A rich experience with many cultures, and a lovely wife I plan to live with for the rest of my life. That said when you marry culture is even more important, but ideology must be compatible. That old joke about two crackheads can get along, but if one of them goes to church instead of hit'n the rock they won't work out.
Yeah, NATO has been taking out early warning nuclear attack stations controlled by Russia for weeks now. They don't care, and they think they can survive. This is just "kill the sparrow" in the 2020s. These people don't care about reality when they have gut reactions/ideas. :shrugz:
edit: Too be clear NATO is still playing to lose, and doing a first nuclear strike should be enough to make everyone else want to kill everyone in NATO.
Elon works with the Chinese. Also Biden hates Elon and literally had his DOJ sue him for not hiring illegals to work on a project that's illegal to have illegals working on it. It might be confusing as NATO is trying to have war with China while still completely dependent on China even for medicine to various off-shored industries.
NATO wants to have a war with China like they had a war with Afghanistan -- they literally want to lose big, and it's a paid dive. China took most of the tech left behind in Afghanistan to get a leg up. Don't think about it too much.
I still laugh about how they kicked out so many troops from their armies over Wuhan flu, and depleted all their reserve ammo and equipment on a proxy war NATO started... not to mention making sure to hand over said equipment directly to Russia and China to reverse engineer.
Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, a lifelong moderate Republican, told Axios on Friday that he's supporting former President Trump in the upcoming November presidential election. This endorsement gives Trump access to an exclusive network of Republican donors closely tied to Schwarzman.
Mother fucker wants a bail out no matter who's in office.
Yeah, but they're pretty short term types of government for a reason, and republics only last as long as the stronger components can hold together the rest.
Trump is a moderate, and likely the best for me as I won't live too much longer anyway. Stabilize the wound so to speak. However when you have bone cancer band-aids only do so much. Everyone fighting about the band-aids doesn't help. :shrugz:
Just remember a lot of the culture was scrubbed clean not long ago. There is a reason they send students to Japan to study related period architecture.