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Sun Yat-Sen's Kuomintang unity government. More commonly remembered as Chaing Kai-Shek's nationalist Party.
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@jdw-616 Hypersonic gliders? Now you are just engaging in word salad to try and sound smart. Oh, and the patriot batteries sent to Ukraine shot down the Kinzhal missiles, so the threat of hypersonic weapons is overblown.
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@danielgarner1959 As George Bernard Shaw once said, "two people divided by a common language".
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And yet he was also correct about Europe's over dependence on Russian Energy. He was also correct about the economic woes if the Democrats took back power. You underestimate the man at your own peril.
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I look at the historic coinage. Kievan Rus coins have the trident of Ukraine. The coins of ancient Moscow have the symbol of the Golden Horde of Mongolia. That tells much.
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@dpelpal You have never met an American in person have you? You are making the exact same mistakes that Trump critics made in 2016.
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@SiLoMixMaster Who assaulted Kiev? Who sent their troops into the Donbas? It is cute that you think that the bully can pretend to be a victim. But then that is typical of ideologies. Even the Nazis claimed to be victims of the Jews despite zero evidence supporting that myth.
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While they are getting outflanked on the sides. Yeah, grandstand over rubble while you get surrounded. Not a wise move.
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How just two Neptune missiles took out the Moskva does NOT speak well for Russian military's advanced systems.
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Two flagships are already pretending to be submarines, so it may only be a matter of time.
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@michaelmazowiecki9195 And yet Putin has chosen NOT to call NATO's bluff on Article 5.
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Indeed. Outer Manchuria is an easier target to take than Taiwan.
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Except he was also correct on Europe overdependence on Russian energy. You underestimate the man at your own peril.
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Russian nukes are more likely to detonate in the silo rather than actually launch.
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Yeah, China choses to cherry pick which ones they follow and which they ignore. It is only hypocritical if you are pushing an anti-West agenda. Incidentally, Korea is not one country but two. And the two Chinese populations have been divided far longer than the Koreans have.
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Had they been honest in the beginning about uncertainty and lack of data rather than pretend to know everything, they would have been more credible. The fact that they lie from the start is what killed their credibility and created the distrust today.
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@PerceivedREALITY999 "Fact checked" by whom? Verified independently by who? You can claim whatever OPINION you want, but that doesn't make it true. And considering that such reliable sources as SOVIET PRAVDA use "fact checkers", that shows how insincere you are.
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IN two years, Russia has had ALL the advantages from numbers, to technology, to air superiority. The fact that Ukraine has fought to a draw against overwhelming disadvantage is itself a victory for Ukraine and a net loss for Russia.
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The Russian Bear is geriatric.
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Not really. Most Ukrainian built munitions have significantly different components than NATO equipment. That was how they could identify the missile that landed in Poland.
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Typical of the French. They cut and run at the first sign of trouble.
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The Brits held the line while Americans procrastinated. But as Chruchill said, America will eventually do the right thing, even if we first attempt everything else.
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@jonkisby4871 So the drive to Kiev was simply a feint? Nice after the fact goal post moving. When the Ukrainians captured parade uniforms from the retreating Russians, it was clear they were expecting to do a victory march through Kiev. When even the nominally neutral Indians and Swiss don't believe your story, you have lost the plot.
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Especially when people can't tell the difference. George Orwell described people like you perfectly. Probably because he saw it firsthand during the Spanish Civil War.
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Amen. When I was in Korea, I warned folks that visiting Hawaii or California was NOT visiting ACTUAL America. I encouraged them to visit Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee, and many other places in the Heartland rather than on the coast.
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"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway," -John Wayne.
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When was the last time NATO invaded a former Soviet Republic? Never? Then sit down and let the adults talk.
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Indeed. Conflict in the Pacific needs to be viewed with the history of WW2 Pacific Campaign. The US with Warplan Orange expected to steam all the way across the Pacific and wanted to establish forward positions (Truk for example). Many of the same basic assumptions are still true today despite the increase in range and precision of weapons.
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Yeah, but one has to remember that the UN resolution was signed by Chang-Kai Shek's Kuomintang government when Taiwan still held the official seat on the UN security council. Nixon and Kissinger in Beijing changes all of that.
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How is Ukraine facing annihilation when they are infliction 7 to 1 casualties on the Russians?
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@dalecrocker3213 Don't conflate OPINIONS with facts. Facts don't care about your feelings. "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” ― John Adams
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The same thing was said in 2016. Guess what happened next.
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If your claim is true, then why did the citizens of Kiev welcome the Russians with Molotov Cocktails instead of flower garlands?
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The Russian Bear is geriatric!
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@robertscott961 Don't conflate fog of war with lying. Or Maskirovka for that matter, which IS lying.
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Kiev still stands after one year. 1st Guards Tank Army and the 155th Naval Infantry, both the pride of Russia are no more.
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Tell that to Mr. Chappaquiddick.
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Marxism glorifies MAN. Christianity glorifies an almighty deity. Christianity looks at the flawed and imperfect nature of man. Marxism is predicated on the idea that man is perfect and without flaw. So, with just those two points, can you really claim that they are the same.
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Shows how out of touch you are with the American electorate.
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He never had you in the first place, so what are you complaining about except to grandstand and clout chase?
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@TheAmazingAdventuresOfMiles Judges have ALWAYS been political animals. You just chose to be ignorant of your own history. Who appointed the judges to the Admiralty Courts in the 1700-1800s? Those were POLITICAL appointments. And nothing has changed in the British system since that time. "A Judge is a lawyer who once knew a politician, " -English proverb.
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Because no government office in the world is nonpartisan. Pretending there is no politics in law is refusing to acknowledge the blatantly obvious.
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Nelson Mandela was in jail before becoming the president of South Africa.
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Yeah, funny how those same countries criminalize political opposition. How is this any different than Alexander Lukashenko did in Belarus?
