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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.

Except that the prospect for negotiations was never a serious one. Since the start of the war, Ukrainians have known this: Declaring its readiness for negotiations, Russia is trying to buy time to prepare for the continuation of its aggressive policy towards Ukraine - Mykhailo Podolyak Stating the alleged desire to resume peace talks, Russia is trying to divert the attention of Ukraine and the world community in order to buy time to prepare for the continuation of the aggressive policy. Mykhailo Podolyak, Advisor to the Head of the President's Office, emphasized this in an interview with Wirtualna Polska. https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/zayavlyayuchi-pro-gotovnist-do-peremovin-rosiya-namagayetsya-77161

You really want to go with that? You actually think that's a valid point? If so, that's remarkable.

But it does mean that the conviction can be expunged from their records which will make life a lot easier for them.

Speaking of something that is not one's idea, parroting right wing nonsense much?

You mean the accords that weren't respected by anybody? The ones where the Russian claimed that it didn't apply to them because the didn't have any troops in Donbas? Or is it some other Minsk agreements that you are referring to? As for Maidan, do you mean the protests about this? The protests were sparked by the Ukrainian government's sudden decision not to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement, instead choosing closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. Ukraine's parliament had overwhelmingly approved of finalizing the Agreement with the EU,[82] while Russia had put pressure on Ukraine to reject it.[83] The scope of the protests widened, with calls for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and the Azarov Government.[84] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan

I think what this is really about is that Russia hasn't intervened to put a stop to the border war between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Armenia has also signalled its unhappiness with Russia over its lack of assistance concerning the hostilities with Azerbaijan.

I wonder if Trump's lawyers included this piece of information touted by their client in their appeal to the Supreme Court: "George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them. So they're in a bowling alley slash Chinese restaurant. By contrast, I had a small number of boxes and storage at Mar-A-Lago—very small, relatively—guarded by the great Secret Service." https://www.newsweek.com/trump-rally-speech-shows-hes-guilty-scared-former-prosecutor-1750211

In 1900 you would have been saying the same thing about horseless carriages.

Hippies? Really? Still living in the 1960s? Support for Legal Marijuana Holds at Record High of 68% https://news.gallup.com/poll/356939/support-legal-marijuana-holds-record-high.aspx

Because neodymium is only to be found in China? Greenland to Host One of Few Rare Earth Mines Outside China https://ens-newswire.com/greenland-to-host-one-of-few-rare-earth-mines-outside-china/ Don’t Panic about Rare Earth Elements The materials used in iPhones and Tesla cars need not become a long-term casualty of a U.S.-China trade war https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dont-panic-about-rare-earth-elements/ China’s stranglehold of the rare earths supply chain will last another decade https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/sectors/extractive-industries/china-rare-earths-dominance-mining

And the blows against Durham keep on coming Judge says Durham can't use Danchenko's alleged Russian intelligence links at trial The judge overseeing the case against Igor Danchenko dealt a series of blows to special counsel John Durham, including ruling he could not use as evidence details from the FBI’s prior counterintelligence investigation into the main source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier. The Tuesday evening ruling by Judge Anthony Trenga followed a lengthy effort by Durham to use a pile of evidence about the Russian-born lawyer, including his alleged links to Russian intelligence, during the trial set to begin next Tuesday. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/judge-durham-cant-use-danchenko-russian-intel-links-trial It's clear that when a prosecutor uses a kitchen-sink approach he's got a weak case. He tried the same thing with Sussman and his case was extremely unpersuasive to that jury.

The world is currently suffering a fossil fuel price surge because of a War. Not because of renewable energy. Maybe you like the idea of continued dependency on unstable dictatorships for the world's energy needs instead of genuine unlimited energy independence. Deprived of their income to cause mischief, I think the world would be a better place with people like MbS and Putin defanged.