Youtube comments of Aristocles Athenaioi (@aristoclesathenaioi4939).

  1. I worry that Trump is voted into office then the Republican party manges to remove Trump for incapacity, J.D.Vance becomes President and Peter Thiel and Elon Musk can run American through a President Vance. Neither Thirl nor Musk were born in the US threrefore they need a US born intermediary such as Vance. This line of speculation might be preposterous, but electing Trump makes it possible. Another reason to vote for Harris against Trump.
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  2. NATO has another advantage that most people rarely think about. In a sense NATO is a European "police force" that prevents the members of NATO going to war with one another. Article 5 means that the NATO effectively police one another because any attack on one NATO country is regarded as an attack an attack on all; therefore, deterring NATO member from attacking one another. if anyone thinks this absurd consider that Greece and Turkey are both members of NATO.
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  3. In an interview, one of the American soldiers talked about having difficulty getting a thermal fix on an armored vehicle until one of the vehicle crew lit a cigarette, and that was enough to get a thermal fix by the missile. So smoking really does kill.
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  4. I had heard of the Mozart Group, and I am glad you did a video about them. I am probably a bit older than those ladies, and I can tell you that it is feels as frightening to abandon the house where you have lived in and raised your family as it is to stay in a battlefield. Not only are you leaving the home you made, but you are elderly, and you have no idea is you will be able to take care of yourself if your become homeless.
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  5. Did you notice the cats inspecting the tank turret at about 4:45 in your video? That is so characteristically Ukrainian. Every day is bring your pet to work day. The videos of soldiers with their pet dogs and cats really gives me a chuckle. Now I know that cats are involved in the weapons manufacture as well!
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  6. This from the same people who thought it was a good idea to dig trenches in the Red Forest, which increased the amount of genuinely radioactive dust and material in the air. Personally I am truly fearful of the what the Russians might do by destroying the Novo Kharkov dam. The Russians have begun to increase fortifications around the Zaporezhe Nuclear Power Plant. I do hope that the Russians leave the Nuclear plant alone.
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  7. Fascinating I have observed first-hand some of the appalling public behavior by Chinese tourists, but given that Americans have had a reputation as ill-mannered tourists, I felt reluctant to call out the behavior of the Chinese tourists. I also worried that my attitude might come from some racist attitudes. I finally decided there was something uniquely troublesome about the behavior of Chinese tourists after an incident during the Japanese festival of ohana-mei, cherry blossom viewing, when a group of Chinese tourists climbed into the trees to tear off branches as souvenirs. Nothing could have horrified the Japanese more, and now the Japanese have special sections of exhibits for Chinese tourists, or carefully escort Chinese tourist groups just as the Japanese have done with Westerners for many years. I had attributed this to Japanese racism, which they have in abundance, but it seems to have a factual basis as well. Thank you for explaining a behavior of Chinese tourists that had previously surprised and confounded me.
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  8.  @johndododoe1411  Because? Examples please? I am willing to change my opinion, but I need more than just someone says I am wrong or that I have contradicted my sef. Can you show me the contradiction? THere may be one I overlooked.
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  9. I can verify Georgy's comments. I have a Ukrainian friend who fled Crimea back in 2014 with her then 2 year old son and settled down in Lviv. Most of her family stayed behind in Crimea, and tried to get her return. She left Crimera with her son because she believed his life would be better in Ukraine. She is a native Russian speaker, and she and her son have had to learn Ukrainian. She knew nobody in Lviv, but she met and married a great guy who grew up in Lviv. He served in the Donbas from 2014 to 2020 as a tank driver, and I believe he has PTSD, but she disagrees. The UAF will not draft him, and I believe it is because of his PTSD. From my perspective I would never want to go into combat with someone suffering from PTSD because you never know when he will have a nervous collapse and be unable to fight. My friend is waiting for the liberation of Crimea because she wants to return home, and she wants her home to be part of Ukraine.
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  10. The Radar in Poland matches the one in Romania. Those two systems are basically land based based versions of the radar on the Arleigh-Burke radars which can control out-going missiles as well as detecting incoming missiles. With two such a radar installation in Poland and Romania, the nuclear bases are thoroughy covered. By the way, the Russians are pissed off, so you know it is effective.
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  11. You might find this explanation of "Combined Arms" assaults interesting because this is what the Ukrainians are being trained to do by the NATO countries. From this video it seems that Ukrainian units in the field are already using "Combined Arms" assualts. https://youtu.be/ZZ-sCT_maAQ
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  12. I knew that Ukraine had soldier cats and soldier dogs, but I did not know until now that the soldier cats also served as POW guards.
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  13. This talk contains at least one error. The Chinese invented paper for use in packaging. They wrapped packages in paper, but for writing they used silk. Only later did paper replace silk as the medium for writing.
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  14. A small suggestion about English vocabulary. When an attack fails we usually say the attacker was repelled or repulsed rather than defeated. To defeat something is quite definitive. If I defeat an attacker then that means the attacker has been sufficiently disabled that they will need time to gain strength to attack again. If I only prevented the attacker from moving forward but failed to push the attacker back beyond the attacker's initial position then I repelled the attack. The attack bounced off me so to speak. I did not defeat the attacker, I only at best defeated the attack as opposed to the attacker. Sometimes your reports confuse me because you say that one side defeated the other when what happened was that one side repelled the attack of the other. I do so appreciate that you give this reports in English, and I admire your ability to present them in English. My comment is intended to be constructive and to help improve your already quite excellent English.
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  15. Would Russia agree to abide by the 1995 Budapest Memorandum in which Russia, the US and the UK confirmed their recognition of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia and that they agreed to the following: 1) Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.[6] 2) Refrain from the threat or the use of force against the signatory. 3) Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by the signatory of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind. 4) Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used". 5) Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against the signatory. 6) Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments. Nobody can trust Russia to keep the promises they made or treaties they have signed. Russia never negotiates in good faith and relying on Russia to keep their word is foolish.
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  16. Archimedes was killed by a Roman who the commander asked to meet Archimedes. The soldier came to Archimedes while Archimedes has concentrating on solving a problem and failed to respond to the Roman soldier who killed him on the spot for impudence.
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  17. To quote Pericles, the Ancient Athenian Politician and General, "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
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  18. Unfortunately for Ukraine it is the power distribution grid that was destroyed. The nuclear plants are still working and producing electricity, but none of the power can be distributed because of Russia's destruction of the power grid.
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  19. Another brilliant Ukrainian counteroffensive military strategy. The Ukrainian Military High Command continues to exercise lateral thinking. Support a civil war in Russia to force Russia to reduce military resources in Ukraine and increase the vulnerability of the Russian military as it relocates resources.
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  20. Oppenheimer was unquestionably a hero
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  21. Winston Churchill famously said, "“Kremlin political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight under a rug. An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won.” Beijing is similar, but you have helped lift up the rug for us to see what is happening underneath.
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  22. Another first class and revealing analysis. Thank you Lei
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  23. I apologize in advance for what will be a long reply, but it takes some effortvto explain the situation with rare earth production. Rare earths can be extracted from coal tailings, and one company that manufactures solar panels already extracts cadmium from coal mine tailings. The journal articles linked below describe procedures for extraction of rare Earth's from coal byproducts. These methods likely cost more than rare earths from China do now. However, avoiding the ecological damage by the rare earth mining could prove a marketing advantage to manufacturers outside of China. Market research has indicated that consumers in the US will pay a premium price for products made with green technologies. Companies could present the process of extracting rate earths from toxic coal mine byproduct as a green technology because it helps dispose of coal mine byproducts. If China blocked the sales of rare Earth's to manufacturers outside China that could make it even more attractive to extract rare earths for coal byproducts. When you consider that Germany developed ballistic missiles because the Versailles Treaty forbid Germany from having long range artillery, you realize how inventive people can side-step sanctions by developing substitute technologies. Technology sanctions often have unintended consequences that result in the sanctions back firing. Both the US and China should weigh technology sanctions very carefully. A Review of the Occurrence and Promising Recovery Methods of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal By-Products: International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization: Vol 35, No 6 (tandfonline.com) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19392699.2015.1033097 Can Harvesting Rare Earth Elements Solve the Coal Ash Crisis? Over 3 billion tons of coal ash occupy more than 1,400 sites across the US https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-2-march-april/feature/can-harvesting-rare-earth-elements-solve-coal-ash-crisis Citric acid can be used to extract rare earth metals from coal ash - MINING.COM https://www.mining.com/food-grade-solvent-can-be-used-to-extract-rare-earth-metals-from-coal-ash/
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  24. Another excellent explanation of the politics in China. This reminds me of the corruption in the British Navy at the time of the American War of Independence, which left the British Navy ineffective against France who allied with the colonialists. If I may be indulged a long description: In 1783, when attention was called to abuses in the public offices, Mr. Pitt stated in the House of Commons that though it bad been officially declared that no fees were received by the navy office, it appeared that very considerable sums were received by the officers under the name of 'gifts'. Exact inquiry disclosed wholesale robbery rather than peculation. The accounts showed a deficit of about three hundred thousand pounds of bread in 1780, besides beef, pork, and other provisions. It was shown that the contract price of bread was more than 4s. per cwt. above the market price, and that the bread actually supplied was 4s. per cwt. inferior to the contract ; that the men in charge of the storehouses kept hogs in them, and fed them on serviceable biscuit ; that stores of different kinds and in large quantities had been taken out of the yards not for the private use of the officers, but for sale, and that everywhere intimidation or guilty complicity had kept the knowledge of these abominations secret (Parliamentary Report, 1783-4). The dockyards had been sinks of iniquity before that time, and were so after it [cf. Jervis, John, Earl of St. Vincent], but at no time were they so utterly bad as during the war of American independence. This state of affairs took place when the First Earl of Sandwich was the Lord of the Admiralty. It was said of the Earl of Sandwich that he was "too infamous to have a friend, too bad for bad men to commend." History does so often repeat itself.
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  25. About the soldiers sitting around and getting bored, this is why war is described as "There is killing time, and then killing time."
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  26. Hua's comments are astonishing and very encouraging if true.
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  27. I am sure some senior Russian officer thought invading through the Exclusion was a brilliant idea because nobody would expect anyone to it. I bet that officer thought the Red Forest and the Ardennes Forest were just like one another.
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  28. Thanks for mentioning Zhao Ziyang's role in the economic reforms and his view that a move to wards democracy should accompany move towards market economy. Zhao had his flaws, but at least he wanted government reform as well as economic reform.
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  29. McCormick is repulsive. How can anyone who is hungry concentrate on their studies
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  30. My parents always admired Madame Chiang although they expressed reservations about Chiang Kai-shek. Neither of my parents were Communsts, but their politics was left-leaning. I can now understand better their admiration for Madame Chiang after watching your video Lei. Thank you again for providing more information about the recent history of China and the CCP.
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  31. ELON is F-ing close to FELON.
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  32. One of my favorite examples of how the CCP misunderstands US politics was when they invited Nixon to a return visit to China AFTER Nixon had resigned as President. Many US China analysts concluded that the CCP thought that Nixon was the head of a faction in the US Government and that the CCP having Nixon visit China again would strengthen the hand of the faction led by Nixon.
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  33.  @drumpfdon760  if you insist on using the word "kid" then spell it properly with only 1 "d" not 2. Get the CCP to send you to a refresher course in English.
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  34. When the PRC was negotiating to get Most Favored Nation status with Carla Hill, United States Trade Representative under President George H. W. Bush, the CCP representative got very upset at one point and said, "Hong Kong has Most Favored Nation trade status, and Hong Kong is the child while Beijing who is the parent should have it." To which Carla Hilll replied, "In the United States we as parents always want our children to do better off than we do."
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  35. I am delighted you now have a sponsor! I was particularly impressed that the wallet has RFID protection. Some years ago when I visited friends in Romania I had the get RFID protection for my credit cards. It is a good idea to have that built into a wallet.
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  36. I think you should make a point of showing this video to the Canadian Embassy. I know the Canadians have some serious issues with the CCP, and the Canadian Government would find this very interesting, I think. If you were not talking about the CCP then I might consider this a conspiracy theory, but someone can never be too paranoid when talking about the CCP.
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  37. It is a great irony that the Rebellion of the British Colonies in North America should provide a model for the French Revolution. The so-called American Revolution left the class and social structure of the British Colonies unchanged. What it did do was to stop British taxation and political oversight of the Colonies. The American War of Independence was never about changing the social structure in the way that the French Revolution was.
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  38. He is just the kind of person who made has contributed to make the US what it is today. Without immigrants this country will wither and die. I hope we can admit more immigrants. They all work harder than people born here. I sometimes feel ashamed when I see how hard recent immigrants work while I inherited my good fortune just because I was a US citizen at birth. My family was never wealthy, but I have more than 99% of people on this plane. I admire how hard people who just came to this country will work to improve their situation and that also improves the situation for all of us who call the US our home.
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  39. I watch your reports daily, and I especially like your use of topographic maps although today did not have one. Today we got another example of your skill at segue into a promotion. It really is very professional and I always find myself impressed by them. Did you have any training in broadcast production or this a skill you developed on the job? In any case keep up the good work which is why I chose to JOIN your channel as well as SUBSCRIBE. I encourage everyone who follows your channel to JOIN it.
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  40. Thanks for a well documented and well reasoned analysis. Your previous videos about how the CCP manages and obscures the economic conditions of the country have made it especially interesting as I read about China trying to establish their electronic RMB as an International exchange currency. Based on the information you have provided in other videos as well as this one demonstrate that another country or any global enterprise should have their head examined if they signed up for the electronic RMB because of the lack of transparency and the control of information by the CCP means that the CCP can inflate the amount of electronic without any awareness by the users of the electronic RMB. However, China can might get their vassal state of Russia to sign up for the electronic RMB especially if the "M" is dropped so that electronic RB could also mean electronic Rouble. Then China and Russia can do all transactions between one another in electronic RB and make it look a real international trade currency eventhough it really is a Potemkin trade currency.
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  41. That was my thought as well. Trump stood that way during his first term and I believe the cognitive decline began then. It has been a slow but steady decline
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  42. Dima I have noticed that you have been using the verb "repulsed" rather than "defeated" when you describe failed attacks. Your briefings sound even more professional now that use the more nuanced terminology. I admire how you use comments about your English as constructive. It takes a lot of humility to accept such corrections. I have great respect for people, such as yourself, who do that.
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  43.  @uostap1  Yes, I have seen that in a number of the videos. These cats seem a good bit happier, and in such humorous, typical cat behavior of exploring some unexplored place. It does sadden me to see the abandoned animals. I do prefer cats to dogs, but dogs look so much more starved of affection. Both the rescued dogs and the rescued cats clearly appreciate the human companionship they had lost and now regained.
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  44. After someone gets a job in a company, specifically Chaebol, require that they immediately do the four months in the Army before taking up the job at the company that accepted them for the job.
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  45.  @gerrycastlemanwarde5933  They should. We don't need all those fancy German cars. We can use Japanese ones.
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  46. How about clawing back the $1 trillion cut Trump gave the wealthy
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  47. You are citing Breitbart as a serious journalistic source? And then you say you can not confirm Biden meeting, but you report it as fact? I have held your reports in high regard previously, but you past reliance on reporting from the EPOCH Times, Washington Examiner, and now Breitbart reduce my confidence.
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  48. I want to see what happens with the Dept of Energy employees that Musk fired and who were members of the team responsible for the design of nuclear weapons. Many years ago when i worked at ORNL, I knew some of those guys and their involvement in weapons design and the identity of the team was kept secret. On paper they just looked like another research team. Apparently DOGE realized they fired these weapon designers only after they were dismissed. Of course the names of the employees are disguised. Therefore, DOGE can't determine exactly the identity of the people. I hope the guys have already gotten jobs elsewhere because they were very competent physicists and engineers. If DOGE does figure who the individuals are and offers them their jobs back, I hope they ask for a big pay and a larger office, so to speak. You can't get computers much larger than the the ones they use to simulate nuclear explosions in order to design weapons with a better yield.
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  49. Both of you do an excellent job in your presentation. You use the dialogue format on a regular basis better than any presenters i have ever watched.
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  50. If the CCP wants to take TSMC then they need to do VERY quick strike because it is very easy to destroy a semiconductor fabrication facility. You only need to open the clean rooms and you will have a herculean task of cleaning them out again. Also, the real valuable asset in a semiconductor facility are the human assets. I would be willing to bet that Taiwan with the US has a plan to evacuate all the people critical technical know-how. I am sure that a lot of people working at TSMC would willingly work for the CPP, but it will take years to restart the fab facilities, and during that time TSMC could restart in the new facilities they are building in the US. Also, the ASML systems at TSMC would likely be sabotaged if a take-over of the TSMC looked likely. Although ASML is a Dutch company, it relies on US intellectual property and patents. The US already has an embargo on selling the latest ASML technology to China. Any semiconductor company cut-off from ASML will have an impossible time getting the smallest and highest density chips fabricated. The world-wide manufacturing disruption caused by a disruption in the chips from TSMC would be cause alone for a serious backlash at China. Having said all this, I doubt it would deter China from attempting an invasion of Taiwan because such an attack would be motivated by political issues divorced from the issues of restarting TSMC operations. I seriously doubt that Chinese strategist shown in this video has even the slightest technical knowledge to understand how economicaly disastrous the consequences of disrupting TSMC operations would be or what an immense challenge it would be to restore those operations.
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  51. Read-only access means that you can make a copy even if you can't change it. So as soon as you have your copy using your read-only access then you have what you need to go sell the data to Chupina who has been trying to get it for years.
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  52. Well the commentary today blows up any idea that the analysis on the channel is neutral. It is clearly pro-Russian.
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  53.  @henrysosa5813  I hope he is being sarcastic
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  54. Keep you eye on the Nova Kharkova dam. Russia is already opening some sluice gates, and if the dam is completely destroyed then it will flood the city of Kherson.
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  55. Make the healthcare companies not-for-profit as they were in the 1960s
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  56. I was fortunate to get a lottery number high enough that I would not have been drafted when my student deferment ended. I have a lot of thought about fleeing to Canada. I never had to make that choice. I fully respect the choice of the people who fled to Canada to avoid the draft, and I also respect the people who without any fault of their own found themselves under fire in Vietnam. The US says it is a representative democracy, and that means it represents the people who voted for it. I find it very hard to argue that I can somehow separate my personal responsibility as a citizen of the US from the responsibility of the US Government which was elected by my fellow US citizens to represent us all. Citizens of the US need to weigh carefully who they support and vote for in elections. I have to accept my responsibility for what my government does. I can't separate "good" US citizens from "bad" US citizens when we all agreed to follow the choices of the majority in US elections. I don't really know what to say to Russians who say they are one of the "good" Russians as opposed to one of the "bad" Russians. If you say you love your country then you must take responsibility for what your country has done. It saddens me that you have never been given a right to choose through elections who will represent you. Nevertheless, if you consider yourself Russian then you must take your share of responsibility for what Russia has done unless you are a child are truly had no choice in the matter. Just a Germany has taken at least one generation to atone for the crimes against humanity that they caused by their war of aggression in the 1940s, now Russia will take at least a generation to atone for the crimes against humanity that Russia has committed. The US has committed the crime of waging wars of aggression even if not on the scale of Germany or with the thorough going destruction that Russia has and is doing. Unless of course the US would correctly be held accountable for the fire-bombing of Japan. I consider the use of nuclear weapons on Japan as different but why that is will have wait for a different posting. The US should take full responsibility for the crimes it has committed, and just because the US has in many cases has unjustly managed to avoid that should never serves as a reason or license for other countries to commit war crimes. I applaud your willingness to accept the responsibility that Russia has for the barbaric way that Russia has treated Ukraine. I have no idea what you as someone who loves your mother country of Russia will do to make up for what your country of birth has done. Interestingly your country of choice, Canada, has a large Ukrainian diaspora community. May I suggest that you contact the Ukrainian Community of Canada, which has its own website, and ask them what you can do to compensate for what your country of birth has done. You speak Russian as many Ukrainians do. Perhaps you could go to Ukraine to help in some humanitarian way. Making videos of what you are doing would help others to learn what they can do. I wish you well in your future endeavors in life. I am sorry you missed out on the life events of your family, just as my friend who fled Crimea with her son missed being with her mother in Crimea when her mom her died of old age this year. I hope you have greater good fortune in your life than many Ukrainians are having in their lives. Who knows maybe you find some way to help.
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  57. Who let that eclipse into the US? There should be a law against celestial events affecting the US
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  58.  @TestTest12332  Absolutely, I forgot to include that very significant fact out.
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  59. 11 months later and we still hear about Judge Cannon ruling in this case? What gives??
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  60. I have wondered how much time a day it does take to produce your material. I can't imagine how you can hold down another job and still do this.
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  61.  @TheSubpremeState  I wondered about that kitten as well. I have seen many "soldier cats" and "soldier dogs" and a considerable number of kittens. However, I have seen that most often with Ukrainian soldiers rather than Russian. Of course, we see very of anything like GoPro video from the Russians. I have seen that Ukrainian soldiers will bring kittens with them even into clearing a trench if the kittens would have been left behind. Also, there is a cut from the earlier capture of the Russian to the section where he is lying on the bottom of the trench with the kitten on to of him. It is possible that the kitten was brought from the Ukrainian positions after they had cleared the trench. Given the spread of hantavirus by mice, keeping cats in a trench is a matter of hygiene and disease prevention.
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  62. Make all these healthcare companies non-for-profit.
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  63. Please wear a mask on that flight to protect the other passengers!
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  64. An unintended side effect of the sanctions could be acceleration of reducing the use of fossil fuels in general.
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  65. There have been protests in front of the Supreme Court for specific issues. We ought to organize a public protest in favor of an ethics guidelines. We should further and have a continuing sit-in or picket line in front of the Supreme Court. I guess too few people remember the public demonstrations against the Vietnam War. I participated and remember well the mass protests in front of the Pentagon. Surely the situation with the Supreme Court is as serious as the Vietnam War was.
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  66. Yes. That is the solution. President should arrest all members of the Supreme Court, and install a new Supreme Court. In specific, the new Supreme Court would consist of the Chief Justice of each Appellate Circuit and that would create a new Supreme Court with thirteen (13) Justices.
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  67. A practical Dad joke 😂
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  68. Help me understand why SALT is unfair when NY and Calif pay more of their income to other states. Perhaps the most fair approach would be for the Federal Government to tax the aggregated income from each state. Then apply those same tax rates as are used by businesses.
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  69.  @stevemcgowen  As a citizen of the US, I must sadly acknowledge what you say is true. What might happen during this upcoming election, and then the election in 2024 has me very worried. I will vote Blue to keep the US fascists out of the Government. If Putin was serious about de-Nazification then he should have attacked the US
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  70. Oh well. This video did not age well. It needs an update.
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  71. We should mount an online campaign for the UN to remove that designation of "The Happiest City". Eventhough the CCP has worked hard to get their people at the top of many UN Agencies, I think such a global online campaign would be hard to cover up.
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  72. When the only sons start coming back in body-bags the social backlash will be stupendous. The CCP might try to keep it a secret for as long as possible, but even if the invasion were successful there would be a lot of parents wondering where their son is and how they will manage their old age without a son to help as is traditional. The Chinese social services are bad now and could never pick up the slack. Even if they did, the cultural expectations of a son are enormous and the loss would be incalculable for many families.
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  73. That conflation of the launch system with the rockets it fires just drives me crazy. Often I am unclear what the reports mean. "Destroyed six HIMARS" must mean six launchers. Also the confusion or lack specificity about what munitions were used also drives me to distraction. I have wanted to learn if Ukraine has used the HIMARS munition that sprays 200 thousand steel pellet-sizes balls when it explodes as means of area denial. I especially want to know if it has been used in the Bakhmut area. With massed Russian troops there it would have devastating effects.
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  74. Hooray! Brian thank you so very much for saying this. I have been saying this for the entire sixty (60) years I have consistently voted Democrat because I am a progressive!
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  75. You need to check up on the "Tragedy of the Commons" which was written without any experimental base, and in fact it is wrong as the Elizabeth Ostrom proved it wrong, and she got a Nobel Prize for it.
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  76. My psychiatrist has suggested that the problem could be solved by simply requiring that all the healthcare are not-for-profit. He also said that although Medicare pays him only half of his stated rate, Medicare pays on time and without the kind of arguments he has too have with the fit profit healthcare insurance companies. As he said, force them to become non-profit and the problem largely gets solved
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  77. I expect the Russians to use chemical weapons like Sarin gas rather than using nuclear weapons against the Ukrainian Army in Kherson. Russian troops and civilian population could reoccupy Kherson after the Sarin disperses much more easily than if Kherson was made radioactive by a dirty bomb or tactical battlefield nuclear weapon. Also, poison has been Putin's go-to method to dispose political opponents.
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  78. Listening to this just makes my head spin. How can any one follow the twisted logic in these rants.
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  79.  @weili9624  well Americans stocking up on ammo should give China nothing to worry about as it only presents a hazard for other Americans. Unless somebody is planning to invade the US, and is worried about armed resistance which just gives the gun loving Americans an excuse to buy more personal firearms as if they need any further motivation.
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  80. Send a note to Winston Churchill though I doubt he will reply
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  81. I guess nobody gets taught about the Stonewall Riots?
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  82. Getting data from all these departments to feed into Palantir for Peter Thiel
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  83. Very interesting discussion of a strategic mineral. I worked in the IT industry my entire career, and even with people involved in semiconductor wafer production, and yet I had never hear of this dependency. I knew that the purity of the silicon was essential,but given that silicon is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, I never considered that the purity required would imply that only a few sources for it existed. Thank you for filing in this gap in my understanding. I am surprised that the US military has never identified this sand as a strategic material that would have export controls. I am equally surprised that a NATO member like Norway does not, and it also surprises me that Australia has failed to place export controls on it. Perhaps the AUKUS alliance will change that.
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  84.  @Gopferteckel  Yeah I loved that "I am no military expert" comment. He should have stopped right there when hr said it.
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  85. When I started working in computers fifty (50) years age, we had a joke, "To err is human, but to really screw up you need a computer." The Framers of the Consitution lived before typewriters and automated printers, and of course they could never conceive of computers. The Framers never could image that someone could control all the Federal Spending at the scale and speed of the computer based systems we have today. I think they would have given Congress even more direct control of spending than Congress has now.
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  86. Polish TV (TVP) has a great daily TV show "Called Break the Fake" where they discuss Russian Propaganda. My favorite was the Russian claim that the US was turning Ukrainian troops into super-troop zombies. TVP had some great comments about that.
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  87. Many rare earths can be extracted from coal mine tailings in West Virginia and other states where coal mines have been closed. It is presently cheaper to buy rare earths from China at present for all the reasons the response above indicated.
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  88.  @Grizathvili  WTH does that mean? How does someone "fall short on a chess board"? You need to unmix your metaphors if anyone is going to understand what you say.
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  89. This textbook was used in my Calculus course in 1970. I have a first edition of the textbook. I should get a more recent edition. Spivak shares a characteristic among the great mathematicians who made mathematics more teachable and accessible to more people The current notation we use for the calculus is due to Leonard Euler, of Euler's Constant fame, who founded entire branches of mathematics, in particular graph theory which is the foundation of topology . Spivak is a working topologist. Euler was a genuinely kind and pleasant person, a characteristic that Spivak shares. I have this on good authority as my college roommate took a summer math course from Spivak. Also, my college roommate told me that Spivak drove a VW beetle and adored Bach and jokes about Yellow Pig, who is the Y. P. referred to in the dedication to this book.
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  90. It feels like the Russians are doing in Vulhedar to Ukrainians that Ukraine is doing to Russians in Kursk. What is the status in Vulhedar?
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  91. Did I understand you to say that the 2002 air crash might have occurred because someone wanted to eliminate a single person who was a political enemy? Someone would kill 112 innocent people just to kill 1 person? Moreover, are you suggesting that someone would kill over 300 innocent people to kill just 1 person? I suppose if that was the reason for the 2002 crash then it could also be the reason for this crash. Is it plausible that someone might have paid the 1st officer to do it? Perhaps for a financial payment to a foreign bank that would assure the financial security of his family now that his salary had been so severely reduced? I would guess that this could have happened based on other videos you have done about the extraordinary actions of the CCP.
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  92. Yes a ridiculous comparison. Perhaps armor from a Sherman tank would be worth comparing to the Soviet armor
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  93. Ted, you need to understand better how the Politburo in the Soviet Union actually operated. The Politburo choose the leader, and could remove a leader as the did with Khrushchev.
