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@Deadassbruhfrfr We're in no position to judge them. Another superpower could say the same about the US South. There's a deadly opioid crisis, and many men are committing suicide out of despair.
You should let other people handle US foreign policy and use-of-force doctrines. A pre-emptive nuclear strike, anywhere, would not give you the outcome your expecting.
There's a reason why the US, Russia, China, UK, France, Israel, India, and Pakistan have never used the bomb. America doesn't have a monopoly over nucleartechnology like we did in 1945.
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In federal courts, there are different definitions of the terms JUDGE and JUSTICE of the Supreme Court.
Title 28 is where you'll find the legal process and rules for district JUDGE, but most of the ethics rules aren't applicable to the JUSTICE of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court should have its own rules for the JUSTICES. There are proposals to pass new legislation; e.g., "the Supreme Court Ethics Act." At the moment, the only remedies against a JUSTICE or CHIEF JUSTICE are prosecution, impeachment, removal, censure, or discipline by the state bar. For the most part, they are self regulated.
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28 U.S.C. § 351 - Complaints; JUDGE defined
(d)Definitions.—In this chapter—
(1)the term “JUDGE” means a circuit judge, district judge, bankruptcy judge, or magistrate judge; and
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@kevinsamuelsghost685 A few observations and points
regarding your posts:
1. The same Israeli study is being repeated like propaganda. It's no different than when other pseudoscientist misinterpreted the CDC memo about complications from coronavirus-related deaths from people with other conditions;
2. You're not using science, and are cherry-picking anything topic or article you think reinforces your own beliefs and echochamber. What makes you qualified to correctly interpret the vaccine study from Israel? You haven't mentioned your credentials; and
3. If you had a valid concern about Covid-19 precautions, treatments, guidelines, and vaccinations, you'd use authorities who can actually change policy. You're just making the pandemic political. We're not managing the pandemic by committee, and no one is waiting on a consensus from people who aren't relevant and are definitely not experts; so
That why I said, I really don't know what to tell you because you don't seem like you have any intention of ever learning about the vaccines or using truth, data, and science. I'm not a propagandist; I just go with the more credible information, and it's coming from the people with medical degrees or PhDs.
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@kevinsamuelsghost685 Once again, you're advocating for something neither you nor I are educated and trained in to be considered authorities. We don't send doctors to college, medical school, internship, and residencies to get advice online.
There's no time to discuss alternative medicine. If you don't want it, don't take it. What you don't have the right to do is try to undercut medical professional, slader pharmaceutical companies, or pretend your suggestions are just as valid as the CDC, FDA, and NIH.
This is public health during a pandemic. Over 70% of the adult population have already taken the vaccinations. There is still a stubborn minority of people online with a large platform, who want to be heard by any means necessary. The reason social media companies are censoring them is because the misinformation and pseudoscience is getting ridiculous.
This is the largest global economy, and we're trying to reopen and return to normal. That's why so many in the government, private sector, public personalities, employers, and medical community have lost patience. Covid-19 isn't a novel coronavirus anymore. The vast majority of hospitalizations and nearly all deaths are among the unvaccinated.
There's not even a debate anyone, so I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish because it has nothing to do with science, medicine, economics, constitutional rights and liberties, or any credible arguments against the public health strategy. The only are people spreading confusion and trying to sabotage recovery.
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@kevinsamuelsghost685 THIS IS WHAT YOU SOUND LIKE TO ME:
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@exitscreaming No. I'm far from "anti-cop," and do give them the benefit of a doubt as long as they follow the law themselves; are compliant with police procedures and ethics; and do not abuse the office.
