economy is actually doing well, with the biggest limitation being a lack of bodies to fulfill all the jobs, it seems Putin stumbled into a probable stable future built on using human bodies as fuel for his money machine. There may come a point where Ukraine quits the fight, regardless of the outcome, and Russia’s economy collapses.
China wants to work with the Russian Navy? The same Navy that is being beaten by a country without a navy? The same Russia that no longer has a working carrier and who lost their biggest ship, a missile cruiser, to drones? China is going to be doing all the work.
Kirby has fought wizards that split space time to summon extra dimensional dragons. Which he ate. He is unfazed by anything because he has seen true cosmic horror that warps anything it touches and found it delicious.
Convert it to rubles, cut the price of materiel to cost, and the end result is a bit more than that. However, Russia started this SMO with rewards and bonuses given out like the country was a tech stock at an IPO. Now they have to pay out those bonuses since it’s been 2 years and they haven’t managed to kill off every single enlisted schmuck. They are also continuing to entice more from other countries with strong currencies, requiring more signing bonus money.
Oh, and Wagner suffered some big losses this year and that will need to be patched up with whatever talent and vehicles are available. Frankly, Putin has a lot of big bills and every bit of other people’s money counts.
Russia has proven that it can’t protect weak points because the entire military is a weak point. Can’t wait to see the military parade in May.
Was it orcas? Are orcas going to start the revolution by violently suppressing the bourgeoisie?
The best way to destabilize authoritarian governments is to stop having children. Without the potential for infinite growth on the backs of the underpaid, the business class will have to be generous with compensation and down right responsible for the people working for them.
Sanctions work.
Look at that, a fantastic find! Even if Sudzha is retaken, the knowledge of Russian anti-drone tech is now revealed. And it’s so stupid. Like, is Russia undergoing an active internal rebellion to help make things worse? Because it’s hard to imagine any effort being so constantly countered - and so effectively!
Full Motion Video (FMV) games were huge in the mid to lates 90s. Wing Commander even had Mark Hamill as a fighter pilot for multiple games using FMV. It was a weird time for games.
There were riots during the Black Death too. Lots of bills and an overtaxed population lead to the Great Rising.
Start with the rich and then move into each other. The rich have all the resources so eating them will free up vast amounts of wealth that will solve the problems of all of us. Food, housing, work; we live in a potentially scarcity free world - it’s just the rich getting in the way.
Not any one character but the Goron are delightful. They are so happy when you free their city, they are one of the few areas that dramatically changes and shows their appreciation for what you did.
This never happened when Shoigu was still defense minister. This Gerasimov fellow should watch out because in Russia, if a door closes a window opens.
Give a right wingers a justified reason to hurt someone and they will stop at nothing to do the job.
The Chinese Malaysians are taking the country more towards China as they are both the biggest neighbor and economy in the area. China also shows constant aggression and Malaysia is doing the weak sycophant move of siding with the bully to protect yourself. Malaysia doesn’t care if their neighbors get eaten and taken over - they just want to be their own country.
It’s the tragedy of authoritarianism: to not be a target, the party makes others the target - not realizing they are also a target for a later date.
Was the Chinese jet sent along in case the Russian one broke down and the pilot needs a ride back?
So many countries are seeing their birthrate fall and a future with a smaller population is looming. But why struggle and fight it? What is there to gain by cramming more people into the system?
Here’s a thought: embrace the decline of population. Society definitely should because it will increase wages due to lower worker pool. The only people who are actually scared of lower population are the ones who view that population as expendable. Those same people who are scared of losing the meat shield between them and their wealth are the ones who steered us all into this mess anyway. There is no plan, no future, no continued hope for them to burn through endless resources at our expense.
Let the population fall. It’s the easiest way to combat climate change.
That coupled with the drastic reduction in opiate scripts helps. The hardcore have died or are finding treatment, the interested are finding little supply to start the habit, it’s all around a good thing to have fewer opiate painkillers in use. They absolutely have a place in society but that place should be “everywhere”.