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Germany suffers from the same problem that the US and the UK and France does.
The problem: The world has increased their standard of living, so people aren't desperate to get into Germany to be sneered at or have people be bigoted against them, when they can find somewhere else to live.
Poles no longer want to work in Germany for exploitation wages. The standard of living in Poland is high enough back home that you aren't going to work in Germany for exploitation wages the way you did in the 1980s and 1990s. And Germans haven't come to grips with this, so they still offer $2/hr to Polish workers while paying $5/hr to German workers (not actual amounts, just demonstrating the differences.) Well, when you can earn $4/hr back in Poland, why would you go to Germany to work for $2/hr and have some German bigot sneering at you all day.
The same is starting to happen in France and the UK and the US. Eventually, the standard of living gets better in origin countries and they see no reason to deal with bigots in another country. And if you treat people like garbage, the only ones who stay, are the desperate and who can't leave, like refugees. And anyone else, with a solid exit plan, heads for the doors to the neighboring countries that don't have a culture of unpleasantness.
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The reason why the French tanks failed against the German Panzers is a lot more simple and stupid. Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian, put radios in every German tank. This meant that German tanks could communicate and coordinate with each other and HQ and the French tanks couldn't. If a strong French tank appeared, the Germans could call in reinforcements to bring heavy fire on a good French tank. If a French tank broke through, it couldn't call in other tanks and infantry to help and assist in the capture and holding of a strategic position.
As I said, simple and stupid by our modern thought process, a revolutionary breakthrough in 1939. The Blitzkrieg or Swerpunkt Doctrines utilized this revolution of thought and no one was ready for it. So even though the French and Russian tanks were better than German tanks, and they were. The slopped armor of Russian tanks was a beast, it didn't matter because the Germans didn't have to go to HQ every day to get their orders, they got their orders instantly on the battlefield, as battlefield conditions changed.
COMMUNICATION and DISSEMINATION of information made the Germans superior. All other stuff, like speed, discipline, and blah, blah, blah, that was all peripheral, the German soldier fought well because he knew where to be on the battlefield at any time of the battle and his opponents did not.
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@mrwsystems I believe the riots occurred because Jews were allowed to celebrate their High Holy Days and Arabs were told to flock off when they wished to celebrate Ramadan. As a matter of fact, I remember Israeli politicians having the police to turn of the Muslim call to prayer speakers during Ramadan because he wanted to give a speech in front of the Wailing Wall. We can add to this the fact that Israelis are legally allowed to steal (I mean confiscate) private property of Arabs based on Israeli law.
I read all of what I said in an article by a Jewish man. Apparently Bibi incited the riots intentionally, in order to then use said riots to terrorize Israelis into keeping him in power 2 years ago.
I guess if someone came over to your home, took your home from you, slapped you around a few times, told you you aren't allowed to go to temple, then that would be 'ok' as long as they're in charge of the country, right?
And you wouldn't riot because that would, as you say 'Arab stupidity' or would that then be 'Jewish stupidity?' I suppose as long as someone else is in charge, you and your family, don't have human rights, you're just a second class dogs, to be disposed of at the whim of those with guns and political power.
You are also 100% right. Nothing happens from thin air. Everything has precedence.
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0:27 The United States recognized Ukraine's independence on December 25, 1991, when President George H.W. Bush announced the decision in an address to the nation regarding the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Russia recognized Ukraine's independence on December 5, 1994, when the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances were signed.
Notice how the most powerful nation in the region gets to decide who's Independence does or does not get recognized? Yeah, I noticed that, too. Apparently, might made right. The U.S. had the might to force Russia to accept the will of Ukrainian secessionists, in 1994. Anyone who thought, that was going to last, obviously failed their World History classes. If you looked at your calendar it is not 1991 bur rather it is now 2022. Russia might have accepted the strong arm tactics of the West in 1991. But did anyone actually think it would last? Does anyone here think Taiwan's Independence will stand the test of time? I ask because I am forced to listen to CNN nonsense at home by people who refuse to read history books.
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First, I like the EUIV background but I think you'll like Imperator: Rome more, in about a month.
But I think you've failed to hit the main reasons for Roman success.
Here is the reason why Rome succeeded while others failed:
1. Uniformity of equipment. The Iberius Gladius was the same. That means when your sword broke, and you needed a replacement, you just picked up the weapon held by a fallen comrade, or from the equipment boy who would bring it to you. Your shield broke, you picked up a fresh one from another fallen Roman, or from the back line. Because EVERY Gladius, Shield, Pila, etc... were all the same. A medieval knight had a sword and his comrade had a different weapon with different weight, length, balance. I can't pick up your knightly sword and be just as effective because your knightly sword is different than mine. A Roman Legionnaire in Britania could pick up the Gladius of a Roman Legionnaire a 1,000 miles away in Scythia and be just as effective. This is the epitome of brilliance, that wasn't rediscovered until the mid 20th century. This is also why every US Marine is equipped with an M-16 and why their ammunition has a specific size, but is uniform is weight, size and effectiveness. The padding in the helmet might change but the helmets are all the same size.
2. NCOs and Citizenship. Because everyone in a Roman Legion was a citizen originally, the attitude of everyone being a mouthy shit was tolerated, since everyone was 'an equal' Citizen. If a centurion saw that a gap existed between an enemy line. Or an undefended flank was open, he felt confident in his own standing as a Citizen, to take his Century and exploit that advantage. A top heavy nation, with Nobles commanding and peasants obeying, yeah, not so much. You stood where you were told to stand, you fought where you were told to fight, you died if your Commanding Officer was shit. A Roman on the other hand wasn't going to die if his CO was shit. He'd just disobey a stupid order and win the battle. Incompetent COs thus were rarely in charge for more than a short period of time, or they wound up having an accident. A Roman General was NOT a King, their position wasn't guaranteed. Competence was required. Your daddy could get you an officer rank but how high you climbed depended on personal skill. And no matter how many boots you licked, if you were a poor officer, you were not being promoted. Nobody was willing to die for a rich boy's nonsense.
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Unless you are an alien from another planet, you are a descendant of people who committed multiple ethnic cleansings in multiple generations as well as other atrocities. Their victims are gone and cannot speak of these crimes. One tribe wiped out another, in a constant haze of mass murder, and war for resources and land for generations at a time.
If you are a Muslim you are a descendant of people who were oppressed as well as their oppressors. If you are a Christian, the same goes for you. A Jew, yup, you too.
So if you feel better because someone admitted that they did you and your people harm, then you only understood his words half way. DIg deeper and a bit further into the past and before your people were oppressed, you'll find they were the oppressors. The Europeans may have been the most recent and most successful but the Arabs, the Mongols, the Japanese, the Zulus, the Mughals, the Chinese, the Aztecs, the Incas, the whoever, they all did it and they were all guilty of unspeakable things.
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@Nothing To See Here The goal of Socialism is to limit the destructive excesses of pure Capitalism.
8 hour work days, Socialism.
Industrial child labor laws, Socialism.
Social safety nets for widows, orphans, people handicapped during national wars and industrial accidents, Socialism.
Unemployment insurance, Socialism.
Your Social Security check, Socialism.
Medicare, Socialism.
Public schools, Socialism.
Public roads, Socialism.
Electricity in rural areas being subsidized by the Federal government, Socialism.
Hospitals in rural areas being subsidized by the Federal government, Socialism.
Arms industry in rural Sates, away from centers of Industry, Socialism.
Farm subsidies, Socialism.
My bet is that you've taken advantage of Socialist structures your entire life, without even being aware of it and if you lived in a pure capitalist society tomorrow, you'd put a gun in your mouth in a few days, out of pure misery.
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Excuses are good but everyone can make excuses. :D
Russia: We have to protect our southern border, so lets expand to the Northern Caucuses.
Russia: We have to give ourselves a buffer zone, let's take over the Southern Caucuses.
Russia: We have to protect our Southern Caucuses buffer zone from invasion, we have push into Syria and across Anatolia, to prevent Mediterranean threats.
Russia: We have to protect our Southern border from invasion, we have to take over the Stans.
Russia: We have to protect our Stans regions and create a buffer zone in Iran.
Russia: We have to protect our Iranian buffer zone, let's push all the way to the Straits of Hormuz.
And on and on and on.
Russia will always find a reason to expand to 'protect' its interests and buffer zones. And the ethnic cleansings and oppression are just a bonus, free of charge. China makes up the same sort of excuses.
Using this train of thought, the US should take over Mexico, in order to secure its Southern Flank. And then to make itself completely safe, just take over South America. And then to prevent a giant naval invasion of South America, all of Africa should follow.
EDIT2: However its current largest land border is in the North so they should invade Canada.
EDIT: 16:00 As for shaping of the Russian Empire. I wouldn't give a bunch of half literate Communists credit for the methodical expansions of the Romanov Dynasty, that's giving credit, where it has not been earned.
Still, thank you for making this video, I love watching them and enjoy learning how Russia forms excuses, for its dangerous behaviors.
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So theft is punished by the removal of a hand, and this is bad because...?
I mean if the Sultanate provides you with a home, a car, healthcare and retirement, I'll assume they provide you with enough to eat, and to pay for utilities. So the only theft I can think off, would be theft with the intent of self-enrichment, like defrauding your neighbors, grand theft auto, theft of natural resources, theft of luxuries, theft of things you don't need to live, etc...
Again, this punishment is bad because...? I'm more outraged by Wall-Street bankers, mutual fund managers, and all sorts of other scum, get to walk away with $1 billion without doing any jail time, than I am with their hand being cut off. Why the fuck isn't the UN condemning the U.S. government for allowing these swine to rob the elderly and the uneducated with impunity?
As for some woman whoring herself out for $3,000 a day, what the fuck did she think she was going to be doing? Playing patty-cakes and shopping? $3,000 a day is $21,000 a week or $1.1 million a year. You are a professional whore, you went there to screw for money. Spare me the false outrage.
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Africa is NOT a country, so it does NOT have plans for itself. Rowanda has plans for itself, South Africa has plans for itself, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Congo, etc...
And just as Spain has African plans and strategies, African nations have European strategies, and Asian strategies, and South American strategies.
For example Nigeria has strategies as to whom they will trade with and which resources they will trade and what benefits they intend to gain from said international relations.
You pretend that Europe is racist because it has National Strategies for different Continents, while revealing that YOU are racist because you can't fathom the idea that each nation in Africa is capable of having its own agendas.
Your racism is ingrained in the fact that you don't even recognize that there are a multitude of countries on the African continent, each of which has its own NATIONAL agendas.
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4:38 No one ever worked their slaves to death in the fields. Slave owners were not nice people but they were greedy and they were businessmen first.
