While I doubt the U.S. is going to send Ukraine any planes soon, I still laughed at this… a little…
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Laughing-nodding-crying.gif
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Hey, with sanctions, maybe we’ll be able to lower the quality of Russian health care to somewhere near as bad as it is in the U.S. Maybe.
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They will be fine - I’ve seen that episode of Agents of Shield
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Is this Don Rosa? I have problems with faces.
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…why America doesn’t have universal healthcare.
This seems like an excellent time to remind people that the US spends more tax dollars per capita for public healthcare than Germany, Canada, the UK, or France, all of which have universal healthcare and people who live longer healthier lives.
In the US, that tax money buys most Americans no healthcare at all. Public healthcare in the US isn’t universal, but is mostly for poor people, old people, and congresspeople.
There are surely plenty of reasons America doesn’t have universal healthcare. But reasons like “saving money” aren’t among them.
From the article:
As is well known, US health care costs are far higher than those in any other nation (Table 3). However, the high level of tax-funded spending in the United States receives less attention. Indeed, tax-funded health expenditures in the United States account for a larger share of gross domestic product (11.2% in 2013) than do total health expenditures in any other nation.
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A good man
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This guy as been compiling various public sources of information into situational maps and military assessments of the war, updated daily. Today’s thread is particularly optimistic:
Around Kyiv, Russian forces haven’t done any significant maneuvers for ten days and are deemed “combat ineffective” due to supply and morale issues. In the Northeast, the invasion is overextended and kept in check by smaller Ukrainian forces. The attack to the West from Crimea, towards Mykolaiv and Odesa, also appears to have run out of steam. Only in Donbas does the current state of affairs pose a significant threat to Ukrainian military. The conclusion:
Of course, this focuses manly on the conventional war. Russia can still do a lot of damage by focusing on civilian targets, not to mention the possibility to escalate with chemical or even nuclear weapons. And any counteroffensive can’t come too soon for besieged cities like Mariupol.
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fourth week of the war
Fucking hell. It’s been that long already, eh?
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Hypersonic missiles used
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I’ve seen quite a few threads about that pic. This one seems most plausible:
From the thread:
“The launch date for this crew in 18th of March. The day when russia ‘celebrates’ their annexation of the Crimean peninsula.”
“Supposedly, there were plans for celebrating a successful ‘denazification of Ukraine’ for the same day (which obviously did not happen because of the failures of the russian army in Ukraine)”
There was a Twit thread a couple of weeks back that I can’t find now, where locals in one of the contested cities in eastern Ukraine found a stash of Russian Air Force dress uniforms in a garage/warehouse - that had been rented about a month prior to the invasion. Pootie really did think this would be a walk in the park, with the locals hailing the ‘rescuers’. Twat.
However it may also be because of where the crew come from:
“This is not the first time Oleg Artemyev has flown in such colors, as these are the colors of the emblem of Baumanka, where all three cosmonauts come from”
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Is this Don Rosa?
It’s US comedian Larry David.
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