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I can respect the judge's legal determination and credibility, but it's unusual following a potentially high-profile criminal case during the pre-indictment phase.
If the government failed to meet its burden of proof in support of a contempt of court charge, then the judge had no other option that to rule against the government.
I haven't read the court's ruling yet, but unless there's a new revelation calling into question this court's impartiality, moral character, and/or legal competence, then I see no reason to question the legitimacy of the ruling.
In spite of the fact that I will never vote in support of Trump holding public office, he's still entitled to his rights of due process, fair trail, and protection against vindictive and politically motivated prosecutions (AKA "Deep state witch hunts").
All public official should be held accountable and investigated when there's even the appearance of corruption, criminality, and abuse of official authority; but just like we often need reminders that Trump is "NOT ABOVE the law," it's also true that Trump is "NOT BENEATH the protections of constitutional law."
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He's a Cold Warrior, and so am I. The Chinese people in the Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong have never be our enemies. It's the oldest country on earth and there's plenty we can learn from them. I've been to Japan and Australia, but I won't visit an area under the control of the CCP and the Xi Jinping dictatorship. It's not hate. I'm just not going to sit back and watch a global empire it took centuries and two world wars to build get replace by a country that isn't innovative, steals technology, and spies on the US.
If a competitor asserts itself as a new global superpower and a counterbalance to America's international hegemony and the US dollar, then that's tantamount to a declaration of war. In the perfect world, there would be peace and we could sing Kumbaya. That's not realistic and US politician seen as weak on China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran should be no wear near the White House.
A better challenge for you would be to gain a better understanding of US foreign policy and what happened to cause US-China, South Korea-China, Australia-China, Vietnam-China, Taiwan-Mainland China, Japan-China, India-China, Eu-China, Canada-China, and UK-China relations to drastically deteriorate over the past decade. Hint: It wasn't Chuck.
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@kensmith174 That's not the way sanctions work. I know in your mind you're a expert on geopolitics, and the UN Secretary General, but you're not.
If you could put together a legitimate argument, I would believe that, but I'm more familiar with Russia and US extraterritorial sanctions work. If they had a choice, they'd choose airstrikes over economic warfare of the US, because being attacked would get them more support.
This is a game of chess to remove the US sanction (EU ones aren't nearly as serious). The sanctions which have nearly destroyed the country and destabilized the oligarchs and future GDP growth. You might think they can just go to China, but every country that does business with the US has to follow the sanction, so China has to decide between Russia and it's most important trading partner, The United States.
You have an interest POV, but it's got nothing to do with reality.
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@realityobservationalist7290 You definitely have a right to your position, but the US and NATO are looking out for their own self-interest. The Kremlin is also doing what it believes in Russia's interest. We've had differences and conflicting interests with Russia in Europe and with China in the Pacific since the 1940s. Nothing about the US response to the invasion should be surprising. Ukraine is a young democracy, and it decided to seek closer ties with the US and European Union.
They can see the economic progress in the Baltic States and the former Warsaw Pact countries that have joined the EU and NATO. Ukraine is a very pro-American country, and when this conflict is over, we will have a new market of 45 million Ukrainians to export and sell iPhones, Hollywood films, NATO weapons, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Google Online Services, UPS, Boeing aircraft, computer chips, loans and financial services, and American-made vehicles. The US weapons and money come with strings attached, so American corporations will have priority access to Ukraine and Ukraine will side with the US over China. Ukraine's relationship with the US will probably be closer than Ukraine and European Union.
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@tweedy4sg I saw your very first sentence, and I've got to end our conversation. Yesterday was an off day, and I had time for, but not anymore because:
1. You claimed there's confusion about US Extraterritorial Sanctions with UN Sanctions. No way to confused those two US sanctions are a unilateral type of warfare that existed before there was a UN, or even a League of Nations. I don't if you're an American or English is your first language, but it's clear I only referred to US sanction. Both Russia and China are members of the Security Council, and would have to sanction themselves before UN Sanctions could be applied. That doesn't even make sense and you should know that; so
2. I'm going to assume you are intentionally changing the subject, and/or either spreading misinformation, and because I don't have the time go through and correct everyone of your lies, I've stopped reading, and have to end the discussion with you because it's intentional misinformation and propaganda. If you want a platform to lie, just go somewhere, but don't disguise it as a genuine geopolitical question.
