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by 988747 5y ago
Well, we don't know the whole story, but the fact that it was Ukrainian jet, not a gift, could matter a lot. Those things aren't strict rules, it is all based on perception by both sides. Sending 70 fighters, as EU planned, or all
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by 988747 5y ago
Sending supplies is just business, no different from selling food. Allowing to use the military infrastructure, such as an airport is an act of war. It might seem weird to you, but that's how Russia would paint it.
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by 988747 5y ago
No one seems concerned, except the NATO Secretary General who rushed to Poland specifically to stop Polish President, Andrzej Duda from lending Polish jet fighters: https://news.yahoo.com/no-eu-countries-aren-t-233404478.htm
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by 988747 5y ago
This is a kind of Catch 22 situation with how to deliver those MIG-29s: If a Polish pilot flies it to Ukraine, Russia will consider that an act of war, and possibly start bombarding Poland. If Ukrainian pilot comes to Poland and takes off f
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by 988747 5y ago
LNG being much more expensive is pretty obvious - transportation costs are something like 90% of the final price. Pipelines are much more effective means of transportation for such things - build once, use for decades, at almost 0 marginal
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by 988747 5y ago
The US are probably the only country where tipping makes sense, because it is kind of recognized by law (i.e. waiters have no minimum salary, because it is assumed they would make most of their money from tips). In every other country a tip
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by 988747 5y ago
Man, I have a similar problem whenever I visit my parents: my mother is after a heart attack, her blood flow is impaired so she's always cold, even when there's like 27 Celsius degrees in the room. The first thing I do when I the
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by 988747 5y ago
Of course having more effective insulation is a good thing, but that's not the case we're talking about here: were talking about "staying at reasonable temperatures" thanks to your neighbors.
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by 988747 5y ago
But that's not what's happening here, we're talking about maintaining pretty comfortable temperature at the expense of neighbors.
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Well, you can certainly substract Poland: we are hopelessly idealistic and only act in our self interest if we run out of other options :-)
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by 988747 5y ago
>> stays warm thanks to the neighbors below me heating their apartment. So you're basically stealing the heat from your neighbors :) You can see how that strategy falls apart if everyone starts doing it?
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by 988747 5y ago
Well, I assume that "full capacity" includes gas they decided to sell to Poland when the construction of Baltic Pipe started. They might not have enough to supply the whole Europe, no argument here.
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by 988747 5y ago
I think Russia has enough control over their home media that it actually can produce two separate narratives: one for the West, other domestic.
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by 988747 5y ago
The price charged by the US gas producers is maybe 10% of the resulting price in Europe. It's all about the transportation costs, liquefying the gas, and shipping it is very expensive.
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by 988747 5y ago
Poland is just finishing a pipeline to Norway, we'll stop buying any Russian gas at the beginning of 2023. And we also have ability to import LNG through a shipping terminal at Swinoujscie.
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by 988747 5y ago
I think GP's point was: Devaluating Ruble could cripple Russian economy only if they imported a lot, which they don't. They are self-sufficient, they have all the natural resources on their territory, and they have manufacturing c
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by 988747 5y ago
Well, for one it creates an impression that "common people" of Russia are against Putin (which is false, he regularly gets 70+ percent approval ratings [1]), and this might discourage more severe economic sanctions against Russia
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by 988747 5y ago
Well, if Russia didn't act like a total asshole towards all their neighbors then maybe some of them would like to be their allies. The fact that Baltic states or Ukraine prefer to side with a "well known aggressor" instead of
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by 988747 5y ago
You can tell lies by saying nothing but the truth :) One example that comes to mind is the time of Solidarity revolution in Poland. It was a time where most Poles only had two TV channels (own by communists) and handful of radio stations (a
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by 988747 5y ago
>> Or some kind of righteous peace force who is above it all, that can attack anyone who attacks anyone else, not seeing the irony in their position of attacking others who do something they don't like. It's not about attack
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by 988747 5y ago
non-proportional elections are not what makes US democracy unfair. The real problem is that US has bunch of laws which seem specifically designed to deter poor black people from voting: the lack of government issued ID (which in my country
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by 988747 5y ago
Or maybe we should take Putin's words more seriously? He was planning to invade Ukraine for at least a decade now, and was quite openly talking about it - all those times when he claimed that "The fall of Soviet Union was a great
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by 988747 5y ago
>> The amount of additional mass required to have a 100 bar atmosphere instead of 1 bar is rather incredible, and there is so far no plausible method known for such mass to disappear. Earth's atmosphere is constantly being blown
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by 988747 5y ago
Nuclear weapons come in all shapes and sizes. Hell, there was a bazooka with nuclear warhead once. Such things can come handy when you need to, for example, destroy few dozens of Russian tanks at once, and since they are not ballistic mis
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by 988747 5y ago
Russia already has border with Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast
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by 988747 5y ago
> The western alliance has not only rebuffed Russia, it has expanded eastwards against promises made and thus provoked the current situation in Ukraine. Every country is free to join NATO if they want, Russia has no say in it. And the re
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by 988747 5y ago
Subsidizing any industry is always bad for economy (because you are shifting money taken from good businesses to bad ones), it's just that the amount of subsidies given to corn industry, or even amount that can be given to chip manufac
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by 988747 5y ago
>> How? Using which political, economic, and financial tools? And what will be the side effects of those policies? There's a simple answer for that: please look at communist Poland 1980-1989 - trying to counter raising prices wit
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by 988747 5y ago
Well, certainly you can FEEL warm - it takes just a little practice before you can relax enough for your blood vessels in your skin to expand. Nothing special about this, I've done that many times before, while waiting at the bus stop,
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by 988747 5y ago
When you are watching a video everything seems easy. When you try to repeat what was shown in the video yourself everything becomes impossibly hard. The learning experience is really not comparable.

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