High school senior are now off on exams, and uni doesn't start until around end Feb. Semester one is further away than Semester one lasts.
Our education is failing, students aren't getting involved, and we are finding it harder to focus post covid. So let's put our students on ln a 4 month holiday during high unemployment rates, rising costs of living and a burning, resource emptying world. Great for mental health.
Back in ww2 when the allies ran the bombing campaign of German cities the "justification" was that civilians were being used to manufacture arms for the armed forces therefore a part of the military logistics network, and in fairness yes they were - like the British were at the start.
On the other hand it is a deliberate attack on civilians who are not in uniform, not part of the armed forces and not combatants. You could quite easily follow this path to everyone who pays tax or trades with that country as supporting the war effort.
Going at it from a different direction, terrorism is defined as non state actor, using violence against civilians, for a political objective. Therefore terrorism.
Is it justified - probably not but neither is much of warfare. Proportional but didn't minimize civilian casualties.
If you're surrounding yourself with ass kisser you're a bad leader anyway. Its the thing people forget about leadership - its not your job to do it. Its your job to provide the vision, inspire it, and facilitate smarter and skilled people to achieve it.
In the case of nations - let's take my New Zealand. Jacinta Adern was an average politician but a great crisis leader. She couldn't stop covid from happening, but she made choices that kept us safe, kept our economy and skills intact, and kept us calm. She didn't do it herself- she gave us the vision, had the right people in the right place, and brought the policies and plan forward. I wouldn't vote for her again as a "peacetime" leader, but strongly wish we could keep her on retainer for the next crisis.
Uni student (among other things).
High school senior are now off on exams, and uni doesn't start until around end Feb. Semester one is further away than Semester one lasts.
Our education is failing, students aren't getting involved, and we are finding it harder to focus post covid. So let's put our students on ln a 4 month holiday during high unemployment rates, rising costs of living and a burning, resource emptying world. Great for mental health.
/rant