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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦
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Journalist 🗞️ Historian 📚 Writer ✏️ European 🌍 Austrian 🎶 Styrian 🌳 Jedi ☄️ Eldar ✨ Schwoaza ⚽
He was a terrible, terrible president in so many ways. Yet this one move on Africa that almost seems like footnote - PEPFAR - is thought to have saved up to 25 million lives, a truly incredible number.
May 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Bush has one of the most complex legacies out there. He started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which was horrible on a humanitarian level. He blew out the deficit. He mishandled Katrina. And institutional deterioration continued. Yet he also started a massive anti-aids program in Africa.
May 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
That's like the EU’s core creed.
May 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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- EU-US trade balance is much more... balanced when including services trade
- US records trade deficit with the EU for goods, but it posts a huge surplus for services
- Data highlight EU leverage in services trade through steps targeting access of US tech platforms to EU market [9/10]
May 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Absolutely. The corruption is what fundamentally explains why state police and local police is just so much less *professional* - and that's the core thing. It also shows up in all sorts of statistics on how much training they get, how recruitment works etc.
April 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM