FTA: Nobody had foreseen that the Russian economy would hold facing NATO’s ‘economic power’”.
I beg to differ. I've been saying almost since the beginning that Russia would likely fare this mess much better than the Empire.
Another good article from Escobar.
When I was a kid dad hired high school boys to buck hay. He was the preference of all the boys because every day around 4:00 mom put out a spread of various lunch meats, cheeses, breads, chips and soda. That way dad could keep hauling hay till dusk, and the boys didn't seem to mind that part.
FTA: And when you stop and think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet...If you said that to most people, most people they think you’re just a crazy tree hugging lefty, liberal, you know, do good or whatever, and and there’s no relationship.
I'd just think you're an asshole.
I was speaking of the US government.