The article is very diplomatic about it, but this is Melony attempt to cover up the failure of her whole Albania plan by rebranding it as something that she may then call a success and be believed (well, by her diehard supporters at least).

Yes, but will Trump and Putin chill at a pool and - most importantly - will there be a golden statue of Trump and bearded scantily clothed dancers?

Jokes aside - this is coming from bonkers people who think authority and stubbornness are enough to get things done, which may to a point apply in internal affairs (where there's an established body of laws that gives the president that authority), but will not work in geopolitics.

Also, making sure you know the least bit about what you are talking about before opening your mouth and letting your ugly thoughts out wouldn't harm: comparing nowadays Ukraine to WWII Berlin just shows you don't know anything about (at least one of) the two.

There are precedents. In October 1979, Paul Volcker, newly appointed as chair of the Federal Reserve, drove up interest rates to a remarkable 13% in a bid to tackle inflation, later raising them to 17%.

Back then the problem was rampaging inflation and the (by-the-book) cure was raising interest rates to drive it down.

Nowadays US inflation is not an issue (IIRC it's like 2% or 3%) and tariffs are gonna bring it up in a confused effort to... rebuild a manufacturing industry? (I'm not sure that's the goal - it's hard to say what "great again" means precisely).

In what way would 1979 be a precedent?

Anyway... yes, assuming Trump's goal is to have more manufacturing in the US, tariffs will "work" - the point is how much that's gonna cost (in quality of life, not dollars) and who's gonna pay that price.

Good. Let's copy that

It feels like 50% of the noise coming from there is flat-out lies, and the other 50% is bullshit instead.

One thing I didn't get: besides the boring "witch hunt" narrative, is her stance that those people didn't do work for RN or that it's fine to use EU-paid personnel for her party in France?

Nah - let's just use English and distort it to annoy UKers and USers(*) instead! :)

(*) those who notice

Will he appear like beetlejuice? Because I could go the The Hague and summon him.

why though?

This has nothing to do with war or peace: the whole thing (back from when the phone call was announced last week) is propaganda.

Here's what's worth IMHO:

1. Putin can continue his war, but today nobody wrote that he is cold towards the peace process.
2. Trump can triumphally (trumpally?) announce that he is making great progress (the best progress) towards "peace".

This one is on me: now that I re-read what I wrote, my wording could have been better/clearer. Sorry about that.

I don't know whether to downvote or upvote this... on the one hand it contains some interesting insights and we need to talk more about what Putin is trying to do to us, but on the other hand the video is very US-centric and oversimplifies everything to seemingly arbitrary bullet-points.

For example, the video divides Russian propaganda in "for Russians" and "for West" as if the Kremlin didn't have a specific strategy for each and every western nation and ignored non-western states altogether (but of course "for West" really means "for the US" and the rest of the world doesn't matter).

One passage, attributed to Pope Sixtus V, reads: “Axle in the midst of a sign”.

Pope Sixtus’ tenure began 442 years after the first Pope’s rule, and the passage suggests he is in the ‘middle’ of the papal lineage - thus indicating the end of the world would come 442 years later, in 2027.

The last passage of the book reads: "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed, and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End."

The “seven-hilled city” refers to Rome and some interpret the last passage as Peter taking over as the Pope from Francis due to the latter's chronic lung disease, making Francis the last Pope.

I must say, that sounds like pretty solid proof.

I'm quitting my job, taking on all the debt I can, and spending the remaining two years in as much luxury as possible.

See you in two years, losers!

The .apk is actually there (see other comment). You can sideload it manually or use something like Obtainium

Apologies: brain fart on my end.

For anyone using Obtainium: you'll have to enable "include prereleases" when adding manatee-fitness in order for Obtainium to find the apk

...and/or adding .apk releases in github? (I doubt many will build from source)

Isn't this basically "the deal is done - we just need the other party to agree"? (same kind of announcement Israel and Hamas took turns at)