It’s looking more and more like China will be filling a certain obvious power void in the near future. I wish our era would get less interesting already 😕

The “the” of it was actually a product of Russia laying claim to Ukraine. The idea was that it implies Ukraine is just one region within a larger body iirc.

I appreciate you saying so, but I’ve been doing relatively fine over here. Unless faced with a life of literal torture, I have no intention of leaving this world any time soon!

It kind of blows my mind that suicide seemed so outlandish to you back then tbh. It’s always seemed like a reasonable and, in some unfortunate cases, necessary final escape plan to me. But maybe that’s a product of having not-so-great parents, depression, and growing up in sometimes middling/sometimes severe poverty?