Germany will exit it next. Orban has already provided the language, and not doing so will be incompatible with the Staatsräson.

They should also make plans to fund a Radio Free America, for once the corporate US press starts fully parroting the party line.

Which is also how you spell Putin in French. (I did a double-take when I first saw a French newspaper headline mentioning the Russian dictator.)

Operation Prairie Storm

Any ranking Democrat would be far too committed to trying to manifest norms by acting as if they were still in force to even consider such an action.

Belarus did this a few years ago with a flight from somewhere else to Lithuania that was carrying a Belarusian dissident. The few minutes it spent in Belarusian airspace was enough for the air force to intercept it, force it to land and arrest the dissident.

IIRC, there was a huge outrage, which didn’t help the dissident (rogue states gonna go rogue and all that), but since then, no EU/western flights have overflown Belarus.

Depends on how well Starmer fares, and how good the right’s data microtargeting game is. If left-leaning voters stay home due to Starmer tacking to the right (and, in key electorates, precisely targeted Facebook ads inducing disgust in just enough voters), while the right-wing papers keep going on about Labour’s loony-left socialist programme driving Britain off the cliff (illustrated with photos of empty shelves in Venezuela), Labour will find itself falling between two stools.

They could well eclipse the Tories in the next election, especially if Tufton St. switch their allegiance. A Reform LLC government is not less likely than a second Trump administration in the US.

It is Whittier.

Not quite, but they have a town that is entirely in one big building.

Ace Frehley, surely. Nice Jewish boy who was in one of those beat combos

Depends on who you are. If you’re Brock the quarterback, you’ll be fine. If you look a bit queer or neurodivergent or are from a racialised minority, probably not a good idea.

The Pope keeps acting like a Catholic

Given that he regards the Department of Justice as his personal litigators, it makes sense that he’d regard NATO as his enforcers.

Given his leading role in AfS (a party to the right of the far-right SD party, whose role in the ecology of the Swedish far right appears to be to be the ideological shock troops who float extreme ideas and see which of those are ready to be laundered into the mainstream by the “respectable”SD), it’s probably safe to say that this guy was a piece of shit.

Looks like buying the Washington Post paid off then

The downside of this is that it involves giving money to Bezos in the first place. If there are similar techniques that work with, say, Apple Books, Kobo or other stores not owned by a literal Bond villain, they’d be even better.

(Also, everyone else seems to use the EPub format, while Amazon have their own proprietary fork of an old PalmPilot ebook format. Meaning that you’re probably going to need to convert it to EPub for reading, which is one more step and could, in theory, go awry.)

If you have enough wealth to be forever above consequences, you don’t ever need to endure the discomfort of growing

You’re right, it does not make sense.

If Toronto isn’t in Poland, you must acquit! The defence rests.

Poland, Finland and all three Baltic states are buying F-35s, which is less than ideal.

I wonder what Putin would have to offer Trump to nerf, say, Estonia’s F-35s at an opportune moment.