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Ukraine is right to attack Russian oil refineries. Very few civilian deaths. Handicaps the ability of Russia to provide oil to their military. This saves many civilian lives. Doesn’t harm Ukraine, the EU, or the US at all. Russia is not allowed to export oil to Europe anyways because that money flows right to Putin’s …
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https://www.ft.com/content/98f15b60-bc4d-4d3c-9e57-cbdde122ac0c Biden is asking Ukraine to stop attacking Russian military targets inside Russia. This guy totally sucks, he should not have run for reelection. He is currently swinging 0 for 3 in terms of foreign policy crises. He is a mere accelerationist, exactly the thing his ilk thinks all progressives are, where really its only …
My grandmother is a retired 1st grade teacher, and my grandfather is a veteran. She was able to save up money with those salaries to save enough money in my 541 plan that if it was not for the slashing of education funding in 2008 that the money she saved with the interest it had …
The military-industrial complex relishes a potential war with China. It could be long and drawn out, at least from a cursory overview, and their profits would soar. They don’t want to eliminate the Russian plutocracy because if Russia stops invading their neighbors, they will lose money in the near term. Russia is a long-term investment …
Sweden is now in NATO, and the map of Europe continues to fill in further as regional integration grows. Sweden was already part of the European Union’s mutual protection pact. Still, the most significant aspect of this is if Sweden were to be attacked, the United States would also come to Sweden’s defense. We probably …
You can find current polling results and projections at https://europeelects.eu/ep2024/, which I am using for this post. Party 2019 seats 2024 projected seats 2024 projected % Three party coalition Three party percent% LEFT 41 45 6.25% EFA 74 49 6.81% S&D 154 140 19.44% 234 32.50% RE 108 82 11.39% 271 37.64% EPP 182 181 …
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In 6 months, over 30,000 civilians were killed in the Gaza war, for an annualized rate of 60,000 per year. Over 20 years, 46,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan by all sides, for an annualized rate of 2,300 per year. Over two years, 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine, for an annualized rate of …
And they are completely stupid. Here’s why. If we take the median income by state, the median tax rate by state, and the median rent by state, we can generate a graph of disposable income. We can then graph this and find our nice R squared of 0.11 between Cook Partisan Voting Index and disposable …
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There is a situation brewing in the world where there is a high probability there will be genocide. Do you intervene or not? If you intervene before the genocide starts, you will be accused of a preemptive strike. You will have the burden of proof that the genocide was going to occur. You will be …
Python offers several main ways to format your strings: Using + operator between elements to create a string, eg name + ” is ” + age + ” years old” Using curly braces and format like “{} is {} years old”.format(name,age) Using f strings like f”{name} is {age} years old” Using join like ” “.join(name, …