Past tense, you’ve already been judged, he’s deciding the consequences.

Wall of acid, same as wall of fire, but acid damage.

It’s about time someone did. War is just violent economics. Taking away Putin’s income will cost him the war faster than killing Russians.

Finally figuring out that war is economics with violence. Our sanctions have been half assed from the start, and need to include some serious pressure on any country not abiding by them.

China has long had a unification plan. It’s not really anything new. There’s just been a huge political football made out of it for decades. And of course that led to stupidly huge over investment in their economy by the rest of the globe as a way to encourage China to back off. Xi doesn’t see the value in the status quo. It’d be like California seceding, then making tons of money while the rest of the US went fascist and built military power. Same ending.