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  94. Even though drones are subsonic perhaps having drones patrol over the Air Identification Zone could serve as a deterrent because they could fly into the path of the Chinese aircraft, and reduce the need or at least the speed with which Taiwanese pilots would have to scramble. Perhaps even static obstacles like weather balloons at different altitudes could create a maze that the Chinese must navigate. Anchored to barges that can move the balloons the maze could change at night. The Taiwanese pilots would know how to thread the maze, but the PRC pilots. Even if the balloons get blown away by winds, or shot by PRC pilots it still requires that PRC pilots to make an effort.
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  95. It seems that Russians are taking a long time to capture Bakhmut. How often have you said that Russians are on the outskirts of Bakhmut?
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  96. Thank you for this report and the warning it carries
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  97. Chemical rather than nuclear weapons will get Putin the results he wants. Putin only said he had weapons he needed without specifying what weapons. They could be chemical weapons such as nerve agents because that would leave Ukraine inhabitable once the chemicals dispersed. Putin has already used nerve agents on his opponents, and the fact that using chemical weapons contravenes international law never stopped Syria from using chemical agents. While I have previously thought Putin meant nuclear weapons when he threatened more deadly weapons, I now think he plans to use chemical nerve agents.
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  98. I am in exactly the same situation. I never thought I would be glad that my taxes are being used for military purposes.
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  99. Or like the American aviators in WWII who renounced US Citizenship, went to Canada, became Canadian citizens then flew for the RAF.
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  100. I have a friend who fled Crimea two years with her 5 yr old son who is now 7 yrs old. She speaks Russian but considers herself Ukrainian. Her mother and sister decided to stay in Crimea, and they had tried to convince her to return. She wants a better life for her son in Ukraine than she feels he would gets in Russia. Although she knew nobody in the city where she moved she did find a man who loves her and who she loves and who loves her son who calls him "Daddy" Her husband fought in the Donbass where he drove an armored vehicle. When the Russians invaded, my friend insisted on staying in Ukraine because she would be near husband eventhough he has gone back into the Army. I tried to persuade her to leave because I felt that her husband would feel better knowing she and her son were safe in Poland. She refused to leave. When the Russians shelled the nuclear power plant then her husband told she had to leave because it was too dangerous. I and some other friends of hers here in the US helped her with money to get to Poland with her son. She is now in Poland but will probably have to move on in about a month. I have told her to go to Berlin because she also has her son's dog with them, and the Germans are very dog friendly. From Berlin she could get a visa to Canada where there is a large Ukrainian immigrant community. I grew up in the US in that same area, but I no longer live there. Once again, she refuses to go to Berlin because it takes her farther from her husband. First she is refugee from Crimea, then a refugee from Western Ukraine moving West to Poland all because Russia has invaded her country. She has had to flee twice, and her husband fought against the Russians first in the Donbass and now back into the Territorial Defense. I can deeply empathize with the Chinese man who has a Ukrainian wife and wanted to keep his family together. Meanwhile the nationalists in China mock him on the Internet. He wants to keep his family together, my friend wants to keep her family together, but what do those supporters of the CCP want? I have no idea.
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  101. Seeing those Ukrainian boats on the river reminded me of river gunboats used in the Vietnam War as shown in the movie "Apocalypse Now."
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  102. I agree with your assessment about Finland's position because they need to be part of NATO if they are going to send heavy weapons to Ukraine. If they are a member of NATO then they can rely on other NATO countries coming to their defense if the Russian's attack, but without such an assurance they need to maintain their force strength and will likely need every bullet they have along with the tanks. I find it more puzzling why a country like Spain who was very agreeable to sending their Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine is now having cold feet. What really worries me is the pivotal role that the autocrat Erdogan in Turkiye is playing. I feel certain that Q'uran burning in Sweden was orchestrated by the FSB precisely because it plays into Erdogan's hand. The Russian oilgarchs have their yacht moored in resorts in Turkiye. Erdogan milked the grain crisis to skim profits from grain sold to Syria. All in all Turkiye has done very well for itself in this war, and has helped Russia a lot. Who knows what deal was cut for Erdogan to block specifically Sweden's entry to NATO. Keep in mind that the Greeks and Turks are at one another's throats once again about some islands in the Aegean, and NATO needs to keep that from blowing up into a war. NATO is indeed a defensive organization because it provides a framework for the European countries to police one another as well as defend against Russia. I think the best hope for Ukraine lies with Poland. I would not be bit surprised if we see a modern Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth reconstitute itself because Western Ukraine was part of that Commonwealth, and a tight political alliance between Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine might serve them better than NATO does. I recommend looking at the Wikipedia article about the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth because of how much it could apply today if reformed. That would really be Russia's nightmare more than NATO is.
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  103. Wow, it is getting expensive to relocate to Singapore. Combined with global inflation and a coming recession it looks like I will need to spend a bit more money than I had planned for my relocation to Singapore.
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  104. "Reunify?" The oblasts were never separate sovereign countries. Ukraine is not a federated government like the US or Russia. Ukraine is unitary like France. Russia is carving out something that was not separate. Also who gets to vote? The people who Russians forced to give up their Ukrainian and take Russian passports.
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  105.  @nemigazhogynincsszab  The expression in English is, From your lips to God's ears." Exactly the sentiment just expressed with different words and phrasing.
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  106. Would that the explanation of names were as easy in other languages. You will find the derivation of the Russian word for train station of interest I think. The Russians use the word "вокзал" pronounced "Voxhal" because a delegation of Russians to the England in the 19th century had never seen a railway station, and when they saw Vauxhall Station in London, they asked the English what that was. To which the English replied "That's Vauxhall" and from there the word stuck. "вокзал" is the word for train station in Russian!
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  107. The maintenance crew chiefs say, "It is our airplane, we just lend it to the pilots to fly." Kudos to the maintenance crews who have had to learn thoroughly different technology.
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  108. What does higher than 100% mean? Trump needs to learn some arithmetic.
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  109. The refineries in Russia produce gasoline, kerosene and other distillates used INSIDE Russia. The destruction of the oil refineries has caused fuel shortages in Russia without changing the petroleum. Russia does not export gasoline or the specific distillates. Moreover, the initial story about US pressuring Ukraine that appeared in the Financial Times has identified as Russian disinformation reported by a journalist who is known to act as a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda. The Financial Times even apologized for failing to check the source of the story.
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  110. Tanya your condition is not your "fault" because that suggests that there you did something wrong. The important thing is to understand that you have the ability to respond (the responsibility) to heal yourself. I had to struggle with alcohol and other drugs because I was self-medicating. That went on for twenty (20) years before I could stop. Even after that I have had breakdowns that thankfully never caused me to start drinking, but I had to get medical attention, and I take some very powerful psychoactive medicines prescribed by my doctors. I have an irregular brain chemistry that people in my family have and that my son has too. Nothing to be ashamed of and people should know about it so they can identify the condition when they see it in others, and so that people can see it in themselves and respond in ways that will help rather than hurt them.
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  111.  @LeonidKalesnik  I am an American who married a Japanese woman, and we have children. My children are inheritors of the only nation who used a nuclear weapon on another nation, and the only nation who had a nuclear weapon on it by another nation. Would you like to have a conversation with me about nuclear weapons? If you lack any connection with the use of nuclear weapons then I suggest you keep your mouth shut.
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  112. I very much appreciate your commentary on conditions in the PRC and CCP. I avidly await your next video on CCP succession.
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  113.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  I would not be the slightest bit surprised if the Ukrainians already have F-16 and might use them. The first two pilots who went the US for training and testing learned very quickly. The official report by the instructors remarked on how quickly the Ukrainian pilots learned. This has been a consistent comment about the Ukrainians who have trained on other NATO. I suggest that the Ukrainians already have F-16s is that the US approval to send F-16s was really US permission for ther countries to give F-16s to Ukraine. As with other weapons systems, permission from the countries who own the rights for the technology. Ukraine could already have F-16s as well as pilots trained on them, and have kept that secret. We have seen other get to Ukraine in far less time than originally reported in the press. Abrams tanks are an example. I doubt if Abrams tanks would be used in the counteroffensive, but I do suspect that F-16s might very well be used.
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  114. Perhaps a civil war rather than a war against another country
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  115. Can the US demand time on all the cable channels to inform poeple where they can get disaster relief. FOX would have air it as would the the other cable and TV news outlets
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  116. It seems to me that China is basically buying A320 airplanes from itself given that they manufacture A320 themselves. Essentially China is subsidizing their own airline industry. I should also note that the US Government effectively subsidizes Boeing given that Boeing has numerous military contracts with the US Department of Defense. In the 21st century a country needs a robust aircraft industry just as a country needed a blue water Navy in the 19th century. Aside from the obvious military advantages of a robust aircraft industry are the less obvious military logistical values. As General Omar Bradley famously said: “Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.” Looking at the heavy lift capabilities the US has used to supply the weapons to Ukraine demonstrates the importance of air cargo. None of the other NATO countries except Canada have needed to use air transport to deliver weapons to supply Ukraine. Whenever one sees a Boeing passenger plane or cargo plane, one should keep in mind those planes can carry troops and weapons in time of war. The CCP knows this very well and wants to make sure that they have the logistical capabilities needed to sustain an invasion of Taiwan. Looking back at the East Timor Crisis from 1999 to 2000 helps to frame the importance of logistical capabilities. The International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) from the United Nations and led by Australia was refused US ground troops but was able to secure vital support for airlift, logistics, specialised intelligence, over the horizon deterrence, and "diplomatic muscle". This sounds a lot like the situation in Ukraine today where the US refuses to commit troops but provides other capabilities. A war with China would require far more resources on both sides of such a conflict. Reading the Wikipedia article on the International Force East Timor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Force_East_Timor helps to remind us of earlier conflicts like the current Russo-Ukrainian War when multiple nations needed to cooperate to stop a genocide. This comment has strayed from the initial topic of the CCP buying A320 jets. However, we should never forget conflicts like East Timor and the human pain and suffering inflicted on the Timorese as well as the fierce fighting to end the oppression in East Timor.
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  117. How can anyone do anything in schools at a federal level without having a Department of Education?
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  118. The solution to the demographic decline is simple. Allow more immigrants. For example, Nigeria has a replacement of 6 and there are plenty people from Africa seeking immigration to Europe, and Central America to the US. The demographic problem is a of problem racism.
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  119.  @jlwilliams  Income inequality accelerated as a result of Reagan's Tax Cuts.
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  120. The USAID decision sounds a lot Marbury vs. Madison that demonstateed the Independence of the Supreme Court from the President.
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  121. We have not done a good job of second-guessing the Ukrainians when they asked for weapons. suggest we defer to their judgement of what they need. They already have experience flying Sukhoi Su-25 designed to provide close air support for Soviet Ground Forces. If you can effectively fly Su-25 in the battle field environment then you can fly A-10.
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  122. Dima, Summer ends only when Autumn begins, and Autumn begins on the Equinox. The Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere is on Saturday, September 23, 2023.
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  123. What you are describing is a partial restoration of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth that existed from 1563 to 1795 when Catherine the Great annexed the South Region and called it Novorossiya. This is exactly what Putin wants. Current events differ greatly from that because the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth had been weakened by series of preceding wars, One consequence of Polish Lithuanian including Western Ukraine was the influence of the Polish language on Russian which created the Ukrainian language such that speakers of Ukrainian can understand some Polish and can easily understand Russian whereas native Russian speaker have great difficulty understanding Ukrainian. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth was remarkable because it united two separate Grand Duchies with very different languages into a single political entity. The Polish Lithuanian also distributed political power up and down the social layers of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. By contrast, Russia has never been anything other than an autocracy in which Tsar owed all the land and without anything like a landed gentry. Historically Russia lacks any experience with a participatory government and regards all neighboring countries as potential enemies rather than potential allies. Who would want to willingly engage in a political union with Russia when we see how the Russians treat people under their occupation.
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  124. This discussion is reminiscent of discussions about the US Army lack of focus on tanks prior to the 2nd World War. It also reminds one of the belief and emphasis on battleships when the most important capital ships would become air craft carriers. We are always fighting the last war until we get into a new war and we must be prepared to questions our assumptions about what weapons and what tactics will be needed in this new war. Having said that, you fight with the army you have and not with the army you wish you have to open to changes
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  125.  @mikehoward9912  We used to play with igniting magnesium powder. Makes me wonder how I survived to adult.
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  126. What I fear most is a partisan war by the Ukrainians against Russian occupied territories after a ceasefire or treaty. Partisan attacks against an occupying force causes the occupying force to regard any civilian as potential threats. Russian occupation troops who had a hostile attitude towards the occupied population will lead to more atrocities as we saw in Bucha. For an historical parallel look at Yugoslavia in the 2nd World War. More than half the deaths that occurred in Yugoslavia in the 2nd World War resulted from partisan fighting rather than from the initial invasion by Nazi Germany. As a small personal note, while children in the West might play cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians, a friend of mine who grew up in Belarus told me that he used to play partisans and occupiers as a child. One could easily imagine that kind of childhood "training" to carry Ukrainian resistance to Russian occupation into the next generation. A multi-generational Ukrainian partisan war against Russian occupation would have horrifying results. Just think of PTSD cases alone.
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  127. Thank you for that analysis because it helps explain to me a fundamental aspect of the Russian mindset that has always eluded me. Russia has it's own manifest destiny. While the American manifest destiny dictates a powerful Navy, the Russian manifest destiny dictates a powerful Army.
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  128. Classic case of "do as I say, not as I do"
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  129.  @Shenzhou.  Trust me, the Military Industrial Complex or the DoD has nothing to do with it. In fact you have cause and effect reversed in this case. The weapons fetish that Americans have is what drives the Defense Department spending rather than the other way around. One should also realize that the United States has run a war economy since the beginning of the Second World War through the Cold War with the Soviet Union and continuing from then until now because the spending job the Defense is essentially the Jobs program for US manufacturing. The US Economy is pretty much geared up for a war at all times, and a real shooting is an effective to consume weapons systems that need replacement, and the wheel goes round and round.
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  130.  @mrrager3475  how do we know that? I have been amazed at how the Ukrainians carry their pets and protect them in the most bizarre situation. What I see is a cat who has found a warm place to sit that is out of the mud. Geez, I have had cats who did the same. Plus, the POW is not moving around so it is a stable place to sit. I genuinely want to understand why you think the owner of the cat is the POW
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  131. Why did you choose to omit that in January Russia stop sharing the information required by the New START Treaty? The US decision against providing further updates came after Russia refused to provide their data.
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  132.  @steveolotu52  You do realize that quote I gave applied to any war? Just to make let me paraphrase it. "In war there is time spent waiting around, and then the time spent fighting and there is nothing in between.". The quote is anything but a glorification of war
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  133. Will there be more adventures about Miss China and her boyfriends? Maybe there is a graphic novel in all of this. Perhaps Miss China can visit the places you have discussed in the past? "Miss China visits the Three Gorges Dam" and "Miss China considers investing in real estate" and more Adventures of Miss China?
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  134. Good idea to study the Bible and the Koran and the Bhagavad-Gita.
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  135. It was a mistake to do this public unless she was trying to use social pressure to get him to agree. She set up the situation to get publicly embarrassed.
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  136. Ironically, the Soviet Union had a more stable political structure than both Russia and China have now. The KGB was essential for the political stability of the Soviet Union. People may forget that the KGB was also referred to as "the shield of the Party." If you wonder who the Party needed a shield against, then the answer is the Army. The KGB, unlike the present Russian FSS, actually had armed troops that had a separate chain of command from the Army. I always found it interesting that the Soviet Union had a tripartite system of Government which corresponded to the tripartite form of Government in the US, as follows: Legislative Branch: -- US: Congress. -- Soviet Union: Communist Party. Executive Branch: -- US President, Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces, and effectively the Head of the Police. This is more obvious in the Government of a State within the United States, where the State Police report to the Governor. It is also worth remembering that the US President commands the National Guard in each State. -- Soviet Union: Marshal of the Soviet Union. This was the position held by Gyorgy Zhukov. The last Marshal of the Soviet Union was Dmitry Yazov, appointed in 1990, who was imprisoned after the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. This is exactly what the KGB was expected to defend against. Judicial Branch: Now here is where it gets really interesting. -- US: Federal and State Courts. -- Soviet Union: KGB. Now at this point, you may be asking "why is the KGB the organization corresponding to the Judiciary?" The answer is that the Judiciary and the Courts are in place to protect against the Executive Branch (the Military and the Police) trying to act in contravention of the Laws passed by Congress. You may also ask yourself, "The KGB had agents through-out the Soviet Union. If the KGB corresponds to the Judicial Branch, then who corresponds to KGB agents in the US?" The answer is simple, "Lawyers." Every lawyer in the United States is an officer of the Court. This is why the first move of an autocrat after becoming the head of the Executive Branch immediately tries to weaken the Courts because that effectively removes the Rule of Law. You only need to look at Hungary and Turkiye to see that at work in contemporary times. There are many more examples, I simply cite those two because they are part of NATO, and in Hungary's case, Part of the EU as well. Putin long ago neutered Russia's Court System which now hands down whatever sentence Putin wants, and under whatever law Putin uses as a pretext. On paper at least, the head of the Dumas is the Prime Minister as opposed to Putin. As President of Russia, Putin is supposed to be Commander in Chief of the Russian Armed Forces. However, the legal head of the Russian Armed Forces is Shoigu, and that is why Putin makes sure that Shoigu, who has served Putin from Putin's time as Mayor of St. Petersburg and Shoigu never served in the military and therefore lacks any power base in the Russian Armed Forces. It also explains why Generals come and go, even Gerasimov, but Shoigu always remains. Although the FSS is technically separate from the Russian Armed Forces, the FSS and the Armed Forces work hand in glove. Gorkin was an FSS Colonel as opposed to an Army Colonel. In truth, the FSS, unlike its predecessor the KGB, lacks its own armed troops comparable to those of the KGB. In place of KGB troops as the Shield of Party against the Armed Forces, Putin needs a "Praetorian Guard" to protect him from the Russian Armed Forces. Does Xi Jinping have a "Praetorian Guard" similar to Putin's? Historically though, a Praetorian Guard has taken control by appointing their own Emperor as happened when the Praetorian Guard declared Claudius following the assassination of the Roman Emperor Caligula by the Praetorian Guard. The Captain of the Praetorian Guard and the other Guard members who assassinated Caligula did commit suicide at the command of the new Emperor Claudius because they had betrayed their oath to protect the Emperor.  They had enough concern for their honor that they did commit suicide to restore their honor and to display remorse for breaking their oath.  Somehow, I doubt that Putin's personal Guards unit or whoever Xi Jinping has as a personal Guards unit would act similarly.
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  137. ROTFLMAO. Any country or global enterprise should have their head examined if they sign up for the electronic RMB. The lack of transparency and the control of information by the CCP means that the CCP can inflate the amount of electronic RMB without any awareness by the users. However, China can might get their vassal state of Russia to sign up for the electronic RMB especially if the "M" is dropped so that electronic RB could also mean electronic Rouble. Then China and Russia can do all transactions between one another in electronic RB and make it look a real international trade currency eventhough it really is a Potemkin trade currency.
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  138. As a fellow American, I thank you.
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  139.  @shawnshazam1912  This is bad for Germany's reputation in the International Community and could fuel customer resistance to buying German products in the future. Of course, diplomacy is self-serving, but you may need to take a longer look at what serves your purposes best. Being a stumbling block is bad for business in the future.
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  140.  @kurtwicklund8901  that's why we never hear about the Russian casualties. Russian MoD never reports that
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  141.  @khaledhemmaty6081  I'm sure the Russian troops in the Kherson oblast are looking forward to spending a winter outside as well.
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  142. Welcome to my youth. What I learned is that the people who are vaporized in the fireball of a nuclear strike are the lucky ones.
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  143. Congress passed the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifically to prevent Impoundment
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  144. I fully expect the Russians will use a battlefield, theatre nuclear weapon, and for precisely out of desperation as you described. Also, the Russians have a breathtaking indifference to the lethal effects of radiation as we can see from how they had their troops act within the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Those poor soldiers are dead men walking, and all because of Putin. Russia has long thought that a nuclear war is winnable. I wish we had a Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin rather than a Stalin. These days I have been thinking about what could be proportionate retaliation for Russia using a nuclear weapon. My only idea would be using a nuclear weapon on Snake Island, naval base, now occupied only Russian troops. Snake Island is part of Ukraine as opposed to part of Russia. The casualties would be Russian rather that Ukrainian. Close consultation with Ukraine and Romania would be necessary before taking such an action, but those discussions might be already underway. The escalation could easily stop there, and I hope it would. In fact, I hope it never comes to that.
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  145. It also provides an opportunity to identify the propeller sound signature with a specific sub.
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  146. Every time I hear Wesley Clark's commentary it is always the best. His comments about why the Ukrainians are fighting so hard in Bakhmut is very illuminating.
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  147. Historically 30 percent casualty would result in a surrender by a European military. The casualty rates acceptable to the Japanese astonished the US military. On Kwajalein, the fatality rate for the Japanese force was 98.4 percent. On Saipan, almost 30,000—97 percent of the garrison—fought to the death. Of 23,000 Japanese troops on Iwo Jima, only 216 surrendered. On Okinawa, 92,0000—80 percent of the total Japanese force—was killed in action. The Ukrainian units are coming close to Japanese casualty rates while continuing to fight without surrender. Very impressive.
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  148. Politically motivated is precisely what it should be. The Supreme Court is a political entity.
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  149. What is Piers Morgan doing makes any commentray on US Elections? Piers is the typical Brit who are utterly confused by US politics just as US observers find UK politics bewildering. The difference is that US political commentator avoid commenting on UK poltics. Piers has never let his ignorance stand in the way of his making declarations about social and political matters.
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  150. A further comment about English and Chinese. I recall that my father who was a Physicist learned enough Russian to understand technical papers in his field that were written in Russian. I can see where there is the same value now in reading, as opposed to speaking Chinese. Is there anything like technical Chinese as there is in English or Russian? I mean that question seriously. Can anyone suggest to me a way to learn technical Chinese in order to read technical publications in Chinese?
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  151. This sounds like a disguised product recall and employee downsize
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  152.  @АлександрВазовский-т5ш  He could be LDR or DDR. While they have most native Russian speakers, many also speak Ukrainian, and I expect that all of them speak Surzhyk, a Ukrainian–Russian pidgin used in certain regions of Ukraine and the neighboring regions of Russia and Moldova.
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  153. Georgy, I think the Washington Post article discussed the issues on a fair basis. Nobody was all wrong, and nobody was all correct. The group definitely had input from Ukrainain officers in the field like Syrpsky. The principle difference between the NATO favored massive attack on a single front rather than attacks on separate fronts had to do with how many casualties would occur in a short amount of time. For example, there were as many US casualties in one day on just Omaha beach in the Normandy as there were in twenty (20) years of the Afghan War. The level of US casualties on Omaha beach was kept a secret and was never told to the US population because the Government feared that the US people would want to stop the war.
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  154. Putin must be under considerable stress about these circumstances, and despite all of his grandstanding by riding horses bare chested, skating with a hockey, judo matches with world-class teenage opponents, who whipped his butt I might add, Putin will be seventy (70) years old in October. I am almost exactly the same age as Putin as I was born in December of 1952. I have other friends also born in 1952, and although they are more athletic than I am, they are experiencing the same break-down of the body as I have. Putin must surely have the same. Add increased emotional stress to the natural impairment to health that comes from advancing age, and you have someone in a condition of serious health problems. In particular susceptibility to cancers, and also nervous system deterioration, both of which have been rumored about for Putin.
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  155. Both Scholz and Biden have had domestic political issues that placed constraints on their actions. I agree with your comment about what has delayed Biden's decision and why he waited until after the elections. I think people who have been criticizing Biden have failed to consider domestic US politics. In many of the man-on-the-street interviews prior to the election people were saying that we should be spending money on our border rather than sending money to foreign countries. Biden has had to balance those domestic political issues with increasing support to Ukraine.
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  156. That logic applies for all of Ukraine. "Do you want to join the country that invaded you, or do you want to keep your sovereignty?" Ukraine is NOT a federation like Russia or the US; therefore, you can't carve little pieces out of it and say that piece stands separate. You could break up the US into separate sovereign states, and that was tried once before although without success. The Provinces in Canada could separate into independent countries as the Quebecoise tried to do in the 1990s. Germany could split up into separate countries for each German State as was the case before unification in the 19th Century. France, Sweden, Finland and Norway are unitary countries, and that is what Ukraine is. So don't go pretending that there is some kind of separation of Ukraine into autonomous republics for each oblast. It was even tried and rejected in the past within Ukraine and by Ukraine, and without some bully boy forcing people. This aggression by Russia is every bit as bad as the US interventions into countries in Central America and the Carribean. Just let your neighbors go about their own business, and keep yourself off their property.
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  157. I think Wagner wants to avoid any claim that they failed to achieve they were assigned even if they take enough to degrade their combat effectiveness. It is a matter of keeping their brand intact.
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  158.  @matthewmartin5763  As an agrarian economy of course they have biolabs to analyze plant diseases. US has such labs at most all land-grant colleges that do agricultural research. Universities like Auburn and Cornell. They are low level bio-containment labs because they don't do work on diseases that can harm human beings. Admittedly there are diseases like anthrax that affect animals and people, but require biolabs with much more stringent protections than the biolabs in Ukraine or US land grant colleges.
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  159.  @drumpfdon760  you whippersnapper, young dolt are all fault of the the CCP. A laughable, ridiculous shill of the CCP and their fifty-cent army.
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  160. 74 years for me too
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  161. I like the detail of your analysis. However, you never report any Russian casualties? What is that?
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  162. Most believers do not recognize that they are asking for a theocracy.
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  163. Given that Ukraine was the global repair center for MiG 29 before the war, i expect that Ukraine has experienced jet engine mechanics.
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  164. Unfortunately whenever I hear Sam Elliott's all I can think of are his voice-overs for commercials for automobiles and coffee. I would have preferred Morgan Freeman because his voice sounds like what the voice of God should sound like. How susceptible we are to the context where we have heard an actor's voice. We all suffer from type- casting!
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  165. The Ukrainian partisans doing reconnaissance in Russia have far more bravery than I do. The thought of getting caught by the FSB scares me from my head right down to my toes. It helped that FSB HQ in Bilhorod was damaged by kamizake drones prior to the Russian insurrectionist attack. However, you can bet that the FSB is hard at work now interrogating and torturing people suspected of helping the insurrectionists. If I was a Ukrainian partisan, I would be very wary right now. However, as I said, I lack the bravery of what the Ukrainian partisans did, A while ago there was video of a Ukrainian soldier reunited in Kherson with his sixty-year-old father who was active as a partisan in Kherson and who had been in hiding. I brought tears to my eyes as I admired the bravery of brave his father. His father is a true Ukrainian patriot, and I hope he gets decorated with a medal.
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  166. What are reports about the explosions in the Transiberian railroad lines?
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  167.  @PamweChete2503  Sham Referendums questioned by every international organization that reviews elections and referendums.
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  168. It would have helped if you overlaid a topographic map on the Ukrainian advances. This vlogger does an excellent job of using the topographic map to show which settlements have a tactical advantage and which do not. https://www.youtube.com/@RFU Ukraine seems to be by passing settlements in valleys in favor of progressing alone hill lines
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  169. Belgium should also increase their defense spending. Belgium is the lowest financial supporter of NATO. Ukraine needs those anti-missiles and more. Glad to see Belgium at least providing political support.
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  170. A "fake flag" or "false flag" operation is when a military operations using the flag or the opposition to make it appear that the opposition committed the act. This is most often used in clandestine operations Were you saying that the Ukrainians were mustering forces while flying a Russian flag?
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  171. The Second World War ended the Great Depression, and the CCP may decide that a war may answer the unemployment problems. The various Government programs enacted during the Great Depression did make a difference, and overtime might have pulled the country out of the Depression. The full national employment required to fight the Second World War definitely took the US out of the Depression, and resulted in full national employment. The CCP might decide a war would serve their interests.
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  172.  @BoycottChinaa  And so does Luxembourg. The Swiss effectively get interest free loans as a result of the deposits in Swiss banks by foreigners. By the way, did you know that Swiss bank account actually have a negative interest rate? You must pay the bank for you to have an account at the bank. Great business model if you can make it work as the Swiss have done.
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  173. Sounds to me like the Kremlin is paying someone at YouTube.
