Watching Elon's great self-destruction is pretty high tier schadenfreude tho

Kinda like the Mormons trying to get people to refer to them as "latter day saints."

Man, Brazil's kinda fucking embarrassing us, huh?

You mean 2020 season 3

"But he bought them legitimately from the government of Greece at the time!"

1. No, he wrote a letter SAYING he bought them legitimately

2. The government of Greece at the time was another colonial power

Where was this guy for the telecom mergers over the last two decades?

The trick here is that the civilian population of Crimea is largely culturally Russian. Not that I think that gives Russian any special claim to the place, but it does make the civilians there (seemingly) more compliant. If Russia starts blasting them with cruise missiles and shit that could change really quickly.

So currently Crimea's in this kind of limbo where the status quo is unlikely to change.

There's 2.5 million people on the peninsula. Putting them into a siege situation as their ostensible liberators probably wouldn't play well.

Whatever other problems they might have, Russia isn't exactly short of nukes and nuclear material.

You don't use tactical nukes on infrastructure. He'll use them on troop concentrations, especially if they try to retake Crimea. The only access to the peninsula is a tiny choke point, and Ukraine would have to mass its troops there since going in piecemeal would result in the Russians cutting them apart piecemeal, and despite the Russian navy's poor performance, Ukraine doesn't have the ability to mount a naval invasion.

Attacks on infrastructure (theoretically) employ full scale weapons. You want to make it as hard as possible to repair if you hit that point, and there's no reason to hold back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_activity

The early days of space exploration were wild.

McDivitt was also on Gemini 4, which was the first US EVA (and the second in history, after Alexei Leonov in Voskhod 2.) He didn't do the EVA himself but piloted the craft while Ed White did his spacewalk.

By the way there are now just 10 people alive who have been beyond Low Earth Orbit. Although McDivitt wasn't one of them, since Apollo 9 was a test flight.