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Article doesn’t measure
Russia’s weakness
Re: “Is it now time talk about Ukraine peace?” (Page A6, June 7).
Daniel DePetris’ piece about Ukraine was wrong. Russia is losing the war. The resources of Ukraine with NATO and other countries’ support are greater than the resources of Russia.
The Russian economy is in downfall. Vladimir Putin is running out of money due to the war effort, sanctions and Ukrainian attacks on oil refining. He has used up reserves. He is raising taxes. Up to 700,000 Russians have left to avoid conscription.
Russia is having to increase the money it pays to people to fight. Russia is using Chinese-made golf cart-like vehicles in their attacks. Ukraine has F-16s on their way.
Russia is losing the war they think they are winning. Their vast military storage allowed equipment to rust and rot through neglect and corruption. Ukrainians are fighting for their right to call themselves Ukrainians. The only solution and lasting peace will come from a Russian collapse and a Ukrainian victory.
Brian Drygas
San Jose
Trump policies won’t
tame consumer prices
Re: “Trump vows that he’ll lower prices; some of his policies could raise them” (Page A4, June 9).
Appeals to sanity, morality, ethics and reason have failed to sway Trump voters. Let’s try naked self-interest.
Many voters are feeling the brunt of inflation and want something done about it. A number of campaign promises Donald Trump is making will do something about it — the wrong thing. His promise to impose a tariff on nearly all imported goods will raise those prices. His promise to enact the “largest domestic deportation in American history“ will reduce the labor supply and, with increased competition for labor, wage rates and prices go up. His promise to make permanent the 2017 tax cut (for the wealthy and corporations, by the way) plus providing another big tax cut for individuals and businesses would stimulate an economy already at full employment, resulting in … more inflation.
Vote your wallets and purses. Intelligently.
Eugene Ely
San Jose
Students again are
nation’s conscience
Re: “Stanford protest leads to 13 arrests” (Page A1, June 6).
Since Oct. 20, Stanford University students have held a 120-day sit-in to stop genocide, followed by two more encampments. The students repeatedly tried to dialogue with the administration but to no avail. Instead, the administration repeatedly threatened students with disciplinary action. Desperately, 13 people occupied the president’s office on June 5. Instead of negotiating with the students, the administration called the police to arrest them and punished them with immediate suspensions. It also dismantled the student encampment.
UC Berkeley students also erected a Free Palestine Encampment with nearly 180 tents in May. The university’s chancellor, Carol Christ, chose negotiation over force. She brokered a deal that helped lead to the peaceful closure of the encampment. As a Yale student protesting the Vietnam War in the 1960s, she said: “The students today feel the same moral passion. It’s the nature of students at that age.” They are the conscience of the nation.
Nancy Tsou
San Jose