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  174. I expect a Russian invasion of Ukraine will be coordinated with an attack on Taiwan by China to exploit the US attention on the South China Sea. Only in April and October do the currents in the Taiwan straits favor an invasion from the mainland, and Chinese invasion can occur right after the Olympics in Beijing finish in March. The Chinese could use some pretext to increase hostilities in the Taiwan Strait then forbid anyone attending the Olympic Games from leaving China because of the danger. China would essentially put the Olympic athletes and other foreigners attending the Olympics in "protective custody" to prevent them getting injured in a war. This could happen in March with the Chinese invasion of Taiwan occurring as soon as conditions in the Taiwan make that possible, and that could take place in March even before April. China would effectively have hostages that would deter any attack on the mainland. This timetable for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan works well for Putin who can drag out military maneuvers and saber-rattling until China launches an invasion in March/April then invade Ukraine at the same time that China invades Taiwan.
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  175.  @markmitchell457  I had heard from Vietnam War Vets that in the jungle you can smell the tobacco smoke because it is so distinctive from the smell of jungle. So in that case not just the flame but the smoke from the cigarette could give away your position. Smoking really does kill the smoker, and the second-hand smoke will kill their mates as well.
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  176. Hooray for the woman who said she had left Russia, but returned because nothing from outside will change Russia. Russia can only be changed from the inside.
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  177. As one of Mr. Washington's children, I must say that Mr. Washington favored some children, and even allowed them beat up some of the other children. 😖
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  178. And China has licensed or registered this area with the UN as a site where China intends to do mining
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  179. There must be some way for mechanized brigades to traverse wooded areas; otherwise, how did the Germans attack through the Ardennes Forest in 1940 at the start of the Battle of France?
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  180.  @thehturt5480  Yeah, I thought about that when I wrote the comment. I considered adding that one side might win or lose a battle or suffer a defeat in a battle, but a skirmish loss is not a defeat. Now if you asked me how to set limits on what I would call a "skirmish" then I would be at a loss for words. It is like asking what is the difference between a pile and a heap? So being not quite right and not quite wrong is okay by me! :)
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  181. Doesn't shelling a market constitute a war crime because a market is a civilian target? Do the Russians have some explanation of how the market is a military target?
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  182. Happy New Year! Keep up the good work. You always have very news worth viewing, and analysis worth considering.
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  183. Russian propaganda on television in the Donbas is intense. Many people in Donbas think that the bombing and artillery are Ukrainians rather than Russians
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  184.  @lefttomboy3068  oh I agree, and it satisfies Putin vision of himself as an historic figure for him to restore Russkiy Mir that Catherine the Great had previously annexed. Nevertheless, this facade of referendums in supposed separate Republics flies in the face of the political structure of Ukraine which is a unitary government rather than a federated one.
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  185.  @khaledhemmaty6081  sorry Khaled I can't make heads nor tails out of what you just said. Can you try rephrasing it? Sadly I only speak English.
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  186.  @drumpfdon760  In fact, I first went to Mainland China in 1985 at the invitation of the CCP, and I went to Hong Kong and back to Mainland China in 2002. My family and a Taiwanese partner did business in Guangzhou from the late 1990s through the early 2000s. So I am quite different from the ignorant, prejudiced, insulting toad that you are.
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  187. Crocodile tears from Xi
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  188. A commercial pilot is not trained to fly a fight, and the reverse it true. One of my cousins was a fighter pilot in Vietnam and it took him sone years to get accepted and retrained as a commercial pilot. The airlines want the pilots who flew cargo planes in the military. A pilot who can fly barrel rolls and dog fighting is not what you want flying a commercial aircraft, and the reverse it true. You don't retrain a commercial pilot to fly a figher plane overnight.
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  189. Yes
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  190. Seems to me that God can take care of itself. God needs nothing in the law to protect itself.
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  191. The Ukrainian people will decide the conditions for a cease-fire, and the US has nothing to say. Only Ukraine can decide whether they will continue resist even if Russia occupies Ukraine. US evacuates personnel from Embassies and advising against travel by US citizens reflects a concern that US citizens will be used as hostages. One should never conclude from the US evacuating personnel and warning about travel as a signal to Ukraine that Ukraine should capitulate. As I said at the start that is Ukraine's decision to make. What you want to watch is whether the US stops supplying weapons.
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  192. I trust this statement is intended to be ironic.
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  193. ​ @MiltonCedeno-l5x and how much time will it take? At present SpaceX takes about 28 days to turn about a booster. So 200 months means about 18 years.
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  194.  @blazinchalice  it also requires transfer of fuel in space which nobody has ever done before.
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  195. Looks like there may be a new Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth including Ukraine that might happen.
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  196. There was another reason for the difficulty of crossing that river. The problem is mud as opposed to water. Amphibious may work in water, but mud is a different story.
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  197.  @pete531  Russia just moved intermediate range missiles less than 600 miles from Japan. US has long standing defense treaties with Japan, which in on the border with Russia. You mean Russia lacks the political maturity to share an unarmed border with another country? I think the US has already demonstrated it can do that by having a border from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean with Canada, and without armed troops on either side along that border. Surely Russia has the maturity to have similar borders with its neighbors.
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  198. Ukrainians should have little difficulty maintaining Abrams engines because Ukraine was a global repair facility for Russian fighter jets and the Ukrainian mechanics can easily learn to manage the jet engine that powers an Abrams tank. Also the kerosene used as fuel in Abrams tanks is what is used to fuel jet planes. Kerosene requires less refining of petroleum than gasoline does. All this talk of jet fuel makes it sound exotic but actually it is one of the most commonly used petroleum distillates. About half of the world consumption of kerosene is for lighting and the rest is for jet fuel
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  199. This briefing from an instructor the Military Academy of the Austrian Army has estimates about personnel and material lost in the Donbas so far: War in Ukraine: Luhansk has fallen - what's to expect? - YouTube That same instructor did an analysis of the Donbas some weeks ago.  However, the analysis does an excellent job of explaining the situation so someone can see why the most recent developments occurred.  The analysis explains why the Ukrainians withdrew from Luhansk so rapidly, and it was clearly the right thing to do. By the way, I learned from other reports that the Wagner Group was instrumental in breakthrough in Propasna, and even the pro-Ukrainian commentators expressed alarm when Propansa fell to the Russians, especially because Propasna occupies the high ground.  With respect to the Russian Army relying on artillery, I recommend watching this video about a 1999 book from a Russian General about the tactical approach to battles that the Russians use. After watching that video, please read the commentary by a friend of mine who is a retired professor of German History with his response and comments concerning the Russian tactics applied against Germans in the Second World War:
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  200.  @Grizathvili  Exactly, what I expect a troll to say. Thank you for confirming my expectation.
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  201. ​ @Shrimpsisbugseses that Davros interview also demonstrated how worthless the whole Davros clown show is.
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  202.  @shawnr771  Well, Combined Arms is simply a way to conduct an assault so it could used in any attack. Given the amount of training the Ukrainian forces have had in Combined Arms and the reports that the Ukrainians have held their newly trained from direct engagement, we could easily see Combined Arms used in the upcoming counteroffensive.
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  203. Wow he really just makes the stuff as he goes on talking
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  204. I hope they had a warrant otherwise a court will throw out the evidence.
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  205.  @arielhermoso4262  If you violate a person's rights against warrantless search and seizure then yes you have to throw out the evidence. Better that a hundred who are guilty get away than one innocent person be convicted of a crime they never committed.
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  206. Look at this analysis of the explosion by Suchomimus who looks very carefully at the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npIRfEQM2kw He concludes that the explosion came from under the bridge.
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  207. Doing a stream makes sense, but to be honest, a recorded stream of longer than an hour is more than I watch.
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  208. I have friends who are Russian speaking but consider themselves Ukrainian and fled Crimea rather than live under Russian occupation. While the Russian let people vote with their feet and leave after the stage managed referendum?
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  209. Okay how to do arithmetic and multiplication given that Toki Pona numbers lack any radix
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  210. The Japanese have shifted considerably in anticipation of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Japan has declared that they would consider an attack on Taiwan as an attack on Japan, and would respond as a measure of self-defense. Taiwan close to southern most islands of the Japanese archipelago, and a military build-up in the southern islands of Japan would be on Japan territory. However, Japan has gone much further this time, and engaged in joint military exercises with the US and UK including amphibious landings on islands, which means armed boots on the ground. The Japanese have also converted some ships to accommodate STOL of F-35 aircraft, making this the first time since the end of the Second World War that Japan has ships that will accommodate the take-off and landing of fixed wing aircraft even if those aircraft only need very short runways. China's increasing military activities and pressure from the US has pushed Japan into much more military activity.
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  211. Can someone who bought the videos maake them public? Thhat would allow for only one person to buy then post it for everyone can post it.
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  212. Another superlative video! Very good to make countries into families. Even if the parents disliked one another they would rarely forbid their children from competing in games because of the social stigma for the children. Especially if the competition was intramural, and the children went to the same school. Perhaps a school called "The Academy." Do the parents all work for the same company named "Global Trade Group" perhaps? It was interesting to realize how well the Western European countries had capital cities with names that worked so well as family names. In many cases a legacy of the Roman Empire. This video never needed to use the names of the capital cities in Europe or countries in Empires that the Romans subdued. Using those capital city names would feel forced in English.
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  213. As I recall you told us about some islands that form part of the territory of Taiwan are very close to China. I believe it was Quemoy and Matsu, but it may have been some islands even closer to China. You mentioned them in the context of a strategy China might use to engage diplomatically with Taiwan without making it obvious. I ask about these islands because I wondered how China might react if Taiwan began to build an "oceanographic" station there that operated undersea drones for the purpose of "mapping and exploring" the undersea area around those islands while staying in international waters. I am sure China would react negatively, but it might be hard for China to attack the islands without provoking an armed conflict. Given the very large number of diesel-electric submarines in the Taiwan straits, a "scientific" base operating undersea drones would have defensive advantages for Taiwan. Who knows such an "oceanographic" facility might require the kind of construction that a military base would require.
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  214. Shoigu is an old buddy from when Putin was Mayor of St,.Peterbergs.. Putin has complete trust in Shoigu because Shoigu is completely loyal to Putin.
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  215. This sounds a lot like when Pres. Zelenskyy said that Ukraine would attack Kherson, and then Ukraine did the blitzkrieg in the Karkhiv area. Not take everything that General Zaluzhny as the truth. Zaluzhny has good reasons to understate or even lie about the capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I am also suspicious of the delivery date of the F-16s. This coming spring during the spring mud system would be a good time to reveal that Ukrainain pilots are already combat ready.
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  216. The incidents you described took place 20 years ago when the fabrication of images and videos was more difficult to do. If this had happened today, and I was Neil Bush, then I would say that the photos and videos were deep fakes made by using doubles and image processing. He might very well get away with that. I am sure the CCP has thought of that "defense" and now must get some evidence that nobody could consider fake, perhaps DNA. Even in that case Neil Bush could say that someone, the housekeeper for example, could have collected material like hairs from which they extracted the DNA. I think the CCP would need a "blue dress" to make the case harder to refute. Given that a "blue dress" got a President impeached, one could imagine what the evidence might be, and it would be stronger than just photos and videos.
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  217. I see an awful lot of metal cooking utensils. You might have discussed how the Intuit cooked soup without metal pots. Hint: use some animal stomach for a pot
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  218.  @dannolives  and each of the Baltic countries have contributed a greater percentage of their GDP than the US or UK, and that speaks even louder than words. The Baltics really have put money where their mouth is. They experienced Soviet Russian domination first hand, and we should take what they say seriously.
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  219. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plants supplied almost 30% of Ukraine's power. It does not take a genius to figure out that removing 30% of the available electrical power means fewer electrical lights will turn on. What a silly thing for you to say that you don't know why the Ukrainian's have fewer lights on a night. I expected better than that from you. That kind of disingenuous commentary undermines your credibility.
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  220. I hope this will NOT replay the Bonus Army.
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  221. And of course, this famous quote from Josef Stalin displays the Russian attitude toward the deaths of others, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
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  222. The value of the Peace Summit to get something done about the Nuclear Power Plants is enough right now
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  223. I advise against trying to analyze US politics and stick to your military reporting.
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  224.  @adelbertantonio2937  I think they use the advanced rinse and spin cycle chips from the more modern washing machines looted from Ukrainian homes
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  225. The Russians may need to rethink their battle strategies of taking high casualties in the early stages of a battle because Russia has a demographic challenge of birthrates below the replacement level, and losing men who in their most reproductive years of age will make that worse. Unless, and I am being ruthless in this the Russians could take the view that polygamy is a good idea to rebuild the poopulation
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  226. Good coverage. Have you done a piece on the Republican opponent to Col. Vindman? The Republican candidate is unmarried, but hired people to pose as his family in a campaign ad.
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  227. The US may well have held back on sending ATACMS until Ukraine had a native missile with the same range which means that any strike by an ATACMS has plausible deniability. It makes the delivery of ATACMS a pointless red line by Putin.
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  228.  @ketoswilly7581  Were you replying to some post that I made? I am not any sort of investor, and I can't see anything that even remotely resembles "raw, irrational emotion" in my comment. Perhaps you mean to reply to some other comment.
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  229. A single person keeps this war going, and could stop it if he wanted to. The international community will never accept Russia invading and annexing another country. Prepare yourself for the use of nuclear weapons because Putin will have to make choice between giving back the land to Ukraine or using a nuclear weapon. The Ukrainians will never stop until they recover the land stolen from them. From now on I will just wait to here results for the newspapers. If I hear the the Russians have removed Putin then we will be okay. If not then I will hear the nuclear.
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  230. I agree. As I remarked in my comment, we would spend our money better by improving nuclear fission reactors rather than wasting the money on fusion reactors. Here is a good discussion of advances in fission reactors, and this video is a couple of years old by now: "The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power" https://youtu.be/poPLSgbSO6k
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  231. Glad to see that you have recovered from your recent illness. Another excellent tactical update as well as another brilliant segue into the advertisement. Your videos should be assigned watching for anyone who wants to make YouTube videos. Superb fusion of narrative and graphics and good script writing.
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  232. The video of the whale shark swimming through mass of small fish was very cool
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  233.  @death2colonialism  Now he has a chance to see the same high morale that the Vietcong had when they fought invaders to their country.
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  234. You do the smoothest segues from your reporting into your advertising for your sponsors. Were you a professional broadcaster before doing your blog or have you refined your broadcasting skills as a result of blogging experiences?
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  235. I must agree with the comments that take exception to your view of how benign Putin is for Ukraine. In the July speech from Putin that you quoted, Putin presented the Ukraine Russia shared culture and border as comparable to the relationship of Canada to the US, or Austria to Germany. In fact that is a false equivalence. Despite having history in common, Ukrainian and Russian are different though related languages. I have a friend in Ukraine who who grew up and lived in Crimea, but fled Crimea with her son when the Russians annexed it. She settled in Lviv in Western Ukraine, which about as far West as you can go in Ukraine. She and her son only spoke Russian, and now she is learning to speak Ukrainian. There is less difference between Ukrainian and Russian than there is between Cantonese and Mandarin. However, there is a lot more difference between Ukrainian and Russian than between English as spoken in Canada and English as spoken in the US. The US and Canada really do speak the same language. I should add the my friend in Ukraine views Russia with the same apprehension that my Taiwanese friends view the PRC. The real issue in both Ukraine and Taiwan is whether they can continue to develop as separate and democratic societies, or will they become subject to an autocratic regime even if they share common history, culture and speak closely related languages. Ukraine should be permitted to decide it's destiny, and Taiwan permitted to decide it's destiny. Neither should have that decision made for them.
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  236. Artur I love your videos, but I refuse to use any social media from Meta, so I avoid Facebook, Instagram and WahtsApp. It disappoints me that I would have to feed Zuckerberg's monopolies in order to get the latest from you. Having said all that, please keep up the good work. You and your viewers a lot to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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  237. The newly appointed Commander of the Russian Forces in Ukraine is the general who commanded the Russian troops in Syria, and who used Sarin gas on the Syrian. Stay on the alert for Russia to use chemical weapons in Kherson. The US has now positioned the 101 Airborne Division in Romania. The US now has 100,000 troops on the borders of Ukraine. If Russia uses chemical weapons, then I expect the US would establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine even if that means coming into direct conflict with Russian aircraft and even if Russian might shoot down US aircraft. Furthermore, as a response to the use of chemical weapons, I would speculate that Poland and the Baltic countries would move to the border of Ukraine and Belarus at the invitation of the Ukrainian. That will relieve the Ukrainian Army to move troops from Belarus to the South. Moreover, having NATO troops in the area of Kyiv would also deter the Russians from using chemical weapons on Kyiv.
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  238. Kherson will definitely require air superiority. When Ukraine is ready to deploy F16 fighters then Kherson is more feasible.
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  239. Is there any space near the Supreme Court for the kind of memorial you advocate? Or perhaps a specific annex to the Library of Congress which is close up to the Capitol?
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  240. Could this lead to Susan Collins voting with Democrats? Collins and other Maine Senator could both be independent. With ranked choice voting that Maine has, it is very easy for an Independent have a good chance to be elected.
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  241. Trump wants tariffs because they are a regressive tax just as sales taxes that everyone who buys something pays whether that person are rich or poor. The rich can afford the higher prices because the higher price is a smaller fraction of their spending than it will be on poorer and less weslthy people. Trump will then use the revenue from the tariffs to offset tax cuts that benefit the wealthy. Tariffs are a mechanism to enrich wealthy people at the expense of people who have wealth. Tariffs are a mechanism of wealth transfer from the poor to the rich. Trump understands that very well, and supports. He simply lies about as a means of deception as opposed to a lack of understanding. I wish people would attribute Trump's lies to malice and motive rather than ignorance. Trump is a grifter and more clever than the marks, the American people, who he cheats.
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  242. I think the massive shift you see towards the right as a simpler even if more distributing explanation. The American peope lack confidence in a female President. American remains misogynistic and patriarchal. Some of thid was Kamala's manner. I recall a political ad in which Kamala said that she and her team had come up with a fun (sic) idea for her supportrs. I support having a woman as President but that ad made Kamala sound more like a Mother supervising a kid's birthday party than what Americans like to call "the leader of the free world." I think Kamala's hanlder should have had her pulled rather lose so she would had a more manly look. I know many people, including myself, would consider that a concession to the patriarchy but we all dress to impress our customers to make sale. It remains so hard to see a woman as president that the map looked like it shifted left. Let's get more women in lower officers, eve, if they are Republican. We need to nomalize the idea of women power so that a woman in power will seem natural. Many governors are women are Governor's let make it a clean sweep and have every Governor as woman. They may policies that differ dramatically from ours. Governor Kai in Alabama supports abortion, but surely we can find a female Alabama politicain who can contest that at the level of Governorr.
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  243.  @1DrBar  well such an event is easy enough to verify. We will learn soon
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  244. Precisely the most important point.
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  245. Also NATO has been training on combined arms for the last forty years.
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  246. Ironically, Trump is going to help Europe rely less on the US. Trump thinks it will assert US dominance, but it will have exactly the opposite effect. This is similar to Trump's insistence thst NATO countrries pay the required 2% which at the time was part of Trump threatening to leave NATO. It looked totally idiotic at the time, and it was idiotic. However it proved helpful when NATO was required to confront Russian invasion of Ukraine. The US needs to understand how important other countries are to the US. Perhaps the best way for the US to learn that is to get all the other country to prepare to defend themselves without the US and against the US if necessary.
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  247. The US never had a treaty requires the US send troops to defend Ukraine specifically because Ukraine lacked membership in NATO mutual defense treaty. The nature of NATO seems difficult for many people to understand. NATO is purely defensive and NATO treaty requires an attack on a NATO member, but Ukraine is a member of NATO, and Russia specifically wanted assurances Ukraine would never join NATO . The US was observing rather strict treaty commitments in NATO, and Biden stressed that no American infantry would go to Ukraine to avoid feeding Russia propaganda that NATO wanted to attack. I am unsure about the precise conditions outlined in US Defense of Taiwan Treaty. Can someone explain those provisions?
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  248. Anything above freezing, except that 30 degrees Fahrenheit is below freezing! Better than minus forty, but you still need to wear a lot of layers of clothes.
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  249. I agree. This is the only way to teach the citizens of the US about US reliance on other countries.
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  250.  @2DTL  Your vote always means something. If you fail to vote then you are letting other people decide for you. The issue is not individual votes, it is the accumulation of votes. Just like voting on comment.
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  251.  @2DTL  You have a moral obligation to participate in politics at least to extent of voting, and you should make your vote an informed vote. Also in the Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout, the character Archie Goodwin says this about voting, "The most interesting incident Tuesday morning was my walking to a building on Thirty-fourth Street to enter a booth and push levers on a voting machine. I have never understood why anybody passes up that bargain. It doesn't cost a cent, and for that couple of minutes, you're the star of the show, with top billing. It's the only way that really counts for you to say I'm it, I'm the one that decides what's going to happen and who's going to make it happen. It's the only time I really feel important and know I have a right to. Wonderful. Sometimes the feeling lasts all the way home if somebody doesn't bump me." Of course, the old lever voting machines that I grew up using in New York State have long since passed away. I did get much more satisfaction from pulling down the little lever than I do by filling in a dot on a paper form. However, the old lever machines were easily tampered with, and the current paper scanned systems have a much better audit trail.
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  252. That size jump because of depleted uranium can not cause that jump in gamma radiation. Depleted uranium means that the most radioactive isotopes have been removing as a result of using the uranium to provide energy in a nuclear reactor. Much more likely is that the Russian missile attack so close to the reactors damaged the reactors in some way.
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  253.  @garlkurzer  yeah that made me wonder too. He shows the number of 40,000 then says the casualty rate is 1,000 per day. We are close to day 150 therefore the Russians must have killed or wounded 150,000 soldiers. I begin to distrust all a speaker's numbers when they give numbers that are literally an order of magnitude wrong. Double or triple maybe, but ten-fold?
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  254. This Vietnam war vet is now seeing the Russo-Ukrainian war from the same perspective as a Vietcong saw the American invasion of Vietnam. This vet marvels at the contrast between the low morale of US troops in Vietnam compared to the Ukrainian soldiers in this war. However, what I would likel to see is the reaction of a Vietnamese who served as Vietcong. I expect such Vietnamese visitor might comment that the high morale of the Ukranian soldiers defending against Russian felt the same as the Vietcong morale defending against the Americans in Vietnam
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  255. Can the Russians be charged with a self-inflicted war crime using biological weapons because they infected themselves while digging trenches in a graveyard of anthrax infected cattle? We can add that to the self-inflicted war crime of using radiological weapons by digging trenches in the Red Forest. The Russians are achieving yet another first time records for themselves. Who ever said that the Russians never were a leading nation should now concede that Russia has won a Gold Medal in the global competition for self-inflicted war wounds.
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  256. It seems to me that any economy operating without debt implies low expectation that the economy will grow. Countries need to take on debt to grow faster. Of course as Lei has pointed out in this video, a country can borrow more than it can pay back over time.
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  257.  @MrAdhiSuryana  Absolutely correct. That is consistent with the point about companies taking on debt. Needing to take on debt to continue or expand operations, some companies must turn to sources of debt that hurt the company. The fact that companies need to take on debt never implied that they made good choices about where they got the money, and who lent the money. Loan sharks exist because companies need loans, but reputable institutions refuse to lend money to the company because the bank judges the company's ability as poor. Enter stock rating systems like Standard & Poors, who provide the ratings on which banks rely to make decisions about whether a company can service the debt and the bank will get a return on their loan. Stock rating companies make mistakes, but their purpose is clear. A common practice these days is for companies to buy back shares to increase the value of the shares in the market, but the real purpose is to assure compensation for executives whose income depends on stock options and therefore depend in the growth of the value of the company stock. Companies who do this really are not buying back shares because the company believes it will earn more by investing in itself. Stock buy-backs should be used to invest in the income generators, such as new manufacturing facilities, rather than to assure to assure that stock options in the company have value. If the company does depend on retaining specific employee expertise, as some service companies such as consulting companies do them stock buy backs to increase employee compensation and thus retain those employees is a case of investing of the company investing in itself to continue company growth. It may also be a way to launder money through the company as you so rightly indicated in your comment.
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  258.  @drumpfdon760  However, such permission is easily obtained because most boards are controlled by the executive management rather than stock holders. I should add that I speak from first hand experience from the time I worked at a very large transnational corporate whose name I know even you would recognize. I was a low level executive and yet stock options made up a significant part of even my compensation. Also my job involved working very closely with the finance organization who confirmed that the main purpose of the stock buybacks was to make sure the options held by the executives continued to retain value. You understand young whipper snapper? BTW I am glad the wumao Management replaced the previous with you because your English is much better. I still don't understand why you use the expression "old kidd" because nobody native speaker uses that expression. Perhaps there is something other expression that you have mixed up
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  259. The Soledar Salt Mines make the Azovstal Plant look like a children's clubhouse. The Soledar Salt Mines has more than a hundred miles of tunnels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar_Salt_Mine I expect that Soledar and Bakhmut are connected underground. I find it impossible to believe that the Russians could ever completely subdue Bakhmut because defenders can hold out in the Soledar Salt Mines just as they did in the Azovstal Plant. In addition within the Soledar Salt Mines the temperature is constant at 14–15 °C which means that any troops there will have an easier time keeping warm.
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  260. The shorter range ATACMS use on Inertial Guidance Systems (IGS) which Russian Electronic Warfare (EW) can not counter. The long range ATACMS use IGS and Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian have developed ways to interfere with GPS targeting either by jamming or spoofing GPS. That Russian EDW has almost neutralized the precision targeting for the JDAM artillery.
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  261.  O Sullivan  If you read the other commenst you would see that the discussion was about how the opposition could target someone. The point was that te smell of burning tobacco was sufficiently distinctive to disclose someone's location.
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  262.  @kineahora8736  332 million = # people in US 240 million = # of eligible voters in US 180 million = # actually voted in US Okay that is 60% of the US population voted Much higher that the 16% I cited. Which makes my overall case stronger. The higher the percent of US Citizens supported an action then the greater the responsibility any individual must take for the actions of the US Government. Put a somewhat different way, the higher the percentage of the US population that voted for some policy then the less justification that I can make between myself as a US citizen and the US Government. "I didn't vote for him/her" never gives a US citizen a pass on the actions of the US Government
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  263.  @kineahora8736  If you get Medicare benefits as I then I must make personal accounting from accepting those benefits. I can not in good conscience accept the benefits of US citizenship without considering the source of those. Would you accept funds you know were stolen in order to pay for your lifestyle?
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  264.  @kineahora8736  If what you mean by "realpolitik" is that most people conduct themselves without regard to moral or ethical principles then I agree.
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  265.  @kineahora8736  Keep in mind that the original question was whether any arbitrary Russian should take responsibility for what Russia does. In my view the citizens of a country must take responsibility for what their country does. Participating in a society and accepting the benefits of living in that requires that you take responsibility for the actions of your society. I definitely do NOT mean, "your country, love it or leave it" or the even more disgraceful "My Country, Right or Wrong" when that is used to coerce compliance and complicity in wrongful acts. However, in different sense, I do mean "My Country Right or Wrong" in the sense that I can not pick and choose which of the injustices committed by my country I will own up to, and which ones I will claim I was never involved. For example, just because you have never owned slaves, you have benefited from the work of slaves here in the US in the past. You can draw a direct line from our good fortune today back to the misery and misfortune of people forced to work as slaves or even food indentured servants. We never voted for but we benefit from and we have a responsibility to own up to it. Now that may sound a bit abstract because it is distant in time, but the atrocities committed by the Russians are occurring now, and even as we speak.
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  266. No food, no water, but lots of papiri. The Russian Army needs more ashtrays and the discipline to use them
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  267. What country actually imports gasoline which is a specific petroleum distillates? Countries import petroleum then refine it to produce gas, kerosene etc. Can you imagine what it would be like to a oil supertanker filled with gasoline?
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  268. The USAID Inspector General had already initiated a probe into Starlink satellite terminals in the Russia Ukraine war. The USAID Inspector General was fired and the investigation into Elon was shut down.
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  269. Gringrich has gone on record that his goal is to eliminate every social program created under FDR. That includes Social Security, SEC to prevent securities fraud, FTC to prevent defective products, FCC to oversee telephone and radio, NLRB to protect ability of workers to organize, FDA to protect food saftey under the pure food drug act. Trump has isssued executive to eliminate or fire so many employees at those agencies that they can no longer function.
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  270.  Wheeler63  The excess of pain management was largely the cause of physicians and AMA who indiscriminately prescribed pain medications. When the AMA identifies pain as a health condition combined with physician indiscriminately prescribed pain medication whenever a patient complained about pain. People nearly always overstate how much pain they feel. The pain levels used in diagnosis were ridiculous.
