Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

  1. What Australia needs is a large air force of about 500 fighter jets so as to ensure that the North coast and East Coast cannot be invaded. And to layer on top of that they require an air defence system.
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  2. Because the public only understands the word dinosaurs.
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  3. Pooh may start a major war as they get very desperate.
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  4. China is finding it extremely difficult to decouple itself from the western economic engine. The reality is that China as a culture is not innovative or creative and has to get hand downs from the west. And in the last 30 years China has not seen any increase in innovation.
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  5. 1984 was a review of the human condition. People read it literally as meaning a tyrannical state but they misunderstand that it is about human behaviors. Orweil (Blair) was a student of the classics and understood how humans behaved and how when a population allows government control it always descended into tyranny.
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  6. It is pure sarcasm at its very best because it is based on the reality of the world rather than just a cheap jibe.
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  7. 20 years of college.
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  8.  @rohzpopper4922  It takes heavy armaments to take down a ship a light weight drone is not going to do it.
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  9. As an owner of several farms with extensive plant and machinery I can tell you with absolute certainty that complete electric plant and vehicles is simply not realistic. Harvesters may have to run for 12 hours to 17 hours per day when the weather is good enough and there is no way a singular electric harvester could do the job of one diesel harvester and there would be a need for several of them. Now unless those mad policy makers intend to put charging points in the middle of fields there is no way they can achieve it right now. Maybe in the future there maybe better battery technology but guess what we are not in the future.
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  10. He may have been planning this all along. People are assuming that he is just being stupid. We just do not know.
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  11. You are talking crap.
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  12. The public in most European countries are going to have to deal with the realism at some point. Europe has regulated its food, energy and manufacturing out of existence. When the global order collapses which it will Europe is going to be a dark place economically for a few decades.
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  13. Taiwan has a very impressive military that is not to be underestimated. It has an airforce of over 300 state of the art fighters, Several thousand missiles, Anti air guns, several thousand tanks. And Taiwan has a formidable air defence system that can also be used for Naval defence and has a long range capable deployment. Taiwan also has 300,000 professional troops and several hundred thousand more reserves to call from. And it is a country that will fight to the death. China does not have the ability to take Taiwan.
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  14. There are extreme regulations all over Europe. Many farmers have had to not work their fields as it could cause distress to flies. The constant media lies about bee populations with out real significant data to back up the claims is just stated as fact. You will hear slogans like where have all bee's gone. Like anybody in a city really would have a clue about bees or even birds in the countryside. And here is the biggest irony of it all the EU has allowed its Nitrogen production to be outsourced to Russia.
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  15. The US military spends 1 trillion a year with 25% of that going towards development. While it is true that the US has decreased in certain areas militarily they have bolstered in other areas.
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  16.  @youshowmeyours  Most flour is not imported so you will find the lack of competition will affect your supply as well.
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  17. Do not trust the official version of this story.
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  18.  @chrisbremner8992  Will Smith is a great performer and good entertainer but his performances are not real oscar material. Now Denzel was the only real nomination that was of that level but it never should have been nominated because it is not a real Hollywood film and is an art house film. Far too much emphasis on art house films at the oscars. And then the best editing award does not even get a stated presentation. Complete madness.
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  19. People need to start calling the so called liberal left communists because that is what they are.
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  20.  @David_Camerwrongun  He definitely slapped him but it was still a scripted event.
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  21. He is talking crap because he is viewing things through talking points. The US dollar is not the reserve currency because it benefits the US economy it is the reserve currency because it is stable and backed by the US economic engine. The US allows its currency to be the reserve currency because the US thinks it makes the world more stable economically. Before the dollar was used the Bretton Woods system used a gold based US exchange system but the US felt that it was too expensive to operate and too risky for the US economy. The US may just turn around at some point decide that the current dollar trading system is too expensive to run. The reason why the US has to use QE is because it cannot access many of its dollars that are used for exchange. The US currency exchange reserve is only $250 billion.
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  22.  @TacShooter  Pricing is to do with supply and demand. Tool prices over the last 2 years have skyrocketed and their availability has declined. Some tooling inventory is a full year behind in production.
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  23. That's if Putin is directly behind this act. People are assuming that Putin is in full control of Russia.
