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Maybe all of the pro-Russian 4% lives in Bakhmut.

Actually, it may be that the Trump administration and the Biden administration are responsible. A rule was passed under President Barack Obama that made it a requirement for trains carrying hazardous flammable materials to have ECP brakes, but this was rescinded in 2017 by the Trump administration... Nor have rail regulators in Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's department proposed reinstating the safety rule in question, The Lever reported. A spokesperson for the FRA told the outlet that it was continuing to evaluate ECP brakes to improve safety. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-blame-ohio-train-derailment-1781163

Thanks for the correction.

So the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fox News, and CNN etc are all singing in chorus?

Of course it makes sense for Russia to have done it. Russia had already been holding up shipments of gas by claiming that there were various mechanical problems. But it could only do that so long before it would be subject to a serious lawsuit claiming massive damages for violation of its contract. But with the pipeline blown up, Russia could claim force majeure as justification for not fulfilling its contract.

This is a guy who kept on attempting to reassure the world that the problems in the housing market in 2007 weren't serious and in fact would probably extend economic growth. Trump’s hiring the Bear Stearns economist who promised the economy was fine right before it went bankrupt Famous last words: “Don’t panic about the credit market.” But despite decent paper credentials, Malpass has a striking track record of poor judgment about major economic issues over the past decade — cheerleading the economy on the verge of the Great Recession while warning of a collapse just as recovery was getting underway. https://www.vox.com/2017/3/15/14596938/david-malpass-treasury No wonder he got it wrong about climate change. He's a complete and utter ideologue.

What apparently you think is worth forgetting his predecessor left him with an economy that had retracted by 2.7% for 2020. Not real difficult to have a low inflation rate when the economy is contracting.

Also, "empty again"? You mean that under Trump the stores were restocked with goods and then when Biden assumed office they emptied out again?

The worst period of panic buying was March 2020. So my "empty again under Biden nearly 2 years later" means early 2022. See what happens when you don't pay attention? Actually, I think it's you not paying attention to what you write. Let me remind you of what you wrote: "At the start of the year. "

At the start of 2023 there were widespread shortages? Got a link for that?

It's not the sabotage that hurt Russia but the fact that Europe no longer requires Russian gas. 75% of Russia's gas exports went to Europe. 65% of its oil. Russia has to give steep discounts to India and China to sell its oil. As for gas, it will take years to build a pipeline to China. Which doesn't really have a pressing need for it.

You sure about that? What Next for Ukraine’s Formerly Pro-Russian Regions? "Russia’s invasion largely put an end to this pro-Russian sentiment: by May 2022, only 4 percent in Ukraine’s east and 1 percent in the south still had a positive view of Russia. Support for Ukraine joining NATO, on the other hand, had surged to record highs: 69 percent in the east and 81 percent in the south, up from 36 percent in the east and 48 percent in the south, according to a poll taken on February 16 and 17 of this year... Sixty-eight percent of respondents from the south and 53 percent from the east now describe Ukrainian as their native language, though 49 percent of people in the south and 47 percent in the east still said they used both Ukrainian and Russian in their everyday life." https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88542

Minsk 2 was about a lot more than heavy weapons. Just on the military aspect it also stipulated that all foreign soldiers and mercenaries withdraw from the territory. Also, illegal groups had to disarm.

Empty again? Really? Large scale wide ranging shortages? Eggs have been in short supply due to a virus. Is that the Biden administration's fault?

Here's a related article: Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning... “You’re fired, you’re fired,” Musk told the engineer. (Platformer is withholding the engineer’s name in light of the harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees.) https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer Snowflake much?

This is also the guy, the only person in fact, who denied that Venezuelan was experiencing a humanitarian crisis. More than eighty Venezuelan organizations questioned de Zayas' conclusions that there was not a humanitarian crisis in the country. In a public statement, the organizations said that before finishing his mission in Venezuela and without having processed the information provided by the organizations, de Zayas formed an opinion prematurely and assumed the government's point of view, which blames the "economic warfare" and "blockade" for the food and medical supplies shortages. The organizations said that in two years, among twenty two experts from twelve international organizations, de Zayas' report was the only one to say there was no humanitarian crisis in the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred-Maurice_de_Zayas And what sort of reviewer accepts Hersh's allegation unqualifiedly. Not an impartial one, that's for sure.

