It is considered widely as one of Putins biggest successes in driving a wedge into Europe. Remember how much money of the “Leave” campaign came from Russian sources.

So Nazis don’t want to be called Nazis? Have they tried not to behave like Nazis for a change?

Even animals have rights.

If their airplanes are as reliable as their houses or infrastructure, this is going to be even worse than Boeing.

Maybe he could actually reach peace if he started from a neutral, center position instead from a 100% Russian one.

This is not the US. And in contrast to the US, where such a shooting would barely make it to the local weekly paper, this is so outrageous for Germany that this is a topic for the national TV news for at least two days.

And: an American policeman would most likely get out of this unscarred, chances for the German policeman to continue in this job are rather dim.

They call it a ‘tariff’, I call it a light slap on the wrist. Add a few zeros to make the fine match the damage, EU!

The biggest ill-prepared country here would be the US.

Thanks. But I definitely remember having read “mallable” before. Could that be a British vs. American thing?

The way they hit you, malleable fits, too.

Back when I hunted mammoth, lead was not a concern.

Put that level of scrutiny on politicians, please.

They had to stop putting lead into fuel years, and now even lead water pipes are under threat, so they need another way to lower peoples IQs to keep them mallable.

s/life/certain chemical reactions/

Well, the only ones who are f-ed by this are the people in the US. I don’t hink anyone else is going to shed tears about this. Except maybe tears of laughter.

That would even be better.

“We need to enslave and control the population to survive against a perceived or projected foreign enemy.” Translation from Trump cabinet language to English.

If they take a X% cut from the transaction, they should at least shoulder X% of the fine.

“common sense and decency” are considered cost-drivers in the capitalist manual and therefor to be avoided at nearly all cost.

That won’t even cover the costs of moving to a non-fascist country.