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  24. The reason they are doing that is because the Biden Administration is right now trying to negotiate with Iran and they are probably very unhappy about it. I think UAE at the moment are open to supplying more to Europe. America does not need gas or oil as it is full of it.
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  25. China does not have the ability to take Taiwan. The Chinese Navy would get ripped apart.
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  26. When they are down now people need to start calling them communists because that is what they are. They the so called diverse left need to be labelled as communists so that they can back of their policies. Even if they only back from one or two.
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  27. I think they are too late. They are now reacting the conditions of the market place rather than being proactive to ensure that the conditions would never been introduced. Very few farmers opposed the European cap system that has created all these issues in the first place. Too many people have bought into the idea that CAP was to help farmers when in fact it was there to control farmers to do the bidding of the policy makers. The idea that the EU would pay farmers to not use their land so as to save some flies that were never in danger in the first place.
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  28. This has happened a hundred times before. Spain is effectively a failed economy and desperate for taxation money. So what they do is go after people and threaten them with jail and then settle it out of court. There maybe some sort of gesture of a prison sentence but they never serve that time. There has been numerous cases like that.
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  29. It is unlikely that Boris has read the legislation. And now he has egg on his face. Boris conservative government has many issues facing it. They have a war with the socialist media and then they constantly trying to deal with civil service. Moves like this makes them look like fools and the left will attack him for it while at the same time they want it as law.
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  30.  Catherine Jarman  The conservative party are not endorsing it. The civil service is engineering most of this. They have roots that are really deep in society. Look at what they have done to the conservative party so far. It will take several years to clear out the civil service, police and universities. And when all of that is done the Conservatives will probably lose the next election and labour will just come in and fill up the organisations again. And everything the conservatives does will be reported negatively in the media.
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  31. What Empire are you talking about?
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  32. They are scared to offend.
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  33.  @niram6707  The west has a consumer market of near to 1.2 billion people. China is not going to replace that with Russia which has a population of 140 million and is not a deep consumer market. The reason why the US is so wealthy and powerful is because it has a free market philosophy and liberty as its cultural driving force. And the US did that over a 200 year period and is not something that can be done in 30 years.
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  34. No it would not. You know full well that America is a free country.
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  35. China lost in Korea and the US commander wanted to them march up into China and take them out.
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  36. Every country in Europe has crazy regulations. I remember reading that one farmer had too many cattle in one field as he reached the regulations limits. They accused him and it went to court and how did they prove that he was doing it they used satellite photos to demonstrate the amount of cattle at any one time over a rolling period of time. Other farmers had to not use certain fields because there was a chance that it could cause distress to flies.
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  37. Taiwan has over 300 state of the art fighter jets that can operate from the land for defence and that combined with a air defence system that has thousands of missiles, anti air guns and several thousand tanks that have a guided defence system. China does not actually have the ability to invade Taiwan. There is no point having millions of troops if they cannot be used. It would be a stalemate like when Germany and the UK fought with neither side getting the upper hand.
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  38.  @ColdBlackHeaven  Australia has everything it needs to build its own industrial economy and stop acting as a supply nation to the likes of China.
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  39. But will it be seen as NATO supplying fighter jets?
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  40. Here is the real madness of it all. Countries inside the EU regulated the manufacturing of nitrogen fertilizers out of production. And then turned around and allowed Russia to become the defacto supplier to Europe of nitrogen fertilizer. This only happened because the public have been politically agnostic and non active for the last 30 years.
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  41. All while Europe imports its nitrogen fertilizer from Russia.
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  42. They are the same group of policy strategists that think coal, gas and oil are not needed because there are a few windmills in Denmark that work on a few days of the year. All while their media university day buddies cheer on the success of newables keeping the public out of the light on the issues.
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  43. Is New Zealand now that bad with gangs?
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  44. How would you feel if someone said that about your mother?
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  45. People do it with Australian media all the time.
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  46. Why would they come forward? Ukraine is desperate for peace and any Russian who comes forward will become a bigger target.
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  47.  @andrewhorton  Murdoch does not have polls. What you mean is polling companies who are lefts communists are part of the propeganda.
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  48. There is no such thing as climate scientists. Measuring temperature and then calling it science is nothing more than data gathering. Atmospheric chemistry and physics is the specialism in regards to the atmosphere.
