Surprise Anschluss
Lithuanian 30+ year-old shitposter who works as a programmer.
Surprise Anschluss
More like a Steve, I’m going bald-ner.
My instance refuses to post the full one, but I cropped it better if the original is too small.
Not only are Baltic people traitors, but they did a non-violent revolution against their beloved much more violent revolution and that just doesn’t work within their worldview, so they try to either take away their agency (USA did it!) or they try to pretend like we don’t exist.
“Of the 12 apostles, 18 of them are buried in Spain.”
A few months ago I had a lot of anxiety and ate soup with a fork because of it, then posted a picture of it as a meme and got massively downvoted.
It added a lot to the experience.
It has been pretty cold in the Baltics too. We also barely dodged a massive hurricane, it hit Poland and Belarus pretty hard.
Ah yes Russia, please antagonise the country with one of the highest artillery shell stockpiles and production capacities in the world, what bad thing could result from that?
Most activist organizations tend to do things that perpetuate themselves instead of trying to deal with the problem they are claiming to solve. That includes terrorist organisations too.
Here’s some old OC
Panemunė, Lithuania
Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
(Zoom in for the Z)
All languages that are used are kinda broken, except the synthetic ones, like Esperanto.
The amount of exceptions and weird rules in non-English languages I speak (Lithuanian and Swedish) and kinda know (Russian) proves it.
[‘a’] + [‘b’] = ‘ab’
Gets me every time.
If they really stood for LGBT, they would sell some rainbow coloured rockets to Ukraine in order to penetrate the Russian territory.
Yes, but now their propaganda machine can say that they want to stop the war.
It’s a very controversial picture through and through, the people who made it were a bunch of edgelords.
Strong Pig in Smoke energy
Poland is the China of Europe. Everything you can do, they can do cheaper.
Also, Poland is much less corrupt and the privatization in the 90s worked a bit better than in Russia, at least it didn’t create a powerful class of oligarchs due to less mineral resources. Most of their major companies are relatively young though.
You switch cause and effect, realism tries to describe the word as is and not as it should be and then bases policies on that.
It’s less of a linear relationship and more of a feedback loop. The more politicians buy into this political theory, the more effect it has on the world and vice versa.
yet the world is still made up of poker chips and superpowers.
Iran is a good example of being neither. There are also a bunch of non-state actors who challenge the status quo. Realism fails to explain Al Qaeda, Taliban and ISIS joining the poker table.
Commercial actors are also become more and more powerful and their interests often do not align with those of the state. Google and Meta have a higher revenue than several countries and is capable of influencing public opinion.
Realism fails to explain how all superpowers fall apart from within or from outside forces eventually. Where is the British Empire? Where is the Dutch Empire? Where are the Romans?
Of course the policies you choose based on realist principles can be used to increase your power as a country
It can also be used to lose your power, destroy your credibility and sabotage your economy. Realism also doesn’t take soft power into account. You can easily trade your soft power for hard power but it is very difficult to get soft power back.
(given the limitations of the natural anarchic state of international politics).
But international politics are governed by international law and various treaties. Just because some countries can break international law and get away with it, doesn’t mean that the law itself is meaningless.
As a Dutch person I accept that the US can decide to turn the Netherlands into a nuclear testing ground whenever it wants and there is nothing we can do about that, but given this fact we should still try to create a peaceful world.
You can do a lot about it, from petitioning other governments to cease diplomatic relations to terrorism. Even a small country, like the Netherlands, is a complex social system with it’s own interests and guiding principles and not just a chip in political games of giants.
For context, LRTK is an oddly authoritarian institution which, for example, tried to make every Lithuanian content creator and also others to register as a television network and every online commentator to adhere to journalist’s code of ethics.