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NYT finally admits that Putin's recent proposal is the most realistic scenario for how this war will pan out. (www.nytimes.com)

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Mr. Putin is already planning for victory. His latest so-called peace proposal — in which Russia keeps occupied territory and Ukraine is banned from joining NATO — was dismissed as propaganda by many Western leaders. But it is, in fact, the most realistic scenario for how this war will pan out.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“On a snowy October night, I was eating a microwaved burrito, when the editor called and ordered me to go meet some actually interesting people”

"As soon as I stepped outside, it started to rain. The droplets gathered on the ground and I had a profound realization. Gravity pulls things down. I wondered: Have the Chinese ever figured this out? No, surely not. The Russians? Not in a million years. But I, a white man living in New York writing for an imperialist publication, am the first to have ever had this realization. I quickly jotted my thought down on a used napkin, ignoring the properties of water that made it wet in the rain, and hurried to the patent office to get my scientific discovery recorded in the annals of capitalism."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Dang, you got the chops already!