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  49. It is fairly simple what is going on. Australia still has a left and right media. Those on the left are trying to take those on the right down and to replace them. The conservative media in Australia has one opportunity to do something and it needs to act quickly or the opportunity will pass. The right media needs to start calling these people what they are. Calling them left does not in anyway do a thing to stop them. They are communists and that includes politicians. Once they start the next phase of calling the media far right it will be too late. A new term needs to be created to label these people that starts to get the public thinking about what they are. And the right needs to start teaching the public the truth. Hitler was not far right or any sort of right he was a socialist. The word Nazi means national socialist.
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  50. Taiwan has a formidable air force and air defence system.
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  51.  @never2bknown904  The CIA operations were against forces that would attack the US.
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  52.  @LV993J  Protesting is not blocking a road nor is it interfering in a person's day to day life. A protest is about making a statement it is not about a physical act that interrupts a person's life. The only reason these terrorists get away with their acts is because the public gas patience but that will only last so long and when there is a backlash it will be of a scale far beyond the terrorists.
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  53. I would guess from what I see that she is used to talking to men and saying what every she wants and they just let her.
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  54. What on earth are you talking about
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  55. How she gets away with it is the media cover game that makes her and the party out to be something they are not. The same in the UK and US with socialist parties hiding in full sight of everybody yet few people realize what they are. I once had the deputy leader of an organisation once tell me that socialism was about helping people.
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  56. Emotions are running high as are deaths.
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  57. China does not have the military ability to take Taiwan.
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  58. China does not have the military ability to take Taiwan and the moment it attempts it both South Korea and Japan will enter the war.
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  59. The liberal world order is in denial.
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  60. Dan Crenshaw has a decororate Navy service and was the rank of Commander in United States Naval Special Warfare Command. Yet youtube specialists know better.
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  61. Saudi is freaking out because the Biden administration is going to be giving Iran billions that will end up being used against Saudi Arabia in the form of attacks. So when the Biden Administration came looking to use Saudi oil they were rejected as a political message but they never said they would not help European oil supply.
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  62. As long as there is a good energy system then water would not be a problem. But guess what the energy structure of Europe is a mess and is on the point of collapse. The population of Germany has increased by about 20% over the last few decades yet they have not built the energy capacity to deal with that.
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  63. The democrats are bad from a an economic and social point of view but if China is stupid enough to start a war with Taiwan they need to know that the democrats can be as much for war as republicans. Obama did not pull out of Iraq when the war was in full swing and neither did the democrats. Remember it was the democrats who started the vietnam war.
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  64. That is the power of modern tv media.
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  65. I am in the US were there are regulations but nothing compared to what Europe is like. We do not have a CAP style system but there are grants and loans available but they require application and there is no free lunch. We run on market ability to produce and what is starting to take off as well is the idea of food manufacturing co-operatives where the farmers invest in industrial food production to create competition. Europe has it all locked out so that only summer markets get to dictate the pace of the market.
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  66. There might be more to the story than that.
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  67. He is talking crap.
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  68. US debt is not the same as it is classified in other countries. Most US debt is internal and is really liabilities on balance sheet systems. It is not hard numerical currency debt that many seem to think it is. The economy is based on thousands of trillions of assets and is not actually using the whole of its capabilities in direct monetary means. One US example of this is the fact that the US has more gold than the IMF, Russia and China combined.
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  69.  @Horrorcore_IV  I do not think Australia is now as open to the Chicom as in the past.
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  70. @Ted 1980 I do not think PM Ardern can be blamed for New Zealand having a weak military.
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  71. I am sorry to disappoint you but the public simply are not paying attention. They care too much about talent shows and the next episode of Game of Thrones. You will routinely see grown men getting excited about films involving other grown men who take steroids running around in plastic body Armour.
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  72. China cannot actually invade Taiwan as it does not have the ability to do so. Full scale invasion is complex and requires lots of resources. China then needs to overcome the massive taiwanese air defence system that can also be used to target naval ships.
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  73. +Eternal Cycles The last market crisis of 2008 never truly went away. Its conditions still exist as does most of the debt. Right now growth is hiding what has occurred in the past. The next recession will be hundreds of times worse and many of these terribly run businesses will go under. When the great depression happened in 1929 it was a decade of decadence with lots of sleazy people being the cultures of cities. But the decade came about after the great financial crisis of 1914. Only the strongest will survive.
