USAID was dismantled overnight, without any opportunity for other aid organisations to step up. This is why it amounts to the deliberate murder of thousands of the world's poorest.
I also suspect that much of USAID wasn't for humanitarian purposes as much as it was for buying influence abroad,
All major nations do this. It's called soft power. And the US pissed it all away.
"I mean just like Trump, media coverage on Putin is biased"
Yes, it's insane how maibstream outlets such as the NYT are normalizing Trump. The guy has his own crypto meme coin for crying out loud. The corruption is so open and brazen it's laughable, but the MSM is still obsessing over Biden's age, while Donnie boy re-truths that Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone.
What an eff'ing joke America turned into.
Who wouldn't want to pay a subscription for 24/7 surveillance with all your personal data in some corporate cloud storage?
All this could have been avoided by buying Trump coins for a couple million $.
... for social media and crypto.
Looking back at the optimism of the early days of the web this is a profoundly saddening outcome.
What part of "unparalleled" do you not understand?
Land of the free where no one is above the law.
How far America has fallen.
To be extra clear, here: titanium melts around 1,900 kelvin. The temperature of re-entry is 3,200 kelvin. Yes, 3,200 kelvin is "below" the temperature required to make titanium boil (by 300 kelvin), but you'll note that the 1,900 is 3,200 by 1,300.
Who honestly thinks titanium that's been heated to 'just below' its boiling point for half an hour, will be somehow intact once it's slow enough to not self-generate plasma due to atmospheric drag?
Ridiculous.
How does a thing that isn't water, 'water in the ocean'? What? A thing can't water. The only thing that is water, is H2O.
Also, no -- it will not survive atmospheric re-entry. The atmosphere see to that. The heat of re-entry exceeds the temperature of Venus by *THOUSANDS OF DEGREES*.... It will not survive in 1 piece. This isn't a matter of atmospheric pressure, nor is this a matter of G-shock. It's plasma; it'll be in an envelope of super-heated plasma. Why do you think they can't use the radios on the Shuttle during re-entry? High energy plasma -- at THOUSANDS OF DEGREES.... Sheesh.
'"As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth atmosphere intact, and impact intact," Langbroek wrote in a blog update"'
Uh, no.
1) High-energy plasma at 3,200 K upon re-entry. This occurs for 25 minutes or so. This is why Columbia became
2) Venera probes use drag-parachutes to reduce velocity to the point that they can survive entry into the atmosphere of Venus. But, this was built by the Soviet union -- it didn't get out of low Earth orbit. Do you think that parachute functions? It doesn't, it won't.
3) The reasons cited for it 'surviving' re-entry are
Ridiculous. It will not survive atmospheric re-entry. it will not be 'a single piece' when it (or most of it, the parts that weren't vaporized by high-energy plasma), gets to sea-level.
He's a transactional bully who understands the stick but not the carrot
With the exception of Putin where it's exactly the opposite.
With Putin it's always only carrots and reach arounds but never the stick.
Now every company needs to come to Donnie boy bagging for exemptions and he can name his price.
Perhaps they should have asked the judges if they wanted to be fed what the plaintiff feeds to dogs. The implications are horrific for any form of credibility.
That person is an idiot. They deserve what they get.
When I left the US I rolled my 401K over into a self-directed IRA and put most of my money into gold. It developed quite nicely.
And nothing Donnie's government has done will help with that.
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