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Germany suffers from the same problem that the US and the UK and France does.
The problem: The world has increased their standard of living, so people aren't desperate to get into Germany to be sneered at or have people be bigoted against them, when they can find somewhere else to live.
Poles no longer want to work in Germany for exploitation wages. The standard of living in Poland is high enough back home that you aren't going to work in Germany for exploitation wages the way you did in the 1980s and 1990s. And Germans haven't come to grips with this, so they still offer $2/hr to Polish workers while paying $5/hr to German workers (not actual amounts, just demonstrating the differences.) Well, when you can earn $4/hr back in Poland, why would you go to Germany to work for $2/hr and have some German bigot sneering at you all day.
The same is starting to happen in France and the UK and the US. Eventually, the standard of living gets better in origin countries and they see no reason to deal with bigots in another country. And if you treat people like garbage, the only ones who stay, are the desperate and who can't leave, like refugees. And anyone else, with a solid exit plan, heads for the doors to the neighboring countries that don't have a culture of unpleasantness.
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@mrwsystems I believe the riots occurred because Jews were allowed to celebrate their High Holy Days and Arabs were told to flock off when they wished to celebrate Ramadan. As a matter of fact, I remember Israeli politicians having the police to turn of the Muslim call to prayer speakers during Ramadan because he wanted to give a speech in front of the Wailing Wall. We can add to this the fact that Israelis are legally allowed to steal (I mean confiscate) private property of Arabs based on Israeli law.
I read all of what I said in an article by a Jewish man. Apparently Bibi incited the riots intentionally, in order to then use said riots to terrorize Israelis into keeping him in power 2 years ago.
I guess if someone came over to your home, took your home from you, slapped you around a few times, told you you aren't allowed to go to temple, then that would be 'ok' as long as they're in charge of the country, right?
And you wouldn't riot because that would, as you say 'Arab stupidity' or would that then be 'Jewish stupidity?' I suppose as long as someone else is in charge, you and your family, don't have human rights, you're just a second class dogs, to be disposed of at the whim of those with guns and political power.
You are also 100% right. Nothing happens from thin air. Everything has precedence.
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0:27 The United States recognized Ukraine's independence on December 25, 1991, when President George H.W. Bush announced the decision in an address to the nation regarding the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Russia recognized Ukraine's independence on December 5, 1994, when the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances were signed.
Notice how the most powerful nation in the region gets to decide who's Independence does or does not get recognized? Yeah, I noticed that, too. Apparently, might made right. The U.S. had the might to force Russia to accept the will of Ukrainian secessionists, in 1994. Anyone who thought, that was going to last, obviously failed their World History classes. If you looked at your calendar it is not 1991 bur rather it is now 2022. Russia might have accepted the strong arm tactics of the West in 1991. But did anyone actually think it would last? Does anyone here think Taiwan's Independence will stand the test of time? I ask because I am forced to listen to CNN nonsense at home by people who refuse to read history books.
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So theft is punished by the removal of a hand, and this is bad because...?
I mean if the Sultanate provides you with a home, a car, healthcare and retirement, I'll assume they provide you with enough to eat, and to pay for utilities. So the only theft I can think off, would be theft with the intent of self-enrichment, like defrauding your neighbors, grand theft auto, theft of natural resources, theft of luxuries, theft of things you don't need to live, etc...
Again, this punishment is bad because...? I'm more outraged by Wall-Street bankers, mutual fund managers, and all sorts of other scum, get to walk away with $1 billion without doing any jail time, than I am with their hand being cut off. Why the fuck isn't the UN condemning the U.S. government for allowing these swine to rob the elderly and the uneducated with impunity?
As for some woman whoring herself out for $3,000 a day, what the fuck did she think she was going to be doing? Playing patty-cakes and shopping? $3,000 a day is $21,000 a week or $1.1 million a year. You are a professional whore, you went there to screw for money. Spare me the false outrage.
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I'm glad they are discussing Mearshimer's videos, ONE MASSIVE point to be remined of is that, the video in question "Why Ukraine is the West's Fault" is SIX years old, that's right 2016. As in, he's not some guy who started saying this stuff 4 months ago in 2022, this is a video from 2016.
So when someone is spewing nonsense about it being wrong about 2022 or Russian propaganda, just remember, this is an American professor and an America political analyst's opinion, that was not formed based on the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. And he predicted the stupidity, greed, posturing and false promises of NATO to Ukraine.
And he also informed everyone how and why it would force Putin to do exactly what he is doing. This is a guy who made his analysis known, during President Obama's term in office, not Trump's or Biden's.
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7:18 Thanks for the explanation on War Crimes, I didn't know VisualPolitik was now shilling for Israel.
Here are some other War Crimes you failed to mention.
Unlawful wanton destruction or appropriation of property
Unlawful deportation, confinement or transfer
Settlement of occupied territory
Deportation of inhabitants of occupied territory
I hate having Israeli mouthpieces preach War Crimes about one side while conveniently whitewashing the War Crimes committed by the other side, on a daily basis.
