It’s not only money, it’s global influence and ability to project power. The USA wouldn’t be able to do that without countries all over the world tolerating US bases on their soil. That’s likely going to change. The US will degrade itself from a global to a regional power due to giving some rich idiot with the mind of a toddler virtually unlimited powers.

Their plan for the war was to conquer the oil fields needed to fuel the war in the war. Flawless logic and peak efficiency.

The German media and political establishment is full of transatlanticist bootlickers. It’s not denial, it’s deliberate propaganda to enable this scum to continue doing business as usual.

Which Trotzky? Never seen the guy nor heard of him. He doesn’t exist. You’re delusional.

The people who voted for him will believe anything he says. They are stupid enough to have voted for that deranged idiot. If he tells them it’s all fake news, they’ll believe it. Also, by the way things are going, they won’t get to vote again anyway.

Not only this, doing such a thing also spoils the tea. Because even for newfangled methods like cold brew, you don’t use fucking salt water straight out of the ocean. Why, you might ask? Well, because it tastes like shit.

As if that mattered.

He has established a dictatorship where he clearly is above any law and all other scrutiny. Whether he stuck his dick some place forbidden or not won’t undo him.

I read this comment like “before Kissinger, there were people who won the prize who weren’t utter bastards”. But yes, it is a bit vague and can be understood both ways.

He is just the right idiot for the job. His megalomaniac narcicissm combined with his utter stupidity makes it easy to nudge him in the right direction, because he is too dumb to even realise that he is destroying the empire he longs for.

Just tell the same lie often enough and people will start to believe it, no matter how obvious.

Agent Krasnov is a tremendous asset. Huuuuuge.

Giant orange turd is full of shit, more breaking news at 5.

Respect isn’t a one-way street, and needs to be earned.

Of course a megalomaniac fascist dictator doesn’t bother to ask before sticking his dick somewhere. But that’s just a danger to a few individuals, while him being a deranged dictator in a country that is a nuclear superpower is a danger to all life on the entire planet.

I guess there is a reason why he isn’t so well known these days.

He must have been a real piece of work.

As most people who wear diapers, he has them put on by someone else.

She also was qualified to drive fast and did apparently employ that skill to great effect on that medieval bastard.

They did. Some of it even pretty sophisticated (They had the first ever scanned array Radar, where you didn’t need to rotate the antenna to rotate the beam) The history of Radar is a history of lots of inventions being made in parallel pretty much at the same time by different people who didn’t know about each other. For quite some time, technologically, it was an arms race where both sides were pretty much head on, until the Allies managed to pull ahead by inventing the cavity magnetron (allowing drastic downsizing of very powerful Radar transmitters), and bringing US mass production capabilities into the game.

The Battle of Britain famously being won by Radar, for example, is only a very superficial part of the story. What actually won it wasn’t Radar alone, but much more the sophisticated system of command and control behind it, turning the data obtained from Radar (and other methods of aircraft detection, such as old fashioned visual observation) into workable interception orders for fighters pretty much in real time. In fact, the Germans didn’t think of British Radar as much of a threat at the time, for mainly two reasons:

1. They had Radar themselves and didn’t find it all too useful for air defense, because they lacked a sophisticated system of command and control to process the data obtained by Radar in real time.

2. They had captured some mobile British Radar sets during their conquest of France, examined them, and found them to be rather crude and less capable than their own.

The chaff from the original post also has a particularly interesting background story: Both sides had invented it independently pretty much at the same time, and then both sat on that invention for an entire year, not daring to use it operationally for fear of the other side copying it, because it’s really quite simple to make once you know about it.