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@tweedy4sg I'm not sure where you're going with the China topic, but the US wouldn't use sanctions or other forms of economic warfare if they didn't already know they work.
It might seem random and spontaneous, but they're designed by economist, lawyers, mathematicians, and financial experts. The entire world has known vulnerabilities of the Russian economy since the days of Tsar Nichols.
It might sound like a logical alternative to avoid US sanctions, but their GDP, employment rates, consumer spending data, and currency exchange rates don't lie. The threat of invading Ukraine while in talks to for sanctions relief, nuclear treaty, and ending NATO expansion wouldn't be
happening if they could easily bypass the sanction by going to China.
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@tweedy4sg That's a much butter response. I was expecting someone to say Russia doesn't do much business with US, but the EU isn't America's poodle.
The US is there protecting mostly European, and some US business interest. We've been there since the Normandy invasion, and the EU is in a lot stronger position with the US leading the effort than Russia using threats of force, or cutting gas supplies to the EU. They have the choice of cutting of the gas, but the EU is the second largest economy in the world. The US LNG industry would love to have access to Gazprom's European market share.
There's a lot of focus on China becoming a superpower and becoming the biggest challenge to US hegemony. They're definitely an economic power, but humble Germany, which dominates the EU, gets overlooked. It might be their intent, but outside of the UK, Germany is probably the only European nation that could apply pressure and stop US-led NATO actions, intel operations, and economic warfare against Russia.
That's one of the main reasons I don't call the EU or Ukraine, "America's poodle." They have more interest in this than the US, and they intervened on US sanctions on Russia when it interferes with their business interests.
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@kensmith174 FULL TRANSPARENCY: I haven't read a single word you've posted. I only saw those cringe emojis, and immediately hit the YouTube Mute Feature, which I would like to advertise now.
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@kalijasin That could be true. The regulators, NY Att'y Gen, tax collectors, and law enforcement tend to look for obvious signs of criminality and RICO-like conspiracies like lying to investigators, retaliating against internal whistleblowers, and shredding and flushing documents down the toilet.
The complicity, or aiding and abetting would be a huge deal since is a criminal offense, but there's a chance that all or most of the criminal liability would be on Allen Weisselberg and auditing firm.
The gross incompetence (Deer-in-the-headlights defense) isn't criminal, and likely is the legal strategy of the Trump Family, but it could cost Weisselberg and the auditors their accounting licenses like what happened with Enron/Arthur Andersen.
Since the accountants and CFOs, and held to a higher ethical and legal the standard than the Trump Organization and the Trump Family, the "cookers of the books" could be the only ones who face felony indictments.
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@brianticas7671 Not a realist because Russia was defeated in the Battle of Kyiv, and no serious forecaster expects them to win and hold the country. They've lost over 15,000 so far. A lot of those deaths are from US weapons. The sanctions have ruined their economy and now this year the GDP will shrink by 30%. They won't even have enough money to control prices.
Also, war doesn't hurt the US economy. It does the exact opposite. We're arming Ukraine. How would that hurt the economy? That makes no sense. The war is increasing the US GDP. Inflation is a sign of the market growing faster than supply can keep up. When was the last time you've seen a US jobs report? Go look at one of those and explain how the economy is hurting.
Based on that misinformation, it's a sign that you're clueless and just repeating right-wing propaganda. If you're scared of Russia, don't go to war. You don't have to lie about facts to make a point. You might not realize it, but there are people who keep up with geopolitics and this war and know a lot more than you do. That's how I can tell that you're not telling the truth and you know it.
Finally, in normal conversations, I would say that I "respectfully disagree with you," but you've lost my respect for intentionally lying. You almost sound like a child trying to explain something you don't understand. I wouldn't mind you having a different opinion, but you keep lying and don't seem to believe in the truth. It's waste of time. I'm not interested in continuing with someone who lies. The End.
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He's playing a dangerous game with NATO and the White House. His armed forces are already struggling to find gently expired food, gas, and the Nazis they originally went looking for in Ukraine.
