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Russia. Is. At. War. (www.moonofalabama.org)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Good insights into what war actually means for a real country (not the American yellow ribbon bs)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The U.S. concern is not about Ukraine but about Biden's chance for reelection:

Russia remains one of the world’s most important energy exporters despite western sanctions on its oil and gas sector. Oil prices have risen about 15 per cent this year, to $85 a barrel, pushing up fuel costs just as US President Joe Biden begins his campaign for re-election. 
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The US objections come as Biden faces a tough re-election battle this year with petrol prices on the rise, increasing almost 15 per cent this year to around $3.50 a gallon.

“Nothing terrifies a sitting American president more than a surge in pump prices during an election year,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former White House energy adviser.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“Nothing terrifies a sitting American president more than a surge in pump prices during an election year,

damn maybe they should use their institutional power to make people not have to pay for gas to get to work somehow

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Buddy, he’s been emptying the strategic reserves. Short of actually doing the right thing he’s done everything he can, and that’s possible for a neoliberal.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

train-shining

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

God I wish he would build trains

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"The economy is great!" said the King to his subjects.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Let them burn cake!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the tagline for that website 'oh must have whisky, oh you know why' is from a song that the doors cover, whiskey bar or something, other lyrics include show me the way to the next little girl

charming website for sure

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It’s from Bertolt Brecht and in the original poem the line was “show us the way to the next pretty boy” and was used by Kurt Weill in his political satire opera about Weimar Germany.

From Wikipedia:

Weill continued to work with Brecht on the musical Happy End (1929), best known for the songs "Surabaya Johnny", "Bilbao Song", and "Sailor's Tango"; the children's opera Der Jasager (1930); and the opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930), best known for "Alabama Song" (later recorded by The Doors, among many others).[25]

Weill's working association with Brecht, although successful, came to an end over politics in 1930. Though Weill associated with socialism,[21] after Brecht tried to push their work even further in a left-wing direction, Weill commented, according to his wife Lotte Lenya, that he was unable to "set the Communist Manifesto to music."[26]