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Did the Romans have doors? Or did they use curtains or something similar? What was more common?

I see several curtains in the picture but I’m not sure if there’s a door somewhere.

You didn’t understand. They are performing a dance from The Nutcracker. In Russia they always show The Nutcracker in state tv when they prepare the announcement of something major - like the death of the current president.

EU membership includes a defense alliance. UA “just” has to join the EU. Unfortunately the country (economy and social systems) is not yet ready for that.

No Greece? Also no India, Indonesia and Japan? Damn that’s unexpected.

This won’t work. A new car easily takes 5 years to develop. A new charging pole might only take 2-3 years to build (don’t forget all the necessary tape) but large scale electric infrastructure can’t be upgraded that fast. You might need another power plant, new power poles all over the country, new substations*, … Then there are the legal challenges and the NIMBY crowds. The to-do-list is long and some entries are mindbogglingly expensive, complicated or both.

• The big transformer stations are incredibly expensive and sometimes take a whole year to build. You can’t crank them out by the thousands.

Don’t get me wrong I want to switch to all electric transportation as early as possible too. But you have to accept that some steps just take time.

They introduced regulations that fossil fuel motorcycles were only allowed every other day. Electric mopeds were allowed any day.
Most mopeds in Chinese cities are electric ones now. Out in the sticks you’ll still find combustion ones.

But they seriously needed that. The smog in the cities back then were live-threatening.

You’ll need time to upgrade the infrastructure and for car makers to switch their products. That usually takes a decade.

At least for Germany that’s not the whole picture.

They banned the sale of cars that have a combustion engine running on fossil fuel starting from 2035. Semis running on Diesel are fine*. Special equipment for agriculture (harvesters, …) can still run on anything*. If your engine runs on alcohol it’s fine too**.

* might change in the future.
** Just give me a sip from your fuel tank.

It’s not like these countries are stuck in the past. They evolved like the rest of the world.

The city I live in was once the capital city of a duchy. It even had a palace that unfortunately burned down completely. There are talks to rebuild it. But it costs so much and nobody knows what to do with all the space it would provide.

nd at one point during the constitution process they had a vote on which language should become official. And it almost was german, btw.

That’s a modern myth. IIRC there was a newspaper that had to decide to publish either in German or English and they decided in favor of English. The USA doesn’t have an official language but de facto it is English.

I can see the ‘Core EU’ uniting into a single state like a United States of Europe or a European Federation but not the whole of the EU or Europe.
The ‘Core EU’ are the member states that push for further integration like France, BeNeLux and Germany. But there are member states that don’t want to give Brussels more power like Hungary.

This can cripple the EU. A merger state would dominate all votes with their larger population and number of representatives. There could be no decision without the approval of them. For example a qualified vote requires states with at least 65% of the EU population. FR+GER+BE+NE+LUX together represent ~41% of the total EU population and can therefore block every vote. They could create some kind of duopoly of the merger state and EU remnants to balance power somehow.

The EU always was neither fish nor fowl, why not make it weirder? 🤪

UA wants security guarantees. Deploying Western troops on their territory to secure the borders is a security guarantee.
That is what can prevent another attack by Russia. RUS would have to attack these troops to advance which would trigger not just a war against UA (again) but also against whom those troops belong to.

And yeah, UA needs more weapons.

Oh we remember our history very clearly. We are currently in the most peaceful period of our continent since its colonization. And we clearly need that peace because the last wars on this continent were more bloodier and deathly than the ones before.

If Europe decides to return to ye old days there won’t just be a litte squabble at the edges - WW3 will happen! Don’t you realize that?

I’ll make you recall this comment when a Russian bomb tore your place apart just because the EU started to be credible.

There are 450m EU citizens at risk. Those are the ones the EU member countries have to care about. Yeah, we hate what Putin did to UA but our priority is EU first and there’s nothing wrong about that.

Deploying EU troops on UA territory and let them fight Russian soldiers directly will be seen as an act of war. That’s not yet another red line that Russia set up and people ignored. Putin will warm up whatever nukes he has left - not as a threat but as a weapon to use.

And then what? Would you risk everything just to prove what a mean boy you are?

100 days for that?

The thing with the bread is that there’s a lot more variety of it in Germany than elsewhere. In the USA you’ll basically only get soft white bread. German-style bread is seldom and you’ll need to search for shops that sell that.

Sauerkraut

The problem with that is there are two types of it - the sweet one and the sour one. In a restaurant you’ll usually get the sweet one which I think is tastes awful.

But the sour one is the really good one especially if you refine it by adding fine cubes of Kassler (smoked pork chop) to enhance the taste. Sour Sauerkraut should even change the taste of potatoes that sit in its… sauce? broth? (don’t know the word). I could eat kilos of it.
You’ll need to look out for the right kind of Sauerkraut in the supermarket. Not everyone of them is suited for this.

That’s just wrong. The EU immediately condemned Trumps speech about seizing Gaza and driving the Palestine people out.

They are also ready to counter any tariffs by Mango Mussolini with their own.

Yurop won’t bow down.