Tuukka R

Here’s a hypermarket in Rottweil, BW:

But yeah, it was difficult finding an adequately horrible-looking hypermarket in BW, indeed! Most of them managed to look kind if niedlich :) I mean, most hypermarkets in Baden-Württenberg are located in surroundings such as this one:

Even though that house is super ugly, the surroundings make a surprisingly big difference in the overall atmosphere!

If anybody wants a good laugh, they should read about why Walmart failed in Germany :D

Every drone strike profits them, they sell the drones, they sell the rebuilding. This war is a war for profit and both sides are soaking it up.

The Ukrainian companies that sell the drones would be much richer if the war ended.

If you think they or the EU are coming to help you, you’re confused.

Why would the EU not come help me? I live in a EU member country and was born in one. (Even though at that point it was not in the EU yet)

If you think the EU has ever let any of their colonies go when they transitioned them from direct colonial rule to neo liberal colonial rule, you’re doubly confused.

So… EU has not let India go when EU transitioned India from direct colonial rule to neo liberal colonial rule. Could you please elaborate what you mean with that? How is India currently a colony of some EU country, or a colony of the EU as a whole? I know especially France is playing dirty in many of its former colonies, but why are you saying that is happening in India and Brazil?

Ukraine is fucked, the only outcome there is becoming Iraq.
So, getting completely occupied by the country that attacked it? Why?

Because they might die in the process and then the country would not have a president? A new one would probably be sworn in very soon, but a new president needs time to gather all the ropes and fully understand what’s going in the country.

I support Ukraine because I have lived in Ukraine and in the Russia and I know both countries. I know why the war is happening, I know what started it and I know why it is continuing. And because I am against colonialism and fascism.

I read very little about Ukraine in the mainstream news, so the billionaire media has very little chances to affect me.

they would … stop that war

How, precisely, would they stop the war? They are trying it together all the time, with zero success.

The cash is held “as hostage” mostly by EU countries. USA is trying to convince those EU countries to return the money to the Russia, with very little success.

They are kind of sanctioning the Russia, but all the new sanctions they are making are tacoed. There were sanctions against Lukoil, but they were revoked. The Russia and USA are stalling. The Russia is doing it to bleed Ukraine dry, USA for some reasons that are inexplicable.

The war will end whenever USA or EU decide to give their full support to Ukraine. As long as that doesn’t happen, Ukrainians do not really have any other option than to continue fighting.

It is possible that WW3 has already broken out, but is not called that way yet. WW2 was not immediately called WW2 either. It took some time for it to grow to the dimensions that enabled it to be called a World War.

As in the previous two world wars, some countries will be switching sides. Just like USA has been doing now, hopping between the side of the Russia and the side of humanity about once per week, depending on how their president is feeling about things each morning.

If we are currently in WW3, then the sides are very confusing:
USA is against China but on the side of the Russia.
China is on the side of the Russia but not really against anyone. Except its own minorities?
EU and UK are against the Russia but not against USA or China.

Wait, what? Why would the Russia not threaten to roll an army down your neighbourhood if there was a war including it and your country?

Look for example at what they are doing in Mali.

Also, the Russia is the last of the European colonial empires that has not done anything at all to free its colonies. The other ones have have only done a part of it, but the Russia has not even started with it. Does colonialism not matter to you or what the heck?

USA and the Russia are on the same side at the moment.
Two evils do not make a right.

Uh… So, you’re on the side of Russians? Wut?

But they are much less prominent in Germany than in USA!

And typically Mediterranean people prefer buying their groceries in small corner shops that usually have some vegetables on shelves on the street in front of the shop.

This is a common view in Portugal and southern Italy. And to a reasonable extent in France as well. In Spain not so much, though!

In most of Europe you can easily live all your life without seeing those, but they do exist.

My country, Finland, is probably the most hypermarket-based society in Europe, so maybe you’ll want to steer clear of here if you don’t like hypermarkets :D

Here’s something scary for you from the capital of Finland, from what I would consider urban area:

All of the ex eastern bloc countries in Europe live in a somewhat similar way, but they don’t have it as bad regarding this as Finland does.

Here’s an example from Poland:

In Poland those don’t exist half as close to city centres as in Finland, though, so it’s easy to be safe from them!

Portugal, southern half of Italy, Greece, and actually probably all of Balkan countries have it very well in this regard! I love the tiny shops in those parts of Europe! :)

Germany does have hypermarkets and those might be what the OP means.

Is “big box store” the same thing as a hypermarket?

I mean, Carrefour and Tesco are basically everywhere in Europe. Germany has Kaufland. Finland and Estonia have Prisma, The three Baltic countries have Maxima XXX.

But I do not know if Walmart is really something similar to those or not. At least there are no idiotic greeters over in European hypermarkets, as I’ve heard Walmart does! :)

I have never seen a Walmart IRL. So… Probably all of Europe should be safe for you? And I didn’t happen to see any of them in Laos, Thailand, Burma, India, or Nepal, either.

Do they actually exist outside USA at all?

You speak yours, they speak theirs. In the same conversation.

That’s how a human learns a language. The more you converse, the more you will become fluent in each other’s languages.

This helps only if you wash your towel after each shower.

Why would anyone care? Huh?