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"Wisdom seems like madness to the fool" -attributed to Confucius. Infantilizing people you disagree by calling them insane with doesn't make you correct; it only discredits your own argument because you refuse to debate the merits.
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@DXD2004- Ah, but the Taliban the US fought, and the Mujahadeen the Soviets fought were two different animals. The Muscovites lost far more men in Afghanistan than the US did.
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Russian paid troll.
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Well, and for almost 50 years, the US had a defense treaty with Taipei. This is clearly seen with Dean Acheson's infamous "Pacific Defense Perimeter" which INCLUDED Taiwan but not South Korea. Only with the recognition of Beijing as "official China" has the position changed to ambiguity.
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I tend to agree. Ukraine is something of a trail run for the defense and logistics of Taiwan.
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@noahway13 Don't forget Vietnam. The US was there for just shy of 20 years and the locals also refused to fight for their own country. And much like Afghanistan, the local government was more interested in settling petty feuds than actually fighting the real threat. Now contrast that to the Koreans who DID fight for their nation.
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@benachiesween Human waves is the WORSE attack one can make against a fortified position. You get mowed down in a shooting gallery. Just look at Vuledar.
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There are weak spots in the Russian line, particularly between Vuledar and Zaphorezia. Punch through and either roll up behind them or make a split dive towards Melitopol and Mariupol.
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@livingtribunal4110 Yeah, you sure showed me. Try actually debating what I said rather than acting like a seal barking and clapping after getting a fish.
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@mattburns8839 Thank you for proving that you don't actually have an argument worth making. If auto-correct putting in the wrong word is the best you can do, you have already lost the debate. Learn to debate as well as to code. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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Not is it not. Even Democrat lawyers say that you cannot count each transaction as if it were a separate crime. How about you try reading the RICO statute before you speak in complete ignorance.
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No, you have zero clue how the legal system works. Time on the statute of limitations does NOT suspend just because he leaves the state. Even Democrat lawyers refute your claims. You are grasping at straws.
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So it is okay to just accept the failures of autocracies but not the inherent weaknesses of capitalism? Nice to see you are not interested in honest debate.
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Are there two Korean nations or only one? Taiwan and mainland China have been separated far longer than the Koreans. That alone is reason enough to justify Taiwan's independence.
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@CountDuckEgg Perun, a defense logistic channel got into that very topic and if you actually watch his videos, he even cites the sources. Yes, Russia can produce shells, but even by Russia's own numbers, they are burning through shells faster than they can produce them. It nicely explains why the number of fires at the start of the war have now dropped to barely a thrid.
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@boink800 True that. But I consider it good debate practice to wrestle with them.
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Tacitly, they have made gains, but on a strategic level, they have lost spectacularly. NATO is not more united than they have ever been since the 1980s. More members, and now with Finland as a member, Russia is even MORE vulnerable.
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I tend to think the latter. As a British flag officer, he KNOWS that there is zero difference between "tactical" and "strategic" nukes. ANY use of nukes is a strategic escalation resulting in launch of Trident ICBMs.
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@brokenrecord3095 Sadly, that is the madman scenario. In that someone with nothing to lose will take the whole world with him in an atomic Armageddon.
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The euphemisms were originally Russia making excuses. The Ukrainians adopted it to mock and disparage them.
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I take claims of Russians destroying Patriot batteries as seriously as I take their reports of destroyed HIMARs and Bradleys.
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Or as Teddy Roosevelt said, "speak softly, but carry a big stick".
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@michaelmazowiecki9195 I agree with you on all of that. Going forward, the best situation would be a partitioning of the Russian Federation. Several smaller national boundaries would help to quell violence and animosity between the local populations. Chechnya and Dagestan should be a single Republic. Tuva should be a separate country. Yakutia should be independent. And several more could be listed as well.
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@douglastaggart9360 Russians flew Egyptian aircraft during both their wars with Israel. That was simply a continuation of the practice started in Korea.
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@spidif2544 Yeah, several military experts laughed at Billy Mitchell when he argued for Air Power and warned that there was a glaring weakness in the defenses of Pearl Harbor. Exactly 15 years (minus 10 days) after he was court-martialed, the Japanese conducted the attack on Pearl Harbor exactly as he predicted.
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I would argue that burning down Twitter is just as important to human survival as space travel. Social media has become a net negative on stability in the world, and the people previously running Twitter were purposely throwing gas on the fire.
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@davidcjupp All people on the left think they are in the center. If you believe in censorship, you do NOT believe in open dialogue. If you have to silence people you disagree with, it means you can't effectively debate nor refute their augment. And no, just because someone disagree with you does NOT mean they are a "right wing extremist". "When you tear out a man's tongue, you don't prove him a liar, you just show to the word that you fear what he has to say," -George R.R. Martin, author of "A Song of Fire and Ice", more popularly known as "Game of Thrones".
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Calm down. Half the hype on BOTH sides of the conflict is overblown. But what you can be assured of is that the Ukraine being able to hold out as long as they have against a numerically superior foe, defying ALL expectations is itself a victory. The fact that Russia failed to take Kiev or advance anywhere except in Luhansk is already a win for Ukraine. Keep things in context.
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@ajaykumarsingh702 When it comes to amphibious operations, it favors the defenders. Taiwan isn't trying to cross the strait.
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@QwadLuzr "Si vis pacem, para bellum; If you want peace, arm for war," -Flavius Vegetius Renatus. That is a truism that has remained constant since antiquity and will remain so until eternity.
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@bgandjsco1 And what if Americans decide to go over there like many did in Ukraine? Are you going to stop them?
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@hgv1883 Taiwan doesn't have to go through the strait. They can bypass it.
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@ascoop22 When Trump took office, the economy soared in just three months. The economic decline came with the lockdowns of which Turmp had zero control. That was LOCAL governments acting fascistic. It NEVER improved under Democrats, only ever getting worse. If everyone knew about Europe's over reliance on Russia, why didn't they DO anything about it? Why did it take Trump stating the blatantly obvious out loud? And why even then they mocked him rather than change their ways? Your problem is that your personal contempt for the man is blinding you to logic and reason. You can't let the man have even one good day which only discredits you, not him.
