Protectionism only really makes sense if you’re a country without native industrial capacities and trying to industrialise. Even that is debatable.

Russia used to be a major world power with highly developed heavy industry and okay-ish light industry. A lot of that has been poorly maintained since the fall of the USSR but the factories are still there. Protectionism makes little sense here.

Ireland too :(

Article says the rebels going in are Islamists. Sadly, I don’t think life will get much better in Syria and will definitely worsen in Kurdistan.

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Damn, TIL. Thank you.

And for the first time in my life, thank you Erdogan.

NATO has not changed its position, that’s the thing.

Proudhon said that property is theft

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_218165.htm

https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-backs-israel-and-warns-iran-to-stay-away-gaza-hamas-netanyah/

There is a very good reason the Irish care about Neutrality. The Montrealites are not so different.

Edit: Thank you Chairman Meow for telling me about this: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-blocks-nato-israel-cooperation-over-gaza-war-sources-say-2024-08-01/

We said the same of Kissinger and Thatcher.

Fair. Thank you!

If the girl repeats it, there will be consequences for her and her family. Children have no filter.

There are proxies and VPNs. My student is a little girl who innocently asked if YouTube is not working in my country either. It is this that is depressing.

The cause of the YouTube block is that it blocks Russian state outlets. That is obviously going to prompt the question of why it did that.

Yes. The Americans ask this on every form for who knows what reason.

Problem: the Americans have an actual czar now, and an “ethics czar” will not stop him

Sibling of Bobby Drop Tables

A compound in Texas run by an ultraconservative who loves guns is an American tradition

I mean, that’s how cotton is produced nowadays too, except Uyghurs are the ones doing it.

And yet they cannot survive a snail

I do, actually!

I love FreeDOS and occasionally use it, and not just for vidya.