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My brother and his wife are very smart people. SHE is the superstar though. She came from a poor family with 8 kids and an alcoholic father. She earned a full ride academic scholarship and got a BS and MS in Engineering. She is a quite unassuming brilliant woman. I have huge respect for her.

She tutored me through Calculus. I'm a biology person not a math person.:laugh:
Great success story.

I struggled with Calculus, diffi-diffi equations (differential equations) and Orgo (Organic Chemistry).

The really brilliant students were usual quiet and unassuming.

My friend rarely studied, partied frequently and had a 3.9 through double “E.”

I envied their ability to absorb the truly complex subjects so easily.
 
No, it's the truth. It's how American Professor John Mearsheimer was able to predict Ukraine getting wrecked if it continued along the path it was on then 10 years ago. A good article on the subject can be seen here:
To say Putin was "provoked" to invade a sovereign country is Russian propaganda.
 
Perhaps, but the important thing is that it's true. American Professor and Statesman Jeffrey Sachs got into the details of this in a speech he gave to European Parliament a few months ago. Quoting from an article made out of said speech:
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As you know, Viktor Yanukovych was elected as president of Ukraine in 2010 on the platform of Ukraine’s neutrality. Russia had no territorial interests or designs in Ukraine at all. I know. I was there off-and-on during these years. What Russia was negotiating during 2010 was a 25-year lease to 2042 for Sevastopol naval base. That’s it. There were no Russian demands for Crimea, or for the Donbas. Nothing like that at all. The idea that Putin is reconstructing the Russian empire is childish propaganda. Excuse me.

If anyone knows the day-to-day and year-to-year history, this is childish stuff. Yet childish stuff seems to work better than adult stuff. So, there were no territorial demands at all before the 2014 coup [in Ukraine]. Yet the United States decided that Yanukovych must be overthrown because he favored neutrality and opposed NATO enlargement. It’s called a regime change operation.


[snip]

Now in 2014, the U.S. worked actively to overthrow Yanukovych. Everybody knows the phone call intercepted by my Columbia University colleague, Victoria Nuland, and the U.S. ambassador, Geoffrey Pyatt. You don’t get better evidence. The Russians intercepted her call, and they put it on the Internet.

It’s fascinating. By doing that, they all got promoted in the Biden administration. That’s the job. When the Maidan occurred, I was called soon after. “Professor Sachs, the new Ukrainian prime minister would like to see you to talk about the economic crisis.” So, I flew to Kyiv, and I was walked around the Maidan. And I was told how the U.S. paid the money for all the people around the Maidan, the “spontaneous” Revolution of Dignity.

Ladies and gentlemen, please, how did all those Ukrainian media outlets suddenly appear at the time of the Maidan? Where did all this organization come from? Where did all these buses come from? Where did all those people come from? Are you kidding? This is an organized effort. And it’s not a secret, except perhaps to citizens of Europe and the United States. Everyone else understands it quite clearly.

Then after the coup came the Minsk agreements, especially Minsk II, which, incidentally, was modeled on South Tyrolean autonomy for the ethnic Germans in Italy. The Belgians too can relate to Minsk II very well, as it called for autonomy and language rights of the Russian speakers of Eastern Ukraine. Minsk II was supported unanimously by the U.N. Security Council. (The Minsk II agreement was endorsed by the United Nations Security Council through Resolution 2202, which was adopted unanimously on Feb. 17, 2015.)

Yet the United States and Ukraine decided it would not be enforced. Germany and France, the guarantors of the Normandy process, also let it be ignored. This dismissal of Minsk II was another direct American unipolar action with Europe as usual playing a completely useless subsidiary role though it was guarantor of the agreement.

Trump won the 2016 election and then expanded arms shipments to Ukraine. There were many thousands of deaths in the shelling by Ukraine in the Donbas. There was no implementation of the Minsk II agreement.

Then Biden came into office in 2021. I hoped for better but was profoundly disappointed once again. I used to be a member of the Democratic Party. I now am a member of no party because both are the same anyway. The Democrats became complete warmongers over time, and there was not one voice in the party calling for peace. Just as with most of your parliamentarians, the same way.