Where do you come with these BS sources of yours. The Tien Phong News? really? In the first line of its opening paragraph it describes EU energy prices as "soaring"? Really? Europe’s Gas Prices Drop To The Lowest Level Since September 2021 By Charles Kennedy - Feb 13, 2023, 11:00 AM CST European benchmark gas prices fell to their lowest level since September 2021 on Monday morning. Europe is more confident that there will be no gas shortages until the end of this winter. The UK’s wholesale gas prices also dropped today on expected stronger wind power generation on Tuesday. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Gas-Prices/Europes-Gas-Prices-Drop-To-The-Lowest-Level-Since-September-2021.html Russia's revenues, on the other hand are shrinking. Russia's National Wealth Fund shrank to $148.4 billion as of Jan. 1, down $38.1 billion in a month, as the government took out cash to plug its budget deficit, data showed on Wednesday. The ministry said it had spent 2.41 trillion roubles ($35.1 billion) from the NWF, a rainy day fund that accumulates oil revenues, to cover the deficit in December. Along with heavy state borrowing at domestic debt auctions, the NWF - which was originally intended to support the pension system - has become the main source of financing for the budget deficit since Russia invaded Ukraine last year and was hit by waves of unprecedented Western sanctions. https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russias-national-wealth-fund-148-bln-jan-1-finance-ministry-2023-01-18/ I wonder how Russian pensioners are going to feel when all the funds supposed to take care of them in their retirement are gone?

What details are being hammered out? I don't see much evidence of that. And I doubt there will be given the fanatical anti-abortion stance of large numbers of Republican voters. The same cruel laws that condemn women with failed pregnancies to endure unnecessary suffering for a feature of these laws... Not a bug. She's going to have a hard time defending that.

It's a question of comparative harm. Fossil fuels are far worse. Some people seem to believe in the relative benefits of natural gas. First off, burning methane creates CO2. So more warning. Not only that, but mining methane results in the release of huge amounts of methane via leaks. Methane is 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than is carbon dioxide over the first 20 years of its release into the atmosphere. Stanford-led study: Methane leaks are far worse than estimates, at least in New Mexico, but there’s hope The amount of methane – a greenhouse gas 30 times more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide over 100 years – leaking from a huge U.S. oil and gas producing region is several times greater than the federal government estimates, according to a new study led by Stanford University. Airplane-mounted sensor used by the researchers to detect methane leaks from oil and natural gas production in the New Mexico half of the Permian Basin. (Image credit: Kairos Aerospace) Using airborne sensors able to detect methane leaks from individual oil and gas production facilities, the researchers studied the Permian Basin in New Mexico, one of the most expansive and highest-producing oil and gas regions in the world. They estimate that more than 9 percent of all methane produced in the region is being leaked into the skies, several-fold higher than Environmental Protection Agency estimates and well above those in the published literature. https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2022/03/24/methane-leaks-mues-fix-available/ As for uranium... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653646/ https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/energy/dirty_energy_development/uranium/index.html And what about decommissioning nuclear power plants? The costs have been massively underestimated. https://content.csbs.utah.edu/~mli/Economies 5430-6430/Sovacool-Nuclear Power and Renewable Electricity in Asia.pdf https://re.public.polimi.it/bitstream/11311/565407/1/Competitiveness of Small Medium New Generation Reactors a Comparative Study on decommissionig.pdf https://www.letelegramme.fr/ar/viewarticle1024.php?aaaammjj=20071129&article=20071129-2063574&type=ar

Wishful thinking much? Any evidence that the attitudes of Americans, particularly younger Americans, who will be voting in increasing numbers, have softened their attitude about Roe v Wade? Most Americans say overturning Roe was politically motivated, NPR/Ipsos poll finds https://www.npr.org/2023/01/22/1150628013/roe-v-wade-50-years-dobbs-ipsos-poll-abortion-legal-public-opinion-supreme-court

What makes you think her position is relatively moderate? You think that supporting the Supreme Court decision to abolish Roe v Wade is considered moderate by the majority of Americans, particularly women? You think the horror stories about critical care being denied women because of harsh antiabortion laws are not going to surface big time during the election?

That may all be true. But she's still going to have to contend with the abortion issue given that she wrote this: "Former Governor Nikki Haley said the overturn of Roe v. Wade is a win for pro-life and puts the debate back where it belongs, at the state level. "This is a historic win for the pro-life movement. It’s an even bigger win for the American people." https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2022/06/24/sc-political-leaders-react-roe-v-wade-overturned/7722156001/ That rationale didn't play well in the midterms and there's no reason to believe that it will in 2024.

My mistake. Thanks for the correction.

Do you make it a practice to skip over the first few paragraphs of articles? Because you seem not have notices this comment from the article which he said on February 14, 2023: “I’ve never just been the financier of the Internet Research Agency. I invented it, I created it, I managed it for a long time. It was founded to protect the Russian information space from boorish aggressive propaganda of anti-Russian narrative from the West.”

Under Haley, South Carolina outlawed abortion after 6 weeks. https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-beliefs-opinion-republican-2024-1781155