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Trumps health
I suppose it's possible but I think that objectively it's unlikely. That shouldn't give very much hope to decent Americans that want the dystopian maga authoritarianis, to end as Vance has the potential of being even worse, though obviously with an entirely different style (or more like lack of style as he has the charisma of a soiled old sofa). -
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It's pretty obvious the convicted felon con man is a member of MS13. -
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Americans seek escape for political reasons at record numbers
He makes up stuff all the time. Remember his lame shoe shine lie? -
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Updates and events in the War in Ukraine 2025
Quite early on, Russia started to strip hospitals in the Rostov area of doctors and paramedics to form combat medical brigades. Russian military medicine is in a decrepit state. Before the war, Russia had quite a thriving private healthcare sector. That sector has all but disappeared. Russa is dependant of imports of about 80% of its medicines and 90% of its medical equipment. And the main sources were from Germany and the US. The export of medical supplies is not subject to sanction, except for certain spare parts that have both a dual purpose use and US IP. This includes medical and dental lasers. Russia can probably get away with less bariatric surgery, contouring and amazing teeth. However, a weakened Ruble and increased shipping costs wiped out the private sector, and has impacted state healthcare spending (and now they are reducing that budget). To an extent, Western medicines can be substituted for Chinese and Indian generics; they are just as good. The difference will be there is less choice, so treatment of patients will worsen. The same cannot be said for medical devices. One thing doctors don't like is having some bureaucrat tell them how to treat their patients. During COVID, bureaucrats around the world came up with amazing new ventilator designs. James Dyson was going to completely revolutionise the design. Ford was going scale up, WW2 style, production. Babcock headed a military like consortium made up of the finest mids from the aerospace, car and motorsport industries to design and produce the sten gun of ventilators. All for nothing. No doctor worth his salt was going to hook up his patients to a machine designed on a fagpacket by a hair dryer maker. They wanted more of the same. In America, the American President proudly accepted the Russian donation of Russian ventilators for the hard pressed citizens of his home town. The ventilators went from airport straight to the scrapyard. The machines were not FDA approved, different voltage requirements and all the controls were in Russian. In Russia, some bright spark thought they should daisy chain respiratory equipment to make it go further. The result was an oxygen leak completely immolated a whole ward of COVID victims. Years ago, Putin instituted a Buy Russian campaign on public bodies, including hospitals. All the orders and tenders are a matter of public record. Didn't make the slightest bit of difference. When the war started, they identified 4000 types of critical equipment that were wholly imported. Putin challenged Russian industry to come up with the goods. They failed. Now Western equipment is coming in through Kazakhstan, and they are paying double. So that healthcare budget isn't going as far. More surgeries are being canceled due tp equipment malfunctions and shortages. Waiting times are extending, or whole types of surgery/treatment are no longer on offer. No shortage of opiates though for those cancer patients told there is no treatment inside Russia. -
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Americans seek escape for political reasons at record numbers
More about this topic: Record Rise in Requests to Emigrate From the US: Where Americans are Moving to After Trump's Victory The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States marked the peak of the 2024 presidential race’s intense rivalry. However, the new head of state’s persona sparked a mixed reaction within American society. According to Google data, search queries related to emigration from the U.S. increased by 1,514% immediately after the election results were announced. Source: https://realting.com/news/where-americans-are-going-after-trump-s-win © REALTING.COM
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