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US vandalism continues. And that is truly vandalism in the sense of bunch of barbarians coming and destroying what they have little clue about.

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It is so easy to destroy infrastructure and expertise that has taken decades to build. All so Trump and his buddies can get even bigger tax breaks. It is enough to make you cry.

BTW 'Barbarian' get a bad rap. They were in many ways more civilized than the Romans. But the Romans were really good at killing people and got to write the history.

I like Richard Stillman's word for Trump: "the wrecker." It perfectly captures the disagreement here.

It has a bit of a dual meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_(Soviet_Union)

That's a weird translation of the original Russian term for it. A more accurate translation would be "vermin" (it's the same word in Russian, and it's clearly meant to evoke that image).

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