I love that you guys think talking about missile attacks that happened between May 10th and 15th matter, when you conveniently forgot that in April at the beginning of Ramadan (Muslim Christmas) Israeli cops walked into the al-Aqsa Mosque and cut power to their 'prayer speakers' so that some Israeli politician could do a political speech at the expense of someone else's Holy Day. (BTW, this would be like the Mayor of New York having the power cut to a Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, just so that he could do a political speech in the area.)
And when the Palestinians got rightfully mad at having their religious rights attacked, the Israeli police decided to open fire using stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. And this is what sparked the conflict that unfolded and escalated in May.
After 2 years of peace, the Israeli POLICE came and INTENTIONALLY provoked the Palestinians, in APRIL, and then then I have to listen to Israel playing the victim a month after they incited the conflict and started the fire.
So please spare me your made up War Crime outrage, VisualPolitik. Either cover the entire conflict or keep the accusations to a nice neutral ZERO.
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@THE-X-Force Tell me what aggression caused every expansion of NATO since 1991. Otherwise, spew that propaganda in someone else's ear.
As for Crimea, the Russians could legitimately claim that Ukraine illegally annexed Crimea in 1991. As a matter of fact, Russia could legitimately claim that all territory held under Ukraine SSR was simply an administrative area, and all territory acquired since 1654 was illegally annexed by Ukraine in 1991.
And in your own words, Crimea regardless of its status in the past, IS Russian? And Dobas IS Russian? And Eastern Ukraine IS Russian.
If the only legitimacy needed to hold land, is what the US and Western Europe say, then there will definitively be a nuclear war, either in Ukraine or in Taiwan, another territory I'm not amused being taxed over.
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Can someone tell me how long Ukraine has existed as a country in the last 1,000 years of Eastern European History?
Because it feels like one of the 13 Confederate States in the 1860s, whose independence we're backing because we're attempting to destabilize a foe, while taking our eye of the real threat.
As an Polish-American, I've got ZERO love for Russia, Putin or their Empire. But from a basic sense of history, I don't perceive Ukraine as a country. 4 years in the 1760s and 20 years in the 2000s, doesn't make it a country, it just makes it a 'currently independent' breakaway State.
This also goes for the other former Soviet Republics that probably need to be reabsorbed by the Russians. And no, I don't want Russia to get stronger. But I'd rather the Russians absorb the Stans than allow China to absorb them. I'm a lot more worried about them becoming Chinese provinces/puppets, than them being Russian territories.
But that might just be me.
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@normanberg9940 "I never accused the founding fathers of any of this"
"Yes I am fully aware that GW was a mason. It's writ large all over DC." - You are talking about a Founding Father, you not me.
"You know what else those leftist liberals believed in? Holding slaves, while the conservative Britons were spending their valuable treasure putting an end to that vile system." - Again you are talking about the Founding Fathers, you not me.
"Do you know what else those leftist liberals would be responsible for in the coming years. Secession, segregation, lynching, Jim Crowe, the KKK." - Again, the same paragraph, accusing the Founding Fathers, you are accusing the Founding Fathers of secession, segregation, lynching, Jim Crowe, the KKK, NOT ME.
Reading comprehension is your friend, don't do illegal drugs, take your meds.
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Fair question for non Americans or Americans with Alzheimer's, I don't know which one you are and I don't care to speculate.
President Trump lead from the front, any and all efforts to end social distancing, end mask wearing, and end shelter in place efforts for multiple States by vocally and by Tweet supporting the "Liberate Michigan" "Liberate Virginia" and "Liberate Minnesota," IN MAY. In fact, he made a concentrated effort to undermine the efforts made by individual States to end or limit the pandemic early. He also cut Federal funding to many of these States and contact tracing is non-existent because of his efforts.
Further more, President Obama left a 'play-book' for the future residents of the White House on how to deal with pandemics (he had to deal with Ebola and Bush had to deal with SARS during their time in office) President Obama also left a team of scientists and White House advisors to advise the President with these sort of outbreaks, so that he would have a team of professionals, ready to go at a moments notice. = President Trump fired the team of advisers and ignored the 'pandemic play-book' and instead undermined State governments, who were left to fight COVID-19 by themselves.
He further inflamed idiots in some of these States, with his rhetoric, to the point that some wanted to kidnap the Governor in Michigan just weeks ago.
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@tsuchan I provided a time stamp, you can click on it and it will take you to that point in the video, Grant says "international interventions and special operations" are different from wars. Well, both Iraqi wars were "special operations" and not wars. Operation Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom, lol. So was Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Korea.
As to the reason, I think it has to do with the level of authority that Congress is willing to relinquish to the President of the United States. I'm not sure but I believe in a state of 'war' the Executive's war time powers, extend beyond the battlefield and into civilian authority. But I don't remember exactly, since Congressional Law is not my expertise, only history.
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Crimea was part of the nation of Ukraine since 1991. That's it.
