https://www.azarius.com/wiki/ethnobotanicals/kratom/kratom-vs-opioids

It’s an agonist for the opiate target receptors which is why I say opiate-like.

Kratom is an opiate-like plant-based drug that gives users a boost of energy, but is addictive like actual opiates.

Looting Louis Vuitton is praxis

Looting the locally owned tobacco shop or game store is not.

It’s a valuable study because it’s attempting to empirically explain how we’ve all been feeling these past 15 years

I’m wondering if antagonizing NATO actually has the purpose of pulling more Chinese support for their war. As you said, traditional hostilities against NATO would end in a loss of a lot and potentially a power grab of a NATO friendly government in Russia that China doesn’t want.

Then again a collapsing Russia is a land grab for China.

I agree, it’s extremely stupid reasoning but I haven’t seen anything intelligent from Russia since getting an asset into the US presidency.

I would imagine they wouldn’t want to antagonize NATO like they’re doing unless they’re planning on Trump using it as an excuse to have the US pull out of NATO, but even that seems farfetched.

Russian Oligarchic leadership may have pushed themselves into a corner, internally, that’s lead to a death cult around Putin. The fact that they failed their perceived quick operation in Ukraine back in 2022 suggests that the people making decisions are either extremely stupid or being told lies from the bottom up. Both are signs of a flailing autocracy.

I’ve seen speculation that it would be an internal face-saving maneuver where losing to NATO is preferable to losing to the Ukrainians. Theory being that it’s the most likely scenario where Putin doesn’t get ousted and KGB‘ed to the back of the head.

Geez, two huge earthquakes across the world seemingly hours apart. That a crazy, and sad, coincidence.

This doesn’t speak well for the stability of Jordan or the region at large…