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  74.  @andrewcarr8139  What were they wrong about the man was pictured laying a wraith at a dead terrorists grave who murdered Jewish people. Tell us what was fake about that?
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  75.  @alexreid-wh9gq  The UK civil service has been infiltrated a long time ago by political activists. They are now in the key organisations from the very bottom to the top. The military as we current speak is being ruined and will be like those other organisations. It simply will not be able to function in the next decade. You can bet that the UK nuclear arsenal is now being sabotaged by political operatives once it has been made ineffective it will give tyrants around the world the ability to openly challenge the UK.
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  76. The only real advantage New Zealand has is its remote location, lack of strategic importance and a lack of natural resources. More than likely it will be decided the cost of travelling their is not actually worth the military effort.
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  77. I think the reporter knew what JP was going to do.
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  78. Those were not the US invading for land or to expand. They were military operations that reacted to situations. You cannot compare them to what Russia has done.
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  79. I do not like what he said but it was his opinion. The media are disgusting.
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  80. Chinese goods are mostly western goods made out of cheap plastics. The reality is that the West in a few years could easily change all of that.
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  81. EV is a fantasy.
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  82. China does not have the resources to take Taiwan by force.
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  83. Apart from the fact the US is the number one manufacturing economy in the world and the most powerful economic engine the world has ever seen.
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  84. It is not the president that declares war it is the congress but we already know that the democrats are controlled by communists.
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  85.  @sarelito9202  There was nothing hidden about any of it. This was all out in the open but he just decided to write about it as he seen how revolutions always descend.
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  86. The real danger to France is not immigration. It is the French birth rate that will become the biggest issue.
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  87. How about not everybody is guilty or liable of the claims being made.
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  88. But is he talking about the media who are standing around.
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  89. About 40% of the economic Chinese model is based on building properties and infrastructure. Such a correction would take at least 20 years to find a solution to. Remember how the US freaked out about a 1% exposure imagine a 40% exposure.
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  90. Poisoning attacks are like that.
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  91. She is not the worse feminist and can be reasoned with in discussions. She just made a mistake with this in a quest to fill her own ideology. Wolf is not that vile compared to those in the media pushing the agenda in the first place. They are not open to reason and will actually use things to destroy individuals and organisations that they want to bring down.
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  92. Socialists will lie, cheat and even murder to get their agenda in place. They have a very long history and one thing they are masters of is propaganda. The now dominate the media and education system. It means they can work on the next generation from their babies up to they are well into adulthood.
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  93.  @Vereid  There needs to be a label applied to them that everybody understands that captures the fact they are socialists that are very close to Nazism and fascism. People could just call them communists and I am not just talking about thugs on the street but politicians and media personalities. I think there are enough people that understand what a communist is but is it enough to capture the public attention. We could start calling them national socialists which will make them really mad at first but it could stick.
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  94.  @shattered115  China does not have the navy capabilities to put boots on the ground.
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  95. I think the chinese have not yet recognised that missiles go in both directions. Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Australia have far more missiles and aircraft than China has at their disposal. The Chinese Navy would get torn apart by those countries air defence systems.
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  96. What about his expansion though into Europe?
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  97. He looked really bad.
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  98. The rich do not get richer through globalism. Their wealth suffers like everybody else.
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  99. I do not believe it for one second that he did all of that.
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  100.  @homebrew332  I have not copied and pasted can you provide proof that I have done so. Show me an example.
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  101. He was fine in the movie Ali and is generally a good entertainment performer and that whole slapping event was fake.
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  102.  @FranktheBunny666  It is not that they just cannot compete it is that they want to bring in some new utopia that they are in control of.
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  103.  @David_Camerwrongun  I have seen the full unedited exchange and I now think it is real.
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  104. She is not the worse feminist and is open to discussion on many topics but you have to look at why she was looking for it in the first place. Feminism in modern times is just a cast of Socialism. Most of these people are really interested in capitalism and how to bring it down.
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  105.  @FranktheBunny666  I just said it there now.
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  106. She is not the worst.
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  107. AN attacking foreign military. At no point did any of the western countries use their military to carry out government policies. People as a whole just accepted that the governments could carry out those policies without any sort of political price. There might be a price down the line though in an election.
