Ukraine has been very good at routing out corruption. It is now mid-tier in EU. So, pretty low on a global standard.
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Ukraine has been very good at routing out corruption. It is now mid-tier in EU. So, pretty low on a global standard.
Music to my ears.
I had booked repositioning cruise next year, but cancelled it since it is passing through the US. I will instead do something else in extended EU where I'm safe.
Looking forward to the EU Line Speech by VdL. EU is changing at its own pace to meet the challenges of the future, as we learn how to shape the world while standing on our own 900 million feet.
There are obviously many good Polish leaders and politicians. Like Tusk.
The problem is that every few years a PiS(s) politician will come jumping up screaming bloody murder and attempt to extort money out of Germany. Poland is a continuous headache really, in some respects more than Hungary. 2/2
EU and agriculture is though a tad "complex". The Polish agro business will have to adapt and improve its efficiency, like many countries had to due to Poland itself back in the day. There are some issues that Poland want adressed in regards of Volyn, but it will not be a real problem. 1/2
I think he already had that.
It is like looking at a traincrash in slow motion.
Poland is a tad different. They are not pro-Russian, they have their own brand of a Christofascist movement/party called PiS(s). They also hate LGBTQI+, hate democracy, hate independent courts, hate EU, but they do so mostly independent of Russia.
Yeah, they must be losing out on a lot of EU travellers at this point. But I guess we reschedule for intra-EU cruises. But, there are a lot of EU parts in the Caribbean that are safe and unamerican.
True, but not entirely relevant. Pilots flying near Russia is now routinely receiving extra training in it, and pilots flying dignitaries such as VdL receive an entire package of threat avoidance and threat resolvement training that goes beyond civil training.
The Cruise Industry truly should adapt and have more cruises in the Caribbean that entirely omits the US part. This is something that especially Viking and MSC should look into, since they are European one would assume they want to keep Europeans safe from US detention centers.
Europeans are per definition always cool. We are the world standard of Coolness. 😁
I find your comment entirely superfluous. Why? Because we are discussing a specific flight carrying a dignitary.
And free champagne. Very civilized.
Poland and EU is preempting the Belarusian/Russian Zapad 2025 exercise. European readiness levels are now at a point not seen since the height of the Cold War.
What is galling is that such a large percentage of many populations are to all points and purposes making suicidal choices. Because many of them know they are voting for shit that doesn't work, and do it just out of spite.
And this is why I always fly Air France.
Heck even I know what Instrument Landing System is, and I walk on my knuckles and grunt.
Unity in Crazy! We should have that as the EU motto.
But you argue with me fairly, are not rude, and you read the answers that I write. I'm not about everyone agreeing with me, but I do wish more people read the answers I write. 😊
I see my tenure mostly as being the placeholder for my replacement.
Their failed potato harvest and the crumbling hydrocarbon infrastructure will fix that long before they run out of Russians in Russia.
Yeah, we do not want our missiles to catch a cold.
Beyond Bilbo and the Lord of the Rings his writing is pretty much a load of gibberish.
Walk in the Sauce! R'Amen!
It will. He is obviously planning to try to cheat, but we will make that impossible.
QUOB is genderless.
As I pointed out, he had a scheduled medical procedure to have his rectum operated upon, it was in the medical report issued a while ago. Yes, this is the point in history that we are at, when the rectal state of an alzheimer's patient influences the entire world. Do better America. 2/2
At 1400 today Donold Humpo will hold his State of the Arse Adress in the oval office. It is expected that he will announce that the anal cyst that he had removed was big and beutiful and that the doctors wept with joy when they saw it. 1/2
I will throw in a Hakka päälle suomen poika too. Then you will know that the battle continues as you go to the pearly gates.
And that too.
How silly. Bluesky should get a life and realise that there are transpersons and orc romance.
I will try to not shout insults against the Russians in Blyatnik while you are dying. I'm fond of Icelandic. I would like to die to: Þar kømr inn dimmi dreki fljúgandi, naðr fránn, neðan frá Niðafjǫllum. Berr sér í fjǫðrum —flýgr vǫll yfir— Níðhǫggr nái— nú mun hon søkkvask.
Sphinctilicious! Back when they made funny movies.
Oh, you already knew about it. 😉
Nope, I'm a Pastafarian. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_...
Depends on if we are on the same battlefield.
It is indeed their obvious goal. But it will not work obviously. We will not go to war until it is needed and we are ready. And at that point Russia will regret a lot of things. Best for them to go home before such an event might happen.
Try Stockholm, poodleoodles.
As my semi-adopted transdaughter pointed out... There is trans-orc romance out there, very steamy such... if you catch my drift. One learns surprising things in life.
I fervently hope to die arguing with an obscure book. But, wishes and horses. More realistically it will be on a battlefield somewhere. As my wife put it, "you are to stupid to quit in time". She knows me to well.
I agree on the redistributive measures. It is important.