1. If the officers were completely compliant with policy, the investigation into their conduct will conclude with no disciplinary action and this will be another learning opportunity for other officers;
2. I did add my own personal views about Gabby, but holding law enforcement to account is not "anti-cop bias." They're agents of state and people are going to question whether giving Brian a free hotel room and leaving Gabby alone and isolated, and scripted to tell Brian she loves him and will return, made her more likely to seek out Brian rather than trying to escape;
3. It's a difficult job and no one is expecting them to be clairvoyant, but when they're in uniform with the body camera running, receiving taxpayer funds in a government vehicle, and providing taxpayer-paid hotel rooms to deconflict domestic violence, then they are subjected to public accountability and oversight. They know this before they activate the body camera;
4. You mentioned the word "allege," and I don't know how you define "allege," but it's not really relevant. "Factual allegation" and "accusations" are two different things. I go back the legal definition, and it's called an "allegation of fact," "charge," or "claim";
5. I'm old enough to know why they passed The Violence Against Women Act of 1994, and it required additional training to be able to identify domestic violence because women, typically, are intimidated and refuse to tell officers they're being abused. I'm no expert either, but there clues about Gabby that I can't see but other females can. I would have thought the female Park Ranger would have made her more comfortable;
6. If they interacted with a security guard in a hotel, that would be a different story. Anytime there is a police interaction before a crime and murder, it's going to attraction attention of the public, politicians, media, and higher ranking law-enforcement officials; so
7. It may have seemed like the decision to show leniency to Gabby, as the aggressor, and not arrest her for domestic-violence charges was the best decision; but there will be people who can make the counterargument that had that happened, a more thorough investigation and interrogation could have revealed that she was in fact the actual victim.
Maybe giving an abuser a free night stay at a hotel, while leaving the victim isolated to sleep alone in a van, with no family, friends, or contacts in the state was the best decision. It still needs to be investigated to know whether policy or procedures should be changed.
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@Gizawar Does Libya and the Arab Spring sound familiar? Where are you from because you're either very young or very uneducated on recent history? If someone showed up from a country that's not eligible for asylum, they get deported. There's already a process for that.
I think you're trying to make an anti-migrant position, but you're not able to articulate it correctly. What you're trying to do is make the claim that Europe is being overwhelmed by migrants from a different culture and religion; and that Slavs from Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe can assimilate better than people from other continents and religions.
Based on the demographics, Europe could possible become majority non-White and Islamic; and that is something worth preserving. If you took that position, I could respect that. I wouldn't want Europe to be overwhelmed either. It saves so much more time by being honest and not doing this nonsense about not being xenophobic.
Rather than just being honest, you take this Right-wing tactic of re-inventing history and spreading misinformation and using euphemisms. You have the right to an opinion and a perfectly legitimate position (Keeping Europe White and Christian), but not your own facts.
When you claim Europe being overrun by economic migrants and not refugees, that's BS and we waste time going back and forth because you're too PC to just say your true intentions.
You probably see all those young men coming and think they are going to take all of the European women. If that's the problem, just get Europe to stop accepting men separated from their families. That's still quicker to resolve than trying to change the legal definition of "refugee."
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@markrcca5329 We don't dictate to them. They are our closet allies, but dealing with Russia always involves the US. Russia would not have annexed Crimea, invaded East Ukraine, Georgia, or intervened in Syria without fear of US and NATO military support.
The message from the Kremlin is to the White House. The EU and Germany are very importantly, and influential, but the US is still the traditional "Leader of the Free World."
Just like in the Middle East, where the US allows Israel and Saudi Arabia to influence its foreign policy, in Europe, all of the NATO countries use US military, economic, and diplomatic power to unite and confront Russia.
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@markrcca5329 The problem with the EU sanctions are the fact that US sanction trump (no pun) EU sanctions. That's why the Iran Nuclear Deal collapsed after the US withdrew from the agreement.
If the EU were a single political entity with a strong central government, economy, and foreign policy, then it would be very power and considered a superpower.
It is still dominated by Germany, and since WWII, Nato military power has been in place to keep the US in Europe; keep Russia out of West Europe; and stop Germany from rearming and becoming another empire.
It's complicated, but the US still leads diplomatic and military affairs of the European Union, and the status quo has been supported since the Soviet Union collapse.
When Russia became independent from the Soviet Union, they supported the US remaining in Europe. The US and Russia both brokered the nuclear security agreement, which required Ukraine to surrender their Soviet-nukes back to Russia, under the condition that the US and Russia secure its borders.
That's just one of the many concerns, but the US isn't just a symbolic leader. It's a modern version of the British Empire, and it's nearly impossible to trade with the world if you have US sanctions. If the US puts an embargo or sanctions on a country, every country that does business with the US has to honor the sanctions.
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@jamie1128888 The US is clearly NATO member and the UN supported the war al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The 2003 Iraq War was the one with the legal ambiguity because the UN authorization was from the original Gulf War, but US and UK decided to only seek support from each other and led the invasion.
The post-Arab Spring conflicts, including Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, and North Africa are the most complicated ones. The US, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel fought against ISIS and groups labelled terrorist.
