@JmcNICS@Cristiano@grok Gucci glasses at around $420.
I know - because I have them.
These are amazing!
They don’t sell them anymore at Gucci - now new styles.
This style was at-least 2 years ago,- but is timeless.
I can find the style name-code if interested.
@KubaWu11@sashameetsrus@stats_feed In the US dollar terms:
The average American earns $190 a day (net after taxes) and with that money he can buy 30 loaves of bread at $6 each.
The average Russian earns $30 a day and with this money he can buy 60 loaves of bread at .50 cents each.
@KubaWu11@sashameetsrus@stats_feed I’ve compared & calculated purchasing power: Moscow to NYC,- average salary and purchasing power for necessary goods.
Correlated salaries.
Ruble has 50% more purchasing power in Moscow than the U.S. Dollar in NYC.
New Yorkers are poorer than Moscovites by 50%.
Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) is the BIGGEST click-bait whoring shill on this app.
The amount of UTTER GARBAGE he spews for clicks and cash (for spreading certain narratives) is incredible.
When Elon said "you make the news" did he really mean "crypto scammers making up sh!t"?
Thoughts on Venezuela now the smoke has cleared.⬇️
1. Trump Doctrine. This operation was thematically similar to last summer's attack on Iranian nuclear facilities - billed as a masterstroke, collapses under scrutiny, and gives Trump cover to disengage from a foreign adventure.
2. As an initial matter, this was all flagrantly illegal aggression against a sovereign state on pretenses so flimsy they're not even legally cognizable. We're literally charging Maduro with violating the National Firearms Act. Dude is going to be a martyr for the Second Amendment, I can't wait to see gun twitter jump all over this lol.
3. This was not actually regime change. Maduro was not a totalitarian law unto himself, he's an eminently replaceable Latin American kleptocrat. The Venezuelan government (to include its senior leadership) and military appear to be almost entirely intact. At the moment they're discussing simply implementing the legal line of succession through the Vice President and moving on with business as usual! In any event Trump discussing somehow picking a new government in Venezuela or exercising authority over the country's governance is a fantasy at this point, we're occupying nothing and we have no leverage.
4. Tying back into the above, all of those senior leaders and that military seem to have gotten the memo to change their bed down locations and not show up for duty last night. The assault force, flying in slow and highly vulnerable helicopters, took desultory small arms fire coming in but not the antiaircraft buzzsaw they should have run into over Caracas given the Venezuelans have had four months to prepare for war. It's unclear whether they faced any resistance at all on the ground - for all we know by that point Maduro had already been arrested by his own military and was simply handed over to the commandos. Certainly the troops were in and out very quickly, suggesting actions on the objective were largely pro forma.
5. Trump has immediately pivoted to an offramp in the Caribbean despite the fact that absolutely none of the ostensible underlying causes of our intervention are remotely resolved at this point - drugs, oil, expropriation, etc. In fact he's been quite clear the Chinese will get their oil, so he seems to consider the operation entirely concluded. As I mentioned above, this is identical to his offramp from the 12 Days' War - conduct a strike on Iranian nuclear sites that was far less impactful than it was billed as to the American public and which was actually below the retaliatory threshold of the Iranians, and then immediately declare victory and leave. This operation feels exactly as choreographed as the denouement of the 12 Days' War - conduct a flashy raid while the Venezuelan Army takes a siesta, get a scalp, declare victory and leave, after which the Venezuelan government shrugs and moves on. Perhaps the Venezuelan government will be persuaded to give US companies some oil concessions going forward.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 24 people died as a result of a Ukrainian drone strike on a cafe in the Kherson region on New Year's Eve
Civilians hit celebrating new years:
“Three Ukranian drones hit a cafe and a hotel on the Black Sea coast in Kherson region.
According to preliminary data, more than 50 people were injured, and 24 people died.
Many people were burned alive. A child was killed.
One of the drones was carrying an incendiary mixture. The same mixtures were used by Kiev militants to burn our fields in the summer.
Now they have deliberately burned people.”
— The governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, reported a targeted drone strike on New Year's Eve against areas where civilian populations were gathered
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@RachBlevins they would have to fly for 12-14 hrs. The attack took place at night, – see the time of the reports about the downed drones in the Novgorod Oblast. This means they were launched no later than 6-7 PM Moscow time, a couple of hours before the start of the negotiations in Mar-a-Lago
@SSchafer17019@MarioNawfal Tankers were empty. These terrorists cowards timed it so that the tankers were empty. They wouldn’t dare attack a full tanker and cause environmental disaster which wouid cause dire geopolitical consequences to the cabal.