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They may bankrupt if Divinity will flop. BG3 and Divinity are very expensive games to make, they had to expand studio and hire a lot of people to produce them.
A lot of countries never recognized ICC's jurisdiction over them, USA included.
Iranian regime are not the good guys either, but they're the product of what regimes in UK and USA was doing to the country for decades, because of their oil.
You have been fooling yourself for decades that you're the good guys.
But you're not. No amount of mental gymnastics can help at this point to justify all the evil things USA does around the globe because of greed and lust for dominance.
The EU leadership is even worse than what they have in USA.
Numbers have never been in Ukraine's favor. With provided funds and tech by EU and US to mass produce long range weapons Ukraine managed to shorten the gap somewhat, but they're still losing, and they're a "zombie" country that is still afloat just because tens of billions are pumped into their economy and military every year.
It smells desperation. Give up and accept your failure already.
The company was registered in Prague for political and financial reasons, but it has always been Russian to the core. Yes, they had multiple offices outside of Russia, but they were still mostly populated by relocated Russians. That's why their product quality significantly dropped since 2022, as they've cut themselves from their main source of engineers.
You're right about SolarWinds though.
Significant portion of their staff left in 2022, when they decided to relocate from Russia and they keep bleeding engineers ever since. Despite registration in Prague, JetBrains has always been a Russian company with dominantly Russian employees.
I don't think people in Washington are waiting. They're pushing for WW3 full steam ahead.
None of them. You may only chose which slogan gonna be painted on the bombs to drop around the world.
It's not. USSR and Russia experimented with space mirrors and was able to light significant territory. It was a successful program, but in 1993 Russia had no money to continue the project, so it was wrapped up.
My bet is that all of this "Data centers in space" media campaign is just a cover for testing and launching military stations with an ability to attack ICBM's and ground targets all over the globe.
Quite contrary, I'm pretty sure that USA is well aware of what Israel is doing and both are acting in coordinated way. Both do not want any settlement in a region, they need more chaos and global supply interruptions. If it wasn't the case, USA could've stop weapons supply to Israel long ago.
That's not true. USA still spends money on Ukraine weapon supplies. It's just with the current administration most of expenses has to be paid by EU.
Read this treaty yourself first. USA broke it first when intervened in Ukraine politics and toppled their government twice.
Russia's war against Ukraine has never been about getting more territory, it was for returning to status quo, when Ukraine has to be a sovereign and neutral state, a separator between Russia and NATO countries. USA and EU turned Ukraine into a hostile state to Russia when they installed nationalists in 2014, and then they buffed them with money and weapons, and so we have a war going.
You mean Crimea lived happily besides Ukraine cutting them from electricity and water supply?
You may go to youtube and watch how Mariupol lives now for example. Peaceful city unless there's a Ukrainian drone attack happens.
Stop spreading propaganda.
- Ukrainians are the second largest ethnicity in Russia.
- The majority of people living on a currently contested territories of Ukraine used to be USSR citizens.
- Russia got the majority of Ukrainian refugees since the start of a war if we count per country.
- Pretty much all the former Ukraine citizens got Russian passports and a citizens of Russia now.
- And yes, if Ukraine is using cities as fortresses and do not evacuate civilians from there, high chances are that after weeks and months long battles those civilians end up in graves with nasty wounds on their bodies.
It looks like you never bothered to read what this memorandum states yourself.
No, USA didn't sign up to going to war against Russia if this memorandum is breached. More of it, USA breached it first, when staged two "revolutions" in Ukraine and turned a sovereign nation into a puppet state.
Yeah, sure. That's why half of my MIPT faculty in early 00's was Ukrainians from Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk that were sent there to study physics and math and rocket engines for three years, and after that they were sent back to write diploma after practice on the soviet era facilities in mentioned cities. It was the normal procedure since soviet times.
It's a false analogy. Ukraine was no such source. It's just happened after WW2, that as a part or rebuilding a devastated territory, plus a better climate, resulted in USSR relocating several of its best aero/space and in general military institutions to what is now known as Ukraine. For example, their space engines engineers were educated in Russia till 2008 at least, maybe even longer.
I find it amusing that someone is calling Ukraine a functioning democracy, when they are governed by a coup installed regime that has no elections for years. The last time they had elections, they voted Zelensky in on a promise to change the course of previous administration 180 degrees, instead Ze and K rushed the same course full steam ahead and got the war instead of peacefull settlement. Ukraine is a bankrupt state without working economy for 3+ years now. Up to this day this guy in power only because he is given more and more money for the war while repressing population by the threat of being thrown into the trenches as soon as you show up on the streets.
Ukraine war has never been about more land or resources for Russia. It was all about NATO expansion by overthrowing governments in post soviet countries and installing hostile regimes there. For Russia an independent Ukraine was fine as long as it doesn't join a hostile military block, and that's exactly what was planned to do since the coup in Kiev in 2014. So we have war.
>He has even stated publicly it has nothing to do with NATO.
That's not true. It has always been about NATO absorbing Ukraine that is unacceptable to Russia. Putin warned about it since his Munich speech in 2007, that Georgia and Ukraine has to stay a military neutral countries or it'll result in a war with Russia. USA just decided that they may ignore it and do whatever they want anyway, pushing NATO in, after organizing "revolutions".
>It feels similar to Putin invading Ukraine because he didn't like the example of an EU-aligned country prospering next door and the populace starting to ask difficult questions.
Ukraine was a much poorer state and is a much poorer state than Russia. Putin's invasion has nothing to do with "EU-aligning prosperity" that never happened, but with USA and EU overthrowing Ukrainian government and placing a puppet regime that turned Ukraine from a friendly-to-neutral state into an hostile one to Russia.
It's ironic that Economist keeps pushing this propaganda year after year, but it's UK that has worse and worse performing PM's, but every single one of them keep dreaming not about their own country and economy, but how to topple Putin.
I still use my iPad mini 2 I bought in 2014 to read books. The only problem with it is that reading books is one of the very few things I can do with it these days as Safari is no longer capable of rendering most websites, most apps are not supported, and generally iOS 12 ate most of the memory device has. So yeah, it's my bookreader still, but nothing more.
Yeah, like pretending that they don’t see an elephant in the room, but Putin in every shadow.
>Musk repeats verbatim Russian talking points about Ukraine.
Have it crossed your mind that they're just closer to truth than what Western propaganda spreads about Ukraine conflict and why it started and keep going?