Unfortunately that’s not necessarily true. The north of Ukraine at the time was covered by S-300 and/or S-400 AA systems deployed in russia. While these can be dealt with by F-35(As demonstrated by Israel), something as old and slow as A-10 wouldn’t fare well. Which is one of the reasons why the US Air force is trying to retire them.

The Royal Mail was privatized already in 2013 by a Tory government, this is just a sale between two private entities.

And make them drive on the right.

AFAIR from my visit a few years ago they had Hyundai ferrys between Phu Quoc and Ha-Tien. The Saigon metro uses Hitachi rolling stock. Their air force uses Czech and even US training aircraft. Apparently they don’t limit themselves by ideology when it comes to critical infrastructure.

Not really, nobody did anything when Germany had broken the Munich agreement in 1939. It wasn’t until well into the war that UK and France declared it null and void.

Very German even.

Enemy Territory, running on id Tech 3 engine, worked pretty well for what I remember.

Many EU members did, some of them already in 2022.

Teams are losing parts of text chat conversations for me. Not sure if that’s issue of their PWA on Linux or just an issue in general…

Have you tried asking that in Kremlin?

Ferengi rule of aquisition #34: War is good for business.

The code might still be a derivative work.

The first thing that crossed my mind is that they might try to cancel OpenTTD. Chris Sawyer reportedly wasn’t too happy about OpenTTD but didn’t too much against it, maybe recognising that it is a fan tribute. Nobody can expect that of Ataris’s corporate lawyers.

Giga Romania? Does it contain Hungary? /s

That’s bad!

Honestly, I think that there may be a very legitimate argument that given that Romania and Bulgaria joined – and this becomes even more-significant with a Ukrainian membership – that the scope of Article 6 should be extended to the Black Sea, as we did with Turkey when Turkey joined. Otherwise, it’s possible for Russia to perform a blockade on NATO Black Sea powers and sink their warships without them being able to avail themselves of NATO Article 5 protection.

Broadly speaking you aren’t wrong but ATM russian navy is unable to blockade even the civilian shipping of a country that has no navy. There is probably no need to resolve this issue now, especially as the Black sea countries are bound by the previous treaties on Black Sea like the Montreux convention. Moscow might be more amenable to changes of these treaties if NATO doesn’t let them win in Ukraine.

Czechoslovakia certainly didn’t invade in the traditional sense, because:

• The troops were there before the bolshevik revolution with the agreement of the Russian government and on the way out of Russia when they were attacked.
• Czechoslovakia didn’t exist yet.

You are discussing on a platform created by a man who praises people like Lenin & Castro. Richard Stallman resigned over some comments on Epstein victims. Free software is like that sometimes.

Yes, but there USA were fighting the locals. Here it’s moskals who is fighting the locals.

And funny you bring up Afghanistan, USSR went down also because of invading it.

Moskals can’t afford to wage the war for three more years.