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Existential wars are what bring corruption to light. Either as it is forced out, or the nation rife with it finds itself getting defeated again and again. Expeditionary wars that have little to no bearing on the nation's continued existence, that's when they're in danger of enormous corruption.

You are demonstrating both that you do not understand how wars are fought, and that you do not understand that the sooner Ukraine liberates territory, the faster the violations, maiming, and murdering stop. I won't even try to get at how you've swallowed Russian popaganda about 2014 again. We...

This is dishonest. He's said directly that he'd like both, but he prioritizes Ukraine being able to win the war. We know that this isn't the case too, since Congress has actively resisted building in methods for pro-active anti-corruption work. But then, the root problem is the corruption in...

1. Good men may tolerate lesser evils for a time while focusing on a greater. And Russia's war of conquest is very much the greater evil. 2. You act like what BoJo advised Kyiv is the key factor, rather than Putin's lust for conquest, and the perception of the West as being weak. Zelensky was...

You seem to be under the impression that most of us think a lot of money being lost to corruption isn't a price worth paying for breaking the Russian military and keeping Ukraine free. Pretty much. I'm with you on this count. Are you joking? Or are you actually under the delusion that...

Oh good grief. One of many groups involved in transferring money was corrupt and funneling the money elsewhere. I'm sure there were others doing this too. That does not flatten the entire USA involvement in the war in Ukraine to 'a tool for the Dems embezzling even more money.' The level of...

To be fair, it usually did bounce back up. And then drop again later.

Okay, let's go with theoretical 1: 'Jesusland' is a land ruled by what Jesus actually taught. In this land, those who are not Christians are left to go their own way so long as they aren't predating upon others, they simply will not be welcomed into church fellowship. Then we have theoretical...

It isn't a binary, but your religious values determine what direction you're heading. Atheism has functionally been shown to functionally have two forks; radical libertarianism, or communism. Agnosticism has more of a 'generic middle' aptitude to it, but is too weak ideologically to be more...

Russians have already nationalized or pseudo-nationalized a fair number of things.

That's a problem that should be solved in a week or less. Water filters aren't rocket science, and when it comes to something like a nuclear power plant, go buy ten thousand Brita filters if you have to.

Bringing forward maintenance to make sure they're up all Winter, that's a good idea. That twelve are down at once because of unresolved corrosion issues? That's horrific negligence.

He lives in a different world, one with fundamentally different axioms.

Probably. The Chinese economy isn't collapsing yet, but it's staggering around like a drunk. Knock one or two more legs out from under that metaphor, and it'll go the rest of the way down.

Some city dwellers have never actually seen edible fruit on a tree themselves. To be clear, I'm not trying to claim that a big part of the problem isn't people willfully being lazy, but even very basic mental connections have to actually be made, infants are not born knowing how a farm works.

From the perspective of a child, why would they know this? The food is just there. They don't see the process by which it is produced or delivered. The store is simply where you go to get it. This is part of why the left has been deliberately working to infantilize people for longer and longer...

People start out ignorant about everything. If they're never presented with 'the basics,' only the small percentage who take the initiative on such things will actually learn.

No, actually he or she isn't. I've never heard of the person before, and his claim fails basic credibility checks. If it took that much energy to ship food, it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper to keep producing locally for most areas. His claim is extraordinary. You are the one basing your argument...

Can you quote some actual calculations for how that works, or are you purely making an argument from authority, with some rando book as said authority?

Just. Just. Do you have any idea how much difficulty and extra expense there is in 'just' shipping cargo 2500 miles by sea, after needing to divert them ~700 miles by rail? Sure, it can be done. But Russia is not a wealthy nation like the US that can just casually drop a few cool dozen or...