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Agreed. South Korean, Taiwanese, and Japanese students are a safer option as contrasted with mainland Chinese. Heck, even diaspora Chinese populations such as Indonesian and Malaysian Chinese are a safer option.
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@badluck5647 "Asian" in the Commonwealth and the US mean different things. For those who still count the late Queen as their monarch, "Asian" tends to mean Pakistani/Hindu/Indian. For the US, it tends to refer to Northeast Asia, particularly Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan. Both tend to agree on "Indo" as referring to Southeast Asia.
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Agreed. People seem to forget that even Nelson Mandela served time in Jail.
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You mean the guy that even CNN doesn't think is believable?
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@gigikontra7023 Yeah, that was part of my point about dismantling the devices. You and I have the creativity to think outside the box. But this guy clearly can't think outside of his official talking points. A clear case of Pavlov's Dog.
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@thepoliticalanalyst5684 Your point being? I guarantee you that with American help, those codes could have been compromised. At a bare minimum, they could have been dismantled for components, particularly the radioactive material to be used in power plants. If giving them up was so symbolic, then why make such a big deal about it? You are trivializing the hand-over. That Russia got to keep the warheads instead of them being dismantled IS a big deal.
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Nobody forced Poland, Finland and the Baltic states to join NATO. It was Putin who invaded Ukraine. Stop blaming the victum and apologizing for the bully.
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"This Harpy"? How sexist of you. Ad hominin insults like that don't make your argument, it discredits it.
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And Konigsberg!
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What are you talking about? Both the Kharkov and Kherson offensives occurred without air superiority. While it will greatly facilitate an offensive, that does not mean it is impossible to happen without it.
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Considering that it didn't start under Turmp, but Ukraine DID under Biden, I think you are blaming the wrong person.
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Wishful thinking. Not surprising from people who listen to the legacy media.
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@besmartvoteblue2702 They said that in 2016. They said that in 2020. Keep drinking the copium dude.
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@danmayberry1185 Pence was Grima Wormtounge. He whispered poison into his ear.
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How? Details, not just emotional hyperbolae.
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mark Mierzejewski That is exactly what Joe Biden did.
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@G_Demolished Good, because foreign nationals don't get a say in American politics. And as for the American people, buyer's remorse over Biden is strong.
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And yet Trafalgar says otherwise. You clearly have never actually met a MAGA person.
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And the Dems are not? Spare me your moral outrage, the left is all about political retribution.
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Funny how the European elites hated Bolton in the 2000s, but now that he is anti-Trump, they just love him.
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@TheAmazingAdventuresOfMiles Trump fired Bolton, remember? Have you asked yourself why? Could it be due to the fact that Bolton tried to get Trump to invade Iran and Trump refused? Your Trump Derangement Syndrome is blinding you to hard facts that shatter your own narrative.
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The man who wants to invade every country in the middle East? If you love to send your own sons to die for John Bolton's ego, that is on you. Don't waste the lives of other people's children just for one man's vanity.
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@paladro Are you shill for the neo-feudalist global elite?
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mark Mierzejewski When was that? You realize the media completely fabricated that just like they did with Nicolas Sandman and the Covington Catholic kids? Just like they lied about Kyle Rittenhouse. Just like they pushed the Jussie Smollett hoax.
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Agreed. This is no different than the Star Chamber proceedings that were typical in monarchal Europe.
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@yahyaelmi8435 Yes results matter. It should be clear from Afghanistan and Iraq that Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy doesn't work, particularly if the locals have zero interest in fighting for their own country. It should also be clear that America's flag officers are all guilty of treason and are as worthless as the Russian MOD flag officers because they put their own promotion and prestige ahead of combat readiness. Pursing DIE quotas rather than Jihadis is why Kabul fell just like Saigon did.
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@CGplay186 "Win the battle but lose the war" Ever heard of that saying? The US has rarely lost any major engagement since WW2. The problem is that feckless politicians and Miles Glorious Generals sabotage the men on the ground, then cut and run at the first sign of trouble. They waste lives and resources just to look good on camera.
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@dambadaniel4389 Russia's arugments are essentially the same ones that the Germans claimed about the Jews. "Stop oppressing me!" while they are beating people.
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Why did Russia need to invade Georgia in 2008? You do realize that Sweden and Finland, historically neutral states only joined BECAUSE of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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If the public doesn't support it, then why have the governments not been voted out of office or toppled? Unless you believe in the same autocratic despotism of Putin, the answer points to itself.
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Blatatnyl ignoring the NATO requirement of not having a disputed border or territorial disagreements huh? THAT is why the Georgia application failed. That is why Putin invades Ukraine.
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Yeah, their anti-American bias, fashionable antisemitism in the form of "anti-Zionism", and Trump derangement syndrome blinds them to critical details.
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Indeed. Just the requirements of an Amphibious operation to cross the Taiwan strait is enough to shut down most arguments.
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@cfcheng8702 Those are fair points. I agree that if they locals will not fight, why should we. However, I DO think that the population of Formosa will fight.
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There are some MAJOR differences between Taiwan's defense and Ukraine's. For one, the Taiwan strait is NOT so easily crossed. The Chinese "People's Liberation Army" would have to conduct a MASSIVE amphibious operation that would dwarf not just the Normandy landing but also the proposed Kyushu landing (Operation: Olympic). Red China so far has shown zero capability of conducting such a massive undertaking. The few times they have attempted amphibious operations, they have been abject failures.
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@frederikzinn5427 Which US president encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine? Might I remind you that the theft of Crimea occurred while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. Further, the drive to Kiev occurred while Biden was in the White House. The world respects a strong horse, and Biden is clearly an invalid with incompetent staffers who have zero understanding of realpolitik.
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No, not likely. Dean Acheson's infamous "Pacific Defense Perimeter" included Taiwan but not South Korea. Guess where the commies attacked?
