Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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The following percentages are recipients of welfare based on race.
• White – 38.8%
• Black – 39.8%
• Hispanic – 15.7%
• Asian – 2.4%
• Other – 3.3%
Average Duration Spent on Welfare
The below percentages are based on the timeframe welfare recipients receive assistance.
• Less than 7 months – 19%
• 7-12 months – 15.2%
• 1-2 years – 19.3%
• 2-5 years – 26.9%
• Over 5 years – 19.6%
And we all know Jack lives on government assistence. He's admitted to it countless times.
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Now, back to the topic. Russia Russia Russia!!!
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Originally posted by THG:
The following percentages are recipients of welfare based on race.
• White – 38.8%
• Black – 39.8%
• Hispanic – 15.7%
• Asian – 2.4%
• Other – 3.3%
The following percentages are the racial makeup of the country:
• White – 75.1%
• Black – 12.3%
• Hispanic – 12.5%
• Asian – 3.6%
• Other – 5.5%
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/united-states-population
Hmmmmmmmm
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Originally posted by second:
Can Ukraine Pay for War Without Bankrupting Its Economy?
If the answer is no, then get fucked Ukraine.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
The following percentages are recipients of welfare based on race.
• White – 38.8%
• Black – 39.8%
• Hispanic – 15.7%
• Asian – 2.4%
• Other – 3.3%
The following percentages are the racial makeup of the country:
• White – 75.1%
• Black – 12.3%
• Hispanic – 12.5%
• Asian – 3.6%
• Other – 5.5%
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/united-states-population
Hmmmmmmmm
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Percent welfare per percent of population
White 0.52
Black 3.25
Hispanic 1.26
Asian 0.67
Other 0.60
This could eventually be remedied if everyone had equal education, equal job oppty, equal pay for equal work, and equal treatment in finances and housing. By rewarding work and education, eventually the black subculture that rejects everything "white" would disappear. Prejudice is still a factor.
But blacks do themselves no favors by rejecting education, family, and work.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:The answer is "no".
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Can Ukraine Pay for War Without Bankrupting Its Economy?
If the answer is no, then get fucked Ukraine.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Ukraine doesn't have much economic activity left and therefore isn't collecting enough taxes to keep its government running, let alone reconstruction. It's only surviving bc of loans, donations, and supplied weapons/munitions. It has nothing left to peddle and no collateral for more loans. (It can't even cover the loans it already has.)
It would either have to dragoon its population for a reconstruction effort or be the recipient of a massive Marshall Plan type donation.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Yup.
It was rhetorical.
Filed today, just as it was since the beginning, under not our fucking business and not our fucking problem.
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Putin's war in Ukraine looks more and more like a failure. Past Russian leaders haven't survived similar mistakes.
Joy Neumeyer
Dec 4, 2022, 11:37 AM
Vladimir Putin expected an easy victory in Ukraine, but he ended up with a fiasco.
Over and over again, demoralized and ill-equipped Russian soldiers have raped, tortured, and looted their way through Ukrainian towns before fleeing in disgrace — often with highly motivated Ukrainian troops close behind them.
In the greatest humiliation yet, Russian forces withdrew from Kherson — the only regional capital that they had captured — just weeks after Putin declared at a triumphant rally on Red Square that the city was "Russian forever."
For now, Putin's rule appears secure. But the experience of past Russian leaders shows how failure at the front can lead to a critical loss of authority at home — sometimes with deadly consequences.
1) The most extreme scenario is the fate of Tsar Nicholas II.
At the outbreak of World War I, Russia had the largest army in Europe. Over 5 million men — 15% of the population — were mobilized in 1914 alone.
But the autocracy's weak infrastructure, transportation links, and low productivity impaired the war effort: Ammunition ran out by the end of 1914. By the following summer, the Germans had taken huge swathes of Russian-controlled territory and a million Russian soldiers were dead.
The Romanov dynasty's out-of-touch scion — a gentle man who preferred gardening and taking photographs with his family to governing — attempted to improve the situation by taking command of the armed forces himself.
While Russia struggled at the front, food shortages and spiraling inflation created chaos back home. When strikes and street protests broke out in Petrograd (now called St. Petersburg) in February 1917, mutinous soldiers joined the riots.
The tsar, forsaken by his generals and advisors, abdicated on a railroad siding in Pskov in March 1917 and was placed under house arrest with his family a few weeks later.
After the Bolsheviks seized control later that year, Vladimir Lenin signed a separate armistice with Germany.
The tsar and his family were shot and stabbed with bayonets by Bolshevik troops in a Yekaterinburg basement in July 1918, bringing the Romanovs' 300-year reign to an ignominious end.
2) Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was also felled in part by a foreign-policy blunder, though it thankfully resulted in no deaths.
In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane photographed Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba. The resulting confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union put the world on the brink of destruction.
But as Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it, "We've been eyeball to eyeball, and someone just blinked." Soviet ships stopped in the water, and Khrushchev announced that the missiles would be removed.
This international embarrassment weakened Khrushchev's position in the leadership.
He could have stepped down with dignity after his 70th birthday in April 1964, but instead he was forced into retirement later that year by a group of rivals who had the support of the KGB.
Ironically, Khrushchev's removal was made possible by his own desire to reject Stalin's despotism. After leading a limited attempt to democratize the Soviet Union, Khrushchev saw his peaceful overthrow as a sign of his success.
He spent the final years of his life in obscurity, dictating his memoirs outside Moscow.
3) The last and most ambitious Soviet reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev, presided over a military failure that imperiled his authority — and brought the Soviet Union down with it.
When Gorbachev came into office in 1985, he inherited the Soviet Union's flailing war in Afghanistan, launched in 1979 under the sclerotic Leonid Brezhnev. After an ineffectual troop surge, Gorbachev gave up on trying to improve the situation, and the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989.
The withdrawal signal
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Nobel Peace Prize winner, Irina Scherbakova, co-founder of the Russian rights organisation, Memorial, said she sees no prospect for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine.
‘The solution that there will be now is a military one in my eyes. But this diplomacy will only happen when Ukraine believes it has won this war and can set its terms. I believe only in this possibility,’ she said.
The Russian historian was speaking last night in Hamburg, where she was presented with the Marion Doenhoff Prize for her years of work on human rights in her home country by German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz.
When asked by a journalist if she believed this would be with or without Russian President Vladimir Putin, Scherbakova replied that she believed it would be ‘without Putin’.
The Russian president has said he is open to negotiations, but not to demands that Moscow pulls out of Ukraine. However, Ukraine says it will not sit down at the negotiating table before Moscow leaves all occupied territories.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/12/05/russian-nobel-peace-laureate-no-pr
ospect-of-negotiated-end-to-war-in-ukraine
Who would receive the opposite of the Nobel Peace Prize? You’re right! Putin signs expanded anti-LGBTQ laws in Russia, in latest crackdown on rights
The ban was rubber-stamped by Putin just days after a harsh new “foreign agents” law came into effect, as the Kremlin cracks down on free speech and human rights as its military operation in Ukraine falters.
The broadening of the “LGBT propaganda” law is just the latest in many steps that Putin’s government has taken in recent months to crush the last pockets of opposition, liberal values and free speech in Russia.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/europe/russia-lgbtq-propaganda-law-sign
ed-by-putin-intl/index.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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