Before that, it was Russian clay or administrated by Ukraine SSR (which was also Russian clay.)
If NATO is to expand into Ukraine, and Crimea is to be Ukrainian, then Crimea would become NATO clay and a potential staging ground for US troops, as close as 500 miles from Moscow (Kharkiv is 500 miles by road from Moscow, I googled it.) As a historian, every time a powerful military was on Russia's doorstep, an invasion followed. Napoleon in the 1800s. Hitler in the 1940s. My guess is that Russians have a trauma when it comes to powerful militaries setting up shop on their doorstep and that has caused this entire problem.
My prediction is, if it looks like they are about to lose Ukraine or Ukraine is about to become NATO, the Russians will first incinerate about 20 million Ukrainians. It will be a sad day and probably the last day of modern humanity.
All because the US wants to expand its network of alliances closer and closer to Russia's border.
As an American, I am not amused because I'm paying for it, while the Republiturds are talking Social Security cuts, as someone born in Poland, I am worried about my family in Poland and Germany, and finally as someone with extended family (mother's side) in Eastern Ukraine I am sad because I most likely have family under the Russian boot heel all because US Senators and Presidents don't know how to respect other countries' 'RED LINES.'
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@benm5913 The English certainly did not invent the modern concentration camps. But I never gave them credit for such. The Spanish general Wheyler gets that particular honor with his reconcentrado camps.
Regarding the Boer War's prisoner camps, between 18,000 and 28,000 Boers died, 80% of them children, so tread carefully with your bucket of whitewash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_camps#/media/File:LizzieVanZyl.jpg Enjoy this one, I'm sure you'll find a way to excuse this filth.
As for the Bengal Famine, emptying every village's granary and forcing the locals to grow opium and tea, while only allowing minimal food to be grown was a guaranteed way of causing a famine, during any critical crop failure. Again, tread carefully with that bucket of whitewash.
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@MegaRazzzz You are a moron. The Russians did out engineer the Germans. The T-34's slopped armor was better than anything Germany had until 1944. The Russians begun by losing the war due to the officer purge of the 1930s and poor planning and administration, as well as paranoia which did not allow their Generals and supplies, to be in the vicinity of their armies. Their munitions, food and fuel not being where their armies were, prevented these armies from rising up against Stalin but it also made them incapable of protecting the Soviet Union.
As for China, when 8 Grandparents have 4 Parents (their children) to have 1 Grandson and 1 Granddaughter, the horde mentality you speak of, is an easy way of eliminating the next generation of your people. When of out 14 adults only 1 of them is young enough to be a soldier, your country is flocked. So China is going to have itself a bad time in the nearby future and is not ready for a war.
As for the future of modern warfare, you can put up a 1,000,000 Chinese soldiers on the battlefield, they'll die just as quickly as Al-Qaeda does when they get hit by drone bombs. The moron, like you, who arms a million Chinese soldiers with $50 rifles, is the moron who sends the future of his nation to get wiped out.
This is why Taiwan is safe. Its not the Taiwanese soldiers on the beaches of the island, its the drones that will sink every transport attempting a beach landing on its shores, that will win that war.
As for access to the Indian Ocean, the US sub fleet would have a field day, literally shooting fish in a barrel. US naval supremacy is not its surface fleet, its the American Wolf Packs that would starve China in a 6 month time period. The infrastructure isn't there to use roads from Russia and both Russia and China are NET IMPORTERS of food. :D
Now back to school for you, dumb dumb.
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@ShubhamMishrabro The US almost started WWIII because the USSR wanted a military base in Cuba (1,131 miles from Havana to Washington D.C.) Bush put missile systems in Poland in 2006 or 2008, I don't remember which since I can't research this right now (its 700 miles away from Warsaw to Moscow) and I assure you, we HAVE military bases and a presence in Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, etc... so you are blowing smoke if you claim otherwise.
NATO membership absolutely means hosting a US military base in your country, at least if you are close to Moscow. It isn't forced, but $$s make politicians very flexible. Just ask "any" politician on the planet. I am very cynical about politicians and the sort of stunts they pull, so please forgive me for that.
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@Ushakov_Mykyta So you should watch the video. Essentially however, NATO specifically the US, extended an invitation for NATO membership, to both Georgia and Ukraine in 2008.
The idea is simple, allow the US to have a military base in the Ukraine and in return the US will give you $$s and American service men will spend $$s in your country.
Kharkhiv is 750 kms from Moscow, for us Americans that's 500 miles away. The US wanted access to an invasion launchpad 500 miles away from Moscow. I promise you, Putin remembered his history of 1940 and 1811, he remembered the last two Superpowers and how they affected Russia's National Security, when permitted to be much further way from Moscow, it is very possible he made his decision based on that history. Volodymyr Zelenskyy decided to force the issue. We knew Russia's troops were gathering on Ukraine's border on April 5th, 2021, almost a year before it was an article here in the West that told us about it. Volodymyr decided to escalate things, instead of giving Russia reassurances. He taunted Putin and he did so for almost 10 months.
