rosemmason.bsky.social
Autodidact historian, mostly central and eastern Europe
Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
Historical musicology
"Why, said Montag slowly, 'we've stopped in front of my house.'"
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"When he talked about government employees, we didn't think it would be us."
Rather than thinking, "He says he wants to cut government employees and that's a terrible idea for all government employees," she voted for him knowing that others would be hurt and then was surprised by the outcome.
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They all knew.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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Kevin told us in 2016
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Yes! And Paul Ryan's response was to "keep it in the family." "What's said in the family stays in the family." GOP has been power-at-all-costs since 1980, w the "costs" growing, until, now, the cost is our democracy and country!
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Apropos of the donkeys, Military historian @phillipspobrien.bsky.social writes in a recent S'stack post that UA is getting so good at destroying RU's expensive tanks using drones that it's no longer cost effective for RU to use them, hence the donkeys.
phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/de-mechani...
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Much of what we know and what gets reported about Ukrainian corruption in the international press is the spadework of... Ukrainian civil society groups and law enforcement bodies.
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Trump didn't learn the first time around, in 2019, when he tried and failed to extort Zelens'kyy over congressionally mandated funding that Ukraine desperately needed.
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Swedish company Satcube provides satellite internet terminals for Ukraine
euromaidanpress.com/2023/08/09/s...
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Even more ironic is today's reality: no values, no faith in anything - just a calculator.
It turns out that you can wipe entire cities off the face of the earth - and get a handshake instead of a noose around your neck, as was once the case in Nuremberg.
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taking some more Ukrainian territory without fighting and a ceasefire, during which Ukraine gets no security guarantees, demobilizes, and then awaits rested, rearmed, and sanction-free russia’s third invasion.
These are the contours of the Trump-russia “deal” in the works right now!
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