The overall “pattern of the war” is that Russia took a bunch of Ukrainian territory early on, and then has spent the past year having its meat ground and losing big chunks of occupied territory back to the Ukrainians again. Bakhmut has been notable because it was an exception to this overall pattern. We may now be seeing the pattern reassert itself there, though.

Calling American occupation the root of Haiti’s ills is IMO taking a short-sighted view of the problem. It really goes all the way back to colonial times before the US even existed, when Haiti got turned into a giant slave plantation by France.

Which isn’t to say the US isn’t blameless in Haiti’s current troubles, or to say that modern France is responsible, I’m just not liking that “root problem” description.