People treat these stories as signs of corruption, but it is quite literally the system working and catching corruption. That’s a very, very good thing.
IMHO Russia has been doing all they can through subversion, mis-information, efforts as destablilization, sowing seeds of distrust in elections, and democratic government, etc, etc, which is to say they are already "at war" with NATO, they just don't really want NATO and aligned countries to know and act on that fact.
Putin, and most of the Russian talking heads, are like that guy from the Iraq war. I can’t remember the name, Baghdad Bob or something like that? Just totally separated from reality.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (Arabic: محمد سعيد الصحاف; Muḥammad Saʿīd Al-Ṣaḥḥāf)[citation needed] is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 2001. He came to worldwide prominence around the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Minister of Information under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, acting as spokesman for the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party and Saddam’s government. He has also been nicknamed Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali (a play on “Chemical Ali”) for his notable and colorful television appearances as the Information Minister of Iraq
Not a huge surprise. Subway as a company sucks. I’ve heard horror stories from franchise owners when I worked there. Plus, I think John Oliver did an episode on them for how shitty the subway overlords are. Also come on, when it was $5 to get a footlong sub, I could wrap my head around it, but now the same sandwich is like $12.
This is just them wanting to be able to slam the brakes on whenever they want something. Also, I don’t expect Orban to approve the funding even for this year without some significant arm-twisting.
The Republican party is heavily funded by Putin. They will never, ever agree to Ukraine aid. In fact, they will never agree to anything that might benefit normal (non-conservative) people.
Conservatism is sociopathy. The degree to which a person is conservative is directly correlated to how sociopathic they are.
$50-60billion or around 6% of it is usually part of the military black budget meaning they don’t have to tell you what happened to the money. So the best way to help Ukraine is to do it in secret, without the divisive debate and announcements to the invaders.
That seems like a pretty central part of the full picture, thanks for pointing it out! Here's the Wikipedia article on the black budget, in case anyone is interested. The number cited there is around seven percent. :)
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