We are not a part of this offensive. Our objective is to protect our nationals and we're putting ourselves in a position to defend them for the next few weeks and months if necessary. ... We are currently setting up a purely defensive, purely support mission whose purpose is to allow as soon as possible after the most intense phase of the conflict the escort of container ships and tankers to gradually reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Sounds like more of the same as in the OP
Excellent news. More of this sort of thing please.
Maybe this is a 5D chess move from the EU. They tell Orban the Hutt that we have started a project to fix the pipeline. Just need to get a work group to figure out the logistics, then a commission to figure out the finances, then need to start accepting offers from private companies who want to fix it, then realise that we overlooked something about the application process and need to start all over again..... By then it'll be 2032.
lol okay :D
I edited my comment but It was too late.
I'm sorry that you are in the situation you are, I truly am. The actions your government has taken has made me a bit blind to the issues normal people in russia have. But to be brutally honest, I don't really care, as long as Ukrainians are being bombed. It sucks that you live there, it sucks that you cant leave. I'm sorry for all that. I wish I could help, but I can't. Other than helping Ukraine survive. If Ukraine wins, maybe putin falls and russia can build itself to something better. Maybe.
Edit: this answer was 85% serious, 15% joking. The countries may not have anything against you personally, but the actions of russia, the state, have soured relations so badly that the attitude people have towards your government, leaks to their attitude to you personally.
Should be red.
we can only afford to go out for dinner once or twice a month
Only twice a month! When I was growing up, my family went out for dinner maybe twice in 20 years haha. Though that's a bit of a culture difference, I've noticed that in America its very normal to out to dinner. Over here it's more of a special occasion thing, someone turned 50 years old or retired etc.
I specifically remember those two times. I was maybe 6 years of age and I was so confused and unsure about everything. I was just thinking, why are we going out, I don't know the food there, I don't know what everything tastes like, I don't know if I'll like things. I don't remember what I ordered but I do remember feeling awkward for telling the waiter what I wanted and then she asked me questions of how I would like the food to be! I didn't know lol. It was a horrible experience.
The next time we went out to eat, I was maybe 14 or 15. That was more relaxed from my part, I just ordered a stake, I had watched enough Gordon Ramsay to know not to order it well done. So everything went fine on that occasion.
But to be honest, I don't wish we went out more. I feel like going out is just a unnecessary hassle. I mean.. theres other people there, yuck.
What I do remember fondly is the times we went to my grandma's place for Sunday dinner. Nothing fancy, just some potatoes, some sort of gravy, whatever. The food was not important. The important bit was to see my cousin, going out to the woods/playground while the adults had prepared the dinner. I remember how our family was in charge of bringing the potatoes, or maybe it was our turn to bring the salad stuff and whatnot.
Anyway, this turned into a ramble. I'll stop here before it gets even more incoherent.
Haha, same here. I worry that I'm not clear enough with what I write, so I tend to over explain things. Though that might be one sign that separates me from bots, I over explain things in a dumb way. So clearly I can't be a bot!
That's what I would like to know!
Good thing they haven't made a whole reality tv franchise about that idea!
Titles are whatever, but what he said earlier was that they might take part in the opening of the straits, after the hostilities are over. Now he said said that they will never take part in the hostilities. So yeah, more or less the same stuff.