Can’t stop thinking about how Wall Street is celebrating Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire, while he single handedly eliminated humanitarian aid that will lead to the needless deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest children in the world in the next 4 years.
Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore: Without China, Russia would have lost war in Ukraine.
North Korean troops and Iranian drones grab headlines. But what keeps Putin in Ukraine is China — chemicals for artillery shells, components for drones and missiles.
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The Amazon River is so massive, and the part of the world where it flows so forested, that no road bridge crosses it for over 3,000km (1,864 miles). You would need to travel from the sea to the foothills of the Andes before finding a bridge to cross it.
Russian investment in propaganda, oligarchs, and politicians in the West has always been a top priority, far more cost-effective than any military battlefield. Putin is KGB, it's his native tongue, and the West disarmed itself against these tactics.
In the days of horse-drawn carriages, horses’ hooves often DASHED mud onto passengers in wet weather.
To block the mud, people installed wooden BOARDS up front.
They called them ‘dashboards.’