On the other hand the price of not stopping the war could be even higher…

From the perspective of Putin, what could be more costly than a few million destitute veterans marching on his palace? Best bet is to neutralize that threat by burning up your country’s resources in an endless meat grinder. Maybe you’ll get lucky and coast your perma-war long enough to die an old man.

Delay crashing the plane for as long as possible and then slam it hard into the mountain to kill all the angry passengers before you parachute out.

There’s a slight difference between consumer goods and backbone energy infrastructure

Going to bookmark this for the next time I hear Europeans chastise Americans for being rich and too comfortable and lazy to fight fascism.

Putting aside social safety nets, an average American needs to work nearly 2.5x as long for the same dollar as an average German. And because that number is inclusive of the whole population, I have a sneaking suspicion that the USA’s larger Gini coefficient makes that ratio even higher between the poorer American vs poorer German.

Fuck off with this nationalist essentialism. Germans are products of a lifetime of experiences, just like every other human being on the planet. There’s not some magic portal to the fascist plane seeping dark energy under Berlin.