The US acted on behalf of itself and as a NATO member to fight ISIL, but fought on many different sides, including arming rebels to fight Syrian government forces and Russians.
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@aljirou29 Those links are from far-Right media, and have nothing to do with academia or history. A political spectrum is subjective and relative, but no has ever gotten it that wrong. You would need to start with a simple description of Left versus Right. Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler were all clearly opposed to the Left. Before WWII, the Spanish Civil War was a proxy conflict between far-Left and fascist. Nationalism, anti-Marxism, traditionalist values, and militarism weren't associated with the Left at that time. The only similarities between Fascist and Bolsheviks are opposition to democracy, totalitarianism, and summary execution.
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@michaelkulman7095 This is the interpretation
of the medical journal:
Interpretation
The sole reliance on vaccination as a primary strategy to mitigate COVID-19 and its adverse consequences needs to be re-examined, especially considering the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant and the likelihood of future variants. Other pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions may need to be put in place alongside increasing vaccination rates. Such course correction, especially with regards to the policy narrative, becomes paramount with emerging scientific evidence on real world effectiveness of the vaccines.
For instance, in a report released from the Ministry of Health in Israel, the effectiveness of 2 doses of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine against preventing COVID-19 infection was reported to be 39% [6], substantially lower than the trial efficacy of 96% [7]. It is also emerging that immunity derived from the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may not be as strong as immunity acquired through recovery from the COVID-19 virus [8]. A substantial decline in immunity from mRNA vaccines 6-months post immunization has also been reported [9]. Even though vaccinations offers protection to individuals against severe hospitalization and death, the CDC reported an increase from 0.01 to 9% and 0 to 15.1% (between January to May 2021) in the rates of hospitalizations and deaths, respectively, amongst the fully vaccinated [10].
In summary, even as efforts should be made to encourage populations to get vaccinated it should be done so with humility and respect. Stigmatizing populations can do more harm than good. Importantly, other non-pharmacological prevention efforts (e.g., the importance of basic public health hygiene with regards to maintaining safe distance or handwashing, promoting better frequent and cheaper forms of testing) needs to be renewed in order to strike the balance of learning to live with COVID-19 in the same manner we continue to live a 100 years later with various seasonal alterations of the 1918 Influenza virus.
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@mikeboydus Can't end the Monroe Doctrine and become the best until you beat or intimidate the best. Russian have a worldview more similar to Western views of masculinity, being war heroes, and valuing being tough and dominate.
The CCP and historical China have never been imperialist like European nations and the US. They are more interested in economic growth and regional power, and are realizing, the rapid GDP growth of the last two decades have slowed. US imperialism was modelled of the British Empire, and having a economic and military hegemony to expand markets.
I have no doubt they will defend their mainland, but the CCP starting a war with Taiwan and the US, which would kill millions of Chinese on both sides and isolate the CCP further wouldn't result in any additional gains, and there a good chance Taiwan could win without US intervention.
Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are all one nation, but they have an interest in maintain the status quo. It's not in the CCP's interest to start their first war of the 21st century against another superpower that's been in military conflicts and engagements since before the PRC existed.
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@alexlo7708 Why do you keep going on with these rants? I do have a preference for the US dollar, but that's because so does the whole world.
Do you think countries like Japan, China, and the European Union countries invest trillions to buy US government debt because they are interested in charity, no?
The international currency-exchange markets and the Federal Reserve determines the value of the dollar. The US has perfect credit, and is the safest investment in the world.
That's not only coming from me. That's what the business markets decided. The only reason Russia is spreading the propaganda about the US dollar is because they're under sanctions, and need the US sanctions removed. They should work with the White House instead of spreading disinformation, fake news, and interfering in US and European domestic politics.
As soon as, US sanctions are lifted from Russia, you won't hear a word about the US dollar and oil. Yes, Russian oil is mostly purchased with US dollars because it would be insane, and too risky, to use another currency.
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@lexsteel12 You've made no point what so ever because you're still wasting time talking about the media when your POV and stance on the media are irrelevant to the Biden White House or to Putin's Kremlin. The only media role is how he's distracting Trump's supporters, who are making this political when it's much bigger. As long as they don't violate the law, commit fraud, or defame someone, the media can profit from sensationalizing anything they want. Your complaints about media should be more directed toward social media rather than legacy media.