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You do realize that Taiwan and Mainland China have been divided far longer than the Two Koreas? Unless you are advocating for the immediate union of the peninsula, I don't think you can deny Taiwan the same independence that South Korea enjoys.
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Have you forgotten the Korean War? No, the problem isn't the American GI not wanting to fight. The problem is feckless cowards among the flag officers and politicians who abandon allies at critical moments.
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@ĐoànĐạiDương-f1n Quantity is NOT quality. Lots of little fishing boats are NOT the same as a Ticonderoga-class missile cruiser.
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@ĐoànĐạiDương-f1n China is spectacularly bad at amphibious operations. Any attempt to take Formosa would require one so big that it would dwarf the proposed Kyushu Landing of Operation: Olympic. And all of those troop transports would be easy pickings for allies Subs because China's ASW capabilities are equally terrible.
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Yeah, people grossly underestimate the immense requirements to conduct amphibious operations. And the Chinese have proven to be terrible at even small-scale attempts.
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@JC-ql3ld While I agree with most of your positions, the WASP part was completely uncalled for. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants tend to be MORE favorable to Taiwan. It is the militant atheist elites who are favorable to Red China and would leave Formosa out in the cold.
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@stephan2wolf You are trying to apply logic in a situation dominated by emotions and passion. Wisdom has nothing to do with war and battle. You are engaging in an act of futility to try.
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What happens when one party refuses a peaceful solution? What happens if one side will accept nothing less than the complete subjugation of the other? A peaceful solution is no possible when those preconditions are in place.
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Taiwan doesn't have the resources to maintain a supercarrier. Japan might, and I would be okay with them having a couple.
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Who, what an rabidly anti-American way of looking at the world. Tell me, how does India play in that Hegemony? How about Brazil? Or Africa? And you blatantly ignore both Russia and China's own hegemonic moves. Spare the moral outrage, if it wasn't the US, you would be complaining about France or the UK if they were the big dog in NATO.
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You are trying to apply Western thinking to a communist totalitarian. Xi views the word through the same lenses as Joseph Stalin, not Winston Chruchill.
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@PNH-sf4jz It is a pity you refuse to debate merits. I was on topic; you just can't argue against any of my points.
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@XxBloggs This is the French we are talking about. The bloody cowards have still not handed over the French officers who activily participated in the Rwandan genocide.
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Just to thumb their nose at the west. NATO is burning equipment stockpiles supporting Ukraine, which actually benefits China in their plans to take Taiwan. The more gear sent to Ukraine, the less that is available for Taiwan.
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@JesusSaysMAGAtrashMAGAfilth Thank you for proving you don't actually have anything coherent to say. Engaging in ad hominins like you just did proves you have lost the plot. "“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Iron Margaret Thatcher
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You said that in 2016 and were eating crow. Haven't you learned that it is not wise to bet against a Casino owner?
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Garland has EVERY reason to bring ANY case against Trump forward. The fact that he and the Feds chose NOT to go forward on the finance case shows that there was no case to be made. Yeah, the president has original authority to declassify any and all documents. Biden as VP at the time he removed classified documents did not, nor did Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. The Marilago documents were kept in a safe AND LOCK provided by the National Archives, so that alone blows up their case against Trump. January 6th is also proving to have been a false flag just like the Reichstag Fire. Federal agents have been proven to be among the primary instigators of the violence. Further, almost all of the people who actually made it into the chambers WERE ESCORTED BY CAPITOL POLICE. GA election is yet another nothing burger because it is NOT a crime to work the legal system if you have a complain about the election process. Criminalizing opposition is what they do in Belarus, not the US.
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Yes, because karma has a funny way of coming back to hurt those people who wish evil on others. "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it (and EVERYTHING that comes with it)"
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Yeah, their Trump derangement Syndrome makes the blind to critical details which completely shatters their narrative.
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@livingtribunal4110 Sorry, my bad. So many people here are exactly what George Orwell described. Particularly with regards to blindly accepting what the inner party tells them to think. Again, I apologize for lashing out.
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@JesusSaysMAGAtrashMAGAfilth Grover Cleaveland's 1892 rematch against Benjamin Harrison. Trump WILL repeat that, and for the exact same reasons.
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Yeah, you people said the same thin in 2016. how did that work out?
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@cooldudecs Independents are having buyer's remorse over electing Biden. Further, they see this as a political witch hunt and are NOT impressed, further hurting the Dems. You are only making him a maryter. "Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine," -Obi Wan Kenobi, "A New Hope".
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@JesusSaysMAGAtrashMAGAfilth Grover Cleaveland rematch against Benjamin Harrison. Who won? Trump IS going to repeat Cleeland's feat for the very same reasons; buyer's remorse. Learn your history.
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Lost support with independents? You have not been paying attention. Turmp got MORE votes in 2020 than he did in 2016. Biden however, has only gone downhill since his inauguration. Buyer's remorse is strong among independents.
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@hansvandermeer7635 Nominally, you feed them the rope the use to hang themselves. But Times Radio has chosen to be willing participants in spreading anti-West propaganda.
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I think it is MUCH deeper than just 30 meters otherwise nuclear supercarriers would not be able to travel through it. Nor would nuclear boomers.
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@peterbeer8657 Rules vs. Law? You are trying to make a distinction where none really exists. You aren't familiar with Mao and yet you are shilling for his government? Not surprising for a blind partisan. And as far as bullying and threats, well, people like you are VERY familiar with it because that is what government is all about: the threat of violence against their own people. "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party." -Chairman Mao Zedong, August 1927.
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@peterbeer8657 Laws are only as strong as the force of arms that impose them. For a shill of the PRC, you should be familiar with What about Mao about Law at the end of a gun. Applies in this case, if Beijing wants that resolution (which is NOT a law) enforced, then they have to be willing to fight.
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Both Beijing and Pyongyang are Communist and effectively joined at the hip.
