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What Mearscheimer gets wrong about Ukraine.

This 43 yo woman Margarita Simonyan is part of Moscow's kleptocracy's vast propaganda machine, a machine that's paid this apparatchik of Putin's Sochi Mafia very, very well.

See:
www.state.gov

The democratic world needs to address Kremlin propaganda to the fullest extent possible. Moscow's disinformation fuels public support for Muscovy's aggression against democracy everywhere.

How can the democratic world counter the Putin-Kirill-Medvedev propaganda machine? If drones could carry unbiased news to reach and inform most Russia's average civilians about Muscovy's corrupt government and about atrocities it has committed in Ukraine and elsewhere, and about the way RT and the rest of Russia's media misinforms them, perhaps the average common person living under Moscow's dictatorship would demand change.

RT's blasting the US and playing the "nuke-em" script is merely Putin's government's way to keep him in office this "election" cycle and to sustain Russia's public indifference to Russia's crimes, and to prep them for more violence against the West and against West-leaning political idealist in the former Soviet Union or any of its former satellites.

So who cares what RT spouts about? What can we or the rest of the world do to burst Moscow's vast propaganda bubble?

Lamplighter, no zombie here, just bad Siri VTT interpretation (and eyes too tired to proofread a tiny input screen on a mobile phone).

A study I recently read suggested that plug-in hybrids over 100% electric vehicles as more beneficial for the environment than solely electric motor cars.

(That's the gist of what I thought I asked Siri to type. Sorry for not catching Siri's weird interpretation. A lightly edited version of the rest of the post follows with two related references:).

Can solid-state batteries help EVs shed weight? | Automotive World
www.automotiveworld.com

How Green Are Electric Vehicles? - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com

The rationale is that 100% electric cars (BEVs) need much larger batteries to get longer distance driving ranges, therefore they can weigh 1000s of lbs more than conventional vehicles. But as the weight goes up the mi/kwh efficiency decreases, theoretical to a point diminishing returns to a point where adding more battery isn't producing enough vehicle range to be worth it.

For another option, while plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), max range on a single EV charge is limited by the smaller battery size (about 18-40 miles), for commuting distances of less than that distance or for driving around town and shopping, the charge is generally sufficient. And unlike electric BEVS that don't have a second power option, a PHEV can often get between 40-60 mpg between rechargings. That alone makes the PHEV a decent option between conventional gas-only vehicles and between non-plugin hybrids and BEVs.

(BTW, if only it were easier to proofread and edit on this platform. If only.)

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