With how crappy those tankers are, it is only a matter of time until one of them breaks up and spills all the oil into the ocean.

We are not anti-Russia, we are simply pro-survival. Even before the Soviet occupation, tsarist Russia did a lot to destroy our national identities, in Lithuania, they forbade writing our language in Roman alphabet and hunted smugglers that carried books written in it. The ban and other repressions caused several massive rebellions including 1830s and 1860s ones.

The Tsar later sent his hound, Muravjov, who hanged so many men that the line of gallows went from Kaunas to Vilnius (~90 km). They have put a statue of Muravjov outside of Lithuanian consulate in Kaliningrad. I guess they are going to put a statue of Adolf Hitler outside the Israeli consulate next /s

And imperialism is common among big countries, sure, but it is Russians who enflame their local minorities in neighbouring countries and then rush to save them. And we do have a Russian minority.

As a Lithuanian, I actually disagree. We always knew that a day like February 24 would come. We kept telling that to our allies and they thought we were being paranoid.

You have to address the deep sense of Russian imperialism before we can take you seriously. Even the Russians who have lived in my country for 30 years or more have it. “We are Russians” they say. “We want the world; we want it and we won’t stop until we have all of it.”

I also know that people like you exist, and some people resisted, but our collective fear is that people like you are a smaller minority than you would think.

Viborg will be returned!

With what Twitter is worth now, that fine would be akin to complete asset forfeiture.

Or you could take a page from the Soviet energy strategy and build a bunch of pumped storage plants or their equivalents, no batteries required.

Some episodes were great, others terrible.

Neelix mostly sucked.

EMH was great.

Tom Paris and Be’Lanna Torres relationship was pointless and writers didn’t do anything interesting with them.

When you are a queen but want to be THE Queen.

I have played that game in early access and it was pretty good. The devs really listened to the players to make it better.

TBH 10 hours of Christmas anything should be a method of torture forbidden by the Geneva convention.

“I’m not gay but…” proceeds to say the gayest thing you have ever heard.

It makes you spicy.

Yes, but that was not the only reason.

The Soviets would send foreign intelligentsia and bourgeois (including slightly better off farmers) to die in Siberia in order to reduce the chances of uprising.

They would also mix populations in order to reduce national loyalties and would also encourage mixed ethnicity families to eventually absorb smaller nations into the Russian identity.

According to Wikipedia, there are 1.928 million ethnic Ukrainians currently living in Russia.

I remember some Discovery channel’s show called “the Colony" where they used rotting hog carcasses to power a tractor. They simply heated the hogs to get the tallow out and used it while it was hot to pour it into the diesel engine.

I think it would be even more awkward if he celebrated his life after his first wife died.

I regretfully expected this comment.

I had to make it fun in some way.

I did an edit!

I think India landed a probe on the Moon for less money than what was spent on SC.