Once Kursk is retaken, Moscow "accepts" the ceasefire (which they ordered DC to propose) and gets to restock and regroup.

Meanwhile, Ukraine will receive nothing from the U.S. and will - through coordinated Russian/American propaganda - take the blame when Moscow inevitably breaks the ceasefire...

U.S. tariffs on alcohol incoming? American ophthalmologists rejoice!

When your adversary does not adhere to a treaty, the treaty has failed. Your obligation is null and void. There is no high road to take

In the entire history of NATO, only one country has invoked the mutual defense clause. Its allies answered and shed blood for this country, doing its bidding even against sovereign nations that weren't the aggressor.

The incremental nature of evil is key to understanding. The Nazis didn't propose the Final Solution when they sought election. Arriving at that as policy took years, with many little steps along the way taking you closer and making the next step seem acceptable and even necessary.

- Timothy Snyder

Being leader of the free world would be more fun if it weren't just handed to us 🇪🇺

Remember when Bane led an armed attack on the Gotham Stock Exchange in broad daylight, hacked the market, and authorities just folded and accepted the manipulated numbers? My apologies to Chris Nolan for repeatedly lambasting this premise as being unrealistic. I was young and naïve...

All U.S. citizens are now by definition female.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Let's see if we can hold two ideas simultaneously:

1. Science is of course "neither red nor blue." It's about understanding nature, not partisan agendas.
2. Science is of course "political." Politics is how we make collective decisions, including concerning science.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...