Talisker

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I mean yeah but didn’t Walz personally send the national guard against citizens during protests? Maybe let someone else field this one.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Did they forgive new debt or are they just discharging debt that legally should already have been forgiven?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Haha yeah the government that’s currently enabling war crimes is gonna totally make a commission to hold presidents liable for crimes.

This is why nothing changes. If you start looking at one of them you have to look at all of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Green Arrow - Yo La Tengo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Extending Russia, Rand Corporation 2019

The United States could also become more vocal in its support for NATO membership for Ukraine... While NATO’s requirement for unanimity makes it unlikely that Ukraine could gain membership in the foreseeable future, Washington’s pushing this possibility could boost Ukrainian resolve while leading Russia to redouble its efforts to forestall such a development.

Expanding U.S. assistance to Ukraine, including lethal military assistance, would likely increase the costs to Russia, in both blood and treasure, of holding the Donbass region. More Russian aid to the separatists and an additional Russian troop presence would likely be required, leading to larger expenditures, equipment losses, and Russian casualties. The latter could become quite controversial at home, as it did when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

We want Israel to win and we want Ukraine to be an expensive quagmire for Russia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Nice article but it just makes me wish I had the financial security to pursue something like this. I’ve got a good job, even.