He’s basically agreeing with you.

RULE?!

Overton window ftl

Except when it’s dead.

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: Prions make your brain melt.

Get out of here with your reasonable take

Nazis and dumb people vs. No Nazis and dumb people.

Hmmm.

Ah, so you’re just detached from reality. Thanks for the warning! Enjoy the block.

It isn’t that they must be. It’s that the larger powers around them will by default control the surrounding area, unless they suffer severe collapse.

The Roman Empire spanned all the way from the British Isles to the Egyptian desert once, and they held strong trade influence on the areas outside their direct control. It is the same here; the only question is who you would prefer to align with. The West, and the US/EU, or the East, Russia/China. That is simply the truth of geopolitics.

I mean no, no one would survive that.

The question is always whether he was truly on the plane or not.

Is racism your go to argument for trying to invalidate others’ points? Really?

You people amaze me with your hand waving of a tyrant despot who has legitimately shown he is willing to burn countries to the ground to expand his sphere of influence.

But yes, magic indeed.

Their own bloc… to be promptly subjugated by Putin?

What accent?

Wait, you’re telling me the Greatest Generation had evil, Luciferian, sexual deviant drag shows? In their militaries?

But mah masculine as fuck grandfather would NEVER….

/s if anyone needed it

I never realized we were trying to terraform the world to be Arrakis.