They may be rare but based USians do exist.

And if the war somehow ends, the US will own 100% of the remaining Ukrainian territory and industry.

Sounds to me like the solution to that problem is maths: 100% of zero is zero.

They are just employing the good old Zapp Brannigan strategy.

"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down."

Yeah, though i'm expecting major sabotage efforts by the usual three letter agencies of the US and UK in regards to that project. Wouldn't even put it past NASA to get involved in trying to make sure that the mission fails.

Who in Washington doesn't?

Not if they "learn history" by watching YouTube history channels.

I don't see why that would be necessary. Scholz so far has done pretty much everything the US and EU have wanted him to do. He is one of the weakest and most pliable leaders any European country has ever had. His government has helped the US get away with the biggest attack against German energy infrastructure since WW2. I don't know if it's because the US has dirt on all of them or because they're true believers in the Euro-Atlanticist project or just weak, but we're approaching borderline comprador behavior in our political class in Germany and i think the US wants to keep it that way. The current trajectory probably suits them just fine, why have unnecessary political upheaval?

For now Germany is allowed to make these diplomatic overtures toward China to placate what is left of its industrialist class, but once things heat up between the US and China and the order comes down from Washington or Brussels to ditch all ties to China no German government will disobey. If i were China i would be asking myself why even bother to make any deals with Germany now when it all could be thrown into the garbage tomorrow?

What a joke. Germany has already been overtaken by Russia in PPP terms, just like China has already overtaken the US. Germany is entering the most catastrophic economic decline of its entire post WW2 history. And it's all either self-inflicted or directly caused by its own ostensible "allies".

And sadly not a very funny farce, rather a tragic one...

She is the least objectionable political figure in German politics at the moment that has any chance of making an impact. No she is not a communist and yes she has a number of less than ideal and sometimes downright bizarre positions on some issues in ways which overlap with those of the anti-establishment right (e.g. on certain aspects of how Covid was handled, which btw we communists also think was severely mishandled but in a different way than the right does), but until a better alternative comes along or until the DKP starts gaining more mainstream appeal i personally would say that her positives outweigh her negatives. Among the "Die Linke" party, which is as far left as the mainstream political spectrum in Germany goes, people with actually good foreign policy takes are few and far between, and now that she has left to form her own party there are even fewer.

Another promising figure in Die Linke who is generally a bit more vocally anti-imperialist than the rest is Sevim Dagdelen, but lately i haven't seen much of her.

It is clear that Ukraine has no future without Russia. This enormous and unpayable debt is just one of the many reasons why. The good news is that if (or rather when) Russia wins they won't need to pay it. Whether Russia takes it all or just installs a friendly government in Kiev, the debt will be defaulted on either way. The obligations to the West that this current puppet regime entered into will be denounced as illegitimate as the regime itself was illegitimate.

So i'm not the most well versed in chemistry or biology but i know a fair bit of physics and geology, and i know that both CO2 and methane can form through geological processes. Which is why i was not that impressed by this news at first. But is there something more special about dimethyl sulfide that requires biotic processes? Couldn't it also just come from something like volcanic activity?