He could take them out to Biologie, at 30/2 Lenin Street, Ilyinskoe Village. It's been open for about a year and has one Michelin Star.

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quote Originally posted by rinselberg: That means despite the Russian leader's efforts to make Europe freeze by cutting its gas supply, EU economies will survive the coldest months without serious harm — and they look set to start next winter in a strong position to do the same. A few months ago, there were fears of energy shortages this winter caused by disruptions to Russian pipeline supplies. But a combination of mild weather, increased imports of liquefied natural gas, and a big drop in gas consumption mean that more than 50 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas is projected to remain in storage by the end of March ... It would probably be an exaggeration, were I to say that Putin and his cronies see "Dark Brandon" in their troubled nighttime dreams, but I like what I'm posting here.

You forgot to mention the savings in natural gas supplies due to gas stoves, gas water heaters, and gas home heating being outlawed.

quote Originally posted by Jake_Dragon: Perhaps ... bring better paying jobs back to the states.

Have you noticed ? Every time he says he is going to, or his agenda is going to bring high paying jobs to Americans, he prefaces with "Union" jobs.

quote Originally posted by rinselberg: What's a good ending for the war? Here's my thinking. The U.S., NATO and Ukraine formally agree to accept Russia's right to have Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula as a military and particularly, a naval base. The entire Crimean Peninsula belongs to Russia. Russia has sovereignty over the (badly damaged, if not mostly destroyed) city of Mariupol and a continuous land corridor connecting Russia to the Crimean Peninsula through Mariupol. Russia has sovereignty over all of the coastline surrounding the Sea of Azov, including what has been a long stretch of Ukrainian coastline. All of this comprises the land corridor connecting Russia with the Crimean Peninsula. That's quite a lot for Zelenskyy to have to "swallow". But in return, Ukraine, having ceded all of this territory, is guaranteed full membership in NATO and the European Union. Maybe Ukraine could agree that all of the real estate for the Russian naval facilities at/near Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula will be leased by Ukraine to Russia for the very nominal fee of $1 USD per year for the next 100 99 years.

The entire Crimean Peninsula belongs to Russia , ? Why ? Because they took it with aggression ?

Now you want to give them more because of their aggression ? Neither US nor NATO has any kind of authority to cede land in Ukraine to Russia. Throughout time, Russia has aggressively taken territory with force from weaker nations.

If you would pay attention to history, you would realize Ukraine gave up it's nuclear weapons in exchange for perpetual peace with Russia. Russia can not oppose who is accepted into NATO ! People are free do join whom ever they want to. It is enschrined in the US Constitution because it is a God given right.

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When I was a kid, we used to love to play the game "Risk!".



Here is what the board looked like when Fidel and Nikita were in the news almost daily.

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These two had the whole world worried.



If you can name all three of these guys, sit down before you break a hip.

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