🇺🇸📉 States which rank highly for 'inclusion' and 'quality of life' are lagging economically

Logic may suggest that the parts of America performing well economically would be the first to back the President in office. But in this increasingly bizarre republic, it turns out that the strongest support for Joe Biden lies with the regions — notably the West Coast and the Northeast — that are doing most poorly both economically and demographically.

In contrast, the most pro-Trump and anti-Biden states are flourishing. Take West Virginia, the signature Appalachian state, which ranks as the third most pro-Trump state in the country. As a new report by Aaron Renn notes, over 70% of counties in the south of Appalachia are growing in population, with more than half of the counties now boasting more jobs than pre-pandemic levels.

The rise of Appalachia is reflective of a broader change taking place between red and blue states. Indeed, Republican states are comfortably outperforming their blue counterparts economically, even though the latter represent the base for Biden and the Democrats. The biggest destination for movers from the largest places losing people — San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York — are sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Houston, and Miami.

📎 UnHerd

🇺🇸 The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War

In the autumn of 1857, sustained runs on New York banks led to a panic atmosphere that affected the American economy for the next two years. In The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War, James L. Huston presents an exhaustive analysis of the political, social and intellectual repercussions of the Panic and shows how it exacerbated the conflict between North and South.

The panic of 1857 initiated a general inquiry between free traders and protectionists into the deficiencies of American economic practices. A key aspect of this debate was the ultimate fate of the American worker, an issue that was given added emphasis by a series of labor demonstrations and strikes.

📎 OSU

🇺🇸🪖 “We didn’t realise how shredded the United States’ social fabric was until we got here.” The number seeking to escape violence and political strife in America is small but growing.

- The Economist

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russian naval aircraft destroyed four US-made high-speed military boats with Ukrainian paratroopers that were heading towards Crimea.

"September 4, 2023, at night in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, naval aviation aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed four high-speed military boats manufactured by the United States Willard Sea Force with landing groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, heading in the direction of Cape Tarkhankut on the Crimean coast,"

🇺🇦❗️Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that he has dismissed Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.

🇺🇦 In place of Reznikov, President Zelensky proposed the chairman of the State Property Fund, Rustem Umerov.

🇺🇦⚡ Ukraine prepares to mobilize women

▪️From October 1, 2023, medical and pharmaceutical workers will be required to register at military registration and enlistment offices.
▪️Women liable for military service have the same duties as men, they must: register for military service, undergo training for service, report to the military registration and enlistment offices about changes in the place of registration/residence, marital status, disability, etc.

🇺🇦☦️⚡ In Ukraine, the Holy Epiphany Convent of the Ternopil diocese is being closed

The police cordoned off the area. The eviction of the nuns began.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ For the second night in a row, Russian Geran hit the Ukrainian ports of Reni and Izmail in the Odessa region.

🇵🇱🇺🇦⚡️Poland began to extradite to Ukraine men of military age who left the country after the start of the Russian special operation

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Today is three months since the start of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The results of the counteroffensive on the map. The territory that came under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is marked in blue.

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️ The Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced Maxim Ovcharenko, a militant of the 74th separate reconnaissance battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who participated in the execution of a civilian in Mariupol, to 22 years in a strict regime colony.

On April 5, 2022, the Ukrainian military detained an unarmed man in the city who did not take part in the conflict. One of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the call sign SP ordered Ovcharenko and two other military men to shoot him, which they did.

🇷🇺 The enterprises of the Russian defense industry are increasing the production of weapons in demand at the front.

The Kurgan Machine-Building Plant has multiplied the production of BMP-3s, as well as other armored vehicles needed in the area of the special operation.

Concern "Kalashnikov" is also increasing production, in particular, we are talking about guided artillery shells "Vikhr-1" and SAM 9M33.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 First-person view of the destruction of the Ukrainian UJ-22 Airborne UAV from the 30-mm autocannon of the Mi-28 helicopter.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Undermining a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle on a mine in the area of the settlement of Nikolskoye.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 FPV drone operators from the Kaskad OBTF destroyed a pickup truck of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South-Donetsk direction.

This video of the destruction of a French CAESAR SPG is quite funny.

After being detected, the vehicle starts to flee while the Lancet chases it.
It manages to dodge the Lancet, but derails the vehicle.
While the medevac attends to him, a second lancet completely destroys the vehicle.

#vehicle_losses

Russian air strike by the VKS on a building with Ukrainian military personnel near Dacha, Kherson Region.

Arrived, presumably, air-to-surface missile Kh-38.

1x Leopard 2
1x T-64

#vehicle_losses

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Another video of the defeat of the Ukrainian UJ-22 Airborne drone by the fire of the 30-mm cannon of the Mi-28N helicopter.