Американская экономика

Четыре года назад:

You mean the Stock Market hit an all-time record high today and they’re actually talking impeachment!? Will I ever be given credit for anything by the Fake News Media or Radical Liberal Dems? NO COLLUSION!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2019

Этот твит Трампа примечателен тем, что вчера the Stock Market hit an all-time high, и вчера же республиканцы в Хаусе проголосовали за начало официальной impeachment inquiry.

Из других новостей экономики. Я вчера заправился за $2.62 за галлон. Снова слово Трампу:

Trump: We now have gas prices at 5,6,7, even 8 dollars a gallon pic.twitter.com/TxMeNHTvjd

— Acyn (@Acyn) December 14, 2023

В Калифорнии, конечно, бензин дороже, но тоже близко не 8 долларов.

Средняя цена бензина в США сегодня $3.1. По ссылке можно также посмотреть на среднюю цену в любом штате.

Эта запись в ЖЖ: https://yakov-a-jerkov.livejournal.com/2150582.html

"Мирный договор"

Корреспондент WSJ:

Massive Russian missile and drone strike on Kyiv for the third day in a row. Putin clearly hopes Ukraine will run out of air defense missiles because of the US Congress, which will then allow him to destroy the multi-billion dollar Patriot, Iris-T and Nasams batteries themselves.

Возможно, нужно просто договориться с Путиным. Как может выглядеть этот договор, сегодня (в очередной раз) рассказал сам Путин.

Корреспондент FT:

Putin says there will be peace with Ukraine "only when we achieve our goals [...] and those goals have not changed."

They still include the "de-Nazification" and "demilitarization" of Ukraine – i.e. a total capitulation to Russia. pic.twitter.com/PnZhVOqg36

— max seddon (@maxseddon) December 14, 2023

Эта запись в ЖЖ: https://yakov-a-jerkov.livejournal.com/2150657.html

Жизнь

Пишет американский журналист, Tim Mak, из Киева:

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands

I left my house to go to an interview here.

And yet, minutes later I was kneeling besides a man I had never met before, with my fingers on his carotid artery, feeling a fading heartbeat.

His skin was already blue-ish gray.

His limbs were splayed out in inhuman directions. Blood flowed from his face.

Placing the back of my palms on his chest, I felt for rise and fall – he’s not breathing. His skin color reflected that awful fact.

A silent, distraught friend kneeled nearby, holding the man’s head and neck in place.

Life can end in an instant. With no tools, no medical equipment, and no ambulance nearby, there was nothing I could do. The man died shortly after.

[...]

There was nothing I could do about this single Ukrainian man’s passing, but there remains quite a lot that the United States can do to reduce the number of Ukrainian deaths over the next year.

The terrible thing is that very few lawmakers oppose aid for Ukraine...

et despite overwhelming support in both parties and both houses of Congress, American funding will likely lapse at the end of the year – because they’re debating a topic wholly unrelated to Ukraine: American border policy.

Тем временем республиканцы в Конгрессе отправились на каникулы.

Эта запись в ЖЖ: https://yakov-a-jerkov.livejournal.com/2151146.html