I wouldn’t be surprised if Ukraine ends up forcing Russia to the negotiating table while on the brink of liberating Crimea.
And when that happens, watch the narrative suddenly change. The same people demanding concessions from Kyiv today will claim Ukraine is “holding up peace” by refusing to stop before securing its position.
Mark my words: if Crimea genuinely comes under threat, the pressure for a ceasefire won’t be about peace. It’ll be about preventing a Russian defeat.
The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.
As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.
Texan here
A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!
Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.
Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.
This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.
How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.
This is what republicans do-
Complain about oversight, get rid of regulations, ONLY to fuck things up because that oversight was there for a reason.
Then of course they never take responsibility for the damage they cause to the American people.
No, in fact if you model the Russians own air alerts issued to civilians, this is approximately the trajectory taken by UA drones to hit St. Petersburg and/or Ust-Luga.
From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.