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Post by mhbruin on Jul 5, 2023 9:06:25 GMT -8
It Would End Today If Russia Just Left Ukraine
Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine would end within days if the West stopped shipping weapons to the battered nation, a top Kremlin official said Wednesday.
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev also defended the Russian military, which has struggled to gain ground since early land grabs in the 16-month war. The Russian army is "modern and heroic (despite) experiencing certain problems, like any army,' he said.
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 5, 2023 9:08:15 GMT -8
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 5, 2023 9:09:36 GMT -8
When You Win a Lot of Seats, You Have to Defend a Lot of Seats
For Senate Democrats, 2024 has long loomed as Year Zero.
That’s when the party faces the daunting task of defending seats across nearly half of the country — in reliably red states, light blue states and states with suddenly wide-open races.
For Republicans, it’s a chance to capitalize on a once-in-a-generation map that massively empowers their base of rural white voters to build a sustainable GOP majority that could take a decade or more for Democrats to reverse.
The GOP, however, is already suggesting its focus may be much, much narrower.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN in May that the party is concentrating on a relatively small number of races where its chances of victory are greatest: Montana, Ohio and West Virginia — states where former President Donald Trump won by eight percentage points or more in 2020 — and Pennsylvania, where party operatives believe former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick, who lost last year’s primary to Mehmet Oz, could make a formidable challenger to Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.
The rest of the map is at risk of becoming irrelevant.
“I don’t think anyone sees a real possibility for us in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada of winning those races,” said a Republican who has worked on Senate races and requested anonymity to speak candidly, referring to three presidential swing states where Republicans should, theoretically, be in contention.
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