391 million

I chose not to capitalize the money. I think the money would be better spent here while the diplomatic corps engages with Russia and Ukraine to settle their war without killing any more people and wasting money on corporate welfare, the arms industries, but no, the arms industries have a lot of clout on all sides, as Tolstoy said in the back of my mind, some book, wars are profitable, that’s a fact, about the Crimean war, when Russia was the Russia of the Romanovs.

Trump held up leverage for personal reasons, a different kind of leverage, and there are roughly 500,000 on the streets here this winter, Trump’s cutting food stamps, I think the good old USA has better ways to spend 391 million than as leverage in international politics.