The CIA also helped transfer weapons from Libya to Syria and, well that's where ISIS got their guns from.
ElHexo
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Self crit is an incredibly valuable skill
Almost every cultural element of the west deploys soft power to make you think that everything is fine, it's always been this way, and if it's not fine then that's unavoidable.
Literacy is obviously a luxury many people don't have, but you don't need to be literate to put a very clear material view of something, like:
Four guys should own everything, while a third of my time goes to doing some menial bullshit no one cares about and a solid third of my income should go to some random fucking idiot who in the eighties bought the apartment I live in.
On one level, it's that fucking simple and it's clearly an insane system.
The reduction in sun is an issue, but far worse are the -10 degree celsius temperature drops and the 50 percent less rain
But potatoes are life, so I could see it
And we have the "no downvotes" debuff as well
The US is really only providing enough support to stall Russia and use up Ukrainian and Russian forces
The real question is the commitment of US allies that have already provided materiel support for Ukraine.
If it were WW3, the nukes would be flying and everyone in the northern hemisphere will be dead from famine in a year or two.
I believe State is keen on Ukraine (and maybe both), but the Pentagon is against the war in Ukraine because they want to shore up efforts to contain China.
Kissinger and other realists are no doubt bashing their heads against desks because the masterstroke of the US foreign policy in the 60s and 70s was to support the Sino-Soviet split and ensure that China and Russia don't ever find themselves with common goals.
the forgiven sum is constructively considered income for tax purposes
Wow what a fucking hell state
I don't believe that's the case - income driven repayment plans were always supposed to be forgiven are 20-25 years.
Biden's amendments stopped a bunch of dodgy loopholes that prevented payments counting towards the qualifying 240 to 300 months of payment, which meant ~a million (IIRC) borrowers on IDRs were prevented from having their loans forgiven.
The effect of the forgiveness is only about a 16 percent cost to the US government, or a subsidy of about 0.8 percent or less a year.
As an outsider it's also a very confusing system and many loans aren't IDR
I think a bit of glucose assists the body take up salts but yeah, sports drinks go wild with sugar
Yes, it was the British Ambassador IIRC and the Australian prime minister caused a minor drama by reading out the cable like the next day.
Incidentally that Australian Labor Prime Minister was informing to the US for decades prior and led the US-proposed agreement between unions, corporates and the government which ended up collapsing the union movement and bringing in a wave of austerity a decade later.