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  271. Depends on the age of the American. Usually the older we get, the heavier we get, but the rule is not hard and fast or even fat-free.
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  272.  @paulbradford6475  What you say is true, and I have applicable quote from someone who would know. “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” Josef Stalin
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  273. I agree that understanding Chinese the Chinese language is a pre-requisite for understanding Chinese culture. However, I expect that politicians as well as business people want to learn Chinese to ingratiate themselves with the Chinese rather than to understand Chinese culture. I should add that I expect the same about people wanting to speak English. Most people who learn to speak English for purely functional reasons. I should add that I have difficulty imagining any general cultural value in speaking English given how widespread English is as a second language in the world. Even a native English speaker would be hard pressed to understand what the culture of English speakers would mean. By contrast there is a distinctive culture among native Chinese speakers. The Chinese even have a distinctive cuisine. Referring to something like English cuisine is at best a joke.
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  274. You mentioned the Three Kingdoms in your description for this video. Would you consider producing a video about the Three Kingdoms and the Warring States periods in Chinese history?
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  275. Look at this analysis of the explosion by Suchomimus who looks very carefully at the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npIRfEQM2kw He concludes that the explosion came from under the bridge.
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  276. This is like why Hitler stopped his Generals from following up on the Dunkirk withdrawal which was an ideal opportunity to invade England. Hitler stopped his Generals from proceeding on the invasion was to demonstrate that the Army would follow his command even when they wanted to do something else.
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  277. Artur, you might find a number of the interviews of POWs on Lviv Media of interest: https://www.youtube.com/c/LvivMedia I can only understand the ones with English subtitles, but I expect you will understand almost all as they are in Russian.
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  278. That sure is a lot of "coincidences"
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  279. Of course any immunity the grant the President applies to Biden. Depending on what the Supreme Court allows for Presidential immunity then Biden has that immunity. Perhaps, Biden can arrest Trump as an advocating the overthrow the Government of the US. Biden would be immune to any charge of violating the Constitution.
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  280.  @ОгурецМолоко  Nobody deserves it more than the Russians. Perhaps an Exclusion Zone across the entire border of Ukraine and Belarus would work well. Some might call it a Demilitarized Zone, but I think Exclusion Zone that excluded both military and civilian would make for a great International Park, and let Nature take over the Belarussian-Ukrainian Exclusion Zone.
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  281. The view that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is bogged down is seriously mistaken. Here is a link to a video that explains precisely what is happening with Russian invasion, and I will follow the video link with the comments about it made by a friend of mine who is a retired Professor of German History. Russo-Ukraine War: What the West Doesn't Understand EP 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5BAZ2bBUzM Cappy is especially interesting. He quite correctly describes old Red Army techniques that are now being used, beginning with the young, untrained conscripts as cannon fodder. Interestingly, the four (!!) battles for Kharkiv (Kharkov) in WWII, at least two of which pitted Manstein against Konev, are good examples. So too was the Soviet move across Poland and into Germany in 1944-45, culminating with the truly devastating assault on the Seelow Heights east of Berlin. I have been to the Seelow Heights many times. The landscape there is full of hundreds of small Soviet war cemeteries with 50 or 100 bodies in them. Interestingly, current Russian war plans have an even longer ancestry. In the early summer of 1848, Habsburg forces withdrew from Prague, surrounded the city, and bombarded it into submission. This became the standard technique for controlling big cities. They did the same thing to Vienna later that fall (with the Croats acting like the Chechens now). In 1870 the Prussians surrounded and besieged Paris, otherwise controlling all of France north of the Loire. After the provisional government (the "Versaillais") capitulated to the Germans, the Versaillais themselves besieged a Paris that was governed by the Commune, until finally, in May 1871, the Versaillais breached the Communards' defenses and in incredibly brutal street fighting retook Paris block by block, taking advantage of the broad boulevards that Napoleon III had built specifically to thwart urban uprisings. Just as Ike built the interstate highways as defense corridors, the wide boulevards that people love in Paris were built for military reasons.
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  282. Tinkoff Bank, one of the largest banks in Russia is now exchanging 1 US Dollar for 100.45 Roubles. Remember the Kremlin's goal was to keep the Rouable where it was at 90 Roubles to the US dollar. The wheels are coming off the Russian bus.
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  283. You correctly reported that China is using ASEAN countries as an intermediary to export to the US. That will make exports from China from that ASEAN country lerger and also make exports from that ASEAN country to the US look larger. Overall it will appear as through imports from China to the US are dropping while imports from that ASEAN country to the US are rising. People then report that the imports from the ASEAN country to the US are replacing imports from China of when in fact the goods imported from the ASEAN to the US are the exact same goods manufactured in China. You reported these facts separately when un fact they are the same.
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  284. When the Affordable Care Act was passed, my psychiatrist pointed out to me that the whole ACA could have been done by legislating that one word be added in the corporate charter for all the healthcare companies, and word was "not-for-profit" He was my psychiatrist for fifteen (15) years until he retired at the age of eighty (80) and we had many conversations about the healthcare industry. He had a very low opinion of the Private For-Profit Insurance Companies. He once told me that he preferred to have Medicare patients because eventhough Medicare paid only half of his rate, Medicare paid on time adn without objection for covered treatment. He told me that Medicare had a three (3%) percent administrative overhead while the average overhead for Private For Profit Insurance Companies was fifteen (15%) percent. As he and I both remarked, almost in unison, "but of course the private always provides less expensively and more efficiently as the government." He had held public office in his local town at one point in his career, so he had first hand view of politics, and how political pressure gets used. Before I started seeing my psychiatrist, I had my healthcare insurer call me up and tell me to ask my physician to change one of my drugs to a generic, but failed to tell me that I would have to double the dose as a consequence. My primary care physician who I have seen for thirty (30) years when he started his practice, is not a specialist in psycho pharmacology and when he consulted the desk reference it appeared that the generic could be substituted so we did that. When I started to have reactions my Primary Care Physician said, "Clearly this is outside my area of knowledge, and we need to get you to a psychiatrist", My Primary Care Physician told me that the psychiatrist he wanted me it was very hard to get the psychiatrist he wanted to take new patients, but that he would ask personally. As I sat there, he picked up the phone, called the psychiatrist, and said, "One of my very favorite patients needs to see a psychiatrist, will you take him on as a patient? The psychiatrist agreed immediately, and that was the beginning of a wonderful doctor-patient relationship. When I first visited him because of the change in medication, he instantly knew what was causing the problem, and changed the prescription back to what it should have been. He then pointed out to me that by law a pharmacist must fill a prescription with drug the MD prescribed, and the pharmacist would lose their license as a pharmacist if they changed the medication. He went on to point out that the Drug Management Companies had to have licenses from the State in order to fill prescriptions, and yet the Drug Managment Companies were notorious for changing prescriptions r delay filling the new prescriptions even on post-op drugs that patients needed after hospital discharge. Failing to get those drugs jeopardized the patient's life in some cases. So, my psychiatrist wrote a letter to the licensing board at our State Capitol, which is Albnay and I live and he practiced in New York State, informing the licensing board that the Drug Management Company had violated the terms of their pharmacist license by changing the drug prescription as written by the MD without consulting the MD, and as a consequence, the State should withdraw the pharmacist license from the Drug Management company which would effectively mean that the Drug Management Company would be forbidden from doing business in the entire State of New York. My psychiatrist showed me the letter he sent, and it was very well written. I have read and written many business letters and legal letters in my career; he wrote a good letter. I asked him if he got a reply from the State acknowledging that the pharmacist license of the Drug Management Company was withdrawn. He smiled and said, "Oh I never expected a reply, but I am sure the licensing board put the Drug Management Company on notice even though neither will admit it."
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  285.  @volkerr.  yes I agree. My comment was about terminology. That was also the issue in the comment I replied to. I have never trusted Russian statistics, and my skepticism goes back sixty years when I was a child during the Cold War. I know the US also published bogus statistics, but at least they were consistent even if inaccurate. The Russian statistics conflicted with other statistics. Plus the Russian numbers were so exaggerated. I remember reading a Russian newspaper in the 1970s that said the rate of increase in production had doubled. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out that the statement was about an increase in the second derivative of the measurement. That was the very last time I ever gave any thought to believing Russian statistics.
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  286. Trump understands very well how tariffs work and who pays the tariffs. Trump wants tariffs because they are a regressive tax just as sales taxes that everyone who buys something pays whether that person are rich or poor. The rich can afford the higher prices because the higher price is a smaller fraction of their spending than it will be on poorer and less weslthy people.
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  287. Trump and Musk are destroying the Government programs that help people live a better life.
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  288. I have family in Japan, and know that JR operates at a lose, and requires Government subsides. I had always thought that China had made their high-speed trains more economical. It shocked me when I saw this video.
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  289. If the Ukrainians manage to get to the outskirts of Kherson then will the Russians destroy the dam on the Dneiper and flood Kherson? What do people watching this channel think will happen? Please don't say that Ukraine will never get to Kherson because that is the premise of my question. IF the Ukrainians get to the out skirts of Kherson; however unlikely that might be, then would the Russians destroy the dam and flood Kherson?
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  290.  @kurtwicklund8901  "Bank" on it? Was that a bad pun?
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  291.  @mikefallwell1301  As I recall, The Lone Ranger used silver bullets as a way of demonstrating his marksmanship. He could afford to use silver bullets because he only needed to use one bullet to stop the outlaw. If they ever do a remake of The Lone Ranger, I am sure there will be vampires involved because of his use of silver bullets. Maybe all those outlaws were vampires but nobody told us when we.were children because they thought it would give us nightmares. Now that kids can watch shows like The Walking Dead what kind of nightmares do kids have these days?
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  292. What is the evidence that the human wave was Ukranian Troops rather than Russian troops. Do you have the video so we can see the markings on the uniforms? That tactic is far more common among the Russians giong back to the Second World War, but before what you said, I never heard that Ukraine uses a similar approach. I really would like to see the video,
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  293. Thanks!
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  294. The Austrian army does truly professional analyses, but their English language versions are only occasionally provided. Take a look at these two to get a sense of their neutral analysis. The Battle for Donbass - 2022 Jun 01 Colonel Markus Reisner of the Austrian Armed Forces describes how the fighting in eastern Ukraine developed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpC1kXhW2Lw War in Ukraine: Luhansk has fallen - what's to expect? - 20220 Jul 8. Colonel Markus Reisner gives an update on the situation in Eastern Ukraine. And he describes what might come next. Make sure to watch the end on the second video, interesting human interest and personal comment from the officer doing the briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEbLuAPobao
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  295. I am sorry but I take exception to your analysis of "political correctness" in English. The purpose of politically correct speech is inclusiveness, and to avoid estranging or marginalizing people. Take careful notice of what political leaders in the US take such exception to the idea of "politically correct" speech. A concept like a person is known both by the people who support it as well as the people who attack it. Ask yourself who in the society of the United States defends politically correct speech, and who attacks it.
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  296.  @LtKeyser  Okay, since I seemed to have missed the explanation for the other case, can you point me to the explanations? I can understand that the missile that hit the shopping mall in Kremenchuk was a defective cruise missile aimed at the railway marshalling yards from the rail bridge over the Dneiper River. However, someone could at least explain that the missile was aimed a valid military target of a railyard, and it hit the mall instead because the missile guidance malfunctioned.
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  297.  @LtKeyser  Strange to prioritize a tactical target like an ammo depot as opposed to a more strategic target like a rail marshalling yard that would cripple transportation of military materiel, especially with Russia having concerns about weapons systems from NATO coming into Ukraine. I am glad that Russia chose the ammo depot instead of the more vital railroad yards.
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  298. This could be an act of Resistance forces within Russia
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  299. Saying that the S-125 systems are repurposed for surface-to-surface use would provide good cover for using MGM-140 ATACMS in a HIMARS MLS. If the Russians claim that US has supplied Ukraine with the MGM-140 ATACMS and that Ukraine used them for longer range strikes, then Ukraine could say that they had used repurposed S-125 missiles.
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  300. How can one expect a Republican to do anything except favor the power and economic elites over the people. Keep in mind that the Bush family is a political dynasty in the US. Nothing surprising about a Republican supporting an oligarchy in China given that the Republican Party supports oligarchic rule in the US.
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  301.  @johndoe-vc1we  Given the flare-up about Quemoy and Matsu has historical precedent and could make a favorable target for propaganda purposes. Eventhough Quemoy and Matsu are legally part of Taiwan, current population voted for the Kuomintang and seems to favor unification with China. Quemoy and Matsu would provide an ideal stand-off with the US and China. They are definitely part of Taiwan. Taiwan would have to respond militarily, but the US would likely hold back because military help to Taiwan would like inflame tensions. An attack on Taiwan would present real diplomatic challenges for China, and for that reason China might hold back out of concern for looking like an aggressor despite their consistent claim that Taiwan is a part of China. What kind of incident or maybe false flag operation might China cause to give them an excuse for invading Quemoy and Matsu? Some fishing boat incident? A collision between a Chinese Coast Guard ship?
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  302.  @johndoe-vc1we  No I NEVER wanted the KMT to win elections. My point was that the KMT was popular in Quemoy and Matsu and therefore the CCP might be welcomed and they sure could falsrly report harassment of the KMT supports to justify an invasion of those islands. That would present quite a dilemma for the US given that Quemoy and Matsu are properly part of Taiwan and yet not worth going to a full scale war over. The Russian invasion of the Donbass was ostensibly to protect harassed Russian speakers and that is a page out of Hitler's playbook for invading and annexing the Sudatenland to protect oppressed German speakers.
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  303.  @silasnelson3116  At seventy (70) years old all I can do is vote to have my tax dollars spent on support for Ukraine, and give direct financial assistance to Ukraine, which I do by supporting a friend's family in Ukraine.
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  304. A number of the points can be rolled up into a single principle that I learned long ago from my wife. "What women want most is to eat as much as they want of whatever they without getting fat."
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  305. Art I got a very strange password reset request on MY patreon, but it showed your name "Art Rehi" and the standard anonymous icon. I quickly went to my true patreon page and I changed by password. I think some may be trying to hack your patreon account. I suggest you change your security details or alert Patreon to the issue.
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  306. Gyorgy please also cover the Eastern Front as well. I get worried about the Russians making progress to Toretsk. Also the Russia has build pontoon bridges to replace the destroyed bridges as confirmed by satellite confirmation. Ukrainain Armed Forces have confirmed battle hardened Russian forces arriving from the East. The forward momentum has slowed. I agree with the strategy to attack Kursk but it is slowing and at the expense of the defense of the East flank. The situation is delicate.
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  307. As I recall, Shanghai is where Jiang has his strongest political base. Is it possible that the Shanghai CCP is making the Zero COVID policy as harsh as possible to work up resentment against Xi?
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  308. Agreed. People may forget the Rubicon in the phrase "Crossing the Rubicon" was a river. Crossing rivers can have a lot of significance.
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  309. Good to provide credit to the people behind the screen / scene. Good editors like Oliver make the "talking head" like Artur look good!
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  310.  @drumpfdon760  Did just hear more noise from Dopey DRUMPF Don!
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  311. Time for the Blue States to secede from the US and join Canada
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  312.  @SanaSamaha  Someone can dislike a person's behavior, and yet love the person. Happens in families all the time. I admit it can often be a source of emotional pain though.
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  313.  @Newdivide  Yeah he was very careful and clever about how he used his radar.
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  314. When will all cash transactions be expected to end? To do that people must be forced to exchange cash for digital RMB before they can spend that money? I do not see this going well for the CCP. I can scarcely imagine any country could do that without without serious social disruptions. This is going to be a real serious "watch this space for future developments" situation.
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  315. We do not need to wait 4 years to see this change. There will be a mid-term elections, and we need to convince voters to vote Democrat because if we can take back the House and Senate then we can more effectively stop this by changing the law.
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  316. I just read that article, and then I saw that you have an excellent review of that article.
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  317. So according to Putin, the S-300 system is better than Patriot, but the US giving Patriot to Ukraine is an escalation. This is classic Russian reasoning that predates Putin. Two forms of argument go as follows: + Other nations consider Russia inferior, but Russia is a great and powerful nation; therefore, Russia needs security guarantees from other countries, and countries that share a border with Russia must acknowledge Russia as superior. + Russia is a great and powerful nation, but other nations treat us as inferior; therefore, Russia needs security guarantees from other countries; otherwise, Russia must attack other nations to demonstrate how powerful we are, and to stop the other countries from attacking Russia first. This is the kind of upside-down, inside-out, looking-glass thinking that you get from Russians with respect to geopolitics, where the paradigm for geopolitics is adolescent boys in a school playground.
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  318.  @skip181sg  as a side comment, it was utterly disgraceful the way that the US withdrew support for the Kurds, and this was the second time it happened. The US did it after the Gulf War. Given how much pressure Turkiye has put on Sweden and Finland to declare the PKK as a terrorist organization shows that the Kurds remain in considerable jeopardy. I should also add that one person's terrorist is another person's partisan or freedom fighter. I hope the day comes when the PKK can become a political rather than a military organization just as the IRA became a political party. Of course, circumstances can reverse that course. I hope the UK will continue to support the Good Friday Accords, and that they both sides remain observant to the terms of those Accords. Saly, making such agreements with Russia are always doomed because the Russians never can keep their word. When Ukraine agreed in the Budapest Memorandum to give up their nuclear weapons in exchange for guarantees of sovereignty and territorial integrity, they made the mistake of trusting Russia to honor the agreement and to keep their word. Perhaps it would have been better if Ukraine had kept their nuclear missiles rather than relying on Russia to keep its word.
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  319. Sadly there were a lot of troops who suffered from PTSD as a result of the war in the Donbas. I know a man who fought in the Donbas as a tank driver from 2016 to 2020, and his PTSD is severe enough that the Ukrainian Army refused to accept him this time around.
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  320. One man's terrorist is another man's partisan. Ask the Russians if the partisans who killed German soldiers in German occupied area in the Second World War were terrorists or partisans? I should also add that a terrorist commits acts designed to terrorize a population such as suicide bombs or bombs in public gatherings as opposed to targeted assassinations. Ask yourself if the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was a terrorist organization or an army of rebellion. How about the soldiers who fought on the side of the American colonists, and who used guerrilla tactics? I would suggest that when it comes down to it a terrorist seeks to intimidate a population, and a partisan seeks the overthrow of an occupying power or invader.
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  321. Has anyone ever confronted the AIPAC about their political contributions and lobbying with US Politicians.
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  322. Imagine if the US engaged in hostage diplomacy the way the CPP does. If the CCP attacked Taiwan or Japan, then the US would be at war with the CPP. The Japanese Internment during the Second World War is a stain on the character of the US. Nevertheless, perhaps putting the relatives of the CCP in "protective custody" would temper the actions by the CCP leaders. I think Canada and Australia might also consider protective custody for relatives of the CCP. Surely none of us want those people to get hurt as a result of a war with the CCP. I wonder if this enters the calculations of the CCP about war with Taiwan, or does the CCP have faith that the US, Canada and Australia would never engage in the kind of "hostage diplomacy" that the CCP does.
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  323.  @drumpfdon760  You need to brush up on the law mate. Meng was a flight-risk, and that warrants some kind of restriction on movement in any country. However, I can easily understand why an apologist for the CCP would lack any understanding of law given that the CCP considers any law, treaty or agreement as something they can discard whenever it suits their purpose.
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  324.  @drumpfdon760  All of your replies are concluded by laughter. That tells me never take this seriously. I guess I should reply to your ignorant statements with a deep belly laugh😆 Of course I should expect such a reply from a member of the CCP 50 cent army
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  325.  @drumpfdon760  Is CPC some kind of long-chain polymer plastic?
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  326.  @Greg-tanner  longer than that because it goes back to the 2014 separatists when Adviika was attacked.
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  327. Add to that the fact that Polish and Ukrainian are very close as languages although not mutually intelligible. One of my friends fled Crimea after the annexation although most of har family stayed in Crimea. I asked her how her family came to live in Crimea, and she said that her grandfather immigrated from Poland. Crimea was an area of greater opportunity than Poland the time of the Soviet Union. My point is that there are familial ties between Poland and Ukraine that exist today.
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  328. Once again, you have hit the ball out of the park, if I may use a Baseball analogy. This really is a great series. One thing it has taught me is that as much as I might detest the authoritarianism of Xi Jinping, he seems to differ from the leaders before him and since Deng because Xi genuinely does what he thinks is best for China as opposed for what simply enriches himself. The fact that Xi is a patriot does nothing to justify the democide of the Uyghurs or the Debt Traps and bullying of other countries. Xi's patriotism conflicts with the interests of my own country, the United States, and I know whose side I am on. In fairness, I should also acknowledge that the US has done plenty of bullying, especially in the Western Hemisphere, and in that sense the US and China have conducted themselves in a similar fashion. Thankfully the US has, until perhaps lately, avoided setting up anything like the kind of surveillance society that China has. I do share with you the hope that Xi will be a Chinese Mikhail Gorbachev. Let's hope CCP infighting will not lead to an invasion of Taiwan as it led to the suppression of democracy in Hong Kong. That was a great loss.
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  329. @crazywarlord777 I quite agree. However,he does appear to be motivated by the needs of China rather than as an opportunity to enrich himself.
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  330. I do think that Russia can escalate to de-escalate, but to do so with chemical weapons rather than nuclear weapons. Using Sarin gas on Kerson would kill vast numbers of Ukrainian forces, and likely many Russians as well. Unlike a dirty bomb or a tactical battlefield nuclear which spreads radioactive material that will take hundreds of years to allow for any inhabitation, a Sarin attack would at worse result in contamination that would last tens of years as opposed to hundreds of years. Russia permitted Syria to use chemical weapons, thought to be Sarin gas, on Syrian civilians; therefore, Russia has some experience with the pros and cons of using something like Sarin gas. Also considering that neurotoxins and poisons are Putin's method of choice when dealing with political opponents, it seems easy to imagine that he would just scale up the use of neurotoxic agents to attack the Ukrainian Army. Also, how NATO would respond to the use of chemical weapons is far less clear than the reaction of NATO to the use of a nuclear weapon. Putin may suffer international condemnation for using chemical weapons like Sarin, but he would likely keep India and China neutral, and the expected response from NATO is much more ambiguous.
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  331.  @lotharschiese8559  The fact that the truck came from the Russian side also helps explain how that much explosive could get on the bridge in a truck because the authorities screening traffic could have been told it was war materiel needed by the Russian military in Crimea.
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  332. Gyorgy the date on that photo is 2019 and that is Hamid Karzi standing next to Lavrov. Who gave you that photo suggesting it is current? They may be trying to discredit your reporting.
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  333. Now that Trump has ststed dome falsehood then he will just double down on it
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  334.  @cdl0  Well the Japanese introduce new Kanji for technical terms, and of course they also use phonetically transliterated terms. I was directly in the project to translate and publish Japanese language documentation for the UNIX Operating System, and I got to see how they translated certain quite technical terms. As I mentioned, they often used newly constructed Kanji or gave previous Kanji an additional meaning as one often does in English.
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  335. Good job Arthur on your sabotage efforts j/k :⁠-⁠)
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  336. Okay so if we get a sustainable fusion reaction then how do we extract the energy of the fusion reaction? Well the answer is fast neutrons from the fusion reaction, and do you know what effect fast neutrons have on materials? Well for one thing, fast neutrons makes materials radioactive or at best transmute the materials. Does any one know what happens to a steel structure when bombarded by fast neutrons? Well one thing the fast neurons blast away the carbon atoms or chromium atoms that stabilize the crystal structure that makes plain iron into steel. So let's see ... the fast neutrons weaken the steel infrastructure of the fusion reactor, and the fast neutrons also make other materials into radioactive isotopes, which all add up to a reactor structure that has become radioactive waste. So sure, fusion itself avoids radioactive waste, but it does lay waste to the reactor itself. We would do a LOT better to perfect fission reactors, and in fact we do know how to do that. I hope you allow people to post links to other videos here, and assuming you do then I suggest watching this video about new ways to run a fission reactor. https://youtu.be/poPLSgbSO6k If I have to lay my bets then I would bet on fission rather than fusion as the better path.
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  337.  @Recordman42  Ukrainians are crazy about cats and dogs and they take care of them. I think it comes from being such a large agrarian country. My grandparents who lived on a farm had many cats around because they keep down the rodent population. I know that is the case in the trenches. In the Russian trenches there is an outbreak of a hantavirus that is carried by mice. I guess the Russians do not keep cats in their trenches and that would never surprise me given how the Russian treat other people.
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  338.  @humorpalanta  Notice that the cat is Grey from living in the Grey Zone.
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  339. Well the Chinese take matters of social respectability very serious. I have watched with with great interest how China says they never invited the countries engaged in the he boycott, and then in the next breath say how offended they are by the diplomatic boycott. A more self assured country would say that was the perrogitave of the boycotting countries and leave it at that. Maybe express regret that the boycotting will chosen to miss out on the enjoyment of watching the athletes compete. Showing false sympathy, and crying crocodile tears who have worked so much better for the Chinese. Best would have been showing complete indifference as I said before
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  340.  @petergilkes7082  Just respect mate
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  341. Watch the video about Deng Xiaoping and Tianamen Square uprising, and take special note of a CCP official named Zhao Ziyang. His autobiography entitled "Prisoner of the State" makes for very good reading. It was smuggled out of China in pieces and reassembled to produce the book published outside China. I should note that every high ranked officials in government or private companies has done something reprehensible. A close inspection of Mahatma Ghandi's life even shows some exploitation of others. For example, like Mao, Ghandi in his old age often slept with young women, and that is a form of sexual coercion by a man in power. In Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" the character of the Pirate King sings, "Many a king on a first class throne must manage somehow to get through more dirty deeds than ever I do"
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  342.  @drumpfdon760  Well if the factions used deadly force on one another then I would call that a civil war. We have not seen that publicly, but it might be going on privately. China lacks transparency, and foreign journalists are prevented from covering many political and social events in China. I trust you will take this seriously, and avoid your "Hahaha..." response which does nothing to progress the conversation in these comments, and in fact impedes such progress.
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  343. Someone asked Neil Armstrong what it was like the fly to the moon, and he replied, "How would you like to spend a week in a men's room?" This is more true than you might think. There is an exhibit at the Air and Space Museum that shows everything an Astronaut wears. Among the items is labelled "absorbent shorts." When my father and I looked that in the exhibit, we realized that the Astronauts must have had diarrhea deliberately caused them so that they feces could be sucked out of the absorbent shorts. This made Armstrong's comment even more vivid and descriptive.
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  344. I did some checking on the video of the Lancet hitting supposedly hitting an Iris system, and it seems that it was a dummy NASMS system, as opposed to a real Iris-T or NASMS system
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  345.  @simplelife7332  Huh??
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  346. Dima, what's the story about the Storm Shadow missile attack on the Northern bridge that connects Crimea to Donetsk?
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  347.  @296jacqi  fair enough. I recognize that people who missed the live feed would want to catch up. My comment was viewer feedback and intended as a constructive critique. Perhaps splitting the roughly 90 minutes into 3 parts of 30 minutes. I see that he does have multipart videos. I really do like Georgi's analysis and I wish I had 90 minutes of contiguous time watch a replay. I realize I could pause it, but puts the onus on the viewer. I am really just trying to give feedback on "packaging"
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  348. "You can't fire me. I quit!"
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  349. I also found the V-1 footage jarring, and made me wonder about other video footage.
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  350. "Reasonable" means Leopard Tanks. What is Germany's problem? Do they want to wait until Russia attacks Germany?
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  351. Another analysis that one only finds on Lei's channel. I have reference and linked Lei's channel on s number of responses I have made to articles on Medium. I hope Lei will put some articles on Medium with links to her videos. Her work deserves wider exposure
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  352. I was wondering how the materials behaved under an impulse force equal to that press.
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  353. I was drafted into the US Army at age 18. Age 25 seems pretty old to me.
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  354. Gosh I wonder if Russia would ask NATO to act as peacekeepers in Russia? j/k
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  355. You asked the question why Russia has remained autocratic while Ukraine has moved towards the West like "Poland and Lithuania" you got your answer. Western Ukraine was part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth that existed from 1563 to 1795, and was a remarkable political entity composed of two countries with very different languages. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth had power distributed across the levels of the society in ways that Western Europe lacked over the same period of history. By contrast, Russia never had a landed gentry. The Tsar owned all property and even the aristocrats were vassals. The Tsar owned everything and the aristocrats had property only because the Tsar allowed it. When the Tsar punished aristocrats he stripped the aristocrat of property and sent them to the least hospitable parts of Russia, and even made sure to have someone visit to make sure that the aristocrat really was living in misery. Russia remains in a monarchical political structure that is genuinely medieval. Whereas Ukraine has an historical experience of a political state that has authority distributed across the levels of society rather centralized as Russia has always had.
