I'd only heard of council juice
No we did, it was good tea. That's what made the message clear, the value being sacrificed. The popular American predilection for tea up until after the Townshend Acts was well documented by de Tocqueville. It was only after that drinking tea was considered "unpatriotic". Before then we would even eat boiled tea leaves with butter as a side dish. We were mad about the stuff, but as a colony we were only allowed to buy British tea. It was a whole thing.
Anyway I've had an electric kettle for ages. It's more common in Asian-American households perhaps. We didn't fit in that well in the states, so we went back to the UK. Now I only buy British tea again. Full circle.
That wasn't my intention - I don't know what is possible for Russia in the future, only that they don't show any signs that they're trying to change.
Obviously it takes two to tango and the US has not done enough to smooth things over. The world is too imperfect for tidy solutions or easy answers. All I'm saying here is that nobody who knows Russia is raising their eyebrows at the way they're acting.
You're still being silly as hell. The AR can be easily reconfigured for several different cartridges, some of which are quite powerful. Also, just about any rifle is far more deadly than any pistol for several reasons. Reducing the subject to a binary "can/can't kill" is charitably, infantile and if I was not feeling charitable I'd call it a bad faith argument.
They do things right out in Cornwall. We were vacationing at lands end when storm Henk made landfall, it was memorable to say the least.