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Bruce Hornsby Solo: "Cast-Off"

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Hecuba's daughter1/14/2022 7:30:59 am PST

re: #117 Teukka

Yeah, like, if you don’t, don’t wave your G-ddamned dick around like a drunk in the town square…

Russia has nothing else to attract attention or inspire admiration or fear. It’s a failed state with a large army and a lot of nukes. China is an economic powerhouse with some very serious structural flaws, but what does Russia have, other than raw materials? It has an educated workforce, unable to produce sufficient quantities of goods and services to provide its people with a decent lifestyle.

It’s being ravaged by COVID, which it handles the Florida way, by concealing the true data, though it finally appears to be acknowledging the existence of omicron by a slowly rising case count. Its COVID vaccine has not been approved by WHO, while both Beijing and India have 2 vaccines that meet WHO standards.

If Russia didn’t rattle its sabers, it would be totally ignored on the world stage. That said, Austria-Hungary was a failed state too when it took the measures that initiated WWI.