Was that why his hair like that? I always assumed he always just did copious amounts of cocaine before public appearances.

Invested it in chainsaws, obviously.

That one is one of my favorites.

Assuming that Russia would somehow benefit from cutting off the gas supply, why wouldn’t they just…turn it off on their end? If they really wanted to make it permanent, why not destroy it on their end? Traveling out of their own territory just to blow up the pipeline in a high risk underwater covert ops mission in enemy territory as what…an elaborate false flag?

There is nobody with more experience at being president of a wide array of countries!

But that loss will be mitigated by the remarkable thwarting of Mr. Putin’s original plan to take over Kyiv and destroy Ukraine as a nation.

What? That was never the stated objective. The whole three days to Kiev line didn’t from Russia either. Russia never wanted to destroy Ukraine as a nation, though that may very well be the functional result thanks to NATO.

Imagine trying to spin “our opponent didn’t destroy our capital!” as a victory when they weren’t even trying to do that.

I am in the mountains around Mt Fuji now (that is a massive area, I am not significantly doxing myself folks, don’t worry) and it is pretty nice, but I definitely wouldn’t mind more towards Hokkaido. I love the cold though, I will take a snowstorm over Tokyo summer any day.

Our healthcare system is honestly pretty solid. The annual health checks we have is probably the single biggest reason for our high life expectency. I was surprised to hear a lot of folks in the US never go to the hospital for preventative care.

Retirement eh…well, we will see if a pension still exists by the time (people aren’t sure, and they keep trying to kick up the retirement age). In theory, we have pretty decent retirement options with a public pensions everyone pays into, plus a private pension your employer pays into. I know folks retiring now, and none of them really ever did any investing at all. Especially that generation, there is a pretty common distrust of the financial markets and banks.

I did some calculations a while ago, and assuming (big assumption) that the pension systems remains fairly constant to my retirement, I would be capable of retiring reasonably comfortably. Not going to be traveling the world or anything, but definitely more than enough for me. Especially as I plan to retire somewhere even more rural than I am now, which would lower the cost of living drastically.

This is true, I honestly don’t know how you can negotiate with nato/western forces in good faith at all anymore. Even outside of Ukraine, they’ve shown that they don’t place any value in their word (see: Germany admitting they never had any intention of honouring the Minsk Agreements). That kind of admission severely tarnishes any future diplomatic overtures.

The currencyappreciation has probably a lot to do with it. The USD to JPY exchange went from 160 (the worst I have ever seen) to 140, in like a week. Still needs to recover a lot more to hit the 100:1 rate it used to hover around. A lot of that is in on the back of the BOJ increasing interest rates in the first time in…an extremely long time.

A lot of people don’t invest a whole lot/at all here, so for the average person outside finance people are actually quite happy with the way things are trending. I know a lot of friends who cancelled all plans to travel internationally this year because the yen was so weak that it just wasn’t feasible.

Most interesting, is we are doing basically the exact opposite of what the US wanted us to do. Every time I see us break lockstep with the US, I allow a little bit of hope to flourish.

The western public will look at the headline, that is the extent of their attention span, and cheer over the fact that the article must mean that Russia is surrendering.

In the interview, Zelensky said there can’t be direct negotiations between Ukraine and Russia but there could be indirect negotiations through a third party.

I know that diplomacy is not exactly his background, but it should be fairly obvious to anyone that a requirement of negotiation is that you are actually willing to talk to the people you are intended to negotiate with. This is this crazy international relations theory we call “common sense”.

I have seen people actually calling for the US to stage a coup, so I think they realise they don’t have to care about pretenses anymore.

This is a sign that the Kyiv Independent has been corrupted by Russian bots and must be disregarded as a viable news source. Everyone knows that Russia has lost 568,980 troops a day every day since the war started.

We should only trust news from cartoon shiba from now on, obviously.

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Come on Thanatos, don’t leave us hanging like this.

I think we would definitely notice if he started walking straight and speaking in full sentences.

Gotta love the libs who have the holy task of lurking this instance to downvote and report those of us who get too unruly, while making sure to never actually engage with us.

At least the folks who get banned have the spine to post something.

From my understanding, yes she would be sworn in and function until the next candidate was elected.

As she is the current VP candidate, I believe she would just get bumped up to the presidential candidate and they’d need to decide a new VP.

Now what I am not quite sure of is what would happen if he died mid-election after people have already voted for him. Would they do another run of ballots? It ultimately wouldn’t matter much, but I would be curious what the mechanics would be.

Thanks for the article link.

I tend to agree, that might fit better in memes, I like having the full article to read in a news community. Admittedly it only takes me a few seconds to find it myself, but it is convenient still.

So much to unpack in a few sentence. It is impressive the amount of wrong he manages to condense into such a tight package.

“Who is going to be able to hold NATO together like me”

Probably not the win he thinks it is.

“We’re at least checkmating China”.

He realises this means that they’ve defeated China right? Which decidely…no. Though even if he said checking he would be wrong.

Who has that reach?

This is part of the issue. The pacific basin shouldn’t be part of the US empire, nobody needs to have “reach” on the other side of the planet from their own interests.

It’s a good thing the capital flight laws were in place already. Seeing millionaires (and up) fleeing a country is probably one of the most overt signs that China is obviously doing something right.

I mean, there are dozens of other metrics that show that too, but it’s nice to have another one.