It would not be an improvement - do you have any idea how bad the 1990s were in Russia?
There's a reason that Putin has high support, and it's not all manufactured. It's that the Yeltsin shock therapy was really traumatic - largest peacetime drop in life expectancy in recorded history.
Oh, OK, so it's fine if I bomb Los Alamos, but not Three Mile Island?
Trying to understand exactly where this difference is, since it sure isn't international law.
"Bombing a country isn't war!"
Cool, imma head out and bomb Three Mile Island, no problem with that?
"He was going to launch a totally different illegal war!"
And that's why I was supportive of President Trump joining in, in June to take the strikes that we had thought internally in the Biden administration we may have to take if there was a second term. We thought that the spring, summer of 2025 was probably – we may have to be there in the same place.
It's just a return to where internet access was a filter, and you didn't have Boomers on MySpace and phpBB
Maybe they're just assuming neo-COVID will make a centrist neoliberal electable again?
As for blame . . .
GDP during WWII isn't very helpful a statistic, especially considering the occupation.