Comments by "" (@badluck5647) on "Warfronts" channel.

  1. Putin on Chechnya: State unity is more important than self-determination Putin on Donbas: Self-determination is more important than state unity.
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  2. Last time I was this early, the channel was called Warographics.
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  3. You would think the leaders of the "party of god" wouldn't be constantly eliminated without a fight. It's like God really isn’t on their side.
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  4. This is pretty similar to ISIS capturing Mosul. A lightning offensive, disgruntled defenders retreating without a fight, and a bunch of heavy equipment left behind.
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  5. That explains why they had to hire foreign mercenaries to preform the latest coup.
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  6.  @robertduluth8994  Empire? What territory is America trying to annex? What people are they trying to conquer? Russia is the only 21st century country trying to expand their territory through military might.
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  7. If you are watching this: -1000 social credit score
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  8. 🇺🇦 ✊️
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  9.  @Hurricayne92  If the US is so corrupt why do so many Chinese companies prefer to list on the US stock market and use American banks?
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  10. Simon stood up and revealed he was only wearing Sheath underwear from the waist down, so YouTube demonetized the video.
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  11. ​ @Jason-gg4lm  Not really. Corruption is more of a system of autocratic governments than Chinese culture. Taiwan and Hong Kong have less corruption issues than most western countries.
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  12. "Daesh" roughly translates to "bigot" in Arabic. It actually fits quite well.
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  13. My grandfather, an American, traded letters with a Korean comrade he fought with in the war for about 20 years.
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  14. The US Military is the best at the boring stuff that wins wars: Logistics, transportation, and communication.
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  15. The Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008 would be a great topic. It is like the prequel to the current crisis in Ukraine.
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  16. Infant mortality was traditional throughout most of history, so what is your point?
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  17. Politicians in Poland, Hungary, Brazil, and even the United States are popularizing the idea that democratic results shouldn't matter unless the conservative party wins. History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.
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  18.  @mrhitisnumberone  Russia's plan was to have a miles-long convey of vehicles sit on the road for days as Ukraine drones pick them off? That's pretty stupid plan.
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  19.  @tonywilson4713  France's subs were diesel powered, while the US subs are nuclear. Plus, there is probably more advance, classified hardware in American subs than what France spends on their entire Navy.
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  20. ​ @vader1a They said that when the Germans showed up in the US, they said that when the Italians showed up in the US, they said that when the Irish showed up in the US, and now they say that about the Latin Americans who show up. Racism to immigrants is as American as apple pie.
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  21. ​ @lucamckenn5932 Numbers has it's advantages. Why do you think the UN couldn't defeat China in Korea?
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  22. The use of air power is somewhat exaggerated. Russian fortification wasn't going to be smashed by 4th generation aircraft. A supply of tanks, artillery shells, and long-range missiles showed up too late and in limited stock.
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  23. If the Iraqis wanted mercy, then they could have surrender. They chose the risk of a battlefield retreat instead. Zero sympathy for the retreating marauders.
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  24. How different countries cover the Seven Years War is amusing, as North American and European schools only cover the theater on their continent.
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  25. It unusual to see a Brit narrate the American Revolution to a primarily to an American audience.
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  26. British: It's not a war or an invasion. It's a "special operation". Putin: ....
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  27. I feel like cyber attacks would ensure mutually assured destruction for everyone except North Korea. Attacking utilities and hospitals is just too easy for states to do, so a cyber war would just result in all participants being without electricity, clean water, and other basic necessities.
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  28.  @spookyghostwriter3110  Early 1950s Taiwan was a dictatorship, so my point still stands.
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  29. Modern African Wars have been so horrifying that many probably should be covered in Into the Shadows (And all war, not evolving large birds, are already horrifying.)
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  30. ​ @vyvianalcott1681 That is because the History Channel couldn't figure how aliens were involved.
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  31. Kremlin propagandist
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  32.  @casuallydeep1368  Where are the NATO bioweapons in Ukraine that Tulsi/Putin said were there?
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  33. The US doesn't even need to tighten its belt. It just needs to keep spending 3% of its trillion dollar annual military budget on military aid.
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  34. "Proportionality" is about avoiding escalation into a wider conflict. Saddam was already at the limits of his capabilities, so proportionality shouldn't even apply to these event.
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  35.  @kingtachalla6181  Do we really have to care what the genocidal war criminals in Rwanda and Serbia think?
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  36. ​ @samtulp6 Trump is more Neville Chamberlain than Reagan.
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  37. How about the 2008 Russian-Georgia war? It is like the prequel to the current Ukraine crisis. Few noticed the war, because Putin timed the Russian invasion with the American presidential election and the Beijing Olympics.
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  38. It's a shame America did so little to help Georgia after the country contributed so much help to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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  39. Strange. I work with many Pakistan immigrants in America, and they are definitely truthworthy, respectable businessmen. I imagine if the politicians and military stepped aside, the citizens could create a thriving economy.
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  40. $$$ over Allah in Turkey and Saudi Arabia
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  41. Cold War Afghanistan: America provided the weapons, the Gulf State provided the money, and ISI provided the logistics
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  42.  @Charles-js3ri  You stuck it to the West +100 social credit score
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  43.  @DJZ3M  You are basically saying "MILF" can't be used mockingly for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Yes, it's real. Look it up.
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  44. It amazes how many Americans openly admit that they prefer an conservative autocracy over a liberal democracy.
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  45. Remember, this is what Putin is willing to do his own citizens.
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  46. The Biographics Whistler Clone was lost in a prison riot in the basement.
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  47.  @archetypealch3my290  Part of bigotry from Americans was anti Catholic sentiment, and the Irish Americans also felt companionship to the Mexicans because the Mexicans were Catholic too. I'm not mad. I'm just confused why you are ignoring an important detail.
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  48. It is sad that YouTube demonetization has left this topic under covered.
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  49.  @mappingshaman5280  Classic Russian false equivalency. How is Soviet nuclear missles remotely equivalent to HIMARs?
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  50.  @kinai01  Russia is still retreating in Ukraine and maybe they will retreat from occupied Moldova and Georgia next.
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  51.  @mappingshaman5280  Putin: It is disrespectful for NATO to move missile shields closer to Russia Also Putin: [Moves nukes into Belarus and closer to NATO]
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  52. This is the real reason why Macron wants an EU army. Foreign weapons contracts are one of his core foreign policy goals
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  53. It's pretty boring by comparison. They are mostly bodyguards and trainers.
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  54. Daesh roughly translates to "bigot" in Arabic. It actually fits quite well.
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  55. Russia's cyber capabilities are child's play compared to the NSA.
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  56.  @DJZ3M  "Daesh" is an acronym, but if you pronounce the acronym, then it means bigot.
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  57. It wierd how you ignored how Catholicism fit into the event.
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  58. Also, Russia has run out of ways to escalate without backlash from India/China and/or full-scale war with NATO.
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  59. I can't wait until the prequel: The Texas Revolution
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  60. American public, "Is this a simple war of good guys vs bad guys?" Journalists, "It's not that simple. One side..." American public, "Boring. What is happening to TikTok?"
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  61. You can't say Ukraine lost the battle until either their forces take enough casualties to lose offensive capabilities or they fail to break through the line by the time mud season hits. The decisive moment doesn't happen until Ukraine commits most of its forces to the assault.
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  62. 🇺🇦✊️
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  63. True. But that doesn't make the coup accusations false.
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  64. He got off easy
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  65. This is also why Russia's neighbors want NATO membership. They want the protection from being attack for practically no reason.
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  66.  @archetypealch3my290  It is a pretty big element, so it odd to not mention it. It like like talking about the American Civil War and not bringing up slavery.
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  67.  @archstanton6102  Thanks. That was a brain fart.
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  68. General Winter
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  69. Why is Simon trying to rush President Pooh to war?
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  70.  @TheFlagUnit  <🤖
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  71. Suggestion: American-Philippines War Bridge the Spanish-American War and the Pacific Front of WW2.
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  72. Does any of this sound any crazier than the conspiracies we hear from Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson?
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  73. Some people are too short sighted to see the implications of allowing autocrats to destroy sovereign democracies.
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  74. ​ @jeangove01 The algorithm, vessie shoes, and ridge wallet
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  75. I understand from a national security point of view, but the economy argument is foolish. For example, cutting off oil from Russia to avoid them having the ability to exercise influence on our economy makes sense. Meanwhile, banning oil from Canada wouldn't make sense as there is no danger of Canada using economic blackmail against their brother nation. Trump's tariff policy is neither targeted towards important sectors and its planned against our allies.
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  76. Look at Syria. The Russian air campaign that failed in Ukraine was very successful in Syria. I think the difference in a population's moral is based on a people's ability to respond to the airstrike. The Ukrainian could punch back, while Syrians were hopeless.
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  77. It's funny how Russia can't imagine that NATO countries outside of the US have their own interests and autonomy.
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  78.  @alialwahaibi1234  Russia invaded a sovereign democracy over Putin's fascist ambitions. Ukraine fights for freedom, while Russia fights for colonialism .
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  79. Russian disrespect is the reason Turkey approved Sweden membership into NATO
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  80. This is the type of military professionalism and ingenuity that Russia pretends to have.
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  81. I don't think you know what literally means
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  82. Unpopular opinion: Crimea might needed to be handed over to give Putin something that can disguise his surrender as a win.
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  83.  @Charles-js3ri  Calling out capitalist lies +100 social credit score
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  84.  @Silver_Prussian  The US won't put nukes in the Poland because it would be an escalation, but they would put nukes in Ukraine because they are eager to escalate? Russia propaganda is so nonsensical.
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  85.  @marcusperez1607  They were Columbian, but I assume you are the type to prefer baseless conspiracy theories over actual factual evidence.
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  86. America is the best at the boring stuff that wins wars: logistics, communication, and intelligence
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  87. Let's go Brandon
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  88. Reporter: President Putin, what more do you want now that only 1% of residents voted against joining Russia? Putin: I want their names!
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  89. Thank the writers and editors locked in the basement.
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  90. It is even more impressive if you consider that Morris is chained to the radiator in Simon's basement.
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  91. Moscow Marge lost her attempt to give Putin his victory.
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  92. Iran is backed into a corner. That is both good and alarming.
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  93. Russia's long history of losing to a smaller force with American weapons.
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  94. Now I want a Biographic for General and President Zachary Taylor.
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  95. Fun fact: The Civil War was about slavery. It amazes me how some people think otherwise.
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  96. Who cares if Russia/MAGA is unhappy?
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  97. Just look at the other side of the island to see that Hatti has everything needed to have a functional economy. They just need stability, investments, and crack down on corruption.
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  98. *Russian anti-air defenses shoot down drones and missles, then attach anti-radar missles to an F-16 *Russia uses the Black Sea Fleet to shoot missles at civilian targets, then attach anti-ship missles to the F-16 *Russia hides their commanders in bunkers outside the range of HIMARS, then attach longer-range bunker-busting missles to the F-16. NATO's solution to everything is to attach a weapon system to a jet, so the F-16 will give Ukraine a lot of options and force Russia to make some tough choices.
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  99.  @aj9969  In the 90s, the majority of Crimean voters joined the rest of Ukraine in voting for leaving the Soviet Union. The last free and fair election in Crimea, the party that ran on joining Russia got less than 4% of the vote. There seems to be a lot of partisan attacks in both Crimea and Dombas. Russian propaganda just likes to blame all the explosion on Russian soldiers smoking.
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  100.  @vasilijesamardzic4151  Kosovo fought for independence after a genocidal campaign by the Serbs. Meanwhile, Crimea and Dombas were invaded by Russian troops who had their proxies fight for Russia's imperial ambitions.
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  101. My grandfather's unit in the war adopted a dog named "Spare parts." They had to make sure the poor farmers weren't going to eat him.
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  102.  @Hegde-  I assume you are just trolling, because it is difficult to believe one is this clueless. National security is more than protecting the homeland which America will always have enough weapons on hand to do. However, America military doctrine is to be prepared for multiple conflicts at once. That means America is supposed to have enough resources to protect Korea from an invasion, while still having the firepower to stop Iran from cutting of the Strait of Hormuz. Unfortunately, the attrition rate of weapons sent Ukraine is putting jeopardy America's ability to fight multiple conflicts.
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  103. If they actually watched the video, the Russians would find the content to be familiar.
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  104. 🇨🇦 - America's freeloading hat
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  105. ​ @JoeyP946 Members of Trump's personality cult seem incapable of thinking for themselves for even 3 seconds.
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  106.  @user-lt4zu5pl7c  Obviously, you are the smartest person in every room, so what are Putin's escalatory options? I will patiently wait for your inability to make a coherent response.
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  107.  @seanthomasmusic  It's America. The Democrats are conservative by European standards. The "radical left" is a buzzword to argue against strawmen.
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  108. Macron only wants an EU army, so French weapons manufacturing would have a competitive edge over American manufacturers in such a system.
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  109. Do you mean President Musk? 🇺🇸🇿🇦
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  110.  @aj9969  1991 Ukrainian independence referendum "Yes" vote by region: *Crimean ASSR- 54.19% *Donetsk Oblast- 83.90% *Kharkiv Oblast- 86.33% *Kherson Oblast- 90.13% *Luhansk Oblast- 83.86% *Zaporizhzhia Oblast- 90.66%
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  111. "Putin's body double"
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  112. Except the Iran commanders and all the foreign troops that joined Hezbollah in Syria.
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  113.  @chiefslinginbeef3641  One can't call themselves a "Constitutionalist" when one wants to ignore the parts of the constitution that prevents one's party from seizing power through illegal means.
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  114. After Stalin's Great Purge and the failed Soviet invasion of Finland, there probably wasn't a better time to destroy their ideological rival. In hindsight, we know the gamble didn't pay off. The Germans could have also done better if Hitler would stop ignoring his Generals.
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  115.  @pepe-zw4de  Explain what Putin's options are? Attack civilians? Russia is already doing that. Steal foreign assets? Russia already did that. Cut off oil to Europe? The EU has mostly done that themselves with the exception of Hungary and non-NATO Austria. Attack NATO? Russia is barely able to handle Ukraine with old cold war stockpiles. Nuclear weapons? China/India would cut off Russia's final lifeline.
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  116. The Habsburgs seemed to be rivals with everyone.
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  117.  @MonicaLea  imagine what Trump will do in January 😨
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  118.  @aceundead4750  By liberal, I mean a progressive tax system, an expanded social safety net, and an attempt to balance out past racial misjustice. Or as the far right call it "Communism".
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  119. Make Autocrats Great Again
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  120. Donkeys are one of few animals mentioned in the Bible. Coincidence? Probably
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  121. Orban-Trump-Putin Make Autocrats Great Again
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  122. Russia, Brazil, and South Africa are rich?
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  123. It's clones. Simon has one for each channel and a 14th to watch the writers in the basement.
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  124. ​ @worldofdoom995  The government is very aware of the many factions. The average person doesn't have the attention span to look at the complexity or shades of grey in conflicts. For example, the only time there was persistent coverage in Syria was when ISIS was involved, because they were so cartoonishly evil compared to the other waring factions. The isolationist are also willfully ignorant as these conflicts could spill over and destabilize the world. Look at the people who want to leave Haiti to collapse, but then get upset when Haitian refugees arrive in their town.
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  125.  @Hypernefelos  Ukraine has shown that it takes a huge military stockpile and industrial base to commit a modern war. Turkey and Greece don't have that capacity for a long war without outside support.
