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Senator Graham died 17 days ago, and although an autopsy found natural causes for the 71 year old's death, toxicology reports have not been released.
They don't have to be made public, but I think this is of international importance, considering his criticism of Russia.
Russia attacked Poland 🇵🇱 with cruise missiles for the first time in the war
A Russian X-101 cruise missile reportedly struck near the Polish village of Otrocz ~100km from Ukraine 🇺🇦 and sirens 🚨 rang across Lublin and parts of Eastern Poland
If confirmed, Russia attacked NATO
This kinda tit for tat mutually assured strikes would be catastrophic especially in the hottest month of the year, and any further deterioration of the energy markets would really bad for Trump in the midterms.
After an ICE stop led to a family's deportation, an Overland couple was murdered in Guatemala. Their 14-month-old daughter survived and a vigil is set for Sunday. https://t.co/JjxWOhhyM8
@WeatherProf Global shipping can help. Silver dioxide? Feel like im remembering that wrong but what ought we emit that can give us a little reflective shield?
No, this isn’t a photo of the Wildberries warehouse in Moscow from last week. It’s a photo of the Wildberries warehouse in Krasnodar from today.
To the question, “But why are the Ukrainians attacking civilian targets?” the answer is as follows:
Wildberries is a kind of Amazon. It has massive warehouses where goods from China arrive and are resold by russian merchants. Those goods are also dual-use goods. “Dual-use” is the term for civilian products that can be used for military purposes.
DJI drones, for example, are dual-use products because they can be used to film a wedding or to surveil enemy trench positions. Wildberries’ warehouses serve as the gateway for dual-use products worth billions of dollars used by the russian military. From thermal cameras to controllers, 3D printers, components, or entire drones, and much, much more. This is the main reason.
The secondary reason, publicly stated by the operations coordinator Robert Magyar himself, is to send the message that the war has returned home to russia.
“Well then, in Ukraine too, the Nova Poshta or Epicenter warehouses—or others—are legitimate targets for the russians, aren’t they?”
No. Nothing in Ukraine is a legitimate target for the russians. Ukraine is attacking these warehouses, just as it attacks russia’s commercial ships in the Shadow Fleet, and just as it attacks military targets—because it has been attacked. Ukraine’s strikes are acts of self-defense. russia’s strikes are violations of all international norms, as this is an illegitimate, unprovoked, illegal, and immoral war.
Slava Ukraini!
@business Yes...because there will just always be more water, eh? Not like we throw caps on water bottles and toss liters in to garbage cans that won't return to the cycle. These things get really big out west and the sales will go through the roof in the Mississippi river valley!
The degree to which payment processing fees are a drag on US productivity isn’t sufficiently recognized.
A typical restaurant or retailer pays ~3% of every charge. On smaller purchases it can be more.
Visa, MC, Amex are just toll collectors on economic activity. Each dollar spent on fees is a dollar unavailable for wages, investment, lower prices, or expansion.
🇷🇺🇺🇦L'humiliation est totale pour la Russie.
La destruction totale de l'entrepôt géant de Wildberries dans la région de Moscou est vraiment impressionnante.
L'entrepôt était un hub logistique stockant des composants utilisés dans les drones tuant les civils ukrainiens. Cela en fait une cible légitime pour les drones ukrainiens qui ont parfaitement fait le job, et la Russie n'a pas réussi à le défendre.
Les mauvaises nouvelles s'accumulent pour les Russes. Imaginez un peu, ils encaissent des frappes depuis des semaines, ils subissent une pénurie d'essence et ils savent qu'une nouvelle mobilisation massive se prépare. Et aujourd'hui, ils se réveillent avec un gigantesque nuage noir cachant le soleil au-dessus de Moscou.
Vladimir Poutine ne peut plus cacher qu'il subit ce conflit. Lui qui veut faire croire que tout est constamment sous contrôle, il apparaît comme un leader faible qui n'est pas capable de protéger son pays et sa population d'une situation qu'il a lui-même créée.
Ce n'est que le début des problèmes pour la Russie, la mobilisation à venir risque aussi de créer des remous.