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@normanberg9940 More straw-men for you to argue with, isn't that nice. Hugs not drugs.
Quite frankly, I don't even know what you are arguing about.
You can't seem to present a simple coherent narrative or a logical argument, since you don't seem to know what you are arguing against.
This is why you failed from the beginning. You vomited an incoherent wall of text, arguing, everything from your lack of basic history, to lack of basic knowledge, to end up in a state of lack of logic, screaming at a padded wall.
Your claim of 30 years of a legal profession, seems unlikely but even if it is true, you are not mentally agile enough to do so today. Personally, I doubt your legal expertise, since you talked about combines and tractors, which would put you more firmly in the agricultural sector. Or are you a lawyer/farmer/historian/politician?
Stop embarrassing yourself and stop wasting my time.
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@normanberg9940 The Founding Fathers, were not alive long enough to see secession or emancipation or Jim Crowe or the KKK or the Democrats or the Republicans. There were no political parties in 1776, as I've suggested before, go crack open a history book.
I'm the worst sort of person for someone like you to debate, I am an educated person.
Also, you can have a million arguments with yourself, I see no reason for me to be involved. Asking yourself stupid/absurd/trick questions and then answering them, it the last refuge of the mentally weak. Straw-man arguments, work fantastically well, if someone feels desperate enough to answer them.
I don't answer straw-man arguments, since I didn't make these arguments. You made these arguments so you are doing a fine job debating yourself, you don't need me for this. (Please take your meds.)
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@normanberg9940 One, you need to take your meds.
Two, I never said I'm moving to Canada, also see #1.
Three, ALL of the Founding Fathers were Leftist Liberals. Conservatives, believed in MONARCHY and anyone who spoke up was to be killed or silenced. That is what CONSERVATISM is, silencing all dissent, and blindly following one leader. The Founding Fathers were LEFTISTS LIBERALS. Majority of them were also Deists and NOT Christians. (Its ok, I'm not lying, so take the pills as instructed by your therapist.)
Finally, see #1 and don't hurt yourself. Also, don't kick your dog, beat your wive, abuse your children, hit your elderly parents or attack younger siblings.
But definitively before you start making things up, take the medications.
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@luckychops2162 That might be true. The Mississippi thing isn't something we say here in CA. I think it is a cultural reference that people use in the South.
For example I grew and they had Polak jokes here in CA in the 1980s, and then I met people form the South and they had the same jokes, except they were Alabama jokes.
As for Canada failing, that is highly unlikely. Allow me to explain why I believe so. They aren't spending 40% of their national tax budget on 'none of your business' wars.
America isn't poor because we are lazy, it is poor because the country is in debt up to its eyeballs, trying to fight the world's wars. If instead we invested our money into infrastructure, education, and green energy, we'd be ridding high, leaving everyone else in our dust. But we just don't know how to mind our own business and then we wind up blaming everyone else on the planet for our own behavior. (That's how the Orange Man got elected, us blaming everyone else for our own misdeeds.)
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@Jay-om8gr If you don't hate anyone, the answer is really easy "I don't hate anyone."
As to why I care, well... the answer is, you started a conversation with me, so it would only be right to take time and effort to know who you are. So the simple answer is, pure curiosity.
As for identity politics, that is something that actually got started by the Republicans. I believe they discussed it in one of the videos, in the last 3 weeks, on this very channel. The identities are different, "law and order,' 'pro 2nd amendment,' 'Make America White Again,' 'Jesus Uber Alles,' 'God Over the Constitution,' 'No Taxes' those are identity politics, they are simply not the identities you don't hate, so you don't recognize them as 'identities.'
But a good effort, pining your shortcomings on me. I applaud the lack of originality.
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@Jay-om8gr "Can anyone please tell me why, everyone acts like trump did or didn’t do enough to stop COVID?" - I was answering his question, I didn't actually go through the rest of Trump's failures, (of which there are many,) I simply answered the question regarding Trump's actions regarding COVID-19.
If you hate the truth, you can shout your hate of the truth from now on, God knows, you probably hate the Muslims, the Gays, the Mexicans, the immigrants, the Chinese, the Blacks (did I miss anyone?) Maybe you hate women? Maybe you hate the poor? Maybe you hate Canadians, Europeans, Indians (dot and feather)? Anyone else?
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@linuxman7777 I'm not against civil free speech, I am however against hate speech, I am against panic speech (shouting fire in the middle of a crowded theater.)
But hey, you want the freedom to tell people to riot, murder and terrorize and you classify that as 'Free Speech' then yup, I'm against that.
The fact is, the Republicans 20 years ago, shouted hate at Muslims, 15 years ago they shouted their hate at the Gays, 5 years ago then they shouted their hate at Mexicans, 9 months ago they shouted their hate at the Chinese, now they are back to shouting their hate at the Blacks. (It is almost like a pattern here.)
It has become a tradition for the Republicans to shout their hate, whenever they fail, and they seem to fail A LOT. Keep failing, keep shouting your hate, ignorance and impotence; it is what we have come to expect from you. :)
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@covfefe1787 The U.S. annexed Texas, through peaceful means, Polk sent soldiers to to provoke Mexico into declaring war, and they did. At which point Congress declared war on Mexico in self-defense.
Lincoln did not tell Sumpter to fight back, South Carolina's militia attacked with artillery against Ft. Sumter. The Union garrison would have been forced to leave, due to supplies running out. The South fired the first shots because they were dumb shits.
And every conflict since WWII first required the authorization from Congress. Since in the U.S. the power to tax and the power to spend belongs to Congress. So if they say $0 for food and weapons in this conflict then the officers don't move, no matter what the President says.
As a matter of fact, the Unites States Officers DO NOT swear an Oath to obey the President. Soldiers DO, officers DO NOT. All officers receive their commissions from Congress (specifically the Senate.) Due to the headaches of administration, they don't actually do this for every lieutenant and captain, but every Major or above has to be commissioned directly by the Senate.
But tell me more, about how much you don't know about U.S. history and U.S. government. :D
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Not a system I'd want in the U.S. There is a problem with the whole everyone votes on every law that may not be readily apparent but essentially everyone is their own politician/lawmaker. Now I don't know about your neighbors but the guys who run a meth lab out of their RV don't exactly make for the best lawmakers. Also, when you have everyone responsible for being their own lawmaker and they all have to know their local laws, that requires a certain amount of focus, and quite frankly, most people don't have that focus, in my experience, including myself.
One of the fundamental building blocks of modern society is the division of labor and responsibilities. We're not all our own mechanics, we're not all our own doctors, we're not all our own policemen, we're not all our own teachers, we're not all our own lawyers, but all of a sudden we'll all be expected to become our own lawmakers and legal eagles? Sounds like a recipe for disaster, in my humble opinion. I truly am glad that it works for the Swiss but I cannot imagine it working for most countries.
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Yeah, I'm going to say you're full of it. I'm going to say that the entire story you told is made up. And I'm going to say you are lying to make your opinions sound plausible.
You're also a guy who probably dabbles in stolen valor trying to sound self-important and knowledgeable in front of the ignorant.
Here are some facts, you lying piece of garbage:
1. The Pentagon has spent $15 million in the past five years to treat 1,892 transgender troops, including $11.5 million for psychotherapy and $3.1 million for surgeries, according to Defense Department. (2016-2021)The Pentagon has spent $15 million in the past five years to treat 1,892 transgender troops, including $11.5 million for psychotherapy and $3.1 million for surgeries, according to Defense Department. ONLY 243 surgeries took place.
2. That means 378.4 requests per year and less than 50 operations per year.
3. The US military has 1.4 million personnel
4. According to you, your imaginary son he had two of these requests in a company (usually 100-250 soldiers)
5. At the rate you are suggesting at a maximum sized company of 250, 1 in 125 soldiers would be requesting a sex change or about 11.200 requests in 5 years. And since most companies are closer to 150 men, that's a rate of 2 in 150 or 18,700 sex change requests.
6. Most of these requests are more than likely coming from non-combat troops (admin, accounting, etc.) rather than tank crews and guys likely to face live fire.
7. Finally, company commander is just a garbage name, if your son held a rank, it would have been something you'd have posted like a Captain, or a Major, fathers of US soldiers have no fear of posting their son's rank.
Based on all of my points, I'm calling you out to provide some evidence of this imaginary Company Commander of a US Army Tank Company that had 2 requests for gender reassignment in the last 2.5 years, since Biden took office?
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An entire society/country owned by 10 Chaebols inflicting the social and cultural norms of 90 year old geezers (through their national Diet.) And people are wondering why a Monopolistic Oligarchy is not a place you'd want to raise families? Let's see, any other Oligarchies having a crisis of this sort... Russia, perhaps?
Add to this, Korean racism/classism and all sorts of other isms, and you can't even get immigrants to come in to help with the demographics.
On to the mail order brides, that's a perfectly reasonable solution, arranged marriages have been around since the dawn of times. The only difference is that the bride isn't from two villages over but rather two countries over.
Finally, the $$ solution, might work but not if the help is only a 2 year boost. Last time I checked, a child isn't born and thrown out of a window after 2 years. 18 years to be raised, 18 years of financial burdens, giving a 2 year stipend to a family is just stupid and there's no wonder that Koreans aren't falling for it.
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BRICS members, welcome to the Pyramid Scheme of the century, you are about to pay for China's economic excesses. Everyone else, yeah, not so much.
I'm just glad that South Africa, India, Russia, and Brazil are so willing to fund China's drunken spending spree, lol.
I hear Algeria, Iran, and Argentina are the next ones to join. It's like a who's who of losers who can't keep a stable economy.
Which other failed states are going to join? Venezuela?
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6:32 This is such a dumb point, I can't believe anyone is even making it.