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@peterflavian-ov4sh The Arabs who call themselves "Palestinian" already have a country of their own in the Gaza. They have ruined it just like they did when they lived in Jordan or Lebanon. They can't blame Israel when it is their own rulers who have misused the foreign donations to wage war on their neighbors.
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Indeed. The two have been separated far longer than the Koreans have and there are two Koreas today, not one.
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Ukraine didn't have a choice in the matter. Are you saying that they should just roll over and accept slavery to Moscow? How very despotic of you. I hope you prefer living on your knees as a subject rather than on your feet as a free person.
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Don't forget, while Trump was in office, Putin didn't dare mess around with Ukraine. He stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy.
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Quantity only has merit if it meets minimum quality requirements. 10 million flintlock guns are not going to be of much use against 1,000 M1 Grands.
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@abrakadavra3193 Agreed. When the leadership of the US starts acting like the very autocrats, they accuse Trump of being, you know they are terrified of losing power, just like in those dictatorships.
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Abraham Lincoln was removed from the ballot in the state that would later rebel as the Confederacy and still won the election. You don't think that history might just repeat itself?
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@PerceivedREALITY999 Wow, got under your skin did I? Also, you seem to forget that Putin himself violated the terms of Minsk, assuming that they had any legitimacy (and they didn't because NOBODY actually ratified them).
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@TonyM540 Then why didn't Putin attack Ukraine while Trump was in office? If they were buddies, why did Putin wait until AFTER Trump left office to attack Ukraine? And don't go into that copium argument about "losing influence". He stole Crimea while Biden was Obama's Vice.
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If Trump is Putin's ally, then why did Putin not invade Ukraine while Trump was in office? Why did he steal Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's Foreign Policy? Why did he wait until Biden was in the White House to invade?
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Russia can produce shells but not at the rate of consumption. THAT is why they are begging for ammo from North Korea. Compare munitions expenditures from the first year of the war to now and it has dropped to less than a third.
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@Jeromeeb So basically it was PENCE, not Trump that said it. Considering that Pence was to Trump what Grima Wormtongue was to King Theoden of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, that tells you how credible Pence is. And explains why NOBODY in the GOP likes him anymore.
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And yet, Putin stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. Putin waited until Joe Bite-Me was in the White House before he invaded Ukraine. If Trump was Putin's agent, then why didn't Putin do ANY of that while Trump was in the White House? You don't have a rational answer that.
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The media doesn't actually want to report that American opinion on Ukraine is nuanced. Most don't oppose sending OLD and soon to be retired equipment. What they are absolutely adamant about is putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. And most Americans are skeptical about sending cash, whereas medical supplies are much harder to launder.
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@michaeldunham3385 Because that General is being dishonest. Under NATO doctrine, there is absolutely NOT distinction between the use of artillery delivered nukes and ICBMs. ANY use of nukes is a strategic escalation with a reciprocal response, meaning a "tactical" nuke is answered with Trident ICBMs. Your "expert" is using his rank to act as an authority on the matter (logical fallacy), while he is misleading you by intentionally giving false information.
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Azov is an inland sea. Russia is in Ukraine because the Donbas has gas and coal deposits that would make Europe energy independent from Russia. Same goes for the oil deposits off the coast of Crimea.
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Explain to me why Putin stole Crimea when Biden was running Obama's foreign policy. Explain why Putin didn't invade Ukraine until AFTER Biden took the Oval office. Trump's boast about threatening to nuke Moscow may have had truth.
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Russian nukes are more likely to detonate in the silo like they did on K-129. The sinking of the Moskva calls into question the legitimacy of the Russian nuclear threat.
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The AI is only as smart as the people who program it. Ask Colonel Stanislav Petrov how reliable such missile identification programs are.
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@hb9145 Yeah, so did Lyndon Banes Johnson. He called his "jumbo" and claimed that was why the US was in Vietnam.
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@michaelmazowiecki9195 I never directly said it was a bluff. Only that Putin has chosen not to call it as if it was one. What happens in Poker when you call someone's bluff, and it turns out they were not bluffing?
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@TheBandit7613 Putin has been given NUMEROUS off-ramps. He has rejected all of them. Stop trying to appease a bully. The 1938 Munich Conference should make it abundantly clear that such actions only embolden the aggressive.
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Yeah, those balloons carried incendiary bombs which started a few forest fires. If you were trying to make a point, you basically proved the counter-position.
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Look up Japan's Fu-Go balloon bombs from WW2. China just perfected that weapon. And with the tacit assistance of New Zealand, no less.
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NORAD's job is to protect the North American airspace from unauthorized entry. They failed in their mission spectacularly. "99 red balloons Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky The 99 red balloons go by" -99 Luftballons by Nena.
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Breaking it out of spite, or revealing that it was a Ponzi scheme from the start? That the ONLY reason why it was even solvent was because the CIA was propping it up.
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The people running twitter before Elon WERE the vigilantes metting out justice as they saw fit. It is only now that they are behind held accountable for their actions.
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@Jack-e5t Your are projecting. That is what leftists in the media do. You are projecting your own flaws onto the right. There is a very good reason why nobody in media actually wants to debate actual Trump supporters and instead bring in fake conservatives like Billy Kristol, Liz Cheney, or Chris Hayes. They want controlled opposition they can dance around. Anytime the left foolishly brings on someone like Ben Shapiro, Bill Whittle, or Matt Taibi, they get their butts handed to them. There is a reason for that and Bill Whittle explains it: the left have bad ideas that are indefensible and they cannot win on the merits. They resort to screaming racism because they need to discredit the messenger in a vain attempt to discredit the message. "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien concepts and competitive values. For a nation afraid to let its people judge truth from falsehood in an open market of ideas is a nation afraid of its own people," -President John F. Kennedy.
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There are really only three people who have a good understanding of the Dragon known as China: Michael Pilsbury, Gordon Chang, and Richard Murdock. All three have played as team Gold in Pentagon War games, and much like Erich Marcks in "The Longest Day", they ALWAYS win.