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  356. Works for me. Is Shrek a good example.
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  357. A the risk of sounding pedantic, expression is "put a stick in the wheels." Wheels have spokes which is what make them lightweight enough for bicycles. If you put a stick in the wheels perpendicular to the spokes that does mess up things. Your English is excellent, and my comment is simply to help improve it.
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  358. I very much look forward to the videos about Modern Chinese History prior to the Communist takeover. I enjoyed this one immensely.
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  359.  @ernstwiltmann6  yeah, l agree. Remember the old saying, "You shouldn't believe everything you read in the newspapers." That was said decades before the internet. What applies to print media back then goes double or triple or maybe ten times as much for what you read on the Internet. Get as much info as you can from differing sources before you come to any conclusions.
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  360.  @ernstwiltmann6  I was agreeing with you. Sorry if I expressed myself poorly. The way YouTube handles threads really sucks. I have found myself replying to comments directed at other people. You and I are in complete agreement :) By the way, you and I are the same age. I do appreciate being called a "young man."
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  361.  @MrShobar  compose a new Supreme Court with the Chief Justice of each of the Appealate Division as a member. That gives a thirteen (13) member Supreme Court. Remember that the Senate has already confirmed the Appellate Justice.
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  362. Hmmm, the 1798 act could help deport Peter Thiel and Elson Musk,
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  363. You said that you had stayed away from politics when you lived in China before you emigrated to the US. I am glad you decided to take an interest in politics. As the Ancient Greek statesman Pericles said, "You might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you." You are following Pericles advice. I wish more people would, even if they disagreed with me. At least they would take politics seriously as Pericles advised.
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  364. That kid and his family are going to end up in jail because of this interview published on YouTube.
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  365. I think we should also say, "Moscow Musk"
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  366. Put a Ghurka regiment inside to protect ZPP. Both the UK and India would support that.
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  367. Bessent makes it clear that he wants a feudal society with lords and vassals and serfs
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  368. Ukraine once had separate command centers from the ithe command centers in Russia. In the past Ukraine had the ability to launch ICBMs independent of other command centers. The old command centers are not functional. However, Ukraine built all the nuclear weapons that the USSR had. This video might prove informative https://youtu.be/gnZYuvc1rYE?si=ZN196d-cvuzbqFO3 Nuclear warheads can be made much smaller today and Ukraine has nuclear power plants that produce material that could be used to make a nuclear warhead. Ukraine clearly has delivery methods. The Neptune missiles like the one that destroyed the Moska can easily carry a nuclear warhead.
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  369.  @JTC549  phosphorus is a chemical weapons and truly horrendous. Ukrainian soldiers carry pistols to commit suicide if caught in a phosphorus rain. However, phosphorus is localized, and what Russia wants in more widespread lethality which gaseous chemicals provide. Phosphorus is not delivered in gaseous form.
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  370.  @andersjjensen  keep in mind that Ukraine was the global repair center for MiG 29 before the war. Now I realize that mechanical skills do not easily transfer from of type of jet engine to another. That is why commercial air frames often come with a choice of GE or Rolls-Royce engines. Different airlines have their mechanics and logistics based on one type of engine versus another. My point is that Ukraine has mechanics skilled in jet engines, in fact, a number of those mechanics have already trained on the jet turbine used in the Abrams tanks although I don't know who manufactures that specific turbine engine. The logistics tail fit the F-16 is easier to handle than the skills because you have a number of NATO companies such as Poland who fly F-16s and are nearby Ukraine. My guess is that Ukrainain mechanics were trained long ago on F-16 maintenance given that the MiG repair facility is located in Lviv which is the closest Ukrainain city to Poland.
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  371.  @Fishflorida59  Actually the war happened because of only one specific person who believed that.
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  372.  @frankr2246  Putin is trying to mobilize Winter as the same ally who defeated Napoleon. I hope the West helps prevent that alliance.
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  373. "East rises, West falls" is what the Japanese said during the Second World War and is why the Japanese national flag was the Rising Sun. The Japanese only use the Rising Sun flag on their Naval Ensign, but Naval Ensigns and National Flags differ in most nations.
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  374. From someone who agrees with you said, "People have become to ignore threats that China will get angry if they do something because China is angry at everything."
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  375. You would probably get similar answers, but with "America" replacing " Russia" if you asked that question in rural US.
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  376. We should pay the taxes into an escrow account in a UK bank.
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  377. I can't say I miss his useless and derogatory replies because I welcome their absence. I do find his absence a bit surprising. I guess the CCP decided they were wasting money on him. One less wumao to deal with. Let's hope more fail by the wayside.
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  378. I suggest a woman with high moral standards, and integrity. I can think of one woman right away.
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  379. I believe that the US would hesitate to attack Naval vessels who were enforcing a blockade. However, I think that the PLA trying to impose a no-fly would be much harder because the US would without hesitation attempt to land airplanes on Taiwan even if only in the name of humanitarian aid. If the PLA choose to attack a US plane delivering humanitarian aid then that would be the PLA striking the first blow which could serve as a casus belli that the US would use to justify a retaliation on the PLA. I expect the retaliation would be an aerial retaliation, and that the US would avoid a direct naval engagement until the PLA directly attacked a US warship. After an aerial attack the US might then send ships to Taiwan for humanitarian aid, and if those ships were attacked then the US would engage with warships. I doubt if the US would attack the Chinese mainland because that could trigger a nuclear response from China. However, the US would likely invade the islands in the South Chinese Sea especially those near the Philippines because those islands are considered in violation of the International Law of the Sea as well as the Philippines having a justifiable claim to those islands. It would be interesting to see if Vietnam also invaded the islands that they claim are theirs. There is a long standing distrust between Vietnam and China that goes back hundreds of years. The Vietnamese have long been known as an aggressive power in the Southeast Asia. I do believe that the US and China would avoid striking the territory of either country including a direct attack by China on Guam because that kind of attack could provoke a interchange of strategic weapons. If Japan chooses to land troops on disputed islands between Japan and China, and China attacks an acknowledged part of Japan such as Okinawa then that opens the floodgates because the US has very cleat treaty obligations with Japan. In short, a no-fly zone over Taiwan would lead to serious escalations on both sides.
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  380. Ukraine and Sweden should create a joint defense equipment production company similar to BAE.
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  381.  @polarissilvertree  it really is the same dynamic of the big kid on the block making the little kids give him their lunch money. Neither Russia nor America should be allowed to do that. Just let your neighbors live in peace. If you don't want to do business with them or do business with anyone who does do business with them then that is your choice. I admit that sounds a bit like someone taking home the sports equipment they own because they don't like the behavior of other players. However that is neither stealing nor breaking and entering. It rather antisocial behavior but I would want to know how the others players behaved to cause someone to take back the sports equipment. If it was because some players were playing dirty and punching other players then stopping the game and forbidding use of the sports equipment sounds like justified behavior.
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  382.  @B5152g  let's get a lot more specific. If you mean Lviv oblast for example then there was internal political within Ukraine when the Lviv oblast wanted to separate, but that was worked out within Ukraine. If you want to start walking backwards in history when Lviv was Lwow and part of the Polish - Lithuania Empire then we are back into a time when nation-states invaded one another. I thought Europe had matured beyond that. Although even if Europe has them Russia maintains its lawless indecent, barbaric and inhumane conduct. Russia has put itself on the same level as Germany in the most recent World War, and Russia will take at least a generation maybe more to wash the blood off. Of course Russia will probably continuing to contribute to Global Warming which will kill all of us. Putin of course thinks Global Warming is great because more Russia thaws out and the Artic ice retreats. As usual Putin and his oligarchies just want to steal from everyone else. Disgusting group of criminals.
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  383.  @polarissilvertree  I called out the US simply to forestall the inevitable, "but the US did it" defense that the pro-Russians give as if because the US did it then it is okay for them to do it. Russia is a repeat offender indeed. One could argue that the UK has been to some degree by joining the US in Afghanistan along with other NATO countries. Afghanistan is such complicated tribal and religious affair with Britain having fought and lost 2 Afghan Wars in the 19th Century then joining the US in the 21st Century. As for 20th century the serious offenders have been past colonial powers, Britain, France, Belgium, along with the US in Philippines and the entire Southern part of the Western Hemisphere as well as Central America and the Carribean, and the other offenders are the two who have racked up the most war crimes, atrocities, crimes against humanity in the 20th Century: Germany and Russia.
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  384.  @pfroudzdo  I offer no defense for the actions of transnational corporations who do as much damage here in the US as they do in other places of the world. I have friends who fled Crimea and who only speak Russian but consider themselves Ukrainian and are learning Ukrainian because they never wanted to live under Russian authority. By the way, the other part of the family stayed in Crimea because they preferred it. To top all this off, her Grandfather emigrated to Crimea from Poland and now she and her husband and child live in Lviv, almost full circle back to Poland. She considers herself Ukrainian despite her native language bring Russian. Some people don't want to live under Russian authority just as some people don't want to live under US authority. I suggest people be allowed to live where they want without being pushed around by neo-colonial, neo-imperialist dictators.
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  385. Do the POWs get hot meals while the Ukrainian citizens go without heat? I wonder if anything in the Geneva Conventions require that a POW live better than a civilian? Perhaps the Geneva Conventions would permit having POWs pedal stationary bicycles that generated electricity to charge high-capacity batteries that Ukraine could use to power more Invincibility Shelters. As a complete aside, having nothing to do with the war per se, what would half the population of this planet eat if the potato had never gotten to the Indian subcontinent and to Europe from South America? It amazes me how much of food I eat originated from the native people in South America like tomatoes as well as potatoes, and corn from the people native to Central and North America. Admittedly, domesticated horses, cows and pigs came from Europe, but they brought a lot of disease as well. Oh, honeybees came other way from Europe to the Western Hemisphere as did apples from Kazakhstan. Sorry for the dietary digression but learning about what the POWs eat at meals made me think of where the kind of food they eat originated. I support Ukraine, but I also realize your channel is Ukrainian propaganda. Saying something is propaganda does not mean it is false, it only means that the news originates from one side of a conflict. I watch your channel because it has most on the ground reporting of action on the frontlines. The English subtitles are much appreciated.
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  386. Quemoy and Matsu helps Chinese nationalism because the US prevented CCP from invading Quemoy and Matsu in 1955. This allows Xi to present an invasion of Quemoy and Matsu as a victory over the US and Taiwan. For more the Quemoy and Matsu Crisis in 1955 read this Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis the Second Taiwan Crisis was in some ways just a replay of the First Taiwan Crisis. However, the Third Taiwan Crisis in 1995 is most interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis
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  387. Feline leukemia is really hard to beat. This cat is remarkable for that alone.
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  388.  @ironicugandan5826  well we know it was the Sackler Family, and given that they have managed to slap their name on many cultural institutions like the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art then I suggest we call out the family by name. Recently the Tate Gallery refused a donation from the Sackler Family because the funds came from profits of the Perdue Pharmaceutical Company. People should know when they the Sackler Family that opioid profits were used.
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  389. We have make fun of Russian Propaganda when it gets so ridiculous. The Chinese have a saying that the best Emperor is the one who is respected, the second best Emperor is the one who is feared and the worst Emperor is the one who is laughed it and ridiculed.
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  390. I can easily imagine that someone learning about the 9-1-1 call and the desire to avoid the lights and sirens and that the patient was the SECDEF leading to some newshound trying to make it into a breaking story.
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  391. "Alleged" human rights violations? That makes it sound as if there is doubt about it. China complaining so loudly just makes the diplomatic boycott. If the China low keyed their reaction then the boycott would have less impact. However, China's reaction shows that the boycott really does impact China's reputation.
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  392.  @RyzenShanks  especially if the weapons would be identified as coming from the US. If the Ukrainian Army uses it's Russian made helicopters to attack targets in Russia then the neither the US nor other NATO members has any say over that and has nothing to do with it
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  393. You should show what Lindsay Graham said when he was a prosecutor on the Clinton Impeachment
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  394. The Ukrainians will never stop until they have recovered from the Russians. The partisan activity from the Ukrainians will be as ferocious as the Yugoslavians.
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  395. Absence of coolant will cause the reactor to melt rather than explode. It is perfect result for Russian purposes because it makes the NPP unusable and enormous problem to clean up.
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  396. and what lesson would that be? don't defend yourself?
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  397.  @ameritus9041  Yes I agree. My comment was that we should leave fusion in the sun, and collect the fusion energy from that. As I said in my comment, we would spend our money far better by improving fission reactor than on trying to build fusion reactors. Here is a good YT vid about it, "The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power" https://youtu.be/poPLSgbSO6k via @YouTube
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  398.  @GregorySmith-lo2lj  Bakhmut is strategic only because Russia has placed so much emphasis on taking Bakhmut. Admittedly taking Bakhmut does complicate Ukrainian supply, but not enough to merit the casualties that Russia is taking. Bakhmut is very important to Wagner Group because Progozhin put taking Bakhmut was necessary to maintain the reputation of Wagner. Failing to take Bakhmut really hurts reputation of Wagner. At this point Bakhmut has taken on symbolic more than strategic value in much the same way that Stalingrad did for the Soviets in the 2nd World War. I agree that Ukraine is paying a heavy price defending Bakhmut, and I might have retreated by now, but I am not the Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. So far the Ukrainian Army seems to have done a good job overall, and even pulled off a text book "retreat-and-defend" withdrawal from Severiodonetsk in June. In turn Russia used the same retreat-and-defend approach in their withdrawal from Kherson. Bakhmut presents a different situation as Ukraine denies Russian the complete capture of Bakhmut that everyone claimed Russian would take quickly after capturing Lysychansk. Well it has been six months since then and Russia lost Izium and Lyman as well as Kherson, and have repeatedly said they have captured Bakhmut. It remains to be seen who comes out better from Bakhmut, but both sides have suffered stupendous losses.
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  399. I feel sure that the Ukrainians can rebuild Marioupol, but showing Hiroshima from 75 years ago versus now provides little encouragement. Based on the Hiroshima example, it will take a generation to rebuild Marioupol. I hope the Ukraininas get the investment funds needed to rebuild.
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  400. Let's see if the Ukrainians have the good sense to stand off on the East bank of the Dneiper outside the range of Russian artillery on the West bank then shell the Russians with artillery that outranges the Russians artillery. Also, lay siege to Kherson and nothing in or out except for civilians left in Kherson.
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  401. You need to remove the ad for Established Titles was has been proved to be fraudulent
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  402.  @pvito8570  The Eastern Ukrainian population are Russian speaking NOT Russians. I have a number of friends who are Ukrainian, and only speak Russian, but they fight against the Russian invasion. Just because you speak Russian does not make you Russian any more than speaking English as your native language makes you English.
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  403. Sounds helicopters doing ASW
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  404. Incredibly disrespectful of the viewers to play a video game while delivering a lecture. She could put the text of what she is saying on the screen as that would help more. I bailed out after the time it took to write this comment.
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  405.  @TheJunmengo  I am a potential subscriber and YouTubers want more subscribers. Youa are who?
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  406. I fear that as the story about Miss China and Mr. Wall Street the in-laws did the choosing, and Miss China had very little choice in the the matter.
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  407. When this war is over then Ukraine should have a meeting with the arms makers and the military that have bought from those arms makers, and provide user feedback so the arms makers can hear and their military customers will at the same thing. I sure would like to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.
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  408. In some future video I hope you can show a map that shows the defensive features created by the Russians including trench networks and heavily mined areas. In fact, heavily mined even understates how many mines the Russians have planted. It will take decades to remove all the mines. The Ukrainian Army has to break through the trench works and cross the mines and that will slow any advance.
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  409. The video of the tank attack on the trenches using the smoke screen is so well choreographed it reminds my of the scene in "Band of Brothers" when Easy Company destroys the German artillery on the D-Day landing. The lieutenant commanding that action by Easy Company was awarded a medal for the action, I hope the tank commander in this action was also awarded a medal. If he does, please show us the video of the award ceremony.
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  410.  @Drewad17  I referred to the British Empire as opposed to Tojo and the Imperial Japanese Army. To the best of my knowledge Japan never tried to conquer Afghanistan. Leaving aside Alexander the Great, in modern times only the British Empire, The Russians, and then the Americans tried to subdue the Afghans. BY the way who is "Togo" ? I presume you mean Tojo who was the Minister of the Army under Emperor Hirohito drug the Second World War. The Minister of the Navy was Yamamoto.
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  411. Have you gone back over your videos to see which of your projected movements have taken place? In short, how accurate have your predictions been? I tried to do this myself, but I got bogged down in the in the number of projections you made. I am not arguing about well your predictions have matched what subsequently happened, because I failed to match them up myself. I am genuinely interested in your success rate. I understand this is rather like judging weather forecasters by how often their forecasts were correct and we generally have better knowledge of what the weather actually was following the forecasts. A seven-day forecast can accurately predict the weather about 80 percent of the time and a five-day forecast can accurately predict the weather approximately 90 percent of the time. I expect that predicting military engagements is much more difficult. Sorry I failed to master the analysis of your predictions myself, but I expect you are in a better position to evaluate the success rate of your forecasts.
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  412. Just imagine. Ukraine might liberate Crimea sooner than we thought they would.
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  413. As Mark Twain said, "Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after tomorrow"
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  414.  @saukraya3254  Few people write on an everyday basis, and only exquisite calligraphy was worth recording.
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  415. As for the growth in Texas and other southen states such as Florida, the change in climate and the increase in extreme weather will lead to those states losing people. They won't be going back to New York, but they will start heading north.
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  416.  @FedericoSantoro-yi5wv  I honestly can not follow what you said. Could you restate more simply? Perhaps the problem is run-on sentences. As a reader I find your description opaque.
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  417. Ironically your video came with an NRA advertisement.
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  418. If Putin can declare that he has restored Novorossiya to Russia, then he can claim to have restored an important historical part of the Russian Empire which Catherine the Great added as a new province of Russia (Novorossiya Governorate) in 1764. Novorossiya - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novorossiya which would include Odessa making Ukraine a landlocked country without any access or influence over the Black Sea. Of even greater value to Russia would be the division of Ukraine into an East Ukraine and a West Ukraine separated by the Dnieper River as a natural boundary. Kyiv sits on the Western bank of the Dnieper Rivier, and thus in easy striking distance of an Eastern Ukraine dominated by Russia. One interesting gambit that Ukraine could use would be to declare both Ukrainian and Russian as official languages in much the same way that Canada has both French and English as official languages. In fact, having Ukrainian and Russian as official languages works more easily than having French and English because Ukrainian and Russian are mutually intelligible languages although in practice it is easier for a Ukrainian speaker to understand Russian than for Russian speaker to understand Ukrainian. Over time it is likely that Ukrainian would come to dominate Russian because the mutual intelligibility is asymmetric in favor of Ukrainian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLM62r5nLI Also of interest is that Polish and Ukrainian are quite close to one another. If there was a Western Ukraine then the language similarities between Polish and Ukrainian would draw those two countries closer to one another politically,
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  419.  @flavioc5389  I hope to heaven they will fail. I merely pointed it out as something that Putin could show as a rallying cry. The could Russians withdrew troops from the Kharkiv Oblast in the North, and regroup for an assault on the South to take Odessa Lord, I hope I am wrong and you are correct that Putler never takes Novorossiya. I have friends in the Mikoliav and Odessa area, and the thought of Putler occupying those areas makes me sick to my stomach.
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  420. I suggest that Crimea become a UN Protectorate, and in that was neither Ukraine nor Russia ges Crimea. Perfect compromise. Neither side gets what they want, and each get the same thing ... Nothing!
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  421. That pod in the back is a parachute. Watch some landings.
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  422. I like the new format. Have you considered editing your streams to remove "dead air" and retain only best Q & A?
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  423. What is "operational" encirclement? Is it different from an encirclement?
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  424. If the countries in NATO countries do take Ukraine getting nuclear weapons, it could give a country like Poland to come into Ukraine to assure the Ukraine to remain nuclear free. In fact Zelensky could invite Poland to send in troops in order for Poland to assure other countries.
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  425. @CLS-m3j  yes, we need to be careful to distinguish between ignorance and stupidity. Someone who is ignorant can change that by learning what you did not know. However, nothing can fix stupidity. Trump is ignorant, but he is not stupid. He has the low cunning of a con man and grifter.
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  426. As you must know there are have been many pro-Ukrainian channels. I believe the bots have targeted any channel with the word "Russian" or "Ukrainian" in the title. If you want to still to address the YouTube issues, may be there format changes and title that will camouflage from the Russian bot.
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  427. Can you do a piece about Lithuania Chinese relations?
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  428. This is a genuinely serious situation with any overreaction by the healthcare company. It is emblematic oof the excessive power of the healthcare companies.
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  429. It is a rhetorical device to get the interviewer to answer a question because it turns around the. Bill Gates is a master of this, and i recommend watching interviews of him to see how fast he takes control by getting the interviewer answering questions asked by Gates.
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  430.  @rilmehakonen9688  well not really. We should begin to see some effects on the battlefield because that is the route for the ammo and artillery barrels coming from B. Korea
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  431. The Republicans like high prices because when the economic conditions that caused the high prices changed, the company never reduced the high prices. The company leaves the prices high because it improves there profit margins.
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  432. If you edited the existing videos into one week videos then the 539 days is 77 weeks, and at about 5 minutes per video that is about 35 minutes of video per week. It would be very interesting to group your past videos into 1 video per week to see the progress of the war. I know that playlists are an easy way to aggregate the videos, and it might make a useful "perk" to be able to access such playlists. However a playlist on YouTube still forces people to endure YouTube advertisements. You might also offer them as downloads from your online store because the downloaded video would eliminate YouTube advertisement interruptions. It would be wonderful if you could edit the videos to have separate videos for each of the separate fronts, as for example everything about Kharkiv versus a video about Kherson. To mitigate the issue of piracy, I suggest you put watermarks in the four corners of your video. Most all your videos really focus on an area in the center of the screen. In addition, if you introduce a title screen between each day with your channel name on the day title screen and show the date at the top of the screen that will help the viewer and reduce the likelihood of piracy because someone wishes to claim your work as theirs will need to replace the title at the top. Piracy can prove useful if it serves to increase your channel subscriptions. One final editorial thought is to place a time line at the bottom of the screen that simply has a bar with relative position of the day from the starting date of the video to the ending date of that video.
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  433. US has resumed the START strategic nuclear weapons negotiations, but that has nothing to do with Ukraine. I doubt that the US will force Ukraine or negotiating on Ukraine's behalf even if the US does recommend that Ukraine begin some kind of dialogue.
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  434.  @PamweChete2503  You really to get updated on election results in the US. I suppose you are another perpetrator of the Big Lie. The US Election was well audited, and Trump lost. I understand the concept of a referendum as well as a plebiscite, and just saying that you had one or pretending you did counts for nothing. Nobody will take a referendum in Kherson seriously unless there are outside observers, and of course the Russians would never let that happen. So go ahead with your fig-leaf referendum because that farce will not be worth paper it is printed on.
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  435.  @PamweChete2503  Every one of those court cases filed to invalidate the election results were thrown out of court. They were all dismissed. You need to get better information and drop The Big Lie. It is just a lie, and simply false.
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  436.  @PamweChete2503  As it happens I did check on the drop-box issue. Wisconsin banned drop box BEFORE the election, and Pennsylvania did so AFTER the election. Even the number of votes in what I presume you consider "questionable" Pen drop-box were deducted from Bidem and added to Trump then Biden did win. Democrats got over the truly stolen 2000 election of Bish vs. Gore. You need to get over what you falsely think was a stolen election. Just wait two years and vote your opinion again. Four years is not a long time to wait from another chance to vote. Unless someone tries to overthrow the Government or elects corrupt election officials that will keep a politician in offer who has lost the popular vote. Let's just see what happens.
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  437.  @PamweChete2503  Nobody's hands are clean. However, "let ye without blame be first to cast the stone." Someone can certainly call out a crime even if they have themselves committed such a crime. It maybe hypocrisy but that has no effect on the truth. The US or any other country can take the moral high ground when they accuse another of some transgression. If your point in that the US does more that just point a finger then that is a difference. However, to reject an argument because of who said it is just using an ad hominem form of argument that fails to get at the point. The vote was fair, the vote was clean and declared so by Republicans responsible. The audits were ridiculous, but even they found nothing to alter the result. The series of court cases attempting to stop the election were judged as without merit. There is a very prominent narcissist who like all narcissists can never admit they made a mistake, said something wrong or worst of all that they lost. He lost. Now wait your four years and you get another chance. I know I have waited four that vote for the candidate I wanted. I never threw a hissy fit, or tried to attack all of Congress or even a single politician. You lost this round, but there will be another round. Suck it up, deal with it, like an adult
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  438.  @PamweChete2503  that should be the end of it, and the end of the Rigged Russian Referenda.
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  439.  @PamweChete2503  you might enjoy the voting results at the end of this video https://youtu.be/cQAalgACCOc
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  440. What would have killed those troops you described as Ukrainians in the trenches and left them in such poses? I suppose a chemical attack would do that, but I have heard nothing about the Russians using chemical agents. I am sure we have heard something about that if Russia had. So what would have killed them and left them in those poses? Shrapnel or cluster munitions from artillery?
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  441. Unless I am mistaken, your measurement device works as a result of the Pauli Exclusion Principle preventing the atoms at the end of your probe and the material it contacts separate from one from one another. Can you do a video to explain how the Pauli Exclusion Principle accounts for the stability of matter? For example how the Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents separate materials from simply fusing and how it causes cold welding or vacuum welding which presents a problem in space engineering.
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  442. Fusion is a fraud. We need to construct newer designs of fission rather wasting money on fusion given the insurmountable engineering problems with fusion. A fusion reactor produces a sleet of high speed neutrons that will eventually make the entire fusion reactor and building radioactive. How about that for clean energy? Nothing can solve that basic problem of fusion reactors. The new and improved fission reactors work better than fusion reactors ever will. Leave fusion in the stars, and collect the energy from that. Along with fission, and more conservation, we could stop our energy generation from producing green house gases. We will also have to deal with long distance transport as well as agricult.
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  443.  @nucflashevent  please enlighten me, and make sure to explain the effects of the fast neutrons on the reacator. If you need the academic report I can provide it, but takes more than a 4th grade schooling to understand it.
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  444. What difference content can I see when I JOIN your YT channel versus your Patreon.
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  445. I have wondered the same. no provision for recall voted. I guess the only way is to resist the House from passing any legislatue in this term, and then make sure theat the Democrats win the House in the next relection.
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  446. The pipeline should stop operation, and the disassembly of pipeline before it harms environment
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  447. Armed forces that have moved forward as fast as the Ukrainians did in the Kharkiv must pause at some to avoid running out ahead of their supply lines. So very predictable that Ukraine would slow their advance to bring up their supplies and logistical support.
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  448. Apparently knowing how to drive is not required from driving on the road.
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  449. 7,000 tons per year equals approx. 140,000 artillery shells that weigh 100 lbs each. A 155mm shell weighs about 100 lbs. thus 2,000 lbs. per ton would equal 20 artillery shells. 7,000 tons per per year equals 140,000 artillery shells. Current estimates have Russian forces now using about 19,000 to 20,000 artillery rounds per DAY, in contrast to the daily "quota" of 60,000 shells back in February 2022. That means that the ports you mentioned would take a YEAR to supply enough artillery shells for one WEEK at the current rate of Russian consumption. You would think that someone who could read a map AND who could do arithmetic would realize that those two ports are completely inadequate to supply just the artillery shells without even adding in the other material like fuel and food and spare parts. So let's look at arithmetic as well as geography when evaluating logistics.
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  450.  @davidjames1063  enlighten me
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  451.  @robertsteele474  please quantify. That was my point. He said 70, 000 tons per YEAR, and acted as if that was a lot when in fact it is very little when you consider how much tonnage in ammunition is needed per WEEK. In fact, railroad is more efficient because you have to load and unload a ship even if the cargo is in nice tidy containers. You can avoid that extra step if you use a railroad, plus the railroad can go to many different places and unload only there. I think the General got it right, and this commentator failed to do his homework. Always interesting when people avoid doing the basic arithmetic. I makes me doubt other statements made and conclusions drawn by the commentator.
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  452. I wonder if you could crowdfund a sufficient amount of money to compensate an attorney to file a monel claim?
