Shall men be thankful that they were not born as ant/bee drones?
Only one male is needed to fertilize the queen, and that ratio in humans is not much different.

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Dear Maverick,

«Trump will withdraw US support for Ukraine, thereby collapsing NATO backing of Ukraine.»

The US might withdraw alright, but Europe will continue to fight to the end, to win or to die with Ukraine.

Actually, if not for the US's lukewarm response, Europe would already be fighting Russia directly side by side with the brave Ukrainians.

Dear Yuyutsu,

A queen will mate with many males on her mating flight. She will retain the sperm, and the worker eggs she produces will be be fertilized by sperm from different males. Thus all the worker bees in a hive will have the same mother, but they will have many different fathers. Bee mating is different from human mating. However, sometime after the mating flight the drones or male bees will be destroyed. The unfertilized eggs will all produce males. The fertilized eggs will be all females/workers except a few which will become queens. There are variants to the above in different bee species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee is a more detailed account.

Europe will continue to fight to the end, to win or to die with Ukraine.
Yuyutsu,
Europe has nothing to fear from Russia !

"As Trump's best buddy in Europe is Putin, if the Ukraine War is still going on Trump will withdraw US support for Ukraine, thereby collapsing NATO backing of Ukraine."

Well, Trump Derangement Syndrome is strong in this one. Of course, if the Ukraine war is still going in January 2025, it might make sense to do something different - Trump or no Trump. But with the TDS crowd, whatever Trump does is definitionally wrong and whatever they think is wrong is what Trump will do - evidence or no evidence.

Speaking of NO evidence...."Trump's best buddy in Europe is Putin". These are memes that the left just fabricate and the TDS crowd accept without a further thought. Putin's worst nightmare would be return of Trump. Let's remember that he only launched the invasion because Trump was gone and he was facing the moron of Kabul.

Perhaps, if there is a second Trump presidency, the Europeans will pay more attention. Remember how he tried to get them to increase military spending and to wean themselves off dependency on Russian fossil fuels. They laughed at his then, but they're not laughing now.

Speaking of Europeans holding together, today (well yesterday) is the anniversary of the Battle of Tours where the Europeans stopped (as it turned out, forever) the Islamic invasion of Christian Europe.

If the Muslims had won the battle of Tours Europe might not have descended into the Dark Ages. At that time the Muslims were more open to new ideas than Christian Europe. The victory of the Christians at the battle of Tours kept Europe Christian at a cost. The cost was to delay the emergence from superstitious Christianity for many years. Later the Muslims had their own Dark Ages, but the battle of Tours kept Europe under the dominance of ignorance. If the battle of Tours had gone the other way we would not have suffered the Inquisition, the martyrdom of scientists like Servetus and Vanini and other Christian horrors

" If the battle of Tours had gone the other way we would not have suffered the Inquisition, the martyrdom of scientists like Servetus and Vanini and other Christian horrors".

Or the Renaissance, Magna Carta, industrial revolution, Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Newton.

But some only see the dark side of their culture, hoping that gives them a veneer of virtue. Some look at the Mona Lisa and see the smile, others see the cracks in the paint.

Of course, using the same counterfactual mumbo-jumbo one could argue that, had the Battle of Badr had gone the other way, Syria wouldn't be the utopia it is today </sarc> and Mahsa Amini would still be alive.

Still david, you'll be pleased to know that you're not alone in your hatred for all things Christian and barracking for the Mohomedians....

"Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers — already, you see, the world had fallen into the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing was Christianity! — then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies heroism and which opens the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from doing so." A. Hitler.