All of the sanctions and European energy security were banked on the idea that Russian frontlines would collapse under the super Nato equipped Ukrainian counterattack and then there would be a regime change in Moscow and gas would flow again. Now Ukraine is on the backfoot, there is no change in Moscow and Russia oil still flows to Europe, but only through intermediaries and loopholes, because there really never was an short to medium term alternative for it in the way the global oil market is structured. The sanctions were actual serious sanctions and their architects thought that they would actually work, but the decisions were made on faulty assumptions of effectiveness of sanctions and the structure of Russia economy.

Germany has been the second largest military supplier to Ukraine after the US. They are very much providing for that war too.

For german government “Never again” meant just never again genocide against jews. All other people are fine and free game.

it’s probably only beneficial to China if the housing bubble is deflated. Astronomically inflated housing prices are only bad for economic growth in any country as they create unnecessary upward pressure for mortgages and rents that then push up wages in high housing cost areas and therefore make it more unaffordable to do business and produce things.

The only problem is to make sure it doesn’t just spiral out of hand and that all housing projects of Evergrande will finish and people wont lose their homes. Then investors can realize their losses as they should and not expect a bailout.

Weirdly specific, but interesting study to post here.

It’s basically like sawdust and that is commonly used when growing fungi. I presume not all mushrooms like coffee. Some don even grow only on specific type of wood or waste.

The Oyster Mushrooms I buy from them are delicious.

Taste like coffee?

Well if human body is a machine made out of a chemical soup and that requires those parts working together in harmony, then of all possible states those parts can be most are logically non ideal.

Fuck the dollar. Nobody knows why the Euro couldn’t do shit to supplant it.

I was designed so that it could not. One primary mechanism is that there are stricter limits to money printing with Euro. One needs money surpluses to send to the world if one wished it to be used in third party trade.

Or they see that US has a economical nuclear bomb in the dollar and it’s increasingly more reckless in it’s use and they naturally want to isolate their economies from the fate that Washington just decides that they are not “free”, “democratic” or somehow against US interest and decide to unilaterally sanction them and keep wrecking their economy until US demands are met. You do know that third of world’s countries are under some sort of US sanctions and very few of them were or are on war footing towards anybody. World wants out of the dollar because US is no longer seen as reliable.

Late formation is one possibility of why this planet exists, but in neither proposed scenario did the planet ever “die” or got destroyed. The star either jumped over it’s expansion phase by swallowing it’s twin or the planet formed from a new protoplanetary disk formed after a star collision.

It’s a literal fact and offical position of 99% of world’s countries, including USA, PRC and even ROC that there is no such country as Taiwan separate from the mainland and that there is one entity called China of which the island and the continental areas are both part of. The only argument ever was who is the legitimate government of that China.

Ukrainska pravda

“According to the Ukrainian General Staff…”

And into the trash it goes.

please have some critical eye regarding sources. In war the first casualty is always truth.