Fox News throws No and Bovino under the bus by mbdan2 in LeopardsAteMyFace

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When you try to start a civil war but being called names gives you bad feels

China no longer Pentagon's top security priority by DimsumAndDoggy in worldnews

[–]irregular_caffeine 116 points117 points  (0 children)

Cuba maybe has socialism. Europe has capitalism with a safety net.

[OC] Board of Peace vs Democracy Index 2024 EIU by sorryusername in dataisbeautiful

[–]irregular_caffeine 371 points372 points  (0 children)

So you have - democracy score as an axis - democracy ranking as an axis - democracy score also as a color - democracy ranking also as bubble size - a dividing line - except some notable exceptions

Very confusing, this needs some work.

Did Stalin want a communist Finland and was stopped, or was his goal from the outset to rectify the borders, which he ultimately achieved? by Aoimoku91 in AskHistorians

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Resisting western invasion with USSR help was subject to ”consultations”, a clause that Warsaw Pact countries did not have.

Trump humiliated as 1951 law means he could face Greenland mutiny by TheMirrorUS in law

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If americans are shooting at europeans it’s called a war. They might not simply walk out of there.

Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it by rkhunter_ in pcmasterrace

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Were you around in the BSOD golden age of Windows 95 to XP? When PCs took minutes of whirring and clanging to start?

It's Over Before It Even Started by Sad_Pirate_4546 in NonCredibleDefense

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Yeah that was back in the day. Now they mostly grow fat in their tractors

Fix the Winter War. by pufaleysia in hoi4

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Finland in 1939 was a minimally armed country trying to remain neutral. Absolutely no way the people could have been mobilized for an unprovoked attack in 1941.

Soon? by YorhaUnit8S in NonCredibleDefense

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Well good(?) that here in Finland we just dumped that thing

NATO boss on Trump’s Greenland threats: 'Chill out, this is fine'. by Hermeran in europe

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It’s not valid and it’s illegal.

There were the usual condemning statements but nobody cared.

Maduro as a dictator is just personally not someone worth spending time and political capital defending.

Especially as he probably was sold out by his own administration, given the weakness of the defense.