"Even so, Russia looks weaker than ever. Ukraine might be Putin's Afghanistan."

Not likely.

The influence of the losses in Afghanistan by the Soviet Union were enabled by Perestroika, as the USSR moved towards liberalization. Vlad has reversed that trend. Russia is now more like the USSR under Stalin, and they still have plenty of meat to throw at the Ukraine problem.

Somewhere around 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed in Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989. More than 200,000 Russians have been killed in Ukraine since 2022. The losses have not had a meaningful impact on Russia.

"Vlad has no intention of stopping at Ukraine; Poland and Finland are next, among several others like Georgia."

Georgia? Maybe. Individually, Russia would have little chance against either Poland or Finland. If both got involved, the only question would be what language would be spoken in Moscow. Personally, I would favor Polish. I've come to the conclusion that Finnish is a language whose primary purpose is to ---- with people. I can normally pick my way through languages, but Finnish is like some sort of secret code.

This is just more Islamophobia being perpetrated by white, European colonial capitalists against those protecting indigenous people, their culture, and their native lands.

This hero is a champion of the Intifada. The fascist FBI should be imprisoned for their implicit support to white supremacy and Islamophobia.

If the US has open borders, why do people keep stopping me when I fly back into the US?

It's kind of a hassle.

"As noted in Luke Rosiak's book Race To The Bottom, black students' state math exam scores in these pilot programs plummeted to shocking lows. After years of consistent progress at John Muir Elementary, for example, the passing rate for black students fell from 28 percent to 18 percent after the introduction of the ethnic studies framework.

The basic argument from the "math is racist" crowd is that "white supremacy culture" is endemic to mathematics classrooms, and it's why black students' math scores are lagging white students'.

A coalition of left-wing educators introduced A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction, a toolkit introducing "an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8." The group hopes educators will help remove white supremacy culture from math classes "as they navigate the individual and collective journey from equity to anti-racism."

"My bosses in the USIC and DOD hated it when I used the term muqawama or intifada when describing our "enemies" who were trying to expel us from their countries. That's why I only made it to LTC and so I happily retired."

Because the term anti-coalition militia was unsuitable to you?

Can ya figure it out?

"Why should he have any part in fixing the problems created European Colonialists?"

Dude, you're an idiot.

Who do you think it was that sold the land to the Zionists.

Hint: it rhymes with "murky."

"You are a Hasbara Liar."

Show me a lie.

"Hamas made the equivalent of a War raid by Indians against a much more powerful enemy, in an Existential attempt to stop the Strangulation of their Culture."

Hamas is a "culture?" I've been around longer than Hamas has.

Hamas is a political organization. Let's move on.

"Explain how that was Genocide by an Definition?"

Hamas is a political organization that has codified genocide against Israelis as part of their chart. Your turn.

"Hamas might as well be Jews in the Warsaw ghetto resisting the Nazis by comparison."

A more apt comparison would be between Israel's response to the 10/7 terror attacks, and the US response to the Japanese attacks on Japan and Alaska. May I surmise that you would have been in the streets protesting against the millions of innocent Japanese being genocided by the raycist, white supremacists fighting the war against Japan?

Would you like to do Germany next?

2+2=4 is raycist.

2+2 should equal whatever you feel it should equal. Or at least answer on a test.

"Gatekeeping education has always been a tool of oppression."

It sounds like that's exactly what the people in the article were doing as well.

"Seattle Public Schools introduced the CRT lens into math classes through the district's ethnic studies department. In 2019, the department released guidelines for K-12 math teachers to use in the classroom as part of a pilot program at a handful of Seattle public schools.

The framework claims that "mathematical knowledge has been appropriated by Western culture" and that "math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color."

Seattle math teacher Shraddha Shirude is a believer, using ethnic studies in her high school course Mathematics for Liberation to tell students that the subject is "used to oppress people." She says she enjoys teaching through the ethnic studies lens because it dismantles the "toxic" white culture of math classes."

I wonder if this has anything to do with math being a tool of white supremacy that educators elected to reject in the interest of social justice?

"Erdogan, a vocal critic of Israel's military actions, again accused Israel of using "starvation and genocide" as weapons of war."

Israel? Perhaps.

Hamas? Without question.

I wonder why Erdogan is not doing his part of help rid the levant of terrorists. He was helpful enough against a similar enemy in the eastern Levant.

#2

What exactly is "Palestinian Land" in the 1947 graphic? At the time, it was all British. Zionist settlers had purchased 2 million dunams of land in the levant by 1947. Arab ownership was limited to 50,000 dunams. The rest owned by the British, who inherited it from the Ottomans.

Now the map looks a lot different, doesn't it.

#6

18 UK nationals were killed in the October 7th terrorist attacks. The UK is doing what it should be doing.

"RAF Shadow surveillance aircraft being flown over Gaza to help locate hostages"

#5

"Minority" is only a thing if you subscribe to the correct set of beliefs.

This is why I half-jokingly say that the US is the last Marxist country. To each according to need, to each according to ability. If you're not successful, you shouldn't have to pay for anything. If you are successful, you should pay for those who aren't.

"Besides, this doesn't solve home prices, university prices."

I would argue that government involvement is what caused prices to soar. I had a buddy who took a job in Colorado Springs for $90k per year and was approved for a $560k home loan. How could he possibly pay for that?

"All of these were the reaction to a depression."

When Reagan passed the Tax Reform Act, it wasn't the low-income earners who were complaining. It was the wealthy. Prior to TRA, there was a cottage industry that thrived around tax dedications. You could deduct travel costs for your family. You could deduct the cost of your household staff. Maybe most importantly, you could take passive property dedications. So even if the marginal rates were high, you could trim out down so that the effective rates were far lower. TRA did away with those deductions.

"They don't pay them to start with because they bought politicians to make money speech and to make their taxes negligible compared to their income."

If you want to keep believing this, don't click the link above.

"They don't pay them to start with because they bought politicians to make money speech and to make their taxes negligible compared to their income."

If you want to keep believing that the wealthy don't pay their fare share of taxes, and that the poor pay too much, don't click the link below:

"THAT'S HOW wealth is being transferred upward."

How do you cut taxes for people who don't pay them to start with?