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Your regular reminder that not a single person lost their job after the Afghanistan blunder
sturg33
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Last year, diverse energy products were imported into Finland to the value of EUR 6.7 billion, which was 36 per cent less than one year earlier. Most energy products were imported from Russia, whose share of the value of imports was 54 per cent.
You and the people you follow are children.
They do nothing but disparage middle America and to top it off they gleefully send them to die in their wars started by their lies.
Nsacpi has done a great job at amplifying Deza since the beginning.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
More than six weeks into his war against Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is feeling the sting of failure.
Thousands of Russian battlefield deaths. Three front-line retreats by the Russian military. Millions of Ukrainians who will never forgive Moscow. More isolation than ever — and perilously few goals achieved.
Putin is now regrouping to focus his military campaign on Ukraine’s east in what is widely seen as “Plan B,” after his forces failed to topple Ukraine’s government or wrest control of its biggest cities. All the while, questions are mounting about how a Russian leader steeped in security policy and known for railing against the folly of regime-change wars could have sleepwalked into a such a strategic morass.
At issue is a broader quandary that will occupy historians for years: How could Russia — a country with such deep familial, cultural and historic ties to its western neighbor — get Ukraine so wrong?
Officials in the United States and Europe are piecing together the answer to that question. What emerges, those officials say, is a picture of a hubristic and isolated leader, beset by biases and skewed information, pressing forward with a calamitous decision without consulting his full cohort of advisers. Putin rushed headlong into Ukraine, confident in his ability to secure a quick victory and weather any blowback within the authoritarian system he erected at home, they said. Underpinning his assumptions: misconceptions about Ukraine fundamentally rooted in Moscow’s colonial past.
“Historically, there just hasn’t been expertise on Ukraine in Russia at all,” said Alina Polyakova, president and CEO of the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis. “When you don’t believe a country’s a real country and a people’s a real people, why would you invest any expertise in a thing you don’t think exists?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati.../11/putin-misjudged-ukraine-hubris-isolation/
Thousands of Russian battlefield deaths. Three front-line retreats by the Russian military. Millions of Ukrainians who will never forgive Moscow. More isolation than ever — and perilously few goals achieved.
Putin is now regrouping to focus his military campaign on Ukraine’s east in what is widely seen as “Plan B,” after his forces failed to topple Ukraine’s government or wrest control of its biggest cities. All the while, questions are mounting about how a Russian leader steeped in security policy and known for railing against the folly of regime-change wars could have sleepwalked into a such a strategic morass.
At issue is a broader quandary that will occupy historians for years: How could Russia — a country with such deep familial, cultural and historic ties to its western neighbor — get Ukraine so wrong?
Officials in the United States and Europe are piecing together the answer to that question. What emerges, those officials say, is a picture of a hubristic and isolated leader, beset by biases and skewed information, pressing forward with a calamitous decision without consulting his full cohort of advisers. Putin rushed headlong into Ukraine, confident in his ability to secure a quick victory and weather any blowback within the authoritarian system he erected at home, they said. Underpinning his assumptions: misconceptions about Ukraine fundamentally rooted in Moscow’s colonial past.
“Historically, there just hasn’t been expertise on Ukraine in Russia at all,” said Alina Polyakova, president and CEO of the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis. “When you don’t believe a country’s a real country and a people’s a real people, why would you invest any expertise in a thing you don’t think exists?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati.../11/putin-misjudged-ukraine-hubris-isolation/
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
In the run-up to the war, some leaders in Europe and Ukraine discounted the possibility that Putin would invade, because they didn’t see sufficient Russian forces amassed along the border for Moscow to succeed with a multi-front offensive and subsequent occupation.
What they didn’t realize was that Moscow was nurturing deeply flawed assumptions, particularly about the fortitude of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the willingness of Ukrainians to resist, and was indeed planning a large-scale invasion — just an ill-conceived one. The operation, analysts said, bore the personal fingerprints of Putin.
What they didn’t realize was that Moscow was nurturing deeply flawed assumptions, particularly about the fortitude of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the willingness of Ukrainians to resist, and was indeed planning a large-scale invasion — just an ill-conceived one. The operation, analysts said, bore the personal fingerprints of Putin.
Its super important for the globalist regime to divert the idiots attention away from the fact that their policies have destroyed the West.
sturg33
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Now you've done it. Prepare for another useless thread to be started
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Wyoming has the highest rate of suicides among U.S. states, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Kaiser Family Foundation used resident population data from the U.S. Census Bureau and data from the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to calculate age-adjusted suicide rates.
Here are the suicide rates for each state and the District of Columbia in 2019 (the most recent data available):
1. Wyoming: 29.6 suicides per 100,000 individuals
2. Alaska: 28.5
3. Montana: 26.2
4. New Mexico: 24.1
5. Colorado: 22.1
6. Utah: 21.2
7. South Dakota: 21
8. Oklahoma: 20.5
9. Idaho: 20.3
https://www.beckershospitalreview.c...html?msclkid=761874c3ba6a11ec802ff56810c8d56a
hmmmm
hopefully as more people from blue states move to these areas the standards for mental health care will rise a bit
The Kaiser Family Foundation used resident population data from the U.S. Census Bureau and data from the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to calculate age-adjusted suicide rates.
Here are the suicide rates for each state and the District of Columbia in 2019 (the most recent data available):
1. Wyoming: 29.6 suicides per 100,000 individuals
2. Alaska: 28.5
3. Montana: 26.2
4. New Mexico: 24.1
5. Colorado: 22.1
6. Utah: 21.2
7. South Dakota: 21
8. Oklahoma: 20.5
9. Idaho: 20.3
https://www.beckershospitalreview.c...html?msclkid=761874c3ba6a11ec802ff56810c8d56a
hmmmm
hopefully as more people from blue states move to these areas the standards for mental health care will rise a bit