Slaves were expensive, to acquire, to transport, to feed, and to educate (not reading and writing education, but rather tool usage, language usage, and how to plant crops etc.) Either way, no one invested that much money, just to work someone to death. That would be STUPID, and I promise you, rich people might be many things, cold, calculating, even mean, but they are rarely... stupid.
This statement is the equivalent of claiming that a horse racer would run their horses to death. Again, too much money invested, especially if you want the horse to run many races and then sire healthy offspring so that more future thoroughbreds could be produced. You certainly wouldn't run the horse to death or work a slave to death.
11:30 And what evidence is there that most of the farm land, the Europeans used was stolen/taken from the natives? How much of the land that was colonized, was simply cleared by the Europeans because they had steel tools and the knowledge to do so? Or did the arable farmland just quadruple itself without any help?
Most of Africa was a jungle, so was most of North America. Iron/steel axes, allowed Europeans to create farmland. Most of the wealth was just created by the Europeans, without it actually being stolen from anyone. European irrigation, made land fertile, jungles cleared by European tools increase land for agriculture, European land management brought crops that could feed more people. None of this is theft.
Without European involvement, Sub Saharan Africa could not support more than 10%-20% of its current population.
I'm going to stop watching at this point, since your video is all about blaming the Europeans for Africa's failings.
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The U.S. wishes to equip and arm the Ukrainians. But U.S. arms and gear, need a lot of technical knowledge to be passed on (both expensive and time consuming,) so Poland gets to upgrade and in return, pay for part of it (happy American taxpayers,) and it gets to pass on arms that the Ukrainians can use immediately, rather than 6 months from now, in return for a discount for its purchases.
This is how we define a 3 way win, Poland gets to pay a 'friends and family' price, the U.S. gets to do military spending without angering the electorate by subsidizing Polish procurements of U.S. arms, that keep Americans employed, they U.S. can avoid having station, train, equip, and maintain a full army to defend Poland, since the Poles are willing to do that. And the Ukrainians get weapons and gear they are familiar with, that is probably well maintained as the Polish army was using as recently as 'yesterday.'
So yay for everyone.
Not to mention the Polish procurement from SK, where both can have a good arms-trade relationship as neither has a reason to be suspicious of the other's motives or intentions.
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7:18 Thanks for the explanation on War Crimes, I didn't know VisualPolitik was now shilling for Israel.
Here are some other War Crimes you failed to mention.
Unlawful wanton destruction or appropriation of property
Unlawful deportation, confinement or transfer
Settlement of occupied territory
Deportation of inhabitants of occupied territory
I hate having Israeli mouthpieces preach War Crimes about one side while conveniently whitewashing the War Crimes committed by the other side, on a daily basis.
I love that you guys think talking about missile attacks that happened between May 10th and 15th matter, when you conveniently forgot that in April at the beginning of Ramadan (Muslim Christmas) Israeli cops walked into the al-Aqsa Mosque and cut power to their 'prayer speakers' so that some Israeli politician could do a political speech at the expense of someone else's Holy Day. (BTW, this would be like the Mayor of New York having the power cut to a Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, just so that he could do a political speech in the area.)
And when the Palestinians got rightfully mad at having their religious rights attacked, the Israeli police decided to open fire using stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. And this is what sparked the conflict that unfolded and escalated in May.
After 2 years of peace, the Israeli POLICE came and INTENTIONALLY provoked the Palestinians, in APRIL, and then then I have to listen to Israel playing the victim a month after they incited the conflict and started the fire.
So please spare me your made up War Crime outrage, VisualPolitik. Either cover the entire conflict or keep the accusations to a nice neutral ZERO.
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I'm glad they are discussing Mearshimer's videos, ONE MASSIVE point to be remined of is that, the video in question "Why Ukraine is the West's Fault" is SIX years old, that's right 2016. As in, he's not some guy who started saying this stuff 4 months ago in 2022, this is a video from 2016.
So when someone is spewing nonsense about it being wrong about 2022 or Russian propaganda, just remember, this is an American professor and an America political analyst's opinion, that was not formed based on the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. And he predicted the stupidity, greed, posturing and false promises of NATO to Ukraine.
And he also informed everyone how and why it would force Putin to do exactly what he is doing. This is a guy who made his analysis known, during President Obama's term in office, not Trump's or Biden's.
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@THE-X-Force Tell me what aggression caused every expansion of NATO since 1991. Otherwise, spew that propaganda in someone else's ear.
As for Crimea, the Russians could legitimately claim that Ukraine illegally annexed Crimea in 1991. As a matter of fact, Russia could legitimately claim that all territory held under Ukraine SSR was simply an administrative area, and all territory acquired since 1654 was illegally annexed by Ukraine in 1991.
And in your own words, Crimea regardless of its status in the past, IS Russian? And Dobas IS Russian? And Eastern Ukraine IS Russian.
If the only legitimacy needed to hold land, is what the US and Western Europe say, then there will definitively be a nuclear war, either in Ukraine or in Taiwan, another territory I'm not amused being taxed over.
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18:45 Communism does make sense in certain aspects, which you may have not considered. Primarily as a way of protecting the prosperity of the economic centers by ensuring that the buffer areas remain economically viable.
I give you Caspian Report's "Why China cannot abandon communism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_kBNRK7HxA
This same 'Communism' exists here in the United States. The Red Sates would be dirt poor, without the Blue States footing the bill for their economic prosperity. Farm subsidies, infrastructure, airports, post offices, electric infrastructure, etc.
We just don't call it Communism, but without it, OK and AK and SD and ND would dry on the vine. The only reason natural gas resources are able to be extracted (today) in places like ND is because CA and NY taxes have been paying for the last 80 years, to maintain roads, electricity and human habitation, in mostly undesirable areas of frozen tundras.
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Please do not refer to the people who refuse to be in the same room as Steve Bannon as Liberals, THEY ARE NOT LIBERALS. What they are, are Leftists, just like Bannon is a member of the Alt-Right. A Leftists or a Conservative, CAN be a LIBERAL, but they might not be. The Far Right and the Far Left are usually too close-minded to be LIBERALS. They shut their minds, to all opposing views, stick their fingers in their ears, and go 'nah, nah, nah, nah,...' these are NOT LIBERALS.
LIBERALS are people who believe in Freedom of Speech, even when it offends them. Leftists DO NOT. The Alt-Right DOES NOT.
The Leftists want to take everyone's guns away, the Alt-Right wants to arm everyone. LIBERALS want a moderate solution in the middle.
So fuck you Trevor, don't ever imply that some Communist Leftists is a LIBERAL, they certainly are NOT, and neither are you, any more than some Alt-Right shit is.
Now, I find your humor funny but let's be perfectly clear, YOU ARE NOT A LIBERAL, you're to closed minded, to ever claim that title, so piss off.
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You glossed this over, so I'd like to point out the reason for the inability of others to replicate the Roman system. Quite simply, it was POLITICAL. Rome was a Republic (even during the Empire period,) where as most of the other powers in the world were Monarchies.
Why does this matter?
Roman Legionnaires and by extension their Centurions. felt a sense of ownership. They had a personal, social and economic investment in the continuation, prosperity and success of the Republic/Empire. They weren't semi-slave serfs, forced to obey their noble master, or nobles who could be stripped of their title at whim. The Centurions felt free to deviate from the battle plan on the battlefield, as conditions dictated, without feeling terrified that they'd be killed for disobeying their 'king' or 'baron.' They were 'equals' to their Senatorial generals, the way an American soldier is an 'equal' citizen to an American Senator.
Obviously the social equality, was more perceived than real but this gave the Roman soldiers and their NCOs mental flexibility that was simply not available to NCOs in the armies of their contemporaries.
I appreciate that you went into the whole equipment and other stuff but this is what made the Roman legions something you could not replicate. It would require that the monarchs of the time, renounce their powers and their crowns.
This further translated into innovation, as a Roman soldier or NCO would know that if he had an idea, he would be rewarded financially and socially if he contributed. So while the semi-slave serf in Egypt didn't share his thoughts with his commanders, a Roman CITIZEN certainly did, in order to capitalize on his ideas.
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@AwesomeSauce696969 Ultimately, this part of the video felt like an attempt at prosthelytization of Libertarianism and it came up with a failed conclusion that ALL people hate government and hate leadership. It felt quite preachy.
The problem with this sort of conclusion is that people forget that Libertarianism has been attempted as a model of governing and failed miserably. In one of the New England states here in the U.S. Libertarians invaded and took over a township with sheer numbers.
They got rid of all local taxes, got rid of all local services, and about 3 years later, all the Libertarian geniuses had to eat crow because their Utopia wound up with uncollected trash piling up, which attracted bears, which ultimately resulted in bear attacks against the families of said geniuses, living there. The geniuses wound up creating a crime spree, because they thought they'd save a few pennies on electricity when they turned off all the lampposts at night.
Governments (nobles, priests, congressmen) don't exist because someone is forced to have them, they exist because they are the original and most primitive form of job specialization, starting with the Chief Hunter in the Hunter Gatherer Cave.
Human beings like having someone to lead, to remove the trash, to prevent the spread of diseases, to alleviate the poisoning of water sources and ultimately, to protect ourselves from lions and tigers and bears, oh my. :D
We might not love it but all societies use 'nobles' or 'elected officials' or whoever, to do a job of civic administration on their behalf. Because having to deal with a bit of tax collection/oppression is still a 1,000 times better than than 10,000 years later, having to live in a cave, with stone age technology, being worried about a random bear attack or a gang of marauding rapists and murderers.
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Can someone tell me how long Ukraine has existed as a country in the last 1,000 years of Eastern European History?
Because it feels like one of the 13 Confederate States in the 1860s, whose independence we're backing because we're attempting to destabilize a foe, while taking our eye of the real threat.
As an Polish-American, I've got ZERO love for Russia, Putin or their Empire. But from a basic sense of history, I don't perceive Ukraine as a country. 4 years in the 1760s and 20 years in the 2000s, doesn't make it a country, it just makes it a 'currently independent' breakaway State.
This also goes for the other former Soviet Republics that probably need to be reabsorbed by the Russians. And no, I don't want Russia to get stronger. But I'd rather the Russians absorb the Stans than allow China to absorb them. I'm a lot more worried about them becoming Chinese provinces/puppets, than them being Russian territories.
But that might just be me.
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Grab a razor and do away with it.
The reason most soldiers are expected to shave, keep their hair short, was that it was a hindrance in battle. Long hair or long beards, which the Spartans were known for, was a danger, as it could be pulled and yanked and you would not want to give the enemy something to grab onto.
