I have a theory that Putin waited for Merkel's coalition to leave power and hand things over to a coalition led by pacifist SPD. Because troops have been slowly massing at Ukraine's border since April last year, but they intensified close to the moment when the new coalition came into power in Germ...

Berlin prepares evacuation of embassy staff from Ukraine According to a media report, the Federal Foreign Office is working on an evacuation plan for the relatives of the German embassy employees in Ukraine. Washington probably wants to start with this step as early as Monday. https://www.faz.net/a...

French also potentially have the strongest artillery in the game with Gribeauval System boosting dmg by a whopping 25%. i think otto and china has stronger artillery buffs, though more cards I don't think so. Firstly, both need to invest more cards. Secondly, the single cards are all significantly ...

princeofcarthage wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2022, 11:08

Germany might just save Europe from a major war after all.

Would be a classic German move

Major opposition figures like Markus Söder (Bavarian prime minister, CSU) are quite Putin-friendly with a) demanding that sanctions shouldn't be too hard, b) arguing that Ukraine should never be part of NATO, and c) claiming that NordStream 2 should start operating in any case.

French also potentially have the strongest artillery in the game with Gribeauval System boosting dmg by a whopping 25%. As team games were addressed specifically, I want to add that the French have at least two good team cards with increased hand cav dmg and increased ranged inf dmg. Especially the ...

France is totally playable both in single player as in team games. I recently played a lot of team games with France and never felt any real weaknesses. They have a solid economy and great cavalry. I also can't see the point on cuir train time. It's pretty much all I do after getting to age III. Jus...

Maybe climate change could help with that. As far as I know, many of the more valuable resources are in tundra + mountaineous areas. And far away from any civilization/infrastructure. But I'm no expert.

Give it another 15-20 years and Poland will have a higher GDP than Russia. Currently, there is zero important industrial, tech, or innovation players coming from Russia, except for the declining oil and gas industry. The Russian economy is largely unconnected to the major global supply chains.

Doesn't sound like a clever move from Russia to threaten Germany with decreased gas supply. That would just raise public awareness of Germany's current dependency on Putin and facilitate large governmental programs towards renewables.

I wouldn't expect reopened nuclear power plants even in a worst case scenario regarding Ukraine. Not even the Germany energy industry players themselves are in favor of such a change. It would just be a drastic boost for renewables + hydrogen.

Dutch is a fun language. Ziekenhuisopname sounds like a combination of German and English with Zieken = sick, huis = house, and opname = aufnahme.

Putin is in an awkward position. He seems to realize that the European Union is now beginning to actually address climate change and reduction of co2 emissions on a larger scale. This outlook is extremely threatening for his regime given that Russia's finances depend to a good part on oil/gas extrac...

I like the abbreviation NS2

That's the major point to me. There is not much to win with attacking Ukraine. Everything Putin could realistically want was already achieved with annexing the Crimea and forcing Kiev into a frozen conflict. I can't even imagine that a questionable success in a war with Ukraine could gain any inner ...

>invade for your own security So basically China should invade India to ensure their own security. Maybe coordinate with Pakistan and spit-roast India. Would be a clever move if it wasn't for all the infidels. Not sure whether China can uyghurize all of them. Maybe harmonizing Hinduism first could ...

princeofcarthage wrote: ↑

17 Jan 2022, 11:37

scarm wrote: ↑

17 Jan 2022, 10:45

because totalitarian states murdered millions.

And so did democracies, don't forget that.

Thanks, Mr. Whataboutism. Especially for bolstering your claims, as usual, with a staggering level of detail.

Rise of Skywalker was literally laugh out loud terrible. It made me legitmately depressed to think that could have been the last movie I ever saw in a theater I'm lacking the words to properly describe how happy I am that I deliberately chose not to see this movie in a theater or waste money on it ...

Why is it already 2022 and I still cannot torment my Italian villagers with ananas pizza?

I share that point of view.

Don't get the point of posting this. Biden is no professionial in that field and on paper it looked fantastic and inspirational.

To me, it's just much more complicated with Russia and Stalinism. The perpetrators as much as the victims had varying origins, histories and ethnic backgrounds. Stalin himself wasn't an actual Russian, but from Georgia. It is not a simple "the Germans tried to kill all Jews in Europe". Eve...

Russia literally alone won *both* wars? You mean the Russia that collapsed over its drastic military failure in ww1 and ceded half of Eastern Europe to Germany in 1918 ? I think that his expertise derives from his restaurant having largely Russian customers. Is it located right across the Russian em...

princeofcarthage wrote:Of course today Ukranian identity and Russian one isn't same. There has been divergence for last 100 or so years. But it has same grass roots and for over 600 years it was nearly same.

This is interesting. What are your sources for this otherwise ridiculous claim?

Talking about when Ukraine started to forge an own identity, I can recommend to read Tolstoi's 'War and Peace'. It's a fantastic read (except for the 100 pages on Russian nobility going on a hunt) and also gives nice hints on relations between Russians/Ukrainians, who you say are the same.