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  126. Then you have France complaining that they aren't profiting enough from the war.
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  127.  @Hegde-  That has actually become a national security concern for NATO countries as they deplete their stockpiles without the capability to replenish them in a reasonable time frame. However, they continue to send weapons anyone because a victorious Russia is a even bigger national security threat.
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  128. The American version happened on January 6th.
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  129.  @NickyTheGaymer  His praise of Bennett Arnold's good looks was pretty funny
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  130. Trump - Putin 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Make Autocrats Great Again Johnson and fellow MAGA Republicans are doing their best to help Trump's idol in the Kremlin.
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  131. Pretty vague as parts of Africa is vastly different. Even visiting the same country a decade later can be like visiting a different country.
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  132.  @johnmeyers6703  Tarrifs and other trade barriers hurt consumers overall. That is why trade barriers for economic purposes are foolish while trade barriers for national security are sensible. An example would be Chinese steel. It is the cheapest stuff on the market, so it can make American construction more cost efficient. On the other end, US tank producers should only buy American made steel even though it will cost more because that cost is worth paying to keep Chinese influence out of weapons production.
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  133. Tulsi Gabbard 😢 She is going to miss her BFF.
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  134. The local population of 1930s Sudetenland wanted to join Germany like modern Donbas locals want to join Russia. Is a violent invasion justified?
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  135. Afghanistan Special Forces was actually a very capable force. The issue was the regular army and the political leadership.
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  136. ​​​ @rcman50166 America took too much time compared to Russia to get artillery production scaled up, so an advantage in supply won't happen until 2025. The EU is still sitting on their hands.
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  137. Crossing the Delaware makes a better painting. Valley Forge and Crossing the Delaware are arguably more important events because without them the war would likely be lost. The American and French forces didn't need a victory at Yorktown as much some other events.
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  138.  @Curious-Mr.-Lee  Mocking dear leader -2000 social credit score
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  139. YouTube censorship is getting ridiculous.
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  140.  @dupsdf  These aren't fishermen acting like pirates. Small arms aren't going to do anything against drones and missles.
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  141. MAGA Make Autocrats Great Again
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  142.  @gogudelagaze1585  Yet Turkey remains silent. For $$$$.
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  143. How about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? Another story where Russia loses to stiff local resistance. 🇺🇦 ✊️
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  144. A defensive clause is only as good as nations believe it will be enforced. There is very little confidence that Europe would defend it's allies without the US.
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  145. ​ @T1227trx  It's probably a Russian troll
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  146. Who wants the pro autocrat viewpoint?
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  147. @g3523jaen  I believe it was a joke at European bureaucracy and not a claim of a lack of cooperation.
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  148. Being a millionaires in the jungle and on the run, or cash out of the business and live like a king in the cities with some of the world's most beautiful women?
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  149.  @SalehSingħ66  The difference is the rule of law. In America, you can sue if someone defraud you. In China, the fraudsters have government connections, so you go to jail if you complain too much.
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  150. I'm guessing YouTube is scared of nuance.
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  151.  @salomonzometa4537  To be fair, Georgia is .01% of the world's population.
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  152. It's hardly the same. American PMCs focus on security and logistics. Russian PMCs are frontline soldiers who specialize in war crimes.
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  153. This wasn't America's peak. 90s Airpower seems primitive compared to today's arsenal. The gap between American firepower only keeps growing compared to our rivals.
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  154. ​​ @madmedic7840  Great Replacement Conspiracy - another Qaron favorite
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  155. ​ @SM-zz4gx 2% of GDP is hardly a runaway military budget
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  156. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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  157. Keep going and I'm sure France would surrender.
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  158. I feel like someone is reinventing Marxism where every moment of history is defined as racial struggle instead of class struggle. You are giving too much emphasis to slavery. Unlike the rest of the South, the settled part of Texas wasn't rich in land that was good for farming cotton, so slavery wasn't as vital to them. Most Texans were just farmers who were worried about the Mexican dictatorship much like the two other breakaway Mexican republics at the time.
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  159.  @iattacku2773  It only a common opinion among Hungarians, Far-Right Europeans, and the fringes among America's Republican Party.
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  160. There is not a good guy or villain in the war either. It just seems like a fight among ethnic groups over petty differences.
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  161. To be fair, this playbook worked wonders for Germany and Japan. It is hard to believe the Iraqi and Afghan populations was more obsessed with genocide than the WW2 Germans.
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  162. The hypocrisy of Trump trying to shame people for not paying their bills.
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  163. What facts are you disputing 1 minute after a 21 minute vide was posted?
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  164.  @Silver_Prussian  if America wanted to station nukes closer to Russia, then why aren't there any in Poland or the Baltic countries?
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  165. Does Chechnya have the right to self-determination?
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  166.  @codybell6882  Don't forget Iran commanders leading Afghan Shiite militias
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  167. The goods news about them both being NATO members is that both sides would quickly be cut off from their weapons supplies as other NATO nations would would try to end the conflict as quickly as possible.
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  168. Honestly, like their traditional military capabilities, Russia's cyber capabilities are overestimated. Just look out how little they were able to do against Ukraine.
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  169. If the objective was to stop foreign terrorists from reaching America's shores, then the track record is pretty good.
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  170.  @cooldudecs  Percentages are mostly meaningless if there are only a few key components made in a few countries. Just look at how America couldn't even supply enough medicine or PPEs during the start of the covid crisis due to Chinese hoarding.
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  171. @casuallydeep1368  It's a public statement she made. You can't gaslight the statement out of existence anymore than you can pretend she didn't travel to Syria to show support for Assad.
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  172. Trump First Trump's family Second Trump's Golf Buddies Third Trump's Donors Four Trump's Republican Party Fifth .... .... .... .... American 164th if he has time.
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  173. It was because all the capital was held by the British. One can't industrialize without money and assets.
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  174.  @Very_Nice_and_Polite_Person  They tried legalizing drugs in Oregon and it is worst than you can imagine.
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  175.  @Mike-em5vh  It wasn't a victory. It was a stalemate. The UN outclassed the Chinese forces in weaponry, but Chinese numbers and tactics were still able to push UN forces out of North Korea. Numbers matter.
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  176.  @tianwong152  If corruption is "de facto legal" in the US, then why are foreign investors so eager to put their money into American companies and banks? Wouldn't it be safer to put their money in "safe and transparent" markets like Russia, Venezuela, and China?
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  177. Why are all the Neo-N's right wingers?
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  178.  @warographics643  Except topics about North Korea?
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  179. It is surprising considering that Iran will need these missles for a potential conflict with Israel.
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  180.  @mazimadu  They probably think Africa is a country
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  181. Ok, boomer
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  182. Closed minded people tend to dislike anything different.
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  183. The dependent countries need to nut up themselves and call out Russia for their war crimes.
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  184. Do you really think the world isn't better with a flawed Iraqi democracy instead of genocidal Saddam Hussain? As ruthless as Gaddafi and Assad were during the Arab Spring, Saddam would absolutely worst.
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  185. The war that prepared Booker DeWitt to fight through Columbia.
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  186.  @MisterCreeper997  That stupid poem.
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  187. Kosova fought for independence. Dombas fighters are Russian troops and their proxies fighting for Russian expansion and imperialism. They basically the pro-Germans of Sudetenland in the 1930s.
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  188.  @SjorLovre  Considering the Serbs were committing genocide against every non Serb in the region, Kosovo had a legitimate reason to leave. The Dombas separatists taking orders from their Russian Imperial masters don't.
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  189. How does this lower the price of eggs?
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  190. It may seem heartless, but I no longer care about the suffering of Afghans anymore. They handed over their country to the Taliban without a fight, and they deserve the consequences of that decision. If they wanted American financial aid, then too bad.
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  191. Mike Pence "I can relate. My boss tried to have me assassinated in January by sending a mob to hang me."
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  192. The more languages involved, the less historians that can cover the topic.
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  193. Part of the deal with Korea is technology transfers and manufacturing in Poland. This will lead to more European centric tanks and more domestic defense industry in the future.
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  194. I thought the First Kashmir War was the sequel to the Devil Wears Prada.
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  195. Do you mean like every country with a draft? Do you think America and the Soviet Union fought WW2 with an all volunteer army?
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  196. The biggest insult was praise from Putin.
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  197.  @sebresludolf9611  Lies. The Sunni groups are still fighting Hezbollah in Syria.
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  198. Russia/MAGA are really upset about Biden giving Ukraine permission to attack the Russian airfields used to attack Ukrainian civilians.
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  199. Yes. What is Russia going to do? Invade Ukraine? That ship has sailed.
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  200.  @mrhitisnumberone  🙄 After losing in the north, Russians now claim that capturing the capital and removing the government is unimportant. I thought the whole goal of the campaign was to remove the Jewish "Nazi" president?
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  201. Let me guess, you prefer Tucker Carlson
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  202.  @mazimadu  They can't be all bad. Canada's Prime Minister was African for Halloween.
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  203. @garretthayes9392  We have an annual military budget of over $800,000 billion to protect our national security interests across the world. At 3% of that budget and no American lives at risk, we can destroy Russia's capability to pose a serious threat to our economic/security interests in Europe. From a fiscal standpoint, this is a bargain for American. You also have to consider most of the aid is cold war stockpiles, and most of America's spending is American made replacements for our forces.
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  204. Don't worry. Simon has a clone for every channel.
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  205.  @brandonmullins4015  My point is that the military trains for everything, so it doesn't mean every training exercise gets put into action.
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  206. Maybe Trump could build a casino there. He is such a great businessman, so what could go wrong?
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  207. You basically have one side justifying murdering babies with false equivalencies and moral relativism, and you have the other side excusing any wrongdoing from the victim.
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  208. This was during the 2008 presidential election, so the American media hardly covered the conflict, so most Americans are still unaware there is a Georgia outside of the American south.
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  209.  @reconsoldier135  You said they died for nothing. I would argue their sacrifice has made the world a better place even if the reasoning for invasion was misplaced. Removing Saddam in any other way would turn out like Libya or Syria which is significantly worst off than Iraq.
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  210. Japan can't send artillery ammunition, so they are sending TNT to make ammunition. Loopholes are great
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  211. Trump tried and failed.
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  212.  @crittoneida958  I would definitely think God was involved if a whale showed up
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  213. Remember what happened when Saddam tried to take over Kuwait's oil fields?
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  214. Venezuela wouldn't even be capable of getting the oil out of the ground.
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  215.  @lotcam4046  The uprising was supported by the people when the rebels were winning. When the advances stopped and they were helpless as Russia destroyed schools, hospitals, and power stations, the enthusiasm for the rebels plunged.
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  216.  @HolyNorthAmericanEmpire  Economic alliance? What trade deal or economic integration have the "alliance" actually done?
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  217. There is a historical revisionism effort to link everything to slavery when that is rarely the case. Slavery was minimal at the time in Texas as most settlers couldn't afford any. It was hardly the greatest grievous of the settlers. Also, you completely disregard the role of Tejanos in the history of Texas.
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  218. Ukraine is getting so much Soviet equipment from Poland, so Poland doesn't have to deal with the maintenance anymore. Poland can just focus on the new, shiny toys.
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  219.  @g3523jaen  Europeans, "The conflicts in the Middle East are none of our business." Also, Europeans, "Why are so many refugees showing up from the Middle East?"
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  220.  @charlesbryson7443  What treaty says NATO wouldn't expand? I see Putin make the claim a lot, but there isn't any evidence of his exsertion. Meanwhile, the Budapest Memorandum was signed by Russia (not the Soviet Union) where they agreed to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial borders.
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  221. The Trump cabinet has the mindset that a burger flipper would be a great CEO of McDonald's.
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  222. ​ lik-zf5xx No.
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  223. The Germans were also intervening on behalf of ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland prior to WW2.
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  224.  @Flight_of_Icarus  The "remilitarization" of Germany has come to nothing as the promised spending has come to nothing as Germany bureaucracy has halted any progress. Meanwhile, Poland doesn't have the military capability to threaten anyone without the backing of Germany and France. Most of Europe sees the likes of Germany and France as the "appeasement wing" of NATO.
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  225.  @demun6065  After they started looting and massacring Sunnis, America refused air support until the Iran militias were sidelined from operations against Sunni majority cities.
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  226.  @Hegde-  Artillery shells are cheap, easily produced, and made by multiple nations in the same caliber. That is hardly comparable to the high tech equipment like stingers, javelin, HIMARS, etc You can also see statements from defense contractors who say they are not capable of filling the military's orders as they have scaled down production too much during peacetimes.
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  227. What facts are you disputing?
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  228.  @Phearsum  Wagner's co-founder is covered in SS tattoos, and he even named the organization after a certain mustached Austrian's favorite composer.
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  229. ​ @sharonrigs7999  That is because ISIS was anti-Shiite murders, while Saddam was Sunni ruling over a Shiite apartheid. If anything, Saddam would have been a more ruthless Assad if he was still around during the Arab Spring.
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  230. The algorithm works for the Chinese bots. I am getting comments that mention Nx Ax Tx Ox deleted
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  231.  @rafael_lana  Leadership can easily be replaced, but contacts, infrastructure, money laundering, and suppliers all take time to build. Making organizations start from scratch has advantages.
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  232.  @LarryWater  What is the Taiwan government officially called? What language do they speak? Whose history do they teach?
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  233.  @robthomas3811  The video showed positive sides of human rights violations from a desperate community plagued by violence. This doesn't fit into YouTube's black and white world view.
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  234.  @dan5974  Russian troll
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  235.  @dan5974  It is disingenuous to lump in conscripted Ukrainian soldiers into the commands of the Soviet military. In addition, Ukraine didn't go to Afghanistan in the 2000s, so your war crime lie is literally impossible.
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  236.  @alteredbeast7145  What does that have to do with Georgia being relatively unknown on the world stage?
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  237.  @alteredbeast7145  I was pointing out the reason for the ignorance. There are hundreds of countries and thousands of cultures. To expect everyone to know all of them is unrealistic.
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  238.  @robertduluth8994  Sure, America is an Empire as long as you ignore the definition of what an Empire is and then base your assessment on conspiracy theories. Let's continue your train of thought: China is a democracy, because some Russian troll on the internet said democracies don't require fair elections and he thinks covid was made in a New Zealand lab.
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  239. The US Navy actually wants to move to smaller ships, but special interests and legacy ships are getting in the way of the transition.
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  240.  @markalbert9011  You have it backwards. The Navy wants smaller ships because ships are vulnerable to missles and drones. It better to have multiple smaller targets than being dependent on a few big ships that can lose a battle if a hypersonic missle, a drone, or sub sinks all the considerate assets. That being said, the Chinese Navy's ships are too small to carry enough ammo or fuel to operate far from the Chinese coast.
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  241. *Javelin pushed Russia from Keiv *HIMARs pushed Russia from Kherson and Kharkiv *Leopards and Bradley's will push Russia from Zaporizhzhia *F-16s will push Russia from Crimea
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  242.  @aleksazarin319  Continue you pretend that Russia didn't retreat from Keiv, Kherson, and Kharkiv
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  243.  @ignitionfrn2223  it's not like the Soviets were an unstoppable force. They couldn't even beat Finland....in the Winter.
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  244.  @route2070  They did have foreign military advisors train them on modern military warfare.
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  245. His writers must be qualified journalists
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  246.  @greenkoopa  Unlike Thomas Jefferson who say slaves as little more than livestock, Washington has more complex feelings about the institution. Washington didn't believe in using physical or psychological violence as a means of increasing productivity, so it was rarely ever used on his plantation. He also hoped the institution would decline, but saw its economic necessity for the country and as a way to save Africans' souls through teaching them the Bible.
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  247.  @GusOfTheDorks  People also don't like autocrats or apartheid.
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  248.  @calebbean1384  A lot of these commentators would be happy in Putin's Russia, where liberals and gays are in jail. You also don't have to worry about silly things like voters.
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  249.  @johnmeyers6703  National security costs money. Why do you think so much money is paid to police, intelligence, and the military? You could argue they are expensive, but protecting national security is worth the cost. Meanwhile, tariffs to improve economic conditions, but actually hurt economic conditions, aren't worth the cost. Plus, China has a very closed economy already. Capital controls, restrictions on investments, protectionism, and straight ban on foreign technologies.
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  250. Washington wasn't a military genius, but it was an impressive task to keep his army intact against the greatest military force of the time. His more important role was being the first president and establishing very important norms. For example, he could of seized control like Napoleon did in France, but he peacefully left office. This is a tradition that continued until the 45th president.
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  251. The difference is Russian missles target civilians.
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  252.  @pyromania1018  & I'm arguing
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  253.  Survival prepping for normal people  I lived in Texas my whole life and have traveled everywhere except the El Paso area. Most of the state is empty with some towns of a few thousand people. A vast majority of the state population live in massive metroplexs around Dallas, Houston, and Austin. Again, despite stereotypes, the percentage that lives in rural populations is lower than states like New York.
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  254. Join NATO.
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  255. On Megaprojects, Simon said he ignores lists, because he doesn't know which suggestion people are up voting and which they feel indifferent about.
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  256. Just Google "fascists." Thousands of sources explain the right wing philosophy
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  257. Are you high? Military coups overthrew the democratically elected governments.
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  258. It is frustrating because the EU didn't send the promised ammunition due to French protectionism and general European reluctance to invest in their military industries.
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  259. The Russian attacks on civilians is getting old. It is time for Russians soldiers to leave Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova.
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  260. Because NK has so little to offer that it shows desperation or political ignorance to want to be seen shaking hands with the NK dictator.
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  261.  @_Ben___  Chinese social media saw a picture of Obama walking next to Xi that looked like Tigger walking next to Pooh, so they called Obama "Tigger" and Xi "Pooh." Xi tried to ban "Pooh" from the internet, so it became more popular. Meanwhile, Obama isn't a thin-skinned crybaby, so everyone forgot about the Tigger reference.
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  262.  @jessieyoung3759  I think we are up to two dozen lawyers who say that Trump refuses to pay his legal bills. You also have him not pay his contractors and suppliers and then declare bankruptcy for the tax break.
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  263. Meanwhile, Soledar is the most important city outside of Russia.
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  264. Which one?
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  265. The problem with the porcupine strategy is that it makes the island nation vulnerable to a blockade.
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  266. Technically cowboy is a term for vaquero, because cowboy culture originated in Mexico. However, the American version had better hats.
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  267.  @ghost_2448  Children, grown-ups, cats, dogs, etc. None of them care about your religious beliefs.
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  268.  @jibjones1233  The movie ends with the death toll. Did you not make it to the credits?
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  269. They literally covered all the wars you listed with the exception of the Boxer rebellion in middle and high school history classes. Individual states also cover wars with Native Americans if the state was heavily involved in it.
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  270. It is more complex than that. There are Sunni tribes who allied with the Houthis.
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  271. After getting access to the internet for the first time, Kim worried that they bring home tales of "hot local singles in your area."
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  272. Yes, Russia isn't even a real country
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  273.  @theawesomeman9821  The insurrection failed because America already granted autonomy and created a path towards independence. Few wanted to die for cause that was just going to happen with patience.
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  274. ​ @Cj22417 Iran seems progressive compared to NK
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  275.  @bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477  Conspiracy theories are fun because they require zero evidence or common sense.
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  276. If the Pakistan military is a state within the Pakistan state, then ISI is it's own rogue state within the Pakistan military.
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  277. Ukraine and Taiwan would disagree
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  278. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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  279. If they NK troops cost significantly less than Russian soldiers, then it could make Russian losses more sustainable if they keep ordering more and more soldiers from the hermit kingdom.
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  280. Conspiracy
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  281. My grandfather's unit in the war adopted a dog named "Spare parts." They had to make sure the poor farmers weren't going to eat him.
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  282. To the autocrats who enjoy murdering and torturing their own citizens, they see every sign of dessent as a CIA proxy force. I can never tell if this is just scapegoating propaganda, or if autocrats just have a condescending view of their own countrymen.
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  283. I think this is history's only helicopter vs helicopter battle
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  284. Modern Russia doesn't have enough socks for their soldiers, while Ukraine is already receiving winter gear from NATO. General Winter is not going to be a friend to Russia this winter.
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  285. How does this lower the price of eggs?
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  286. At most, American contractors working on maintenance.
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  287. Downvote any racist comments For those wondering about all the hateful statements about Muslims in comment section, white supremacists misinterpret the battle as purely Christians fighting off Muslim invaders. This includes the battle being mentioned in the manifesto by a white supremacist who shot up a mosque in New Zealand.
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  288. Expel Hungary from NATO & the EU already
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  289. Sanctions are about driving up costs and reducing revenue. Stopping trade is too optimistic. Look how Russian gets computer chips. Pre-invasion, they bought computer chips from the manufacturer. Now they get them from appliances such as washing machines brought into 3rd party countries. This means they have to spend money on a washing machine and a black market smuggler in a 3rd party country. Every ruble spends on computer chips buys less computer chips and it makes increasing scale of suppliers difficult. Now, imagine this example over multiple components and multiple industries.
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  290. ​ @tamdang8346 China only surpassed Japan to be the 2nd biggest economy not that long ago. When your economy is already so huge and developed, stagnation isn't that big of a deal. Russia spending their currency reserves on temporary war spending isn't going to double their economy in order to match Japan's economic size.
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  291. Independence Day staring Will Smith was a more historically accurate movie.
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  292. NATO's solution to everything is airpower. That means there are countless weapon systems that can be used with the F-16: *Russian anti-air defenses shoot down drones, then attach anti-radar missles to an F-16 *Russia uses the Black Sea Fleet to shoot missles at civilian targets, then attach anti-ship missles to the F-16 *Russia hides their commanders in bunkers outside the range of HIMARS, then attach longer-range bunker-busting missles to the F-16.
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  293.  @freelancenerd4804  True, but the Soviet Union was only going to get more dangerous if given time to consolidate and rebuild their officer core. It was inevitable for the Nazis and Soviets to face off.
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  294.  @adamhbrennan  Germany/Japan together may have been able to face of against the Soviet Union or the United States, but clearly not at the same time. Don't forget that the US almost singlehandedly defeated Japan, while concentrating their forces in Europe and Northern Africa against the Germans and Italians.
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  295. -1000 social credit score
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  296. Ukraine expanded mobilization a few weeks ago. NATO just needs to help train them.
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  297. America's first domestic terrorist
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  298. The weather is overemphasized. Both Napoleon and Hitler's issue's were a lack of planning and not just the temperature. Invading Russia without enough food or cold weather gear is like invading a desert country without enough water.
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  299. Your imaginary persecution sounds rough
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  300. Hardly.
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  301. ​ @donksta4197  Are you going to ignore how the Russian troll attacked Simon's credibility by falsely claiming to take money from some conspiratorial cabal?
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  302. How many times can Russia throw away 30,000 lives for a pile of ruble without consequences?
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  303. A politician who is desperate to be in office to avoid being prosecuted for his crimes.
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  304.  @LarryWater  Because no one was on the island until 1915? The Japanese just chose to move there and speak Chinese in 1915?
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  305. There is a reason that Iran built their nuclear weapons program in a mountain.
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  306.  @retsaMinnavoiG  Remember, carrier fleets operate with dozens of other support vessels that require fuel, food, maintenance, ammo, est
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  307.  @Pilvenuga  Conquest & Death. Disease actually isn't a horseman.
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  308. MAGA Republicans 🤪
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  309. On a military standpoint, Germany is a massive freeloader.. However, Germany has sacrificed the most economically by cutting ties with Russia.
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  310.  @marcdavis4509  Doubtful. Poland didn't even want jets to fly from it airfields just to deliver the jets to Ukraine.
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  311.  @isisnmagic1812  Most Democrats couldn't find the state of Georgia on a map.
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  312.  @karatecanine  What every other southern service member who rolled their eyes at her?
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  313. Trump betrayed the Syrian Kurds and made everyone in the Middle East assume no one can trust America.
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  314. Can you say "demonetization"?
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  315. The Bitish were kidnapping American sailors to fight for their inbred king.
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  316.  @mrhitisnumberone  Putin did want to do it from the start, but his military failed. Russia doesn't have the troop numbers to occupy the country. Ukraine only needs to hold out long enough for the Russian people to start to learn about how thousands of Russian soldiers becoming cadavers and amputees. Even the Soviet Union couldn't keep casualties a secret forever.
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  317.  @kingtiger5040  *Anti-air technology was much more capable to knock down US fighters in the 90s, than the currect models are at shooting down our fleets of stealth aircraft. *In 1991, 10% of the bombs were precision strikes. In 2003, it was 90%.
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  318. Tucker Carlson Every leader kills people, some kill more than others." Moral relativism is a sign that the MAGA movement is completely unprincipled.
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  319. The start of the Russian tradition of False Flag attacks.
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  320. NK only has enough gas to keep their vehicles running for three days.
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  321. Powers of Allah?
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  322. Brain Blaze is the best one!
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  323. Nice historical revisionism where you ignore the role of the Tejanos in the Revolution and endorse a dictatorship directly ruling from a far.
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  324. Even with the conflicts in Ukraine, Africa, and the Middle East, this has been the most peaceful time in world history. America's overwhelming military power has scared off most nations from using their military outside their borders like Saddam did in 1991.
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  325. ​​ @tastymochalatte7699  Because Afghanistan is full of oil? That is even a stupid argument for Iraq whose sells very little oil to the US and US oil gaints have very little involvement compared to European and Asian oil companies. There also isn't enough oil production in Iraq to ever make up for the $trillion+ spent by American taxpayers to build Iraq's institutions and infrastructure.
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  326.  @maplesyrup7959  Your ignorance and gullibility is awe-inspiring.
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  327. It worked out for the Mongols.
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  328. It is amazing how Turkey and the Arab nations can throw tantrums over the French ban on headscraves, but they could care less China criminalizing Islam.
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  329. Putin, the "protector of Russian speakers," seems to bomb Russian-speaking civilians a lot.
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  330.  @DawnKing  You will never know.
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  331.  @stuartrowan9574  I'm guessing racism
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  332.  @troystpaul100  Does Hatti count?
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  333.  @BaconGold790  The difficulty is that there are ways into a closed system. Hackers not look to introduce viruses into the systems of less secure contractors. If that doesn't work, then go after the contractors' contractors. Just look what Stuxnet did to a closed system.
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  334. @Quitchangingmy  IMF 2024 EU $43,350 per capita US $86,601 per capita
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  335. Maduro is equating his conservative opposition's electoral victory to Trump's fabricated claims of electoral victory. Further evidence that Trump's election fraud lies is just giving fuel to autocratics.
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  336. 🤢🤮
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  337. Politicians care about American jobs. Shareholders do not. If manufacturers can make money through licensing or building in foreign countries, then they will. However, congressmen will protect the weapon factories in their district from loosing to foreign suppliers.
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  338. Ukrainians of the Red Army pushed back the fascists from Germany, and Ukrainians of the Republic of Ukraine will push back the fascists from Russia.
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  339.  @MJ2A  Jan 6 rioters
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  340.  @JustinOther  You are missing the point. There are Americans who are willing to overthrow over two centuries of democracy over a difference of opinion over fiscal policy.
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  341. ​ @mike7652 Why do people think using the word "literally" gives their hyperbole more credibility?
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  342. I imagine a lot of those NK artillery shells will be more dangerous for Russian gunners than for the Ukrainians. It's not like NK is known for quality maintenance.
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  343.  @RHCole  I'm always happy when the cloning machine works properly. Otherwise, we get defective clones like Michael from V-sause or Binging with Babish.
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  344. Today's North Korean generals, who have never fought in a war in their life, where their granddad's war medals like they are their own. North Korea takes the idea of stolen valor to another level.
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  345. You don't think this ideology hasn't influenced modern Russia?
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  346. To Russia trolls & their MAGA allies: Yes
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  347. Every country fought it's neighbors at some point. It's hardly unique.
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  348. Side note: Unless you are an original signatory, you have to be in Europe to join NATO.
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  349. Anti-radar missles can be fired from out of range of Russian radar.
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  350. How do Russians still think they are a democracy when their friends are all autocrats?
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  351. What about Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
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  352. The Soviet Union wasn't the good guys
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  353.  @Black-Sun__x  Iraq was hardly stable with wars with Israel, Iran, and Kuwait. Let's not forget the multiple ethnic rebellions. Syria and Libya were also stable under their dictators -- until they weren't. Saddam was governing a powder keg and American nation building was only thing that prevented the country from being a worst version of Libya or Syria. Even the issue with ISIS was cleared up in a relatively short time.
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  354. Correction: Russia targets civilians. Ukraine will target airfields, ammo dumps, and command & control centers.
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  355. The algorithm hates the Troubles.
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  356. A lot of mix messages
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  357.  @brucemckinlay9739  Are you talking about the Georgia lies from Trump? There is a live stream on the government website at the site and multiple Republican electoral watchers to confirm that didn't happen.
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  358. What is the difference?
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  359.  @seanbrazell7095  What war is the US fighting?
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  360. The Donbas in Russian Occupied Ukraine
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  361.  @tomhenry897  Rifles are cheap. The money is in advance hardware like naval ships, jets, and tanks.
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  362. Modern Russian strategy: When you can't beat the enemy's soldiers, bomb civilians, so your soldiers can hide like cowards.
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  363.  @FelipeBudinich  With the oligarchs suffering, Putin is more likely to fall off a baloney than have a revolution by the people.
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  364. Fun fact: The Civil War was due to slavery Karen triggered
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  365. Trump ❤ Putin 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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  366. Texas is better off independent than having Democrats sabotage our growing economy.
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  367.  @HedgehogZone  Germany's poor maintenance is on par with Russia. Much of weapons that the Germans sent to Ukraine were nonfunctional and in need of repair. In addition, German soldiers were found to be underequipped during NATO drills and at one point they were using broomstick for guns.
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  368.  @Nmx6286  What advance weapons? The Chechens were using old Soviet rifles and RPGs. A few lucky soldiers got old Soviet mortars.
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  369.  @sendthis9480  No one cares. Your atheist preaching is annoying as any religious evangelical.
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  370.  @sendthis9480  No One Cares
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  371.  @sendthis9480  Maybe I'm been unclear: No one cares. I don't even care enough to read your preachy comments, yet you keep wasting time making them.
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  372.  @ghost_2448  You know it's only crazy if you think the dogs talk back? The same could be said when you speak to God.
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  373.  @thekeef2187  Storm Shadow is a cruise missles designed to break through bunkers. There are non-French/British equivalents too.
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  374. Saudi Arabia's bombings of Yemen next?
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  375.  @Sandor7698  Donetsk, Luhansk, and Melitopol were destroyed by Russian artillery, and most of the population was forcefully expelled by the Russian FSB. Meanwhile, partisan attacks are frequent occurrences in Melitopol.
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  376.  @dbohler8640  Chechnya was never a UN regonized country. Meanwhile, not only did the UN agree to regonize Ukraine as a country, Russia itself has signed multiple treaties agreeing to regonize Ukraine's sovereignty and 1991 borders.
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  377.  @garyb9167  The rare earth minerals weren't discovered until a decade into the war. Oil pipeline from where to where? Iran to China? How would that benefit America? Stop making up stuff and maybe read a book.
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  378. No one cares about the failed pickup artists influencer.
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  379. Its crazy for an incumbent in control of the government to claim that wide spread voter fraud happened against them under their nose. If your administration controls the government, then how is the opposition supposed to use the levers of government to commit fraud without the government being able to produce evidence of a crime? What's the argument? We were too incompetent to stop it?
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  380. Here comes the Russian trolls 🧌
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  381.  @theliato3809  The fire in LA has been going on since 2021? That is your explanation for your disinterest for the 4-year-long civil war?
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  382. It depends on the century. The Ottomans were a regional superpower before the empire's gradual decline.
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  383.  @cyrilsuperkonar3422  They were more powerful than any European or Muslim power at the time. There wasn't any global power until the age of sail.
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  384.  @petergeramin7195  What evidence is there of a secret dossier?
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  385. Putin's puppet in America is orange.
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  386. Where did the Ukraine War videos go? YouTube censorship?
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  387. The Japanese were imperialist too at this time. If anything, China was the victim of this conflict.
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  388. Nice historical revisionism. Texas won its own independence from a far away dictator.
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  389. I don't think it's the Mexicans making California crazy. It's the white American liberals destroying the state.
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  390. I can't wait for coverage of the Nazi/Soviet invasion of Poland!
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  391. Next Waragraphics: Bay of Pigs
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  392.  @ChinnuWoW  good catch
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  393. Nice job ignoring the role of Tejanos in their own history.
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  394. More sanewashing. There is no grand plan behind the incoherent rambling.
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  395. The 1989 Invasion of Panama Next?
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  396. An economic basketcase who is only relevant on the world stage due to nuclear sabre-rattling... and North Korea
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  397. ​ @nrsrymj Russia has spent a lot of money advancing bot technology and building troll farms. Personally, I think the money should have been spend on the 1 in 5 Russians who don't even have access to indoor plumbing.
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  398. I think you are ignoring the 40% of the population of both countries pushing for overly nationalist policies.
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  399. Seems obvious
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  400.  @dsxa918  For clarification, are you Canadian?
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  401.  @TouqasBonquishes  “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” - Trump, August 2024 What day are we on as prices go up?
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  402.  @Hegde-  Your Ukraine comment doesn't even make sense. The weapons sent to Ukraine are just old stockpiles and the defense industry seems incapable of scaling up to even fill up a fraction of the current demand. Like most conspiracy theories is obvious bull to anyone who has a little bit of common sense.
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  403. Honestly, they said the same think when the EU was suggested.
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  404. Macron just wants to revive the French economy with more French weapons exports. *Get the EU to build a united military where French will take a outsize influence in weapons procurement *Steal Russian weapons customers by redirecting Russian exports to the Russian domestic market.
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  405. You are describing offensives where American air supremacy took out air defenses, communications, and command & control, or you are pointing to scenarios where moral collapsed and they ran from their fortified positions. Neither Russian or Ukrainians have air superiority and both seem willing to fight from fortified positions. Even their retreats are just back to more fortified positions.
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  406. Maintenance is the struggle. America might have to allow Americans contractors in the country.
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  407. 116,516 Americans died in WW1. In addition, without the threat from overwhelming American manpower, Germany wouldn't have unconditionally surrendered.
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  408. MAGA-hats will be unable to understand when Africa stops cooperating with anti-terrorism operations after Trump cuts off aid and pulls out the American military.
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  409. The difference is that Brazilians arrest traitors, while Americans vote for them.
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  410. 🇷🇺🧌🇷🇺
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  411. The world has changed a lot over the last century. Globalization has made it where countries become very dependent on one another. Even the US and Chinese economies can't operate without the other. Also, Italians are looking for any excuse to be soft on Putin as many care more about cheap energy than democracy and human rights.
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  412. The writers escaped the basement
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  413. Trump doesn't even know who King David is.
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  414. Political beliefs are closely aligned with economic and moral beliefs, so you are pointing out a discution without a difference.
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  415.  @Christopher_Hensley  The dollar's reserve status depends on how money is stored, not how transactions are denominated. It doesn't matter if the oil is bought in yen if the less valued currency is immediately converted to dollars to buy American products and to invest in American markets. The dollar's value compared to other currencies went up since the announcement. The 1974 deal is meaningless.
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  416.  @Christopher_Hensley  The increasing value of precious metals is due to citizens of countries like China and Russia who want to dump their domestic currencies, but capital controls won't let them get dollars. No one is trading their dollar reserves to buy anything else. If anything, more autocrats are increasing capital controls to keep their own currencies from being dumped for the dollar.
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  417. North Korea has multi-generational slave camps and factories producing sarin gas and anthrax. Saudi Arabia looks progressive by comparison.
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  418. Simon said on his other channel that he ignores lists, because he doesn't know which topic people are up voting.
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  419.  @tetraxis3011  A) If Russia does capture a town of rubble, then it would be a phyrric victory as Russians lose thousands throwing light infantry against heavily fortified positions. B) How does anyone compare the slow, high-causality, Russian advance to America's one-sided decimation of Iraq forces?
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  420.  @tetraxis3011  It has been months, and Russia still hasn't taken the town of Bakhmut. How does one compare this to American forces taking Baghdad in 6 days?
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  421. It depends. Forests, mountains, and cities don't have much use for tanks. For flat land (like the majority of Poland) tanks are significantly more useful and will quickly roll over none intrenched infantry.
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  422. Makes one wonder when the next Russia coup is coming 🤔
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  423. Russia only needs to scare the insurance companies to shut down the trade. That is a low bar.
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  424. Brexit is British sanctions on Britain.
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  425. All the Neo-N's are the ones who identify with the right.
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  426. 🇺🇦✊️
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  427. The Covid crisis was the dominoes of instability that keep falling.
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  428. The local population of 1930s Sudetenland wanted to join Germany like modern Donbas locals want to join Russia. Is a violent invasion justified?
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  429. The Middle East was never at peace.
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  430.  @ebj025  None of those time periods were without war. The Ottomans alone were always at war with their Muslim subjects. Blaming the jews for everything is just an antisemantic conspiracy spread by braindead racists.
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  431. Qaron is spreading lies again
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  432. Anti-radar missles can destroy SAMs from outside the range of Russian radar.
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  433. Trump is already bought by the Saudis, so watch him pimp the US military to Saudi Arabia's war against the Houthis.
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  434. US, Chinese, and every other nation is allowed in international waters. No nation has the right to exclude a nation from international waters.
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  435. As soon as Ukraine can fire Harpoon anti-ship missles from F-16s, the sooner Ukraine can sink the Russian black sea fleet. A destroyed Russian Navy can no longer fire missiles at civilian targets and blockade grain shipments to poor African nations.
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  436. ​ @MJ2A Based on all your comments, I'm unsurprised that you are the expert of the world's least favorite painter.
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  437. Fact boi's*
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  438. Nice try, Vlad. 🇷🇺🤖
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  439. Russian trolls: blah, blah, blah, WMD, blah, blah, blah Anything to distract the fact Russia is going into year two of their "3 day special military operation."
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  440. It worked for the Mongols.
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  441. ​ @zacretzer There is a big difference. Hitler went to jail, while America's fascist leader was allowed to live in a golf resort in Florida.
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  442.  @rufusshinra9124  Saddam wasn't democratically elected, so his legitimacy is based only on his ability to brutalize anyone who opposed him. America left Iraq after their democratically elected parliament voted for the troops to leave and the troops only came back after Iraq begged the US to rescue them from ISIS. Meanwhile, Ukraine is a sovereign democracy that chooses its leaders in free and fair elections.
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  443.  @mockingbbirdkilla1771  What advantage would nukes in Ukraine give that a fleet of undetectable nuclear subs, a flock of stealth bomber, ICBM not already guarantee?
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  444. ​ @ZeSgtSchultz Maybe you shouldn't be inviting the landlord to kill his dog and steal his stuff?
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  445.  @JamesxKo  The millions of Chinese soldiers pushed UN forces south. Not Truman.
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  446.  @emoney6191  Appeal to tradition is a claim in which a thesis is deemed correct on the basis of correlation with past or present tradition. The appeal takes the form of "this is right because we've always done it this way" and is a logical fallacy.
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  447. ​ @tenanaciouz It was a failed fascist coup attempt.
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  448. I feel like no one talks enough about the logistically nightmare it must be to supply a carrier fleet so far from America's shores.
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  449. It's not unrelated. Covid brought stimulus spending. Stimulus spending brought inflation. Inflation brought high interest rates. High interest rates brought economic insecurity. Economic insecurity brought war.
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  450. Congressmen are super protective about keeping weapons manufacturing in their district. The weapon manufacturers could care less about where it is being built.
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  451.  @dan5974  Comrad, no cares about your misinformation and false equivalencies.
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  452. Easier said in done. NATO is designed around America filling logistical and intelligence support. Just look at when Britain couldn't refuel their ships without the US in the Falkland war or how American ships had to destroy Libyan air defenses before Britain and France could enforce a no fly zone.
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  453.  @bsmithhammer  America has always encouraged NATO members to avoid spending money on logistical assets such as troop transports, refuelers, and massive cargo planes. They encouraged this to avoid redundancies with American spending and because it created a dependence on American logistics that has robbed Europe of strategic autonomy.
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  454.  @bsmithhammer  That is not what I said. The expectation is that NATO allies spend 2% of GDP on additional equipment like tanks, armored personnel carriers, and jets to supplement the American military. This dependency has left most European nations incapable of operating far from their border without American support. This has been in America's strategic interests because it means it gives America near veto power on European military adventurerism.
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  455.  @Fable148  Finland can mobilize hundreds of thousands of trained troops on the Russian border in weeks.
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  456. The better question is why Europe can't support the US in the South Pacific?
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  457. Obviously you aren't Russian. Putin won't negotiate as long as there is a possibility that his orange lapdog would cut off support to Ukraine.
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  458. Western and Soviet tanks would have the same success rate crossing a three-mile deep minefield.
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  459. To be fair, he was a very young man when the war started. Nearly two decades of war could make a person a lot less ideological. I doubt he will be anything other than an Islamists who shuns democracy and human rights, but he seems like he is a realist who knows he needs to make concession for his new government to survive.
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  460. That was over 200 years ago. Blaming everything on colonialism and slavery is a disservice to a long, complex history.
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  461.  @samwill7259  In the last 200 years, there are way more tragic countries than Haiti that have bounced back.
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  462. The Ukrainians are probably already building inflatable F-16s for Russia to bomb like they did with the inflatable HIMARs.
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  463.  @1ndragunawan  Poland had the MIGs fly from a German air base
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  464. Georgia would have to surrender claims to their Russian occupied territories as Russia isn't leaving and NATO isn't go to war with Russia over these territories.
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  465.  @robertduluth8994  Obviously, Russian 8th graders aren't taught what a metaphor is. They are probably too busy being brainwashed by Russian State Media, and then using the internet to find unreputable sources to confirm the conspiracy theories present by Putin's propaganda. Only a fool believes "it's on the internet, so it must be true".
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  466.  @KZ_EU  I don't even think about you at all
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  467.  @Demun1649   Your ignorance is awe-inspiring. *Puerto Ricans are full American citizens who have continually voted against statehood and independence, because they enjoy federal benefits without having to pay federal taxes *Marshall Islands are a UN represented independent country *Chagos literally have a smaller population than my high school. *Guantanamo Bay was established by treaty where the US Navy gets a base in exchange to fixed payments to the Cuban government. If Castro disagreed with the treaty, then he should not have been taking payments. *The Panama Canel was handed over last century Maybe get your information outside of Russian propaganda and you won't sound so ignorant.
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  468.  @KZ_EU  I'm obviously in your head rent free
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  469.  @Demun1649  No comment about your ignorance over Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, ect? Your lies are obvious to everyone except Russians (the only people dumb enough to think they are fighting a "special military operation" instead of a war after 100,000+ causalities and mass mobilization).
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  470.  @reimannx33  On a per capita basis, there has never been less people killed in war than now. America's global presence has scared off most rogue nations from attacking their neighbors. Russia is too scared to attack NATO countries. Iran is too terrified to attack Israel or Saudi Arabia. North Korea is too terrified to attack the South. China is too terrified to attack Japan, the Philippines, Australia, and many of its other neighbors. Venezuela is too terrified to attack Guyana. Of course, the countries that complain about America's military presence are the aggressive nations who don't like how the US prevents then from using their military against their neighbors.
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  471.  @reimannx33  Not only has the per capita deaths decrease, the total deaths globally have decrease to a quarter of the pre-Cold War level even as the population grows exponentially. Even with the peak deaths during the Arab Spring when Russia, Syria, and Libya were indiscriminately attacking civilians, the death count was still half the Cold War levels. As long America acts a deteriorate, the world will remain safer.
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  472.  @MrJoebrooklyn1969  Obama had to withdraw all the troops from Iraq after the Iraq Parliament passed a law that required them to leave. Puppets don't have that kind of power. Try again Russian troll.
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  473.  @michasosnowski5918  Obviously your heros are Gaddafi, Saddam, and the Taliban. I guess someone has to take the side that murders men, women, and children, otherwise there wouldn't be evil the world
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  474.  @michasosnowski5918  That is true as long as you ignore the evidence.
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  475.  @michasosnowski5918  Because Saddam didn't invade Kuwait and Iran? Because Saddam wasn't dropping chemical weapons on the Kurds? Because Saddam's police wasn't raping and murdering? Because Gaddafi wasn't funding terrorists? Because Libya didn't invade Chad? Because the Taliban wasn't supporting the 9/11 terrorists? Because the Taliban wasn't committing genocide against the Shiite minority? Because the Taliban wasn't stoning women to death for being rape victims? Obviously, your knowledge of these nation's histories are shallow.
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  476.  @michaelcoulter1725  Don't forget that Putin's orginal goal was to take Kyiv and the whole country with it. You also have Belarus slowly being absorbed into the the Russian empire. In addition, there are Russian troops occupying Georgia and Moldova. Thanks to Soviet ethnic cleansing, there are ethnic Russian populations all across the former Soviet Union that Putin can use as a pretext to expand his empire if his forces weren't shattered by this war. Pro-Russian views in Eastern Ukraine is exaggerated. While the population did prefer better relations with Russia over the EU before the war, that did not translate to be support over Russia invading and annexing them. The war crimes against Eastern Ukrainians by Russian troops has completely changed the dynamics of Russian-speakers in Ukraine.
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  477.  @thatisme3thatisme38  👈🤡
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  478.  @dariuszdziuda  The US Navy killed 2 billion children last year -- since we are both just making up stuff.
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  479.  @bittoochatterjee2661  Makes sense. Studies show that the elderly of India and the Philippines are the most vulnerable populations to social media misinformation. Even the citizens of authoritarian Russia and China are less gullible.
