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Extremely unlikely. China is already warning Russia not to invade Kazakhstan and is working with the other stans to make them far less dependent of Russia.

Just confirms my belief that some people posting here are living in an alternate reality. I couldn't find those 24/12 numbers even when I specifically searched for them.

That Senate report from a committee headed by Charles Grassley has not aged well. It was allegedly based on documents that weren't released to the public. You can see what a hatchet job it was via this piece of investigative journalism: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-unproven-claims-hunter-biden-got-3-5-m-russia/3586861001/

The problem with these allegations is that Thibault had nothing to do with either the Mar a Lago search nor the Hunter Biden investigation. https://www.mediaite.com/politics/retired-fbi-agent-knocks-down-right-wing-narrative-he-suppressed-hunter-biden-investigation-after-wild-trump-allegations/ From the article you linked to: "Wray seemed to raise doubts that Thibault was working at any recent time on issues related to Hunter Biden. The FBI chief said that investigation, reportedly focused on tax issues and potential foreign influence related to Hunter Biden’s business ties, is being run by the Bureau’s Baltimore Field Office, which handles matters related to Delaware." https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/04/fbi-thibault-cover-up-hunter-biden-information-00049922

This is your idea of evidence?

Actually, not. Belarus is part of the Collective Security Treaty Organization: "The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)[3] is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. The Collective Security Treaty has its origins in the Soviet Armed Forces, which was replaced in 1992 by the United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and was then itself replaced by the successor armed forces of the respective independent states. Similar to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, Article 4 of the Collective Security Treaty (CST) establishes that an aggression against one signatory would be perceived as an aggression against all." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization

It's just that it's such an ill-considered opinion. I guess i'll have to spell it out for you. Your original claim centered on the fact that a small minority of cars were electric therefore that electric cars weren't going to dominate in the future. I pointed that according to your way of thinking gasoline cars would never have become the dominant form of transport since there was a time when they were a small number compared to horse drawn vehicles. Your last claim in support of your argument was horses were still being occasionally used. And as for my emotional condition, I'll make you a deal: You don't construe my emotional condition from my texts, and I won't construe your intellectual condition from your texts.

Actually, NASAMS have already been sent. Just not yet nearly enough. Zelenskiy confirms delivery of NASAMS air defense systems to Ukraine The Ukrainian armed forces have received the first two batteries of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) from the United States. This was confirmed by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in an interview on Sunday. Zelenskiy thanked President Joe Biden for the transfer but stressed that the systems so far delivered would not be “even nearly enough to cover the civilian infrastructure, schools, hospitals, universities, homes of Ukrainians.” https://defbrief.com/2022/09/25/zelenskiy-confirms-delivery-of-nasams-air-defense-systems-to-ukraine/

From a strictly military point of view, these missile assaults are actually a good thing. Instead of using his limited supply of missiles against military targets, Putin is directing them at cities. This should shorten the time it takes the Ukrainians to drive the Russians completely out of Ukraine.

Speaking of education...how can Texas' population of 28 million be only twice that of NYC with a population of 8 million? I await your explanation with interest.

How is Texas supporting asylum seekers? And it looks to me like undocumented aliens are doing their fair share in contributing to Texas' economy. In Texas, undocumented immigrants have no shortage of work An underground labor market provides abundant employment opportunities for undocumented immigrants in the United States. But working in the shadows often means accepting low pay and exploitation. https://www.texastribune.org/2016/12/16/undocumented-workers-finding-jobs-underground-econ/

Got any evidence to support that? Stop spreading falsehoods.

If you mean keeping undocumented aliens out of the USA is destroying the tax base, you sort of have a point. Home construction, service industries and agriculture depend to a large degree on undocumented aliens. Without them, these segments of the economy would crumble.