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Is This the End of the Road for the Heritage Foundation?

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In Ukraine, Russia is the aggressor. In Iran, it's the United States. Blaming the war in Ukraine on Russophobia is about as reasonable as blaming the war in Iran on their chants of 'death to America'. You can dress it up any way you want but at the end of the day they are both empires doing the shitty stuff that empires do. Let's not pretend like either is innocent.

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Hard disagree. Not crashing is a ridiculously low bar. They had hidden fees and reduced customer service to the point I felt more like cattle the couple of times I had to fly with them. The problem here is these companies have poor regulations and over consolidation. It was the deregulation of the industry that fucked it all up. Also, given its environmental impact flights shouldn't be dirt cheap anyways. We should build out high speed rail throughout the country.

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Ukraine and Russia is not a civil war by any measure that isn't pro-Imperialist. Russia is an old school empire. Even most of the territory inside proper Russia isn't Russian. The real Russian core is Moscow - St.Petersburg and the surrounding areas. Much like the Baltic States the USSR subjugated Ukraine. But Ukrainians had wanted independence and even (wrongly) welcomed Nazi invaders at first thinking they were going to get independence thanks to them (very stupid idea, sure). The point is that Ukrainians see themselves as cousins of Russians but not as Russian. And Russia is the country that invaded and initiated this current war, they are the aggressors. Calling this a "civil war" is pure Russian propaganda.