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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
I'm not sure what say Canada has over Greenland since it's currently under Danish rule. But, since you bring up Canada, it looks like they just might get their own Trump soon, so who the fuck knows what their foreign policy will look like later this year. Maybe we'll end up fighting Canada over Greenland, and the Danes will call up all their Nordic kinfolk across Scandinavia and go bersker against both us and the Canucks. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Save the date! Oh, and poor Tatiana, she hasn't figured out this timeline yet. Kremlin Confirms Readiness for Putin to Meet Trump The president-elect had said Russia’s leader wanted to meet him to discuss the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin said it welcomed such dialogue, but a meeting could occur only after Mr. Trump took office. The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia remained open to a meeting between President Vladimir V. Putin and President-elect Donald J. Trump, but that any concrete steps to set up such talks could be made only after Mr. Trump is sworn into office on Jan. 20. Responding to comments made on Thursday by Mr. Trump, who said that Mr. Putin wanted to meet him to discuss the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s spokesman reaffirmed Russia’s longstanding official position that Moscow was ready to talk. “We need a mutual desire and political willingness to engage in a dialogue,” Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, told reporters. “We see that Mr. Trump also declares his readiness to solve issues via dialogue. We welcome that.” Mr. Peskov added that the Kremlin’s understanding is that there is a “mutual readiness for a meeting,” but, he said, “it looks like things will start to move after Trump enters the Oval Office.” He did not confirm that Mr. Putin had requested a meeting with Mr. Trump or that one was being set up, as Mr. Trump said on Thursday night. A spokesman for Ukraine’s foreign ministry said Friday that Kyiv expected President Volodymyr Zelensky would also meet with Mr. Trump after the inauguration. The spokesman, Heorhii Tykhyi, said Ukraine was preparing for talks at “the highest levels.” As for Mr. Trump’s remarks about potential talks with Russia’s leader, Mr. Tykhyi said that the president-elect had “previously mentioned plans for such a meeting, so we see nothing new in this.” “Our stance is clear: everyone in Ukraine wants to end the war on terms that are fair to Ukraine,” he said at a news briefing. “We believe President Trump is also committed to ending the war. Therefore, the priority now is for a meeting between our presidents.” “The most important thing for us is to collaborate with America in the pursuit of peace,” he added. While asserting its territorial claim over five regions in Ukraine, the Kremlin has been insisting that it would prefer diplomacy over war. Ukraine and some of its Western allies have questioned Russia’s seriousness in offering to negotiate, and said that the Kremlin’s conditions actually represent a demand for Ukrainian capitulation. Russia has been largely isolated from the West for almost three years since it invaded Ukraine. For Mr. Putin, a meeting with the American president would represent a chance to establish relations with a friendlier American administration. Mr. Trump has repeatedly said that he could resolve the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours, without saying how, and at times even said he could do so before taking office. But this week he suggested that it could take up to six months. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said that he was sympathetic with the Russian position that Ukraine should never join NATO, one of the main conditions put forward by the Kremlin to end the war. Mr. Trump’s victory in November produced a wave of cautious optimism that the war could end soon, even if in an unstable cease-fire. But analysts have said that the process will be hard and tedious, and many in Ukraine and elsewhere fear that Mr. Trump might want to push through a deal at the expense of its capitulation. In Russia, Giorgy Bovt, a political analyst, said that if a meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin happened too early, when “the conditions for peace have not yet matured,” it could “lead to greater escalation.” “Both warring parties are still betting on continuing military action,” Mr. Bovt wrote in a post on Telegram, a popular messaging app. “They do not consider their forces exhausted.” Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, wrote on social media that “the higher the expectations” from the meeting “the riskier the game, most of all for Trump.” -
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
I think his neighbor is that real estate dork from the old Stupid Shit on FB thread that absolutely looooved posting pics of his new Beemer, so you might have that asshole to contend with. -
Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
True, but it's also foolish to allow construction on hillsides in these fire-prone climates due to frequent drought conditions. Are we prepared to have much more stringent land-use regulations in Texas? Who's going to support that proposition? I don't have any idea if the part of Montana where your little chalet is built on the side of a mountain is also at risk of an eventual forest fire, but it's the same shit. -
Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
One big problem with removing trees, brush, et cetera, is that you've then removed what's holding those hillsides together when it finally fucking rains and you get massive mudslides. It's a pickle, for sure. -
Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
For those of you who, like me, might not be super familiar with all the neighborhoods in LA and need to search a little bit to find where shit is going down, this is the Hollywood area that’s on fire and at risk of spreading. The fire seems confined at the moment to the area just north of Hillside Ave. at the center of the map at the link. Edited to add screenshot: -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Link? Where did you copy/paste this from? -
Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
Hope you LA peeps have kept a few of those N-95 masks around. -
This born-and-bred Texan made it just fine when I drove through NE Ohio after Thanksgiving without incident. I did, however, see several cars with Ohio plates stuck in piles of snow on the side of the interstate. So there! 🤘🤠🤘
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
Man, it's really tough to take it all in. Y'all stay safe out there. -
Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
Will Rogers' historic ranch house https://yubanet.com/california/palisades-fire-destroys-historic-homes-and-buildings-at-will-rogers-state-historic-park-and-topanga-state-park/ -
Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
"DO SOME OF YOU NOT GRASP THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?!?" -
Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
Careful there. I was told by this site's owner yesterday that ANY discussion of government action is politics and, therefore, should go in the Cloak Room. He even posted this image as evidence, so we should definitely respect his wishes. -
I've been streaming one of the local news outlets in LA on YouTube in the background. Apparently, a former mayoral candidate and conservative crank has been bitching about the firefighters briefly running out of water overnight in Palisades. It's the local Fox affiliate, btw, and they're reporting that all the municipal water tanks had been filled in anticipation of the fires but ended up using so much that they ran dry. Basically, they're saying that guy is full of shit. Of course, a reactionary rube like Incredulity is already shouting about this "scandal" in the wildfire news thread. I keep that piece of shit on ignore but viewed his post under the erroneous assumption he might have something informative or useful to add to the conversation. That was a fucking mistake.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Yep, his speech alone legitimizes imperial expansionism. The notion of territorial integrity/inviolability of borders has been baked into international law and the UN charter since WW2. That's all done now. We're going back to Age of Empires. -
Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
bolverk replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
Hang in there, @Sbbruin. I'll keep my fingers crossed that your "luck" holds up. Not sure what else to say other than this sucks for you guys. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
From BBC: Germany and France warn Trump over threat to take over Greenland
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