I am but a humble doom miner, mining my doom.

He didn’t choose the thug life. The thug life chose him.

“But if I keep sending more wheat to the dragon, I’ll get to be a dragon one day. They told me so on the Internet.”

General Winter has not only turned on the Russian army, it’s now going after Russian civilians. Top 10 all-time anime betrayals.

I hear Russian general corpses grow the best sunflowers.

Europe to US: We need to have a difficult talk about the alliance covering its financial obligations.

They Titanic’d that thing. Sticking straight up in the air. And another submarine is added to the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Pick an enrichment site and turn it into an irradiated crater. That would both send a powerful message and slow down their nuclear development.

Not ideal, but the reasoning behind it could be practical. If the ICJ demands a ceasefire, Israel will ignore it completely and keep doing what it’s doing. Netanyahu has already said so multiple times. Ordering that measures be taken to limit civilian deaths and allow more aid could result in at least some compliance that would help alleviate the suffering in Gaza.

Add salt BEFORE putting the cup in the microwave, not after. Silly Brits.

The Russian mob needs foreign property to borrow against. That’s how they operate. The money machine is having some problems with sanctions, and storage is constantly being depleted.

You’d like to think Putin would think twice before martyring a priest. I don’t know a lot about Eastern Orthodox Christianity, but martyrdom tends to be a big deal.

1%er turns out to be massive fraud once basic scrutiny is applied. Many such cases, I’m sure.

Seriously though, how closely are people looking at these “prestige (read: nepotism) scholars?”

There could be a great many nepo scholarship papers that were not reviewed closely.

True, and unlike Russia China is not even remotely self-sufficient. Fuel, food, etc. all imported on a massive scale.

A significant delay could be the ballgame in Taiwan for the foreseeable future.

The B-21 will be in service in 2027 and sixth generation fighters a few years later. The Chinese will need a very long time to try to come up with countermeasures for the new tech.

“Four Putin allies/suspected enemies/whatever found dead after falling in the same bathtub and drowning. Putin’s surviving allies maintain, ‘This is fine.’”

Iran is either losing control of its proxy groups or making some very bad decisions. What Israel is doing in Gaza is horrendous, but Iran and its proxies provoking the US to war is incredibly stupid.

Please stop poking the bear. That doesn’t end well.

Fantastic. I didn’t have China testing stronger nukes on my apocalypse bingo card yet.

Operation Praying Mantis 2: Electric Boogaloo

Russia gets very, very angry when you transition out of CIS.