POTUS declaring that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed for the foreseeable future, just bas the unavoidable consequences of it having already been closed for several months begin to be undeniable.
It's uncanny how exactly it played out like Covid, right down to the stock market acting as if the whole thing never happened
People really, really refuse to understand that half of all children died in their pre-industrial utopia. They just, helplessly, died. Modern medicine, sanitation and regulation have saved literally billions from that fate.
I'm thinking "Israeli ceasefire" might join "Mexican standoff" in the great book of eponyms...
If only there were some way of knowing who started it...
And those powerful people take those "Haha, aren't they silly" digs, and plant them at the heart of a movement which is actually, literally, at this very moment, actively censoring what can be TAUGHT IN UNIVERSITIES.
This is farther inside Russia, and farther from Ukraine, than Moscow. Twice as far.
Cheboksary's 1550 km from Kyiv.
Moscow's 750 km from Kyiv.
4 years, 4 months into the 3-day Special Military Operation, & Ukraine is cruising missiles unopposed farther behind their lines than NYC is from Chicago.