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  453. What? US citizens deprived of Medicaid? That is cruel treatment by America to their citizens. Remember that Christ said, "if you do this the least of my brethren then you do it unto me."
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  454. There have been reports that Russia is offering African refugees the opportunity to move their families to the Federation if the men agree to serve in the war. Nothing about where they would be located
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  455. If Russia wanted to make best use of a tactical nuke on Kherson, then the place to hit is the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant which would flood Kershon as well as destroying another source of electrical power generation. The resulting flood would likely take down the Antonivka Bridge which Ukraine has already damaged severely with HIMARS attacks. Destroying the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant thereby flooding the city of Kherson would also cut off the Ukrainian Army on the western side of the Dneiper from Zaporizhia on the eastern side. The area around Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant has a relatively small civilian population of 45,000. Dams are notoriously hard to destroy, and a tactical nuclear weapon would provide exactly what destroying a dam requires.
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  456. Are there any Republicans who will vote against this bill?
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  457. A bit of advice about travelling with suitcases that roll on wheels. When you get to your hotel do NOT place your suitcase on the bed. Just think of what the wheels have rolled through. Put your suitcase on the floor or on the stand provided for your suitcase,
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  458. My father, who was a cryogenic physicist, told me about a conference attended where he heard a presentation made by a French engineer about the importance of doing dynamic testing as well as static tests of apparatus. The engineer told the story of a one of engineers from German occupied territories who was forced to work for the Germans on the V-2 rocket development during the 2nd World War. He realized that he could dent a fuel line on the V-2 rocket in a way that never showed up in static pressurization tests, but that would cause the fuel line to break under vibration during the operation of the engines. The German engineers never did vibration tests, and as a consequence that foreign engineer at considerable risk of exposure would dent in the fuel lines in that way whenever he could because the engines would fail during flight. At the end of the talk, the engineer showed a picture of the man who did this, and it was a photo of him as a younger man. Everyone applauded of course. My father told me this story in the 1960s after he returned from the conference.
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  459. This also shows the value of Training Sergeants who demonstrate that the NCOs will be in battle with the common soldiers.
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  460.  @andrewsarantakes639  thanks for the clarification
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  461. "So for what crime am I being arrested? You are being arrested for being nervous."
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  462. Self-righteous Vance
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  463. If Putin stops fighting then the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting then Ukraine ends.
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  464.  @overlord5068  The "Thou shall not kill" comes from the Ten Commandments in the Old Testament which predates Jesus by a number of millenia. I would like to think that the mercy that Jesus preached would support relieving the suffering of people in a condition that will only get worse because we lack anyway of reversing or even arresting the process. Jesus never imagined the kind of suffering that radiation poisoning had and he would never had advocated prolonging the suffering of someone who had radiation poisoning. Jesus may have been the Son of God, but nuclear physics was not part of his teaching. Compassion was part of his teaching. I have braved myself for any injective and insults my statements may occasion.
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  465. Perhaps the greatest benefactors of the NIH are the pharmaceutical companies. In fact, there is a ongoing patent dispute between the NIH and Moderna about the ownership of the intellectual property required to produce the Moderna vaccine.
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  466. When your opponent is making a mistake just leave him alone.
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  467. So YT cut you to $600 USD per year. I suggest that you recreate a $20 USD or $25 USD level if only 60 people upgrade to $20 USD, then you will increase Patreon revenue by twice what YT now pays you.
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  468. This is surreal because it was Republicans who pushed for the two-term limit because FDR had demonstrated that he could get re-elected to four (4) terms. The Republicans were terrified that the Democrats might field another candidate that could have an administration forever.
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  469. Are any of the land drones equipped with a catapult that can throw grenades just as a medieval catapults and trebuchet were used to throw objects at or over castle walls
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  470. Trump will dimply tefuse to enforce the decision.
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  471. Good summary. I fear Putin will take the wager, and will invade Ukraine especially if the PRC tries for Taiwan simultaneously. In which case, I might add, North Korea will surely attack South Korea using the North Korean nuclear arsenal to deter the US from adding troops to South Korea. Interesting the alignments here. China claims Taiwan as an historical part of China, Russia claims Ukraine as an historical part of Russia, and North Korea wants the Korean peninsula unified under North Korean control.
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  472. If Russia attacked the Baltics then Finland would jump into the Baltics to help them before NATO decides.
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  473. If people should look at the American Revolution as a good analogue for the Ukrainian War. The most significant correspondence is the will of the American Colonists to fight. Also, the US had the backing of France who was the world power opposed to Great Britain, and the French Navy prevented Britain bringing the Royal Navy to bear on the American Colonies. Great Britain employed mercenaries, the Hessians, just as Russia had used mercenaries like Wagner Group. The American Colonies largely avoided head-to-head battles of massed troops but relied greatly on what we would now call guerilla warfare. The Amercian did win "conventional" battles and they were central to the surrender of the British Army. The Ukrainians will surely continue partisan fighting even if Russia succeeds in holding territory or even gaining territory.
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  474.  @2DTL  A person has every reason judge the culture and legal (not moral) standards between cultures. (Morality is universal based on what is rational behavior, and as all humans ae reasoning creature the concept of rationality applies equally. I hope I don't get some moral relativism from you. Before you write such reply, please make sure you can explain even one moral principle: "Avoid killing another person except in self-defense" Now I feel certain that you will say the exceptions to the "do not kill" imperative may vary from culture to culture, but the underlying principle, "Avoid killing people" remains. To test any moral relativism, here are some other top principles: + "Avoid causing pain to another" + "Avoid dismembering another person without that person's consent" + "Avoid depriving freedom of movement by another person" + "Avoid causing loss of pleasure for another person" + "Avoid lying" + "Avoid Stealing" + "Obey the Law" Now even in Western culture we allow exceptions to this, and the exceptions are interesting. A doctor is allowed to cause pain, and to dismember a person if that is with the intent to improve the person's help. Law Enforcement is allowed to cause pain to a specific person and to incarcerate the person to prevent that people from harming society by violating the rules of society's Law. Once again, one society may have a different set of laws than another society. but both societies would agree on the moral requirement to "Obey the Law." A person in a society may object to a Law because due to a belief that the Law violates a higher moral principle. In which case, if the person demonstrates their objection in a non-violent and non-threatening way then their behavior remains within the scope of morality. Every society may have different ideas about how to non-violent, passive resistance, but the possibility of non-violent, passive resistance should be honored. Stalinist Russia violated every canon of morality I have listed here. In fact, at the height of the Nazi domination of Germany, an individual person had more personal freedom such as the freedom to move while Russians under Stalin had fewer personal freedoms. We use Moral Principles to judge the moral character of a society, and we do that when we choose to live in one kind of society than another, and that can be within the same political, economic and cultural group. If people are forbidden from comparing and judge one culture and religion to one another then how do you explain a person chooses to convert from one religion to a different religion? Keeping in mind that the word "culture" derives from the word "cult" and that cultures different from one primarily by how they practice their religion even if they practice the disbelief in organized religion or the presence of one or more dieties. Have people who converted from one religion to another because they judged that one religion or religious practice was better. Did they break a rule that says, "Avoid comparing one culture against another." ?
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  475. Seems to me that you should include Judaism in your comparison.
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  476. I just realized that the stories could be about Miss China and her evil twin sister Miss CCP. Sometimes Miss CCP dresses to look like Miss China to confuse and trick people into thinking that Miss CCP and Miss China are the same person.
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  477.  @Luredreier  Stop pushing your fossil fuel NOW! Just stop selling it!! Continuing to sell fossil fuels while you preach environmentalism and sustainable technology is the height of hypocrisy.
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  478. @Grim FPV Yep
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  479. @Grim FPV Sounds fair turn about
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  480.  @Luredreier  I found what you had to say fascinating. As you might expect, I have very little knowledge of Norwegian politics except what I get from watching "Occupied" which is like trying to learn American politics by watching "House of Cards" in the American version, or trying to learn UK politics from watching the original "House of Cards". What I found most interesting in what you said is that most Norwegians know exactly what they are doing, and simply deceive themselves about. Foolishly, I thought only people living in the US were capable of such breath-taking self-deception. I am now reminded once again that people really are the same all over this planet. I really do seriously consider that the only way to effect real climate change will require reducing the population.
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  481.  @Luredreier  As I thought more about it, I realized that the flaw in the video is to assume that corruption somehow stops are a country's borders. If we think of corruption as small group benefiting from harm to a larger group then any country which benefits from supplying fossils fuels to other countries is enriching themselves while damaging the environment of others as well as themselves. To day that Norway has avoided corruption from oil revenue completely misses the point. Any group of people, a nation or the share holders of oil company are engaging in a corrupt activity because they are enriching themselves in the short run while harming everyone, including themselves, in the long run.
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  482.  @Luredreier  I thought my disparaging comments applied far more broadly, which is why I took pain to include my own country in my critiques. I am a US citizen and I think that qualifies me and permits me to critique my nation's behavior in just about anyway I think correct. I know quite a bit about the USA. Thank you very much.
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  483.  @Luredreier  Please read what I said more carefully. My comment was cast more broadly than Norway.
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  484.  @Luredreier  I think you thoroughly misunderstood my comment about corruption. I was pointing out that ANY case of the few benefiting at the expense of the many is corruption. Most forms of corruption are oligarchic, but an oligarchy could cross national borders where one country gets wealthy by impoverishing other countries. It is a form of exploitation such as England conducted in the Opium Wars. Place current situations in a larger historical context then look for the correspondences and differences.
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  485. Why say "bleached" when someone could say "aetiolated" instead?
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  486. May I suggest that you personally create a website for those government actions. When i say "you" i meanyou and a coalition of the "Amendment Auditors" as well can sort through a nd curate the list. Indexing is paramount, but there are retired IT and Database experts who can help creste that.
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  487. the Austrian army does truly professional analyses, but their English language versions are only occasionally provided. Take a look at these two to get a sense of their neutral analysis. The Battle for Donbass - 2022 Jun 01 Colonel Markus Reisner of the Austrian Armed Forces describes how the fighting in eastern Ukraine developed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpC1kXhW2Lw War in Ukraine: Luhansk has fallen - what's to expect? - 20220 Jul 8. Colonel Markus Reisner gives an update on the situation in Eastern Ukraine. And he describes what might come next. Make sure to watch the end on the second video, interesting human interest and personal comment from the officer doing the briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEbLuAPobao
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  488.  @kimkuzin2286  Same for me. The events overwhelm me. However, as I have friends in Ukraine whose lives are in jeopardy, I found that eulogy very moving, especially when he said that he needed to step outside of his neutral position to make it.
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  489.  @volvogoodtruck1117  I was wondering about something related. I have searched in vain for someone who has a control map that as much information as he shows for BOTH sides of the conflict. I think it would make for an excellent comparison and might prove very useful in showing where the clashes between the sides is taking place. Areas that overlap or even right on top of one another would be a good indicator that the troops have encountered one another person-to-person.
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  490. Those caltrops are a very effective and ancient weapon. They go back to the Roman Empire who used them to stop horses.
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  491. Neither has Russia, snd we see where that leads.
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  492. Sabotage on the Nordstream Express?
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  493. Maybe the Russians could refurbish the Warsaw Pact as the Minsk Pact, and then see how many countries of their own fee will. If Russia insists on having a buffer state between Russia abd NATO then perhaps Russian could cede some land to Belarus down to the Crimea Peninsula. Ukraine could join NATO, and Russia would have the "greater-Belarus" as a buffer state they control between Russia and NATO. "Greater Belarus" would still act as a buffer even after Russia returns the Crimea and other parts of Ukraine that Russia has illegally annexed.
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  494. I never thought I would be a supporter of the FBI. The situation is so bad that even the FBI needs support.
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  495. Has anyone thought to build models trained on systems of Ethics developed by Philosophers over the last 3,000 years? The last 3,000 years covers Plato and Socrates, as well as Confucious and Lao-Tse as well as the Gautama and Jain.
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  496. Stop the tax cuts for the wealthy. Claw back the Tump $1 trillion rax cut
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  497. However, Federal workers have created drugs and other health technology which businesses took and made profits taxed at low rates
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  498. Can we hope that Gerasimov defected to the Ukrainians rather than run the risk of falling off a tall building?
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  499. Ukraine could ask Poland to send in troops to assure other countries that Ukraine does not have and will not acquire nuclear weapons.
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  500. ​ @ukaszangowski536 Having Polish troops in Ukraine would provide NATO coverage. In fact Romania could also send in troops and all the neighboring Baltic countries as well. All of it could be at Ukraine's invitation to assure NATO.
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  501. Dual citizen US/UK here, and I believe we should do even more to support Ukraine and do it faster. Ukraine asked for HIMARS months before they got them. Just imagine where they would be if we had given them HIMARS when they asked for it. I do think Ukraine getting Abrams tanks would be a mistake for Ukraine. A 70 ton Abrams tank is poorly suited for the Ukrainian terrain. Ukraine should get Leopard tanks instead as they have asked, but that Germany has stopped. Spain wanted to give their Leopard tanks to Ukraine, and now Finland, Norway, Sweden and Poland want to do it. They just need Germany's permission. Germany does not even need to send the tanks themselves although they should.
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  502. I have friends who are native Russian speakers who fled Crimea because they did not want to live under Russian rule, and part of the family stayed behind. If you want to change your President in Ukraine then vote him out. You can't do that in Russia under Putin.
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  503.  @mattsmith-ri3lp  They fled because the alternative was to be forced to take a Russian passport and renounce their Ukrainian citizenship, and my friend is a Ukrainian patriot as she calls herself. She refused to return when her family asked her to do so because she was afraid that she and her son would never be able to leave. I call that fleeing from an invader just as she does.
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  504. As a journalist you have a responsibility to call out someone spreading misinformation.
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  505. Blockchain uses vast sums of electricity. At present, Bitcoin uses as much electricity as New Zealand. That is unsustainable. Block-chain mining should take place in near Earth Orbit. The bitcoin miner satellites can use solar energy, and avoid creating the pollution on Earth. Instead we should work to improve Nuclear Fission Reactor. Please do add Fusion because Fusion will make the fusion reactor itself radioactive
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  506.  @drumpfdon760  When people make comments critical of China, you like to ask people if they have ever been the China. So let me ask you. Have you ever spent time "in" a transnational corporation?
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  507.  @drumpfdon760  now I know you are full of it.
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  508.  @drumpfdon760  I don't know what I don't know, and a vixen is a female fox, and a bachelor is an unmarried man. ROTFLMAO
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  509.  @drumpfdon760  you really are silly. Anyone who has spent any time studying logic would have recognized what you did. You are a hoot man, a real knucklehead. Kiddy-boy. Muah ahahaha!!!
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  510.  @drumpfdon760  Hahaha!!!
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  511.  @drumpfdon760  Gnothi seauton
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  512. The asteroid strike that provided for the rise of homo sapiens could be a highly usual random occurrence and Earth had been seeded to produce dinosaurs which disrupted the "normal" or even intended development of life of Earth. Great Britain colonized New Zealand as a farm colony to feed the industrial economy of Great Britain. Perhaps Earth with dinosaurs was a food planet for another civilzation who will return to harvest of dinosaurs. Earth is food planet that went wrong.
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  513.  @josefinamondragon5267  I just hope that the strategists in the Departments of State and the Department of Defense are thinking outside the box for possibilities like that. They should be prepared for extreme even if unlikely scenarios like this.
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  514. The only peace proposal that Trump will support is something that makes Trump look good. Perhaps telling him that he can establish himself as one of the greatest Presidents by truly defeating Russia. He will be more than Reagan. Also if China attacked Taiwan, Trump would probably refuse to help Taiwan because has nothing in it for Trump. However, there is a way to persuade Trump and that is to convince Trump that he will be the only President since FDR to fight and win a war in Europe and the Pacific. Forget about whether the US really did win the 2nd World War because Trump believes the US won the Second World War. FDR is that greatest President in US History because FDR got the US to win a war in Europe and the Pacific. Trump would love for people to see Trump as the kind of military leader as FDR was.
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  515. Now that Xi had himself declared lifetime head of the CCP, I guess that any successor will have wait a long time. Unless Xi gets assassinated.
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  516. I would like to see a take out menu in Toki Pona
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  517. You need to visit Louisiana and make a comparison.
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  518.  O Sullivan  Fair enough, and you are doubtlessly correct. My point was only that the smoke and smell from smoking as well as the light and thermal image can give someone's position away. Interesting side note, the Japanese bullet trains are named Hikari meaning light going in one direction, and Kodama meaning smoke going in the other direction. Both light and smoke from fire will reveal yourself to your opponent.
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  519.  @philiptownsend4026  understandable
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  520.  @victorhopper6774  332 million = # people in US 240 million = # of eligible voters in US 180 million = # actually voted in US Okay that is 60% of the US population voted  Much higher that the 16% I cited. Which makes my overall case stronger. The higher the percent of US Citizens supported an action then the greater the responsibility any individual must take for the actions of the US Government. Put a somewhat different way, the higher the percentage of the US population that voted for some policy then the less justification that I can make between myself as a US citizen and the US Government. "I didn't vote for him/her" never gives a US citizen a pass on the actions of the US Government
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  521.  @kineahora8736  you agreed to about abide by choice of the majority, and you can't back out and renege on your promise just because you personally don't like the outcome.
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  522.  @kineahora8736  That is true, but only if that random Russian acknowledges the responsibility of the country of which he is a citizen. Consider the following, the passport a citizen of one country uses to travel to another country is the property of the country that issued the passport rather than holder of the passport. If someone travels on the passport for some specific country then that person has explicitly availed themselves of the benefits that the country issuing the passport affords to people who use that country's passport to travel. If you disagree with the policies of a country of which you are a citizen and you fail to take responsibility for the actions of that but will enjoy the benefits afforded citizens of that country then you are at least a hypocrite and should be considered an accomplice. I understand that the penalties within Russia are severe; however, if someone has fled Russia because you disagree with the policies and actions of Russia rather than staying and trying to change those policies or protest those actions then at a minimum you should make your protest public when you get outside Russia. Furthermore, you should destroy your Russian passport and give up your Russian citizenship or have very good time explanation why you refused to do that.
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  523.  @kineahora8736  I want to avoid sounding preachy. I do try to take to heart the quote from John Stuart Mill, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing"
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  524. Ukraine gets over 50% of electricity from nuclear power that's why they have so many nuclear power plants. Only about 25% of Ukraine comes from coal
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  525. I find naked singularities more believable than dark matter.
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  526. Is it time to reconstitute the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth? Western Ukraine had been part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Polish language has influenced the Ukrainian Language making Ukrainian a different language from Russian. Quite remarkable that a political union like the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth embraced three different languages from 1563 to 1795. Also, it was the Russia and Catherine the Great who delivered the final fatal blow to the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth when Russia annexed Ukrainian territory especially "Novo Russiya" that Putin tried to annex. The reconstitution of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth is Russia's worst nightmare, and Putin may have laid the foundation for it.
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  527. And the Amish are pacificists. They are Deutsch not Nederlander or Hollander.
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  528. Thanks for the excellent update as you usually do. Do you have anything to say about the role of the very extensive salt mines in Soledar? I expect they the UFA already uses them for ammunition and resource storage. Can they be used for more active defensive purposes. Those salt are astonishingly extensive and might offer a way for troops to move undercover to various defensive positions, but I don't really know enough detail about the salt mines. What do you have to say about the role they could play in the defense of Soledar?
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  529. Is there any way that you can get his wife and children out of Russia?
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  530. Unfortunately i believe that funds that remain after the campaign become the property of the candidate. So it is legal.
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  531. What did you mean by "our subscribers paid for you?" Do you mean the subscribers to the YouTube channel? This sounds very worrisome.
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  532. The story about US asking Ukraine to stop targeting oil refineries is a false, fabricated story that is Russian disinformation. The reporter is a pro Russian reporter who got the Financial Times to publish the story without a background check. I like your vids but in this case you are repeating Russian propaganda and acting as what the Russians call "useful idiots"
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  533. What about "Inside Man" directed by Spike Lee with Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster.
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  534. I think that if anyone wrote a novel with this set of characters and relationships then people would have said it was a paranoid fantasy. Sadly, this is fact rather than fiction.
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  535. A great deal of mainstream Western Media coverage is essentially war-profiteering because the media is making money off the war in Ukraine. The mainstream media should pay royalties and fees to the soldiers whose combat makes money for the media company.
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  536. Sad that the CCP expelled so many foreign news organizations. This was a topic between Biden and Xi in their recent virtual meeting
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  537. The mayor of Kherson basically handed the keys of the city to the Russia. Therefore, the Russian could occupy Kherson without any losses
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  538. Representative Raskin is a polymath with a remarkable ability to articulate and advocate a political position.
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  539. There is also the term "significant" as in a "significant development" which also requires at least some brief explanation of what the significance is, and Dima does try to do that.
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  540. So the graphene semiconductor is doped with silicon atoms to create the holes needed to act as a semiconductor rather than the current method of doping silicon to create holes needed to make silicon a semiconductor. Silicon has gone from dopee to doper. Silicon has gone from being a dope addict in the current semiconductor technology to being the dope pusher in the SEG technology. Correct?
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  541. A glowing tribute to Russian military strategy.
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  542. The Ukrainian situation in the Second World War has very disturbing elements to it. In many cases the Ukrainians working with Nazis committed war crimes and atrocities at least as horrific as the Germans did, and in some cases even worse if one can imagine. Ukrainian death squads under Nazi authority committed ethnic cleansing and other genocidal actions. Actions by the Soviet NKVD, secret police against Ukrainians whose only "crime" was getting captured also matched the ferocity of Nazi retribution just the the posting I am replying to correctly indicated. Russian and Ukrainian soldiers repatriated as POW were summarily executed by the NKVD without exception.
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  543. I think it is worse than Cannon having a problem understanding the law for the Special Counsel, I think she is ignorant of it.
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  544. Congress could offer DC Metro Police to the DC Federal Courts to arrest the Federal officials who failed to follow the Court's orders maybe even the President. The DC MPD could detain him under protective custody along with the Selective Service of course. However the DC MPD may require that the President can only communicate through the White House counsel. The DC Metro Police are available to Congress with a very minimum direction by the President. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Department_of_the_District_of_Columbia The President can direct the MPD for only 48 hours at which point control reverts to the Mayor. If the President wants further command of the MPD then the Pres must get authorized by Congress and thirty (30) days is the max authorization and which point the control reverts back to Congress.
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  545. How interesting to hear this analysis and the host's agreement in light of Ukraine's effective counteroffensive. Responsible journals like The Guardian will provide an explicit and prominent statement about how long ago the article was written. I think the host of this show should do something similar. Perhaps a scrolling banner at the top that makes clear when this broadcast was done
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  546. Musk you are a total ass! Social Security has prevented the elder from poverty which was the case before Social Security started. What Social Security needs is more workers to contribute, and we can do that by allowing immigrants.
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  547. Low Earth Orbit will become so cluttered with space junk that nobody will be able to use LEO for military or any other purposes.
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  548. The Battle for Kiev that Russia lost was the first battle of the Russo-Ukrainian War
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  549.  @billy6pack887  Bakhmut is essential to Putin. Without Bakhmut then he can not get the Donestk Oblast under Russian occupation. If Putin can secure at least the Donbas then he can represent that as a win. However, there is a serious tactical fly in the ointment. ... The Salt Mines in Soledar. The Azovstal Foundry looks like a teenage clubhouse compared to the Salt Mines in Soledar. If the Ukrainian Army decides to make that a stronghold, and they may be doing that right now, then it truly will take more than a fission bomb to get at them in there. It will take a thermonuclear weapon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar_Salt_Mine Notice the part about the proton decay physics experiment in those salt mines. Also the US uses salt mines to store nuclear waste. The Russians will look really foolish if they have get Ukrainian troops out of the Soledar Salt Mines in order to claim that Russia has control over the Donetsk Oblast. You can be sure the Ukrainians will let everyone know they are still in Donetsk even if only because they are in a stronghold in the Soledar Salt Mines.
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  550.  @billy6pack887  obviously you did not read the Wikipedia article. I feel certain the Russians are better informed than your comment would suggest. Flood with water? rotflmao
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  551.  @billy6pack887  look at those numbers mate and calculate how much water would be needed to dissolve the salt to make a saline solution. Moreover if you think that simply pouring water into a salt mine will work then how do salt mines deal with underground aquifers the way coal mines do? Or maybe salt mines, which are often salt domes that have oil bearing rock below them don't have the problem. Hmmm?
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  552.  @billy6pack887  by the way. Why didn't the Russians flood the Azovstal foundry? Marioupol is a port on the Black Sea. Loads of water in the Sea. Why not flood the foundry?
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  553.  @billy6pack887  I beg your pardon, but I had difficulty understanding what you wrote. I don't mean I disagree or agree, I simply don't understand what you mean based on what you typed.
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  554.  @Reddeb2880  Vance does scare me more. He is smarter, knows what he is doing, and is young enough to cause damage for decades.
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  555.  @getit9066  You bet I do! I had a cat that lived 19 years and then another cat who also lived 19 years. After almost 40 years with a cat, you can bet I want another one. However, I doubt I will live another 19 years because I am 72 years old, and I don't want a cat to feel abandoned.
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  556.  @MA-jo9jg  and I vote Blue, and always have for fifty (50) years.
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  557.  @mikemorgan8588  Nothing unconstitutional about this but it would be nefarious.
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  558.  @jeffhobbs3948  just thinking about is possible. Something like this is entirely possible for the Republicans to attempt. Consider McConnell refusing to put an Obama Supreme nomination up for a vote because it was an election year and he said the people just first decide by the election and then acting counter to that even closer to an election after Justice Ginsburg died.
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  559.  @natalieford3238  WHAT?
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  560.  @seandowning5918  I always vote Blue
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  561.  @angusmcbean4449  the sky here is grey and a storm is coming
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  562.  @natalieford3238  First You: "THIS" then me: "What?"
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  563.  @thomasgage1434  and very frightening for democracy.
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  564. "Girkin" is the nom de guerre of Igor Strelkov rather than the other way around. Strelkov has in fact claimed personal responsibility for shooting down MH-17 and also says he was the FSB officer "pulled the trigger" on the secession of the Donbas.
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  565. Comparing Grad missiles with HIMARS missiles is like comparing a shotgun with a rifle.
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  566. We need to go back to the Vietnam War Protest playbooks. Perhaps we should set up a permanent location Wash DC where folks from out of town can stay in order have a constant protest presence on the Capital. I also like Jamie Raskin's idea to have class action suit with the entire US population as the class against Elon Musk. I know that could better phrased but i lack legal training and Jamie has explained it far more clearer.
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  567. When another country invaded your country and says their objective is to erase your culture then that often causes the invaded country to fight back with whatever help they can get
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  568.  @eagle2855  never been charged with having a closed mind; quite contrary. A bit more research would help you too My comments were based on what I learned about JR when I lived in Japan.
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  569. Wow! A simple statement that JR was economical infeasible, but thought Chinese high-speed rail was until I saw this vid Nas elicited a torrent of abuse from some Anthony fellow. Can't quite understand why. I suppose one should only make comments where you claim complete knowledge about a subject (Aristocles wonders what personal attack this comment will elicit).
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  570. Well I guess the any reputation of straight-speaking by Germany was just blown up.
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  571. That is bravery
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  572. Whether your claims are true or false, I am impressed by your courage expressing therm. I have wondered if Manafort refuses to make a deal with Mueller because Manafort is worried he would get killed if he turned state's evidence. I might add that the State can play just as rough with someone here in the US as they do in Russia. They have a few more obstacles here, but the State can overcome those obstacles if they want to do so. Once again, my admiration for your courage.
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  573. More Grandstanding and attention getting from Sinema Representing her views. I bet she does, but it more like watch out for her interests ... find that big Corporation that will hire her and some obscene salary. Work on solving problems? Exactly what problems does she think are important, and will she her position on those issues?
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  574. Trump needs shock troops that report only to him. He can't rely on the US Military because the US Military has taken an oath to support the Constitution.
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  575. The "old guy with beard" look also works in Korea. I did a 9 month consultancy for Samsung on-site, and more than once my Korean colleagues told me that some Korean would say, "Who is that Professor looking guy?" I suggested to my Korean colleagues to say that they called central casting, and asked for someone who looked like Professor. When I showed up they hired me on the spot. I should add that I started my Twitter account over 10 years, and I have a respectable number of followers, although perhaps not a number of respectable followers. Most of my followers are left-wing, Progressives so a post supporting China and the CCP would fit right in without anybody questioning it. From one of your other vids, I know the CCP offered to pay you. Where can I get some of that Payola? By the way, I will charge by the posting. None of this flat rate then overflow my Twitter. I need to preserve my reputation, however bad it may be.
