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Oil is also about a fifth of Russia’s entire economy, so the less it is needed the worse it is for Russia

Real life Little Odessa is in New York (there is a large community of Soviet / post-Soviet migrants there). The Half Life location is New Little Odessa though, so it sounds like it’s not where real life Little Odessa is

The Ottawa Treaty attempted to get rid of them, but it’s essentially just a voluntary thing. Ukraine did sign up to it, but many of the world’s major military powers did not. Unfortunately Russia is among those that didn’t. Since Russia is mining the front anyway, there’s little benefit to Ukraine not doing so

There is a small silver lining here - or a less dark patch of the cloud, maybe - in that modern mines are designed to make themselves inert or self destruct after a few weeks or months

Probably not that different any more. China’s consumption-based per-capita emissions are damn near as high as the EU’s now, and China has three times the capitas

There’s a reason it is nicknamed the Grauniad