Those back-alley 'marriages' to 13-year-old "virgins" aren't going to last.

Again, that's why I'm concerned it's the latter.

I'm sorry, I can't tell if you're cleaning it or fucking it.

How you doin'?

Same dictatorships that helped con England into giving up one of its largest advantages.

The French must be jealous of the Germans for having a word for feeling joy at the misfortune of others...

At some point this mess will have to be fixed. Well, I mean technically it doesn't, but assuming there are adults around it just seems like some of them should clean up the dogshit on the floor.

Or are we waiting for it to smell more so we can rub the morons' noses into it more? That makes sense too.

The titanic is unsinkable, now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a quick walk around the first class promenade deck, and perform a regular inspection of the life boats.

I'm sure netanyahu would.be fine with nuclear war, his cozy bunker beats the hell out of his jail cell.

More like a wax one, that someone left on a radiator.

Oh, no, I just frequently use words where I philanthropy their meaning.

Filibuster.

Yeah, it is.

But I don't know what to tell you, the term predates the nazis by quote a bit.

They adopted it, but it was known from the age of dragoons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_troops

The sacred band of thebes were considered shock troops, and I'd suggest that's closer to what the Russian idiots meant.

But I also wouldn't be surprised if they were just copying the nazis without knowing.

I think we should cut all arms supply with Ukraine.

We made a deal with the Budapest memorandum, we have clearly failed to uphold it, we should admit that publicly.

And then we should give them back their nukes, or nukes of equivalent value to use as they see fit.

They probably moved it to somewhere under /usr or /var/lib.

A storm trooper is a member of storm troops, also called shock troops, which are trained for sudden assaults. They carried out attacks in World War I and in World War II, and they were a politica militia of the Nazi party (see Sturmabteilung or Brownshirts). The English storm troops is a direct translation of the German Sturmtruppen.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/storm-trooper

They were called storm troopers because they were the ones who stormed trenches during an assault.

It wasn't considered a bad thing then, they were considered the elite.

They're working on HK.

Xi thought he had HK under control and could move directly on to Taiwan. His navy explained to him they were decades away from actually trying to invade.

It's their worst case scenario: An educated, wealthy population with good relations to everywhere that didn't exterminate 50m of their own citizens through their stupidity.

It's a commonly used term now, just like Assault Rifle from Sturmgewehr.

It's become verbed, like googling.

That is literally the motif of this whole war special military asskicking.

but different from being corrupt

Yes, but they already mentioned the commander was Russian in the article.

I get it, I just didn't like the parallel, the NKVD were absolute monsters, nightmares in human form, the CIA has a LOT of faults, but outside of Pinochet and a few things in the 80s, I can't see them on the same level at all.

Sturmtruppen was the German word for 'assault troops', much like sturmgewehr is their word for 'assault rifle' which was adopted by everyone else.

It means troops to storm a position, the heaviest troops for assaults.

We'd call them assault forces, or honestly, just marines (amphibious assault corps).

Hitler had a bunch of paramilitary followers (think Trump and his Jan 6 crowd) called the sturmabteilingen (sp?), which translated to storm troopers, because he thought it sounded impressive.

He later betrayed and murdered them, to curry favor with the army, which is so Hitler.