All know that a strong America is the best ally of peace—the world’s avaricious dictators of Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are hesitant to invade and brutalize in the face of 1) American strength and 2) American resolve. Our tepid response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia and Crimea surely contributed to Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.
American strength is greatest when we have friends that stand with us; we must not let economic squabbles fray the bonds of our alliances.
American resolve is greatest when we stand with the victims of oppression and invasion. After Russia invaded Ukraine with hundreds of tanks and hundreds of thousands of troops, America - together with Europe - rallied to give Ukraine the weapons and aid to defend itself. Three years later, Russia continues its brutal assault. We must not let personal squabbles weaken our resolve to stand with the freedom fighters and to oppose the authoritarian aggressors.
Lasting peace will only be achieved if America demonstrates strength and resolve and if Ukraine is certain that it will not be invaded again. Anything short of that would elicit only temporary celebration; it would open the door to global conflicts that we may be unable to contain.
@Tdoc1683@swd2 Zelenski is literally dressed to go back to a war in his country where babies are getting killed by russians.
Fuck a suit.
You sound like a good follower who will not try to escape the new order.
@undead_filth@P_Kallioniemi You sound like a good follower who will not try to escape the new order.
Russia has never been our ally.
We had the same enemy in world war 2
For a short time
A Postcard From the Edge
I met a woman last night, sitting where I’m sitting now, staring in disbelief at the flames rushing through her neighborhood two miles to the north. Like most everyone else in the restaurant at the top of The Huntley Hotel, she was a Palisades Refugee who had evacuated a few hours before. Last night, there was nothing to be done but watch and wonder if she’d have a home to return to.
In the adjacent booth, another woman wept as she watched her home burn from a Ring camera mounted on a neighbor’s gate. I tried to think of something comforting to say, but learned that her dog was in the house. Not much to say in a moment like that.
Over at the bar, I met a Ryan, a fireman who had been on duty for the last 12 hours. He’d just sat down with his wife and daughter when he was called back to work. He got up and left, along with every other fireman in Los Angeles.
It’s very strange to be so close to a calamity unfolding in real time. Yesterday, when I landed at LAX around 11:30, the fire had been burning for less than an hour. From the plane, the smoke looked like fog, and I didn’t give it much of a thought. A few hours later, during my shoot, everyone’s phone started making sounds I didn’t know phones could make. Alarming sounds.
We turned off the phones and kept filming.
Around three o’clock, I headed over to The Huntley and checked in. My friend Manju, who manages the place, told me the occupancy rate was around 50%. A few hours later, there were no rooms to be had.
Anywhere.
On my way to dinner, the sky was red and black. The wind was howling, and the smoke was impossible to ignore. And yet, two miles from the inferno, people walked and shopped and pushed their strollers and read their texts like it was just another day.
Strange days, indeed.
@its_The_Dr It's all the green trees in january in D.C. for me...
it's so easy to fool people,
but it's really hard to convince people who've been fooled
that you fooled them.
@Health00810@MattWallace888 YES!
The big government has been manipulating the weather - allowing big industry to pollute the air and raise the earth's temperature by two whole degrees.
This caused storms to be thicker, more intense, and grow faster.
We all had a part to play by letting the companies run us
@MannsManors@Twitermytweet@MattWallace888 He literally call the governor this state that is being affected by climate change to discuss the help that fema would be sending in advance. That clown actually refused her call.
Why, so he could blame it on her later?
Make it make sense.
@redpillgoku @MattWallace888 So humans have manipulated the weather to become more intense,
more water evaporates into the storms and then falls down on the land and so on.
All this through ignoring all of the scientific proof that we have control over the factors influencing the climate.
@redpillgoku @MattWallace888 About fifty percent of this is 'weather manipulation' . As the earth warms up two whole degrees in the last thirty years, the intensity of the storms has increased, both in speed and strength by a fifty percent above average