There Is No US in Ukraine

I think the WEF [World Economic Forum] envisions a world where most people “have everything they need” in the same way that animals in a zoo have “everything they need”. Everything except freedom.--Fortier

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Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the U.S. FDA’s vaccine advisory committee, has written in the New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s top medical journal, calling for an end to the mass vaccination of anyone at low risk from the virus. In an op-ed titled “Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines – A Cautionary Tale”, Dr. Offit writes that Covid boosters are “probably best reserved for the people most likely to need protection against severe disease.

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The idea of shrinking the discretionary portion of the government back to the size that it was literally just a month ago is “impossible,” according to Politico reporters Caitlin Emma and Connor O’Brien (and their congressional sources), who describe the Republican plan to hold discretionary funding level as relying on “severe cuts” and say the futility of the exercise would “put Don Quixote to shame.”--Boehm

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35 of Kamala's staff have left over the last two years.

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There Is No US in Ukraine

The invasion of Ukraine shines a light so bright we may not be able to look.

Outrageous international behavior must be seen 'in context.'

In national conflicts, land is more important than people.

An "Ism" outweighs a person.

Humans separate tolerable murder from intolerable murder.

Nations will demand the ultimate sacrifice from their citizens but will not
make that sacrifice themselves, except Ukraine, Iran, and Israel.

The Good Samaritan will not cross the road if it has extinction-level mines.

Leaders will not necessarily rise to the occasion.

Individual human heroism and sacrifice are incalculable.

American leadership on both sides has been lacking and, in the case of Harris, mortifying.

Shame is not a factor in politics.

Even international, totalitarian threats will be viewed through a partisan domestic filter.

The political problems facing the average citizen may be beyond his educational base.