But it is just Russia. Vast parts of the former CCCP today are enjoying life without Russia.

Are you a mod?

Especially more prolific ones and condemning them consistently with it is just hypocritical.

Accusing the critical statement about country A of hypocrisy because what about critical statement about country B is textbook whataboutism. Your “yea, but country B is as bad as country A because …” is exactly that.

You don’t need to imply that country A is better than country B or vice versa, because the point of whataboutism is to relativise the criticism by pointing to another. This article is about China and their actions, your contribution to the discussion was to immediately steer it to “the Americans” - why’s that?

literally said it was wrong for the US and China. It’s the opposite of whataboutism.

From the definition of whataboutism linked above, my italics:

the act or practice of responding to an accusation of wrongdoing by claiming that an offense committed by another is similar or worse

You are doing exactly that.

A complaining spoiled kid shielded from the truth is only the minor problem here. Her own university siding with this kid and putting commercial interest above academic freedom and accuracy in this spineless appeasing move is what makes me speechless.

For context, Moldova is forbidden from entering military alliances or allowing allied troops in the country by the terms of their Constitution,

Given that their breakaway province Transnistria is doing exactly this, I’d either change this provision or give a damn about it.

Nervous French noises…

I’m neither Scottish nor Irish unfortunately, but I’d say the more the merrier!

The Celtic Union is a dream of mine ever since Brexit happened.

solve this mess

While I generally agree with you, it is not up to us EUropeans to sort out this mess but up to the Brits. They made a decision and if they do not like the results of said decision, they should have it again.

A short victorious war against either Israel or the West, or even both, is a thing my fantasy isn’t strong enough to imagine.

Just what his country needs: more political-economical instability.

As a genuinly curious Fritz-user: such as?

Isn’t Morawiecki also of (distant) German descent? Even JKMs surname Mikke used to be Mücke at some point in history. Heck, when you live as close as we do, neighbours will fall in love regularly…

Seems like they will choke on this “stepping stone”…

Russia always has SAMs ready for pax planes…