Activities that involve prolonged standing, running or walking can strain the muscles and joints associated with the pinky toe, leading to inflammation and pain over time. Our biggest fear: gout, known as podagra, characterized by sudden and severe attacks of pain, swelling, redness, and tenderness in toe joints due to the accumulation of uric acid crystals.
A friend of mine from Belarus, Evhen Budinas, suffered horrible gout attacks in the large joint of his big toe. No amount of hard drinking could alleviate the pain completely. I know because we tried. Life under Lukashenko with gout eventually became unbearable, so he moved back to Vilnius in 2001, according to Wikipedia, which notes that he received Order of Merit for Lithuania (Už nuopelnus Lietuvai) three months before his death in 2007.
On our war jacket, Marco is rumored to become Donald’s foreign policy boss, and Mike national security advisor. Both men are from the state known for tropical depressions. The men don’t oppose, per se, helping Ukraine dislodge death squads occupying 20% of the country. They just want Europe to pay for it.
Richard (Grenell), who hasn’t yet been picked for anything yet, might end up replacing Avril. Maybe Team USA’s next ambo to Ukraine?
Z’s Peace Formula and Victory Plan should be revised accordingly or discarded altogether, depending.
Long-term political projects involving Team USA in this part of the world will be sanitized. No one knows what projects exactly will be initiated to replace them.
Donald will not support the goals of the war as elaborated by Z up to now, i.e. de-occupation of annexed areas and the return to the borders of 1991. This is now Ukraine’s problem alone. No US taxpayer money will be spent on the task. It is unclear how much Donald is ready to "screw" Europe as a whole.
The "limits of the possible" in relation to Ukraine are essentially tied to blackmailing Europe as a whole to cough up more money for American stuff.
On this same square
they burned Giordano Bruno.
Henchmen kindled the pyre
close-pressed by the mob.
Before the flames had died
the taverns were full again,
baskets of olives and lemons
again on the vendors’ shoulders.
(…)
Those dying here, the lonely
forgotten by the world,
our tongue becomes for them
the language of an ancient planet.
Until, when all is legend
and many years have passed,
on a new Campo dei Fiori
rage will kindle at a poet’s word.
— Source: Czeslaw Milosz, Campo dei Fiori (1943)
The casualty count from the yesterday’s ballistic missile strike on a residential building in Kryvyi Rih continues to rise.
Another residential building in Zaporizhia was pulverized last night.
Looking on the bright side, more dead invaders.
What is the mood with the Trump victory? Can Ukraine survive without the Americans? What do you think the chances are of Europe stepping up to replace the Americans?
hi, vaughan. i don't hang out at independence square and quiz chaplains near the rows of little flags or talk with ukrainian officials off record about the best way to flatter donald. all the people i know are hunkered down, going about their business and trying to make the best of a very-bad-about-to-get-worse situation. the focus is on surviving until spring. that's only a couple of months away. depending on ur age and the unit u are serving in, military life is chaotic and sucks. i have zero faith in team usa under trump and not much more in european leaders. but lots of good vibes about ukrainian resilience. they key is staying alive until the weather gets warmer. life in the village is the same as it always was, hand-to-mouth subsistence farming. almost all the kids have cleared out and are either in the big cities, in college or moved abroad. i think there is a widespread recognition that the only way to get out of this mess is to presume on ourselves. that could change if the russians knock out power supply and everything goes black