Because every food item in the US is crazy expensive? When I was there in January, there were Chip-Bags for 4-8$. In Germany, a potato-chip bag starts at 1.10 and the national brands at 1.99. I love potato chips. But I do not buy 5$ bags. Thats crazy.
As long a putin is still wasting prescious oxygen, urkaine can not even think about demilitarisation. That psychopath has shown again and again in action and words, that he thinks ukraine as a country, ethnicity or in its history should not exists - and should be eradicated. Will this stop with the last heartbeat of Putin? Maybe. But it will surely not stop before. Putin has to die for Ukraine to exist.
If there is no "0" or "No Tip" Option the moment you show me the screen, I will only go into the submenu to type in "0". If you make me work to give equal or less than 10%, you gonna get nothing.
Ukraine, Russia, the DPR and LPR signed a ceasefire agreement, the Minsk Protocol, in September 2014.[40] Ceasefire breaches became rife, 29 in all,[41] and heavy fighting resumed in January 2015, during which the separatists captured Donetsk Airport. A new ceasefire, Minsk II, was agreed on 12 February 2015. Immediately after, separatists renewed their offensive on Debaltseve and forced Ukraine's military to withdraw.[42] Skirmishes continued but the front line did not change. Both sides fortified their position by building networks of trenches, bunkers and tunnels, resulting in static trench warfare.[43][44] Stalemate led to the war being called a "frozen conflict",[45] but Donbas remained a war zone, with dozens killed monthly.[46] In 2017, on average a Ukrainian soldier died every three days,[47] with an estimated 40,000 separatist and 6,000 Russian troops in the region.[48][49] By the end of 2017, OSCE observers had counted around 30,000 people in military gear crossing from Russia at the two border checkpoints it was allowed to monitor,[50] and documented military convoys crossing from Russia covertly.[51] All sides agreed to a roadmap for ending the war in October 2019,[52] but it remained unresolved.[53][54] During 2021, Ukrainian fatalities rose sharply and Russian forces massed around Ukraine's borders.[55] Russia recognised the DPR and LPR as independent states on 21 February 2022 and deployed troops to those territories. On 24 February, Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, subsuming the war in Donbas into it.
Make no Mistake: Russia is trying to destroy Ukraine since 2014. Russia is the agressor and needs to put in its place.
Another crazy part is also the decomissioning. All the highly and slightly contaminated material from dismantling an old atom plant is mind numbing. Germany is right now dismantling their last Plants (german source) and is confronted with these cost and e.g. France also will have to invest dozens to hundrets of billions for all their plants to decomission (and store the waste) in the next 20-40 years.
[In Germany] The demolition of the nuclear ruins will take decades. Today, around 120,000 cubic meters of low and medium-level radioactive waste are waiting for their final resting place in interim storage facilities. By 2050, another 180,000 cubic meters are expected to be added. The biggest waste problem is the highly radioactive legacy. When the last German nuclear power plant is shut down at the end of this year[2022], there will probably be around 27,000 cubic meters - around 1,900 containers of waste that will remain dangerous for many hundreds of thousands of years.
construction began on Sweden’s first final repository for spent nuclear fuel at the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Östhammar municipality. The facility, which will be one of the first of its kind globally, will store nuclear fuel waste for up to 100,000 years.
Sweden currently has six active nuclear reactors that together produce between 90 and 150 tons of spent nuclear fuel annually. This waste is currently stored in Oskarshamn, but will eventually be moved to the final repository in Forsmark. When the repository is sealed in 2090, it is estimated to hold about 12,000 tons (180,000 cubic metres) of nuclear fuel waste, encapsulated in copper and surrounded by bentonite clay, placed 500 meters below the ground surface.
The decomission Waste from the german plants alone could fill the swedish storage twice. And France has 50+ atom plants that have to me dismantled at some point.
It was the biggest sign of Chinese people actually demonstrating in the streets fighting the opression. Not sure we will see something like that in the next 20 years in China again. It was impressive to see how they were organized and fought for their freedom
Sublime! There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!