Stinger missiles, designed in 1967, a weapon no one is producing it in mass quantities because NO ONE in the United States military is even using it, are relics from 50 years ago. The cost of decommissioning and destroying them was more expensive than shipping them to Ukraine and letting the Ukrainians use them against Russian hardware.
That's right, shipping a Stinger missile to Ukraine probably cost $1,000 and scrapping it, and dismantling it safely in the US would have probably cost $3,000-$5,000 and you no longer had to pay someone to guard this junk.
The US is not running out of ammunition, as fast as Russia is running out of tanks, APCs and troops. So the worry about not having FULL munitions for the next 10 years, is an absurd issue, if it will take Russia 50-80 years to replace all of its losses.
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@valerievankerckhove9325 Last time I checked if the price of Natural Gas goes up it goes up for everyone. When oil rigs in Saudi Arabia blow up due to an Iranian shelling, the price of gasoline in Los Angeles and in Beijing goes up, in equal proportion, the very next day.
So if Somali pirates start hitting the shipping lanes of Quatar's LNG plants, the cost of electricity in Belgium, China, and United States, will go up whether the natural gas comes from Norway, Russia, or North Dakota. (The price for the consumer may not, depending on how strong the welfare state is but the cost will go up)
As for renewables, building solar power or wind turbines and importing them from China, America, or wherever, requires a lot of energy, a lot of fossil fuel energy in fact. When you buy solar panels from China, they aren't paying for fossil fuels to deliver them, YOU and YOUR countrymen are. When you build renewable energy at home, the natural resources from steel to rare earth minerals also must be shipped, again you and your countrymen are paying for these fossil fuels.
Or are you one of those people who successfully self-deceived themselves into believing that Belgium is a country that doesn't use fossil fuels, its those polluting Liberians and Panamanians. I hate to break it to you but it doesn't matter if the ships are registered in Liberia, Panama, or anywhere else, if your country is using the ships and the shipping lanes, you are using the fossil fuels that power the cargo ships and the resource extraction that produces the natural resources your country buys. If you buy cotton clothes, tropical fruit, or anything exotic, you are also paying for their fossil fuel usage and thus contributing to the extraction of said fossil fuels, even if the official 'government propaganda' claims we are a 'clean country.'
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@Paerigos Your preposition when speaking on behalf of 750 million people, is rather absurd and highly dishonest.
The next time, your taxes pay for a soldier, a police officer, or a fireman, I want you to attempt to apply that lie when you ask a. your firemen to run into a burning building, b. your policemen risk their lives to protect the common good, and c. your soldiers to die for your liberty.
Here is the ugly truth to counter your rose colored glasses, sacrifices are made for the common good on a daily basis. Human testing is required for medicine to progress (animals and software are not enough.) Coal gets burned, to keep Euros out of the hands of a madman, attempting to invade Ukraine. And so on...
A quote to consider: "When you wear rose colored glasses, all red flags, just look like flags."
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The first rule of capitalism, if there is a need, people will find a way. Yes, I know it is cynical but it is also pragmatic.
If there is a demand, a supplier will find them. You need food, someone has food. You need weapons, someone has weapons. You need soldiers, someone has soldiers. Lowest price wins. Sometimes the price isn't just monetary. Sometimes the lowest price includes people not asking questions.
American, French and British mercenaries are expensive and ask questions because they might get arrested when they get home. Russian mercenearies don't have to worry these considerations. Ultimately, it all goes back to Capitalism. If there is a need, people will find a way to fulfill it.
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Yeah, and?
I know, its terrible, Germany has at least 6 different populations with different languages, and all of them (except Bavarians) had to submit to "Prussian" German. You may have heard of the song Deutschland Uber Alles, yeah, had nothing to do with racism, it had to do with uniting Germany under one language and one people. The Hannoverians, Pommeranians, Saxons, Bavarians, Westphalians, etc all forced to become one nation under the language of the Royal Family in Berlin.
The French, well, the Cosmopolitiane, Occtians, Acadians, Bergundians, Bretons, Normans yup, you guessed it again.
The Russians, Ryzanians, Novgorodians, Mucovites, blah, blah, blah.
The Poles, Silesians, Mazovians, Kuyavians, Wielkopolskans, Pommeranians (Pomorzanie, in case you are Polish.)
The Italians, the Spaniards, the British, the Turks, every one of these homogeneous groups are just the result of a forced melding.
Do I think the Uygyurs have it bad? Yeah, I do.
Do I think it doesn't matter and this is a done deal? Yeah, sorry, they will become Han Chinese, they will speak Mandarin in one generation. This is the hard reality.
China will NOT tolerate Catalonian, or Scottish, Confederate or Quebecois independence. They don't play that game, and we all know it.
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@kalx007 I think you are underestimating the Russians willingness and ability to fight a protracted war.
Charles XII (of Sweden,) Napoleon, Hitler, and countless others have done so before.
How did that work out for them? Is Russia speaking Swedish, German, or French?
I don't have to love the Russians, to be realistic and practical about their capabilities.
