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ssshield t1_jacz8ui wrote

Progressives wanted Bernie. Debbie Washerman Schulz wanted Hillary to be the first woman president and it to be Schulz's crowning career achievement placing her there, so she literally sabotaged Bernie's campaign from the inside as a total abuse of her position for her own hubris.

It wasn't some make believe dream that Bernie had the momentum and ability to win the Dem primary. If you went to both candidate's campaign events it was night and day the difference in the crowd.

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Raptor22c t1_jacxn9a wrote

Ukraine is famous for its incredibly fertile, dark black soil, named chornozem (чорнозем - literally “black ground”), which is why Ukraine is one of the agricultural juggernauts of the world.

However, when the frozen ground thaws and the snow of winter melts in the spring, that fertile чорнозем turns into horrific mud that is the nightmare of any heavy vehicle driver. Trying to push an offensive in Spring, especially in Ukraine, is bound to result in hundreds of armored vehicles getting stuck in the mud.

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silasgreenfront t1_jacxmhp wrote

She seems to have done really well for herself. Very short stint behind bars in one of our less awful prisons and sailed right into a sweet political gig when she got sent back. One of my favorite tidbits from her story:

>On at least two separate occasions she got drunk and spoke openly about her contacts within the Russian government, even acknowledging that Russian intelligence services were involved with the gun rights group she ran in Moscow. Twice, classmates reported her actions to law enforcement because they found her comments so alarming, sources said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/02/politics/maria-butina-republican-circles/index.html

One of the things that makes the US posting attractive is that, if they get caught, they're likely looking at pretty human treatment. And, if they stay loyal, a decent situation when they return home.

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wart365 t1_jacxgyp wrote

That's not going to work. The British government is basically non-functional and Sunak is effectively a caretaker PM until the next general election where Labour will sweep them out. Unionists don't want any Brexit deal that has them in a special political unit and the EU won't accept any Brexit deal that includes free market access. From any outsider perspective, this has gotten so complicated where it is hopeless to find a solution that works for anyone.

Conservatives need to admit that Brexit has failed, or at the very least they've failed to facilitate the UK leaving the EU. Which is what this agreement doesn't do: it tries to sustain trade flows that Brexit doesn't allow. Labour is willing to eject NI to make Brexit real, and this is a winning platform as most of the electorate doesn't live in NI.

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InBetweenSeen t1_jacwqe7 wrote

The reason is the same as for why the US, UK and Germany have a huge population of agents in Austria - because they never left after WWII and Austria doesn't have the resources to kick them out or the interest to fight with all those countries.

Austria-Hungary and Russia used to have the biggest secret services in Europe, after WWI the infrastructure in Vienna was almost immediately used by the west to spy on eastern Europe, during WWII by the Nazis and since Austria's occupation "legally" by everyone.

And Western services are very happy to spy on Russia from a rather save place, that's why the US has been putting in effort to warm up their relationship to Austria in the past years instead of piling on pressure. They are well aware of the situation in Vienna, their own agents help creating it after all.

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