Russia’s current military doctrine is to not allow any Western countries to border their territory

Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland: am I a joke to you?

Is there another Almeria? It’s so weird for people to go “Paris France” well of course Paris is in France duh

Awesome. Get rekt putler. Keep your blood-soaked oil and gas.

It was always illegal. The news is that there is now jailtime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Ah yes, the “Europe was a cunt in the past so now everyone gets to be a cunt” card. Classic.

Rafale, not Rafael. Rafale means gust of wind or burst of fire, Rafael is a male first name.

We will need a lot less oil in the future. Just one example: in my country the typical way to heat a house in winter was oil. We are now transitioning to heat pumps as fast as we possibly can. Another big consumer of oil are vehicles, which are also transitioning to electric. We will still import oil, of course, but much less. It’s not unreasonable to cut out one or two supplier countries if the demand halves.

The US defense spending is different to ours in that it is economically useful. In short, it enforces the petrodollar, thus forcing everyone to buy dollars, thus everyone pays for their inflation.

proudly independent

As a Swiss let me just clarify this: only old stupid nationalist idiots delude themselves to believe this. In reality we are completely dependent on our neighbours and the EU. We are a tiny country with a surprisingly large economy, which is exactly as strong as the trade we can do with EU countries and the highly skilled EU workers we can attract.

Internationally yes but in Switzerland it’s considered a large city, because it’s the 3rd largest, after Zürich and Genève, but before Lausanne and Bern (the capital)

Corruption scandals are daily business in the Spanish governments

Er wird tatsächlich oft durch den Dativ ersetzt, besonders umgangssprachlich, aber “fast ausgestorben” ist maßlos übertrieben.

They will simply drop the matter

The NATO partners are doing everything they can to stroke the ego of the felon the USA chose as their president, because they have no choice.

Ukrainian has six, Croatian has seven, Hungarian has 727266278384982*10^100

Many languages do, German is not special

Good.

No need to backdoor encryption then