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  480. Vienna is in Austria, a constitutionally neutral country.
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  481. Algorithm
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  482. Sounds like Trump's trade war that prevents economic necessities from supplying the economy based on Trump's lack of understanding of economics.
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  483.  @mrhitisnumberone  In Syria, Russia used local proxy forces on the ground and used Russian jets to bomb the civilian population to submission. While Russia is still bombing hospitals and schools in Ukraine, they don't even have air supremacy yet. Most importantly, Russia doesn't have any proxy ground forces to absorb casualties on their behalf. Syria doesn't really apply.
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  484. MAGAts think conspiracy theorists without any education and experience are going to solve the country's problems because all the doctors, economists, generals, and scientists are all working to undermine America for "reasons" on behalf a secret cabal. This is what American politics has devolved into.
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  485.  @altoria-yhy  If tonnage is the best metric of navel might, then the New York yacht is the most powerful sea force in the world.
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  486.  @altoria-yhy  Sure. Assuming that the US does nothing in the next 15 years and you ignore the contributions of Japan, Korea, Australia, and the Philippines.
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  487.  @altoria-yhy  The large Chinese Navy isn't technologically advanced, and China's technologically advanced navy isn't very large.
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  488.  @ajaykumarsingh702  I hope President Pooh is paying you well for such nonsense.
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  489.  @voidtempering8700  Like I said. Special interests. It is the same reason the A-10 won't ever retire.
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  490.  @voidtempering8700  7 years of Navy budget requests until 2021, when special interests won out.
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  491.  @112313  US stock market is growing. Chinese stock market is down 40%.
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  492. Or Russia needs to leave Ukraine
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  493. The difference is that Americans want to save the Filipinos, while Stalin wanted the Polish to be murdered to prevent them from resisting a Soviet takeover.
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  494. Nobody wants to invade Russia. It's a dump.
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  495.  @_Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Name one Neo-N organization that doesn't identify with the right.
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  496.  @apollogreed5037  No one wants MAGA. Make Autocrats Great Again 🇷🇺.
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  497.  @apollogreed5037  Failure for MAGA Make Autocrats Great Again
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  498.  @apollogreed5037  Failure for M A G A Make Autocrats Great Again
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  499. Goodbye and good riddance.
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  500.  @patrickmunneke8348  You think murdering your citizens in a false flag to justify a war is the same as an accidental fire that started during a raid on a cult of pedophiles?
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  501.  @Mark-uh4zd  You think murdering your citizens in a false flag to justify a war is the same as an accidental fire that started during a raid on a cult of pedophiles?
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  502.  @haydenglendenning4305  Are you claiming that Putin as commander & chief of the armed forces has zero responsibility for the bombing of Russian civilians by the Russian military?
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  503. What makes them terrorists Attacking civilians? Then what does that make the Assad regime who drops barrel bombs and the Russians who launch airstrikes at hospitals?
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  504. Russia has eyes on the Balkans and fired missles into Romania a couple days ago.
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  505. How many rubles do you get paid to comment?
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  506. And Russians can't figure out why the country's neighbors keep asking to join NATO.
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  507. The administration is enforcing the law as Title 42 no longer applies. Unless we should go back to lockdowns? Legally, unless they are from Mexico, if someone crosses the border and says they are seeking asylum, then they can't be turned away. To turn them away under currect law would be illegal. The majority of the asylum claims are bogus, but there aren't enough judges and lawyers to process all the people in a timely manner. Supposedly, the new border law would give the president authority to turn non-Mexican immigrants at the border after a certain threshold gets reached, so the system isn't overwhelmed and it would give more money to hire judges to process through the bogus asylum claims. Many Republican congressmen have decided to reject the deal for the political benefit of a border crisis, and they will find a reason later to justify it, and partisans will just believe at face value.
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  508.  @WastdTrashPanda  Who is "they" that is saying they are replacing whites with Hispanics? And what is your problem with Hispanics? Do they not fit Trump's ideal "blood purity"?
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  509. The referendum didn't even give the voters the option to remain part of Ukraine. The only options were autonomy from Ukraine, independence from Ukraine, or join Russia. Putin will probably have the next election ballots with only options being making Putin president for life or Czar of the Russian Empire. He will then declare the people voted for him overwhelmingly.
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  510.  @maxsportsman2416  When a ballot has only has the option to succeed, how is that not rigged? Putin literally removed any alternative from the ballot. Just read a copy of one.
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  511.  @maxsportsman2416  The ethnic Germans of Sudetenland also wanted to join the Motherland after being brainwashed by fascist propaganda. The fascists in Germany than used that as an excuse to invade Czechoslovakia and annex territory. Now the fascists in Russia are using the same playbook.
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  512.  @maxsportsman2416  The ethnic Russians of Crimea wanted to join Russia for the same reason as ethnic Germans of the Sudetenland wanted to join Germany: Fascist propaganda that tells myths about a superior people and tell lies about imaginary persecutions of those people. Frankly, they are gullible and racists for believing in the propaganda imported from Russia.
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  513.  @aleksazarin319  So you are going with Russia retreated from the Ukrainians who all died..... Russian trolls are getting dumber.
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  514.  @tastymochalatte7699  I present facts and your counterpoint is "Trust me bro that CIA is doing something that I don't understand"?
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  515.  @tastymochalatte7699  Did the CIA and the Illuminati tell you that too?
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  516.  @tastymochalatte7699  Your confidence in your conspiracy is based on other people agreeing with you. That is a fallacy. Four out of ten Americans believe ghosts are real, but doesn't mean their stupid belief is correct or even has merit.
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  517.  @tastymochalatte7699  Most free democracies are freeloading off the American security blanket. While Europeans have non functioning militaries, American tax dollars are protecting their energy suppliers and attacking ISIS fighters in Syria before they return to Europe to commit terrorists attacks. Just look at Germany who had to use broomsticks during the last training NATO drill because they did have enough working guns. They only get to spend their tax revenue on expensive healthcare because Americans are protecting them from Russia and defending their interests overseas.
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  518.  @bigsprucerabbitry6238  Rare earth minerals weren't discovered until more than 10 years into the conflict. Try another stupid conspiracy
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  519. The coups in Africa will only stop when you show military leaders across Africa that the option isn't viable.
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  520.  @executivedirector7467  It is generous to call it a Pyrrhic Victory.
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  521.  @executivedirector7467  There really isn't "winning" in war. There is a question of achieving your objectives at an acceptable cost. Stalin's original objective was to re-annex Finland, but he to settle for some territory on the border at the cost of huge Soviet causalities. Finland's main objective was to retain their sovereignty, so losing some territory was probably an acceptable loss for them.
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  522. Institutionalized State Sponsored Terrorism
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  523. NATO standard weapon systems
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  524. Considering that ISIS thought blowing up the Mosal Dam was too immoral, I find it unlikely that any of China's enemies would be willing to blow up China's biggest dam -- unless China goes to war with Russia.
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  525.  @swj719  You will never know
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  526. That is literally every country before the 20th century.
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  527. More like Mosal
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  528. Toutube censorship is wild.
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  529. The algorithm works for the Chinese bots.
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  530. I am getting comments that mention Nx Ax Tx Ox deleted
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  531. Putin isn't a self-declared dictator
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  532. Russian propaganda pushes the idea that showing concern for dead soldiers is "western decadence".
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  533.  @svr5423  If that is true, then why is so much effort spent to hide the death toll?
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  534.  @Mondy667  Russia isn't even a real country. It is an artificial creation of the Mongol Empire.
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  535.  @joshuawilliams8252  You said there are "no issues," but obviously, there is an issue in Haiti. "Few issues" would be more accurate.
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  536. Congresswoman Boebert wants to send tanks to shoot families of Venezuela refugees instead of spending tanks to Ukraine to shoot invading authoritarian troops.
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  537. Tell that to the Afghan army who had air support and tanks who fled against a small force in pick-up trucks.
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  538. Instead, people will be mysteriously poisoned, die in car wrecks, fall off balconies, and commit suicide with two gunshots to the head.
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  539. Iran built their nuclear facility into a mountain. I'm not even sure American bunker busters could do the job.
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  540. Wait until Trump's "Day 1" dictatorship in January
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  541. @kokushibox8384  Trump wants to tariff them for making a unified currency, which is like tariffing Iceland to stop them from making a nuclear weapon. He is getting bent out of shape over imaginary threats.
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  542. You can attach anti-ship, anti-radar, and long range cruise missles to the F-16. This will cause problems for the Russian Navy, air defenses, logistics, and command & control. Combined arms training isn't realistic for the F-16 or A-10 in a reasonable time frame. Plus, Russian aren't insurgents, so they can just use MANPADs to shoot down the A-10.
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  543.  @MarxistValerie  You are right. The Kim family doesn't even look strong enough to walk up a flight of stairs.
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  544. Somalia pirates cost the global economy about $18 billion a year in security, insurance premiums, and longer trade routes. It would have cost America less to deploy forces and supply humanitarian aid. Unfortunately, the dumbest of society can't understand anything beyond basic government spending.
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  545. Trump ❤ Putin 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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  546. Why does it always seems like it is either Germany, Russia, or Serbia starting European wars?
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  547. ​ @MJ2A  Basically, anyone who supported Trump's attempts to overturn the election. They rather overturn over two centuries of democracy to avoid a liberal tax policy and friendly policies towards immigrants and LGBTQ.
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  548. ​ @MJ2A Anyone who tried to overturn the 2020 election. They rather overturn overturn two centuries of democracy to prevent a liberal tax policy and friendly policies to immigrants.
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  549.  @GusOfTheDorks  Only if you are the oppressor instead of the oppressed.
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  550. Xi F***ed up by harassing trade partners, arresting Chinese entrepreneurs, and double downing on exports when no one wants any additional trade with China.
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  551. The US has plans for war with Canada. Maybe the US thought Isreal also likes to train for unlikely scenarios.
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  552. China also doesn't have to build a global navy like the US. They only need enough to dominate one region.0
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  553. Europe chooses this in order to spend less on the military. Russia wants to be equals to China but circumstances don't make this possible.
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  554.  @chrisbutler1668  Literally the whole internet?
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  555.  @PatricioMartinezz  That was different. Woodrow Wilson sent troops there to force the government to pay their debt to Americans corporate interests. (There are a lot of things America has to be embarrassed about until the end of the Cold War.) Now the intervention would be multi national and humanitarian.
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  556. This feud won't end until either Putin or Prigozhin "fall off a balcony."
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  557. Should Mossad risk Tulsi leaking intelligence to Assad? Should M16 risk Tulsi leaking intelligence to Putin? Why should allies trust untrustworthy elements of Trump Administration?
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  558. Imagine being Israel or the Kurds when the head of America's intelligence agencies has sided with Assad during his civilian bombing campaign. Would you share intelligence with America if Assad or his allies could use that information against you?
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  559.  @hdrag9  Imagine being Ukraine, Polamd, France, Germany, Poland, the UK, or the Baltic states when the head of America's intelligence agencies has sided with Putin during his civilian bombing campaign. Would you share intelligence with America if Putin and the GRU could use that information against you?
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  560. If they can't be combined with modern weapons platforms, then their use is limited.
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  561. Article 5 isn't voluntary. Otherwise it would be pointless.
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  562. BRICS at its finest
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  563. “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful." - Donald Trump after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2020
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  564. The Sudetenland wanted to join Germany too...
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  565. ​@Swarmpope The concession would be recognition. If Ukraine recognizes the territory, then the rest of world would follow suit. The recognition would ensure that Russia won't lose the territory through a bloody military invasion.
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  566.  @nozhki-busha  Maybe. The time and resources that would take may be more than America yet alone Europeans are willing to spend.
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  567.  @nozhki-busha  Comrade? I live in Texas. I would like American support to be endless, but I doubts that Americans are going to care much about Ukraine as time goes on. I have much less confidence in France, Germany, Italy, and Hungary.
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  568. ​@Swarmpope The alternative is losing territory to a bloody campaign or holding on to a territory under constant siege and sanctions. I heard Putin use the media to make dumb Russians believe loses are victories time and time again. What is one more propaganda driven lie?
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  569. @Swarmpope Russians believed retreating from Kiev was a grand strategy. There gullibility is impressive. Even Putin will have a hard time selling the fleeing of a million Russian citizens from Crimea as a victory.
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  570. Considering how much this war has crippled Russia's ability to threaten America's economy and national interests, this is a bargain.
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  571. There were checks, but the quality is questionable due to a lack of paper trial from failed states
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  572. @glennjanot8128  Voters would prefer candidates who fight back with counter tariffs than cave to American coercion. Meanwhile, autocrats know they can outlast Trump in a trade war.
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  573. @robertp457  The US government cares way more about voters than tax revenue. Otherwise, every administration wouldn't be so fiscally irresponsible.
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  574.  @johnmeyers6703  It's called near-shoring. America has already been moving supply chains to America, India, Mexico, and other more trustworthy nations than China.
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  575.  @CanVultus  Based on the comment section, most people didn't see that video and were unaware of the name change. Reanouncing the name change is boring, so I decided to make a corny joke to get that point across. I'm sorry that your life is so miserable that a simple joke makes you spiral.
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  576.  @CanVultus  You are getting pretty emotional. Time of the month?
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  577.  @CanVultus  You are getting more emotional. Try a tampon and a nap.
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  578.  @jbird7782  I was earlier two weeks ago
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  579. Ironically, Putin solved the oligarch problem that made Ukraine too corrupt to join the EU by destroying all the oligarchs wealth in missle attacks.
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  580. Bush handed over an administration that crushed Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Obama decided that if we ignore the counties, then everything will be fine. We have been dealing with those consequences ever since.
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  581.  @jetcitykitty  Obama's poor policies that lead to the rise of ISIS and the re-emergence of the Taliban are often ignored because Obama took credit for the intelligence agents finding Osama.
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  582. Isn't Pakistan on their sixth coup?
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  583. These Hindi nationalists are almost as annoying as the Russian trolls.
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  584.  @mehedi1178  41 died in just the strike that targeted the Kiev children's hospital.
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  585. The US also runs war games with hypothetical capabilities that they don't have.
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  586. There are not enough Gripens to make them worth talking about.
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  587. Netanyahu has a 57% disapproval in Israel based on recent polls. Are Israelis antisemitic?
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  588.  @somestormchaseridjitwithwi2024  You obviously missed the point. I'm not presenting only two options. I'm criticizing how few choose anything other than the two extremes.
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  589.  @bluesunset-5  Classic argument you would expect from Russia to justify bombing hospitals or Hamas mutilating babies.
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  590.  @neofulcrum5013  He should have fled to Moscow then.
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  591. A) Japan and Korea don't get along B) India doesn't play well with others C) The Philippines has potential to be like NATO's Turkey and Hungary D) New Zealand are hippies E) Taiwan is a bigger quagmire than even Ukraine is for NATO F) Australia ✅️
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  592. ​ @usonumabeach300 Like NATO, the alliance wouldn't work without the US.
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  593. ​ @bigmatthews666  👈🧌
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  594.  @mezjean5966  Both cases aren't the real reason for the invasions. They are just superficial justifications.
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  595. Obama and Trump were p***ies when dealing with autocrats. Both "men" let Assad and Putin do whatever they want without consequences.
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  596. Far right politicians like to blame non-white immigrants for crime as far-right gangs threaten the population.
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  597. It less about the F-16 and more about the NATO standard weapon systems you can attach to them. For example, there are anti-ship missles that can hit any ship in the Black Sea from the Ukrainian coast.
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  598. Chechnya is also a great source for Russian conscripts and mercenary companies to fight against the Ukrainians. I'm sure Russia giving their disgruntled minorities battlefield experience and PTSD won't bite them in the ass later.
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  599. The historical revision of Putin would make an interesting video. I'm sure Simon has a channel to cover it.
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  600. That isn't dissimilar to the US where Congress continues to argue whose district or state that weapon manufacturers are going to build their factories in. Just look at how Biden moved the new Space Force headquarters from a Republican state to a Democrat state.
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  601.  @justinjenkins2682  Not all heroes wear capes
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  602. Texas is so urbanized that New York State has a greater percentage of their population in rural communities than Texas does.
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  603.  @mosesmm5473  You add in dune buggies and you just described the Kharkiv offensive.
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  604.  @brucemckinlay9739  Google "Trump fake electors plot"
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  605. ​ @dominushydra Not quite, but Russia's best soldiers are few.
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  606. Or just let the US Navy take charge of logistics like the with the last earthquake and have the Organization of American States take charge on the ground. Europe needs to stay in Europe.
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  607. No rebellion has ever won its independence with pronouns.
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  608. A10 is only good against insurgents as they are super vulnerable to MANPADS.
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  609. That is because the Dominican Republic didn't have France and the United States punish the country for over a century for liberating their slaves like what was done to Haiti.
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  610. ​ @Xalantor Let me guess. You hate non-white immigrants. When America ignores the problems in Haiti and Venezuela and people flee the country, where do you think they go?
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  611. There was actually talk of annexing the whole country, but the politicians decided to only take the mostly empty territory, because they didn't want millions of Catholic non-white citizens. Opposition to imperialism is a relatively modern concept, so I do find it strange that there is an expectation for people of the 18th and 19th centuries to have the same values as us.
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  612.  @D3FC0N96  If taking land by the barrel of gun from the Native Americans, Mexico, and Spain isn't imperialism, then what would you call it? I think most Americans have recognized the hypocrisy by the 20th century, and have worked to undo American imperialism. It is why Indian territories were given more sovereignty and why the Philippines were put on a path towards independence.
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  613. There is a reason that Pete Hegseth was chosen. Trump's previous Secretary of Defenses told Trump "no" to seizing voting machines and "no" to firing on protesters. Meanwhile, Hegseth plans an "anti-woke" purge of generals who would not show fealty to their orange master.
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  614. ​ @Aeradom2000 You know Trump ordered the military to seize voting machines and the Justice Department to arrest his political opponents? His Secretaries told him no. All his new Secretaries will be unqualified yes men.
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  615.  @Aeradom2000  When your first thought is Trump, then you are the one with the Trump obsession. You are in a cult.
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  616. ​ @MrBrock314 Less than that in America. The top 1% pays 20% of all the taxes, and the bottom 50% pay nearly no taxes.
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  617.  @needsmetal  Sending mechanics to fix tanks isn't a meat shield.
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  618.  @ridenfish39  The debt argument is so insincere. The same people who always demand the US to increase its military $800,000 billion annual budget are suddenly concerned that 3% of that spending being used to degrade the Russian military? These clowns just need to admit how they prefer Russian "anti-woke" autocratics over a liberal republic.
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  619. Simon doesn't do Biographics anymore.
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  620. ​ @shafsteryellow To be fair, it has only existed as a country for a few years.
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  621. ​ @seanbrazell7095  How many wars are US troops fighting?
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  622. @rapturesrevenge  All of them since they pulled out of Afghanistan.
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  623. @seanbrazell7095  It is called deterrents. Russia won't invade the Baltics because of NATO. China won't invade the Philippines because of the US Security Agreements. Iran won't attack Saudi Arabia because of US Security Agreements. Venezuela can't invade Guyana due to fear of US intervention. You call it war, but it is actually scaring autocrats into peace. When America sits on the sidelines, you get the Ukraine invasion.
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  624.  @Theobserver6897  BS. All the Allies plans made prior to occupation were abandoned to deal with the new realities of the Cold War.
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  625. China's Debt Trap Diplomacy at it's finest
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  626. I doubt China's sailors and navel officers could hold a candle to the experience and education of American personnel.
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  627. Russia and China prefer if people of power break the law as it gives the autocrat an excuse to arrest anyone at any time.
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  628. Sponsor: War of Tanks
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  629. "WOLVERINES!"
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  630. This is "the homeless should just buy homes" levels of critical thinking
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  631.  @J_X999  The only people Americans hate more than Chinese leaders are American leaders. If Xi didn't try to censor Pooh, then no one would have cared.
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  632. Honestly, for now, the oligarchs are hurting the most. Labor shortages increasing wages while squeezing the oligarchs profit margins. Instead of buying high-quality imports, the oligarchs are taking high interest loans to build expensive low-quality domestic alternatives.
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  633.  @FelipeBudinich  I'm not trying to do comparable suffering. My point is that the oligarchs will crack before the citizens if Putin continues the war for too long.
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  634. F-16 will cause problems for Russia. The Black Sea Fleet will be vulnerable to anti-ship missles, Russian air defenses will be vulnerable to anti-radar missles, and Russian command will be vulnerable to long-range bunker busters. It won't win the war, but the F-16 will force Russia to pick from some very bad options.
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  635. ​​ @bigmatthews666  The Russians won't even fly over Ukraine anymore.
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  636.  @antidolia  It is not criminal to not pay your bills. There is plenty of public statements and lawsuits against Trump that prove that he doesn't like to pay for services rendered -- especially to his lawyers. There is a reason that no good lawyers want to represent him. It isn't even criminal to not pay your taxes. It only illegal to not file them and to commit fraud in your taxes. If you don't pay your taxes, then the IRS goes after you with a civil lawsuit instead of a criminal.
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  637.  @sH-ed5yf  While the commentator is likely a Russian troll, it is accurate to point out most of the rebel organizations devolved into warlords or death cults.
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  638.  @Alex-cw3rz  Yes, Russia is incapable of close air support. That is why Russia is using aircraft to fire on civilian targets from long-range using glide bombs and missles.
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  639.  @lotcam4046  A lot of cheering in the streets of Syria when Assad fled to live next door to you in Moscow
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  640. Sounds like China's warlord era. The conflict only ended when powerful ideological forces (Nationalist and Communists) were able to crush all the warlords one by one.
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  641. Military intervention is unnecessary as Mexico can uproot the cartels. Their president simply chooses not to. Cut off America trade and we will see if AMLO still wants to give the cartel hugs.
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  642. Germany military spending is just goes to bloated bureaucrats with little left over for equipment. They were caught using brooms instead of guns in a NATO drill.
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  643.  @AvB.83  The swarm strategy that Iran has been building for decades. To combat a blockade, they need to stockpile a ridiculous amount of ballistic missiles and air/sea kamikaze drones. You launch enough cheap explosives, the ships will eventually get hit.
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  644. ​ @kieronparr3403  I will stop the joke when China stops their censorship
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  645. ​ @Nagria2112  Stopping yankee propaganda +100 social credit score
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  646. @gypsylips1950  Trolling westerners +100 social credit score 🇨🇳🫡
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  647.  @gypsylips1950  Trashing Western hypocrisy. You are a true patriot to the CCP. +200 social credit score
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  648.  @lianghao7128  Calling out Western Ignorance +100 Social Credit Score
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  649.  @coconutsmarties  They deleted a comment I made about Western procrastination
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  650. Simon's video on the topic: https://youtu.be/_M6xYK6GjxA
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  651. Azerbaijan is working against Russian interests by supplying the EU with gas.
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  652.  @lciat  It's been more than three days. They aren't coming back.
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  653. To all the atheists: "No one cares. Your hypocritical preaching is annoying as any religious evangelicalism."
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  654.  @ghost_2448  No one cares what you believe.
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  655.  @sendthis9480  Not reading your crybaby comments. You are *muted*. Enjoy crying into the void.
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  656.  @CountryBound-u9r  Is it not blasphemous to say your political party with a history of graft and narcotics trading is the political representative of God?
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  657.  @stephenschiffman5940  I think a lot of ISIS fighters lost their faith after being curb stopped by the Kurds and Iraqis as the US flies in for close air support.
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  658.  @CountryBound-u9r  I would never support any party that has the hubris to claim that their politicians represent God.
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  659.  @CountryBound-u9r  A) I'm not an Isreali citizen, so I don't vote for any party in Isreal B) I'm not a fan of Isreali Ultra Orthodox parties either. C) None of Israeli's parties are known for graft and narco trafficking like Hezbollah
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  660.  @ghost_2448  A lot of hubris coming from a nameless troll.
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  661.  @ShredSpaghed  That is a myth. Jews and Muslims lived peacefully for centuries in the middle east. Zoinism and Arab nationalism only appeared a few decades ago to create the conflict.
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  662.  @DeanAwada-d5i  The so-called "Party of God" is the one receiving retribution after they fired a missle that hit a soccer field that was full of children. Lebanon has only Hezbollah to blame for starting the conflict.
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  663. @SpamNinja1  Hezbollah started the war with Isreal. They attacked first, and now the people of Lebanon are suffering for that decision.
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  664. @cecelols6313  Hezbollah's child-murdering leadership won't be rewarded in heaven according to every holy scripture.
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  665. @nabolsi6  Jesus died for our sins. These terrorists achieved nothing.
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  666. @nabolsi6  They solved an issue that they caused. ISIS only got involved in Lebanon after they supported Assad's terror campaign on Sunni Muslims. Isreal is also only in Lebanon because of attacks from Hezbollah. Don't act like they are heroes for solving issues that they cause.
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  667. @ms-ss4gt  Hamas attacked Isreal first, and then Hezbollah attacked first. The terrorists F***ed around and found out.
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  668. @HusseinSongs-u4l  Child murders don't go to heaven
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  669.  @gekolizzard  A homeless person finds a dollar on the street. He too is richer than before.
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  670.  @user-qj9ye1uv8g  The state of Texas alone is richer than Russia, Brazil, and South Africa.
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  671.  @spencerstevens2175  low bar
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  672. There isn't a plan for direct French involvement. Macron just wants to revive the French economy with more French weapons exports. The Ukrainia War is an opportunity. *Get the EU to build a united military where French will take an outsized influence in weapons procurement . *Steal Russian weapons customers by redirecting Russian exports to the Russian domestic market.
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  673. Supposedly, Saddam had his army frequently watch the movie.
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  674. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are America's version of Viktor Orbán. The difference is that they don't get to veto American policies that oppose authoritarianism.
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  675. There is not an easy narrative to get behind. Unlike Ukrainians fighting for freedom, this just seems like Africans murdering one another over petty ethnic differences.
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  676. NATO standard anti-radar missles can fire out of Russian radar range. That means the Russians have to choose between keeping the radar on and risk a missles strike on the radar, or turn it off and risk not detecting Ukrainian jets, drones, and missles. This will greatly reduce the effectiveness of Russian air defenses.
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  677. You know there were hardly any Mexicans living in these areas at the time of the war? For example, Tejanos, residents of the state of Texas who are culturally descended from the original Hispanic settlers from Tejas, Coahuila, and other northern Mexican states who settled in the state of Texas before it became a US state in 1845, are a smaller Hispanic population in the state than people with descent from Guatemala or El Salvador.
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  678.  @EAWanderer  You have a very Old World view of territory and sovereignty. In the Americas sovereignty is about what the residents in the territory want; unlike Europe and Asia's hyperfocus on "historical claims" An obvious example is that vast majority of Mexican-Americans don't want the Southwest United States to rejoin Mexico.
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  679. Only the far right could oppose Putin. Liberals have pretty much been arrested, left the country, or just given up on Russia.
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  680. What facts are you disputing?
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  681. If you watched this video: -1000 social credit score
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  682. ​ @Menaceblue3 When American soldiers disobeyed their rules of engagement to kill civilians, they get prosecuted and sent to jail. Meanwhile, Russian general order their soldiers to commit war crimes and them metals for it too. You are evidence that Whataboutism is the last resort for those who have no legitimate argument.
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  683. If Trump didn't spend a $7.8 trillion dollar deficit and Biden didn't fan the fire by spending another $1.7 trillion dollar deficit, then we wouldn't have the high interest rates that are destabilizing the third world. Those begging the populists for another free stimulus check are to blame.
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  684. That Mexican Javelin photo has been debunked. Open source army field manuals show that the black stripes on the Javelin tube mark it as a training model that is unable to fire missles.
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  685. ​ @DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague  Ukraine has more equipment than when they started the war, while Russia has significantly less. Ukraine limitations to mobilization is only that they don't want troops that aren't yet trained or equipped. Ukraine's army will continue to grow in size and firepower as the war progresses. Meanwhile, Putin seems scared of a public backlash to call for another mobilization. The only way Ukraine loses is if the West stops sending weapons and supplies.
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  686.  @DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague  Peace will only be made when Russia leaves. Even without Western aid, Ukraine would be fighting and they would switch to an insurgency if they have to. At least with Western support, Ukraine can push Russian out of their territory before Russia can kidnap more children and massacre more civilians.
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  687.  @a-man2246  BS. Turkey and Saudi Arabia support Chinese lies, so they can make money off of China as Islam is criminalized in China.
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  688. Worse is the amount of outrage over Mohammed drawings and France's ban on headscraves in public schools, while they choose to be silent on China criminalizing Islam.
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  689.  @AmurTiger  The military doesn't force the politicians to evade taxes and take bribes. They choose to be criminals.
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  690.  @toske5597  Because it not an independence movement. The local "government" is run by the GRU with support from local warlords and Russian soldiers with the goal of expanding Russia's borders. They have the credibility of the ethnic Germans of the Sudetenland who wanted to join Nazi Germany.
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  691.  @Quickandslick  Because Saddam, Assad, Gaddafi, and the Taliban were democratically elected leaders?
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  692.  @aj9969  Your gullibility is impressive. Yanukovych was impeached by a 100% of parliament after he order snipers and machine guns to be used on protesters. While Russians think it is normal for their president to murder political dissidents, most free people don't think murdering ones citizens is a good thing. Also, the Russian language isn't banned. Even the Ukrainian army speaks Russian in addition to Ukrainian.
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  693.  @aj9969  The only neo Nazis in Ukraine are the ones Russians sent into the country. Just look at Wagner, which was named after Hitler's favorite composer by the mercenary company co-founder Dmitry Utkin. Unsurprisingly, Utkin has a SS tattoo on his chest.
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  694.  @aj9969  All the Crimea explosion of bridges, rail, and ammo dumps are just more Russian smoking breaks. All the Ukrainian flags that keep showing up on radio towers and buildings probably put themselves up.
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  695.  @SjorLovre  Serbia still denies they committed genocide and their politicians still champion Serbian dominance over all ethnic minorities. Does this sound like a realistic setting for Kosovo to give up their sovereignty and territorial defense? Russains love the false equivalency of comparing autonomous Kosovo to Russain proxies holding fake referendums to justify Russain imperialism.
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  696.  @jant.carlsson5061  I prefer hypocrisy
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  697.  @Sandor7698  22% of Russia's population doesn't identify as ethnic Russian. Maybe Russia should grant them independence instead of suppressing their attempts at autonomy.
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  698.  @Sandor7698  Just watch the clips of the Ukrainian army. Many are speaking Russian and are willing to die for the Ukrainian people -- especially after Russians started murdering Russain-speaking civilians, kidnapping Russian-speaking children, and bombing Russian-speaking cities.
