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And to think that Ukraine could have given up Luhansk and Donetsk early on, avoided the destruction and demographic collapse. Now anything of value will be sold off in hopes that some of that money will go towards rebuilding it.
Trump will be gone after 4 years, but Democrats won’t. Democrats need to learn they can’t just do whatever they want as long as every four years they paint the other side as “a danger to democracy” and say this time the vote is “existential”. It’s such total horseshit and frankly I am a bit surprised so many liberals have fallen for it.
There’s thousands NATO soldiers in Ukraine helping with ammo deliveries, training, equipment, coordination, intelligence, not to mention thousands of actual mercenaries from NATO countries. Yet not once would the Western media say “NATO troops deployed alongside Ukrainian troops in Ukraine”, or admit that all the French, Polish and other foreign military personnel who die in Ukraine were just holidaying in Pokrovsk.
Cuba had rich, fertile soil, but due to growing monoculture crops coffee and sugar during its colonial period, its soil was depleted of nutrients. In the interwar period Cuba was an exporter of sugar, but during WWII the US started growing/producing its own sugar, which made prices of sugar plummet. After the revolution the Soviet Union donated a bunch of industrial farm equipment and fertiliser, but all of that equipment is old and useless now. The embargo ensured that Cuba couldn’t import any new equipment.
Cuba has been trying to develop cooperative farms for a while now, but without industrial farm equipment it is hard to grow food at scale. I’m not sure if they’re able to import fertiliser from Russia, but even that can only get you so far.
Edit: gonna link the book here also, for visibility. Not strictly about Cuba, but it talks about colonialism and exploitation of “Latin America”. https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf
Advance?! I thought NATO was a defensive pact. Huh…
I hate liberals as much as, if not more than Nazis.
and Chinese civilians
Holy shit this part made me physically uneasy. They’re basically telling you to fear Chinese people cause they can be “spies”. Red scare and Cold War propaganda vibes.
“shadow economy”
I like how they think that an economy in which the US isn’t dominant is a “shadow” one.
The latest cope is “hypersonic weapons aren’t what they’re hyped up to be”.
