In my comment I stated that "Iraq" was a fictional country created by the British.

That's a fantasy perpetrated by a delusional psycho with brain cancer. Ukraine is the origin of the Rus peoples, Russia is the fiction.

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No foreign power has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan afaik. The Chinese will be the next to try due to insane mineral wealth but it's going to be hard to extract and process the ore.

The West did topple Saddam fairly easily but it's important to remember that "Iraq" as we know it is an historical fiction invented by the British and composed of various different peoples with little in common. The Shiites identify with Iran, the Sunnis with the Sauds, then you've got various other peoples. Iran probably benefitted the most of anyone from Saddam's removal because he loved killing Iranians. The Kurds benefitted. Any benefit to Western states was clearly outweighed by the extraordinary cost involved.

The "first wave" left when he first instituted the draft, the second wave left when it became apparent that Russia was losing and the war could drag on for years and economic stagnation was assured.

There's no question Russia is suffering a talent and wealth drain, but that's still estimated to be around 1,000,000 or so out of a total population of around 145,000,000, so less than 1% estimated have fled due to the war. Probably more than that will die or be injured in the war before it's over.

Don't forget most folks who died of Covid were over 65 conservatives, GOP or right-leaning independents. The GOP's real problem is suburban educated and working class women hate them.

That's a different game sorry.

Putin is just trying to stay in power, this is straight out of the dictators playback. When your people are getting restless, blame external "enemies" and launch an invasion.

Winter ain't over yet, natural gas prices spike in cold weather like we're having at the moment.

I wonder was it the drunk woman's estate who sued? Or the other people she harmed?

See my edit. But she has a Florida state of mind.

Typically 3rd parties can sue a drunk driver, but a drunk driver is not allowed to recover her own damages in this situation. But this happened in Florida I guess so all bets are off.

Edit: LOL Canada not Florida somehow. Same principle should apply.

In the counties of northeast Washington adjacent to Idaho, bestiality is a fairly common crime. Not sure if it's a crime in Idaho though.

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