Sneaky buggers, now they have even learned to play Hockey. The natural order is destroyed, reality as we know it has come to an end. 😊
There will always be one that is fallen, hence why getting rid of that blasted Veto is so important.
Poodles? Please do not confuse me with someone from Stockholm 😁
"Passion dies on the battlefield". Like most old proverbs it is true. But, sometimes you get to do what is right, even when making a mindful choice.
Avoid it. Dying is overrated 😉
I also dream that. We all do. I do though tend to get stuck in the technical realities. It is my way to not think about all friends and soldiers that I have had to bury through the years.
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Guilty as charged😁
We also lost an Empire. Empires are though stupid.
Problem is that we did not have enough of ordinance to both give Ukraine, and go and fight ourselves. Choices had to be made, hard choices.
To get to EU they need to clear away the Azores.
They did though note that it is now biting them in the butt in Greenland.
The Danes was somewhat uniquely positioned to do that. Geography and all that. Note how they didn't give away a single rowing boat...
It is just a question of time really.
Truly🤣
Haven't anyone told you Finlandsvenskar that your dialect is the definition of hot? 😍
Them too 🤣 Everyone blames us Swedes for everything, but all we do is being squeezed between three sets of different crazies. Yes Denmark, I'm talking about you, don't try to hide in the corner. 🤣
Exactly. There is will, all that is needed for everything to get into place. Then things will go fast.
Walk in the sauce and you shall be touched by QUOBs noodly appendage. R'Amen!
Isn't it a shame? 😁
And when it comes it will be incredibly fast. Not even I will know beforehand, we will learn about by the Swan Lake being aired and the news that Putin suffered from a "stroke" when visiting the basement of Dzerzhinskij. A new government will be there already, and they will sue for peace.
Oh, we could Remember that it was arsed by the big arse.
Nobody expected the Spanish inquisition to go away... Empires expire unexpectedly.
The dildo of consequences is arriving unlubed and pink.
Mischieveous and dry.
They will learn that they are a week away from an American fleet showing up at any given time. Just wait until Donold Humpo discovers the Azores...
And nobody will see it coming. Except Hari Seldon of course.
The only original art coming out of Russia is Arkadi and Boris Strugatski and the movie director Andrey Tarkovsky. Otherwise it is a black hole of imperialist gibberish and cultural appropriation.
And 450 million citizens. That is a lot of cats to herd, and Europeans resist being herded. Sigh...
War and Peace... Unreadable gibberish of names and titles. You need a blooming map of who's who or you will end up unretrievably lost among the flood of uninteresting characters who are their names and titles only.
"pin the tail on Humpo's arse" And there was the laugh I needed 🤣
Thank you.
Pasturkey was a naivist painter of cigarette butts. You are thinking about his lover Saucovich who wrote industrial poetry about concrete.
And still we are winning.
We did not have enough arms and ordinance to do it. That is a simple fact. And building up the production capacity has taken time, and ideally we should spend another year on factory building.
More like India attacking China to recapture land that India perceive as theirs up in the highlands. If China gets bogged down in Russia things might explode in their rear. India, Uighurs, Tibet...
I saw something about it and laughed Swedishly. Nothing that a sturdy Gammeldansk can't overcome. 😊
It is by now all they have left. But, it is starting to sound more like confused sad grunting at this point.😁
It is crumbling at the altar of EU politely smiling while being ultrastubborn and stating that Trump is "doing a great job". That combo is very efficient.
The One and Only 😉
To the best of my knowledge there's only two such colonies in Sweden. Sadly the rumour about Sweden is exaggerated in this regard 😁
Lizz Truss, was a PM that was outlasted on the post by a head of lettuce. Someone put up the lettuce head and a photo of her on a livestream on Youtube with a counter ticking down. The lettuce won.
Best way to achieve that is to drag it out. Let them drive the stake deeper and deeper into the heart of Russia. At this point they are killing Russia by continuing.
But that would omit his sub-arses? Like Hegseth and the others.
Finlandsvenska is though basically Swedish that sound ridiculously cute and somewhat sexy.
The world as we know it would end by such a monstrosity of exactitude. 😁
Trumps big red button signals that he wants another diet coke.
There's so many factors that it is akin to Russia bleeding to death from a million papercuts. Or perhaps it is more apt that Russia is being sucked dry by a million mosquitos.
It is not easy. I can tell you that.
These are questions that I can't answer, at least for now. It involves what we and Ukraine will do, and that must remain secret.
As late as possible, that will save lives.
We are having a pool at the office. What will be Trussed first, Trump or Putin.
I do not know.
Currently the projection is that there will be 46 million of them at the end of the century, and that is if the war end this year.
Many Chinese can't understand each other either. They have several languages and dialects that are so far from each other that they can't understand each other. Mandarin and Cantonese for instance. It's worse than Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/Icelandic... they also have their Finns. 😁
And if people are nice there might even be a dear or sweetie used in my answers.