Is that really necessary? Venezuela recently held an election in which the results were simply ignored by the leader in power. Very few US citizens will find this particularly odious.
Yes, there were elections where at most only 18M people voted, compared to the 24M people that voted when the pro-Russian candidate won, in 2010. Because there were almost no ballot station in those regions leaning more towards Russia. Yet the government didn't think that was a problem at all; in fact, it was good for them (imagine if Trump could just make that people in some blue states couldn't vote). All this in a climate with banned parties and where all the media was controlled by the "Maidan" parties.
So it doesn't look the situation in Ukraine was very democratic either.
If he would barely speak Ukrainian, communicate mostly in Polish instead of Ukrainian, sacrifice his country’s interests in favor of Poland for 15 billion instead of following EU integration path, then yes – he was a Polish puppet all along.
Well, Zelensky actually barely speaks Ukrainian. He communicates mostly in Russian. As for his country's interests, we'd better wait to see how Ukraine is after all this finishes, and who are the biggest beneficiaries, in comparison to how it was when his term began.
> Why am I seeing footage of Chinooks if it's only a bombing? Those are troop-carriers
Based on what we're being told now, this was an extraction. (Slash detention. Slash kidnapping. In any case, requiring troop transport and extraction.)
If this results in Maduro leaving office with a small number of mostly military deaths, followed by the swift return of Venezuelan democracy, I would concede that the hawks made a good call this time. It is extraordinarily uncommon for US regime change wars to go that way and I don’t think this is going to be the exception.
(E: Honesty compels me to come back and say that it is looking somewhat likely I was wrong and will have to concede to the hawks.)
I bet the one that gets implemented by an invasion force will be great. It's a crisis that has to be handled internally by the populus of the country. Not by a country which leader implied he wants the natural resources of the country they are now "freeing from a dictatorship" or whatever cope you are coming up with in your mind.
Yes, it's more peaceful than war. Especially when the "illegitimately" part is determined by US-aligned and sponsored organizations for the purpose of manufacturing consent for regime change.
Did we bail them out before? From what I can tell, we opened up a currency swap using a Treasury fund (not funded by tax dollars) specifically devoted to currency stabilization.
A currency swap IS a bailout if the swap occurs at a price above what would otherwise be the market clearing price. "currency stabilization" is just a funny way to say "artificially propping up the peso"
> using a Treasury fund (not funded by tax dollars)
tell me, where do you think the Treasury gets its dollars...
> The fund began operations in April 1934, under director Archie Lochhead and financed by $2 billion of the $2.8 billion gold surplus the government had realized by devaluing the dollar.
> The ESF can convert SDRs into dollars on its account by issuing certificates against them and selling the certificates to the Federal Reserve,[6] and later repurchase them when it has surplus cash.
The ESF is self financing. And yeah, sure, it is artificially propping up the peso, the same way we propped up the Mexican peso, the Thai bhat, and others once upon a time.
If not us tax dollars, how are they funded? Are the backed with full faith of credit of the us government? It’s hard to search for answers on this one.
Flakes seem a lot more magic under the hood, whereas Niv is just providing the arguments to existing Nix functions. They need special handling for nested dependencies (“follows” is a bit weird and hard to discover). With Niv, everything is just a function evaluation. Dependencies source caching is non-obvious for nested dependencies, with Niv it is more explicit (although you do need to manually instantiate them, but I prefer the explicitness).
Nothing major, but it just adds a bit of cognitive load.
Nope! This feature is completely agnostic to the Nix language, dealing only with how/when files are copied to the Nix store. More of an under-the-hood implementation detail than anything, although one with important consequences.
