That was once, but not anymore. Their manufacturing and agriculture haven't been updated since the late 1980ies. The industry is mostly dead - what could not be sold lies in ruins - and their agricultural produce varies from not very good to almost inedible, so they have to import food from Poland. I have visited most of eastern Europe and Ukraine was the poorest country so far.
Also not a problem. When a NATO member invaded another country and basically annexed half of it, what did the Americans do? Three years of arms embargo, that's it. What did they do when another NATO member abducted, tortured and murdered a head of an African country? Happily helped to do it and orchestrated a coup in that African country that resulted in a decade-long oppressive dictatorship.
Bullshit. Children stopped being disposable in the early 20th century. Before that Christians were perfectly fine with using them as chattel or as cheap labour.
A sudden decline? In the 1960ies republicans happily set the bloody national guard on students who built a park on a patch of unused land. It is not a new strain of anti-intellectualism, it is a very old one because stupid people generally distrust intelligent people, and studies have shown again and again that lower iq and weak education correlate strongly with conservative views and strong religious beliefs.
Actually yes, they do. Mosquito larvae are also the most important food for many fish species because mosquito larvae survive in degraded ecosystems where most other fish food wouldn't. And given that many lakes, ponds and riversare indeed degraded thanks to humans (fertilizer run off leading to algae bloom and lack of oxygen) robbing fish of the only food that can survive these conditions would effictively kill them off.
His wife's surname would be Kasperskaya (or Kasperska in the original Polish). Grammatical genders are used for all nouns in most Slavic languages, even for surnames (I think only Yugoslavian languages are an exception, their surnames are always in the masculine form). Some of these languages, like Czech, don't even make an exception for non-Slavic surnames, resulting in (for example) Trump's wife being called "Melania Trumpova" (with an acute accent over the last a).
The FSB is not the former KGB, it is only a fairly small part of the former KGB (mainly second, sixth and seventh directorate, later also the border guard directorate and a part of the 16th directorate) and is not active world wide, that is the responsibility of SVR, which is far more the spiritual successor of KGB than FSB will ever be. Is that so difficult to comprehend?
There are more than enough countries where vaccination has been mandatory for decades. No more data is required, vaccinations work well and they are reasonably safe.
Your mistake is thinking that Moscow was just the capital, but it was also Ð major center of Soviet industry - the country has been very centralised back then. Stopping the army group center also gave the USSR the opportunity to transport fresh troops from the far east region of Russia to the front. All this resulted in the failure of the planned Blitzkrieg strategy and the whole operation suddenly became a war of attrition for which Germany simply wasn't prepared. For the operation Barbarossa to succeed the USSR had to be on its knees before the winter 1941/1942, but that has not happened. In fact, the winter gave the Soviets time to regroup and reequip the Red Army.
Whaaa? I suppose the Greek civil war was just a slapfight then.
Thanks for making my point for me. Greek communists had zero support from the USSR so they tried to ally themselves with Yugoslavia.
The Communists didn't overthrow the Czechoslovakian government?
You do realise that at this point Soviet troops were as far in the West as Germany and Austria? They never went beyond that and even left Austria after a neutrality pact was signed.
What historical fact? Hungary, Romania, Italy and Japan were allies of Nazi Germany, but Germany and USSR only had a non-aggression pact (a.k.a. neutrality pact), which is something very different.
Moreover, before signing the non-aggression pact Stalin tried to build an anti-Hitler alliance with France and the UK, but Brits told him to go fuck himself in the early 1939, Poland flat out refused to allow Soviet troops to move to their German border in the case of a war and France undermined the Franco-Soviet treaty of mutual assistance by making it essentially unenforceable.
Go educate yourself before you write stupid things.
The battle of Stalingrad began in August 1942, again before Operation Torch and USA's "official" entry into the war. Stalingrad is considered by all historians to be the major turning point of the war on the Eastern front.
The major turning point actually happened even earlier, during the battle of Moscow. At that point (December 1941) the whole operation Barbarossa failed and the war on the eastern front became unwinnable. Stalingrad was the point where the German war effort wasn't sustainable anymore.
Fuck off yourself and take your non-sequitur with you. Besides, USSR only took back the parts of Ukraine and Belarus that Poland had annexed in 1921. Considering this and the fact that Poland happily helped Hitler carving up Czechoslovakia, I'd say they had it coming.
Obviously, but that was not my point. For some reason most people think that FSB spies in foreign countries which simply isn't the case. SVR does that, FSB is Russian FBI.
Modern airliners are moving away from bleed air? Seriously? 787 is the only one that uses bleedless engines. Airbus insists that bleed air makes more sense, all the new and upcoming passenger airplanes from UAC, Comac, Embraer and Bombardier will have bleed air and even Boeing will use bleed air on the upcoming 777X. The bleedless 787 was a one-time detour.
USSR would be a distant second, but they were poor as fuck and really had no chance without the US hitting Germany hard from the west.
Actually the combat on the western front only started in summer 1944 - this is when the USSR arrived at the border with Poland and the allied were seriously concerned that the Soviets might win the war in Europe all by themselves. The vast majority of the Wehrmacht was destroyed on the eastern front. Oh, and the last fascist regime, Spain, was happily supported by Americans. And yes, you are lying. USSR was not doing its damndest to expand westwards. Stalin promised not to support Greek communists and he didn't. The Soviet army left Austria in 1955 right after Austria signed the neutrality pact. USSR wanted a buffer zone between their mainland and the West that invaded Russia several times and this is what the Warsaw Pact was all about. So you calling people little shits for telling lies is like the pot calling the kettle a nigga.