You would be too busy calling CBS fake news during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Think as an adult: "Why would two nuclear superpowers give a flying f**k about people who hate the media when this is a game of chess, and you've got no role in it."
Russia wants sanctions relief, reduction and NATO expansion, and a new mid-range arms treaty in Europe because they're not able to afford an arms race against NATO? What can the media do in regards to that when all of the decisions will be made by executive action or an international treaty from the White House and Senate.
It's fine that you have your opinion on the media, but you're just part of the demographic Trump targeted with his anti-media stance. I don't care about the media. I went to school and am too stubborn to be influenced by media. The local media with FCC-regulate standards and the printed press subjected to libel laws are not behaving lawlessly, and can be held accountable. They haven't had nearly as much influence as social media like Twitter and Facebook and video platforms like YouTube, which comes from individuals and algorithms recommendations.
You think I can watch RT and suddenly become pro-Putin, or watch FoxNews and become a Republican? It might make sense to you, but it doesn't to me. There is so much more to life than focusing on the media. They're private companies, with online competition and constitutionally limited government regulations. There's nothing I can do about that. The government and politicians work for me, not CNN and Google.
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@williamdavis9562 The problem you're not getting is that sanctions aren't intended to change behavior or force a withdrawal. We're beyond that. The US is engaged in economic warfare. The result will be famines, premature deaths, and economic destabilization. That's always happened. You're probably not able to measure the results, but it will be in GDP contraction, unemployment, inflation, and lower life expectancy.
No one is looking for Putin to be nice. They are intended to make life miserable and decrease the standard of living. If you're bringing up the ordinary Russian people, then it should be obvious no one cares. It's war and this is punishment for Russia and its citizens. Any international venture Russia attempts to engage in will be subjected to economic warfare and financial sanctions.
They are designed by economists and finance experts, so check the Russian GDP, inflation, and life expectancy figures this year. I get that you may have briefly read recent history and want a peaceful world, but you're not going to know more about economics than the professors and Harvard PhDs who designed the sanctions. The part you don't seem capable of comprehending is that no one would waste time or loss in economic activity (because it hurts the US, too) doing them if they didn't work.
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@williamdavis9562 That's not the premise. Sanctions are economic warfare to ruin the economy and they're usually permanent. It's like a scotched earth tactic. They are made by economist, so the results should measured in the economic damage. If the US uses a biological weapon designed by doctors, wouldn't you look at the health effects. Example of sanctions: Venezuela, North Korea, Saddam's Iraq, Yemen, Maoist China, Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan were more damaged by the sanctions than the US and international community who imposed them.
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@anarchyorslavery1616 This statement was from you: "Ukraine is a rightful province of Russia, it is not a legitimate country."
I'm not being condescending. There's a huge problem with that statement. That would be like saying, "Armenia belongs to Turkey," or "Manchuria belongs Japan." Why would an educated person say that? I'm not being PC or sensitive, or even talking down to you. It sounds like you believe that literally, which mean you have heard some times of propaganda message making that claim. There are Ukrainian online you can talk to and ask without saying something that offensive. They lost millions of people under intentional famines and purges because Moscow wanted to punish Ukrainians. There's a reason why Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine are all different countries.
That means you don't know the difference between the Kremlins public message and their private stance. Russia isn't trying to re-integrate Ukraine into Russia. They are struggling to cover the pensions of former Ukrainians who lived in Crimea after the annexation. It doesn't sound like you're familiar with the situation and you are reading something from social media. if you were truly informed, you could properly state both the public and private positions of the Kremlin.
This is a stand off between Washington, DC, and Moscow. It's about (1) US and EU sanctions relief; (2) Crimean access to to Ukrainian water; (3) a new nuclear treaty on mid-range missiles in Europe; (4) maintaining the status quo in the Russian-speaking Donbass region; and (5) reduction of NATO wargames near the Russian border and commitment to keep Ukraine and Georgia from joining NATO and the European Union.
That other nonsense about Ukraine being part of Russia is just dumb because Kiev can claim that White Russia, Russia, and Ukraine belong to them.
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@anarchyorslavery1616 You're talking about post-WWI Ukraine not being legally formed when Germany sent Lenin back to Russia to start a revolution, get them to stop fighting in the war; and killed the legal monarchy in Russia to become a communist dictatorship that wasn't even considered a legitimate country until the 1930s.
