Kiev’s counteroffensive has bled the military dry, accelerating the nation’s depopulation as fighting age men are killed or flee to avoid being conscripted into a senseless meat grinder. Authorities are looking at private recruitment, but that’s likely just an attempt to suck more resources out of Western countries, an observer tells Sputnik.
Joel P. Rhodes is a Professor in the History Department of Southeast Missouri State University. Raised in Kansas, he earned a B.S. in Education from the University of Kansas before earning his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
More Political Drama in Fall River [OPINION]
The never-ending cycle of political drama continues unabated in Fall River. In this edition of As the River Turns, the foil is embattled School Superintendent Matt Malone, who ran the education department under former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
Superintendent Malone is refusing to resign even though the Fall River City Council, which is powerless in all of this, voted on Tuesday to pass a resolution of no confidence in Malone and asked him to resign immediately. Eight councilors voted in favor and one voted present because his wife works for the Fall River School Department.