I’m making wedding bands for me and my fiancé and did the practice run today with bronze. It is my first time ever doing investment casting. I am pleased with the results.

While everyone was supporting the current thing with #SupportUkraine, slobbing the knob of the NeoCon/NeoLiberal hegemon, cheering on the money printer to make the MIC's wheels churn, sanctioning Russia and painting the newer brighter shades of Russophobia, Russia has quietly benefited.

Today the Ruble is just as strong as it was before the start of the SMO in February 2022, Russia's economy is steadily improving and they developing more global relationships with energy and trade partners.

The west (especially the US's) attitude/position towards Russia has been the wrong one since day one and it has been propped up by Cold War era Boomer takes on the nation and it's people. We've forced their hands towards China and strengthened that relationship. That was the wrong move and the west will pay for it over the long run. My hope is we drop our Boomer Cold War Era attitude towards Russia and start to partner with them economically and even Geo-Politically.

The more we don't do this, the...