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  699.  @Sandor7698  The Baltics, Ukraine, and Scandinavia are happy to join NATO to protect themselves from genocidal Russians.
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  700.  @NKVD_Enjoyer  Says the Russians. The only people who act like the victims as they bomb hospitals, schools, and grain destined for starving Africans.
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  701. Anti American propaganda is impressive if it can convince the gullible that America went to Afghanistan for oil when the country doesn't have any oil.
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  702. That is partly because they export manufacturing to China.
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  703. MAGA ❤
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  704. Most of his victims were citizens just living their lives.
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  705.  @g3523jaen  Europeans, "The collapse of Syria and Libya aren't are problem." Also, Europeans, "Why are there so many refugees coming into our country?"
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  706.  @theliato3809  Barely. It's a quagmire that the US doesn't want to touch, so they are paying Kenya to keep the peace instead.
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  707.  @theliato3809  I'm American. I am very aware of our issues and politics. We argue over bathrooms and whether immigrants are eating pets as Russia kidnaps children and China puts Muslims in camps.
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  708. They tried. Texas won their own independence.
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  709. Simon doesn't want to be poisoned.
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  710. What are you talking about? Korea and China talk about Japanese War crimes more than Poland and Israel talk about German War crimes.
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  711.  @bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477  They were not DEA agents. Most of the Columbian Military and Police have worked with the American military and DEA. That doesn't mean every ex-soldier or police officer who becomes a mercenary is a agent of the US--unless you are just a loony conspiracy theorist. Also, the chaos and refugee crisis from this assassination is against American interests.
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  712. Isreal war crimes and human rights violations are real. However, your false equivalencies only make those real accusations difficult to take seriously.
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  713.  @handlemybalz  Not Iraq or Afghanistan. America and NATO allies work to limit civilian causalities with complex intelligence collection and risk analysis before dropping a missle on a military target. Israel is aware of civilians next to their military target and then drop the bomb anyway.
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  714. ​ @gusb5867 Don't ask, don't tell
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  715. Far right politicians like to blame non-white immigrants for crime as far-right gangs threaten the population.
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  716. That would be an interesting Biographic.
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  717. China military experience is shooting unarmed protesters. I doubt they could successfully preform a successfully military operation any better than the Russians.
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  718. I don't recommend getting all your news from one source. Getting news from other perspectives gives more context.
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  719.  @MartinMaarva  Ukraine has multi-party elections with peaceful transfers of power. Criticism of the government is also constitutional protected. Meanwhile, Putin hasn't left power for three decades while his opposition tend to end up "in fatal car wrecks", "falling off balconies", "mysterious being poisoned", "committing suicide", or put in a gulag on trumped up charges. Russia also arrests anyone who protests or criticizes the government.
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  720.  @MartinMaarva  They criminalized the party working for Putin to overthrow the government. It's called Treason
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  721.  @hieubui9542  Let's not forget Russian applied Putin's military doctrine to bomb hospitals in Ukraine, Syria, and even Russian (Chechnya).
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  722.  @hieubui9542  The maternity and children's hospital in Mariupol is one example off the top of my head. Don't forget about all the bombed hospitals in Syria and Chechnya and Syria.
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  723.  @milaro222  It is a pretty dumb argument to claim there is a linear correlation with ammo spent and casualties. It completely ignores precision. For example, a single bullet from a sniper could have the save impact of several clips from a machine gun.
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  724.  @hieubui9542  Yes, because hundreds of hours of video evidence and every satellite company across every nation are all part of a conspiracy to fake evidence. You are obviously brain damage from mixing antifreeze with your vodka.
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  725.  @covfefe1787  If a couple of Ukraine drones are a sign of a failing strategy, then what do you call Russia's firing of missles at civilians for the better part of the year?
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  726.  @covfefe1787  Russia is attacking civilian attacks to break Ukrainian morale, but Ukraine is targeting the Kremlin in Moscow has nothing to do with Russian morale? Russian trolls lack critical thinking.
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  727.  @kaltaron1284  The people in the war zone were the Chinese.
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  728.  @kaltaron1284  They were victims stuck between two warring colonizers.
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  729. Do you want to elaborate?
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  730.  @pauld.b7129  I would welcome the hard working Mexican people, but I wouldn't want California's entitled snowflakes involved.
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  731. Anytime someone says "gun deaths," you know they are going to lie and imply all the suicides and accidents are gun related murders.
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  732.  @ceoofgreenheartinvestmentf173  Turkey has difficulty fighting the Kurds in Syria and Iraq. You are delusional as the Russians if you think fighting a NATO trained army would be a cake walk. In addition, Turkey lacks the capability to respond to an earthquake or even an inflation crisis of the president's own making. Turkey would collapse if a naval battle scares away the ships that supply Turkey's imports.
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  733. Unfortunately, Iran, the premium state sponsor of terrorism, doesn't see the irony of speaking out against terrorist attacks.
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  734. They were executing socialist because they thought they were too "communist." Basically, what Fox News guests say what they want in America.
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  735.  @_Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You think the Communist were executing the Communists for being Communists? Stop sniffing glue.
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  736. Soccer isn't a real sport. -🤠🇺🇸🏈
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  737. Trump ❤️ Putin 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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  738. Yes, and yes.
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  739. That is a overstatement. The British empire has an ugly history, but there wasn't an industrialized genocide.
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  740. American just don't want more migrants in the country. I'm not sure why Biden cracked down on Haitian migrants and not Hispanic ones. 🤔
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  741. Most nations silently like American intervention because they gain all the benefits without any cost, responsibility, or consequences. Who is seriously going to argue that the world is a better place with Saddam and Al Qaeda free to do whatever they want in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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  742. Black Hawk Down is Saddam Hussein's second favorite movie. He just loved the idea of America retreating against a weak military force over a few dead American soldiers.
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  743. Sidenote: The Godfather was Saddam's favorite movie.
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  744. Your theory is that Putin and his generals will give up their lives in a war with NATO because Ukraine is using American weapons instead of Ukrainian weapons? Please explain how that makes sense.
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  745. What's Putin going to do? Rope NATO into a war to guarantee Russia loses? It would be like Canada invading the US. One side's loss is inevitable. Nuclear exchange? Putin won't survive either. Seems like a lot to lose over a tantrum sbout Ukraine firing back at Russia.
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  746. Lira is a failed pickup artist influencer who found more profit selling Kremlin propaganda on Telegram.
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  747. Kessler syndrome
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  748. Or just rejoin the EU to rescue their economy
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  749. Longer range cruise missles will also be a headache for logistics and command & control.
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  750.  @chriswoodend2036  They are literally designed against Russian radar.
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  751. I'm not sure more war in Europe is the solution. Russians just needs to stop attacking their neighbors.
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  752. Trump-Putin-Orban Make Autocrats Great Again
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  753.  @christinebenson518  Yet the power is still on. California is the one with rolling blackouts every other year.
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  754. The far-right views in this case are only conspiracy theories and persecution complexes. There isn't a sensible reason to like Tulsi for the position.
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  755. Textbook sanewashing. MAGAts completely ignore the context and words of Trump's incoherent rambling and try to spin it into something completely unrelated so they can pretend that Trump is a strategic genius instead of an ignorant, impulsive child.
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  756. ​ @StainsStainsStains  Sanewashing. Don't let people trick you into thinking Trump's impulsive rambling is grand strategy. It's just ignorance and impulsiveness with touches of cognitive decline.
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  757.  @ForkyMeetsPorky  The troll farm workers are just doing what they are paid to do.
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  758. Great PR
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  759. American First is a colonist and imperialist ideology. Just look at Trump's statements on Panama, Greenland, and Gaza.
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  760. I'm embarrassed how incompetent the former American president was at his coup attempts and how few seem to care.
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  761. The world's second biggest energy exporter that is the first country to invade and annex territory since Saddam Hussain, why would that be interesting?
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  762. How is the land Venezuelan when Venezuelans have never lived there?
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  763. "The king has no clothes." Trump's ignorance and foolishness goes unquestioned by Republicans even when they know better.
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  764. You have one side justifying murdering babies with false equivalencies and moral relativism, and you have the other side excusing any wrongdoing from the victim.
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  765.  @tylerdavis9826  Canada doesn't count as a country.
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  766. London loves dirty money.
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  767. I don't think people are upset. They are just curious why it was struck down.
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  768.  @jimgaston9863  We get it. MAGA loves Putin and hates their fellow Americans.
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  769. If Trump's plan is to give massive amounts of military aid to Ukrainian to force Russia to the negotiation table, then it means that his MAGA allies were only blocking aid to Ukraine to deprive Biden of good PR. It is basically the same reason the bipartisan border security bill was blocked.
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  770.  @davidrossa4125  Did Biden or Harris lie that they could drop inflation in a day?
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  771. What are you talking about? Every American history class covers it. It's not possible to explain how the country expands beyond the Louisiana territory without covering it.
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  772. The most imperialist event in America history
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  773. *Most wars
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  774. Dutch disease
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  775. Fun fact: Security analysis in countries like Poland, Australia, and the UK are neither Republicans or Democrats. Crying partisanship doesn't make Tulsi qualified or fit for the job.
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  776.  @KawaiiKasai  Gaddafi would visit middle schools to pick out girls he found pretty to be abducted by his security services to be sent to his custom-built rape dungeon. He deserved worse than what he got.
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  777. ​ @blackacidgaming5672 NATO is also a tool to keep the peace between members. Without NATO, Greece and Turkey would be at war. Russia will also not respect Irish neutrality, and the Irish are too weak to do anything against Russian aggression.
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  778. How do the Chinese look at North Korea today and think they were on the right side of history?
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  779. Germany has mountains like Korea 🤔
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  780. The upcoming war sounds like the Russian-Ukraine war if every party was incompetent as Russia.
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  781. You lost respect because Simon didn't say the deputy director of the CIA that Biden hired wasn't qualified enough? Meanwhile, you think Tusli, who has never got a security briefing, is qualified?
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  782.  @8fconsulting147  You are just butt hurt that your fascist coup failed
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  783.  @8fconsulting147  Proud Boys = Brownshirts
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  784.  @openlyracist8055  Azerbaijan used a fleet of powerful drones that Armenia couldn't shoot down in a significant number. How is is that not air superiority?
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  785.  @openlyracist8055  Russia doesn't control the airspace. Russia won't even fly their jets outside of Russia borders, because they know they will be shot down. Also, the Ukrainians have more drones than the Russians.
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  786. It is funny how MAGA and Russian trolls are indistinguishable. Both are simps looking for a strongman to rule over them.
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  787. Putin buys Trump crypto. Trump pulls out of NATO.
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  788.  @thethirdman225  Australia wasn't a country. They were British citizens.
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  789.  @thethirdman225  Any source that says they know how many people died from the Spanish flu is a lie. This includes your baseless claim that Americans were somehow more uniquely prone to die from the flu than the British or French.
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  790. The Tejanos also fought for Texas independence.
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  791. Hopefully, the UN or OAS would do better job than the racist Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
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  792. Trump ❤Putin 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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  793. The far right in Europe are the Putin cheerleaders.
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  794.  @Phearsum  Also, Zelenskyy is Jewish.
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  795.  @Phearsum  Putin gave men with SS tattoos tanks and guns. Russia couldn't find an Na z is in Ukraine, so they in sent their own.
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  796.  @Phearsum  Who is we, comrade?
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  797.  @Phearsum  Everyone knows you're Russian. *Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact *Putin's ethno-national autocracy is trying to wipe away the Ukrainian identity with a series of war crimes.
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  798. A Trump presidency will lead autocrats across the world to expand their territory as Trump won't help any nation based on moral or legal obligations -- only if there is profit.
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  799. If Trump's plan is to give massive amounts of military aid to Ukrainian to force Russia to the negotiation table, then it means that his MAGA allies were only blocking aid to Ukraine to deprive Biden of good PR. It is basically the same reason the bipartisan border security bill was blocked.
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  800. She was on a watchlist for supporting Assad over Trump and for being a mouthpiece for Kremlin propaganda.
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  801. Tulsi is a Kremlin propagandist. Our allies and foreign intelligence assets will not share intel anymore because they fear Tulsi will leak to Putin.
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  802.  @JoeBauers8  Look it up
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  803. The toilet seat is interesting. The US military doesn't use Chinese parts, so mass produced toilet seats are not an option and they basically have it custom made. However, the real cost driver is labor. Due to poorly made contracts with military contractors, only the contractor could make the repair. That means they are paying an engineer to install a toilet seat at a huge hourly rate instead of getting an airforce mechanic to do it for free. It's not embezzlement. It's not clandestine weapons programs. It's just government incompetence and inefficiency.
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  804. A country of racist populists will never be a superpower.
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  805. Good news for Ukraine: Russia will have to withdraw thousands of troops back to Russia to protect Putin from his own warlords.
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  806. Never happened.
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  807.  @Christopher_Hensley  All the BRICS countries are trading in dollars except Russia, which doesn't have access to the Western banking system. Saudi Arabia would never abandon the dollar because it would devalue their own currency reserves and trillions of dollars in investments in American companies. The BRICS currency fiction is so laughable.
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  808.  @Christopher_Hensley  Are you talking about the 1974 deal where Saudi Arabia put excess dollars into treasuries notes instead of other investments? So, what? Saudi Arabia's riyal remains pegged to the dollar, and its stock of financial assets is dollar focused. The dollar's reserve status depends on how money is stored, not how transactions are denominated. The ending of the deal is such a nonstory that it didn't affect the financial market at all.
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  809. The local population of 1930s Sudetenland wanted to join Germany like modern Donbas locals want to join Russia. Is a violent invasion justified?
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  810. Because destabilizing a nuclear Pakistan would have made the world more secure?
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  811. Autocrats using capital controls to steal the wealth from their citizens has made gold demand skyrocket. If you were a Russian or Chinese citizen, then would you keep the local currency even if you couldn't access the dollar?
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  812. The president is Jewish. Use some common sense.
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  813.  @CstriderNNS  It is impressive how much stupid you can fit in one post. It has been speculated that Hitler's biological grandfather could have been Jewish. This is hardly relevant as Hit was raised by a very Christian mother and hid stepfather. By contrast, Zelenskyy is open about being a Russian-speaking Jew who lost family in the Holocaust. In your drug-filled mind, the country of Nazis chose this Jew as their leader.
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  814. There is a reason that countries like Russia, Iran, and Israel who have built their political identity as opposition to the USA is too terrified to directly face the USA.
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  815. Depends on who they are attacking. The government or civilians.
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  816. There are probably weapon shortages as corrupt police and military officers sell off theor weapons to criminal gangs.
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  817. Hardly. Most of the conflict in this country comes from people who won't even get up to vote for their beliefs yet alone fight for then.
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  818. BS. We have more forces in Somalia today than we did then.
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  819.  @padraigmuldoon4266  Don't you find it strange that it has been over two years since the 2020 election and Trump has yet to produce any evidence of his voter fraud claim?
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  820.  @Giveme1goodreason  Seem to remember that Clinton concede the election the following morning instead of ploting an insurrection.
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  821. ​ @padraigmuldoon4266  Only seven Democrat congressmen said Russia stole the election for Trump, and their objection was quickly ignored during the vote counting by then Vice President Joe Biden. This is a huge false equivalency to President Trump and members of the Republican establishment's multiple plots to defraud the public and overturn the democratic results of an election. Obviously, foreign election interference was worst in 2016, because reform made it more difficult to do so for future elections.