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@Balenza345 I guess you have not heard of mutually assure destruction? If a NATO capital is nuked, you can bet that Moscow will become a radioactive crater.
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@ajaykumarsingh702 And yet on the ground more and more they are self-identifying as Taiwanese. It is only among the over 50 population that has a majority who consider themselves Chinese.
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@dpelpal F-35s? No, they can't carry enough ordinance. A-10 Warthogs? Absolutely!
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Seems like a counter-intelligence operation much like Operation: Mincemeat.
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@SterileNeutrino The US Navy is specifically designed to project power across the Pacific. It is how we won WW2 against the Japanese.
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@praetoriancorps You clearly don't understand nuclear doctrine, particularly the how, when where, and why factors. Both examples are NOT justifiable employments of weapons, not even on a tactical level. Nukes first and foremost are an area denial weapon. Ideally, they also "salt the soil" as it were.
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@praetoriancorps Nukes are overblown. And to use them in Taiwan is self-defeating for both sides.
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@TheSandkastenverbot It isn't just WW2. Dien Bien Phu. The French were embarrassingly pathetic in Vietnam showing how much of a paper Tiger they truly were. Getting back to WW2, there is NO excuse for the French leaving the Ardennes undefended. Guderian was able to flank around the French because he had successfully marched a unit through the area in WW1. Further, the French put so much stock in the Maginot line, that ley left the low countries woefully undefended. The Dyle River Plan was spectacularly bad in that they overcommitted with no reserve.
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"Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. Yeah, i think people like you said the same thing in 2016. How did that go? Underestimate the man at your own peril.
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Have people so quickly forgotten that Nelson Mandela served time in Jail? So did the President of Brazil. These European Elitists have zero understanding of anything outside the borders of their own country clubs and gated communities.
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@XTSu-sl1bb Indeed. It was Trump that got the ball rolling on NATO STARTING to ramp up their defense spending. Putin's invasion simply gave them the kick in the pants to pick up the pace.
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@Stanley-px3bt You are basically cheering for the destruction of the Western World then. Under Trump the WORLD experienced the best economic conditions since WW2. Your outburst just proves you are unhinged and completely divorced from reality and fact. You are exactly what George Orwell described when he wrote his dystopian novel.
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@Stanley-px3bt Yeah, you have the perspective of a coastal elite who has never visited "flyover country" (namely the Midwest). The whole Bud Light Debacle over Dylan Mulveni is but one symptom of that elitist tone-deaf mentality.
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Agreed. I am all for encouraging the Chinese students to defect to the West. But to do that something needs to be done about the CIs. So long as they operate with impunity, it will be impossible for the dissidents to live without having to watch their backs.
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@quadq6598 Learn the lessons of the 1939 Munich conference. The Brits have vowed never to repeat Chamberlain's blunder again.
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And he didn't lose a single 2016 nor 2020 voter. Biden on the other hand has buyer's remorse among his voters.
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You realize that it will be a referendum on Biden and the 2020 election? Last time such a rematch occurred was the election between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleaveland. Guess how that turned out.
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Yeah, even Alan Dershowitz has explained why those 34 charges are complete hogwash.
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@danstrayer111 You forget 2016, dude. Trump is going to repeat Grover Cleaveland's feat of being defeated in a midterm only to return to the White House the following cycle.
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"Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. I remember you people saying the same thing in 2016. How did that turn out?
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Democrats HAVE done the same thing and nothing happens. Chappaquiddick ring a bell?
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@hmq9052 Yeah, and when Trump supporters do protest, you people call in an insurrection to overthrow the US government. Your hypocrisy is showing.
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@barrywhitley7492 Yeah, bother were wrongfully prosecuted by a corrupt government. It is just as shame you people don't realize that this just gives Trump street credit among the black community.
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Yeah, Biden is lower now than he was when he was declared the winner in 2020. Trump hasn't lost a single voter from either 2016 or 2020 while Biden HAS lost voters over the abominable economy. Further, the way the 2020 election was held means that a Biden vs. Trump showdown will be a referendum on Biden and the electoral process. Last time such a showdown occurred was the rematch between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleaveland. Guess how that rematch turned out?
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@UCisVv1XfV7rW6VAhc1RZEzg Clearly you are being a stereotypical "RUSSIA! RUSSIA RUSSIA!" partisan. Your first point falsely assumes that the Ukrainians would not bring in outside experts. It would not even have to be NATO, they could have brough in the neutral Swiss or Sweds. Your refusal to consider that shows your intellectual dishonesty. Your second point assumes that the US would retain that cold War mentality. History has shown that after the breakup in 1991, the US very much changed its thinking and calculus. Case in point is the Baltic States and Poland. So your premise is predicated on bad assumptions reddening it nothing more than wishful thinking. Your third point while initially has SOME merit, again fails to consider that the US, UK, France, or Japan would not effectively outbid anyone else who wanted to get their hands on those lose nukes. They all have a vested interest in acquiring them if for no other reason to keep them out of the hands of terrorists. Your arguments are nothing more than shilling for the Kremlin, not predicated on hard data. Your logic is weak and fatally flawed because of the glaring holes in your arguments.
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Under NATO doctrine, there is zero distinction between a tactical or artillery nuke and a Strategic or Ballistic nuke. The people talking about the specter of low yield nukes have to realize that ANY use of nukes is an automatic escalation and will NOT stop the fighting but instead result in vaporized cities.
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Indeed. Trump's solution would likely infuriate BOTH sides. The hacks at Time Radio fall into the false choice dilemma to make people assume that if you do not agree with one side, that automatically puts you on the other. There is ALWAYS a third option.
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Putin has been given NUMEROUS opportunities to exit the situation. He has rejected all of them. Stop appeasing fascistic leaders like Putin. You would think the Munich betrayal of 1938 would be a lesson conclusively proving that.
