Another day of food shopping for the week. Another 225+ PLN($60) spent. Oh, well! At least we can still afford food.
It was a good weather day here,sunny and warm. I took Joan out for a little while and when we returned home, we listened to the latest speech of our Govenor of Illinois, Govenor Pritsker. He finally made a speech about apposing the Trump administration.
For dinner, I made a large fruit salad that Joan and I enjoyed.
The only bummer of the day was being able to meet with Radek for our weekly meeting of English/Spanish conversation.
Meanwhile: Estonia & Ukraine.
The (second) Ukrainian diaspora has integrated well into most European economies and many have normal lives in their adopted homes, and they are, by and large, excellent low-cost labor that wealthier states really would prefer not to lose. Estonia-Ukraine flag image.
Ukraine and its European allies said that even if the US were to agree that Russia had legally annexed Crimea, they would not. The United Nations,
with very few exceptions, is of the same point of view. Were the US to
pursue foreign policy in the face of that, the US would make itself a
sanctions target and take a very big step towards decoupling its economy
from the rest of the world, and tightening ties with Iran, Russia and North Korea.
The US “deal” only works if everyone agrees to the US/Russia proposal about accepting that Crimea is now part of Russia, but if no one agrees but Russia and the White House, that kills the deal.The contents of the US Constitution are in the public domain. It’s very clear that US acceptance of Russian annexation of Crimea permanently would require 60 votes in the Senate – the White House doesn’t have a ghost of a chance of getting the votes.