You are selectively choosing history. It sounds like you're not even a Russian. What part of the world are you in because you're thinking the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation are all a single country because the capital is Moscow?
They have many races, nationalities, ethnicities, and religions in modern Russia and of the former Soviet Union. You probably believe that Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev were Russian, too.
The Russian-speaking Slavs you considering as the "real Russians" were sent to Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, Baltic States, Central Asia, Chechnya, Georgia, Caucuses, Mongolia, Siberia, Kaliningrad, East Germany, Afghanistan, China, North Korea, and Warsaw Pacts states as part of a pro-Kremlin cultural-assimilation process called "Russification," but that doesn't make them the indigenous to the countries they're, including Ukraine.
The right of the people to self-determination has a process under international, Ukrainian, and Russian law, and if Russian-speaking Slavs want to rejoin Russia, they have that right, but they can't take part of another country (Ukraine) with them when they rejoin Russia.
EDIT: I just noticed your American flag, and it makes sense now. This is political and you're trying to take the stance from what you heard from RT or other propaganda that uses people in the West as "useful idiots."
It's not that your thin-blue line is the political statement I'm judging. It's because you're an American, and you're trying the give the stance that you think Vladimir Putin would have if he were a Foxnews Christian Conservative, or part of American Right-wing politics, which he isn't. He's much more progressive and leads one of the most ethically diverse nations in the world. It's fine to be Republican, but when the party of Reagan is softer on Moscow than the American Left, then it's a sign something is not right. If you share a world view with a hostile foreign adversary, then it's better to let the patriotic Americans handle foreign policy with Russia.
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@nikoc8968 I don't have a problem with Trump. I survived four years of him and could work with him regardless of the political difference.
The concern I do have is the anti-media rhetoric, and turning off potential voters and his committed voter base during an election he should have easily won.
The media doesn't control the country, and all he had to do was use them like every other American president before him. The MSM does have a political agenda and are mostly Left wing (most people already know that). All he had to do was be the Donald Trump from the 1990s and not call them "fake news." He knew how to protect his public image, and get positive media coverage despite personal scandals.
After winning re-election he could have quickly returned to his previous behavior. I know you've stated he was cheated out of an election that had been stolen.
The problem was claiming a nationwide criminal conspiracy to defraud the US election and the government. The allegations were defective and led to numerous lawsuits dismissals because of an unlikelihood of succeeding on a merits and evidence, and the absence of a civil defendant to answer the charges.
It's my opinion, but I don't think he enjoyed being president. He has a voter base that supported him to the point of almost worshipping him. He owed it to his base to do more for them, and not make enemies within his own party and former cabinet staffers, e.g., Jeff Session, who lost his DC career in the Senate and Justice Department. Clearly, Sessions wasn't a "Never Trumper," and was one of the first GOP politicians to endorse him.
Scandals happen in nearly every White House Administration, but he focused too much on the GOP being loyal to him, and during the four years under Trump, most of it was wasted on culture wars, attacking disloyal Republicans who leaked to the media, and not recognizing that Russia was neither a supporter of Trump nor the US.
Rather than claiming the Russia probe was a Democratic witch hunt, he should have been able to see that the Kremlin paralyzed most of his first term by taking advantage of the domestic political polarization and racial problems in America and driving a wedge between the US and our European allies.
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Who the hell is Mrs. Kravitz? America is a capitalist arms producer that sees the potential market of rebuilding Ukraine to sell iPhones, Coca-Cola, KFC, Facebook, LNG products, Disney films, loans, bombs, drones, and Google products. We support democracy, but there's a return on investment in a country of 45 million pro-American consumers.
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@jamram9924 It's rare to hear someone so well informed on anything related to Russia and Ukraine. It's the most complicated foreign affairs topic for Americans and English speakers.
It makes the Middle East seem simple. The Russians have a fascinating history, and there should be more courses on Sovietology or Kremlinology like that Dr. Rice specialized in.
I'm mostly focused on the economic aspect, but I don't see a direct military conflict, and definitely not a nuclear war between Washington, DC, and Moscow.
There could always be a miscalculation, but when both countries have come to the brink of a direct conflict, we've allowed each other to save face. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, and even now, there's mutual respect for each other; and there was no major celebration in America after winning the Cold War.
