you're confusing "pro life" with actually caring about life. it really should be called "forced birth" or something similar.

They don't care about babies, they only care about punishing women for having sex

how many babies, American and international, have died due to USAID and social programming cuts

If they were already born then it doesn't matter to them. Only non-born babies are important. Once you're born, then good luck.

The right seems to fundamentally misunderstand how to actually wield soft power to get things they want.

They operate in a world where they want to dictate behavior and have everyone below them fall in line.

It's in line with the interests of pootin. Wild coincidence, isn't it.

The US was always the enemy, they just had hollywood to put up a good show to distract people from USAian atrocities.

The best outcome would be for reasonable Americans and Russians to prevail and not let the lunatics take everybody down with them.

The government has, TBF. The people can often be wholly against this and myriad other asshole tactics by their "elected" representatives. For the record.

Please don't hurt the feelings of the Spanish, they are still longingly looking back to the glorious old days of colonizing erm exploring foreign lands

Just make a random field in France a sovereign part of Quebec and its problem solved

Maybe something like the North Atlantic Trade Organisation? Or the No Yanks club?

We share borders with Greenland and France. Suck it!