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  576. ELON Musk is looking more and more like a Russian agent.n
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  577. I have been continually impressed by the data and facts you bring to your discussions. The infographics are good too, and I know from experience how hard that can be. Your direct and even tone of delivery makes it much easier to hear the content of your message without the distraction of the histrionics that some commentators on China have. Some of your segments have been multi-part segments and others on closely related and subjects. Often these were separate segments because they were about specific events separated in time although you explained how the previous segments related to one another. Have you ever considered joining together what are now separate videos on subject into one longer video? I do not mean you would need much if any additional editing. In many cases it would require editing to join one segment to another with perhaps a short intro in the front. Does that make sense?
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  578.  @LeisRealTalk  Yes indeed it could. You often point out other videos you have on a topic, and it would be great if those videos were already set up to play. A playlist would do that admirably. Wish I have thought of that. :) A playlist would also allow you to adjust the order until you thought it was right then if it made sense you could combine the videos in a single video, or add a chapter # in the title as you did with the matter of CCP Succession. I look forward to a "lecture series" from Prof. Lei.
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  579. Perhaps you can answer a question for me that I have asked Russians who fled the mobilization and say they are against the war and are ashamed of the behavior of their country. If they are ashamed and want to do something to atone for that then why not go work for an aid organization in Ukraine? They don't need to go to front lines and fight, but they speak like many people in Ukraine do. They Russian refugees could go to Ukraine immediately and begin to help. Why don't they do that? It really puzzles me.
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  580.  @ВалентинаЛарина-е5э  That is very encouraging to hear. Some times I think tjhe Russia never think about what they should do to help on the side of the Ukrainian without the need to shoulder a rifle. Armies and the NGO, Humanitarian organization that feed, clothes and house refugees require a LOT of accounting. Join an Humanitarian organization and recive the donations, categorize, and file them indicated where to find them!! YOu have just free a Ukrainian to go assist closer to the front. Get ready for some close scrutiny by the Security Service to check if you a Russian spy trying to build an identity to use as an "illegal" espionage agent. Perhaps the best contribution you could make would be to help build temporary quarters for refugees in Poland. Temporary buildings too often become permanent housing so please do good construction work and help to make sure the others do that same. Also help prevent the building matrials from being stolen. This way upi ca help atone for the pain, suffering and death that other Russians have caused.
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  581. Sadly too many independent media depend on YouTube. Demonetization by YouTube has destroyed some of the independent reporters. I watched
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  582. On the other hand, a popular military commander is always a political threat to the existing political leader, especially if the political leader never served in the military.
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  583. Just imagine what the police would have if she had been African American.
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  584. This kid is just an opportunist. He will do whatever it takes to get ahead providing he can avoid any work or risk. An Australian would call him a blodger.
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  585.  @johntaylor2683  fixed
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  586.  @drumpfdon760  in fact I have at least to the extent of donating to organizations who need to feed people in ANY war zone including Afghanistan. What contributions have you made, or does the CCP prevent that because of their control over foreign currency exchanges? Incidentally what does "GBU" mean?
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  587.  @drumpfdon760  Mt 6:3-4 But when you do charitable deeds to men, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your giving may be in secret." Thereis the full quote, and indeed I stop from keeping records to avoid seeing the total amounts. The joke on you DRUMP Dump. Take look at tell us how much you give, just a % of income Hehehehe
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  588. After thinking more about your comments about "good" Russians, perhaps there is something you and do to help both Canada and Ukraine at the same time. There is a burning need for people who can inventory and track the weapons and other aid coming into Ukraine. I feel certain that you know enough programming and definitely enough about accounting for existing inventory, disposition of inventory and inventory consumed. I use inventory as only a simple example. Armies run on paperwork much of it similar to financial services companies. Most important is for you to assure that none of the weapons go astray. Apparently that has already happened and NATO weapons hav been found in the hands of criminal gangs in Finland. I expect you have the skills to create financial and inventory controls to prevent flat out theft of UN, EU, and US funds allocated to humanitarian aid. What do you say? It would show people that there are good Russians
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  589. I would guess that the Russians will create a memorial like that one at Leningrad where you have a granite slab first for a month, then one per day and then one per day. Of course, I doubt such a memorial will be erected bedw
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  590. What I find reassuring about that video is how many African Americans we see in positions of authority including the President's Press Secretary
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  591. It looked to me that Vance made statements that were designed to trigger Trump.
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  592. I am amazed that the conscription age is as old as 25. I had to agree to draft by the US when I reached 18 years of age. I completely support and have made financial support for Ukraine, but I must admit the even more Ukrainian should be conscripted. Also the US should provide more aid to Ukraine. People in Ukraine are dying to protect me in the US.
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  593. It occurs to me that a number the pro-Ukrainian bloggers who have been targeted by YouTube should create a joint Patreon rather than separate ones. The various bloggers could all post their videos on that Patreon account and if the Patreon gets as many as the 10 of thousands or more of he subscribers that the pro-Ukrainian bloggers have now then there would be plenty of revenue to support all the bloggers posting on that same Patreon account. If even 10 thousand people joined at a monthly subscription of $5 that is $50 thousand dollars per month and $600 thousand dollars per year.
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  594.  @matthiashrafnkelsson2180  You use methods of storing the energy output in low demand periods. You can use "gravity batteries" or pump the water into reservoirs as hydro plants do, charge electrical batteries or store the heat using some material with a high specific heat. Then at times of peak usage you use the energy stored in whatever way you chose to feed power directly into the power grid or to produce steam and drive steam turbines to produce electricity or whatever electric power generation method fits the method you used to store energy in times of low demand.
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  595.  @Asgath  I thought battering fish was considered assault or some kind of animal cruelty. We need to let the RSPCA know immediately!
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  596. A bit of advice. If you have a suitcase that has wheels onto them never put those wheels on your bed when you lay the suitcase to open. Just think what those wheels touched as they rolled on the floor. Open the suitcase of the foldable bench in the room. You might even want to give the wheel a quick wash in case you think you might brush up against them.
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  597. Threatening the life even in public forums is crime.
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  598.  @TheDjSaniBoy  So American war crimes justify Russian war crimes?
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  599. As I watched your report a number of aphorisms came to mind: The higher the monkey climbs the more he exposes his tail. The higher you climb the ladder the farther it is when you fall. It also reminded me of the statement by Louis XIV: L'etat c'est moi It suggests a paraphrase to apply to Xi: Le parti c'est moi. We know what happened as a result of Louis XIV establishing an absolute monarchy in France. I wonder what will happen if Xi loses power.
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  600. CGTN never discusses the situation in China. The CCP would never allow that; therefore, CGTN must direct attention else.
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  601. You failed to explain who "Y.P." in the dedication. Y. P. is Yellow Pig.
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  602. Don't you just love propaganda from any country? You can almost invariably take what is said and apply it to the country speaking.
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  603. The most disturbing aspect about the oil revenue that Norway has is that Norway presents itself as the greenest nation on Earth with the highest percentage of electric car ownership, and leaders in how to live with a small carbon footprint. Yet all the while Norway profits from selling fossil fuels. If Norway wants to be a responsible global citizen then stop acting as a fossil fuel drug pusher, and simply stop selling oil. I wonder how that would go down with the Norwegians?
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  604. DoGE could just be the name for the group that presents the President''s Budget Proposal. If someone wants to keep Social Security solvent then claw back the $1 trillion tax cut that Trump when he was President before, and also grant an amnesty to all the undocumented aliens and make sure they get a Society Number and pay taxes. Of course the Republicans would never propose these actions because it runs against their efforts to turn the US into a feudal state.
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  605. Academic Grants will become a patronage system. I wonder if there is anyway to get the "Millionaires Who Support Taxes" group or whatever they are called, to join together, participation anonymous to avoid retaliation , to create a funding council for on-going grants canceled by Trump? That is a short term matter, and in the longer get large foundations of charities like Gates Organization to fund work? There would remain a problem that the specific researchers our their academic institutions could face retaliation. That means the researchers must remain anonymous but will be able to publish results but without funding source revealed. The same techniques used by drug cartels and wealthy individuals could used by cresting the fund as an offshore entity. That same entity would help fund existing conferences which would allow these non-Government researchers to attend without making it obvious how they got the funds to attend. As I write this, I realize that some retired counter intelligence officer will need to help manage the fund. There should be enough candidates given how many ex-intelligence officers Trump has stripped of security clearances. Of course those people's involvement in this scheme would need to remain secret as well as any clandestine participation in Five Eyes because surely Canada will pull out of Five Eyes and likely NZ too because of how much of NZ export will be hit by tarrifs. UK and Australia are a question mark. Basically we need to begin to create a government in exile and begin to make sure that these terminated projects are covered by the mainstream media. That may require cresting a new media company that aggregates Internet blogs, similar to Medium, and to promote that media company AND be ready to fight First Amendment attacks in the Courts. This will require a heavy lift and many people will need to help or at least contribute. We can use the Dark Money methods to hide the sources. Powers created to hide activities with malicious objectives and also be used to hide beneficial objectives. The Dark Money methods are, to use a military phrase, dual purpose techniques.
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  606. Having the US Embassy draw down its staff simply reduces the number of targets that Putin could use as an excuse to invade. "Oh look, one of your Embassy personnel got killed! Ukraine is not safe for Americans, Russia needs to come in to protect diplomatic personnel"
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  607. The Netherlands has pumps of sufficient strength and capacity to keep the coolant ponds full by pumping even from the lowered Dneipro level. Of course the pumps need to get there and installed. The Dutch are very efficient and fast but they do need lead time. I have wondered if they are ready to go when they can do it without danger of the Russians shooting at them. At this point I think that NATO along with China could issue an ultimatum to Russia. The Netherlands could even invite the Chinese to join them.
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  608. Or delivery dates.
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  609. According to all polls the vast majority of Ukrainians reject any cease fire or treaty that gives up any territory. Where are do you get these fairy-tales? Seymour Hersh is known to be on Kremlin payroll.
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  610. Look like the Netherlands took action on the situation you described: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4bkw0_w0uc and Canada did as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_hSY-QMO2o
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  611. Xi dismissed 1300 PLA officers recently. That has to affect the PLA readiness for war. Trump has been trying to re-segregate the US military which will erode US military readiness.
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  612.  @zadovrus1624  Russians negotiate only when you hold a gun to their heads and, to quote from "The Godfather" you say, "Either your brains or your signature will be on that treaty." Russians only understand force. I wish that was not true, but just look at history. The Russians are conducting themselves true to their form.
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  613.  @avg8or  You make some valid points, and we should probably restore the draft so that if falls equally on all US citizens, current military service is voluntary rather than mandatory. People who serve in the military now do so by choice whereas taxes have never been by choice unless you consider that we have no taxation with representation as was the rallying cry by the colonies rebelling as the British Crown and Parliament. Now here comes the rub. Smaller states do have a disproportionately greater power in Congress because every state has two Senators in Congress which results in the ridiculous situation in whid a state like Wyoming has only one Representative in the House and yet two Senators.
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  614. Perhaps the US should do the Senate what the UK did to with House of Lords and strip the Senate of any legislative power and leave that power in the House of Commons in the in the UK and the House of Representatives in the US. Giving all legislative power to the House would give every US citizen proportionate power in Congress rather than giving the smaller the proportionately greater power in to make lwas. Admittedly that means that "The Big, Beautiful Budget" bill would. Admittedly that would mean that it would be law now. However, removing the need for Senate approval and an only advisor role the Senate means that House members can never take political shelter behind the Senate as they can do now. My Republican Representative for the NY District 17 who voted for the Bill, Mike Lawler, can hide behind the Democratic Senators Gillibrand and Schumer who will vote against it. Moreover, Lawler can attack any Democratic Senator as someone who voted down the bill as effectively voting for the existing SALT levies while Lawler can claim that he voted for hos districts interests and avoid his as endorsing for a bill that would strip New Yorker of Medicaid and increase the cost Medicare. This goes even more to Elise Stefanik who represents one of the poorest districts in NY State.
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  615. When I say that anyone can voluntarily move to and establish residence in NY in contrast to an HOA which denies access to people and in an undemocratic system. Paying NY State taxes should never be equated with HOA fees because NY States are determined by the State Legislature and all people in the State agree to and are mandated to pay their taxes. Therefore the people in NY choose their taxation and should never be asked to bear a greater proportion of federal tax. The citizens in NY should pay their fair share of Federal taxs and under SALT the citizens of NY pay and larger share of Federal taxes.
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  616. ​ @SkyGlitchGalaxy indeed. Did I suggest that NY was somehow extraordinary in that way?
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  617. I think your explanations also requires that the electrostatic hydrogen bonds are relatively weak at temperatures as high as negative one hundred and fifty degrees C (-150 C) in vacuo. What forms of ice remain slippery down to temperatures such as the temperature at which Nitrogen becomes a liquid? Do all forms of ice crystal exhibit slipperiness or is Ice I the only ice crystal that does? Of course Ice IX is valuable because of its literary properties.
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  618. Take notice of the nuclear power plant that supplies a major portion of electricity to Russian defense factories in that area. Perhaps Ukraine wanted to do a swap for the Zaporizhe Nuclear Power Plants.
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  619. Your graph showing the exponential increase in publication of scientific papers correlated with the introduction and use of xerographic copiers like those first introduced by Xerox in 1960.
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  620. Yeah and often they would stop you from even voting with your feet and leave. I have Ukrainian friends who had to flee before the border closed back in 2014.
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  621. I think it was a traditional Russian or at least Soviet expression that people who can eat tomatoes in winter are rich people.
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  622. ​ @ritafoster4958 I remember that vividly and your pm almost pulled Trump out of his chair because Trump pulled and Trudeau pulled harder.
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  623. Yeah, the beatings will continue until morale improves.
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  624.  @playaspec  maybe he needs a manager like this general
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  625. Democrats need to benchmark costs and prices right now, and then track how the prices will rise. May I suggest Bill boards that show the prices at the time of the election, and then showing the current prices.
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  626. I think the CCP has taken the correct approach in effectively quarantining the athletes. That was the lesson to learn from the mess that Japan made of the Summer Games. However, the Japanese at least had enough sense to avoid making the situation worse for people in cities outside the Olympic venue. I think Japan has learned the lesson that many cities have now learned. The burden and cost of the Olympics is just too high for any city to bear, and the pandemic just made it worse. I knew people in Sydney who made sure to get out of town when the Olympics were held there just because of the chaos it caused to transportation. The IOC should find a permanent venue for the Olympics, and hold them at that place every four years. Better yet, get rid of the Olympics, and put more emphasis on the various World Championship tournaments in the different sports.
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  627. Why bother any more? Donald will just steal the money for the US Govenment. The real purpose of DoGE is to gather money to play Donald's penalties and his legal costs
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  628. Does anyone know how this soldier is doing now? I hope he is well especially because he and his wife had one young boy and his wife was pregnant with a girl child. Does anyone know if his wife gave birth without any difficulties? Most importantly is this soldier still alive?
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  629. Norway just found an enormous supply of rare earths and other strategically metals. Of course, it will take while to develop those sources.
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  630. The defense by Ukraine against the invasion by Russia has many fronts just as the Second World had more theaters than just Europe, and the Battle of Kohima in India at least as significant against the Japanese as Stalingrad was against Germany. In 2013, a poll conducted by the British National Army Museum voted the Battles of Kohima and Imphal as "Britain's Greatest Battle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kohima The decisive battles plural as opposed to singular in the Russo-Ukrainian may occur in places we will recognize only in hindsight. As people have begun to realize, the Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2023 may consist of many battles that collectively add up to turn in the war. In fact, Bakhmut may be it even though it does not appear so now. The counter offensive may be incremental and drawn out without the kind of quick decisive battle we all hope will occur. I dearly wish for a quick end to this, but if it does not end quickly we in the West should never despair. Look how long Britain held on before they got the full assistance they needed before they and their Allies could defeat Germany in Western Europe and the Japanese in the Pacific Theater where Britain was engaged as well as the US.
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  631.  @lefttomboy3068  I fear that Russia will claim the Ukraine is invading Russia after those stage managed referendums.
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  632. This was the genius of the Warren Court because Earl Warren had been a politician, the Governor of California, and did understand the real world consequences of the Supreme Court decisions. It is ironical well that Warren was a Republican was appointed because he was expected to be a conservative Justice/
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  633.  @mjouwbuis  Good point. It might even be a pre-emptive strike by Xi just to show what he can do.
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  634. You are a remarkable young man. Owning your past experiences is something that people have to learn. It took me fifty (50) years to understand what you learned. I have my own experiences that finally caused my mental collapse. I am sure that I would never have withstood what you did. The circumstances of my mental collapse were different, but I can empathize with your condition. It sounds like you made the adjustments needed for you to live a life you find worthwhile. That takes work because life is so full of suffering and having a positive effect on people and on yourself really is hard. Good job! Keep up the good work!
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  635. Russia has long indulged in this mentality of victimization, and for the Russians especially at the hands of the Anglo-Saxons as Putin often says. China suffers from the same sense of being a victim at the hands of the West, and they have history to back it up. However, such a mentality of victimization never goes well for a country who indulges in it.
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  636.  @kristinguelmine6565  SS makes a large part of my retirement funds which are taxed because they were Federally legislatively deferred taxation at the time of deposit but are subject to taxation at the time I withdraw them because they are Roth IRA . In practice that is what SS does; however the more well-to-do should pay higher SS taxes, and perhaps the Federal Government should create Roth IRAs for all US Citizens and make the same size payment into the Roth IRA for each US citizen. More effective would be a progressive income that taxes people who have greater and can more easily pay their taxes than people of lower income.
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  637. More and disportionately more because blue states have by choice pay higher state taxes. Federal taxes should be paid in a way that has US citizens with greater WEALTH pay more in US taxes rather than because they pay state taxes although those State taxes should be progressively taxed on the citizens. At least it is a State choice and that should never affect the amount of Federal taxes paid by the citizens of that State.
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  638. Dima, doesn't it ever occur to you that the tactic of destroying a city indicates there is no intent to liberate an area, but is a tactic to destroy an area? Why destroy an area you supposedly want to occupy? The only reason to destroy a city you want is that you would rather destroy something than allow someone else to have what you want.
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  639. Trump will sell out and throw under bus anyone if it is to his advantage.
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  640.  Helen R  When it comes to children I agree 100% Quite a number of the elderly people interviewed have had their children and grandchildren sent away, but thew have stayed behind. I would not be surprised that they stayed behind so that they would avoid making it harder for their kids and grandkids as refugees. It will be hard enough on the children and grandchildren without adding the burden of taking care of granny.
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  641. Max Planck became a physicist when he thought that all the important problems had been discovered. True and one of my funny situation.
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  642. DOGE is an agency that can be eliminated because it duplicates the General Accounting Office (GAO)
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  643. My father was an experimental cryogenics physicist who specialized in superconductivity and he was also an electrical engineer. He would have said that physics never did anything and only engineering did.
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  644. Keep in mind that they still have to distinguish the real HIMARS launch systems from the ones made of wood. They might need to use radar because a real HIMARS launch system would reflect radar while a wooden HIMARS launch system would not unless the wooden launch system had aluminum foil on the side walls. Of course using radar would be the kiss of death. Nothing makes oneself a target as well as turning on a light or lighting a cigarette.
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  645. Alito was very careful with his words. He mostly agreed with questioner, and he could claim that he was just being polite given the nature of the event
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  646. Uuh how many Reminbi are in circulation? Do we know? Will we ever know given that the amount of Reminbi is a state secret. Until the BRICS become transparent the idea of using Reminbi as a reserve currency will be insane.
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  647. Where are the coolant pumps located? Destroying the coolant pumps could cause a meltdown.
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  648.  @ericp1139  Putin has pursued a policy to eradicate Ukrainian culture in favor of Russian "culture" and if necessary to drive all Ukrainians out of their country. and making a large portion of Ukraine uninhabitable serves that objective. In addition if a large portion of the grain producing region of Ukraine is useless for any farming then the value of Russian wheat increases. Any radiation leak from the nuclear plant will also travel down the Dneipro and could make Port facilities in a Kherson and Odessa sufficiently radioactive that it would deny Ukraine the ability to ship products to the Black Sea through those ports. Finally, it follows with a long historical attitude of Russian society that if they can't have it then they will make sure nobody can. A form of that reasoning goes all the back to Ivan the Terrible who first declared himself Tsar of Russia. When St. Basil's cathedral was finished, Ivan considered the cathedral so beautiful that he had the architect blinded so he could never create for anybody else another cathedral so beautiful.
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  649. Amazing! You mean they actually have real elections in Ukraine? People in Ukraine could decide to change Presidents?
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  650. Given that we import food from all over especially Canada, the tarffs have raised the food prices. Anyone want to take anty bets that the food stores will reduce prices when traiffies are removed? Food store have very slim margins, 1% or 2% and they will jump at the opportunity to retain the tariff increased prices even after tarriffs are removed. We will definitely need to raise the minimum wage for people to afford to eat, and more people will need food stamps.
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  651. The expression is you want is driving by looking in the rear view mirror
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  652. The poll numbers are in fact quite suspicious because the pool of people who were polled were a restricted set that was already disposed towards Putin.
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  653. Can you help us understand the situation on the Eastern front. I am increasing seeing reports in Western media that Russian is on the way to winning their war on Ukraine.
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  654. it looks like Davos in the desert
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  655. Well we have found out how reliable using GPS given that Russia can spoof GPS as we have seen in Ukraine
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  656. 😂Fun fact, the method for making optical fibres resulted from the failures by Corner to make very small glass tubes from very pure glass. Most efforts to create the tiny glass tubes failed when the sides of the tube collapsed and made a tiny thread instead. It occurred to the engineers that the failed tubes could be used as optical fibers.
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  657. Cruely is in fact the objective
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  658. If Putin stops the fighting then the war ends. If Ukraine stops the fighting then Ukraine ends.
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  659. "Republican Kings" would be preferable to Peter Thiel. If Trump Vance wins the election then i suspect Trump might decide to resign for Big Bucks. Vance would become President, appoint Elon Musk as Vice President and then Peter Thiel and Elon Musk would run the US. They could even bring back apartheid when the current Supreme Court over Brown vs. Board of Eduction of Kansas then reinstate Dred Scott.
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  660.  @banjo1434  "Gave up" its sovereignty? Looks like they are taking back what was taken from them. You may need to check current events yourself.
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  661.  @Messa1980  What do you call shooting at someone when you occupy a nuclear power plant? I should also note that any resistance effort acts from within a civilian population, which does nothing to excuse war crimes, crimes against humanity or atrocities.
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  662. I have always believed that the US must be careful to avoid giving Russia any basis to justify to their population or the wider international community. That is why the US has held back weapons that could be used to strike Russian territory. Having said that, I believe that Ukraine has complete justification to attack Russia. I wondered why Ukraine held back from attacking Russian troops as they were moved from Belarus south after the failed attack on Kyiv.
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  663.  @semilog643  my dad was a cryogenic physicist who specialized in superconductivity. He and his team designed the magnets for containing the plasma in the experimental fusion reactor at Oak Ridge. His interest in superconductivity meant that he was also interested in liquid helium, which is a superfluid that does exhibit macroscopic quantum effects. For example if you have a dewar vessel filled with liquid helium and you start spinning the vessel you can watch the speed of the rotation of the liquid helium speed up in increments rather than smoothly. You can see the increasing rotational speed of the dewar vessel but the liquid helium remains rotating at a slower speed and then in an instant the liquid helium will begin rotate at a higher speed. My father had a good sense of humor, but none of those jokes would have made him laugh. In fact the whole plasma is the fourth state of matter always elicited a sigh of resignation from my dad. I suppose when every thing you work on is at least below of boiling point of liquid nitrogen at -195 Celsius, and the real focus of your study is a material within 2 to 3 degrees of Absolute Zero then someone making jokes about plasma sounds more like someone just talking about something that irrelevant.
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  664. Great video clip about a Ukrainian tank in mud! https://youtube.com/shorts/9Xd7hLrolI0?feature=share
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  665. Not real soldiers? I am shocked! shocked!! 😁
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  666. Remember that Putin still has compromat on Trump. I personally believe it is simply money. Putin is paying Trump or promising a pay-off. Elon Musk is also paying Trump so that Elon can act as President. Trump is all about the Benjamins.
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  667. Congratulations for your wedding, and Best Wishes to your spouse.
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  668. When something is a fact then you should acknowledge it. What a shame the Russians are less forthright, and they play fast and loose with the facts.
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  669. What is required for Wash DC to redraw the boundaries of the city to exclude the Federal Office Buildings?
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  670. Is there anything that those of us who are individual US citizens to help that woman?
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  671. I regularly watch your videos and this video has a masterful segue into the Atlas VPN promotion. You could have a great career in broadcasting. I am not being sarcastic. As annoying as ads are i have to acknowledge a professional segue into an ad. :-)
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  672. Sounds to me that you have provided enough for HIMARS to pay a visit.
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  673. I suspect that Russian trolls are using the "report" button on pro-Ukrainian bloggers. YouTube is getting flooded with reports, more than they can read, so they just demonetized channel without doing any more investigation. If you can get YouTube to send you the reports even with name redacted then the time stamps might show that most of the reports being posted between 9 AM to 5 PM in the Russian Timezone
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  674. As ridiculous as it sounds, she expects all of this to help her get on the Supreme Court. She religiously attends any gathering of the Federalist Society. She really needs to be called "Suck Up" Cannon.
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  675. The CCP might benefit from looking at the measures taken by FDR to mitigate the Great Depression. Government injecting cash into the economy as advocated by John Maynard Keynes has helped maintain the consumer spending that drives the US economy. The comments by Prof. Li Dao Qui match those of the US Republican Party. I am most upset by his attack on Carbon reduction. China is crucial to have any significant effect on the climate crisis. The most upsetting aspect of Chinese Economic problems is to remember exactly what it was the ended the Great Depression ... World War II. Having a war helps CCP resolve many internal problems. Wars consume manufactured products at a furious pace, and therefore increase employment and industrial activity. A war will also justify a sacrifice in quality of life, and distract from internal problems. To my mind these economic problems in the PRC increases the likelihood of an invasion of Taiwan in the short term. It just occurred to me that new kind of Olympics might help the entire global economy. People may think I am joking but I am serious. Instead of trying to demilitarize space, I suggest we militarize space and demilitarize Earth by a Space Military Olympics conducted at the Lagrange Points L4 and L5 to avoid increasing the debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) which has already become a problem. Perhaps called the Lagrange Olympics, it would avoid human casualties because all the competition will take place between automated weapons. Industrial capacity in LEO can supply the "athletes" in the LaGrange Olympics, and could also supply the industrial needs of the humans on Earth while Earth focuses on producing food for people, and caring for the health of people. Keep in mind that anyone could decide to move the military conflict back to Earth, but every country participates in Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) strategy such as the US and USSR followed during the Cold War. All anyone needs to do is to drop a big enough rock from space onto Earth. That wiped out the dinosaurs in the past, and could wipe out the human race in the future. Perhaps such an existential threat to all humanity held in the hands of all humanity might cause people to respect one another more given the consequences of treating enough people so badly that a large enough group would chose to drop a rock on all of us, themselves included.
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  676.  @inflagrante.delicto6209  And your comment is exhibits great dis-respect for the autonomy and sovereignty of Ukraine.
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  677.  @inflagrante.delicto6209  You mean there are no people in Ukraine?
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  678. Is that one of those immigrant invasions that Trump talks about?
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  679. Mathematics that has no use? Rather hubristic to think that someone can look at mathematics and deduce which will have applications in the future. Your effort to determine some method to assess what mathematics will be of use sounds alot like the Halting Problem for Turing Machine which is the same as the Incompleteness Theorems in mathematics. There are a number of Incompleteness Theorems in Mathematics, such as for recursive functions, the Lambda calculus and Post Production system. The fact that these Incompleteness Theorems appear in multiple apparently unrelated areas of mathematics has been likened to a fundamental property like natural numbers. All of this prior to the invention of electronic computers. Who knows what might come of the current mathematical studies in Category Theory? Many people would suggest that Category Theory is a pointless undertaking because Category Theory studies the structures of mathematical systems. Just imagine what some people would say about a branch of mathematics that studies mathematics? This the kind of navel gazing that people like to dismiss in until it finds an application and then it was useful after all.
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  680.  @nathangamble125  I said the same in my comments to this video but you said it better than I did.
