Nazi shit and “we like internet” has basically been the two defining qualities of Estonia as far as I am aware.

I think that outcome is pretty likely. The US tried to pivot NATO into a resource for them in Asia to pit against China, but it really didn’t stick. Even Japan rejected the idea of joining NATO while they were pushing for a branch office here, and when Japan rejects the US you know it’s an unpopular position.

With NATO not really being useful to them as a wedge against China, they’ll probably leave NATO to the EU forces.

They’ll be too tired from working 6 day weeks.

You can get bonuses to your pension amount here if you push retirement back to 70, though it is still not necessarily enough to really live on. Maybe if you have a house you paid off (ha!) already. So you either need significant savings on top of it, or be willing to continue working part-time. I see a lot of people in that second category.

Well yes but you forget that Russia Bad so it is totally okay.

Laws and principles are only for vassals and only for when it is convenient to the US.

Propaganda can be true. It isn’t even inherently a negative thing. It is just information that advocates/opposes a specific doctrine. Too many people have come to think propaganda are inherently lies, but that is often not the case. When the propaganda is irrefutable truth it is far more effective.

Unless you think we should avoid the truth just because it supports an unpopular narrative?

Going to go out on a limb and guess they are no comrade nor fellow traveler.

“May have received foreign subsidies” seems like an extremely flimsy justification for an all out raid. By the time you are raiding an office, you should basically already be sure of the wrongdoing and are just gathering up additional evidence. You don’t raid offices based on a hunch or as a preliminary investigation.

“If there is no wrong doing there is nothing to worry about” is a ridiculous argument. If the police bust in your house and search the place because of an anonymous tip (which would be more evidence than they have here), you would be fine with it? Or would you also react exactly like the Chinese chamber of commerce?

Even if we grant that there is some real financial wrongdoing here, which at this point I would be unlikely to believe, you don’t start your investigation with a raid. Even if I were a diehard Team EU fan, it is a terrible idea. If the company was doing anything wrong and didn’t keep evidence on site, you have just given them plenty of time to destroy it or move it. You don’t raid somewhere without prior knowledge that the thing you are looking for is at the raid site because you are just fishing and hoping the evidence will be there. It’s terrible police work.

If they were right that sacrificing every able-bodied Ukrainian would grind down Russia, it would be barbaric and inhumane. (See: US senators crowing over how cheap they are inflicting losses on Russia, like non-Americans aren’t people).

It’s not even that though, they could throw troops at Russia until Ukraine is empty and they wouldn’t have accomplished a whole lot. Even from the most cold and emotionless point of view, they’re not accomplishing anything by doing this.

So what could possibly go wrong? Not much, according to the authors, who say ‘the risk that deploying European soldiers will escalate the conflict is overblown’. Indeed, their proposal gets enthusiastic backing from Glen Grant, a former UK defence attaché to the Baltics, and one-time adviser to Ukraine’s defence ministry.

Yes, I am sure a UK defence attache is absolutely an unbiased authority on the subject and couldn’t possibly have any other motives.

Did they interview the director of the CIA as to whether US interventionism is an issue in developing countries too?

By 2026, they are just going to start mass issuing Ukrainian passports to foreign mercenaries. “Look, we aren’t sending our troops, these are Ukrainians!”

A week before his death, without an editorial telling them, I wonder if the average USian would have known who Navalny was. I am guessing no.

Seems a lot like everything the DPRK is accused of is actually the UK. Failed missile tests, cults of personality around an actual monarch, questionable food…

Do we have any evidence that brits don’t push trains to work every day?

Oh I work in hospitality, it’s something we are VERY concerned about. Albeit I am not in housekeeping, but we test very often and have local pest control basically on retainer in case something comes up. Steaming all the linens is fairly standard, but it only takes one case spreading to ruin a hotel.

My understanding is short of full-scale fumigation, steaming everything effected is the only really reliable method of dealing with them right now. They are too resistant to everything else.

A reasonable assumption but they might also go with “Chinese bioweapon”.

after the Interior Minister said such gatherings were “likely to generate disturbances to public order”,

They didn’t specify that the government would be the ones causing the disturbances to public order, so I suppose they were technically correct.

A “senior China correspondent” that cites Radio Free Asia for anything can probably be safely ignored, especially given her history of articles.