It was always bad, but for many years its energy resources were unmatched, so no country could keep up.
Today the gap is not so big anymore.

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Unfortunately. It’s been taken over by the borg.

What color shirt are you wearing?

I don’t know if I’d be better or worse off than pokémon fans.

No phone, no computer, end of the world being neigh, monsters roaming the land, but living in an idyllic cute little town where none of that happens, so I’d surely be fine.

Although I would probably get sick of hearing the towns people saying the same over and over again real quick and get jealous of not being able to do magic like some of the heroes.

The mext that comes to mind is life expectency. Will I get old? I don’t see a lot old people in my favorite fictional world.

They have cups of wishes which revives other players, so I’d have to make some friends there and I’m probably set for life.

Oh, and medical herbs that cure any illness would be awesome to cure the ones I have.

And I could restore my health by eating candy and chocolate all day.

… Unless I will live in that other fictional world, in which case I would say there’s a whole of that going on… with the protagonist… except for that one world but the women there are weird… on second thought I’ll stick with my fictional game world.

The majority of Ukranians in the occupied areas don’t want to be part of Ukraine since the coup of 2014 and consequent oppression of Russo-Ukrainians. The ones that do (a large minority inside east Ukraine) and haven’t left already are likely to leave or integrate.

Insurgency happened in the Donbass oblasts and Crimea in favor of Russia, because there was a large majority not wanting to part of Ukraine anymore.

If Russia were to take Lviv, we’d likely see insurgency against Russia.

I don’t know. Did the Mujahideen seemingly fought to the last man? Most of the Ukrainian refugees here are women.

I remember the Ukraine Association agreement. My EU country held a referendum over it and voted against that. The agreement included sending military aid to Ukraine, which should have nothing to do with the EU, since EU defense is non-existent and only done individually or through NATO. But I believed this was pushed by the UK, who kept seeing the EU as a tool for NATO expansion.

This is more like Texas seceding on good terms, then after a couple of years a communist coup happens and the new Texas president joins the Latin American Nuclear Defense Organisation aimed against the US and supressess the non-Hispanic population of Texas prompting a small civil war within Texas by people not wanting to be part of a pro-Latin American government, and then the US helping and ultimately invading the parts of Texas that was never part of Mexico ever and then Mexico calling that a full-scale invasion of Texas that must be defended at all cost.

Not really. The people get only two choices of candidates who are selected by campaign popularity. Those candidates have to raise the money for it by themselves, which means making truthful private campaign promises to their donors while making false promises to the public.

Very likely.
But the Netherlands has been exceptionally trusting of the US over all other nations.

“We’ve got nothing to hide and this will send a clear signal of unity with our allies towards authoritarian states like China, Russia and Saudi Arabia”

- the Dutch (me excluded)

Well deserved.
And surely this news will send a strong signal towards Russia that we are more united with our allies than anyone else and that we’ve got nothing to hide from them. /s

I’m from the Netherlands

(and the second sentence has been the actual thought process for years from anyone but me here 😢).

They could, but they didn’t want to.

Trump seems to not understand the language of Putin and insteads opts for the language of Medvedev.

It will happen in a few years from now.

Are you sure it’s not 248 years?

Shouldn’t it be ‘as well’?

I’m pretty sure it was taken into account, just not anyone from the US, EU or Ukraine.

Oh noes!
Does that mean they will start banning TikTok and Huawei soon?