Idk about "any county". This looks like a clear case of "countries with advanced navies get to steal boats from countries without them"
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So is Venezuela's. Hasn't slowed them down.
You should state your opinions without making aggressive, worst-faith assumptions of others.
"Russians control Reddit! I demand you take my assertion in good faith and be nice to me."
Okay buddy.
If you said Russians are the reason you're always missing one sock in your dryer, half of Reddit would agree.
I hear there was a power outage in Zhenjiang and everyone I didn't like on the Internet disappeared
Hey maybe if americans took a page from Nepal things would be different
A non-white country? Perish the thought.
Feared? Maybe Yaroslav Hunka was startled a bit by the sound of applause. But Canada's got something of a mixed reputation on fascism, historically speaking.
In fairness, you guys do have a lot of oil
I imagine most of them didn’t know that child sex abuse was going on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/prosecutors-detail-sex-abuse-allegations-against-dennis-hastert
Even setting aside Epstein, this abuse is fully rampant in the upper eschalons of American society.
And Brooks was going out with these guys, he was meeting their second and third and forth wives. He was writing long winded articles about Eastern Europe and the scandals of human trafficking, with the spin being a need for more US intervention to restore law and order in post-Soviet States.
Epstein was probably careful about who he let into the inner circle.
Nothing in the info dumps we've received suggests Jeff was particularly discrete. He bragged about who he knew and slept with. Ghislaine bragged on his behalf. It was a selling point.
He had a plane christened The Lolita Express. Nothing about this screams subtlety
I mean, the materials still have to come from somewhere. They could be less ruinous, but when you're talking about something with the footprint of Manhattan Island, that's going to leave an ecological mark no matter how you slice it.

In the same way Zelensky knew Putin would never invade the Donbas, sure.
"This would be a stupid Pyrrich struggle that would cost tens of thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars with no real material benefits!"
Because the Americans haven't done anything exactly like this before.