I'm more than sure that climate change will negatively impact the economy.

So I'd just say that there is something for shareholders (not to mention investment opportunities in green technologies), it's just that some people greedy shits who don't think about what happens in future.

I believe that Iran deserves better. I know few Iranians and they are actually cool people, who just happened to live under the yoke of folks who believe that earthquakes happen because women wear jeans.

But as much as I'd love to see Iran change for the better, I absolutely wouldn't trust US and Israel to make that change - they'll just dismantle the state and leave it in ruins Iraq-style.

That's a really bad take.

Yes, people on previously Soviet-occupied territories that were occupied by Germans in WW2 often first met nazis with flowers as liberators, and even captured Soviet generals would at first slip some words that were quite critical of Soviet leadership.

But, as time passed on, the attitudes changed, so there was increase in guerilla activity and also some initial collaborators became rebels. That is simply because people started realizing how nazis were worse than anything.

Tankies are folks who follow ideologies such as stalinism or stalinist-adjacent ones (e.g. trotskyism, maoism).

Here "libshits" takes most of the scale, because I've been called that a bunch of times, despite certainly not being a liberal or even in the center or right wing, and I'm kinda salty.

That's what he says.

Ukrainian special services, on the other hand, point out servers and most Telegram employees residing in St. Petersburg and claim that he made few dozen visits to Russia since his alleged flight from there.

I'd add up a bit. The idea expressed there is also basically dismissing Ukrainian subjectivity, and that is exactly what Russians do all the time.

Their ideology locked them in such a position where either Russia exists or free independent Ukraine exists, because they treat Ukraine as "Russia's missing piece".

This is why I naively believe that if any ceasefire actually happens (even if slightly unfavorable for Ukraine) - Russia will simply subsequently self-destruct.

I think the initial motive for her appointment may have been to later eat her face. Turncoat who doesn't mind taking money from Russia, Iran, even Assad. Of course she'd say Iran wasn't building a nuke (peaceful 60% enriched uranium, y'know).

They specifically placed the most useless person as head of intelligence to paralyze entire agency and then dismiss it.

The fact that Russian delegation in Istanbul among other things demanded that "both sides will refrain from suing each other in court" just tells that they know really good how fucked they'd be in Hague.

There's some older article I found: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/uk-dutch-spy-agencies-curb-intel-flow-to-austria-over-russia-ties-mp-idUSKCN1RL2CL/

And if I didn't dream it up (can't find exact source, sorry) Austria whilst not in NATO was part of NATO intelligence sharing network back in 2022, but they were booted at some point due to leaking info to Russia.

Shame that many Americans are just too ignorant to realize what USA is losing right now, and how their literal crisis agent of a president now does damage to diplomatic and economic relations with Europe that will simply never heal. All the respect, all the soft power, all the things that were just status quo that nobody wanted to challenge out of convenience - all out the window.