Thomas_More
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Like my German teacher at school, who, with her fellow Nazi Party members in 1945, swapped armbands for Communist Party ones, and carried on.
He was himself a chain smoker.
Tea houses were closed and the elderly workers who relied on them as a relief from their wretched daily lives driven away. Chess was forbidden too. The Chinese tea house was a very ancient tradition and was the centre of social life. They were not reopened until the 1980s.
Loudspeakers plagued people all day long, and at night, blaring on every street corner.
“True Narcissist states “I would agree with those mumbers. The Ukrainians on the other hand have lost at least 100,000 dead possibly much higher. Ukrainian losses are unsustainable, Russian losses are not. That is why Russia will win and decisively””
And TN must be proud and happy about it.
Yes, like the constitutional church in revolutionary France.
And like that example, Stalin created the Moscow Patriarchate because the former clergy rejected him.
Stalin didn’t “make an alliance” exactly with the Church; he set up the patriarchate with his own appointees, to create a Church loyal to the Soviet state. His motives were patriotism and to assist fervour for the war.
The original patriarchate had collapsed in 1918.
Putin has intimated his admiration for Imperial (imperialism, TS?) Russia and would like the restoration of its control over its former western empire in eastern Europe.
He uses the symbols of the fallen Tsarist empire that even the Bolsheviks had smashed: the two-headed eagle of Byzantium, which linked the Tsars to the Caesars, and the Church with its roots in imperial might, autocracy and xenophobia.Not an imperialist? Give me a break!
“He is like Donald Trump who knows more than the Generals.”
What do you mean? He knows it wouldn’t be WW3 if NATO came in, or he doesn’t care?
Is he that stupid?
“My commonsense still leads me to believe it was unintentional and Zelinsky is merely trying to make as much political propaganda out of it as he can.”
Quite so.
People, like many who write rubbish on Quora, who are blase about nuclear exchanges, have really no realistic concept of the power of such weapons.
I would refer them to Carl Sagan, or even to Stephen Fry, who have both presented realistic documentaries on nuclear war.
Even were only India and Pakistan to have a nuclear exchange, it would spark a global nuclear winter. Even if “the other side” in a conflict never fired back, “our own side’s” doing so would kill us all. Most would be blind instantly on the receiving side, who were not immediately incinerated. There would be mass starvation. The Sun would be blocked out. The radiation would cover the globe, and we would soon be unable to breathe.
What would Zelensky have to gain by provoking a world war in which we all die, including him and his?
Quite interesting.
