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Never would've happened. Western capital saw the vast natural wealth of the Soviet bloc the way a starving wolf sees a steak, and were never going to allow the new Russian bourgeoisie to join the West as equals. When it became clear that Russia wasn't going to sell itself out to foreign capital, the West responded by violating every agreement they'd made with Yeltsin to bring about the end of the USSR and isolating them.

Think of it as a board game with nigh-infinitely deep mechanics that you don't need to fully understand to enjoy. You can hop in, do some basic map-painting and feel good about yourself, and then one day you look a little more closely at a menu and realize there's an entire other mechanic you've never touched that lets you squeeze just a bit more efficiency out of, only to realize there's another, and another.

Paradox games are tar traps for nerds in the best possible way. The kind of people who are good at these games make those people who play Dark Souls on a banana look like amateurs in sheer nerd-dom.

In ebil Soviet Russia, an ailing gerontocracy refuses to believe that the people do not like it despite hard evidence, leading them to continue ignoring the systematic issues destroying the country from within.

Killer Queen has already touched that dick

Honestly the next time I need a car I might still try to get a Chinese EV. Even with the tariffs they're still cheaper than the (massively inferior) American equivalents, even ignoring the fact that this will likely hit EV battery imports that American manufacturers rely on to make their EVs in the first place.

The screen in the center console in the back seat is honestly something straight out of a parody rap music video from the 90s.

That U-Turn, on the other hand, did something to me

I'm not one to kinkshame, but I might have to make an exception long enough for someone to

His Stand is a Cheap Trick knockoff called The Parliamentarian.

Yoooo we have an Anya emote?

They made Shelob into a goth dommy mommy already, I'm not sure they can come up with much else to shit on Tolkien at this point.

Their users generally seem enjoyable in my experience, shithead mods/admins aside.

That was exactly it. So many of the high command had Jewish relatives that by that rule they'd all be in a camp, so they settled on allowing one Jewish grandparent at most to be considered Aryan.