it’s guaranteed to be irreversible in 20 minutes

How is that a good thing? I want to be able to chargeback if I don’t get what I ordered.

Seriously though, why? I’m not a native speaker so I think there’s something going over my head here. Someone please explain.

Ironically, .ml seems to be blocked in China.

No, but does mean that Google now knows that you don’t speak Slovakian. It’s “just” the usual Google issues.

Diplomacy doesn’t work on Putin, or Russia in general. We’ve tried. We’ve tried for decades. We tried when they invaded Moldova. We tried when they cheated Tatarstan out of independence. We tried when they flattened Grozny. We tried when they invaded Georgia. We tried when they annexed Crimea.

The only thing that Russian leadership respects is strength, and they perceive anything else as a weakness to be exploited. No, that doesn’t mean that we should glass Russia, but it does mean that we must ensure a Ukrainian victory on the field of battle, by any means necessary, including direct military intervention should there be no other option left.