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Got proof of that? Do keep in mind that Putin stole Crimea while Biden was running Obama's foreign policy. Putin didn't invade Ukraine until AFTER Biden took the Oval office.
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You realize that Putin stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy? Putin didn't invade Ukraine until AFTER Biden took the Oval Office. Trump threatened to nuke Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine while he was in office.
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Details justifying your claim please. Do keep in mind that Putin stole Crimea while Biden was running Obama's foreign policy. Putin never bothered Ukraine during Trump's presidency, only attacking AFTER Brandon entered the oval office.
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@johnathanx The British lost the Revolution at Saratoga and Yorktown yet King George kept fighting on despite that. Putin is doing the same thing.
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Russian nukes will detonate in the silo rather than actually launch just like they did on K-129. The Moskva and Admiral Kuznetsov are proof of the poor maintainace of Russian weapon systems.
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You realize that Putin stole Crimea when Biden was running Obama's foreign policy? When Trump was in office, Putin didn't dare cause mischief. It was not until Brandon was in the Oval Office that Putin attacked Ukraine.
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@WHS_reviews Most of them have not. They are ideologues who are wedded to theory rather than practical application. Most of them have never had to handle a gun in the defense of their homes or lives.
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What rock have you be4en hiding under? Four Year of Trump meant NO NEW WARS. Remember, both of Putin's incursions into Ukraine occurred on Biden's watch. It meant the best economic conditions in 40 years. More of Biden means more of the graft and corruption that is tearing the West apart.
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Funny, because Putin's two incursions into Ukraine occurred on Biden's watch, not Trump. When Trump was in office, neither Putin nor President Pooh Bear dared to mess around. Dictators only respect a strong horse. Weakness in a president invites aggression. John F. Kennedy learned that the hard way.
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Indeed. Domestic policy tends to drive US elections, not foreign policy. That being said, the guest is intellectually dishonest in calling Trump a friend of Putin. it that were true, the Putin would have invaded during Trump's time in office, not in 2014 when Biden was leading Obama's foreign policy, nor in 2022 after Biden's disastrous withdraw from Afghanistan.
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@Diggnuts If you think Hitler's Holocaust is the answer, you are sadly mistaken. Nations that held their Jewish populations in esteem have prospered while those who revile them have invariably degenerated into barbarism. Incidentally, most of the banking industry is NOT dominated by Jews. WW2 basically drove them out of the business and back into their traditional roles as merchants and innovators. There is a very good reason why only Israel challenges the US as far as technological break throughs. "Those that bless you, I will bless. And those that cruse you I shall curse. And through you, a bless on all the nations and families of the world," -Genesis 12:3
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@Diggnuts These anti-Zelensky guys are obessed with Jewish conspiracy theories. They read Czar Nicholas 2's fiction book "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" too many times.
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Funny because it is ANTIFA who are engaging in brownshirt tactics against the political right. As for Trump, he IS a populist which is why he won in the first place. The power mongers and establishment underestimated hi in 2016 and that is why he won. The whole reason for the political prosecution attempts against him is because the political class is terrified of him. He threatens their largess and corruption.
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Yeah, it is like these people have never heard of Nelson Mandela, who spent time in prison before serving as president of South Africa.
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@TheDavidlloydjones 2016 primary proves otherwise.
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@Mr.Monta77 Keep dreaming. Trump got MORE votes in 2020 than he did in 2016. And he has not lost a single one. Biden however, HAS lost ground, down to less than 30% from his high on inauguration day. Buyer's remorse is strong among Biden voters, a problem that Trump does not have.
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And who will rise to replace? If you are putting faith in Red China, then I hope you enjoy the chains of slavery.
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mark Mierzejewski How can he have zero understanding of geopolitics when he has business ventures ALL AROUND THE WORLD? Do keep in mind that most world leaders knew what to expect from him as president because they had already interacted with Turmp the businessman. Your problem is that DESPITE having it explained, your fanatical mind refuses to process basic facts and details. You refuse to acknowledge critical details that compeltel undermine your preconceived notions. "For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. WE SUBJECT ALL FACTS TO A PREFABRICATED SET OF INTERPETATIONS. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -President John F. Kennedy; Yale Commencement Speech; June 11th, 1962
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mark Mierzejewski Be pragmatic as to why you would choose the Communist Republicans of Spain over Franco. Have you even bothered to ask WHY the Spainards chose to back him? Have you even bothered to ask why Franco REFUSED to join the Nazis during WW2? No, because you are acting EXACTLY like Stalin's dupes in Spain.
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@Mr.Monta77 Russian collusion was proven a hoax. Further, Putin didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was in office. Putin stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. He invaded again while Biden was president. Seems to me that Biden is Putin's greatest asset.
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@badlourising While I agree that RFK Jr. is better than most of what the Dems are offering, the fact that he defied the lockdowns, and the vaccine mandates and was fighting against his own party on those issues means the DNC will NEVER let him win.
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@Mr.Monta77 And you think Trum derangement syndrome is a good thing? Nevertrump is synonymous with fanatical cult zealotry.
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@pokey5736 Sure, because Putin didn't invaded Ukraine between 2016 and 2020. He invaded while Biden was calling the foreign policy for Obama when Putin stole Crimea, and again when Biden became president. Do keep in mind, Trump threatened to nuke Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine.
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Which is funny because Trump IS Dave, going to Washington and actually making a difference, shaking up the establishment. Too bad most people would rather live in comfortable slavery to the feudalism of global elitists rather than the uncertainty of essential liberty.
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As has EVERY elected official in the world, so what is your point? You get mad about "orange man" but then give a complete pass to the very liars you voted into office. "How do you know a politician is lying? His lips are moving."
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The failed siege of Kiev says otherwise.
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@robsurname4054 Referendums at gunpoint are as legitimate as the election of Saddam Hussein with 98% of the vote or Kim Jong Un winning with 99% of the vote.
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How massively publicized was the Kherson counteroffensive?
