I know this is __so___ off topic, but the $ goes in front of the value for USD. It should be $500. Again, again, I know read the room, there's a tragic war going on, and the US is becoming complicit in the tragedy. But if we don't have time to be pedantic about monetary symbols then what good is the freedom we still possess.
Many americans put the euro sign before the numerical value even though most (afaik all) countries that use the euro put it after. This is such a weird thing to get bothered by.
I think the general rule is that in English the currency symbol for the primary currency goes in front of the number, while the symbol for a subunit (pence, cents, etc) goes after the number.
Interesting. However, most of the world follows US-GAAP, so the global de-facto is $, for USD, to go in front of the numeric value. I learned that from this __very__ good introduction to understanding financing instruments called "Pricing Money" https://www.jdawiseman.com/books/pricing-money/Pricing_Money...
People are downvoting this, but I'm always suspicious of comments online that imply they are from the US but mess up simple details that no native US user would mess up.
I dunno, a friend of mine does this, and she's a naive born American (and so are her parents). English is her only language. She knows it's "wrong", but just likes it better.
Nothing's really stopping them from leaving Ukraine, is there?
If you don't want to be targeted by kamikaze drones then don't volunteer to be part of an invading force. Back in the day I didn't really complain too much about being targeted when I was running around in Iraq as a civilian contractor. Well, other than the whole 'non-combatant' rules of war Geneva Convention thing but that was my choice as I knew they didn't discriminate when it came to killing people.
At this point most of Russian occupation forces are volunteers who signed up to get enormous sign-in bonus and huge salary. Huge for Russian rural areas.
They promise up to 4 million rubles sign-in and 220000+ monthly.
They are eager to go killing neighbors for $2500 monthly salary.
It is not so easy. There are involuntarily drafted people, there are convicts who joined in exchange for a pardon and there are volunteers attracted by huge bonus and salary.
I would like to mortgage the house for it. Do you want to sign off the mortgage for my house in the city which is bombed to the dust by Russians?
It is quite easy to end the war: give enough weapons to Ukraine and put strict sanctions to Russia. However USA decided not to this. They sent some old weapons with huge restrictions to use against Russians, to be able barely survive.
End the war - means force Ukraine to accept capitulation and encourage Russians to advance to the next neighbor. This Trump-Putin deal looks like Hitler-Stalin agreement to divide Europe.
Russians takes Ukraine now, mobilize Ukrainians to the Russian army and will send them as cannon fodder to the Baltic states. This is a future of Trump's "peace" deal.
Rarely do I see a commenter who blames Ukraine for the war, explain their position or elaborate on what the next 5-10 years of geopolitics will look like.
That is why Trump is pushing Ukraine to accept capitulation on Russian terms. Like to give Russia two big cities Zaporizhzhia and Kherson they have no control of.
The rare earth deal, or "raw earth" as Trump calls it, seems to actually be with Russia instead of Ukraine. Trump has decided he can spend nothing and eventually drop sanctions and in return, Russia will give the US access to Ukraine's mineral wealth.
Only if Ukraine will stop fighting, which they wouldn't.
Yes, USA is a major donor. Yes, it will be harder without their support. But without it Ukraine will continue fight. Because if they stop - it means the end of Ukraine. Ukrainians will be new soldiers in Russian army, a fresh cannon fodder against European guns .
It is interesting to see Trump's bulling. What if Ukraine will ignore his threats? What a fool trump is now, with his promise to end the war soon? He has no leverage anymore.
Well, he can sell more weapons to his friend putin to help finish the war.
Hey, the US got half of Ukraine as a vassal state. 50% is more than the 0% before. Access to natural resources is about to be handed over. This is what all these wars for "liberty" are all about anyway. Time to call it a day and stop, no?
He's applying the same game plan in Gaza. He'll give Israel weapons and look the other way as they clear it out, and then he wants the US to profit. The US has done this before in Iran and various Central American banana republics, leading to the terrorism and migrant crises we still have today, but helping aggressors set up illegitimate governments was becoming more and more unfashionable until Trump came along.
Excellent bait. You ignore the points brought up in the parent post. You ignore other peoples' direct questions (like mine about what specific actions you you'd take regarding Ukraine and how you think those actions will play out over the next decade). You actually haven't made an iota of a point, but you're so confident that you have that it distracts from real conversation.
I care about Malaria but it does not directly affect me, so I do not prioritize it.
Climate change requires more than a single person and their funds, unless you are Bezos, Musk, or whoever. I know there are ways to contribute to it that are not monetary, but it is more complicated than this reductionist view.
I care about world hunger too, and I am against the waste of food, but what can I do if restaurants are even legally obliged to waste food? I do not buy anything from such restaurants, at least, and I try my best to not be wasteful.
Additionally, how much do SWEs earn per month? I do not earn much at all (for reasons not disclosed here), my money would not even be a drop in the bucket, but a small part of that drop. I personally could not donate $500 even if I wanted to, because that would put me pretty close to homelessness (not that anyone cares).
They are extremely effective in countering russian troops. One drone costs as little as 500$