The U.S. is in the hyper-aggressive stage of its national development, we can hold our own against Russia. I wouldn't bet my own life on the rest of Europe being able to do the same.
I honestly don't think Europe can hold the line and drive the Russians back, without a lot of American backing. Europe has gotten rich and soft while living under the American umbrella. Germany having 200 tanks, with only 50 of them actually being repaired and able to be used, is a bad sign of things to come.
And if you watch a few more VP videos you'll know what I mean.
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Estonia pop 1,330,068 area 45,339 sqkm
A small nation, that does not do have a lot of world obligations. Its safety, its prosperity and everything else is a result of bigger nations carrying much of its water.
I'm sure many Estonians would find this offensive but allow me to elaborate. The reason for goods and services arriving in Estonia is due to safe shipping lanes, free of pirates or warlords brutalizing and oppressing and over taxing the producers and distributors of the goods. You don't get to have fruit and vegetables from Africa and South America or oil from the Mid East, without the U.S. navy making your access to said goods, at a reasonable price. Smugglers, human traffickers, international gangs, do not come to Estonia because there is a entry barrier to them, called the EU nations such as France and Germany, as well as the US and NATO.
You want to know what life without said umbrella looks like? Try living in Armenia, where Russian gangsters run the country and pay off/intimidate politicians into doing their bidding. Mexico/El Salvador have their cartels. SE Asia has the Chinese intimidation.
Estonians have a lot of benefits without shouldering much of the costs. Which is good but not realistic for most nations on the planet.
I promise, that no teacher in Estonia has ever had to be worried about being threatened by a parent of a student because the parent is an MS-13 gangster or a Russian mobster or a Chinese Triad leader.
So telling people to compare themselves to Estonia or imitating their model, is quite frankly ridiculous.
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@Carlos Sifleet Colonialism is why Africa had enough semi-modern infrastructure to be able to form nations.
I know, propaganda taught you all you need to know about Colonialism but propaganda and facts disagree. Europeans lost more resources building Africa and its infrastructure than they gained during Colonialism. The countries that did not participate or participated the least, in African colonialism were the ones who were the strongest in the early 20th century. Belgium, Holland, UK, France, all lost money and resources building up their colonies. America and Germany who had none or few, dominated the others. So Colonialism wasn't good for anyone other than Africa.
And when the Colonial powers left, things went to hell in a hand-basket. You like imagining a world without Colonialism, try imagining it without the English language, the Democratic/Parliamentary systems, and without European built ports across the 3rd world. Now imagine the grinding poverty of those countries without the European touch. Or if you really need to, look at Haiti, they got rid of the French and no one is bothering to tell them how to govern themselves... how's that working out for them?
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@javiermontoya3018 One of the major issues in any nation state, is that a supply cannot be made available if there is nowhere for it to go.
A small farmer in Colombia will never plant 10 or 100 more fruit trees if the fruit is going to just rot on the ground. And absolutely no one will make an effort to clear 1,000 hectares to grow those fruits if they have no way to export them because there is no road that leads to a port that will ship the product to where it is welcome.
I was born in Poland, which has historically been the breadbasket of Western Europe between 1100 AD and 1600 AD. Our rivers transported grain towards the Baltic Sea to be shipped to Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, Germany, and France. In return, French wines, Dutch cloth, and English and Scandinavian metals and finished goods made their way back to Poland.
But none of that would be possible without the Port City of Danzig which facilitated these exports and imports of goods. If you want to sell products on the Western Coast of the United States and Canada, there are about 80 million customers waiting for your goods. But until your government invests and builds that port town and a road that connects it, that customer base is lost to you.
The Pacific side of Colombia is ripe for exploitation. Beautiful beaches, resort towns, beach front properties for retiring Americans, these are all options on the table, that currently Mexico and Costa Rica are welcoming. Is Colombia?
And yes, I understand xenophobia, and 'Americans will own our country' but the only way Colombia grows rich and prosperous is if LEGITIMATE American dollars flow in and that can only happen if Americans have a reason to show up, live, party and spend their vacation $$s..
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@eldolorcosmico The Californios and Tejanos were not Mexicans. You were just taught shitty history by moronic propagandists. Texas and California declared Independence from Mexico in 1836 12 years after Mexico stole them from Spain. So if you want America to return them to anyone, it would be Spain and NOT Mexico.
Oh, that's right, according to you if Mexico owned it for a few years then it was Mexican. I guess Guatemala and El Salvador should also consider returning themselves back to Mexico.
You probably don't know this but here is another history lesson, none of the adults in Texas or California in 1836, were born in Mexico. They were all born in Spain and none of them wanted anything to do with Mexico and still don't, to this day. They thought of Mexico as an invader who wanted to steal their freedoms and not as their country.
As for the military bases, the U.S. has none in South America except some island bases in the Caribbean. Again, don't spew your propaganda at me because you couldn't be bothered to check the facts.
Banks and NGOs are there because someone invited them. Without American and European banking, things would really get bad, like mass famine and Lord of the Flies bad.
