Jason D. Moss 🇨🇦Dec 13, 2023

...the president of #Ukraine made a last-ditch visit to Washington to plea, as he has done so often, for help against the #RussianInvasion. But unlike previous visits, he was treated more as yesterday's annoyance than a global statesman fighting for the cause of freedom.

#TheLineCA #AndrewPotter #America #Ukraine #UntrustworthyAllies
https://www.readtheline.ca/p/andrew-potter-ukraine-and-the-west

Andrew Potter: Ukraine, and the West, face a dark reckoning

The allies were already losing interest in Ukraine's faltering war effort on October 7, but the rapid abandonment of Ukraine only underscores the fecklessness of the West.

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​Sep 12, 2021

It’s Not in Your Head: The World Really Is Getting Worse

...Narratives that see widespread economic and technological stagnation setting in sometime around the mid-1970s have become fairly common. And it’s pretty clear that the 1970s were some sort of inflection point, a time when we fell off established income, innovation, and progress curves on a number of fronts. The big question is why....

https://thewalrus.ca/its-not-in-your-head-the-world-really-is-getting-worse/

#progress #SecularStagnation #technology #decline #AndrewPotter

It’s Not in Your Head: The World Really Is Getting Worse | The Walrus

Since the 1970s, wages, infrastructure, and the pace of technology have all stagnated. Can it be reversed?

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