My ex-liberal relative, who is also Jewish, is NOW firmly Conservative and has even gone so far as to cancel his New York Times daily subscription and switched to the New York Post for his daily news !
Dumbest tweet ever. War against Russia is for Ukranian sovereignty and tradition. Read some of his other posts; this guy is a nut.
It looks even dumber that all of that US treasure was spent on this war if it was about protecting Ukraine's traditions. That certainly was not the reason cited by the Biden administration.
I took a class in 7th grade that taught us about money and how to balance a check book, etc. I took several accounting classes in HS. We need reading, writing and math skills along with some science, basic biology and chemistry. Aside from that schools need to focus on getting kids ready to be productive citizens, as opposed to all the college prep BS. Get the kids in these poorer districts into the industrial arts. In rural districts more industrial arts. Need basic soldering skills, programing skills, building systems skills. Our current teacher workforce is ill-equipped for that.
All of it was preventable.
The only reason kids from these poorer districts and rural areas, by and large, don't or can't become biomedical engineers is because there's no one there to nurture and encourage them to do so. If anything, they're disuaded from achieving on that kind of scale. Let's not default to thinking inner city kids have to learn to use a soldering gun to get by in the world.
None could have been preventable. Russia/Putin was determined to invade. He has been working oni t since before 2014. Look at the resources NATO and US has poured into Ukraine, look at the hundreds of thousands of Russians dead, look at the lost equipment Russia has suffered, including the humiliation of having N. Korea helping it out. Yet Russia persists. It certainly would have been prevented by a supplicant like Trump, unless he told Putin to go ahead and take it we will not help Ukraine.
Um, does anyone want to share with thestonedax that it literally didn't happen under Trump. So, yes we know it was preventable for a fact.
Soldering guns beats current learning how to use revolvers versus semi-automatic pistols to get by in today's ghettos.
Nor did the half dozen terror groups funded by Iran or Stan and the rise of crude in Biden economics !
They can go to college and become the bio-chemical engineers. Nowhere in my post did I dissuade any student from achieving the office of the President of the United States. The point of K-12 is to prepare kids to be productive in life. It isn't a training center for college. I know kids who have went trades right out of HS and 4 years max they already own their own home, no college debt, etc. AI is going to take a lot of jobs away from humans. What AI can't do is service broken down vehicles or provide an oil change for that matter, build houses, replace shingles and build factories, fix McDonald's machinery, plant crops, manufacture computer systems, sell golf clubs, etc. Can Chat G P T fix the leak in my water pipes, change an electrical outlet, run some romex through a ceiling and make a floor outlet? Can AI go fishing or maintain off shore drilling facilities? When will AI fix our potholes? Notice I didn't mention Doctors. AI will solve many health issues, but as of now, they cannot fix broken bones or perform surgeries, let alone wheel a patient out of the hospital.
He is a genius. Look at the Argentinian economy an how quickly he flipped the switch and inflation was relieved. If he violated a law, he violated it. That doesn't change his policies that effing worked. Leftist goober gonna goober. Whodathunkit?
All of those are excellent points. What we shouldn't forget is technology has been revoltutionizing our world for a long time now and AI will just be the next episode. Every step of the way, the result has been more opportunities for people and an increase in the standard of living. It's important that schooling prepares students to take advantage of those opportunities, whatever they may be. It's not enough to think we'll just need them to learn to fill potholes or fix leaking pipes.
Ironic as Biden used immense power of US to persuade NATO to defend Ukraine, and provided huge sums and armaments to Ukraine. Trump is sucking up to Putin, rookie SOD selling Ukraine out in advance, and Trump scheduling peace talks without Ukraine invited.
Because you don't announce in advance that Ukraine will not be allowed in Nato, and Russia will not have to give back seized lands. In other words Russia wins without negotiating.
That's not exactly what Reuters is reporting.
Ya, that Biden is amazing. Russia is attacking a country in Europe's backyard and the US pays the lions share of the bill to defend them.
Who really would win is the next million or more casualties that won't become casualties.
So the sole determinative to winning is preventing death. US should have let Japanese taken over US to avoid deaths. US should have surrendered when NAZI Germany declared war to avoid deaths. US would have won if we spoke Japanese west of Mississippi River and German east of it? Stupendously stupid.
Bad examples. The US was successful staying out of WW2 until Japan and Germany (and Italy, I think) declared war on us.
I didn't say the US should capitulate to Russia. I didn't even say Ukraine should capitulate to Russia. But if it's possible to avoid casualties in the millions and stop the fighting tomorrow, I can think of much worse outcomes. Throwing money and material at Ukraine will not get them their territory back, it'll only fill more body bags and ultimately put Ukraine back where it was 200 years ago--under Russian rule. And the US getting in a hot war with Russia could be cataclysmic beyond even what even the lustiest of warmongers could stomach. I know that won't sate your blood lust, but not everyone shares it.
You should have voted for Trump, then you would be welcome to assist him in ending the Biden/Carmella Wars !
I am curious what path that is possible you think Trump should take to end the Ukraine/ Russia conflict?
You let Russia keep some of the territory it took in 20014, Mostly assimilated by now. Give back Crimea and anything taken over last 2 years. Russia is getting their ass kicked and embarrassed on the world stage as a not real military power. Their economy is crashing. They need to end the war as much as Ukraine, use that. Don't go in like Trump and the Fox News weekend anchor and say you will give Russia everything they want. And do not schedule talks without Ukraine there. That is how Trump killed Afghanistan, but I guess he didn't learn. You guys are scared of Russia that is a paper bear!
What's on the list of "everything Russia wants" that the US has promised them?
