I think the most impactful thing Ukraine could do here is join the parade with some drones. It would embarass the shit out of russians until they could get rid of the drones and would be a psychological win.

The problem is probably that y’all are being too kind to immigrants, try being crueler to them!

I would argue The Colossal Squid is the Kraken but I guess Giant Squids and Colossal Squids tie here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid

Any instrument where the pitch is not quantized into steps by design.

Guitars do this with frets, though there are of course fretless guitars but the problem is the quantization of pitch/fretted strength length that frets provides allows complex chords to be played in tune. This is functionally impossible to do on a fretless stringed instrument and is why violin type instruments mostly play single notes or two paired notes.

A classic church organ is the bridge between the world of quantized pitch instruments and instruments where pitch is constructed as part of each note. Each pipe produces a sine wave at a determined pitch.

The US also still sends quite a bit of aid to Ukraine despite Trump and his fellow criminals doing everything they can to sabotage it for Putin. No matter what Trump does, the fact remains that most people in the US are neutral to positive about Ukraine and see Trump’s blatant attempts to sabotage Ukraine as yet more proof of the fact that Trump is full of shit and Putin is his daddy.

I am not convinced Merz could get away with NOT giving Ukraine a ton of military help, I don’t think that is probably a politically tenable move in Germany if you want to form a majority coalition… so people like Merz undermine help in other ways that are less easy to pin on them negatively… like helping manufacture an architecture of military intel and personnel that makes it easy for rightwing elements of Germany to feed technology, doctrine and intelligence to russia or at least place it in places that are so easy for russia to get that it is basically a gift.

Because Merz and the far right in Germany are decidely on russia/Putin’s side?

What has Merz done as actions that demonstrate he actually wants Ukraine to win?

Kind of reminds me of how people breed and raise show dogs… and not in a good, normal well adjusted way.

Did Merz not get bullied enough as a kid or something?

How did he turn into a human ingrown toenail?

Why do I feel the need to give Merz a swirly so bad?

No and I didn’t mean to imply that if I did.

Lol you don’t think Merz and his rightwing coalition form an extremist rightwing threat?

The center right is hopeless to stop the far right even if they weren’t lying about wanting to rein them in.

Merz only leads to Trump like figures, so yeah Trump is worse, but that isn’t much consolation?

Does a rightwing extremist Germany with a powerful military seem like a good idea to you?

Germany HAS NOT impressed me with the way it has begun to wield this power.

Why would it be cooler for then?

Because they just became more illegal.

Do you honestly think they aren’t going to do that?

The best way to make cigarettes cool to kids is to make them fully illegal, this is a nonsense law unless you are trying to increase the amount of kids smoking cigarettes.

Don’t they agree on most things? Of course Merz must hate Trump for being loud and sloppy but aren’t their politics and policy goals entirely compatible?

What an idiot

With 117 M1A2 SEPv3 tanks delivered as of early 2026 and K2PL domestic production tooling underway at Bumar-Łabędy, Poland’s armoured transformation is moving from contract to capability. By 2030: approximately 900 tanks across three platforms — K2 Black Panther, M1 Abrams, and Leopard 2.

https://www.grosswald.org/polands-armor-surge-779-modern-tanks-by-end-of-2026/

Phobia?

Poland could smash russia in the face so hard it would shatter russia apart.

I would call it a practiced awareness not a phobia.

As someone living in the US let me emphatically say “Fuck you JD Vance”.

Disgusting