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Question for your business background: how can Russia ever recover from their current situation economically? It seems that the invasion of Ukraine has only accelerated the sun-setting of fossil fuels among their most dependable customers, and it seems hard to believe that anyone will risk capital investing in Russia for new technologies even if Vladimir Putin is removed from power. How can they start over? What will they have to do to rejoin the world economy?

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To echo what itwasntnotme said above:

"Berkshire" here is Berkshire Partners (assets: $16B), not Berkshire Hathaway (assets: $875B) that most people might expect.

9/11 drastically changed how people felt about terrorism, and what was possible from foreign belligerents

I was an adult in NYC on 9/11. It was well understood by anyone who cared to read the news who did it, why they did it, and what we were up against in holding those responsible for the act. People were talking about how Afghanistan was the "graveyard of empires" and that we were undertaking something very risky by invading. And there was the (still!) unresolved question about how to hold Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to account for the roles they played in allowing, and even encouraging, Islamic extremism to flourish.

A year later, when Bush was starting to beat the drum for invading Iraq most of the people I knew reacted with "wait... who? Why them? They weren't involved in that." The answer was, of course, because too many Americans seeing red didn't know, or even care to know, the difference between brown people on the other side of the globe.

I appreciate that you feel admiration for being clear-eyed about that moment, but it was excruciatingly obvious what a terrible, terrible mistake the 2003 invasion of Iraq would be long before it happened. As one of the people who saw it ahead of time, I feel no pride, only disgust that so many of my countrymen didn't see it as well.

Why the downvotes? His pre-cancer physique is hard to achieve, if not impossible, without pretty extreme diet and supplementation. These things are particularly hard on your body's filtration systems, it's not unreasonable to think it put him at higher risk.

It isn't necessarily an accusation or judgement call to assume that someone of that size is also using steroids.