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Ah, the British and their pound. Such a nice and upstanding people the British government.
I mean its not like Britain, wanted Germany to invade Poland and then bleed the USSR to death, only for them and France to come in and mop up after the fighting was done, right? And the Brits certainly felt, no problem acquiring all of the Polish gold reserves, in the name of 'liberation of Europe,' right?
And almost certainly, the Brits never invaded, murdered and pillaged a country, in order to protect drug dealers and cop killers, right?
It couldn't have happened to a more swell and honest nation.
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@nebuchadne33ar Doing things without loans is not a bad thing.
That is what is called a strawman argument.
Claiming someone else, disagrees with you about something, just because they disagree with you about something else is a weak argument only used by the weak minded.
People have money because they either saved or earned it. A man who robs a rich company today, will rob you tomorrow, because he always has a good excuse for his robbery. As soon as you make excuses for him robbing a foreigner, then you'll make the same excuses for him murdering a foreigner, as long as he robs and murders foreigners its ok, right? And once he's done murdering foreigners, guess who's left... just you and him, and guess whom he's not going to murder or rob. :D
Have fun, when he comes to murder you and your family, for your money. And don't come to my country seeking asylum, we don't need people who think like that.
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@sunshine6522 What you said was the following:
"Then riots occurred around the compound just like every year, but this time Israeli police chased the rioters into the mosque and threw tear-gas at them while prayers were ongoing."
"This was portrayed by the Palestinians as an attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque- and Hamas responded by firing rockets at Jerusalem, Israel responded with airstrikes- and from there it turned into a full-blown war."
Well, the truth is different from what you wrote, the riots were sparked by Israeli Police walking into the Al-Aqsa mosque and turning off the call to prayer speakers, so that the President of Israel could give his political speech. It was an intentional incitement and provocation. There was no Israeli police chasing any rioters.
As for the High Holy Days, it was some other holiday that was being celebrated in Mount Meron 04/30/2021 in Israel around the time of Ramadan and the festivities were allowed to unfold.
But Ramadan was being suppressed by the Israelis, in the name of COVID lockdowns. That stank to high heaven of bigotry, oppression and apartheid.
"Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for May, the first in 15 years." - And Israel wanted to radicalize the Palestinian voters right before that election, so that they would vote for Hamas.
As for your shit take on treason, people who are being oppressed and humiliated and having their homes confiscated are not committing treason when they fight back. According to your logic, the Jewish victims of Kristallnacht should have obeyed their government and accepted it because it would be treason to oppose it.
As you are incapable of telling the truth, I'm going to stop responding to you. Go shill for hate mongers on your own dime.
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@Minchya Honestly, I wasn't sure. Since attacking South Korea would result in an American destruction of China and its armed forces, it sounded just about as dumb as an idea as I could think off and no actual benefit other than the arming of every Asian nation around China in a coalition. The U.S. would automatically declare war, Japan would join, Taiwan would join, Vietnam and Philippines would see this as a opportunity to punch their local bully. India would see a chance to settle some scores, and the list goes on and on.
Wiping out North Korea and allowing South Korea to reunify the peninsula might actually be of greatest benefit to China.
Once Korea is united and have China to thank for it, it would probably demilitarize, end cooperation with Japan, and distance itself from the U.S. If you are China, you want the Americans out of East Asia, and allowing South Korea to reunify the Koreas, would accomplish that in less than a decade.
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@summer031977 I live in CA Mr. AZ, so you aren't exactly schooling me on immigration.
If the American gun manufacturers were not allowed to sell guns to the Cartels, MS-13, and the Mexican Mafia, then there wouldn't be a domestic terror, forcing a refugee crisis on our border, from Mexico, El Salvador, and the rest of Central America.
The next time you see that shithead Wayne LaPierre, remember this, he's not opposed to background checks because it would infringe on your 2nd Amendment Rights, its because the MODs in the US couldn't sell arms to murderers and sociopaths, south the US border.
And the reason for the flood of illegal immigration is the sale of said 'unregistered' firearms, to the worst people in the world.
As soon as we push a Federal firearm registration, the illegal arms trade will end, and the refugee and immigration from south of the border, will dry up.
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GE are scum. I worked for them as part of NBC Universal in 2006.
In order to show 'profits' they sold off revenue generating assets, in order to pad their profits because their worthless CEO Jeff Immelt, demanded that each division show a 10% profit per year.
So NBC Universal which owned "Law and Order" and other shows, started selling off episodes/seasons of their library, one by one, as a way of generating profit. Thing is, each of those episodes was generating yearly revenue. And once the "worthless" $0 value assets were gone, they ceased to generate revenues, at which point next year's profits had to be found through further, "special accounting."
The worthless CEO Jeff Immelt, smiled as 'record profits' came in, year after year because he was such a ponzi scheme genius.
GE was playing a shell game of 'imagined profits' for decades and I wouldn't be surprised if their other divisions did the exact same thing. So, their downfall, was a given.
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