It does cool things, but it’s definitely a “Mark Rosewater designs a perpetual card that stays on the side” design. Like dungeons, attractions, day/night, etc.

Probably the card design categories as well, since if you know a lot of the categories you know what strategies to expect, or even build.

Things like

Removal - spells and abilities that get rid of permanents you don’t like

Board wipes - cards that clear the board of all creatures (including your own), and sometimes other permanents too.

Ramp - cards that get your more mana than you’re usually “supposed” to have at a stage in the game.

Card Draw - spells or abilities with the magic words “draw a card”, or something similar

Looting - spells and abilities that discard a number of cards and draw a number of cards.

Wheels - spells that discard your entire hand and draw a number of number of cards.

Cantrips - a minor effect with the words “draw a card” tacked onto it.

Xerox spells - 1-2 mana Cantrips with the only effect being some library manipulation + “draw a card”. Usually blue.

Counters - spells and abilities with the magic words “counter target spell”, sometimes with a condition for the counter. Usually blue.

Beaters - big creatures

Mill cards - cards that put the top card(s) of someone’s libraries into your graveyard.

Reanimators - cards that drag a creature from a graveyard to the battlefield

Clones - cards that enter as a copy of something

Tribal - cards that care about creature types, like goblins, angels, etc.

Burn - spells and abilities that directly damage your opponents. Usually red.

Stax - cards that interfere with the normal plans of both you and each of your opponents, hopefully your opponents a lot more

Tutors - spells and abilities that search for a specific card in your library

Fog effects - spells and abilities that prevent all damage for a turn, usually from creatures.

Any I’m missing?

The article is garbage, becuase it assumes NATO acts as a cohesive unit beyond being a defensive alliance with a required (and barely enforced) 2% GDP expenditure. NATO as a whole will never send troops to Ukraine - the US and some of its allies MIGHT send aid beyond sending military supplies, but member states are never required to send aid outside of article 5 invasion triggers. Members are never kicked out or penalized in the alliance if they choose to not participate in the US’s forever wars.

NATO did nothing in Donbass. It was Ukraine and a Russia backed seperatist movement making a series of cease fires, both sides ignoring them over and over, and way too many lives tragically lost. Donbass is not Russian or NATO territory.

Yes there was an very harsh coup. Yes the following election was controversial. But the brutal world is Russia had zero reason to care outside of either US style “global cop” warmongering, or extreme paranoia with Ukraine maybe someday joining a defensive alliance. Ukraine is a sovereign nation, and their shitshow should have been their own.

If Russia truely cared about the Crimean people, instead of annexing them for empire building, they’d have opened their borders to Ukrainian migrants and refugees. They chose to invade.

This isn’t a war between “NATO and Russia”, this is a war between Ukraine and a Russia that is either Warmongering in a sovereign nation to empire build, or a Russia that is Isreal levels of paranoid.

More recent news of a Wagner official admitting to founding a troll farm - Not to say the article is incorrect at hillary being an unliked candidate in 2016.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/europe/russia-yevgeny-prigozhin-internet-research-agency-intl/index.html

On situations like Japan, there seems to be a trend of income and purchasing power with having children. If people want children, but can’t afford them… They won’t have them.

You can see a higher percentage of wealthy people having children vs a lower percentage of working poor people having children everywhere. The only way to increase childbirths naturally is to make working affordable to support them.

Hey guys, wanna leak classified military secrets on my minecraft discord server?

I don’t know why people would expect the Russian military to not be behind the attack on the dam when they have a long history of targetting civilian infrastructure.

The Ukrainian military doesn’t have a history of false flag operations, so it wouldn’t make sense for them to be behind an attack on a dam that wouldn’t benefit them.