At the end of 2021, Putin put on the table a last effort to reach a modus operandi with the U.S., in two security agreement drafts, one with Europe and one with the United States. He put the Russia-U.S. draft agreement on the table on Dec. 15, 2021.

Following that, I had an hour-long call with [National Security Advisor] Jake Sullivan in the White House, begging, “Jake, avoid the war. You can avoid the war. All the U.S. has to do is say, ‘NATO will not enlarge to Ukraine.’” And he said to me, “Oh, NATO’s not going to enlarge to Ukraine. Don’t worry about it.”

I said, “Jake, say it publicly.”

“No. No. No. We can’t say it publicly.”

I said, “Jake, you’re going to have a war over something that isn’t even going to happen?”

He said, “Don’t worry, Jeff. There will be no war.”

These are not very bright people. I’m telling you, if I can give you my honest view, they’re not very bright people. They talk to themselves. They don’t talk to anybody else. They play game theory. In noncooperative game theory, you don’t talk to the other side. You just make your strategy. This is the essence of non-cooperative game theory. It’s not negotiation theory. It’s not peacemaking theory. It is unilateral, noncooperative theory, if you know formal game theory.

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Full article:

The final straw was Ukraine's renewed assault on the Donbass Republics. Former Swiss Intelligence Officer Jacques Baud gets into the details there:
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In fact, as early as February 16 [2022], Joe Biden knows that the Ukrainians began to shell the civilian populations of Donbass, putting Vladimir Putin in front of a difficult choice: to help Donbass militarily and create an international problem or to sit idle and watch Russian speakers from the Donbass being run over.

If he decides to intervene, Vladimir Putin can invoke the international obligation of “ Responsibility To Protect ” (R2P). But he knows that whatever its nature or scale, the intervention will trigger a shower of sanctions. Therefore, whether its intervention is limited to the Donbass or whether it goes further to put pressure on the West for the status of Ukraine, the price to be paid will be the same. This is what he explains in his speech on February 21.

That day, he acceded to the request of the Duma and recognized the independence of the two Republics of Donbass and, in the process, he signed treaties of friendship and assistance with them.

The Ukrainian artillery bombardments on the populations of Donbass continued and, on February 23, the two Republics requested military aid from Russia. On the 24th, Vladimir Putin invokes Article 51 of the United Nations Charter which provides for mutual military assistance within the framework of a defensive alliance.

In order to make the Russian intervention totally illegal in the eyes of the public we deliberately obscure the fact that the war actually started on February 16th. The Ukrainian army was preparing to attack the Donbass as early as 2021, as certain Russian and European intelligence services were well aware… The lawyers will judge.

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Source:
No.
 
I consider Hawkeye to be a friend, even if only of the online sort. I think he's done and continues to do a lot of research on what's happening in the Ukraine war as well as the major parties involved. He likes youtube podcasters who are quite knowledgeable. I generally like the same crowd, only I tend to focus on their articles as I find it cuts down on the time I need to spend to learn what they have to say- plus, it's a lot easier to quote an article then it is to quote a youtube podcast.
Hawk uses fellow conspiracy-theorists' twitter posts as "sources". No.
 
Great success story.

I struggled with Calculus, diffi-diffi equations (differential equations) and Orgo (Organic Chemistry).

The really brilliant students were usual quiet and unassuming.

I envied their ability to absorb the truly complex subjects so easily.
For me organic was an exercise in brute force memory. I took in a summer course. :laugh:
 
It isn't relegated to a single person cheering against America's success, for it's the entire dummycrat party that are leading the charge
to undermine our success, for that is the left's Marxist long range agenda.
It really is far too many...I'm used to working in environments that are mostly Democrat...but I've never seen wretched excess rage and pessimism like this...if things weren't getting better, I'd be worried...
But, Let them post here, and hold those silly rallies... and sing on the streets...the only people they're hurting are themselves...
 
It really is far too many...I'm used to working in environments that are mostly Democrat...but I've never seen wretched excess rage and pessimism like this...if things weren't getting better, I'd be worried...
But, Let them post here, and hold those silly rallies... and sing on the streets...the only people they're hurting are themselves...
Let them keep throwing sub sandwiches!!
 
I never liked the vegetable but I hoped he would close the border and address crime and inflation.

He didn’t and merits the title of worst president in history.
 
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