Nobody really wants their oil on the market, it would cut already low oil prices even lower, it's also low grade sludge that's difficult to refine. That's why Putin supports the socialist regime, it keeps the oil in the ground because with a socialist government no capitalist businesses will invest.

The proscription lists were public and even family turned on them. Anyone who protected the proscribed could be killed as well and their estates were seized. Antony read Caesars will at his funeral, it left 300 sestertius to every Roman citizen, and the city went into a frenzy. TOTAL revenge.

Essentially Caesar was so visionary versus the Oligarch led Senate that they couldn't comprehend what he was trying to do. All they saw was him taking their wealth and farms and giving it to poor plebes. He was trying to create a new economic model and a stable food supply.

He even set up a tax system for the new employees on the farms to help fund the state. They were to pay 5% of their wages annually as tax. So Caesar foresaw what collapsed the empire and was trying to create a free market economy and was murdered by rich Oligarchs who ran slave plantations.

Not only did he fix the problem of slave labor farms being unproductive and expensive, he passed a law requiring large farms to hire at least 1/3 of their workers as free men and required a minimum wage be paid. That turned poor citizens dependent on the state for handouts into wage earners.

This unfortunately will never happen. Europe won't loan their systems either, too high a risk of them being destroyed and they need them in case Russia starts shit with them. 27 Patriot systems are too many, 100-200 exist WORLDWIDE and just 12 are produced per year with huge backlogs. Sad but true.

He is also credited with inventing the ballista, the first field artillery, by hiring the brightest engineers across the region and throwing endless funds at them. He also built Europe's first purpose built warships (quinqueremes) and was the first to use siege engines on a large scale.

My first time encountering this chocolate, I don't eat a lot of it but occasionally get bad cravings for it and buy a huge bar. It's hard to find a good brand with milk chocolate, caramel, and sea salt but this one is absolute perfection.

There are two goals, to control Iraq as a proxy state by putting pro Iran politicians in power and using the militias to back then and to use the militias as another terror wing to threaten US/Israeli interests in the region. Those militias have regularly conducted attacks on both.

The article also discusses the cause of the war. Nowhere do you see mentions of bombing the Donbas, nazis in Ukraine, or protecting Russian speakers. The article mentions how the collapse of the Soviet Union caused Ukraine to align with the West and Russia invaded to restore itself.

It's a lot of self employed, small business owners, and poor right wing families with a dozen kids who use the Affordable Care Act to afford health insurance. The government subsidizes the premiums for people under certain incomes. Those idiots will never blame Trump even if they lose healthcare.

This is from the accidentally released "victory article" from a Russian state news agency days after the war began. They deleted it soon after but it's on the internet archive. There's no mention of biolabs, nazis, or bombing the Donbas. Just Putin wanting to restore Russia to its former glory.