You must ask yourself, are the US and Israel actually allies of Ukraine?

What material moves have the leadership of both countries done that has benefited Ukraine that they haven't been heavily pressured into?

I fear a great many people have mistaken enemies doing the bare minimum to disguise their hostility to Ukraine from their domestic voting base as indicators those enemies are actual allies of Ukraine.

"Unbelievably" is doing a lot of work here, none of which Trump intended....

looks over at all the "real" economic growth from AI

The third reason is probably the most important. As the atmosphere warms, the ability to suck moisture out of dead forest floor fuels increases rapidly. The forecast for the future is we’re not going to see enough rain. Bottom line? It means more of that fuel on the forest floor has dried out and is available to burn, which leads to these higher intensity fires that are difficult or impossible to extinguish. 

I would argue that B.C. is the pointy end of the climate change spear in terms of fire in Canada. We have seen an abrupt increase. 

To me the big driver is extreme fire weather and ignitions. I have lots of colleagues who want to blame what we see on land management, forest management, fuel build-up. They are playing a role, but they’re really minor. It is extreme fire weather conditions.

“It feels like a monster came and just in the middle of the night, took a bite out of a snowpack,” said LaPlante, a journalist and climate scientist at Utah State University.

So it’s fitting that scientists have started calling these kinds of heat waves, marked by unusually high temperatures in the spring and early summer, “snow eaters.”

link to open access paper

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3361

Fig. 1. Snow-process differences between snow-eater heat waves, warm spells, and rain-on- snow events. A schematic that contrasts the differences between WUSsnow-eater heat-wave events, warm spells, and rain-on- snow events. these phenomena differ in their synoptic-to-mesoscale atmospheric circulation patterns and surfaceenergy budgets operating at synoptic to microscales (i.e., slope

Latin America analysts tell Responsible Statecraft that while there may be ideological, economic, or security motivations peculiar to each nation, this pivot functions primarily as a way for regional leaders to curry favor with the Trump administration. “In the end, the main interest for all of these countries is the United States,” Marta Tawil Kuri, a professor at College of Mexico who researches the foreign policy of Latin American countries towards the Middle East, told Responsible Statecraft.

“There is a new generation of the right [in Latin America] (...) using rapprochement with Israel as a way of signaling alignment with Washington,” she said, adding that each government filters this relationship through their domestic political factors.

One cannot discount Israel’s own deliberate diplomatic push to shore up ties with friendly governments at a moment when global public opinion is turning against it. For some of these countries, this isn’t a stretch.

No one at the table feels especially cruel. No one feels especially responsible either. The line looks neat enough. On paper, it offends no one. It is drawn less out of conviction than fatigue: a desire to finish, to conclude, to leave matters behind in a form that will not require further explanation.

Maps have always looked more confident than the world they describe.

According to the Wall Street Journal in an article published on August 13, 2026, Trump signed a national security memorandum requiring the change from USS Doris Miller onward. The newspaper reported that the first three ships in the class will retain EMALS and that Navy officials had resisted a return to steam for several years because of the cost and complexity involved. Trump has questioned electromagnetic catapults since his first term and has repeatedly argued that the system is too complex and performs less effectively than steam. The White House presents the decision differently, describing steam and hydraulic systems as proven technologies that it considers more resilient in wartime and easier to support through an industrial base capable of expanding production. The administration therefore frames the change not only as a technical choice but also as one linked to maintainability, resilience and industrial capacity.

This reasoning comes after a difficult development period for EMALS. The system experienced reliability problems during the construction and initial testing of Gerald R. Ford, contributing to delays and criticism of the carrier program. Its subsequent operational record, however, provides a different set of data. EMALS uses linear induction motors to accelerate aircraft along the catapult track instead of releasing pressurized steam through a piston system. Four electromagnetic catapults are installed aboard Ford and, by March 2026, they had completed nearly 37,000 aircraft launches. The Navy has also stated that EMALS and the Advanced Arresting Gear allow Ford to launch and recover aircraft at a higher rate than the preceding Nimitz class.

Exhibit A: Why Fascists Suck At War

“We found absolute, iron-clad evidence that short-term rental regulations put downward pressure on rent. Lots of things cause housing to be expensive, but this is low-hanging fruit to manage those costs,” said David Wachsmuth, lead researcher and Associate Professor in the School of Urban Planning.