Taking out just Turkmenistan here for instance completely blunts this and Uzbekistan while possibly to bypass by a long routing around via Kazakhstan is also pretty important.
I'm guessing these countries will be making bank on tolls on these routes. Even a pro-US government would not be very happy if asked to shut them down.
All's quiet on the well front.
Lol no. But he could, for example, declare it a sin to not help migrants. He can't enforce it, but it would be funny.
Ironically, global warming could green the Sahara.
Weak. That's what the cats in my house do.
they'll accept a ceasefire now if they get the four oblasts in their entirety
Why are they askiing for this? Wouldn't a Ukraine with even fewer Russian speakers be even more Russophobic? I thought they wanted all of Ukraine to stay neutral, but this is just asking for problems down the line.
Communism is really the most minimal demand
What is nearest, reasonable, the middle term.
Whoever is opposed to it is not someone who thinks otherwise
It is someone who does not think or who thinks only about himself.
The whole idea behind the formation of the EU, which the US helped push for, was to squash this rivalry
But does the US want to maintain this system now? Perhaps they see the EU as a competitor and want it to gridlock, or even fragment.
That works if you do it once. If you keep doing it you lose credibility.
What I understand is that the consciousness requirement was placed so that people could verify that the animal was healthy and had not been ill-treated. Stunning is allowed after examination and before slaughter. Meat certified by the UK Halal Food Authority, for example, is from stunned animals.
Ehh, that's the one humanising thing about him.