they were quite alright,until Saint Vlad stirred them up,same way he did in Georgia! Seems my allusion to the Sudetenland-Crisis somehow went over your head,yet Putin is using the very same playbook Hitler did!
He had those protections up until the moment Congress "pronounced" Biden the "Winner",and he still has all the protection the 1st Amendment affords every US-Citizen!
A few weeks ago I asked a fire fighter friend how they extinguish electric vehicle battery fires.
He said “Oh you mean like a Tesla or something? The answer is you can’t. You cordon off the area, and spray a fine mist of water on the fire to try to keep the temperature down until it finishes burning. Takes a few days until it is safe”.
The problem is, besides being highly flammable, lithium is literally the lightest metal. At atomic number 3, it is the first element in the periodic table which is a solid. The two previous elements, hydrogen and helium, are both gasses.
Lithium is so light, it floats on water (lithium density 0.543, half the density of water). Lithium is entirely happy to blaze away while sitting on the surface of a puddle of water.
So if you try to smother a lithium fire with sand, the sand sinks to the bottom, and the lithium floats on top.
Lithium melts at 180C / 356F, and burns at 2000C / 3632F – almost more than hot enough to melt steel, more than hot enough to destroy most composites and metals like aluminium.
The fumes from a burning lithium fire are highly toxic, capable of causing death or long term dementia like brain injuries – so you need to keep members of the public at a safe distance. Fire fighters need to wear respirators if they approach the flame......
Once the Lease on the "New Territories" ran out,Hong Kong became like Berlin in 1948,with less chance to be supplied than Berlin was! PRC could have blockaded the Colony any time they chose!
RE: Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin feared dead in plane crash.