Yes, arming the Ukrainians with defensive weaponry is definitely provocative, but sending idle threats of military action could cause a miscalculation that would bring fresh US and NATO troops into the war.
The US has stockpiles of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons as well. Unlike the Kremlin, the American missiles, conventional weapons, and nuclear triad actually work.
At this point, a conventional or nuclear war against NATO is "unwinnable." The Russians should be more focused on the Ukrainian Armed Forces since Zelenskyy is the one winning on the battlefield and has mostly been responsible for uniting the West to wage economic warfare against the Russian economy and the ruble.
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@Kermit_T_Frog The history books will likely describe her as an overachieving bookworm, who worked her entire life to become president only to lose an election that shouldn't have been close.
I'm not downplaying the significance of her winning the popular vote or the fact that the Russian Government interfered to damage her campaign, but there was a large segment of the population she was unable to reach. Most stayed home on election day.
It might just be her boring personality, but her resume and Trump were enough for Democrats to support her. I know hindsight is 20/20, but she didn't seem interested in targeting independents and "Never Trumper" GOP members.
She clearly loves America and is working to preserve her reputation of not showing emotions in public. If I invested my entire life getting an Ivy-league education, a legal career, and climbing the ladder in Democratic politics, only to lose after the October Surprise of "fake news," and an email scandal that was forgotten after the election, I would have said, "F*c* this country. I'm joining ISIS!"
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@MrMacky-co6zn When did the CCP claim it wanted "buffer states?" I've heard that used by Stalin, but the US and European empires have been inside China and the Pacific region since the 19th century.
The intervention in the Korean War happened during the same time frame that the US defended Taiwan and recognized it as the legitimate Chinese government. There was combat involving Chinese and UN forces, but that definitely wasn't a US-China War. It was Beijing using soldiers as cannon fodder.
The US military presence in the Pacific Ocean, South China Sea, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, New Zealand, and Australia had been strategically placed to contain mainland China, the spread of communism, and cut China off from global trade.
The example of a Chinese buffer state in Asia would be Mongolia. US-CHINA relations have improved, but during the Cold War, the US posed an existential threat to Mao.
China was cut off from the UN, international trade, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The US was much hostile during the Cold War, and made nuclear threats because China became communist.
China and the US will continue to play a game of chess in geopolitics to counter the US, there will never a global conflict or even direct fighting between the US and China.
They're the two largest markets and ending the trading relationship would damage both nations. There are more effective ways the CCP could counter the US without a direct conflict.
That's why Taiwan is so crucial and it's an indicator China readiness and willingness to have a war against the US. It's my opinion but the only way the two countries would have a direct military conflict is of they attack each other, or if the CCP attacks NATO or the American bases in the Pacific. Both options would drastically favor the US, but both nations will pay too high of a price. China isn't pacifist, but it doesn't start wars of conquest and before Xi, the foreign relations with the West were much more cordial and non hostile.
The US isn't invincible, but the status as the foremost global superpower after 1918, makes it nearly unthinkable of any country to start a direct conflict.
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In the US, it's determined by political decisions and regulations; thus Arabs, Persians, and other Muslim-majority countries (i.e., Middle Eastern and excluding Indonesia, Bangladesh, and India) are demographically classified as Middle Eastern and Northern Africa ("MENA").
There are hundreds of different racial groups who are followers of Islam, so census takers use ethnicity and race, e.g., India and Pakistan were part of the same country, but Pakistanis are MENA and Indians are Asian American Pacific Islanders.
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@IMGreg.. The post is only regarding American business interests and why the US should also invest in rebuilding Ukraine. I'm aware of the significant contributions from the UK, Canada, and other NATO countries.
I'm sure the UK for example are looking for a new post-Brexit trading relationship, but my remark are specifically from the perspective of the US.
There are a lot of American who think their money is being used as charitable contributions and NATO is a philanthropic organization.
FDR and Woodrow Wilson were greedy Yanks, too. That's how the US, as an ally, replaced the British Empire and British Pound as the global currency. The reason you see iPhones, Coca Cola, KFC, McDonald's, YouTube, Hollywood Films, American vehicles, Boeing planes, Microsoft, American banks, and US defense contractors around the globe is because "Greedy Yanks" need a return on their investment.
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