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What's specifically wrong about the first crusade? It was in response to the rise of the seljuk Turks and their advance on the Byzantines and also similar to the Muslim invasions of the middle east, northern africa, southern italy, and spain.

That area of the world had changed hands between Rome and Persia for hundreds of years before then as well.

i dont use it much and get 2-2.5 days.

I have kept my smartphone and use that for maps (as gps still works) and music (predownloaded) in the car and occasionally around the house, but treat it more like my laptop now.

The cat s22 isn't exactly a dumb phone but it is a flip with a numpad and a very small touch screen which makes it much less addictive. You can still hotspot with it and have access to apps when needed. I love mine so far

>despite it leading nowhere worth visiting.

America has some of the most beautiful natural landscapes on the planet due to its diverse environments.

Generally, there is no country that has as favorable as a future outlook as the US due to its robust demographics, dynamic economy, and wealth of natural resources.

The soviets were instrumental in starting WW2. They have no one to blame but themselves

It depends on how the container is being run and if it has root Access

It's not biting today, but instead looks incredibly silly in hindsight. The investment in the moon landing was a massive success and had that money been spent on social programs it would've accomplished almost nothing due to structural and cultural issues

I have the same experience with exercise and food

>But when they dont look at us, we dont care

Complete load of trash. The situation in Ukraine is significantly less complex the situations (like Syria) and yet people still like to claim it's about race.

Ukraine as a country is fighting against an enemy with the end goal of joining the western sphere of influence. It's not a messy civil war. It's not repression inside another country's borders. It's not a migrant crisis caused by a failing economy.

Quantity is not always better than quality.

The runtime might have been much shorter without the theodosian walls as well

It was the premier eastern orthodox christian church for a 1000 years before that and taken by conquest. Of course some people are still salty about that. It would be like the Jews turning Mecca into a synagogue or st peters basilica being turned into a mosque

> Not to mention that the eastern roman empire was far more impressive that than the western roman empire.

What's your argument for this?

sometimes it's not just about the flavor but the tradition itself. You're participating in an act and culture that has stretched throughout time and creates a shared experience to those in the past and hopefully future

Macross isn't an obscure show for those interested in Mecha shows like Gundam

I am incorrect. rates are indeed very stiff right now

I don't understand how most of Europe hasn't been more hair-on-fire emergency over the past decade about this.

If you have a low mortgage rate, borrowing against the increased value of your home to invest is free money

And not to Ukraine

How much money do you think the Germans and Russians owe the Poles, Belarussians and Ukrainians for WW2?

The issue is significantly more complex than you're making it out to be

I have no idea what the plan is for Italy, Portugal, Spain, and South Korea.

They're all aging incredibly rapidly and the first three have generous pension systems that are going to be impossible to reduce

>Yeah, but they care about reading the stuff written by the API users.

Based on what?

I would bet that the large majority of reddit users couldn't care less about the API stuff.

It's not just luck though. The American system is better than both the Chinese and Russian ones.

Could it all be research for the new vr headset?

The Holodomor?

Agree. It's not entirely a crapshoot but a good bit of the "hire"/"no hire" is vibes based.

I'm not sold on that over the long term. Many western European countries have rough economic outlooks due to their terrible demographics.

>They just conquered 10% of Ukraine, so they might do that 10 more times.

How? Meatgrind the rest of the country? That's going to cause immense losses among Russian troops and sowing as much discord as possible in Russian civil society seems like a great strategy to prevent that.

>They want a stable Russia

They want a Russia that is economically advantageous to them. Too much Russian success will cause Europe to become even more reliant on the US and therefore antagonistic to China. China's and Russia's interests are not aligned.

>They walked in, were surprised by unexpected resistance, walked out and resorted to taking back the parts of Ukraine that prefer to speak Russian.

This is cope. Look at how much it took to take Bakhmut.

How does Russia wipe Ukraine off the map?

Why would China get involved?

Russia winning in Ukraine would continue Russia's colonial war in eastern Europe

>Russian command decides that they need to take over all of Ukraine in the long term and not just the Eastern half.

How? They tried already. They currently lack the ability and are going to need a multi year grind to accomplish that at which point sowing domestic discord in Russia degrades their ability.