The second reason for shaving, not just the beards but also the hair on the head and on the body, was a medical reason. If you sweat and get dirty and take a wound, you now have dirty hair, increasing the possibility of the wound getting infected, sepsis, and ultimately death. In the tv show Rome, you see Mark Anthony specifically having his slave shave his entire body, because he could afford to have a slave who would do this. As a fighting man, he understood that having grungy, dirty, hair could get into a potential wound and kill him.
Thirdly, the shaved face and shorn hair is a morale item. Those who have served in the military will tell you, that Drill Instructors are tasked with the destruction of the individual. Individuality is the death of discipline, and you don't want too much individualism in a military culture based on discipline, rather than on individual martial prowess.
Finally, surgery 101. You watch tv, you ever see the surgeon cut his patient without the area being shaved. No, because sawing someone up after you made a cut, is much easier when you can see, what you are operating on. And a soldier wanted a surgeon to sew him up, if he took a wound, so he did his best to be shaved wherever and when ever he could.
So did most Roman soldiers keep their hair short and their faces shaven, yes, if they had the time and were not on campaign, they certainly did, they did so with the rest of their bodies if they could afford the cost of the gooming. Things would get lax during a long and grueling campaign, but in peace time or in relatively safe areas, standards were maintained and were expected to be kept.
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That's cute but not true. MASS combat is not a duel. You don't get 10 feet of space in MASS combat. You have men pressing from the sides, from behind and enemies pressing from the front.
There are three phases in any mass combat battle, long range, shield is good, medium range, shield is good, and grappling range, where a shield is a clumsy weight around your arm, exhausting you. Luckily, I can drop my shield and you've given me something to hold on to.
If this concept is foreign to you, go to a Heavy Metal concert and experience a 'mosh pit.' Or if you'd like to see it, see "Kingdom Of Heaven" the defenses of the gate in particular. That's where the long hair and beard will get you killed fastest.
Also, I've noticed you conveniently forgot about the 3 other points I made. A cut to the face needs to be stitched up. You want to get sewn up, I hope you shaved, otherwise the surgeon is moving on to someone else because triage requires saving as many people as you can, in as short a time as possible. And you forgot to shave for 3 months, so he'll come back, when you've shaved your face, hope you don't bleed to death, or get your wound infected, in the meantime.
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@normanberg9940 "I never accused the founding fathers of any of this"
"Yes I am fully aware that GW was a mason. It's writ large all over DC." - You are talking about a Founding Father, you not me.
"You know what else those leftist liberals believed in? Holding slaves, while the conservative Britons were spending their valuable treasure putting an end to that vile system." - Again you are talking about the Founding Fathers, you not me.
"Do you know what else those leftist liberals would be responsible for in the coming years. Secession, segregation, lynching, Jim Crowe, the KKK." - Again, the same paragraph, accusing the Founding Fathers, you are accusing the Founding Fathers of secession, segregation, lynching, Jim Crowe, the KKK, NOT ME.
Reading comprehension is your friend, don't do illegal drugs, take your meds.
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In Russia an oligarch can steal your business, in China a government official can steal your business, in Iran a Kuds force member can steal your business, in North Korea, the Kim family can steal everything, in Syria the al-Asad clan can take everything from you, and in each place they will do all of this through force or intimidation.
The Pax Americana also known as America's Peace is for most but it is not for everyone, and that's 'ok.' You don't need to participate. The alternative of 'Mobster rule" is an option available to everyone, so if you want to be a mobster or have your hard work stolen by mobsters, the door is open. You are free to leave America's Peace and live in a world of mobsters and mobster intimidation.😀
Look at that, the door is open, no one is holding you from getting to realize your dream of living there. Common, git, go, I promise, no one will stop you from living the "Anti-American Dream." We in fact encourage you to travel & jump right into their open arms.
They are waiting for you and we don't mind you leaving. It is the best of both worlds for you. 🤣
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Fair question for non Americans or Americans with Alzheimer's, I don't know which one you are and I don't care to speculate.
President Trump lead from the front, any and all efforts to end social distancing, end mask wearing, and end shelter in place efforts for multiple States by vocally and by Tweet supporting the "Liberate Michigan" "Liberate Virginia" and "Liberate Minnesota," IN MAY. In fact, he made a concentrated effort to undermine the efforts made by individual States to end or limit the pandemic early. He also cut Federal funding to many of these States and contact tracing is non-existent because of his efforts.
Further more, President Obama left a 'play-book' for the future residents of the White House on how to deal with pandemics (he had to deal with Ebola and Bush had to deal with SARS during their time in office) President Obama also left a team of scientists and White House advisors to advise the President with these sort of outbreaks, so that he would have a team of professionals, ready to go at a moments notice. = President Trump fired the team of advisers and ignored the 'pandemic play-book' and instead undermined State governments, who were left to fight COVID-19 by themselves.
He further inflamed idiots in some of these States, with his rhetoric, to the point that some wanted to kidnap the Governor in Michigan just weeks ago.
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@MegaRazzzz You are a moron. The Russians did out engineer the Germans. The T-34's slopped armor was better than anything Germany had until 1944. The Russians begun by losing the war due to the officer purge of the 1930s and poor planning and administration, as well as paranoia which did not allow their Generals and supplies, to be in the vicinity of their armies. Their munitions, food and fuel not being where their armies were, prevented these armies from rising up against Stalin but it also made them incapable of protecting the Soviet Union.
As for China, when 8 Grandparents have 4 Parents (their children) to have 1 Grandson and 1 Granddaughter, the horde mentality you speak of, is an easy way of eliminating the next generation of your people. When of out 14 adults only 1 of them is young enough to be a soldier, your country is flocked. So China is going to have itself a bad time in the nearby future and is not ready for a war.
As for the future of modern warfare, you can put up a 1,000,000 Chinese soldiers on the battlefield, they'll die just as quickly as Al-Qaeda does when they get hit by drone bombs. The moron, like you, who arms a million Chinese soldiers with $50 rifles, is the moron who sends the future of his nation to get wiped out.
This is why Taiwan is safe. Its not the Taiwanese soldiers on the beaches of the island, its the drones that will sink every transport attempting a beach landing on its shores, that will win that war.
As for access to the Indian Ocean, the US sub fleet would have a field day, literally shooting fish in a barrel. US naval supremacy is not its surface fleet, its the American Wolf Packs that would starve China in a 6 month time period. The infrastructure isn't there to use roads from Russia and both Russia and China are NET IMPORTERS of food. :D
Now back to school for you, dumb dumb.
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7:55 I can see that he backed into his parking spot. The driver with the camera was the ashhole. He triggered them by backing into a spot he didn't need to, when he could pull into a spot normally without stopping traffic behind him.
8:44 Another asshole with a camera, cutting of traffic, coming out of a parking lot, and instead of going into the right lane, instead goes into the fast lane and makes people swerve around him, what a t-what.
11:32 This guy just runs the red light, cuts off people with the right of way and then thinks he's the victim, what an idiot.
17:05 A bicycle p rick who thinks that just because you can ride your bike on the street, that means you should take up the entire lane.
19:02 Another p rick who even in his own video tells you that he has multiple cars stuck behind him. So instead of pulling over and letting them pass, he just keeps going at a crawl and then laughs as the cop tickets the guy who got triggered by his bad driving.
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Crimea was part of the nation of Ukraine since 1991. That's it.
Before that, it was Russian clay or administrated by Ukraine SSR (which was also Russian clay.)
If NATO is to expand into Ukraine, and Crimea is to be Ukrainian, then Crimea would become NATO clay and a potential staging ground for US troops, as close as 500 miles from Moscow (Kharkiv is 500 miles by road from Moscow, I googled it.) As a historian, every time a powerful military was on Russia's doorstep, an invasion followed. Napoleon in the 1800s. Hitler in the 1940s. My guess is that Russians have a trauma when it comes to powerful militaries setting up shop on their doorstep and that has caused this entire problem.
My prediction is, if it looks like they are about to lose Ukraine or Ukraine is about to become NATO, the Russians will first incinerate about 20 million Ukrainians. It will be a sad day and probably the last day of modern humanity.
All because the US wants to expand its network of alliances closer and closer to Russia's border.
As an American, I am not amused because I'm paying for it, while the Republiturds are talking Social Security cuts, as someone born in Poland, I am worried about my family in Poland and Germany, and finally as someone with extended family (mother's side) in Eastern Ukraine I am sad because I most likely have family under the Russian boot heel all because US Senators and Presidents don't know how to respect other countries' 'RED LINES.'
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@onikin I wasn't doing fake math, I was doing a hyperbole. But let's use your math.
$7,400,000,000 / 20,000 claims
= $370,000 per claim
I'm going to go with, enough is enough. Don't bullshit a bullshiter. Only 5,000 people died on 9/11 but you want us to pay out 20,000 first responders? That's the entire first response team in the City of New York and half of the state of New York.
Once again, don't bullshit a bullshiter. Most of this is fraud and I've just about had enough of it. Every one of these first responders was insured, the cops, the firemen, they are already heavily insured by the City of New York. And you want us to pay out more. Spare me the nonsense.
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4:58 Wheat, maize, DATE, and COTTON production. el-Sis is a baboon if he wants to grow cotton and dates, in the the desert in a water starved nation.
California is having a bit of a drought problem. Here are the top 10 most water intensive crops in California. Pay particular attention to #4 and #7.
1.Pasture (clover, rye, bermuda and other grasses), 4.92 acre feet per acre
2.Almonds and pistachios, 4.49 acre feet per acre
3.Alfalfa, 4.48 acre feet per acre
4.Citrus and subtropical fruits (grapefruit, lemons, oranges, dates, avocados, olives, jojoba), 4.23 acre feet per acre
5.Sugar beets, 3.89 acre feet per acre
6.Other deciduous fruits (applies, apricots, walnuts, cherries, peaches, nectarines, pears, plums, prunes, figs, kiwis), 3.7 acre feet per acre
7.Cotton, 3.67 acre feet per acre
8.Onions and garlic, 2.96 acre feet per acre
9.Potatoes, 2.9 acre feet per acre
10.Vineyards (table, raisin and wine grapes), 2.85 acre feet per acre
People who don't want to destroy their own water resources don't grow cotton or dates. Just ask Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan how that's worked out for them, as the Caspian see slowly disintegrates.
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I work for a company that is run by a board of trustees made up of Union presidents, and Union representatives.
Had we unionized like it was suggested, we'd have gotten a raise last year, instead we got nothing. That raise, I will miss that money for the rest of my life, every year. It would have paid for my union dues and gave me spare cash, for the rest of eternity.
Instead, we all got the shaft, including the managers, while the company had record profits.
