That made me somewhat disappointed back in the day too, when I realized that some games had extra sound circuitry or even an extra CPU in them.

And a nice, wide, security perimeter between their ranches and the hordes they imagine will come for them.

1 day of military special operations?

You just have to start living like they do in Russia and comply in advance. Don't do anything "interesting", no encryption, or if you do, make sure you leave breadcrumbs, scratch that, a bread trail for them to easily get access to customer data. An Oracle or Sharepoint integration maybe?

Was that a joke or does this machine exist? It's impossible to guess these days.

Remember that the defender has home team advantage. That’s precisely what you see happening both in Iran and Ukraine. That advantage exists with Taiwan. There’s a reason that China hasn’t made a move in all these years, and the US is only one part of that equation.

Homefield advantage is relative, between Ukraine - Iran - Gaza, Taiwan is closer to Gaza, which is to say not much after mitigating outside spoilers. Maybe less than Gaza vs force disparity involved. US is/was one part of equation, but big part of equation.

Well it's all settled then! Guess the show's over. Everything will be fine from now on. What else can be done to avoid the Epstein files?

We threatened to invade Cuba unless they "make a deal", whatever that means.

Probably be the next Venezuela, except they help us against drug dealers, so I'm not sure what lies will be told to justify this one.

Putin also respected term limits for a while, also with a sock puppet. 8 years should be plenty of time to have the Supreme Court Jesters come up with a solution. They already pardoned Steve Bannon!

He said we would be tired of winning