Rather than going for the kill, and attempting to overthrow Putin or destroy the Russian economy or Russian forces in Ukraine, the White House will still allow him an off-ramp and give Putin an opportunity to save face and exit Ukraine in a dignified manner.
Hopefully, this senseless war will end soon, but I don't see a nuclear escalation unless the Kremlin regime or the existence of the Russian state is under threat. That could happen, but it will be mostly from inside Russia.
Neither Ukraine nor the White House has called for Putin to be removed, and both are still attempting to negotiate with him. I think he's gained a higher level of respect for Zelenskyy and Kyiv. He could have made a direct attack to decapitate the government or poison Zelenskyy, but maybe Putin respects their strength now.
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@dimostenisn.4642 I am a US as citizen, and pay taxes and have a vote, too. I don't like cowardice and isolationism. I've benefited from US imperialism and global market access, so I prefer the traditionally US stance stance as being leader of the free world. We're not Switzerland, and when allies ask for help, we help them.
Only a fool would surrender a global empire because a younger generation is too naïve and cowardly to confront a dictator. The US can outproduce Russia, so were not counting weapons anymore than Russia measuring their snow.
Regardless, of the decision Putin makes, our role is to make the invasion as costly as possible. It's a foolish move, and he should be embarrassed on the international stage, which why you don't see him making a moving because the element of surprise and the propaganda about "liberating" Ukraine is BS.
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@dimostenisn.4642 The country has been an empire since the early 1900s, and we have a military-industrial complex that outproduce the rest of the world.
This is the most armed nation on earth, and is essentially mostly known for Hollywood and dropping bombs.
You probably don't like it. I'm not sadistic or murderous either, but this isolationist talk, anti-war, and touchy feely stuff is not realistic and is disingenuous.
If you want to make an anti-war case, you would need to know geopolitics and something about foreign policy, which you don't. All you know is war is bad. Okay, we get that, but that's got nothing to do with reality.
That not even a public policy. That's just wishful thinking and platform a child running for student president would say. Pollution and Covid-19 are bad, too..... okay.
You shouldn't be attacked for your own personal beliefs, no matter how much I think the exact opposite. I get one vote and so do you. Hopefully, yours gets lost in the mail.
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@AY-tv4gw Russian mercenaries tried to attacked US troops in Syria, and got blown to smithereens by the hundreds. The US and Israel continued striking targets as if Russia wasn't in the country. That's not a good example.
Russia is not a superpower. The Soviet Union absolutely was and had a larger standing military than NATO, but Russia is not the USSR, and it's no where close to challenging NATO. They don't have manpower, economy, or technology. All they have are the disinformation trolls like you who conveniently misrepresent the facts.
I'm not sure why a serious adult would make war into a video game like competition, but since you decided to mention Georgia; in 2008, the Bush Administration used the threat of a military airstrike on Russia troops for invading the territory, and Putin took him seriously.
Russia is a very strong country still celebrated for defeating the Nazis, and Putin is an experience bureaucrat who is playing a game of chess, but he's not crazy enough speed up his demise by starting a conflict with the US.
The Russian economy is ruined; the full pension retirement age of a Russian male is 245 years old, so they're strategy against the US is called, "asymmetrical warfare," and that's why they use trolls, bots, and useful idiots like you to spread propaganda and lies rather than directly challenging the US or a NATO country.
Putin's biggest fear is an American-backed regime change because it can happen without US military power or an invasion. The country is so poor that the CIA could send an agent into Russia with a $billion and bring people in the streets to start a revolution, and give Putin the Romanov ex-tsar treatment.
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@AY-tv4gw Go write that as an academic essay, and when it's peer-reviewed by anyone with a background on economics or geopolitics, then I'll it seriously.
As of right now, you don't come off as credible or knowledgeable, and you haven't shown that you can even clearly and coherently state Vladimir Putin's and Russia's position. If you were able to compare and contrast the POV of Russia and the US, I would have been eager to listen to your stance.
You don't have to share my position because I would love to interact with someone who is competent in geopolitics, and someone who actually took the time to research and learn the history of the Cold War. My problem is that you're trying to BS me, as if I can't tell that you don't know anything about Russia-US relations.
It's a complicated topic, and it took decades for me to even get a comfortable understand it. Russia definitely has some legitimate grievances with the US and NATO, but you don't know what those are. They have a public position which is spread like propaganda in Western media by "useful idiots," and their true objectives, which is in their timing and subtle messages.
