In day-to-day life I most often see that word in the context of boring municipal buildings. Usually they’re just secondary buildings that were built or acquired in order to give more office space to workers at city hall or whatever. Context is everything for the meaning of some words.
Glendower: I can declare martial law in the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they obey, when you do order them?.
We are arguing the finer points of a translation of a term that was written in Russian, by the way. My Russian is nigh nonexistent but in German, there are all sorts of terms that translate into the English word “annexation”. Most are similar, referring to legally combining two communities. One or two are scientific, and one in particular, Annektierung, is noted as being a military term.
And the root of the word reveals just how old the concept is, as the Romans were one of the first to use it to describe expanding the borders of the city, but also expanding the privilege of Roman citizenship to those whose town was now in city limits.
Please don’t start turning into a tankie on us now, by stubbornly insisting on making it an argument about American imperialism. The word “annexation” isn’t evil as much as the invasion, deportation and the macabre parody of a referendum were that fueled Putin’s Anschluss.
Yes I know, the Axis of Evil guy:
So close. She’s so close to answering her own question. So close.
Stealing speed-trap cameras to turn into drone optics would be fantastic asymmetric warfare cred; if only the party doing it were the plucky non-state actor making trouble for some arrogant imperialists; rather than an allegedly major power who is the arrogant imperialist.
Makes me wonder if it’s just cheaper; or if(despite the professed chumminess) they actually can’t get analogous parts out of China. By reputation I’d certainly prefer Japanese optoelectronics and optics; but China produces about a zillion cameras a year and they aren’t all garbage; so if that route were open you would think you could get at least more or less adequate drone optics there. It’s not as though DJI stuff flies blind.
The Orlan-10 drone uses a Canon DSLR for reconnaissance. It has a separate camera for the pilot to use to fly the drone. Perhaps stealing discontinued Canons allows them to keep cranking out drones without re-engineering for a different camera.
Republicans telling Ukraine that aid will be decreased if they win. Russia just got to hold on and hope.
ETA fix some of the FT cruft and pull some quotes.
Not do derail further, but I believe words do matter - and the term Anschluss should not be used in this context.
(The Anschluss Österreichs, as Germanophones will complement without a doubt, should not be compared to the Russian invasion in Ukraine. I think the distinction matters, and strongly so.)
As a Ukrainian politician who may not closely follow American elections, he can be forgiven for not knowing how deeply indebted the GOP is to Putin these days.
Is this an admission that a Republican majority wouldn’t help the economy in any way?