Non profit, my left nut. But I'm sure the Board gave itself a big fat bonus.
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@tsuchan I provided a time stamp, you can click on it and it will take you to that point in the video, Grant says "international interventions and special operations" are different from wars. Well, both Iraqi wars were "special operations" and not wars. Operation Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom, lol. So was Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Korea.
As to the reason, I think it has to do with the level of authority that Congress is willing to relinquish to the President of the United States. I'm not sure but I believe in a state of 'war' the Executive's war time powers, extend beyond the battlefield and into civilian authority. But I don't remember exactly, since Congressional Law is not my expertise, only history.
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10:26 John Oliver speaks about how each group of Asian Americans felt this behavior but fails to remember that the Poles, Italians, Irish, Hungarians, Jews, Russians, went through the same bullshit in the East as the Asian Americans went through in the West.
Immigrants get such shitty treatment in EVERY country, so much so, that it isn't much of a discussion anywhere outside of Europe and North America. The only difference is that White Europeans and White Americans give a shit about the abuse of their immigrants more than people in East Asia, Mid-East and Africa, where racism and abuse are just normalized and not deemed worthy of a discussion or ethical consideration.
So, if your complaint of being a minority in America is such an emotional burden, do understand that your valid complaints don't compare to the degrees of being a minority in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Quatar, Nigeria, Ethiopia or Zimbabwe.
And yes, I know what being a minority and an immigrant is like, I've got a chance to experience it.
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@benm5913 The English certainly did not invent the modern concentration camps. But I never gave them credit for such. The Spanish general Wheyler gets that particular honor with his reconcentrado camps.
Regarding the Boer War's prisoner camps, between 18,000 and 28,000 Boers died, 80% of them children, so tread carefully with your bucket of whitewash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_camps#/media/File:LizzieVanZyl.jpg Enjoy this one, I'm sure you'll find a way to excuse this filth.
As for the Bengal Famine, emptying every village's granary and forcing the locals to grow opium and tea, while only allowing minimal food to be grown was a guaranteed way of causing a famine, during any critical crop failure. Again, tread carefully with that bucket of whitewash.
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The Republicans win because they are a party of a strong centralized government, that supports scientific and administrative innovation, education and cooperation.
And in other news, the Pope is Baptist. :D
The entirety of this video is dependent on the Republicans being a Party of one vision, one goal, and one religion (Progressiveness is a religion, so is Conservatism.) The problem with all of this is that Progressives have a Unified faith, Conservatives do not. A Social Conservative and a Fiscal Conservative are two faiths, one worships traditionalism while the other worships money, the 2nd Amendment faith and the White Nationalist faith and anti-government faith and anti-regulation faith are also very distinctive. The Pro-Lifer hates freedom of choice, the Libertarian loves the freedom of choice, that's a Civil War within a Civil War and the Progressives are not even involved. And neither of them would exactly tolerate the White Nationalist purges, so that's another Civil War within a Civil War.
American Progressives who may not tilt Pro-Corporation, are however Pro-Money. The American Left are not some Communist stronghold, no matter what the Right wishes to say. The Right on the other hand is anti-government, anti-cooperation, anti-taxation, anti-administration but all of a sudden they we are to believe that they would support a powerful centralized, government, administrative, military government? LOLZ
The military might tilt right, but the only reason their families get to eat is because the people on the left feel obligated to pay them a living wage, and provide benefits. A soldier in Alabama loves himself some Trump and MAGA but Trump and MAGA would look to cut his wages and benefits almost immediately, so that they could cut taxes for a golf course subsidy. These were the same issues during the Civil War, the South didn't want to pay their armies, to equip them, to maintain them, they all thought it was the job of the 'other States, next door,' to do all the fighting. The same disease of selfishness and would eat at the GOP forces from the inside, while the Democrats would cut Social Security checks and government checks to the red areas, and watch their economies implode from the inside. A soldier of the GOP still has to get his payment from the payment center in DC, LA and NYC and so does the senior citizen. And all the administrative stuff is centralized in those BLUE fortresses.
More likely, they GOP side would claim victory in the first month, and declare that the remaining opposition was a States' problem, which would allow the hive mind Democrats to organize, mobilize and gain traction, while starving the GOP by cutting of financing.
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I have a gang and crime problem in my country, please take me in, as an asylum seeker, America.
Should the U.S. grant my asylum request, the other 4 billion people on the planet, who have similar stories, will expect the same. I promise you, they will come.
And why didn't Mexico grant her asylum?
Oh, is it because she didn't request it?
Is Mexico too poor for her?
Is Mexico not good enough for her granddaughter?
And all of a sudden the facts of the sob story fall apart, because you realize this is not someone who's terrified but rather someone who is seeking economic prosperity.
Asylum she could have gotten in Mexico, she didn't want that, she wanted an American handout and that's not the same as asylum.
(And I'm a Democrat who just voted for Biden, so that should tell you, what it takes for me to call b.s. on this.)
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I think this is fairly accurate, except it does not take into account the NRA boys. While normally, I have zero use for them and their pathological distrust of the U.S. government, there are roughly 30,000,000 gun owners in the U.S. and about 15,000,000 of them train and practice shooting rifles and handguns on a fairly regular basis.
They have nothing better to do each Saturday other than handling their guns and their methamphetamine addictions. Suffice to say, the U.S. has a lot of mental defectives with guns, who are just looking to shoot someone, someone black-brown-Russian-English-German-neighbor... well, you get the gist of it.
So, the U.S. has a much larger pool of well trained riflemen and snipers and just overall survivalists, who could be put in uniform, than the world might imagine. Now, controlling these 'high functioning' sociopaths might be a different matter. I think letting them loose on an enemy force and enemy terrain, would be quite effective.
The U.S. does not lock away its mental health patients, it let's them live away from large population centers and practice shooting guns. It is much cheaper that way.
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@luckychops2162 That might be true. The Mississippi thing isn't something we say here in CA. I think it is a cultural reference that people use in the South.
For example I grew and they had Polak jokes here in CA in the 1980s, and then I met people form the South and they had the same jokes, except they were Alabama jokes.
As for Canada failing, that is highly unlikely. Allow me to explain why I believe so. They aren't spending 40% of their national tax budget on 'none of your business' wars.
America isn't poor because we are lazy, it is poor because the country is in debt up to its eyeballs, trying to fight the world's wars. If instead we invested our money into infrastructure, education, and green energy, we'd be ridding high, leaving everyone else in our dust. But we just don't know how to mind our own business and then we wind up blaming everyone else on the planet for our own behavior. (That's how the Orange Man got elected, us blaming everyone else for our own misdeeds.)
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@normanberg9940 One, you need to take your meds.
Two, I never said I'm moving to Canada, also see #1.
Three, ALL of the Founding Fathers were Leftist Liberals. Conservatives, believed in MONARCHY and anyone who spoke up was to be killed or silenced. That is what CONSERVATISM is, silencing all dissent, and blindly following one leader. The Founding Fathers were LEFTISTS LIBERALS. Majority of them were also Deists and NOT Christians. (Its ok, I'm not lying, so take the pills as instructed by your therapist.)
Finally, see #1 and don't hurt yourself. Also, don't kick your dog, beat your wive, abuse your children, hit your elderly parents or attack younger siblings.
But definitively before you start making things up, take the medications.
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@normanberg9940 The Founding Fathers, were not alive long enough to see secession or emancipation or Jim Crowe or the KKK or the Democrats or the Republicans. There were no political parties in 1776, as I've suggested before, go crack open a history book.
I'm the worst sort of person for someone like you to debate, I am an educated person.
Also, you can have a million arguments with yourself, I see no reason for me to be involved. Asking yourself stupid/absurd/trick questions and then answering them, it the last refuge of the mentally weak. Straw-man arguments, work fantastically well, if someone feels desperate enough to answer them.
I don't answer straw-man arguments, since I didn't make these arguments. You made these arguments so you are doing a fine job debating yourself, you don't need me for this. (Please take your meds.)
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@normanberg9940 More straw-men for you to argue with, isn't that nice. Hugs not drugs.
Quite frankly, I don't even know what you are arguing about.
You can't seem to present a simple coherent narrative or a logical argument, since you don't seem to know what you are arguing against.
This is why you failed from the beginning. You vomited an incoherent wall of text, arguing, everything from your lack of basic history, to lack of basic knowledge, to end up in a state of lack of logic, screaming at a padded wall.
Your claim of 30 years of a legal profession, seems unlikely but even if it is true, you are not mentally agile enough to do so today. Personally, I doubt your legal expertise, since you talked about combines and tractors, which would put you more firmly in the agricultural sector. Or are you a lawyer/farmer/historian/politician?
Stop embarrassing yourself and stop wasting my time.
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@Cbreezy510 When people were running around in loin cloths, it meant that they were not safe, from animals, from elements, from starvation, and most importantly from each other. Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas, the story was always the same.
500 years ago the populations of these regions was very low for a reason. You can't feed a 100 million people with a spear and a fruit tree. You can feed maybe 100,000.
When the number of fruit trees and hunting ground is less than the number of humans, humans fight over limited resources, and that is usually followed by famine, slavery, and genocide.
So you think people where happier and healthier every time there was famine, slavery and genocide? Stupid much?
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@linuxman7777 I'm not against civil free speech, I am however against hate speech, I am against panic speech (shouting fire in the middle of a crowded theater.)
But hey, you want the freedom to tell people to riot, murder and terrorize and you classify that as 'Free Speech' then yup, I'm against that.
The fact is, the Republicans 20 years ago, shouted hate at Muslims, 15 years ago they shouted their hate at the Gays, 5 years ago then they shouted their hate at Mexicans, 9 months ago they shouted their hate at the Chinese, now they are back to shouting their hate at the Blacks. (It is almost like a pattern here.)
It has become a tradition for the Republicans to shout their hate, whenever they fail, and they seem to fail A LOT. Keep failing, keep shouting your hate, ignorance and impotence; it is what we have come to expect from you. :)
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@Jay-om8gr "Can anyone please tell me why, everyone acts like trump did or didn’t do enough to stop COVID?" - I was answering his question, I didn't actually go through the rest of Trump's failures, (of which there are many,) I simply answered the question regarding Trump's actions regarding COVID-19.
If you hate the truth, you can shout your hate of the truth from now on, God knows, you probably hate the Muslims, the Gays, the Mexicans, the immigrants, the Chinese, the Blacks (did I miss anyone?) Maybe you hate women? Maybe you hate the poor? Maybe you hate Canadians, Europeans, Indians (dot and feather)? Anyone else?
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@Jay-om8gr If you don't hate anyone, the answer is really easy "I don't hate anyone."