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  822. That is literally every country before the 20th century.
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  823. I thought it was built by slaves.
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  824. It worked too well.
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  825. Just because someone is elected doesn't mean the country has fair elections and that president doesn't use non-constitutional powers for his own benefit. Just look at Venezuela and Russia.
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  826.  @bencarson9365  In this case, the president was using un constitutional powers.
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  827. Trump-Putin 2024 Make Autocrats Great Again 🇷🇺
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  828. It is funny Russia hasn't been able to produce any evidence it had destroyed a single patriot missle platform.
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  829. In simplest terms, teenagers are just stupid.
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  830. Powderkeg conflicts: it only takes a spark to start
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  831. ​ @Kaboose-fb7bk MAGA insurrectionists failed in their fascist coup attempt on January 6th, just like their NAZI brethren. In order to keep history from repeating, the American justice system needs to ensure the treasonous coup plotter goes to jail instead of taking office.
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  832. There is always the European way. You let America intervene in your stead and collect all the benefits while remaining on your high horse during your criticism of the US.
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  833.  @Chaldon-hl6yk  Did the Sudetenlands belong to Germany?
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  834.  @Eureka2003  Are you recommending expelling ethnic Russians from the Donbas like the Germans were expelled for the Sudetenland?
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  835.  @Eureka2003  So, you support the fas.cist invasions of sovereign countries to forcibly annex territory? Na Zism seems popular in Russia.
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  836. Do the Russians say that before or after they kidnap the Ukrainian children?
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  837. The left-wing president could be corrupt, and the right-wing president could have committed a crime. I'm not sure why people think this is mutually exclusive.
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  838. It puts Putin cheerleaders like Trump and Tucker Carlson in an awkward position.
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  839. ISIS was able to form due to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Obama abandoned all interests in Iraq, so there was little pressure to stop Shiite al-Maliki from heavily discriminating against the Sunni minority. This is heavily discrimination pushed thousands of recruits to the Al-Qaeda (later to become ISIS). Remember Al-Qaeda in Iraq was pretty much powerless by the time Bush left office.
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  840. Russia only bullies smaller forces. Putin quivers at the idea of facing NATO.
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  841. The blitzkrieg on bicycles.
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  842.  @VeteranR  They said the same thing about the invasion of France.
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  843.  @VeteranR  That's assuming that the Soviets would want to fight forever and not surrender after significant loses. Germany for example surrendered in WW1 even though foreign troops never even made it into Germany.
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  844. There aren't enough Gripens to make them worth talking about.
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  845.  @johnd.8224  It takes years to make these planes in significant quantities. Look at the biggest suppliers: Sweden needs their Gripens because they haven't joined NATO. Hungary and Brazil are pro-Putin. Czech Republic only has 14 jets.
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  846. That didn't have to be the case. Europe's slave trade ended relatively peacefully.
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  847. ​​ @ThatOliveMrT It is especially hard as the colonial powers left these new countries with hardly any functional institutions.
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  848. @folkishappalachian6827  Who is "your", "they", and "you"? Your statement is meaningless without any context.
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  849. The "plan" is ethnic cle@nsing. Stop sanewashing.
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  850. What facts are you disputing?
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  851. A recession will trigger a drop in oil prices. Russia's entire economy is built on a high price of oil funding military spending. If a barrel drops in profitable for Russia, the economy and war machine will collapse.
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  852. The British are the ones who pitted ethnic groups against one another, so they wouldn't unite against the British. There is a reason that ethnic violence is way more common in former colonies than other nations.
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  853. -1000 social credit score
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  854. Not really. Most of the blowhards who want to invade Mexico are also the same clowns who want to cut off military aid to Ukraine to give Putin, Trump's BFF, an easy path to victory. This isn't about arms sales. They simply hate 🇲🇽 and love 🇷🇺.
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  855.  @hannahp1108  MAGA speaks of Mexicans as vermin and invaders, and they idolize Putin's autocratic ability to silence liberals and enact his agenda despite the law and public opinion. If anything, I downplayed their far-right views.
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  856. At the time, German politicians were still trying to pressure Ukraine into a peace deal (surrender) because they wanted to buy cheap Russian energy again. The bombing made sure that wasn't an option.
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  857. Hardly a fair comparison as most Mexicans in America want to return to the disfunction and corruption of Modern Mexico.
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  858. Everyone complains about the Iraq War, but no one ever says the world is better with Saddam in it.
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  859.  @chrisdiaz9011  Can you honestly tell me that Saddam would have been less violent to Iran-backed Shiite rebels during the Arab Spring? Assad would have looked like Ghanhi compared to Saddam if the butcher was around for the Arab Spring. The man invaded two neighboring countries, drop chemical weapons on his minority population, and operated a secret police whose brutality would have made Mengele horrified.
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  860. "Probably not"
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  861. The differences between Americans and Canadians are less noticeable than the differences between Americans and other Americans.
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  862.  @mockingbbirdkilla1771  The Soviet Union was fighting for their survival in WW2 as the Germans killed millions of civilians. Meanwhile, before Russia invaded in full, the Donbas was losing an average of 12 civilians/year in the war between Ukraine and Russia's proxies. If the Soviets lost, they and their families wouldn't have survived. If the Russian don't win in Ukrainian, then the surving Russian soldiers go home to their families in Russia. How many Russian lives are worth capturing a region depopulated by Russian artillery? How much are the Russians willing to sacrifice in lives and money for so little?
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  863.  @mockingbbirdkilla1771  Why is NATO Findland being a stone throw away from St. Petersburg is also not an existential threat?
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  864.  @mockingbbirdkilla1771  Betrayed Russia? Were they supposed to be thankful for the Holodomor?
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  865.  @mockingbbirdkilla1771  Betrayal? Were they supposed to be thankful for the Holod-omor?
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  866.  @mockingbbirdkilla1771  62 years ago. Way before hypersonic missles, stealth subs, and stealth bombers. Maybe Moscow should defend itself against catapults, too.
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  867.  @FangYuanDaoistGu  *The FSB is the one who bombed their own apartments to manufacture a crisis. *Serbia has no one to blame for the break up of Yugoslavia except Serbia *No one in any significant position of power wants the most nuclear nation on the planet to descend into civil war. Everyone was looking forward to post-cold war Russia to be a functioning democracy and force of stability. Instead, we have a kleptocracy with Imperial ambitions.
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  868.  @mockingbbirdkilla1771  I thought the threat was nuclear? Nukes don't matter now? You aren't very consistent with your propaganda
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  869.  @FangYuanDaoistGu  Your guys' conspiracies run deep. You now think America, a colony that rebeled from the British, is currently responsible for the crimes of a colonial empire that the US had dismantled over half a century ago? Do you want to blame the US for what the Mongols did in Russia, too?
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  870.  @FangYuanDaoistGu  So, America is now responsible for another country's century old crime? Do you also blame NATO for what the Mongol Horde did to medieval Russia?
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  871.  @FangYuanDaoistGu  What treaty or agreement did America sign to agree to never expand NATO? Budapest Memorandum? UN Charter? Minsk agreements? No, those were agreements that Russia signed to agree to respect Ukraine's sovereignty.
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  872.  @FangYuanDaoistGu  Why does anyone need permission to decide who they seek an alliance with. This is sovereign right given by the UN Charter. Did Russia seek American permission to make an alliance with Belarus or Albania?
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  873.  @FangYuanDaoistGu  It was an unconfirmed statement from half a century ago from one unelected American Secretary of State. This doesn't supersede the NATO treaty that allows any European who meets certain criteria from joining. Why don't you hold your own president accountable for his promises such as when he told Macron there was no plan to invade Ukraine and when he told the Russian people he wouldn't send conscripts to the frontline?
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  874. America has one of those running for office, too.
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  875. 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
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  876. Anyone who says the world would have been safer with Saddam Hussein instead of a flawed Iraqi democracy is too dumb to think of the implications of what Saddam would have done to dissent during the Arab Spring. With Iraq's population being much bigger than Iraq and Libya and Saddam's unparalleled cruelty, the bloodbath would have put Assad and Gaddafi to shame.
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  877. Trump has already invited Putin to invade. All Trump has to do is obstruct Congress from forcing him to take action. The longer it takes, the more his territory his BFF Putin takes.
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  878.  @bugcatcherwade9048  Putin was invited by Trump to invade, which means Russian looting and war crimes.
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  879.  @NecroAsphyxia  Trump invited Russia to invade NATO at his own rally. Are you so brainwashed by the personality cult that you deny what you witnessed yourself?
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  880.  @tonywilson4713  Ukraine weapon shipments are evidence that NATO standard weapon are in battle ready for the most part -- particularly those from America, France, and the UK.
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  881.  @Paladinpal  Not without sending more troops to narrow the Chinese numbers advantage.
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  882.  HoLeeFook68  Every country has criminal gangs.
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  883.  @tkh2944  China is gigantic version of Singapore? I pretty sure the people of Singapore would be offended by such a comparison as China is often used internationally as the benchmark of bribery. Yes, China the greatest system of law and order. Where police officers will arrest you for complaining how the state bank stole your money. Where prisons never fill because there is always a steady stream of prisoners to be executed without due process, so their organs can be sold. Where acting "too Muslim" is a criminal offense.
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  884.  @mingyuhuang8944  Yes, America left Afghanistan after losing interest after two decades of nation building. If that makes you think China's corrupt military is comparable to the US Navy, then that is further evidence that Chinese education doesn't teach critical thinking.
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  885.  @kevinsedwards  Didn't the 300 end up losing in the end?
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  886.  @9OClockRant  When even the president and his cabinet are subject to the rule of law, then a country has a good justice system. Meanwhile, everyone on the Mainland is corrupt, but only rivals of President Pooh go to jail.
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  887.  @kevinsedwards  I don't disagree that quality soldiers are better, but ignoring numerical superiority is just willful ignorance.
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  888.  @malamuteaerospace6333  War is about achieving political objectives through violent means. If the Chinese objective was to expell UN forces from NK, then they won. If their objective was a united Communist Korea, then they failed. As far as cost, Mao and his brainshwashed citizens were cool with the loses.
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  889.  @vinceee_r  300 of the best trained Spartans will still lose to 10,000 Persians.
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  890.  @vinceee_r  Battle of Isandlwana. Rifles and cannons lost to a numerical advantage with spears and shields.
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  891.  @vinceee_r  The technological difference between Chinese and Western tech isn't remotely vast enough to make quantity obsolete. For example, if Westen air defense can knock down 99% of missles fired at it, then the Chinese will just send 200 missiles and hit the carrier twice.
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  892.  @kedabro1957  Moral relativism is how immoral societies justify their immortality. The Chinese Communist Party has fooled their people into accepting extreme corruption by pointing out small amounts of corruption elsewhere in order to make Chinese citizens think corruption is normal. Russia does the same thing with violence.
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  893.  @jntiger1981  Soviet made weapons aren't free of corruption.
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  894.  @PapaCloguu  The net benefit of the Chinese government artificially suppressing the wage of the Chinese worker has always outweighed the downside of dealing with corrupt Chinese officials. Unfortunately, due to Xi's economic mismanagement, China has been losing Foreign Direct Invest by 5-8% every six months.
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  895. ​ @gunsnrosesforever100  When America chooses inaction, you get the Rwanda Genocide, the rise of ISIS in Syria, the Russian annexation of Crimea. America is the only nation with both the capability and moral fortitude to take action when others choose to do nothing. Even the Europeans admit that they would do nothing to support their brothers in Ukraine without American backing.
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  896. The local population of 1930s Sudetenland wanted to join Germany like modern Donbas locals want to join Russia. Is a violent invasion justified?
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  897.  @eveningabused5123  It's all about using fascist propaganda to win over a local population and then using fascist justification to annex that population. Germany then, Russia today.
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  898.  @eveningabused5123  1930s Germans used fas-cist propaganda to convince Sunderland Germans to want to join Germany and then used fas-cist justification to violently invade. Modern Russia used fas-cist propaganda to convince Donbas Ukrainians to want to join Russia and then used fas-cist justification to violently invade.
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  899.  @sebresludolf9611  BS The Taliban hasn't made any public statements saying this, and there isn't even an intelligence report claiming this. The Taliban is already fighting Iran over water resources. It isn't sending it men to be canon fodder for Iran. Lastly, since the 1980s, the Taliban has never been interested in global Jihand. It is why they are at war with IS IS-K.
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  900.  @TylerTheObserver  Iran already smuggles troops to Syria from Afghanistan.
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  901.  @OshinAttari  You have a nuclear weapons program that has yet to make the bomb. Why else are the Iranians purifying uranium beyond civilian use and developing intercontinental missiles?
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  902.  @OshinAttari  3% purity of uranium is needed for power. Iran then goes up to 20% purity for "medical isotopes." Iran then goes to 40% purity for "nuclear powered tankers/subs" Iran then goes to 60% even though there is no purpose for that level beyond getting closer to 90% needed to be weapons grade. This month, the IAEA found some with 86% purity. An intercontinental missile is also completely useless without a nuclear payload, so Iran weapons makers are making a nuke or they are simply stupid. You have to be a complete fool to not regonize that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
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  903.  @OshinAttari  Your English is too broken for me to understand
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  904.  @OshinAttari  Considering your regime wants to "wipe Isreal off the map," has zero issues murdering it own citizens, and has funded terrorists groups across the Middle East, I would have zero issues with Iran being bombed into the stone ages to prevent those lunatics from building a nuclear bomb.
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  905.  @OshinAttari  Chosen? The Supreme Leader is unelected, and the rest of the government is made up of fake elections where the leader chooses who can run for office. Meanwhile, when the people of Iran protest the regime's oppression of them, the regime arrests, murders, and tortures them. If that is what they do to their own countrymen, then I can't imagine the inhuman things they would do to others with nuclear weapons. It is obvious that no one wanted Saddam to have chemical weapons, so to say America had any involvement is just another sign to how gullible you are to your government's propaganda.
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  906.  @OshinAttari  I don't care about your propaganda piece. The Kurds know it was Saddam and no one esle. Only brainwashed imbeciles in Iran think otherwise.
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  907.  @OshinAttari  The American-British planned coup is widely considered a shameful part of our past. However, I'm not sure why something that happened 70 years ago gives legitimacy for Iran to build nukes and support terrorists. The shooting down of the passenger jet was accident, and President Ronald Reagan apologized back in the 1980s. Meanwhile, Iran arrests, murders, and tortures its own citizens for simply protesting their unelected leaders.
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  908.  @OshinAttari  The American-British planned coup is widely considered a shameful part of our past. However, I'm not sure why something that happened 70 years ago gives legitimacy for Iran to build nukes and support terrorists. The shooting down of the passenger jet was accident, and President Ronald Reagan apologized back in the 1980s. Meanwhile, Iran arrests, murders, and tortures its own citizens for simply protesting their unelected leaders.
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  909.  @theprogressivecynic2407  Easier said than done
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  910.  @GeometricPidgeon  You obviously missed the point. I was disputing the fallacy that autocracy should be normalized because it was commonplace throughout history by applying the same flawed logic to infant mortality. Next time, try some critical thinking before commenting.
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  911. It helps that Simon ignored the oppression of the Palestinians and the brutality of the Palestinian terrorists.
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  912. As long as Hungary is Putin's puppet, Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova will not be joining NATO.
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