Just because Europe and the Western world is used to borders not changing anymore in its own sphere since the end of WWII, it doesn’t mean that they can’t and the end of history has been reached.
Nation-building and -forming is still an ongoing, dynamic process. It can still undergo changes.
In the rest of the world it even does so.

Hopefully those countries which now file their applications for becoming a member of the NATO don't forget that membership doesn't only mean getting "safe from a Russian invasion", but also, whenever the United States are up in a war again with anyone, they're firmly part of the cleanup squad then after that skirmish.

Any party going through with either their plans or already having banned imports of Russian oil and gas and replacing it with liquefied petroleum gas from the US - offically call their agenda to "fight climate change" broke and dishonest (if it ever even officially existed at all).
Because transporting LPG with tankers over half of the globe, ( Read more... )

Slowly but surely the weather's habits get a little characteristic of continental climate here over the years... Warm temperatures during the day, but winter coldness during the nights. Larger discrepancies between day and night temperature. - Espcially in spring now. During winter, the differences at times are relatively small ( Read more... )

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After a failed attempt to pull Russia into a war with Ukraine again for the millionth time (the so-called "invasion plans" from December) since the coup d'etat in 2014 and a failed attempt to overthrow the government in Belarus in 2020, the full-grown violence in Kazakhstan now is supposed to be an act of "accident" or honestly result from domestic ( Read more... )

Schnee soweit das Auge reicht...
(Auch mal wieder außerhalb der Berge in Mitteleuropa - nach ca. einem Jahrzehnt.)

Tja, Bonner Wasserwerk - Verzeihung, deutscher Bundestag und liebe Regierung -: Vor dem Karl-Marx-Kopf in Chemnitz und auf zahlreichen Plätzen Berlins und anderer Städte fällt euch jetzt euer in dieser Form geliebter deutscher Staat auf die Füße, den ihr über Jahrzehnte mitgestaltet und zu dem gemacht habt, was er ist.

So ist das, wenn man das ( Read more... )

A critical question that slowly but surely comes to mind the longer this pandemic persists all around the globe:

Why the heck are all making the biggest fuss about acquiring a vaccine against the disease?

Arguing with the facts, no country in the world has either a reliable vaccine, nor a med or a reliable treatment against Covid-19 (the vaccine ( Read more... )

Regarding the current ongoing turmoil in Belarus and, at the same time, trying to find an answer to the most controversial question “Another Maidan or honest upheaval?”, have you paid a little attention to the flags they wave on rallies there? Those white-red-white thingies?

If you just only try to find some pieces of information in Wikipedia in ( Read more... )