$916B is even an undercount, it's more like $1.5T. There's a bunch of related spending that gets distributed to other departments.
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Greatest/largest/costliest military in the world everyone.
Same goes for cable. Of course you can do the minimum, but then you're missing out on things which are heavily advertised, things your friends are talking about, etc. Of course you don't have to but a lot of people are swayed by that.
Streaming is expensive if you want to watch all the things. Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Apple, and who knows what else I'm missing all have original series and if you want to see something from each service you would have to subscribe to each service.
I haven't taken the time to look into the Ritter allegations/charges myself, but it reminds me strongly of the allegations of sexual assault against Julian Assange which turned out to be complete fabrications.
In general I'm very cautious of emotionally-laden allegations when it comes to anti-imperialist voices or proposals made to serve the empire such as breaking encryption to "prevent terrorism" or "protect the children."
No. The river runs into the ocean anyway, and even if a new source of freshwater were to run into the ocean, the oceans are so massive there wouldn't be any measurable change in salinity. A canal like this probably won't have much flow anyway, as it's meant for shipping and transportation rather than water diversion or irrigation.
The article does note some concerns in terms of additional pollution and disruption of wildlife due to increased traffic and more industry.
I thought the ruling class wants higher unemployment, as a "worker discipline device."
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/24/unemployment-inflation-janet-yellen/
My impression was that a lot of the current inflation was simply driven by companies raising prices in order to increase profits. For the US at least, disruptions in Russian and Ukranian energy and food production have only a very small effect.
The missteps referred to are probably the chain of events that led to public knowledge of the propaganda effort.
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Worth noting that official inflation figures are based on a variable basket of goods, meaning that the inflation value can be very easily adjusted to whatever is politically expedient in the moment.
They can't listen to what the Russians or saying, for that would destroy their entire premise.
This was never the plan. Putin, Lavrov, and Medvedev have been singing the same song since 2008 if not longer. They view NATO expansion and weapons placements encroaching on their border as an existential threat, and have said as much repeatedly. Imperial realists have said the same since 1991.
The idea that Putin himself wants to take over Ukraine and bring back the USSR is a strawman to beat all strawmen.
But imperialist capital forbid that they listen to the words of their opposition, let alone take them at face value. The expansion of empire must continue unabated.