As to why I care, well... the answer is, you started a conversation with me, so it would only be right to take time and effort to know who you are. So the simple answer is, pure curiosity.
As for identity politics, that is something that actually got started by the Republicans. I believe they discussed it in one of the videos, in the last 3 weeks, on this very channel. The identities are different, "law and order,' 'pro 2nd amendment,' 'Make America White Again,' 'Jesus Uber Alles,' 'God Over the Constitution,' 'No Taxes' those are identity politics, they are simply not the identities you don't hate, so you don't recognize them as 'identities.'
But a good effort, pining your shortcomings on me. I applaud the lack of originality.
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Yeah, and?
I know, its terrible, Germany has at least 6 different populations with different languages, and all of them (except Bavarians) had to submit to "Prussian" German. You may have heard of the song Deutschland Uber Alles, yeah, had nothing to do with racism, it had to do with uniting Germany under one language and one people. The Hannoverians, Pommeranians, Saxons, Bavarians, Westphalians, etc all forced to become one nation under the language of the Royal Family in Berlin.
The French, well, the Cosmopolitiane, Occtians, Acadians, Bergundians, Bretons, Normans yup, you guessed it again.
The Russians, Ryzanians, Novgorodians, Mucovites, blah, blah, blah.
The Poles, Silesians, Mazovians, Kuyavians, Wielkopolskans, Pommeranians (Pomorzanie, in case you are Polish.)
The Italians, the Spaniards, the British, the Turks, every one of these homogeneous groups are just the result of a forced melding.
Do I think the Uygyurs have it bad? Yeah, I do.
Do I think it doesn't matter and this is a done deal? Yeah, sorry, they will become Han Chinese, they will speak Mandarin in one generation. This is the hard reality.
China will NOT tolerate Catalonian, or Scottish, Confederate or Quebecois independence. They don't play that game, and we all know it.
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Estonia pop 1,330,068 area 45,339 sqkm
A small nation, that does not do have a lot of world obligations. Its safety, its prosperity and everything else is a result of bigger nations carrying much of its water.
I'm sure many Estonians would find this offensive but allow me to elaborate. The reason for goods and services arriving in Estonia is due to safe shipping lanes, free of pirates or warlords brutalizing and oppressing and over taxing the producers and distributors of the goods. You don't get to have fruit and vegetables from Africa and South America or oil from the Mid East, without the U.S. navy making your access to said goods, at a reasonable price. Smugglers, human traffickers, international gangs, do not come to Estonia because there is a entry barrier to them, called the EU nations such as France and Germany, as well as the US and NATO.
You want to know what life without said umbrella looks like? Try living in Armenia, where Russian gangsters run the country and pay off/intimidate politicians into doing their bidding. Mexico/El Salvador have their cartels. SE Asia has the Chinese intimidation.
Estonians have a lot of benefits without shouldering much of the costs. Which is good but not realistic for most nations on the planet.
I promise, that no teacher in Estonia has ever had to be worried about being threatened by a parent of a student because the parent is an MS-13 gangster or a Russian mobster or a Chinese Triad leader.
So telling people to compare themselves to Estonia or imitating their model, is quite frankly ridiculous.
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@kalx007 I think you are underestimating the Russians willingness and ability to fight a protracted war.
Charles XII (of Sweden,) Napoleon, Hitler, and countless others have done so before.
How did that work out for them? Is Russia speaking Swedish, German, or French?
I don't have to love the Russians, to be realistic and practical about their capabilities.
The U.S. is in the hyper-aggressive stage of its national development, we can hold our own against Russia. I wouldn't bet my own life on the rest of Europe being able to do the same.
I honestly don't think Europe can hold the line and drive the Russians back, without a lot of American backing. Europe has gotten rich and soft while living under the American umbrella. Germany having 200 tanks, with only 50 of them actually being repaired and able to be used, is a bad sign of things to come.
And if you watch a few more VP videos you'll know what I mean.
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Three tribes, three dialects. Angles, Saxons, Jutes. All 3 are Scandinavian dialects, Danish dialects to be exact. The Anglo-Saxon dialect mixture produced Old English, and the Jutes dialect became the Scots. Both dialects are dialects of Scandinavian. When the Vikings came a knocking in the 700 ADs, they came to rob their cousins, with whom they knew how to communicate, very easily. The introduction of Norman French, into Old English in 1066, made English an actual language.
Prior to that, the Anglo-Saxon and Jute dialects, were just that, Danish dialects. The Jutes who came into southern Scotland to settle, left enough of a memory on their Danish bretheren, that the Danish landmass that is attached to Germany, is called Jutland to this very day.
And the reason why the Brits have such a problem with immigration, is because they know what happens when you allow unchecked immigration into your country. After all, they are the result of unchecked immigration. LOL
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New York pizza tastes like cardboard, hard, crunchy, stale cardboard. I know New Yorkers are very proud of it, the rest of us Americans think they're proud of it only because it came from New York though and that they've self-deluded themselves into liking it. But to each their own.
I've had Chicago, I've had Detroit, I've had California, all of those are much better than New York, in my opinion. But at the end of the day, it is a matter of taste, right? LOL
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@Jack Brown You mean the Ottoman Turks still exist? I didn't know that Erdogan was a member of House Osmanli, lol. :)
Teasing, here but I'm also making a point.
House Vasa does not rule Sweden, neither does House von Habsburg, House Windsor, House Jagiellon, etc...
Not sure what the point of your statement was. Does that mean that England would tolerate for itself to fall apart into Northumberland, Kent, Wessex and Angland? Would France allow the Normans, Burgundians and Occitan populations to form independent nations? How about Bavaria, Hannover, Westphalia, Swabia and Prussia in Germany?
So what was the point of stating that a Kingdom ceased to exist?
Does that mean a country will allow itself to be torn apart by opportunistic neighbors just because it makes them feel comfortable?
I'd hate to see how quickly the U.S. would dissolve if our neighbors and enemies were allowed to decide who gets to secede.
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@sean2015 This is how 'Sanctuary Cities' are forced upon a State, too. You have 100,000 illegal immigrant criminals in County Jails, and the Federal Government refuses to take custody of them, and then demands that LA Country keep them, until they will come and get them, at some undisclosed time in the future.
Obviously the County Jail can't hold all the inmates, so when their sentence is over, they get released because the Feds won't fund their removal, expecting a single County to maintain a detention center paid for by local taxes.
It is also the reason the GOP went from Ronald Reagan majority down to less than 25%. You punch an entire State in the mouth enough times, they will stop voting for your party. That's the thing the GOP never mentions when they blame CA for its liberalism and Sanctuary Cities. It was a liberalism that forced on CA as a result of the direct policies of Big Business Republicans, who needed slave wage immigrants, in order to maximize profits.
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@javiermontoya3018 One of the major issues in any nation state, is that a supply cannot be made available if there is nowhere for it to go.
A small farmer in Colombia will never plant 10 or 100 more fruit trees if the fruit is going to just rot on the ground. And absolutely no one will make an effort to clear 1,000 hectares to grow those fruits if they have no way to export them because there is no road that leads to a port that will ship the product to where it is welcome.
I was born in Poland, which has historically been the breadbasket of Western Europe between 1100 AD and 1600 AD. Our rivers transported grain towards the Baltic Sea to be shipped to Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, Germany, and France. In return, French wines, Dutch cloth, and English and Scandinavian metals and finished goods made their way back to Poland.
But none of that would be possible without the Port City of Danzig which facilitated these exports and imports of goods. If you want to sell products on the Western Coast of the United States and Canada, there are about 80 million customers waiting for your goods. But until your government invests and builds that port town and a road that connects it, that customer base is lost to you.
The Pacific side of Colombia is ripe for exploitation. Beautiful beaches, resort towns, beach front properties for retiring Americans, these are all options on the table, that currently Mexico and Costa Rica are welcoming. Is Colombia?
And yes, I understand xenophobia, and 'Americans will own our country' but the only way Colombia grows rich and prosperous is if LEGITIMATE American dollars flow in and that can only happen if Americans have a reason to show up, live, party and spend their vacation $$s..
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I'm sorry but how is a victim of domestic violence in another country, somehow AMERICA'S RESPONSIBILITY. Fuck you John, I agree with most of what you say, but we are not everybody's SAFE ZONE. There are 3 fucking billion women on the fucking planet, they can't all come here and request asylum due to domestic violence, so fuck you again John. I don't care about credible FEAR, everyone on the fucking planet not living in the U.S. has credible fears, that doesn't mean they can come to the U.S.
Stop trying to fucking make us accept everyone. I'm also an immigrant like you, but that's fucking pushing it too far. The system is NOT broken. We are not everyone's place of refuge. If they have a fucked up country, then it's time to fix their own country, instead of coming here. And a cop who isn't being protected by other cops in Mexico, that's probably a cop so dirty, that they refused to help him.
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6:32 This is such a dumb point, I can't believe anyone is even making it.
Stinger missiles, designed in 1967, a weapon no one is producing it in mass quantities because NO ONE in the United States military is even using it, are relics from 50 years ago. The cost of decommissioning and destroying them was more expensive than shipping them to Ukraine and letting the Ukrainians use them against Russian hardware.
That's right, shipping a Stinger missile to Ukraine probably cost $1,000 and scrapping it, and dismantling it safely in the US would have probably cost $3,000-$5,000 and you no longer had to pay someone to guard this junk.
The US is not running out of ammunition, as fast as Russia is running out of tanks, APCs and troops. So the worry about not having FULL munitions for the next 10 years, is an absurd issue, if it will take Russia 50-80 years to replace all of its losses.
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BRICS members, welcome to the Pyramid Scheme of the century, you are about to pay for China's economic excesses. Everyone else, yeah, not so much.
I'm just glad that South Africa, India, Russia, and Brazil are so willing to fund China's drunken spending spree, lol.
I hear Algeria, Iran, and Argentina are the next ones to join. It's like a who's who of losers who can't keep a stable economy.
Which other failed states are going to join? Venezuela?
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@covfefe1787 The U.S. annexed Texas, through peaceful means, Polk sent soldiers to to provoke Mexico into declaring war, and they did. At which point Congress declared war on Mexico in self-defense.
Lincoln did not tell Sumpter to fight back, South Carolina's militia attacked with artillery against Ft. Sumter. The Union garrison would have been forced to leave, due to supplies running out. The South fired the first shots because they were dumb shits.
And every conflict since WWII first required the authorization from Congress. Since in the U.S. the power to tax and the power to spend belongs to Congress. So if they say $0 for food and weapons in this conflict then the officers don't move, no matter what the President says.
