It’s always reassuring to hear these things from Medvedev. If the Kremlin chooses Medvedev as the guy to say something, that means it’s meaningless bluster they have no intention of following through on. I’ve never seen a single threat from him that the West has ever needed to worry about. He’s like “Russian Weakness: The Person”.
forbidding parents from forcing their child to participate in this practice?
If that’s what the law was, it probably wouldn’t be as much of a problem. But that’s not what the law specifies, though, is it?
As a man, I’ve seen other men going around without shirts this summer. I wouldn’t appreciate a law that insisted I had to go around without my shirt too.
Different people have different ideas of what modesty means. It isn’t, or at least shouldn’t be, the law’s job to force us all to be the same.
Iran has imprisoned women for NOT wearing headscarves. This is the same thing, just enforcing different cultural norms. Neither is very free.
It’s a valid concern, and one that needs to be considered when deciding the path ahead. You’re right that appeasement won’t work, but if you’ll excuse the analogy… in chess, it’s important to anticipate how your opponent will respond to your move, so that you can consider your options for how to respond to the opponent’s likely response. It’s called “thinking several moves ahead” and it’s an absolute must. When you game the sequence out, you can see whether the initial decision will ultimately lead to good outcomes or bad outcomes. Even if a bold move is necessary, sometimes “thinking several moves ahead” will allow you to see what other pieces you might need to move into place first before making that bold move.
In Canada’s case, if it knows that becoming a beachhead for Europe in the New World will trigger a Monroe/“Donroe” Doctrine freakout from the US, the key question is: does Canada have its pieces in place to be ready for that foreseeable sequence of events? If not, then this move is premature.
Evidently the Swedes feel no need to rush.
So the US diplomatic corps is taking a leaf from the Catholic Church’s book.
To be clear, I don’t disagree with the fact that Trump needs to take a long walk off a short pier. My point is that we can’t afford to convince ourselves that Trump has already done all the damage he’s going to do.
While I don’t want to be a Negative Nancy, I also don’t want the remaining forces of the West to lose touch with reality, so I feel I should point out that there are still things Trump could do to put even more pressure on Ukraine, so we shouldn’t be flippant about the threat he still poses.
I’m disappointed in Norway and Japan.
I suspect that travelling to Russia would have been more likely to get flagged by their government than travelling to the EU would.
“Es are good! Es are good! These effin’ Es are good!”
So it appears to be a 1:1 straight remake, but with modern graphics, better sound and probably some improvements to the UI.
I’ll be honest though; I preferred how all the characters looked in the 3DS remaster. Oh well; I don’t have a Switch 2 anyway, so it’s not like I was gonna get this either way.
The rest of the country really needs to implement Ranked Choice Voting in order to give more people like him a chance.
Nah, that’s no good; I like a little absurdism.
Oh right; actual operatives behind enemy lines. For a second I thought you were saying they’d managed to fly drones that far.
…are Ukraine even able to reach Vladivostok? It’d be mind-blowing if they can
Russians also describe 1990s Russia as an economic wasteland where all of Russia’s wealth and resources were gathered up by oligarchs. So yeah, pretty apt analogy.
Yep. Now, it should be mentioned that clean drinking water SHOULD be a constitutional right, but that’s a matter for an amendment, not for a judge to unilaterally decide.
Unironically I truly believe there’s no difference. Humans needed fap material prior to porno mags and this kind of thing was it.