You definitely have the right to your opinion, but it would be better if you were honest and asked for help rather than pretending to be an expert on topic you've spent no time researching. I could ask you about America's interest in Syria or Ukraine, and I would already know your answer: It's going to be the Kremlin talking point that you are repeating verbatim. I already know those. You're repeating them without even knowing the meaning and the message. That's were the term "useful idiot" comes from.
You're doing a favor for neither the US, China, nor Russia. The only thing you're doing is trying to pretend to be smart and engage in a conversation that you're not an expert on. You might as well try to argue against Einstein's theory of relativity because I'm sure you're clueless on that, too. Long story short, be honest, humble, and stop lying. It's a waste of time engaging with someone who doesn't believe in TRUTH.
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@jeffkardosjr.3825 You clearly haven't read the law. No one is being forced to work with or without compensation. That's a matter between employee and employer and not the government.
You should at least perform your due diligence of understanding the government's role in the labor dispute and what a government intervention means.
The deprivation of the rights, liberties, and immunities you're describing would look nothing like what happened in this law.
The government isn't seizing private property or sending in the police to force work at gunpoint without due process of law.
The work they're doing is highly regulated, and a disruption of railways affects other businesses, consumers, and the government.
The government isn't forcing pilots, TSA , ATC, and airport employees to work at gunpoint and without pay, but if a labor dispute shut down US aviation, interstate commerce, and conflicts with international law, then it's affecting the general public and not just the striking employees.
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@michaelhammond7115 Being bigoted is the expertise of your fellow cultist. Based on your laundry list of claims, conspiracy theories, and Right-wing political points, all of your predictable accusations just starts from your hating a free press.
The hatred of the media and intentionally spreading disinformation is the link that brings the entire Trump base together.
I'm not sure why you felt the need to reference your Native American ancestry or why it's relevant, but that doesn't explain the fact that you've made the media into an enemy.
The entire MAGA political movement and culture war isn't randomly called, "fascist-adjacent." It's the unjustified hatred of the elites, main-stream media, and the cult-like worship of Donald Trump.
You probably don't like being called a far-Right extremist, but it's obvious that you've been radicalized and can no longer distinguish fact from fiction, e.g., this video is about the surge of Covid-19 cases in India and the impending human tragedy that would follow a near collapse in their healthcare infrastructure.
Rather than express empathy or add substance to the discussions, you've decided to politicize this pandemic and exploit a human tragedy to criticize the media for report an factually accurate report.
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@bryandimery6509 A few things to note:
1. I'm not "wondering (sic) in the intellectual wilderness[1]," and this has nothing to do with CNN or my own personal opinions regarding China or the US. I prefer to engage with people who present truth and historical factual support when discussing geopolitics or making an argument about international trade. You continue to state your own opinions that aren't relevant to the topic or done with any fact-based analysis;
2. Somehow you've made economics and international affairs into some type of a game and trolling. There's no way I can take you seriously when you get away from reality and start changing topics. Your opinion isn't the problem. The problem is that you're not saying anything that exists in the real world, so how could I know what you're talking about? You're also making assumptions about the CCP and the US dollar that you can't support with evidence or economic indicators;
3. I mistakenly believed you were genuine about your interests in geopolitics related to China. China is fascinating, and I love history and some of the economic aspects. I'm not trying to insult you, but I don't think you know anything about China or its economic politics or role in global affairs. I'm not claiming to be an expert on Chinese affairs, but you are pretending to be one; so finally
4. That's why I got immediately turned off when you started lying and making those claims about the US dollar, which is a realm where I do have an academic background. I don't like calling people "bots," but seriously you're not even talking like a human being or even an adult. You're describing China and geopolitics the way a child would describe their favorite action-hero cartoon.
I do wish you well, but you should be humble and start asking more questions rather than giving "expert opinions" and irrational arguments on issues as complex as international economics, geopolitics, and superpower competition.
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[1] FYI: It's spelled "wandering."
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@Kreze202 That's better. I calmed down once I saw "Brown Mamba" and your picture. I thought you were a troll. I've written you novel.
