u/Windex007

You jest but that's roughly the story of the "discovery" of Machu Picchu

I think it'll strengthen everyone's nuclear resolve. Strategic ambiguity (with the common knowledge that you are a nuclear state, like Israel) is pretty much the only option now.

Iran was playing the game of "we aren't a nuclear power, but we COULD be" wasn't enough. Everyone sees that now. The only real deterrent is a literal nuke, now.

I don't even think it's true.

This sounds like Trump floundering to take credit for anything. And in the absence of something, he invented a hypothetical

Well well well

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-blocks-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-2025-05-28/

Not a lawyer. Not an American.

But there must be more context, because by my read of this specific text it doesn't appear to be defined as a power EXCLUSIVE to Congress?

"arakhis, you gotta flush. I don't wanna be greeted by a log every time I go to pee. It's nasty"

Smh sounds just like Trump.

(/S)

I think what China did well was to let him fucking stew it it. The rest of the world has been putting reciprocal teriffs, but being clear they're eager to begin negotiations.

China put up the reciprocal teriffs and just said "reach out when you're ready to be reasonable. Don't wait for a phone call from us because it isn't coming."

If you've lost 8 times in a row, you're actually now betting 256x your original bet.

It's NOT a good strategy. Statistically it doesn't by any means whatsoever ensure you'll end up net positive.

It's called "Oscar's Grind" and there is a plethora of mathematics that show it is does not beat the house.

One of the benefits of having young children is that if I play my cards right "my" boycott could exceed my own lifetime.

I'd go even one step further, which is to say he's even dumber and more petty than you're even giving him credit for.

He thinks expanding the physical size of a nation is a metric for success. Greenland is relatively large, (and he thinks it's larger than it really is because he can not comprehend the reality of a Mercator projection). He knows there's only a few tens of thousands of people there. Seems like an easy grab for a big plot of land.

He wants golden statues of himself in Gaza. He thinks the 49th parallel is an arbitrary line. The Panama canal is one of 4 presitegeous global pieces of infrastructure that his dementia addled brain can even recall.

He want big. He want thing people know. He want golden statue. He like 4 year old. He mad.

Trying to ascribe any meaning beyond that to his actions is like when people anthrpomorphise an insect as being embarrassed. We're projecting meaning for which there just isn't evidence to support, where there are simpler explanations to be had.

He is profoundly insecure, profoundly stupid, and profoundly petty. This provides sufficient explanation for everything he's ever done.

So Russia, China, and USA are displaying their desire for territory growth, and you're suggesting that they're secretly aligned and can manufacture conflict?

I feel like there was a book with that premise but for the life of me I literally can't remember the name. Literally.

I'm having a hard time finding the link to the poll itself...

But I suspect that the poll had distinct categories for "strongly oppose" and "oppose".

So either the article is lumping the two responses together (which would be shitty because they explicitly say "strongly") or it's likely that the number of Canadians who are open to it is <20.

From previous polling I've seen, it was around 13% who were open to it. Not even saying they would, but merely open to the idea.

Oh, shit, so he for sure is planning to invade Europe, then.

I'm actually surprised that Putin is acknowledging the asymmetry of capacity here. I'd have imagined he'd pitch inconsequential bullshit to avoid admitting what type of ceasefire would work in his favour

Also impacting the ratios of where they left from.

A lot of men from Lithuania will work abroad, artificially inflating the ratio of women left behind