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  108. Australia needs to be spending about $40 billion USD minimum every year on its military. And that means Australia needs to be spending about $55 billion ASD every year just to maintain its military capabilities.
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  109. Can you explain what you are talking about?
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  110. The public as a whole just did not stand up politically to a government that was freaking out.
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  111. Hollywood has a warped sense of reality but on this issue I am afraid they are right on this one. Chris never should have went there.
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  112.  @havenhemmings3574  I think Chinese invasion will depend on western will power.
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  113. Scotland already had a Referendum and the people voted loud and clear. The political classes cannot keep running Referendums because they lost.
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  114. Taiwan already has about 30,000 missiles with many more to come.
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  115. Chinese communists have killed more than the Nazi's and USSR combined. Right now there are 10 million concentration camps in China.
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  116.  @frankrenda2519  And how will they transport them from Russia to China? Neither nation has the capability for Super transport.
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  117. Apple phones are not produced in China they are assembled in China.
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  118. War unites a nation like nothing else.
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  119. They are all over Asia.
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  120. China does not have the military ability to take Taiwan. China's navy will be turned into scrap by the air defence systems of taiwan.
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  121. Yes because if it is a quick war Putin can then send those troops to invade other countries.
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  122. Will not happen. If China is stupid enough to launch they will get destroyed.
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  123. Nope. They do not have the carrier infrastructure to transport troops so they could not take it in a heartbeat.
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  124. It will not matter. China does not have the military ability to take Taiwan. China's navy will get cut to shreds if they try to invade.
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  125. That makes no sense.
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  126.  @hughmungus2760  Taiwan has a massive air defence system that can also be used against naval targets.
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  127.  @TheStedomi  The US and WHO are not part of this and will not be recognised as they have no sovereign rights.
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  128. China cannot take Taiwan.
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  129.  @steveone  Those 250 nuclear weapons they have would be useless and I doubt that many will not work.
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  130. Taiwan has a formidable air defence system that the Chinese navy will have to deal with.
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  131. Are you referring to Australia the answer is yes and that system can be used against a Chinese naval invasion.
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  132. +Glenn Joy Tories are very weak at the moment politically. They cannot deal with the real issues because the media is creating a storm out of everything. They need to first start cutting funding for the BBC almost immediately. Any special tax breaks the media have should be closed up as well. They need to put the media in their own spin problem.
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  133. Corbyn was only going to get elected when May was in office. Boris will not allow the media or Corbyn to run the same sort of tactics. He will put them in the spot light as well. Boris will not back down from political fights either. The only reason Labour won seats at the last election was because may was a political mouse that was scared of the media and labour and she lived in a weird political position of needing to deliver Brexit but she did not want fully out.
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  134. Trump is an Ivy league Graduate and it would be hard to say who is more intelligent.
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  135. Nearly everybody I have meet in the UK thinks he is funny and they do not like everything he does but they do still like him though. The media is setting perception in the UK on a grand scale but ordinary working people have different opinions.
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  136. The media is not interested in sales. They only care about political activism.
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  137. NATO providing weapons will not start WW3. Only NATO troops in Ukraine could start that.
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  138. There is nothing China can do about it other than words.
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  139. All while British weapons pull hoaxes on Russian tanks.
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  140. If war starts do not be surprised that most Americans back America as there will be no space for those that are anti American. Pre WW2 US universities were pro nazi.
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  141. If war begins you will find that the media magically forgets about such a concept.
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  142.  Ross Rain  I can tell you what is going to happen. One of two things will occur. The best option is for a massive world changing depression similar to 1910s to 1930s. This will wipe out the weak political leaderships that get by with a uninterested public that will have their hots on for political change. And only the strong will survive. Unfortunately that will more than likely not occur. What is probable is that the apathetic public simply will not care and just let things decline to a point of no return. Once engineering development shifts from the west to the east it will wipe out western society and make it a shadow of it worst days. While this goes on our governments and political order will still believe that designer western culture that outsources everything will at some point recover. It will be like watch a sad gambler thinking his luck is just about to change.
