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UKRAINE'S "Iron General" has hinted he is ready to take over as President from Zelensky if the US forces Kyiv into running elections. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, 51, led Ukraine's army into the war as Commander-in-Chief in 2022, and is touted as Zelensky's most likely successor, according to reports. -snip- Zaluzhnyi was ousted from the top military job last February by Zelensky and redeployed as Ukraine's Ambassador to the United Kingdom. This followed a spat between the two men, following Zaluzhnyi's claims the war had hit a stalemate and a Ukrainian breakthrough was unlikely. He regularly outpolls Zelensky, whose own approval remains...

I am ecstatic for Carrier employees! Their bosses just decided to keep shop onshore. What a relief for hundreds of workers. Merry Christmas Indiana! We don't yet know terms of the public/private deal that was cut to make the company stay, but let's hope every business is equally incentivized to keep Americans working in America. Foundational to our exceptional nation's sacred private property rights, a business must have freedom to locate where it wishes. In a free market, if a business makes a mistake (including a marketing mistake that perhaps Carrier executives made), threatening to move elsewhere claiming efficiency's sake,...