RUSSIA-US:
That would seem dumb and counter productive for Russia to publicly announce that they are siding with the US over China. The point was not to get Russia to intentionally damage relations with their most important strategic partner, it was to send a covert message that the US is only willing to negotiate and accept a position harmful to the interest of its closest allies (British + Europeans) if it's detrimental to our biggest global competitor, China. Neither Russia not China are our enemies, and we still cooperate with Russia on space, North Korea, and terrorism, etc., but Russia and the CCP are hostile foreign adversaries. As far as an actual, direct war among any of the countries on the UN Security Council, it will never happened. That's just nonsense and propaganda in the media. Russia and the CCP are against US foreign policy and imperialism, and the fact that the US and its troops have remained in Europe and Asia even though WWII and the Cold War have ended. It's completely reasonable that they feel threatened.
The US had a reverse situation when relations between China and the Soviet Union worsened, and Nixon even threatened to use nuclear weapons against the Soviet union to aid China during their border battle. The Russian are well aware of the US-China tensions, and if they were smart, they would play US and China to benefit their own national interests.
US ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA:
The reason I referenced US sanctions are because they were designed as economic warfare specifically for Russia and their oligarchs. There's no legal way to go around them without getting the assets frozen or being prosecuted. It seems like there would be a way to just start dealing with China or the European Union to avoid US sanctions, but that's not the not how they work. in Russia, most of the wealth, including Putin's personal wealth was held by oligarchs in Western banks. When the sanctions were announced, they didn't have time to recall all of their assets back to Russian owned bank. Any of the accounts in US institution were, and are still, frozen and inaccessible. They also have sanction designed to interrupt Russian contracts with international companies, including ExxonMobil and the pipeline transporting gas from Russia to central Europe:
UN SANCTION:
The UN sanctions are the ones that are voted on in the UN Security Council, and they work as embargos to cut off nations like North Korea and previously Iraq off from all sources of foreign income. North Korea had been cut off from international trade by US sanctions alone. Their only trading partner was China, so in designing a sanction regime for North Korea that would prevent them from obtaining funds to develop nuclear weapons without starving the country was to use UN sanction that required China and Russia's vote in the UN Security Council.
The reason I said all nation have to follow US sanctions is because the US sanction Iran, and a Chinese executive was arrested in Canada for violating US sanction on Iran even though she wasn't a US citizen and the control was between the Chinese company and Iran. It became US jurisdiction because the same Chinese company does business within the US, so Chinese companies are essentially forced to observe US or choose between doing business with America or with Iran. Because the US is China's largest customer, the CCP wisely chooses America. The other countries don't implement sanction that way. There are EU sanction, but the US has been able to coerce other nations into cooperating because the dollar is the reserve currency and because of the amount of international trade the US does with most countries. China could eventually start to use a similar power, but they prefer to use diplomacy and other strategies rather than military power and sanctions.
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@Kreze202 Not American, but you're clearly not a hostile.
China is a centralized economy and the strength and weakness is that it functions like a single corporation. It helped them when Trump announced his trade war, which is the worst thing he could have possibly done because they had more than enough time to prepare.
Tariffs and trade wars are types of warfare. China and the US are at a different level of hostility than US and Iran. The reason I mentioned it is because China's interest is making money and expanding markets. That's what they were doing with Iran. They tried to deceive US authorities, and do business with both the US and Iran.
Their response was to immediately pressure Canada, and arrested Canadians in China, which ultimately failed. The US was willing to harm its own economic interest to maintain the sanction regime against Iran. In reality, it might be debatable, but the Iran sanctions were more to benefit Israel and Saudi Arabia, and damage the Iranian economy to get them to change the leadership.
I'm not communist and I think it's terrible system that always fails, but in the short term it appears to be a reasonable alternative like with China. I'm trying to be as fair to China as I can, but there are systems problems with their system and a lot of wasted resources. The only way to keep the communist party in power is if they continue the rapid growth indefinitely, and that's why it's so important for them to maintain positive relations with the US and European Union. Their tone has gotten more aggressive because obviously the US is very hostile and the Covid-19 pandemic has damaged their growth potential and international relations.
If the US were to use the sanctions power on China, which it already is, it would have do it clandestinely and not make it public to be most effective. That was the strategy during the Cold War against the Soviet Union and when China was cut off from international trade. The US isn't perfect or invincible, but the economy and dollar is the most stable on earth. It's been growing at the same rate for over a century. We're able to deal with recessions and high-levels of unemployment. In Beijing and Moscow, they have to keep the economies growing so there no civil unrest or uprisings.
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