It is now. One or two more mobilizations and some of these regions are going to break away from Russia.

We went through this in the 70s and 80s. We had state run facilities, homes and hospitals for the mentally ill. In the late 80s the media started reporting on the bad conditions for the patients. After years of this exposure NY state and others shut down most of the system in the early 90s. This is why there is no program in place today. The reasons why are many. The biggest reason is human nature. There are probably a dozen large psychiatric hospitals that are abandoned across NY state.

This is all a game called mission creep. They said the same thing about tanks. They are playing Putin and his supporters. Everyone will be sending fighter jets eventually.

Western civilization has borders. Taiwan is one of those borders. It will be defended.

Unfortunately if Putin goes down it would probably happen within weeks. The rich people that really run the planet want that money flowing. They also want the resources flowing.

This is great news, except that we need to figure out how to make large amounts of electricity without natural gas and coal.

I don't believe that any computer program or computer programs working together could ever become truly sentient. They will always be programs running the next line of code.