Yes, I’m criticizing the AP for not mentioning the man’s innocence or lack of evidence and non-recanted witness statements.

wtf is that headline?

My point is “is she going to take the necessary action to whip the vote”, Manchin isn’t the only dem senator who’d rather the democrats didn’t accomplish anything as it could hurt their donors.

Well is she gonna overturn President Joe Mansion’s veto?

Does she feel like appointing an AG who will go after him and his family’s various conflicts of interests?

Democrats are just as capable of whipping a vote as republicans when they feel like it.

Between 1970 and 1990, the USSR built, launched, and crewed 7 space stations. Without Moscow holding them back, over the last 34 years, Ukraine (and Russia for that matter) have put up a total of zero.

In 2020, 50%+ of Ukrainians 70+, that is, most Ukrainians old enough to remember the USSR as an adult, regretted the dissolution. In 2000, it was ~90%.

The USSR wasn’t a utopia by any means, but it was far better than what came after.

Bosnia does have a 12 mile coastline

In what way is it disingenuous to frame Canada sending thousands of soldiers to a foreign nation to carry out a war as an invasion?

Canada did invade Afghanistan though?

Why do our teeth grow in less perfectly now?

She’s a teacher, so she has kids that aren’t hers, and probably pays her phone bill and auto loan and student debt (and possibly rent to her shitty parents). Those parents of course don’t consider those real bills.

The point was that it’s silly to try to divide up and assign individual responsibility for the achievements of the USSR 30-100+ years ago when those achievements were only possible because Ukraine and Russia were part of a greater whole.

If you’re talking about the whole “human wave” thing in WWII, the ex-Nazis made that up for their memoirs.

Ironically, there actual cases of human-wave like attacks in WWII, notably banzai charges by Japan and MacArthur’s Walking Fire.

A good number of people did until early 2022. It looked a lot better on paper.

Did it? I remember a ton of propaganda about Putin and Russia going back to the Obama era, but then they’d show off stuff the USSR had developed to fight a war in Germany/Ukraine against late 1900s American equipment and tactics.

Whereas China was showing off their modern fighters, tank and ship production, and an entire branch of the military dedicated to missiles, and greater numbers than any other military, all designed to fight their next war; defending against/driving the US out of it’s back yard.

it’s a pretty bold claim to say that EVERY nation with a military has tried to invade

It’s only the slightest exaggeration..

Between 1915 and 1920, they were invaded by: United Kingdom, France, US, Japan, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Serbia, Romania, China, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, The Ottoman Empire, and I’m sure I missed a few more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Russia_intervention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Russia_intervention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_intervention

All of those happened before the modern safeguards were adopted by the US.

Which modern safeguards are you talking about? There’s been ~32 official broken arrow incidents between 1950 and 1980, and multiple safeguards were tried during that period. Modern 2 point detonation safety goes back to the early 60s

We just don’t know for sure if the Soviet leftovers Russia has were upgraded to the same atandards.

We do know the soviets had their own share of accidents. I wasn’t able to find any info on soviet nuclear weapon design safety mechanisms, but I feel like we’d have seen at least one nuclear blast if they didn’t have them.

It’s copium to acknowledge that Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country 58 years ago, and that modern Russia and Ukraine are able to achieve far less than the USSR was? This is evidenced by both countries primarily fighting with 30+ year old weapons.

I guess basic historical literacy is tankie shit now.

if you’re exploring these avenues simply to lose weight you’re lazy

Fuck off. I guarantee you that every single person considering medication to control weight has tried exercise and diet.

Please don’t shoot yourself if 5-10 planes just happen to fly parallel

The USSR couldn’t have achieved a fraction of what it did without all its SSRs working together.

Hell it probably wouldn’t have survived getting invaded by every country with a military after WWI without both Russia and Ukraine.