As a matter of fact, the Unites States Officers DO NOT swear an Oath to obey the President. Soldiers DO, officers DO NOT. All officers receive their commissions from Congress (specifically the Senate.) Due to the headaches of administration, they don't actually do this for every lieutenant and captain, but every Major or above has to be commissioned directly by the Senate.
But tell me more, about how much you don't know about U.S. history and U.S. government. :D
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@Minchya Honestly, I wasn't sure. Since attacking South Korea would result in an American destruction of China and its armed forces, it sounded just about as dumb as an idea as I could think off and no actual benefit other than the arming of every Asian nation around China in a coalition. The U.S. would automatically declare war, Japan would join, Taiwan would join, Vietnam and Philippines would see this as a opportunity to punch their local bully. India would see a chance to settle some scores, and the list goes on and on.
Wiping out North Korea and allowing South Korea to reunify the peninsula might actually be of greatest benefit to China.
Once Korea is united and have China to thank for it, it would probably demilitarize, end cooperation with Japan, and distance itself from the U.S. If you are China, you want the Americans out of East Asia, and allowing South Korea to reunify the Koreas, would accomplish that in less than a decade.
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@nebuchadne33ar Doing things without loans is not a bad thing.
That is what is called a strawman argument.
Claiming someone else, disagrees with you about something, just because they disagree with you about something else is a weak argument only used by the weak minded.
People have money because they either saved or earned it. A man who robs a rich company today, will rob you tomorrow, because he always has a good excuse for his robbery. As soon as you make excuses for him robbing a foreigner, then you'll make the same excuses for him murdering a foreigner, as long as he robs and murders foreigners its ok, right? And once he's done murdering foreigners, guess who's left... just you and him, and guess whom he's not going to murder or rob. :D
Have fun, when he comes to murder you and your family, for your money. And don't come to my country seeking asylum, we don't need people who think like that.
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GE are scum. I worked for them as part of NBC Universal in 2006.
In order to show 'profits' they sold off revenue generating assets, in order to pad their profits because their worthless CEO Jeff Immelt, demanded that each division show a 10% profit per year.
So NBC Universal which owned "Law and Order" and other shows, started selling off episodes/seasons of their library, one by one, as a way of generating profit. Thing is, each of those episodes was generating yearly revenue. And once the "worthless" $0 value assets were gone, they ceased to generate revenues, at which point next year's profits had to be found through further, "special accounting."
The worthless CEO Jeff Immelt, smiled as 'record profits' came in, year after year because he was such a ponzi scheme genius.
GE was playing a shell game of 'imagined profits' for decades and I wouldn't be surprised if their other divisions did the exact same thing. So, their downfall, was a given.
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An entire society/country owned by 10 Chaebols inflicting the social and cultural norms of 90 year old geezers (through their national Diet.) And people are wondering why a Monopolistic Oligarchy is not a place you'd want to raise families? Let's see, any other Oligarchies having a crisis of this sort... Russia, perhaps?
Add to this, Korean racism/classism and all sorts of other isms, and you can't even get immigrants to come in to help with the demographics.
On to the mail order brides, that's a perfectly reasonable solution, arranged marriages have been around since the dawn of times. The only difference is that the bride isn't from two villages over but rather two countries over.
Finally, the $$ solution, might work but not if the help is only a 2 year boost. Last time I checked, a child isn't born and thrown out of a window after 2 years. 18 years to be raised, 18 years of financial burdens, giving a 2 year stipend to a family is just stupid and there's no wonder that Koreans aren't falling for it.
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You mean they are part of the longest running scam and grift?
Oh no, I must be wrong, but what if most of the cargo could go by train to be distributed in certain distribution centers, where the cargo could be put on trucks, to be delivered locally? Instead, you have people hauling cargo from FL to WA, jam up freeways, slow you down on your way to work, tear up infrastructure, and feed OPEC wallets, all because trucking and oil companies pay off congressmen and senators, to restrict and prevent, the existence of such distribution centers. All so good bought and sold nation wide, have incredible cost of delivery, added to them (without the consumer being aware.)
And all this time, the Oil Theocracies and other members of OPEC get rich, robbing you blind and sponsoring terror, the owners of oil refineries pollute your air you breathe, water you drink, and food you eat, and we pay for an army to maintain the flow of oil due to the initial corrupt system of bribery in Washington.
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As an American Taxpayer, I don't feel we should be anywhere we are unwelcome. Especially if I'm paying for it and I would hate for anyone to feel occupied by our military.
In 1992 Ami Went Home from the Naval Base in the Philippines.
Since then, China has built atolls across the Philippine Sea, claimed off shore natural gas and oil rights and when China lost in International Court, they simply ignored the verdict and told the Philippines 'What are you going to do about it?' I'm glad we are not somewhere we're not welcome, and now I hear we might be building a new Naval Base in Vietnam. (As I've said, never overstay our welcome.)
Since my father was the only one who decided to immigrate to the US, I still have lots of uncles and aunts and about 20+ cousins living in Germany, so there's no malice towards Germany, as I love Germany and love visiting family when I can.
Any country that wishes for our departure, is welcome to show us the door, we should never be anywhere we are not welcome.
I hear Poland is getting new US military bases these days and apparently the economic boom is very welcome there. :D
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@Ushakov_Mykyta So you should watch the video. Essentially however, NATO specifically the US, extended an invitation for NATO membership, to both Georgia and Ukraine in 2008.
The idea is simple, allow the US to have a military base in the Ukraine and in return the US will give you $$s and American service men will spend $$s in your country.
Kharkhiv is 750 kms from Moscow, for us Americans that's 500 miles away. The US wanted access to an invasion launchpad 500 miles away from Moscow. I promise you, Putin remembered his history of 1940 and 1811, he remembered the last two Superpowers and how they affected Russia's National Security, when permitted to be much further way from Moscow, it is very possible he made his decision based on that history. Volodymyr Zelenskyy decided to force the issue. We knew Russia's troops were gathering on Ukraine's border on April 5th, 2021, almost a year before it was an article here in the West that told us about it. Volodymyr decided to escalate things, instead of giving Russia reassurances. He taunted Putin and he did so for almost 10 months.
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@ShubhamMishrabro The US almost started WWIII because the USSR wanted a military base in Cuba (1,131 miles from Havana to Washington D.C.) Bush put missile systems in Poland in 2006 or 2008, I don't remember which since I can't research this right now (its 700 miles away from Warsaw to Moscow) and I assure you, we HAVE military bases and a presence in Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, etc... so you are blowing smoke if you claim otherwise.
NATO membership absolutely means hosting a US military base in your country, at least if you are close to Moscow. It isn't forced, but $$s make politicians very flexible. Just ask "any" politician on the planet. I am very cynical about politicians and the sort of stunts they pull, so please forgive me for that.
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@pluna3382 I have learned that YouTube has a lot of staged/scripted content. It is an entertainment platform. Often times, it is "America's Funniest Videos" but more often than not, my guess is about 80%, it is scripted.
You see, if you live in a neighborhood where cars get stolen, like the one I live in, people aren't rich, they don't have cameras, and they don't have microphones on their front doors. If her video is showing a full recording with sound, that's a 'bougie neighborhood' and cars in such a neighborhood aren't normally targeted because they usually have tracking devices. On the other hand, my neighborhood is a dumping ground for beat up junk cars, that will get sent to a chop shop in Mexico, that are usually left for 3-6 weeks for the cars to 'cool off' in case the cops are doing a sting. So when I say that it felt scripted, its because I've seen the m.o. of professional car thieves, how they think, how they operate and just how little the cops care about stopping them.
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Trevor Noah, supported Jacob Zumah, a Stalinist of the lowest sort. A guy who tried to force Commune Farming in South Africa, and the Chief Architect of South Africa's economic despair. Trust me, Trevor Noah is a friend of the Far Left.
As for Stalinists, they are against the right to bear arms. Only an American who's never lived behind the Iron Curtain, deludes himself into thinking otherwise. Communists themselves, are a myth, they don't exist, any more than unicorns do. There are Maoists, Stalinists, and Lenninists and none of those people would ever tolerate the ability of the Proletariat to be armed because when their systems would ultimately fail, those guns would be turned against the Bolshevik leadership.
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Not a lot of money for rental but then again, she probably isn't meant to be living in Tokyo.
(I can feel the hate coming from everyone, in my general direction, so let me cook.)
Big cities are meant to be hubs of industry and commerce. Metropolises such as Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, are meant to generate commercial activity. And young working age people are supposed to live and WORK in said cities (offices, factories, etc.,) while the middle aged are meant to have families in the suburbs and the retirees are meant to live outside of the central economic zones. Think of a water rippling, and the rings, the outer ring is meant to be the place for those who generate the least economic activity.
This is how human cities have been designed for the last 10,000 years of human history. The merchants, the nobles, the ones who do the most to generate taxes lived in 'down-town' Babylon, Cairo, Carthage, Persepolis, Kyoto... The center of the cities were never designed for the ease of living of those who could not care for themselves or afford the high cost of living of the center of the capital.
Do I empathize with her, sure, does that mean she is 'entitled' to live in the middle of Tokyo, in one of the richest cities on the planet... I'm sorry but she's taking up a living space meant for someone in a different age bracket and no one ever wants to say that because then you're the asshole for pointing out an obvious truth.
On the other hand, the idea that Japanese employees are exploited to all hell, is a sad statement on Japanese society. Japanese employers pay minimum wage and make employees work 90 hours a week because the government can't be bothered to give a fuck, and this is just a Japanese reality. If the Japanese people want a better Japan where young people can afford to have families, then they better decide as a society and soon, or there won't be any Japanese people in 30 years.
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@McLenwe 1. The national state of Ukraine has existed for a year or two in 1917 before it was reabsorbed back into Russia. PERIOD. It wasn't its own country. It did not have its own government. It was the same as the State government of Texas, within the United States. Yes, it was an entity, no it was not independent.
2. These are the sort of stupid excuses secessionists use here in the United States. "We have the right to self-determination." It holds about as much water in Ukraine as it does in Texas, Alaska, the former Confederate States, Basque, Catalonia, Silesia, Bavaria, Occitiane, or whatever other nonsense region you want to name.
If the population fought for its independence on multiple occasions, as in the case of Poland/Serbia/Finland, that's one thing. But Ukraine never fought for independence from Russia. In the 1990s a couple of greedy oligarchs/generals took Russian nukes hostage, decided on behalf of everyone that they wanted to do a secession movement, when Russia was at its weakest and created a country of poverty and economic woe.
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@Paerigos Your preposition when speaking on behalf of 750 million people, is rather absurd and highly dishonest.
