Chechenya was more complicated but essentially it boiled to being prototype ISIS pseudostate which destabilised entire region and Chechens themselves weren’t monolithic on this, Russia fucked it up at first by trying to do it American way while not being America, but what did you expect of Yeltsin.

Georgia was actually incredibly similar to Ukraine, it started when Georgian comprador government attempted to ethnically cleanse Ossetians. The difference was that Georgian govt was more traditional US comprador instead of full nazis like in Ukraine and backed down after Russia shown they are willing to make a military confrontation out of it. And note that Russia did not even invaded Georgia just enforced back to the status quo which is autonomy and de facto independence of South Ossetia from Georgia, which i think is more than restrained in the face of ethnic cleansing.

34 victims in just a single comment

TWO OTHER FAMINES THAT HAPPENED THE SAME YEAR

It’s also exceptionally bad faith to treat it as three famines while it was a single one occuring on huge areas. But once we learn it, the entire “holodomor” narration shatter immediately.

I didn’t even meant to argue, just wanted to put it into perspective for lurkers. We could even go further and note that there is huge support for genocide in various forms and methods in Israel, but Zelensky got explicitly elected on his promises of deescalating and stopping the civil war.

Ukraine being less democratic than Israel is not the gotcha its supporters expected

Pride parade in Kiev in 2022 lasted 10 minutes, organisators dispersed them because crowd of neonazis gathered and it started to look really dangerous. In 2023 it was cancelled afaik, in 2024 there was 500 participants and way more cops, and in 2025 there was around 1500 participants including soldiers and support from other countries (with unknown numbers for both) and there was so many cops they formed multiple ranks around.

Scratch and a bleeds, as usual

boards of for-profit hospitals or insurance companies

This needs to be constantly hammered down: Capitalism put healthcare of society in the hands of people who are incentivised to deny the healthcare to society.

clearly Jewish Combat Organization has accomplished nothing through violence.

• You, 1943

Don’t the greybeards still have quite a bit of dialogue?

No, actually not, except Arngeir who is the most proficient in Thu’um, even they risk releasing the power. Or maybe they just got used to silence after decades of maintaining it. It’s actually indicating Ulfric talent and control he managed to become warlord and politician despite it.

both the player & Miraak are quite talkative

Yes but it’s because both of them are actual Dragonborn for which dragon language is no problem, but Greybeards including Ulfric are normal (if talented) humans, for them learning and controlling Thu’um is much more difficult.

To be fair he’s gagged and and apparently in the middle of silent tantrum so he’s not very communicative in this scene, though even later when he’s back on his throne and even during Stormcloak questline he’s not very memorable too, you mostly talk with Galmar Stonefist who is more expressive. I guess it’s explained by him being apprentice to Greybeards and wielding some degree of Thu’um, you just don’t flap your gums carelessly when you can demolish everything around you accidentally.

or ever met Ulfric.

He sits with you on the cart at the beginning.

Lmao it must be crushing after all that distancing from “tankieism”, opposing every designated enemy of US and positioning as the palatable non violent accptable opposition to still be counted in the ranks of enemies of empire 💔

I was super baffled that they decided to imitate worst feature of Humankind, game itself much worse than Civilization.

Yellow Peril

The Cuban Kuban Cossacks

No, i’m sure you need the space for quotes from your funny puns way more.