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@andyabuteo6084 Nice job Cherry Picking there. Kievan Rus and Muscovites are NOT the same. Just because they were under one ruling family during the era of the Czars does NOT mean they particularly like each other. Just ask the Poles. Yes, this war is about the Donbas. And the coal, gas, and oil deposits under them. Putin does not want Ukraine to be competition for the energy market. But of course, you don't want to talk about that because it lays bare Putin's cynical reasons for invading Ukraine.
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Cope harder dude. A force fighting on its home soil has the ability to take on as much as ten times their number. History is littered with examples of invading armies limping home in disgrace.
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means," -Carl von Clausewitz. Also, WW2 proves you wrong.
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F-117 nighthawk has been out of service for over a decade now. I doubt there are even any still in flying condition.
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@nevig6557 Nice deflection buddy. You don't want to argue the merits of Ukraine's battlefield successes, so you bring up a non-sequitur (logical fallacy).
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Cope harder dude. The Kharkov and Kherson offensives showed that the Russian Bear is Geriatric.
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You have so quickly forgotten how public the Ukrainians made the Kherson counter offensive. That you can't remember what happened six months ago shows you are as ignorant as a small child.
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@llewev Yes, it is a mistake, one that the Russians have done when they miscalculated Ukrainian resolve.
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@llewev You are grossly overestimating Russian competency. Sergi Shoigu is no Gregory Zhukov. And this is NOT "The Great Patriotic War": the Russians don't have the same morale they did in WW2.
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@NisuUuno "only become popular by luck" You sir, have ZERO understand as to why religions take root. It is precisely BECAUSE of Roman persecution that Christianity took off. Today you find that Christianity gains the most followers in parts of the world where it is actively persecuted. There is a reason why the Chinese CCP is desperately trying to crush the faith. As to your other drivel, Dyson has the best counter-argument: "Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute." -Freeman Dyson
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Das Kapital was a piece of wishful thinking that led to the horrific bloodshed under communist Ideologies. Ironically, Marx was debunked and discredited by Karl Menger some 20 years before Das Kapital was written. Further, the likes of Fredrich Baistat, Fredreck Hayak and August von Mises also disprove point by point the labor THEORY of work. The Bible on the other hand has independently confirmed sources. The Torah (Old Testament) is conclusively confirmed by Persian, Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Greek sources. As for the New Testament, Josephus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, and even Tactus have written about Christianity. You trying to refute them shows intellectual dishonesty and an insincere look at what constitutes history.
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And yet he STILL got elected in 2016 despite all of that. Underestimate him at your own peril.
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@poo934 And they many very well vote him back in as a referendum on Biden. Ever heard of buyer's remorse? The American electorate is feeling that to a degree not seen since the election of Benjamin Harrison in 1888. Yes, Trump could be just like Grover Cleaveland.
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You will get it with the Democrats. And what is the old saying "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it"?
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@spendor9377 I agree that Putin is the culprit, and I am in NO way attempting to minimize or trivialize that. But you cannot deny that Putin took his actions when Biden was the one calling the foreign policy shots for the US. Putin viewed Biden as pathetically weak. Dictators only respect someone who projects a strong image.
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@maritaschweizer1117 Putin didn't invade Ukraine on Trump watch, it occurred on Biden's. Putin stole Crimea when Biden was Obama's foreign policy "expert". Hard facts prove you completely wrong. You a relying solely on the discredited Chrisotpher Steele dossier which was nothing more than Russian disinformation.
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@maritaschweizer1117 Considering you believe fringe conspiracy theories like Russian collusion, that explains why you will never understand.
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The world has always hated the US, even with presidents you think make the US favorable. Everyone hates the top dog.
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@lesdavies6846 Only in your mind have you proven anything. A typo in my post doesn't make your point. You are now like the pigeon who thinks it is playing chess.
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@lesdavies6846 You haven't made an augment. You just prove my point. All you have is emotional outbursts.
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It worked well in 2016. Further, it was essentially the same message Biden ran on for the Democrats.
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@lexluthor9509 So do the Democrats. Do keep in mind it was the Democrat states who kept the worthless and fascistic lockdowns in place the longest.
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Everyone said that in 2016. Care to repeat that upset?
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DeSantis running against Trump in the primary means Joe Bite-Me wins re-election. Anyone who doesn't know this isn't paying attention.
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I seriously doubt you ever voted for Trump in the first place. I guarantee you that Every 2016 Trump voter voted for him again in 2020. How else would explain Trump getting MORE votes the second time around? Doesn't explain the Clintonflation though.
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@lexluthor9509 Nice Strawman argument. Now how about you actually debate the merits instead of resorting to logical fallacies like the intellectually lazy do? "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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@lexluthor9509 And some think that Orwell's dystopian novel was a blueprint rather than a warning. Are you one of those who idolizes Stalinism?
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George Soros WANTS DeSantis and Trump to mutually destroy each other in the primary. Also, DeSantis has publicly said he would not run if Trump did.
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@sarahhillary7698 And with that, you just proved her point. Thank you for throwing in the towel and admitting that she was right.
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Yeah, calling people insult's doesn't make your point, it just proves you have lost the plot. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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And there are NO brains among the Dems. Or rather, they have people with broken brains like Biden and Fetterman.
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And Joe Bite-Me isn't?
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@shadowbanned636 They occurred, but like a typical propagandist, you simply ignore that they occurred. I guess you don't remember, Trump was mostly self-financed in 2016, having run the CHEAPEST campaign in American history save for George Washington's in 1788. Hillary had one of the largest campaign collections in American history and it didn't do her a damn bit of good. Money doesn't buy elections; it simply facilitates a good message. All the money in the world will not save a failure of a campaign. Just ask Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, or GEORGE MCGOVERN.
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@shadowbanned636 Or people have more important things to do that simply attend a really that they know will be the same as every other Trump rally. Also, NOBODY attended Biden's rallies and he still somehow won the 2020 election.
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Completely out of touch with reality. That is why you are going to be in for a big surprise.
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