It requires more effort to spread intelligent ideas.

The description of events she provided should have produced physical evidence. Bruises at a minimum. Did she publish photo evidence?

The weapons producers are tiny companies in comparison. If a senator got a call from Apple and from Rheinmetall at the same time, he would 100% take the Apple call first. China wants the US to be bogged down with Ukraine when China invades Taiwan. Keeping this war going is the cover they desire to pull off their upcoming territorial expansion which will not be limited to Taiwan.

Europe needs to figure out energy independence so they can say no to Russia without relying on America for energy.

Sensationalists claims stop being sensationalist when they are confirmed with objectively verifiable facts. That’s when claims should be accepted. Until then, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

You may have noticed that all these military bases are easily supplied through naval support. My prior comment was about supply lines. You are never going to get reliable supply lines for American military through 11 time zones of difficult to transit Russian territory. Your map is also a bit bogus. There’s no military base in Pakistan. A small one operated until 2017, to support troops in Afghanistan, but was not sustainable. There’s never been a US military base inside India.

Yes, China has the geopolitical challenge of US bases in the Pacific. These are easily resupplied and support supply chains. It should also be noted that US military presence does not harm China’s ability to conduct trade, execute domestic policy, or retain her sovereignty. China gripes about US “freedom of seas” navigations, because China has naval claims nobody else recognizes, but that’s not a problem any other nation on the globe cares about.

Yes, this is about vainglory. Ukraine was seeing membership in the EU and the EU mandated reforms that would have addressed issues for minorities. The principle problem was the question of minority groups having school taught in their native language. That was a specific reform mandated. Following the process would yield the desired outcome without any Russian citizens being thrown into a meatwave attack. How has this war benefited Russian-speakers? So many deaths and scarred bodies and souls. The payoff isn’t there. The proposition only favors vainglory because the current path is more harm than any alternative. Regarding NATO, neither Hungary nor Turkey would ever permit this to happen and everyone knows it. Admission into NATO requires 100% support for all existing nations. Russia knows this would never happen. It isn’t about NATO membership. Putin wants to restore the Russian empire and he wants to be recorded in the history books as the man who made this happen.

Russians are dying because Putin places his own vanity and desire for future “glory” over the lives of the Russian people. The was ends the second he calls off the invasion.

Humans have always been stupid but today technology has made it easier for the dumbest among us to be more influential than any stupid person of any prior era. This, we are in the golden age of stupidity.

When countries in the Sahel asked the US to leave, they left. What Africa gets with Wagner/Russia is entirely different: https://www.dw.com/en/russia-kremlin-wagner-group-influence-in-central-african-republic-sudan-mali/a-70599853

Yes, because we are going to cross 11 time zones to setup in western China when the logistics of that area make trade between Russia & China difficult when they are on good terms. Before anything else, the US military is a logistics organization and your fantasy is quite unrealistic. I doubt China fears any such thing, knowing that what you suggest is entirely unrealistic.

I am not sure your point? Virtually all of them under-performed the S&P500.

The problem is wages, not housing prices.

You watch too much social media.

Ukraine relies on US, UK, France, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Canada, and a bunch of other countries to survive and repel the unjust invader Russia. China doesn’t want Russia to lose but also doesn’t want them to win. Too much money to be made by Chinese businesses profiting by the unjust invasion. Plus, it’ll be terribly convenient for them if the US is distracted when China invades Taiwan.

Given the stock price, I’m not concerned. Up a lot this year. Brief dip followed by recovery due to China’s news.

Which country benefits from this the most? Russia. Which country suffers the most? Ukraine.

That said, if China wants the US to become a rare earths giant, this is the way. The oil crisis of the 1970’s and 1980’s created the economic conditions needed for American oil to become a dominating industry.

China won’t stop until someone gives them a bloody nose.

Do we know the proximate cause yet? Accident? Targeted?

Reading between the lines, I think there’s a corruption problem where someone is stealing wine purchased for the church and being sold at bars. A new brand/label might be an effort to change processes to make this type of corruption more difficult or easier to uncover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_activities_in_Africa