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  143.  @fearandconsumption  The funds are not really the problem they are the symptom of the problem. There is something wrong when the public is willing to murder babies by the millions and it is not happening due to ruthlessness but due to an apathetic culture that simply could not even be bothered to care on any level. The reason why the Marxist activists seem so powerful is due to the fact that 90% of the population simply does not care. I had an surreal experience not that long ago. I was out at dinner with a group of friends and the conversation got to the topic of global warming with several people being very passionate about it and when I pointed out that atmospheric levels of thermal radiation have not changed the response I got was that my statement was a very fox news thing to say. And when I brought up the topic to how China is currently polluting on a continental scale and currently has millions of people in concentration camps all I got was a shrug of the shoulders with an immediate change of the discussion to Trump being evil. These people were educated and affluent and simply did not really care about how real the world was. They seem like Brad Pit from True Romance.
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  144. They are not building houses. I can tell you that with certainty. Most European countries have seen their housing stock decrease over the last hundred years even though populations have been increasing. Cramming everybody into dirty high rise cities is now seen as progress.
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  145. If they do not they are then next in the firing line.
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  146. You will find that war unites a country. An external real threat unites people in ways you cannot imagine.
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  147.  @darrenchapman1961  China does not have the military ability to take Taiwan.
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  148.  @NPC13377  EMP are for video games and in real life it would not work.
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  149. It is all about control and maintaining power.
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  150. Then there is the issue that China does not have the technological means to overcome the Taiwanese air defence system that can also be used to target naval ship over long distances.
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  151.  @xuehaibo2807  Both Japan and South Korea know that if they do not intervene they will be next in line. South Korea can easily with stand north Korea and will team up with Taiwan. Japan knows that it will also be a target from the Chinese and North Koreans who have both carried out missile exercises over Japan. China does not actually have the troop carriers to engage is such a war and if they did have them they would become sitting ducks in the ocean for South Korea, Japan and Taiwan missile defence systems that have several hundred thousand missiles to be used.
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  152.  Osama an  I will not have to wait and see China does not have the ability to invade and they know it as well.
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  153. To maintain a war requires raw materials and fuel. They can build up a formidable force but not be able to maintain it in war.
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  154. Go and complain to the tyrants that are trying to take over.
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  155. If China tries to invade everyone of those countries fully know that they are next in line to be invade hence why they will all get involved with the backing of the US.
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  156. China will lose in any type of war with the US. It can do a sneak attack but that is a one track pony that cannot be repeated. Trying to Nuke America will not work because the numbers of warheads it would require are just beyond singular countries resources.
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  157.  @kevinyaucheekin1319  The US has a lot of chickens and some of them are blood thirty roosters that are just waiting for somebody to do something so they can attack. The US has a 1.5 million professional army that is always wanting to fight as it is in their DNA.
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  158.  @blank1673  The US air force is twice as large as China and Russia combined. US Navy is about 10 times larger than the Chinese navy. And to top that all of China does not have enough nuclear weapons to engage the US.
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  159. She is there trying to force her politics on the world and supporting the destruction of public property. Of course he is going to push her on the fake virtue signally philosophy that she has.
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  160. After such a war China will be broken up into smaller states. And there will also be reorganising in that those with different Chinese ethnicity will be moved to the state that best represents them and will not be allowed to form a balkans style culture.
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  161. Chinese are a minority in Philippines and it is doubtful that many of them would actually fight.
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  162. Taiwan, Japan and South Korea have a combined airpower of over 1000 fighter jets. China does not stand a chance in such a war.
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  163. Russia under the Tsars was powerful but it lacked any sort of internal power.
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  164. Other than launching warheads what can Putin do?
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  165.  @lorainejones41  Communists always turn to capitalism which is really a market economy meaning they will trade and swap things. Wars are rarely about money they are always about power and those that are hungry for power. Ideology tends to create an army to fight for those power hungry leaders such as Mao.
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  166. Tell us how on earth have banksters got anything to do with a communist government that has killed over 100 million people.
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  167. No. He realizes what is happening and will not stand by China. They are mistaken if they think Kamala and Joe are soft when it comes to war. Hilary was an even bigger warmonger than them two.
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  168. They have lots of self awareness but are generally not challenged by the media. Look at the nonsense that goes unchallenged. Coal power plants must be shut down and we must sell all our coal to China.
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  169. American does not do that.