The next time, your taxes pay for a soldier, a police officer, or a fireman, I want you to attempt to apply that lie when you ask a. your firemen to run into a burning building, b. your policemen risk their lives to protect the common good, and c. your soldiers to die for your liberty.
Here is the ugly truth to counter your rose colored glasses, sacrifices are made for the common good on a daily basis. Human testing is required for medicine to progress (animals and software are not enough.) Coal gets burned, to keep Euros out of the hands of a madman, attempting to invade Ukraine. And so on...
A quote to consider: "When you wear rose colored glasses, all red flags, just look like flags."
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@valerievankerckhove9325 Last time I checked if the price of Natural Gas goes up it goes up for everyone. When oil rigs in Saudi Arabia blow up due to an Iranian shelling, the price of gasoline in Los Angeles and in Beijing goes up, in equal proportion, the very next day.
So if Somali pirates start hitting the shipping lanes of Quatar's LNG plants, the cost of electricity in Belgium, China, and United States, will go up whether the natural gas comes from Norway, Russia, or North Dakota. (The price for the consumer may not, depending on how strong the welfare state is but the cost will go up)
As for renewables, building solar power or wind turbines and importing them from China, America, or wherever, requires a lot of energy, a lot of fossil fuel energy in fact. When you buy solar panels from China, they aren't paying for fossil fuels to deliver them, YOU and YOUR countrymen are. When you build renewable energy at home, the natural resources from steel to rare earth minerals also must be shipped, again you and your countrymen are paying for these fossil fuels.
Or are you one of those people who successfully self-deceived themselves into believing that Belgium is a country that doesn't use fossil fuels, its those polluting Liberians and Panamanians. I hate to break it to you but it doesn't matter if the ships are registered in Liberia, Panama, or anywhere else, if your country is using the ships and the shipping lanes, you are using the fossil fuels that power the cargo ships and the resource extraction that produces the natural resources your country buys. If you buy cotton clothes, tropical fruit, or anything exotic, you are also paying for their fossil fuel usage and thus contributing to the extraction of said fossil fuels, even if the official 'government propaganda' claims we are a 'clean country.'
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@Carlos Sifleet Colonialism is why Africa had enough semi-modern infrastructure to be able to form nations.
I know, propaganda taught you all you need to know about Colonialism but propaganda and facts disagree. Europeans lost more resources building Africa and its infrastructure than they gained during Colonialism. The countries that did not participate or participated the least, in African colonialism were the ones who were the strongest in the early 20th century. Belgium, Holland, UK, France, all lost money and resources building up their colonies. America and Germany who had none or few, dominated the others. So Colonialism wasn't good for anyone other than Africa.
And when the Colonial powers left, things went to hell in a hand-basket. You like imagining a world without Colonialism, try imagining it without the English language, the Democratic/Parliamentary systems, and without European built ports across the 3rd world. Now imagine the grinding poverty of those countries without the European touch. Or if you really need to, look at Haiti, they got rid of the French and no one is bothering to tell them how to govern themselves... how's that working out for them?
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The Bubonic Plague came from China and wiped out populations from Beijing, to Baghdad, all the way to Venice and London, it didn't discriminate, so mentioning it seems like red herring.
How about just 'the resource curse' ever hear of it? Yeah, Spain suffered from it for about 300 years from 1492 till about 1824 and the Independence of Mexico.
While Northern Europe industrialized and made things for others to buy, and grew prosperous because of it. The Spaniards and the Portuguese, dug/harvested gold, silver, rubber, tobacco etc.. the world over.
Problem is, their colonies went independent, as colonies are known to do, the silver and gold dried up, and Spain and Portugal wound up being 300 years, 'behind the eight-ball.' Italy built its wealth on extracting gold from Spain and Portugal, while Northern Europe innovated.
Spain decoupled from the resource curse about a century or two ahead of Sub-Saharan Africa, which is why they are ahead but not to the same degree as their Northern cousins.
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We need an International blacklist. As in you do something, in another country and you get a strike, ranging from 1-10 and an explanation of your offense. (1 for littering, vulgarity, public drunkenness, 4 for defacing public property, graffiti, 7 for punching for assault of other people, 10 for defacing national sites (man made or natural.)
And then countries get to decide if you are allowed to cross their border, if you are on this blacklist.
So if someone, decides to expose himself publicly and gets a 3, he might be stuck in his home country for the rest of his life, with a life time black list ban.
Actions should have consequences.
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Except the British East India Company wasn't the drug dealer, or even the drug trafficker. The British East India Company was the Colombian Cartel, who manufactured it and sold it to the traffickers, who sold it to dealers. They didn't come to your house and force you to use their product.
And how were the Cartels ultimately shut down to a manageable level, the US had to allow Columbia to sell other products like coffee and tropical fruit, so that Colombia's agrarian population wouldn't be forced into producing Cocaine.
The same problem exists right now in Afghanistan they're producing heroin because they're unable to sell other products across their border. If their neighbors weren't such assholes and allowed them to export wool, cotton and spices, I can almost guarantee that the Opium production would disappear in a few years.
BTW, China will soon have another Opium epidemic if it doesn't start helping to stabilize Afghanistan. Having stable trading partners is a win win for everyone. Don't believe it.
Thisis why the US allowed China to trade with the US for the last 70 years, even though China was Communist. Because we understood that a prosperous China, is a stable China, and a stable China isn't exporting the Tongs and refugees.
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I couldn't tell you jack about the British conscience, I'm not English, British, nor am I descended from one of them, I'm an American and German-Polish by descent, I simply informed you of the stark realities of history. I certainly did not absolve them of their guilt or responsibility of protecting and profiting from the Drug Cartels of the 1700s.
If you don't listen and draw conclusions that fit your point of view, you're an idiot with a closed mind who doesn't listen and just regurgitates the propaganda he's been spoon fed since childhood.
I simply said that it took two to tango in that dance. And China is partially to blame for the Opium Wars. It was China's greed that escalated the problem and forced the EIC to use desperate measures.
As for Afghanistan, when you profit by selling guns to the Drug Warlords, you are part of the problem. China doesn't have to be the solution but it shouldn't add to the problem either. The US is certainly no one's Messiah, had it been the choice of most people in the US after 9/11 a Nuclear Explosion would have wiped out several million people in Kabul on 9/12 be glad that our leaders showed restraint and only invaded, had it been Russia or China, Kabul would now be a mass grave.
A piece of advice for the future, if you do not like hearing the TRUTH, do not ASK.
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@summer031977 I live in CA Mr. AZ, so you aren't exactly schooling me on immigration.
If the American gun manufacturers were not allowed to sell guns to the Cartels, MS-13, and the Mexican Mafia, then there wouldn't be a domestic terror, forcing a refugee crisis on our border, from Mexico, El Salvador, and the rest of Central America.
The next time you see that shithead Wayne LaPierre, remember this, he's not opposed to background checks because it would infringe on your 2nd Amendment Rights, its because the MODs in the US couldn't sell arms to murderers and sociopaths, south the US border.
And the reason for the flood of illegal immigration is the sale of said 'unregistered' firearms, to the worst people in the world.
As soon as we push a Federal firearm registration, the illegal arms trade will end, and the refugee and immigration from south of the border, will dry up.
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@sunshine6522 What you said was the following:
"Then riots occurred around the compound just like every year, but this time Israeli police chased the rioters into the mosque and threw tear-gas at them while prayers were ongoing."
"This was portrayed by the Palestinians as an attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque- and Hamas responded by firing rockets at Jerusalem, Israel responded with airstrikes- and from there it turned into a full-blown war."
Well, the truth is different from what you wrote, the riots were sparked by Israeli Police walking into the Al-Aqsa mosque and turning off the call to prayer speakers, so that the President of Israel could give his political speech. It was an intentional incitement and provocation. There was no Israeli police chasing any rioters.
As for the High Holy Days, it was some other holiday that was being celebrated in Mount Meron 04/30/2021 in Israel around the time of Ramadan and the festivities were allowed to unfold.
But Ramadan was being suppressed by the Israelis, in the name of COVID lockdowns. That stank to high heaven of bigotry, oppression and apartheid.
"Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for May, the first in 15 years." - And Israel wanted to radicalize the Palestinian voters right before that election, so that they would vote for Hamas.
As for your shit take on treason, people who are being oppressed and humiliated and having their homes confiscated are not committing treason when they fight back. According to your logic, the Jewish victims of Kristallnacht should have obeyed their government and accepted it because it would be treason to oppose it.
As you are incapable of telling the truth, I'm going to stop responding to you. Go shill for hate mongers on your own dime.
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The first rule of capitalism, if there is a need, people will find a way. Yes, I know it is cynical but it is also pragmatic.
If there is a demand, a supplier will find them. You need food, someone has food. You need weapons, someone has weapons. You need soldiers, someone has soldiers. Lowest price wins. Sometimes the price isn't just monetary. Sometimes the lowest price includes people not asking questions.
American, French and British mercenaries are expensive and ask questions because they might get arrested when they get home. Russian mercenearies don't have to worry these considerations. Ultimately, it all goes back to Capitalism. If there is a need, people will find a way to fulfill it.
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I also did odd jobs, and like you I got paid and no one thought they could just choose not to pay me, or fire me and lose my work records, or not pay my overtime rate, or short change me on my hours or tell other people in town not to hire me because I was a (skin color) thief. That's the story of our privilege that we were not even aware of.
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My boss never walked up to me in a professional office, and told me to go wash the dishes in the kitchen because that's what "my people are good at," my boss wasn't then protected by HR in liberal Southern California in the heart of Los Angeles in the middle of the "Hollywood" industry. That's also been my privilege that I wasn't aware of, until 3 months ago.
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When I was a kid, I didn't have black friends just wasn't a thing in my neighborhood. Unlike my nephew, I was never skateboarding with a black friend at the age of 12, have a police cruiser roll up on us and watch my 12 year old black friend sitting on the curb with handcuffs on his wrists. 12 years old. Just because they could and had a badge and the description provided on the cb was 'black male.'
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I honestly cannot imagine being put in handcuffs at any age just because the cb in a police cruiser said 'white male' can you?
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The privileges we have are not ones we recognize until we look at other people who lack said privileges. They are like a pair of glasses or a pair of underwear, we're not aware we're wearing them until someone takes them away from us because they can and we can't stop them.
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God Bless You and I'm sorry you never got a chance to enjoy the privileges I did while I was being white.
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When your population goes from 7 mil to 40 mil in 60 years, resources become scarce. Apparently multiplying your population by a factor of 6 in 60 years, can be a source of famine and want, who knew.
