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Wow, this has got to be one of the most 'saying the quiet part out loud' statements since the start of the Ukraine war. Boris Johnson: 'Mate, let's face it... We're waging a proxy war! We're waging a proxy war but we're not giving our proxies the ability to do the job. And for years and years we've been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs and it has been cruel. It has been cruel and moral...' He obviously meant to say 'morally wrong' there at the end... I still remember the time when suggesting - as John Mearsheimer or Jeffrey Sachs (or, more humbly, myself) have done since the beginning - that this was a proxy war of the West against Russia was considered 'Russian propaganda'... Johnson is saying the West has been cruel to Ukrainians. Which is absolutely correct, but not because we've only 'been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs' as he suggests, but for the very fact we've used them as proxies in a war that could a) have been prevented or, save that, b) could have been shut down early on. All resulting in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian casualties. The only 'pro-Ukraine' position has always been and will always be that of those - like Mearsheimer or Sachs - who've always called out Western instrumentalization of Ukraine. That's what's always been cruel and morally wrong, and Johnson has a lot to answer for in this regard.

Elon Musk: “Inflation, throughout history, has been used as a pernicious tax. It's like one degree removed, so people don't feel it directly. Then, the politicians will try to blame it on something else. But it's all about government spending.”

A father lost custody for trying to protect his son from lasting harm.

Thank God they lost.

Most federal workers don’t physically show up, yet the cost of maintaining & providing energy for govt office buildings is $15BN/year (not counting billions more spent on office furnishings). The government owns 7,967 vacant buildings. This is nuts. Sounds like a job for DOGE.