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When I was in high school they'd teach us about wars and how nations would try to invade another with diff weather conditions such as snow and ice and would get washed because they didn't know how to handle it. I'd be like bruh what :lol: How you losing a war when you have better weapons but can't handle some snow.

Then Texas had a snowstorm and these dudes out here on a George Bush terror level Red because the ground is slippery. Man bring on this civil war. I'm buying a snow machine and putting snow around my crib year round and I'm safe for life.

I mean it’s true. Russia never been conquered because of the their brutal winters. Ain’t no one want any of that **** believe me. Eastern European winters are brutal, especially in Russia.

But yea, let’s just sprinkle some sub 35 degree weather, snow, wind, and ice below Virginia and the south is crippled :lol

remember Georgia a few years back? Same ****.
 
Ironic the only 2 people in Texas that can handle the cold and snow are immigrants

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I mean it’s true. Russia never been conquered because of the their brutal winters. Ain’t no one want any of that **** believe me. Eastern European winters are brutal, especially in Russia.

But yea, let’s just sprinkle some sub 35 degree weather, snow, wind, and ice below Virginia and the south is crippled :lol:

remember Georgia a few years back? Same ****.
There's nothing to invade in Russia anyways.

Got to be a little serious and nerdy for a sec. The Mongols invaded and conquered Russia. Although they were from a place with even harsher winters. No power from Europe has ever invaded and held Russia for a long period of time. Some might say Vikings did but they were individual adventurers who became Eastern Orthodox and married local Slavic nobility. They were syncretic rather than settler colonists. There really was no white supremacy/racism in the Middle Ages.

Now if by Russia, we include what is now called Ukraine, Russia becomes very desirable. The black soil of the Ukraine was and is extremely productive. Ancient Greeks built syncretic colonies on the Black Sea and made tremendous profits selling grain to the hungry Greek mainland and else where in the Mediterranean region . Ancient Roman bought a lot of grain from those places and made sure that Black Sea kingdoms were in their diplomatic orbit and not overrun by nomadic tribes further inland. Greeks and Romans and Byzantines and later on Ottomans and later on the Tsars always wanted to push nomads off of Ukrainian land in order to bring more land under cultivation.

Later on the German Kaiser coveted the black oil just east of the Ukraine and black soil right under the Ukraine and later on Hitler wanted the same. The Nazis unleashed a few years of settler colonialism on other Europeans and we will never forget the brutality.

In the 1960’s, Kruschev wanted to turn the Ukraine into the Kansas and Iowa and Nebraska of the Soviet Union. He’s still know as the corn premier.

In recent years, Putin has tried to absorb Ukraine and its black soil and sea ports.

Ukraine is a seriously underrated chunk of the earth in terms of just being interesting historically. So if you say the Ukraine is weak, here’s my response.

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(I’m not Ukrainian but I stan it)
 
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Ukraine has some of the most fertility soil on earth for growing grains and it can’t even be debated on top of the perfect weather for it. Too bad the country is in complete disarray. Even under USSR the country was a mess from everything I heard when talking to Ukrainians who lived there under USSR rule. Very few countries that gain freedom do transition into democracy seamlessly. Only reason Poland did it was because of the help from Western Europe and the US. But now the current ruling party is looking to undo 30 years of progress, so it shows how fragile that can be.
 
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the filibuster is so obviously absurd that no one can mount principled defense of it.



Joe Manchin is clearly gripped by nostalgia but I think it's possible to convince him, to reform the filibuster.

do something that keeps it around so he doesn't feel like he's breaking with senate tradition but makes it harder for the minority to abuse.
 
I don't know if Frum brings this up in his article, but one of the worries with getting rid of the filibuster is that the party in power will just repeal everything from the last administration. But as we saw with Obamacare, a popular piece of legislation will not be easily repealed despite Republicans controlling everything for a couple years.
 

These fools have no legislative agenda for the majority of Americans.


The main takeaway is that the economic case for more immigration grows stronger each year.

In the 1960s, there were 6 workers who could contribute to social security for every American retiree; in the 2010s, that ratio has shrunk to about 3 workers for each retiree. Maintaining the current ratio would require 300k new immigrants/yr.

It's also tangentially related to the culture "wars" that have seeped into US politics: it turns out that acceptance of immigration is one of the differences between dying communities and growing ones in small town America, and one good reason Republicans should make a 180 on their anti-immigration nonsense.
 
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