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  170. EMP are a real thing but they will not work against the US military as they have designed their equipment to counter it.
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  171. Are you joking or is that real?
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  172. Israel has its own military, weapons industry and also manufacturing industry. New Zealand has none of that. New Zealand has a food industry and that is about it.
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  173. If any military nation wanted to do it they could but none would because New Zealand is not a strategic point globally.
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  174.  @denysecoop7356  Israel is going to do nothing of the sort. If Russia keeps the war up any of those countries that are stupid enough to try and do that will face economic consequences at some point. If Russia ends the war then various countries breaking such sanctions is not as big a deal. All the countries you named rely on the US for their survival and a few well placed policies could do them lots of damage and that would not involve any sort of sanctions.
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  175. I do not think China is going to arrive as New Zealand is unimportant.
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  176. I do not think New Zealand matters militarily and would not be a major target but that does not change the fact they should have a better military.
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  177.  @JZ1  No currency holds a true value they always fluctuate. The US economy is the most stable in the world and has been so for a long time. There are numerous currencies pegged to the US dollar because they trust that more than their own currency. Nothing is perfect but it is the best the world has and to replace it will take a good hundred years of economic activity.
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  178. Maori have a great warrior tradition but unfortunately like Native Americans they have become trapped in the big government welfare state. And those that are actually driving the culture are white middle class university socialists.
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  179. Their main advantage is that they are out of the way and not a strategic point globally. So if major war breaks out they may have time to arrange but the problem with that is they have no ability to produce defence weapons.
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  180.  @JZ1  Good luck to them finding another stable currency and when they get mauled they only can look at them self. The dollar is the only stable currency that can scale. It was not choose it become default.
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  181. They have zero detection ability. They could not even detect a group of WW2 fighter's attacking them nor could they defend from that. Many other countries coast guard could invade them. And even pirates could invade them.
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  182.  @wattlebough  Electric cars are a luxury vehicle. They have so many technical hurdles that they will not be dominants for a long period of time.
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  183. @Crowbar There are no excuses for Ireland though compared to New Zealand. Ireland has a GDP that is twice that of New Zealand and it is a high technology country with foreign investment and native companies. Ireland has about 10,000 defence personnel and should have five times as many as that with a fully functioning air defence system. Ireland as a culture is lazy and wants Britain to be its defence force while at the same time criticizing Britain for past histories. And here is the thing with Ireland that makes it different from New Zealand it would be a strategic point of interest in a major global war as a staging ground for attacks on Europe and for controlling the atlantic ocean.
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  184.  @crowbar9566  In a true global war the atlantic would be one of the major areas of conflict. In minor wars Ireland and green land would not matter but in a true global conflict they would be both be points of interest. In WW2 Hitler did not have the ability to take Ireland due to it being screen by Britain. In a modern global conflict that would be different. In WW2 places like Malta and Cyprus became more important than they did in previous generations due to the rise of technology. Nobody imagined that Malta would become a target of WW2.
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  185. Imperial goes back thousands of years right to the days of Stonehenge. The left will use anything for their own games and to radically change society.
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  186. 2 will not last long in a household. The problem is that people know there is a lock down coming and as it stands they do not have enough toilet paper.
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  187.  @GrowingDownUnder  How do you know if they live in a house of 10 people?
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  188.  @leeterence4885  But they use one everyday hence why a packet of 6 or 10 will only last so long. And then you have to factor that a large household may use more than 1 per day.
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  189. I do not think the Taiwanese people would fall for that sale.
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  190. This was a muche needed policey. Britain is a dangerious plaece with all those far rieght National Socialists.
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  191.  @omarwilliams1145  How>
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  192. It is nonsense at best.
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  193. There is a simple solution. Get a hunter in to take care of the problem. That bear is going to attack a human at some point.
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  194. I could easily build an aircraft in 2 months but I would never allow anybody to fly in it. Just because China spits out things does not mean they are of an acceptable standard.
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  195.  @tboyz1  The BRICS are nothing more than vasel economic markets of the western economic engine. There is just no getting around that. All of the BRICS rely on exports to the West and at that are only partial active in the production supply to western countries.
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  196. AOC was suppose to be a economics major.
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  197.  @76-UVB  It is called politics.
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  198. Spain seems to have an overbearing taxation system. They are a failing economy run by socialists and they need every penny they can get.
