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we have anglo-scottish border at home:
Finns love to tell the Winter War as the story of a small innocent country attacked out of nowhere. Moscow had very concrete reasons to see it differently.
Stalin remembered 1918–19: Mannerheim offering to fight alongside the British in exchange for Petrozavodsk, Finland joining the blockade of Baltic states that made peace with Soviet Russia. By the late 1930s came the Åland affair coordinated with Britain and Germany, the submarine program for the Kriegsmarine, the secret talks with Göring. If war with Germany came, Leningrad, about 32 km from the Finnish border, would be exposed from the north.
So in 1939 Stalin proposed a territorial exchange: move the border away from Leningrad in return for larger tracts of Soviet Karelia. He even offered to lease the territory instead. The goal was to keep the USSR's second capital, with its millions of people and critical industry, out of artillery range of a Finland aligned with Germany.
Helsinki rejected every compromise, and that told Moscow exactly where Finland had placed its bet. The Winter War was the brutal outcome of a security problem Stalin tried, and failed, to solve through negotiation.
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GUY WHO MIXED UP THE OLD TESTAMENT AND 21ST CENTURY HISTORY: The people built a tower so tall it offended the Lord, and yea, so did the Lord send a plane towards the people’s works,
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burnham's britain
the UK has introduced new legislation to criminalise (fake) incest and strangulation porn. it is TERRIBLY bad...
- it has to be specifically penetrative
mommy strap blowjobs OK. step sister (vaginal) oral OK. penis? CRIMINAL
- cousin porn is fine!
- if the viewer BELIEVES IT TO BE PRETEND, then its criminal (??????)
so... you can flash huge words that says "THIS IS PRETEND INCEST" over completely legal content and the inclusion of those words make it criminal.
Masterful gambit!
it's chill if you have a video of someone being choked. it's just illegal if they look like they're enjoying it
Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government says bbc.in/3TF2Ijx
awful discourse but it did produce one of the funniest tweets of all time
After "I Swear" scored seven BAFTA Scotland nominations, the British Academy has said Tourette's campaigner John Davidson will watch the ceremony "via video link from a separate relaxed space within the venue."
BAFTA and Davidson were at the center of controversy in February when he involuntarily shouted a racial slur at the Film Awards. variety.com/2026/film/global…
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Not reading the news today so I can campaign to get myself a higher pension in 20 years time.
