Most major American cities are dimocrat run shitholes.
True,
But also, they have different rules and “maybe” (my assumption) push the riffraff out of the city.
In the US even the homeless have rights and that is good even if unsightly.
It can also be that they in part institutionalize folks. Many in the street are psych cases but they can’t be institutionalized against their will except if they pose an imminent threat to others or themselves over here.
From what I heard, and some day I would like to visit, St Petersburg is beautiful. But now might not be a good time to check the place out.
IMHO- this entire Ukraine war was stupid. A silly foreseeable, avoidable, war with a predictable outcome that did not benefit Ukraine, the US, or Europe in the macro.
How did this war make me wealthier, safer, or more free?
What real national security threat (not some hypothetical nonsense) was addressed?
Our leaders have to resort to fluff arguments. Did you read McConnell’s reasoning for why he supports the war? It was like reading a statement from a beauty pageant and some bimbo talking about world peace and hunger. They use Cold War boogieman arguments that aren’t even remotely feasible. They pretend as if we have some moral high ground when they spew off their crap about democracy, sovereignty and human rights all while China has most favored trade status and is our number one trade partner, we prop up the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Jordan, arm radical islamist groups and guard poppy fields for our friends in Afghanistan... What a joke!
But it’s a joke that has cost thousands their lives.
It’s a joke that has wasted hundreds of billions.
It’s a joke that has left millions displaced, a nation with a crippled infrastructure, even more crippled physically and mentally, an economy that imploded... What a success!
And all this for what? To force Russia into accepting what we would never accept, a major foreign military power setting up shop on our border: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-president-zelenskiy-holding-talks-with-biden-adviser-says-2021-12-09/
Every neocon that supports Biden on this should be proud of their accomplishment.