Yes, it’s possible he was even more trash than usual.

By the standards of whatever Siberian village, the compensation and various bonuses (including after they die) these guys pull is insane. That how they’re convincing people to sign up for a war that’s both unpopular and nearly guaranteed to kill you. They could try massive conscription, but they’d need loyal people to enforce it or a guarantee it wouldn’t lead to regime change, and they have neither.

The Russian government is basically drawing down all the funds and infrastructure in the country to sponsor this war, and at some point here they’ll run out. I think I have 11 months left on my prediction of by when.

Ah neat! So it’s a drone firing a drone to intercept a drone.

Edit: No, that’s a Russian craft.

Just allowing it. Previously, Ukraine was one of the countries that required citizens to surrender all other citizenships, or at least didn’t recognise them.

Kind of annoying they don’t say in the article.

So is that a plane at the beginning?

He didn’t drop dead immediately either. Poor guy, should have stayed home.

Hmm, Texas and Oklahoma in the South also feels funny.

Well, those are descriptive of the geography, I’ll give them that.

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Although I did know there’s a great deal of controversy over how far east if goes, and people laugh at New Yorkers for thinking of Cleveland as basically the same as Kansas.

In Canada, the Prairies go from the Rockies to the Shield region where things get stony and boggy. And extend north until it’s too forested for the descriptor to apply, maybe a quarter of the way to the Arctic coast on average (so it’s mostly taiga nd tundra with just a little bit of farmable area).

Is West what the census calls it, too?

I can say for sure none of it’s very Northwestern; even eastern Washington is more like Idaho than the coast.

Rockies is fair, for the part that they actually run through, which seems to be more like a third of the area and inevitably less populated. I guess that’s the part they like to advertise, though, and clearly it has worked.