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  199.  @andrewhorton  Newspoll is a news entertainment branding company. Polling is a very accurate means of analysing voting trends. Most of what is being called polling is not even close to polling. Companies that claim to be polling are just carrying out research and then making claimings to present in the media. The same has happened in the UK, US and other european countries. Polls are accurate by +-3% with the upper bound error rates being with acceptable boundary rates. A 95% confidence interval is accurate enough to be used for polling. These news entities that are being bandied around as polling are part of the left's agenda to shape politics but clearly it is not working for them. They are using the polls to try and shape people's opinions before the elections take place.
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  200. Great that the safety system worked.
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  201. Drones will not take out a ship and in open waters would be useless and will run out of power and if they go back to their base they can be followed.
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  202. They maybe exposing it to try and put pressure on such a move.
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  203. Ukraine was freaking out before and was trying to talk down an invasion. What exactly else could they do at that point?
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  204. Dan Crenshaw is telling you what is happening in terms of the war not in terms of predicting the future.
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  205. What if there are rumours going around that a political movement is about to happen in Russia.
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  206.  @nimzzor  In video games it can but not in the real world.
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  207.  @donaldprice2948  NATO does not want to start WW3. They will wait to see what Putin and Russia does. The very same Reason that NATO did not flood Ukraine with weapons before the invasion and waited until things actually started before they started to act.
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  208.  @eat_ze_bugs  Drones are lightweight systems and will not be able to take down a naval warship that will fill the threat space. The idea that a drone can function out a see on its own at distance is beyond a joke.
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  209. Outside is where the virus is least likely to spread.
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  210. I?t is as fake as they come. The oscars are desperate.
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  211.  @germanher7528  You are getting worse with the crap. I warned people not to bring up EMP and you bring up gas weapons drones. What is next big magnets?
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  212.  @DingBatSplat  But does that not only apply to travel that meets the definition of legal entry.
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  213.  @eat_ze_bugs  You are talk crap if you think a UAV can take down a naval vessel. Even single missiles will not take down naval warship. You are playing too many video games. And do not bring up EMP's and crap like that.
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  214. It is up to the conservative activists and voting public to put political pressure on the conservative party so that they can act. At present the conservative party is dealing with 20 different fires that it is trying to put out.
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  215.  @sukikahlon1  You are living in a fantasy world with video games rules set.
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  216. Australia needs a large air force, mobilie army and a naval defence system.
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  217. China does have the ability be off the US coast.
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  218. Apple only assemble the phone in China.
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  219.  @zafir7007  Train lines simply are not enough.
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  220. @dan wee They would not get very far to be honest. They would get cut to shreds. If they are on the ships right now they are starving to death.
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  221.  @mofosamo  Such ships would get smashed to pieces as the US would open up on that whole area of ocean. Nobody knows how many missiles the US actually has but at a guess I would say several million. The only advantages the attacking ships would have is surprise and chaos for a couple of hours but the return then would be immense. The US from the ocean can operate over one thousand aircraft and would be the response on Chinese mainland.
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  222. Yes that is why they are going to do it. They realize that their own economy is about to shrink and that they will have internal conflict so they need to unite their people to focus on a common enemy. The only thing is China are simply not powerful enough to beat the US and I doubt they are about to roll the dice as gambling is part of their culture.
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  223. For where?
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  224. Hitler was never going to win WW2 when the US got involved. He should have known that invading France would involve the UK and that would lead to the US involvement.
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  225.  @frankrenda2519  No train line will match the capabilities of super tanker transport or container ships. Everything Russia and China has for supply is running at full capabilities and cannot make up for the loss of trade Russia and potentially China has with the west.
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  226. If they trade with China yes they should face taxes.
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  227. What are you talking about?
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  228. Chinese steel production is of an extremely poor quality.
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  229. Most of the polls have oversampled democrats by about 15-30%. That means if there is a swing vote it will not show as it will be absorbed by such a large oversample.
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  230.  @vivrowe2763  When he is in the company of men we know that is suppose to happen but what exactly really went down with those men is hard to say.
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  231. Because the plague may be natural, accidental or on purpose. An invasion of Taiwan would be on purpose and obvious.
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  232. China does not have the ability to invade Taiwan.
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