Yes, and it’s not including the initial invasion and occupation from 2014-2022. However, these types of people see any kind of logical assumption as outright manipulation and opportunities to validate their “alternative facts”.

Russia is not israel, they don’t attack civilians (despite what similar liars to yourself will claim) and civilian infrastructure and life goes on.

"As of 31 August, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) had verified that conflict-related violence had killed 11,743 civilians and injured 24,614 in Ukraine since 24 February 2022.

During the reporting period, Russian armed forces continued to target energy infrastructure across Ukraine, affecting essential services and deepening concerns about the plight of the civilian population with winter approaching."

Honesty seems to be a problematic concept for the people supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine…

Also, I am surprised you even pretend to care about constitutions considering Putin had to rewrite Russias to stay in power past 2024.

Almost as much of a waste of time as creating alt accounts solely to defend Russian geopolitics?

Honestly, what is the point of pretending to be a leftist while defending the Russian oligarchs? I get critical of the American oligarchs, but what is the point of cheerleading an even more hierarchical and violent form of capitalist imperialism?

Yeah, Giáp is undeniably one of the greatest minds in modern military history. Not only did he defeat some of the most powerful militaries in the world, he did so in strategically different positions.

I can’t think of another commander who excelled against an occupying force as an insurgent, was successful in counter insurgency, and defeated a better armed opponent in a head to head battle.

You’re totally right, if America had a general as successful everything in the US military would be named after them, we’d never hear the end of it.

Feel like this is really belittling to the VC and PAVN, the Ho Chi Minh trail is rightfully known as one of the greatest achievements of military engineering in the 20th century.

The North Vietnamese military didn’t win because America was just that incompetent, they had arguably a couple of the best generals in modern history. I mean they defended against the armies of France, America, cambodia and China within a couple decades.

Lol, and what are you doing besides belittling other progressive people on the Internet?

What would you suggest we all do that were not already doing? Or are you just going to continue to only respond via virtue signaling?

don’t scare me and you have failed in your attempt to discourage

At what point did I try to scare you? I’m just trying to make you realize that people are upset, they just don’t see a lot of options to do anything about it.

You complaining on the Internet is not doing anything more than any other american currently upset at the government. Trying to posture yourself as some warrior of justice from your computer chair doesn’t validate belittling other people’s feelings on the matter.

Once again I ask, what makes you think you are any more upset than anyone else? What actions have you committed that makes your anger more real than others?

By doing? The government doesn’t care about protest, and anything more extreme than protest is met with extreme violence.

What actions are you doing that validates your superior sense of self worth?

Did Russia consider how much it would escalate tension in Europe when he invaded Ukraine?

I don’t really understand how people forget that Russia has the primary ability and responsibility of maintaining good relations with their neighbors.

Thanks, that makes things make a bit more sense.

I mean, they’re definitely not a fan of the free market?

Being economically leftist doesn’t mean you aren’t culturally conservative. Births out of wedlock in China and really most of east Asia are exceedingly rare. The household registration system they use to allow families access to things like education and healthcare is tied into marriage certificates.

There is no crazy difference. If water can get to the rocks, so can the dissolved CO2.

Oh, I was just pondering the efficiency. If Co2 is held in suspension and only the top layer of sediment is going to be exposed to the carbon in the water, and not to a degree of co2 more concentrated than normal.

Do you know if Co2 that dissolves into water is less buoyant, or is it held in suspension? Or is this relying on the sediment being suspended in the ocean for a while before being deposited back on the ocean floor?

And does ERW work if the pulverized rock is in a big pile on the sea floor? Or would we have to dig the highly radioactive area up and spread it around the surface?

Yeah… Doesn’t the carbon sequestering happen from rain absorbing carbon in the atmosphere and then attaching to the rock to mineralize it? Something tells me 6-7 km of ocean might impede that process.

And does the radioactive water truly stay at the site of the explosion? Or will it be spread through the entire ocean via currents?

Dilution is the solution…ocean big?

Southern evangelicals are definitely the worst of the bunch, but up north there are some pretty cool Christian organizations. My fav is the Moravian church, which sprouted from an internal crisis in catholicism once they started printing the Bible in languages other than Latin.

The Moravians basically came to the realization that what the church said and what the Bible said weren’t congruent. So they decided to reinterpret the Bible, but couldn’t agree on anything but Jesus prob wanted people to help others. So the whole church is based around disregarding theological conflict and instead just focusing on serving the community.

Bergoglio brown?

I don’t know his actual ethnicity, but to a lot of European Catholics anyone from South America is brown at least by association. It was kinda a big deal that he was the first Pope from the southern hemisphere.

criticism against him is not an exclusive of US fundamentalists.

I didn’t claim it was?

But what about the shareholders? Defense requires taxation and freedom equals less taxes…right?

Yes…but no. American Catholic fundamentalism has little to do with the actual Catholic church. They’re basically a renegade sect of the church who believes the new Pope is woke because he’s brown.

They’ve steadily infiltrated the highest offices in the nation, but especially the judicial branch. They’re essentially high brow versions of southern evangelicals, with more cash and an ahistorical chip on their shoulder in regards to America’s relations to prejudice against traditional Catholics in the 19th and early 20th century.

last 10 years of Ukraine’s history represent a unique example of a ruthless struggle to become a colony.

More like a ruthless struggle to break up with one colonizer in favor of a new one.

There’s a reason more than half the oligarchs fled to Russia at the onset of the war.