Russia annexed captured eastern Ukraine territory after holding a sham referendum. What’s the significance of this? Putin says it’s now part of Russia, implying he’ll defend it with nuclear weapons.
Great Britain’s incompetent new prime minister caused the British currency to crash by trying to impose Reagan’s discredited “trickle down” economics on her country. The Bank of England had to bail out the British Pound, which is why U.S. stocks fell today.
Hurricane Ian was a perfect storm of sorts. Several things coming together made it the fifth strongest hurricane ever to hit the U.S., and there was almost no warning, as explained here. Hurricanes will happen; read here what humans did wrong in Florida to make them so devastating, even before climate change made them more powerful.
I guess as a species, we’re not very smart. We don’t seem to do very much right.