Hitler also only ended up going to prison for a few months, which was a total slap on the wrists for staging an attempted coup.

"One more such victory and we are undone" - King Pyrrhus of Epirus, origin of the term 'Pyrrhic victory', which is what Bakhmut would be considered to the Russians. He was famous for winning stunning victories against the Romans that involved so many casualties on his side that he could never capitalise on them.

Nah on the coast in North QLD. There's a handful of pubs around here that have Fosters available in cans/bottles, but none of them have it on tap.

As an aussie in a town with a lot of pubs, I have yet to see a pub that actually has fosters on tap. Only a handful even served it at all, and they were in more touristy areas.

Yeah but they look good at parades and PR events though.

Despite being half a world away from the conflict, there's not much love in Australia for Russia. A lot of the passengers on MH17 were Australian (it was the 3rd most represented nationality after Dutch and Malaysian) as they were going to transfer to a flight to Melbourne. There were also a lot of doctors and scientists heading to an HIV conference in Melbourne that likely took a few years off research for more treatments/cures thanks to the loss of that collective knowledge. People were so outraged that the PM of the time threatened to "shirtfront" Putin at the G20 summit we were hosting a few months later (he wimped out though).

Yeah, Ukraine specifically asked for Bushmasters by name, and we sent them some (we should probably send them more though).

Except the UK is weird in that it kinda did it backwards compared to other countries. When other countries like the US or Australia federalised, they did it by unifying a bunch of independent states into one country. The UK did it by splitting their existing unified country into states that hadn't existed with any sort of real autonomy for centuries.

Just take universal healthcare for example. In the US it's a contentious issue that's only really being pushed by the "fringe" democrats, and ignored by the rest of the party as well as the Republicans. Meanwhile in places like Australia and most of Europe it's so mainstream that as much as the right doesn't like it, they don't dare to overtly touch it because it would be political suicide.

> They’re only saying what everyone already knows, though, aren’t they?

Sadly, there's still a lot of people who clearly haven't got the message.

> Give them the ability to destroy military bases near Moscow and things might change.

They seemingly already have a limited ability to do just that, considering the strikes on the Engles airbase requires a similar range to be able to strike Moscow.

> There’s no such thing as objectively wrong

Believe it or not, this is objectively wrong. If someone says 2+2=85, they are objectively wrong. There are a lot of things in this word that are not just a matter of opinion, as much as certain groups of delusional people disagree.

Maybe for the first couple elections, but eventually people will figure out that minor parties are a legitimate option and vote for them. The white house will still likely be stuck bouncing between R and D but seats in congress and even possibly the senate could start to be held by minors, and if enough are then it becomes impossible for either of the majors to get a majority and it forces them to negotiate with said minors to pass legislation.

Ranked choice allows for minor parties to run without essentially syphoning votes away from their preferred major. It means people will have more choice than D or R.

Yeah but that was a special storm. After nuking it, it became very wet from the standpoint of water.

Something something Puerto Rico and DC.

The issue is, every country basically has to agree that they would come to the defence of everyone else. If it was just something like a majority vote, you'd have instances of countries being forced to defend countries that they didn't agree to defending, which could result in the alliance falling apart in the outbreak of conflict.