From Linkedin:

I joined The Kroger Co. - America’s largest grocery retailer - in 1978 as a part-time stock clerk in Lexington, KY, working my way through college (go Big Blue Nation! #UK).

He lists his degrees from UK as BAs in Finance and Accounting and MBA in Accounting.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/volodymyr-zelensky-trump-europes-moment-truth

There has been a lot of personnel churn so it could have been a lot of things ranging the spectrum of run of the mill goofs by staff, goofs by people coming into new roles ranging all the way up to insider activity by staff or vandalism by fired staff (very common). Or it could be a failed attack by adversaries NIH has always been a high priority target for state sponsored cyberattacks.

One thing it is certainly does not seem to be is deliberate action by the Administration otherwise it would have gone fully down and would have stayed down.

I don’t really disagree with anything you’re saying except whether we are morally compelled to assist in what amounts to Ukraine’s suicide/self-genocide.

The reality is that the war has reached a stalemate (at best). Changing the facts will require additional forces and despite all the nice words nobody is seriously considering committing forces to aid Ukraine. That’s facts. Sorry. Escalation leads to WW3 and that’s why everyone has been on egg shells.

The US specifically as security guarantor is an explicit no-go for Russia. If we insist on making this existential for Russia, it becomes WW3. There is no reason Europeans can’t be guarantor. And frankly putting US economic interests in Ukraine with these minerals is a pretty genius idea. The US is ruthless about protecting it’s economic interests.

I like Zelenskyy, he’s plucky and charismatic and has good instincts. But he is not particularly realistic in his demands. For example his repeated assertions that Putin hates Russia just… it’s not workable. Ukraine’s hand is as strong as it’s going to get right now. Hopefully this has rattled him enough that the Europeans talks some sense into him. And frankly I prefer European leadership on this for a number of reasons. It’s far better for Europe if they get their act together and stop groveling to the US for leadership in their own backyard. This is the EU’s turf for Christ sake.

Historically speaking, Rome didn’t really have anything like States as we know them, and Caesar/Augustus weren’t out there pushing idea that the central government had grown too large and needed to be dismantled with power returned to the provinces.

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Technical discussions on other sites have suggested it was likely a simple goof on a firewall setting update since DNS had continued responding over TCP throughout the outage but not UDP. In any case it’s all fixed now which would not be the case if it had been deliberate. Occam’s Razor still applies.