I guess it is time for war to weed out the population, that shouldn't have been born in the last 60 years. That's history 101. Mongols, Vikings, Zulus, ants, bees. When the population grows too large to be sustained by local resource, it will either attack itself or attack others.
Since Iraq is weak against its neighbors, my money is on an internal ethnic war.
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@mattharper588 I am coming to this from the point of view of history throughout the millennia of human conflict. The United States is the most powerful military in the world, like the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, the Mongol Empire, it does at it pleases and does not bend to the wishes of others. So it does not have to lie about its intentions or its goals, when it is ready to declare war. The only thing the U.S. lies about are its reasons. (Weapons of Mass Distraction, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, etc.)
For weaker countries with weaker militaries, sneak attacks and surprise invasions are a must. This has been true throughout history. Alexander's Macedonia prior to becoming an Empire, Caesar's invasions of Gaul (illegal conquests against the expressed wishes of the Senate,) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, etc.
Simply put, strong nations dictate, weak nations deceive. The U.S. is a superpower today, but in 1776 when we fought for our independence, we fought by playing dirty, sniping officers, assassination, and guerilla hit-and-run. This is the reality of history. And a secret invasion is only a secret if no one is told about it.
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@mattharper588 These boys have been increasing troop numbers for almost a year. "On March 31, U.S. European Command raised its awareness level to “potential imminent crisis” in response to estimates that over 100,000 Russian troops had been positioned along its border with Ukraine and within Crimea, in addition to its naval forces in the Sea of Azov." This was in an article written on April 22, 2021. That's 10 months ago. No one, and I mean NO ONE should have been surprised. I certainly wasn't.
That's how long Ukraine and everyone else had to get serious and address Russia's concerns. They ignored it, they ridiculed Putin, the dared him for 10 months. Well, he called their dare. If you want something other than CNN and MSNBC half-truths, I would recommend a couple of great GeoPolitics channels. Caspian Report and RealLifeLore have spectacular explanations for why this happened, give them a shot, see if you can see why Putin did what he did. See if maybe President Biden would be better advised and informed, by professionals, rather than Washington 'yes men.' Unless you think he wanted this, which I'm not sure about.
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2:37 Who knows how to spell Israel? And again at 6:14? 6:58?
As for the subject matter at hand:
Israeli police attempted to disperse worshippers inside the Haram al-Sharif area, using stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. - May 5th, 2021
At least 45 people were killed and some 150 more injured in a crush at a religious festival of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel (Mount Meron,) where tens of thousands of faithful had convened in one of the country's largest events since the pandemic began. Despite warnings from Israeli health officials, local media estimated the crowd at this year's festival at around 100,000 people. - April 30th, 2021
My question is simple, why didn't the Israeli police attempt to disperse worshipers at Mount Meron using stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets?
Clearly this is the modus operendi of Israeli police when dealing with ANY gathering of over 10,000 people, right...?
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@avishevin1976 So rather than admit a lack of response, you simply claim that the other party won't listen.
That's an excellent strawman argument but it becomes glaringly obvious, that you simply have no valid response.
If you had a response, you'd have provided it immediately, since I am NOT the only person reading this, and we could all verify your facts immediately.
We live in the 21st century, every piece of information and argument can be verified with just a few keystrokes. Which is probably why you walked away, since you knew I'd fact check everything you said with a magnifying glass.
As for my original comment, the two events were absolutely very much related.
Both were religious festivals/holidays held in the State of Israel.
The Jewish holiday had 100,000 attendees and was UNRESTRICTED.
The Mulim holiday was RESTRICTED to 10,000.
The Jewish holiday did not provoke a violent/militant response by Israeli police.
The Muslim holiday was brutally suppressed.
YOU SIMPLY DON'T HAVE A VALID DEFENSE for Israel's brutal oppression of the Palestinian population.
Human rights in Israel are only afforded to people that Israel defines as HUMAN, which does not include Palestinians.
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@avishevin1976 It was limited due to COVID-19 because Palestinians are not vaccinated.
The reason why they are NOT vaccinated goes back to the Israeli policies.
The policy is very simple: Human rights, dignity and equality under the law, in Israel are only afforded to people that Israel defines as HUMAN, which does not include Palestinians. And Israel can take the Palestinian land and their water rights and their economic stability and then when a pandemic occurs, Israel then points an accusatory finger at the Palestinians and shouts "buy your own vaccines, with the money you don't have, since we've taken everything from you."
Palestinians started throwing rocks and fireworks after years of peace because the President of Israel sent goons in Police uniforms, on the first day of Ramadan, to cut power to the prayer speakers in their 3rd holiest site.
Imagine they Mayor of New York City, ordering the NYPD to cut power to a Temple on Rosh Hashanah, so that he can run his mouth off, to do a fucking political speech. And that's what Israel did.
And it wasn't just some local idiot but rather the President of Israel, this was an act of naked aggression and blatant oppression by Israel to remind the Palestinians that they are nothing more than fucking dogs who have no rights and no dignity, on the first day of their holidays. The problem is the rest of the world heard about it and we don't like what we heard. Some fucking nobody, a mostly ceremonial figurehead, having the authority to do anything he wants because they have no political power.
Israel pissed away its moral high ground with this behavior.
Your biggest problem is that I'm not an illiterate baboon, and just calling me an anti-Semite doesn't scare me into silence.
You don't get to defend this shit without having to own it. You want to defend this behavior then you have to acknowledge that oppressing a religious minority is the legitimate right of the majority in power, and not just today but through out history.
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Yeah, I'm going to say you're full of it. I'm going to say that the entire story you told is made up. And I'm going to say you are lying to make your opinions sound plausible.
You're also a guy who probably dabbles in stolen valor trying to sound self-important and knowledgeable in front of the ignorant.
Here are some facts, you lying piece of garbage:
1. The Pentagon has spent $15 million in the past five years to treat 1,892 transgender troops, including $11.5 million for psychotherapy and $3.1 million for surgeries, according to Defense Department. (2016-2021)The Pentagon has spent $15 million in the past five years to treat 1,892 transgender troops, including $11.5 million for psychotherapy and $3.1 million for surgeries, according to Defense Department. ONLY 243 surgeries took place.
2. That means 378.4 requests per year and less than 50 operations per year.
3. The US military has 1.4 million personnel
4. According to you, your imaginary son he had two of these requests in a company (usually 100-250 soldiers)
5. At the rate you are suggesting at a maximum sized company of 250, 1 in 125 soldiers would be requesting a sex change or about 11.200 requests in 5 years. And since most companies are closer to 150 men, that's a rate of 2 in 150 or 18,700 sex change requests.
6. Most of these requests are more than likely coming from non-combat troops (admin, accounting, etc.) rather than tank crews and guys likely to face live fire.
7. Finally, company commander is just a garbage name, if your son held a rank, it would have been something you'd have posted like a Captain, or a Major, fathers of US soldiers have no fear of posting their son's rank.
Based on all of my points, I'm calling you out to provide some evidence of this imaginary Company Commander of a US Army Tank Company that had 2 requests for gender reassignment in the last 2.5 years, since Biden took office?
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@eldolorcosmico The Californios and Tejanos were not Mexicans. You were just taught shitty history by moronic propagandists. Texas and California declared Independence from Mexico in 1836 12 years after Mexico stole them from Spain. So if you want America to return them to anyone, it would be Spain and NOT Mexico.
Oh, that's right, according to you if Mexico owned it for a few years then it was Mexican. I guess Guatemala and El Salvador should also consider returning themselves back to Mexico.
You probably don't know this but here is another history lesson, none of the adults in Texas or California in 1836, were born in Mexico. They were all born in Spain and none of them wanted anything to do with Mexico and still don't, to this day. They thought of Mexico as an invader who wanted to steal their freedoms and not as their country.
As for the military bases, the U.S. has none in South America except some island bases in the Caribbean. Again, don't spew your propaganda at me because you couldn't be bothered to check the facts.
Banks and NGOs are there because someone invited them. Without American and European banking, things would really get bad, like mass famine and Lord of the Flies bad.
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Not a system I'd want in the U.S. There is a problem with the whole everyone votes on every law that may not be readily apparent but essentially everyone is their own politician/lawmaker. Now I don't know about your neighbors but the guys who run a meth lab out of their RV don't exactly make for the best lawmakers. Also, when you have everyone responsible for being their own lawmaker and they all have to know their local laws, that requires a certain amount of focus, and quite frankly, most people don't have that focus, in my experience, including myself.
One of the fundamental building blocks of modern society is the division of labor and responsibilities. We're not all our own mechanics, we're not all our own doctors, we're not all our own policemen, we're not all our own teachers, we're not all our own lawyers, but all of a sudden we'll all be expected to become our own lawmakers and legal eagles? Sounds like a recipe for disaster, in my humble opinion. I truly am glad that it works for the Swiss but I cannot imagine it working for most countries.
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Israeli police attempted to disperse worshippers inside the Haram al-Sharif area, using stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. - May 5th, 2021
At least 45 people were killed and some 150 more injured in a crush at a religious festival of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel (Mount Meron,) where tens of thousands of faithful had convened in one of the country's largest events since the pandemic began. Despite warnings from Israeli health officials, local media estimated the crowd at this year's festival at around 100,000 people. - April 30th, 2021
My question is simple, why didn't the Israeli police attempt to disperse worshipers at Mount Meron using stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets?
Clearly this is the modus operendi of Israeli police when dealing with ANY gathering of over 10,000 people, right...?
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Ah, the British and their pound. Such a nice and upstanding people the British government.
I mean its not like Britain, wanted Germany to invade Poland and then bleed the USSR to death, only for them and France to come in and mop up after the fighting was done, right? And the Brits certainly felt, no problem acquiring all of the Polish gold reserves, in the name of 'liberation of Europe,' right?
And almost certainly, the Brits never invaded, murdered and pillaged a country, in order to protect drug dealers and cop killers, right?
It couldn't have happened to a more swell and honest nation.
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I would have added the low interest rates as a major reason for lack of social mobility due to a lack ability to pick up and go somewhere else.
Higher interest rates, mean that someone can buy a house and sell it for roughly the same amount, and move somewhere else, relatively easy, in search of better employment. When the interests are low, the house prices are high, trapping the individuals in $500,000 mortgage and since a person with a mortgage can't get out easily, he is unable to relocate for work.
Essentially, you will pay the same mortgage whether your interest rate is 5% or 1%, the only difference is how much you owe on the house (principal,) high interest means you can save a few extra dollars and pay off your mortgage (principal) earlier, while a low interest rate traps you since the principal owed is usually astronomical. Low interest rates have turned Americans into serfs tied to the land, with little ability to leave a bad boss or an exploitative company, due to these Federal shenanigans.
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