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That was once, but not anymore. Their manufacturing and agriculture haven't been updated since the late 1980ies. The industry is mostly dead - what could not be sold lies in ruins -
and their agricultural produce varies from not very good to almost inedible, so they have to import food from Poland. I have visited most of eastern Europe and Ukraine was the poorest country so far.
Also not a problem. When a NATO member invaded another country and basically annexed half of it, what did the Americans do? Three years of arms embargo, that's it.
What did they do when another NATO member abducted, tortured and murdered a head of an African country? Happily helped to do it and orchestrated a coup in that African country that resulted in a decade-long oppressive dictatorship.
Bullshit. Children stopped being disposable in the early 20th century. Before that Christians were perfectly fine with using them as chattel or as cheap labour.
And now you are blaming the victims - how very typical of a murderer.
A sudden decline? In the 1960ies republicans happily set the bloody national guard on students who built a park on a patch of unused land. It is not a new strain of anti-intellectualism, it is a very old one because stupid people generally distrust intelligent people, and studies have shown again and again that lower iq and weak education correlate strongly with conservative views and strong religious beliefs.
You are also hypocrites - you have zero problems with killing humans. It is only the unborn that are, for some reason, sacred.
It is not news that the former mayor of London is an attention whore, but don't you think him posting on Slashdot is a little far-fetched?
Since when is invading and occupying countries a problem for Americans?
Actually yes, they do. Mosquito larvae are also the most important food for many fish species because mosquito larvae survive in degraded ecosystems where most other fish food wouldn't. And given that many lakes, ponds and riversare indeed degraded thanks to humans (fertilizer run off leading to algae bloom and lack of oxygen) robbing fish of the only food that can survive these conditions would effictively kill them off.
His wife's surname would be Kasperskaya (or Kasperska in the original Polish). Grammatical genders are used for all nouns in most Slavic languages, even for surnames (I think only Yugoslavian languages are an exception, their surnames are always in the masculine form). Some of these languages, like Czech, don't even make an exception for non-Slavic surnames, resulting in (for example) Trump's wife being called "Melania Trumpova" (with an acute accent over the last a).
Are you now seriously using a movie as your argument?
This is how propaganda works.
Their larvae are a favourite food of most smaller fishes.
The FSB is not the former KGB, it is only a fairly small part of the former KGB (mainly second, sixth and seventh directorate, later also the border guard directorate and a part of the 16th directorate) and is not active world wide, that is the responsibility of SVR, which is far more the spiritual successor of KGB than FSB will ever be. Is that so difficult to comprehend?
There are more than enough countries where vaccination has been mandatory for decades. No more data is required, vaccinations work well and they are reasonably safe.
In this case Nazi Germany and Poland were also allies.
Your mistake is thinking that Moscow was just the capital, but it was also Ð major center of Soviet industry - the country has been very centralised back then. Stopping the army group center also gave the USSR the opportunity to transport fresh troops from the far east region of Russia to the front.
All this resulted in the failure of the planned Blitzkrieg strategy and the whole operation suddenly became a war of attrition for which Germany simply wasn't prepared. For the operation Barbarossa to succeed the USSR had to be on its knees before the winter 1941/1942, but that has not happened. In fact, the winter gave the Soviets time to regroup and reequip the Red Army.
Thanks for making my point for me. Greek communists had zero support from the USSR so they tried to ally themselves with Yugoslavia.
You do realise that at this point Soviet troops were as far in the West as Germany and Austria? They never went beyond that and even left Austria after a neutrality pact was signed.
You fail at basic geography.
What historical fact? Hungary, Romania, Italy and Japan were allies of Nazi Germany, but Germany and USSR only had a non-aggression pact (a.k.a. neutrality pact), which is something very different.
Moreover, before signing the non-aggression pact Stalin tried to build an anti-Hitler alliance with France and the UK, but Brits told him to go fuck himself in the early 1939, Poland flat out refused to allow Soviet troops to move to their German border in the case of a war and France undermined the Franco-Soviet treaty of mutual assistance by making it essentially unenforceable.
Go educate yourself before you write stupid things.
The major turning point actually happened even earlier, during the battle of Moscow. At that point (December 1941) the whole operation Barbarossa failed and the war on the eastern front became unwinnable. Stalingrad was the point where the German war effort wasn't sustainable anymore.
Fuck off yourself and take your non-sequitur with you.
Besides, USSR only took back the parts of Ukraine and Belarus that Poland had annexed in 1921. Considering this and the fact that Poland happily helped Hitler carving up Czechoslovakia, I'd say they had it coming.
Obviously, but that was not my point. For some reason most people think that FSB spies in foreign countries which simply isn't the case. SVR does that, FSB is Russian FBI.
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Modern airliners are moving away from bleed air? Seriously? 787 is the only one that uses bleedless engines. Airbus insists that bleed air makes more sense, all the new and upcoming passenger airplanes from UAC, Comac, Embraer and Bombardier will have bleed air and even Boeing will use bleed air on the upcoming 777X. The bleedless 787 was a one-time detour.
"They does". That is why air is bled from the jet engine compressor to the cabin.
Actually the combat on the western front only started in summer 1944 - this is when the USSR arrived at the border with Poland and the allied were seriously concerned that the Soviets might win the war in Europe all by themselves. The vast majority of the Wehrmacht was destroyed on the eastern front.
Oh, and the last fascist regime, Spain, was happily supported by Americans. And yes, you are lying. USSR was not doing its damndest to expand westwards. Stalin promised not to support Greek communists and he didn't. The Soviet army left Austria in 1955 right after Austria signed the neutrality pact. USSR wanted a buffer zone between their mainland and the West that invaded Russia several times and this is what the Warsaw Pact was all about. So you calling people little shits for telling lies is like the pot calling the kettle a nigga.