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  681. Musk has zero social graces
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  682.  @youtubeSuckssNow  not just often leaking fuel when on the ground, but constantly leaking fuel and at such high rate that the SR-71 is being refueled up until it taxis out on the runway to take off. Personally, I find the whole thing absurd. Only a country that will effectively pour money down a drain would build and operate a plane like the SR-71 that pours fuel down the drain.
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  683. What happened to the whole Salusa Secundus as a Prison Planet? Someone decided to mess with the DUNE canon?
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  684. I bet the bus company refused to return until they got paid.
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  685. Well that's why the plane has a Captain. He calls that shots just like the Capitan of a ship.
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  686.  @chuckgoodwish3897  perhaps you might want to look at the videos on the channel to balance your perceptions :-) https://youtube.com/c/LeisRealTalk
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  687. Your video shows why soldiers say that war is killing time between killing time.
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  688. Trump wants tariffs because they are a regressive tax just as sales taxes that everyone who buys something pays whether that person are rich or poor. The rich can afford the higher prices because the higher price is a smaller fraction of their spending than it will be on poorer and less wealthy people. Trump will then use the revenue from the tariffs to offset tax cuts that benefit the wealthy. Tariffs are a mechanism to enrich wealthy people at the expense of people who have wealth. Tariffs are a mechanism of wealth transfer from the poor to the rich. Trump understands that very well, and supports. He simply lies about as a means of deception as opposed to a lack of understanding. I wish people would attribute Trump's lies to malice and motive rather than ignorance. Trump is a grifter and more clever than the marks, the American people, who he cheats.
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  689.  @BenBallard-hp8sk  I thought the cats were inspecting the new Russian "Nine Lives" armor which can withstand nine hits from anti-tank missiles
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  690.  @Izotop_ua  well I am a cat lover so it made me laugh to see such characteristic feline behavior. "Curiously killed the cat, but satisfaction saved it" My grandparents who has a farm and loved cats used to say that.
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  691. And will call itself "Americanism"
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  692.  @MarcosElMalo2  I think he meant "tone-deaf"
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  693.  @АллаШуманская  Oh Please. "We have BIGGEST is a silly reply." Just takes one strategic ICBM to cause a retaliatory strike. Both Russian and the US have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world many times over. Biggest makes no difference. We all have enough to destroy mankind.
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  694.  @АллаШуманская  Did you read my entire reply? That is what I said.
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  695. However, this is not crypto currency in the sense that Bitcoin is. In the case of Chinese digital money, the amount of money in circulation is decided on by a Central Bank, in this case The Bank of China. This is just a digital form on the existing RMB. Same as if the US Department of Treasury decided to switch from paper dollars to digital dollars. In a sense all printed currency is digital because they have serial numbers on them. If a dollar is ripped in half or even partially burned, as long as you have the two parts of the dollar bill with serial numbers on it then you can go to a bank and exchange them for an undamaged printed dollar bill. So even the US has a digital currency.
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  696. So much Russian victimhood.
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  697. Same for me and I had followed him.
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  698. In 1984 Oceania was never identified with any country. Neither was Eurasia nor Eastasia identified with any specific country. What was identified was "IngSoc" which was English Socialism. Now "IngSoc" never developed along the lines that Orwell described in 1984. However, there is a Socialist country that did evolve as Orwell imagined, completely with a surveillance system that tracked all people in the society, and with "Big Brother" who is a Paramount Leader revered by the people. Orwell was a visionary, but what he envisioned in 1984 describes China ruled by the CCP more than it does the US or Europe.
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  699.  @catonpillow  okay give me the reference for the boundaries of Oceania. Keep in mind that an important part of 1984 was that "England" had switched it's allegiances numerous times between Oceania and Eurasia It was the job of the Minister of Truth to rewrite history to remove any trace of the previous alliance, and to represent whatever current alliance was as if it had always been that way. You might want to read 1984 again. Personally, I reread it at least once every ten years, but usually more often. I probably read "Animal Farm" more often.
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  700.  @octowuss1888  Kherson was handed to the Russians by the pro-Russian mayor who gave them the keys to the city. What happened in Kherson is what Putin thought would happen all over Ukraine ... Welcome with bread and salt. However, the residents of Kherson have come to regret the actions of their mayor.
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  701. I hope the lasers have auto destruct to prevent them to prevent them from being captured and reverse engineered by enemies.
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  702. Does Graham know anything about what the Russians would do if planes came into Ukraine from a NATO country. The whole matter about jets should never have taken place in public. Ask Graham about having to walk back his comments about assassinating Putin? Language like that provides exactly the sound bite Russia can use on television.
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  703. Post game videos. Very smart
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  704. I can't see why the Ukrainians need cluster munitions when there are HIMARS missiles that expel 200 thousand tungsten steel pellets when the missile detonates. The US Military designed that type of missile warhead for the express purpose of avoiding the use of cluster munitions as a means of area denial. Perhaps the Ukrainians are asking for more of those types of HIMARS missiles. If they are then it is bad public relations to say you want cluster munitions. Of course one can never underestimate the inability of journalists to describe a situation correctly. For example the continuing conflation of the types of missiles used by a HIMARS launch system and the launch system itself.
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  705. This may seem silly, but I suggest that the DNCC take the same approach as a movie release or opening of a new store, but the purpose will be to announce a YouTube channel that the DNCC will run like a TV channel that optimizes getting people to watch. Create a DNCC version of Fox but on YouTube AND as a website. Announce it with the search lights or whatever would be used to advertise a new car dealership, and the purpose is to make people aware of the anti-Fox channel. Perhaps something can be done with the color blue to contrast with the MAGA red.
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  706. Lithuania is spending 4% of their GDP. It may sound like the "widow's mite" but it serves as an example for the rest of NATO.
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  707. Oh it is much much worse. The press, judges and Republican polticians and their family have been threated with violence and physical harm.
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  708. If Trump dismissed Vought then Trump just dismissed his mind. Vought is the Project 2025 author responsible for applying project 2025.
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  709. The Russian soldier may have been grabbing for the weapon because he wanted a trophy rather than trying to avoid killing the soldier.
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  710. Canada can cut electricity to demonstrate that the US depends on Canada. It is much easier to "restart" electricity. Stopping electricity could allow Canada to react without hurting Canada must. It could black out the North East especially New York City. Trump might enjoy that because hurting New York is hurting a blue state. If New York decides to compensate for electricity reduction by redirecting the hydro-electric from the US side of Niagara Falls then Washington could be affected and that would surely get a reaction Trump.
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  711. I would substitute "Inspect Gadget" with "Inspector General"
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  712. While the Ukrainians be allowed to campaign in the referendum, or will only the Russian perspective be presented to the electorate? By the way, who is allowed to vote? Only people who have accepted a Russian passport when they were ordered to surrender their Ukrainian passport and to take a Russian passport to replace it?
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  713. Putin really does live in a alternate reality. Unfortunately even though he lives in alternate reality he can cause death, pain and suffering in the real world.
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  714. As someone who studied epistemology the use of the expression "true for you" seems quite straightforward although it might be more clear if one used the phrase "you believe" instead.
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  715.  Lukas Scherenschleifer  Yeah no matter how many j/k or smileys we attach to the message, the Russians will remove them or say they mean something else.
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  716. Russians are masters of that technique. If Russians accuse some else about doing something then you can be sure that the Russians are doing it.
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  717. Seems to me that Mrs. Alito maybe showing some behavior similar to the behavior displayed by someone with age related deficiencies
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  718. How Many Artillery Shells Does Russia Have Left? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcUcp0oHTuo
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  719. Polish farmers never complained about Russian grain shipped across Poland. Someone is doing this.
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  720. Where is your covverage of India and the Battle of Kohima which the first time in the war that the Japanese Army suffered a defeat. If Japan had successfully invaded India then we would have seen a very different war even. If the Allies did win over the Axis Powers.
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  721. Krauloa  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyi7EOGHDuw
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  722. Not true. Do more research before you say that. In fact the Europeans are more sympathetic to the idea, and nobody in Congress has expressed any support for it. In fact the US Treasury has argued against it unless their International, not just US laws changed.
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  723.  Gbit Vid  oh I can handle quite a number of views that differ from my own, but glib comments about the use of nuclear are something I can not tolerate. Especially glib comments about the use of nuclear weapons against Japan by the US. Given your background, I am curious about your views. I won't trouble me if they are different from mine. Incidentally I never mentioned my views in that reply
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  724.  @Grizathvili  Chomsky and Brzezinski I take seriously Meirsheimer is an apologist for Russian aggression, and Kissinger holds onto antiquated Cold War policies.
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  725.  @Grizathvili  This Russian aggression is the dying gasp of a declining and moribund ex global power. For all the atrocities committed by the British Empire, they are least excited the stage of being a global power without lashing out at their previous colonies. Would that the Russians could conduct themselves as honorably, but it seems impossible for them to do so. Or I should say that Putin has brought the dishonor on Russia.
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  726.  @Grizathvili  I should further add that nuclear war never will have winners because everyone loses. The question is whether Russia will require the World to lose just so the Russians can avoid saying they lost. I fully expect the Putin will use a tactical nuclear weapon and I shudder to think what the response will be. I hope NATO keeps the response conventional rather than nuclear, but you know there will be a response.
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  727. "It happens everywhere". Typical Russian "whataboutism"
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  728. Elon never got a subsidy because the subsidies were available only to EV companies that are Unionized. Elon is very anti-Union and therefore objected.
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  729. When the rocket scientists were captured after 2nd World War, the US managed to capture the rocket scientists who did the guidance systems, and Russia captured the experts on the propulsion systems. As a consequence the Russians have long had more powerful rocket engines with greater lift capacity. Ironically, it was Ukrainian engineers who learned from the captured German rocket scientists and Ukraine was the rocket engines were built. Sadly it was also unemployed Ukrainian rocket engineers who sold the technology to North Korea because that was the way for the Ukrainian rocket engineers to feed, cloth and house their families.
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  730.  @Kurtlane  Trump lacked the decency to attend Biden's inauguration and continues to insist that he Trump won the election despite the fact that more people voted for Biden and Biden won the Electoral College. That Trump failed to hold onto power speaks more to the will of the people in the US than to Trump transferring power. Trump never transferred power he had to be kicked out of office or else he would have stayed. He tried to illegally stay in power which is exactly what an authoritarian would do.
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  731.  @gongagong  Exactly how did the US start this war? Did the US persuade Russia to invade Ukraine? Putin must be a puppet of the US.
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  732. The newly appointed Commander of the Russian Forces in Ukraine is the general who commanded the Russian troops in Syria, and who used Sarin gas on the Syrian. Stay on the alert for Russia to use chemical weapons in Kherson. The US has now positioned the 101 Airborne Division in Romania. The US now has 100,000 troops on the borders of Ukraine. If Russia uses chemical weapons, then I expect the US would establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine even if that means coming into direct conflict with Russian aircraft and even if Russian might shoot down US aircraft. Furthermore, as a response to the use of chemical weapons, I would speculate that Poland and the Baltic countries would move to the border of Ukraine and Belarus at the invitation of the Ukrainian. That will relieve the Ukrainian Army to move troops from Belarus to the South. Moreover, having NATO troops in the area of Kyiv would also deter the Russians from using chemical weapons on Kyiv.
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  733. ​ @LeisRealTalk  When you recapped the CCP History, I was surprised you said nothing about Zhou En Li. I realize that Zhou lacked any aspirations to lead the Party, but he might serve as a good example of a very high ranking position who supported with patience of Job, and who was forced into a very public admission of his reactionary thoughts. I have always thought that made Mao very pleased became it showed Mao what kind of control he had over Zhou. So maybe Zhou is a unnecessary, and would serve to distraction from explanation of how succession occurs. Whenever I look CCP succession, I am reminded of when Winston Churchill about Kremlin succession fights "as a bulldog fight under a rug: “An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won.” Thanks for pulling rug off the CCP succession fights so we can whois contending with whom, and how they are doing it.
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  734. The US is even worse than an oligarchy. The US is a plutocracy.
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  735. The policy you have reported here has to be the most bizarre economic incentive I have ever heard of. The CCP should twist people's arms to invest in improving the life of the farmers, and perhaps offer some food coupons as the dividend for such investments. Although I like the investing in farmers better, it would make better sense to force people to invest in the stock market. Investing in the farmers would be better.
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  736.  @petergilkes7082  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
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  737.  @petergilkes7082  CCP not CPC
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  738. Look at the article, and listen to Lei who says "CCP"
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  739.  @petergilkes7082  Well you need to get sign up as an editor of Wikipedia. It is easy. Then go fix that as well. I presume you have informed Lei about her error as well
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  740. This briefing from an instructor the Military Academy of the Austrian Army has estimates about personnel and material lost in the Donbas so far: War in Ukraine: Luhansk has fallen - what's to expect? - YouTube That same instructor did an analysis of the Donbas some weeks ago. The War in Donbas However, the analysis does an excellent job of explaining the situation so someone can see why the most recent developments occurred.  The analysis explains why the Ukrainians withdrew from Luhansk so rapidly, and it was clearly the right thing to do. By the way, I learned from other reports that the Wagner Group was instrumental in breakthrough in Propasna, and even the pro-Ukrainian commentators expressed alarm when Propansa fell to the Russians, especially because Propasna occupies the high ground.  With respect to the Russian Army relying on artillery, I recommend watching this video about a 1999 book from a Russian General about the tactical approach to battles that the Russians use. After watching that video, please read the commentary by a friend of mine who is a retired professor of German History with his response and comments concerning the Russian tactics applied against Germans in the Second World War:
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  741. Its called "climate despair"
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  742. Let me guess ... He is talking about Donald Trump. ... Oh wait. He is talking about someone else. I am sure he will get to Trump by end of his discussion.
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  743.  @TriciaDeBary  Do you mean the FDIC? The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
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  744. UK SAS Forces regularly kick the butts of US Special Forces in training exercises. I am a US citizen without reason to promote UK SAS abilities
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  745. If we want to resuscitate these areas then we need immigrants. Open the borders and provide immigrants to settle in these areas. With enough population an economy will develop.
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  746. I think is white phosphorus as opposed to thermite. Phosphorous does burn through anything. In areas where phosphorous is used I have heard that Ukrainian soldiers carry an additional pistol in order to shoot themselves if they are bombed with white phosphorous. That is how bad phosphorous is, and that is why it is outlaw. Of course, an outlaw state like Russia will use something as horrible as phosphorous.
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  747.  @nerdyali4154  yes I misused the acronym. I will fix my comment. Thanks
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  748. Can Congress shut down the white House by refusing to pay any of the Executive branch powers. For example, stop paying the military.
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  749. ​ @Li_Tobler Cory Doctorow has run Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the creation of audiobooks for his novels because Amazon has a virtual monopoly on audio books with Audible. For the text I prefer epub because it will format to my screen rather than .pdf which preserve the page format.
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  750. Geez that cop is so fast talking he sounds like a carnival barker.
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  751. We have heard nothing Kadyrov lately. Is he dead?
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  752. So let me get this straight. If the Ukrainians capture Lyman then the war is over, or at least the handwriting is on the wall, and the Ukrainian will win However, if the Russian evade capture then the war is over, and the Russians will win.
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  753. Mathematics does apply outside the Natural Sciences unless you consider probability and structures like. Markov chains something other than Mathematics.
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  754. I think the reason that older women break for Harris is because many are single widows who now are free to vote their opinions without the influence of their deceased husband. The average line span of men is less than women, and for many of the older women whose husband has died and they now vote on women's issues and especially for a woman for President without having to endure their husband's scorn for a female President.
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  755. Russian hypocrisy is breathtaking. Russia claims that the West is trying to "wipe out Russia's economic and military potential". Russia knows what that means because it is exactly what Russia is trying to do Ukraine.
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  756. The Washingon Post givev adopt a business model like "The Guardian". Create a trust from the WaPo to zvoid pressuring the WaPo in the future.
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  757. The utility of Nuclear Fusion is a fraud. There are number of reasons, but let me give the number one reason. Energy is extracted from a Nuclear Fusion by the capture of fast neutrons from the fusion reaction. However, these neutrons also turn the ENTIRE facility radioactive over time. So when you operate a nuclear fusion plant, you need to plan for the day you will have to abandon the facility because it has become radioactive. Having to manage the disposal of a radioactive fusion facility will present quite a challenge, and a far greater challenge than how to dispose of radioactive waste from a fission reactor. I also encourage proponents of nuclear fusion to look at the engineering challenges and unknowns about the structural integrity over time of a steel structure after a continued sleet of fast neutrons over the years. Nobody knows the answer to that because nobody has operated a fusion reactor for any significant time. However, as I said at the start of this comment, we do know that the facility will become radioactive. We would do better to spend more on improving nuclear fission reactors rather than nuclear fusion reactors. Leave nuclear fusion for stars like the Sun to do then collect the solar power. Fusion should never occur on the surface of a planet.
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  758.  @Gomlmon99  please give your reference for that. In the past, I visited my father's lab at Oak Ridge where he lead a group that designed the superconducting magnets used for the field containment. Everyone wore dosimeter badges, as I had to just to visit, and the experimental reactor was shielded. Can you tell me your references? I am genuinely interested to read them
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  759. Cyrus could you do a YouTube video about this? https://youtu.be/RElGXLwWTvI
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  760. So basically Senator Scott refuses to commit to supporting free elections.
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  761. The FSB is fully capable of faking a picture of Polish fighters with anti-Putin Russians. I can never trust anything coming out of Russia.
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  762. Does India use 155 mm shells that match NATO standards or 152 mm shells that the Soviet artillery uses?
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  763. Great videos! However, "nuclear" is pronounced the same "new-clear"
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  764. Perhaps it is time to say what Jefferson said to Marshall. Okay you made that decision and you can go enforce it
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  765.  @cmtwgrdk2748  yeah, exactly, the Russians can "afford" the casualties, but Ukraine can not.
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  766.  @simplelife7332  ah I see you joined about one year ago and focus solely on YouTube videos about China. I think your handlers at the CCP may get disappointed now that it is clear you are part of their propaganda offensive. Having identified you as a CCP shill means I can safely ignore your comments in the future.
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  767. With respect to the Zaporizhzhia front Ukraine never sent troops to Bakhmut but they remained in place and repulsed the Russian attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3rhQz_xIsI
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  768.  @rllybigguy  looked a lot more like tactical analysis than propaganda and it directly contradicts what was said here. It may take sometime for all the maps to line which ever way is, but that guy has a good track record on analysis that the updated maps match. So just wait and see. When you do then you can start watching his channel.
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  769.  @rllybigguy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6C-5CTe6_Q follow-up that references Russian MoD reports as well as Western sources. Not every channel that is pro-Ukraine shows propaganda because some of the bloggers have friends who are on the front line. Those bloggers practice good OpSec (Operational Security) and avoid their reports being too detailed, but they are being fed information by the Ukrainian military in the way that I have seen some pro-Russian bloggers use Russian MoD reports without any critical commentary. I do not recommend many pro-Ukrainian channels because they let their loyalties affect their reporting, but that is a straight shooter and does genuine tactical analysis. I watch some pro-Russian channels just to balance my information, and I only recommend that channel which is admittedly pro-Ukrainian. Give it a try.
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  770. Sweden has signicant production capacity and Sweden is spending extraordinary amounts of arms and Germany is sending weapons so new that even the German does not have them. This a great opportunity for Sweden to push US wespons out of the market. Ukraine is now beginning to switch over from F-16 to Grippen fighters. The Ukrainian Air Force havd already trained on Grippens. The US is going to lose a lot of business in defense market
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  771. France, Britain and especially Sweden have robust defense Industries that produce weapons better suited for Ukraine than weapons from the US. Personally, I would like to see Ukraine start using Gripen jet fighters rather than F-16 fighters. The sooner that Ukraine can wean itself from US weapons the better it will be for everyone, including the US who needs to treat other countries with greater respect. If Ukraine starts to shift over to European sourced weapons then Trump will get a fast call from the US Defense Contractors as well as the Department of Defense. I would love to be a fly on the wall when Pete Hegseth has to tell Trump that Trump screwed the pooch and NATO plans to source more weapons from European Suppliers. Of course Trump will say that the US will withdraw from NATO and that will make the US Defense Industries lose their mind.
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  772. Make sure to report how much farm land Gates owns.
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  773. As I recall the potential use of first strike nuclear weapons was to offset the tank superiority of the Warsaw pact. Without the use of battlefield nuclear weapons Germany would be overrun by a massed tank attack before the US could get enough military assets to Europe.
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  774. This is simply a shake-down like any criminal gang would ddo. The US police forces and the DEA now behave just like criminal gangs. The US is on the road to becomes ng a Police State. Thd US may already be there given the behavior of DEA and ICE. We need to decriminalize drugs and put a tax on the drugs just as we do on tobacco and alcohol then use the DEA as tax collectors. As it stands now the DEA just shakes down citizens to line their pockets. Let's turn them into drug tax collectors who will have to follow rules like IRS tax agents who most clearly have warrants and probable cause to detain and arrest.
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  775. Here is a quote from your "Task & Purpose" web site: How Ukraine is using artillery to stop Russian forces in their tracks Another reason why artillery has proven to be so deadly in this war is the terrain itself. The Donets Basin, known as the Donbas, is defined by rivers that feed into a spiderweb of tributaries and ravines, which are all very difficult for tanks to cross, said retired Army Col. David Glantz, a military historian and an expert on the Red Army during World War II. Not only do tanks have to cross those water obstacles, but the ravines and gullies provide natural cover for anti-tank guns, and because Ukraine is typically very flat, gunners can see enemy tanks from great distances, Glantz told Task & Purpose. This terrain contributed to the horrendous losses the Red Army sustained during their three attempts to recapture the Donbas from the Germans in 1943. Glantz said he recently reviewed a survey of Red Army commanders taken in 1943 as part of his research for a book he is writing about the fighting in the Donbas, during which a Soviet tank corps would generally lose about 120 of its 200 tanks within a week “Universally, the commanders of those tank and mechanized corps tasked with breaking into the Donbas literally curse in their reports the balkas [ravines] and the ovrags [gullies] – basically, the terrain that makes using tanks very difficult in terms of where they can move because crossing the darn things is a task. It requires bridging in many cases.” The Red Army finally took the Donbas in 1943 through attrition. Their tank forces suffered heavy losses but the Germans could not withstand the sheer number of armies that the Soviets threw at them, he said. “I call the Donbas a graveyard for Soviet armor,” Glantz said. Nearly 80 years later, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces appear to be faring little better. The combination of difficult terrain and excellent Ukrainian gunners have turned the Donbas region into a killing ground, and the hard-learned lessons from the last time Russian forces fought there, appear to have been forgotten.
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  776. Bitcoin is Sh*tcoin.
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  777. It forces the Russians to divert resources from the other fronts to Krnky in order to prevent a breakthrough behind the lines.
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  778. Trump's statements should be considered false until it is proved true, which is a bit backward from the scientific method
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  779. We need to think about increasing tax revenue from the 1% to reduce the deficit.
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  780. And for all those taxes we get the superb State University of New York (SUNY) system of 2 year and 4 years colleges and universities. The SUNY is an unexploited gem.
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  781. I hope we can avoid the Japanese asking us for rent on our military base in Okinowa and that US Navy ship are unwelcome berthing in Japan.
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  782. Not directly related to this video. I would like to hear your breakdown of this helmet cam footage from a Ukrainian soldier fighting in Bakhmut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGad13N4ftI
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  783. Enviromental activists in league with the Green Party in the German coalition government. The current German Foreign Minister is a member of the Green Party. The Greens have long been against Nordstream, and elimating Nordstream would strengthen their hand as well achieving the objective of removing Nordstream which they have long sought. The Greens need not have had a direct hand in this operation. They could have encouraged other environmental activists. Greenpeace itself has expertise in maritime operations. I should close by saying that I support the Greens objectives, and I welcome the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline. The Russo-Ukrainian War is perfect cover for environmental activists to conduct such an operation.
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  784. Interesting documentary, but rather dated even when this posted 3 years ago. Something seemed a bit off, but I was unsure what it was. Then I realized. Everybody is sitting a CRT displays, but even three years ago CRT displays were replaced by flat panels in corporations. I am sure NORAD was converted over to flat panels when this video was posted.
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  785. The Swiss Franc could replace the US Dollar or Euros
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  786. What grade is that aimed at? Some of the questions you asked are topics of study in College and Graduate School.
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  787. It seems like this drone would be even more vulnerable to mines than a human soldier would be. Deploying these drones could become a very expensive proposition due to loss of equipment. I doubt that this drone would prove effective simply due to the cost of replacement.
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  788. For Russian security guarantees, I propose a demilitarized zone (DMZ) from the East Bank of the Dneipr River to the West bank of the Moscow River. In that way both Kyiv and Moscow will sit on the border of the DMZ. UN Peacekeepers would be the only personnel allowed to carry firearms in the DMZ and they would be restricted to side arms and shotguns, and forbidden to carry automatic assault rifles. Also the UN Peacekeepers could have armored vehicle, those vehicles must be unarmed as any heavy weapons are forbidden in the DMZ. The troops in the UN Peacekeeper forces can be drawn only from countries in South America, Africa, Indonesia, Philippines and India. The entire UN Peacekeeper operation would be supervised by Swiss military who would have command over the regiments of the UN Peacekeepers. Only Swiss military can hold the rank of colonel or above as that is the rank required for the head of regiment. The official currency within the DMZ would be Swiss Francs and NATO, Russia and the Swiss would equally fund the operations of the UN Peacekeepers. Let's find out just how committed the Swiss are to peace if it requires that they spend their own money to fund it. One might go a bit further and declare that the only official languages, in which all regulations are published would be French and Russian. The Ukrainians understand Russian although most Russians have trouble understanding Ukrainian therefore allowing Russian is a compromise. Required French as the other language deprives any of the UN Peacekeeper Troops except a few African Nations from having their native language as an official language, but does advantage the Swiss military command because French is one of the three official languages in Switzerland. One final requirement which may seem odd, but I will explain. All UN Peacekeepers must be married, and reside with their families in the DMZ. This should reduce the occurrence of sexual assault on the population of the DMZ as has happened with UN Peacekeepers in Africa. A further requirement would be that the force of UN Peacekeeping soldiers be divided equally between between genders with the number of female Peacekeepers equal to the number of male Peacekeepers. I think the Ukrainians might accept this, but I expect the Russians would only accept this with great difficulty. Nevertheless, these proposals would provide Russia with security guarantees of its border, which is what Russia says it wants. Let's find out just how serious Russia wants border security and what they will concede in order to get it. I doubt they would accept any of this even though these are reasonable proposals. Crimea requires different but similar conditions. Crimea becomes a fully demilitarized UN Protectorate which means that neither Ukraine not Russia have control of Crimea. A perfect compromise. Neither side gets what they want, but both sides get equal treatment. I await the replies to this comment with great anticipation. Thanks for taking the time to read it.
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  789. "Collective responsibility" is a phrase absent from the Russian vocabulary and mindset. When did Russians ever take responsibility for anything?
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  790. I believe that the Ukrainian Constitution forbids creating military bases for non-Ukrainian soldiers. That makes sense given that Russia had military bases in Ukraine during the Cold War and Ukraine wanted to avoid that ever happening again. I expect that training centers differ from foreign military bases because Ukraine controls the training centers even if non-Ukrainian troops reside at the training center. What does qualifies as a military base in the sense that the Ukrainian Constitution forbids? I am sure the Ukrainian Constitution would forbid something like the US base in Ramstein Germany or the new base under construction in Romania which is expected to exceed Ramstein in size. Any country asking for military assistance from the US usually results in the US establishing military bases in that country. Take a look at the US military bases in the UK which have been in operation from the time the US entered the 2nd World War on the side of the UK. The US has given military aid to Ukraine and will surely provide more. However, neither the US nor Ukraine want US troops in Ukraine because that would require the US establishing a military base in Ukraine, and that would violate the Ukrainian Constitution.
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  791. Perhaps there should election officials at drop boxes and video made, then replicates in person voting where the election officials see voters in person and assure that the voter' ballot is recorded
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  792. I feel terrible to the people who bought apartments from Evergrande.
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  793. French has been an official diplomatic language for centuries especially during Napoleonic times as one might guess. English is a relative newcomer. Also, the French insist that if they participate in an organization then one of the official languages must be French. The English speakers don't need to insist because everybody will be able to speak English. When I represented the US in meetings of the Organization for International Standards we would start the meetings with all introductions made in English then French, at which point the head of the French delegation would tell the Chair that the requirement to conduct all proceedings in French as well as English could be waived and all proceedings could take place in English only. We went through this little ritual at the start of every plenary session. Also you may have noticed that I referred to meetings of the Organization for International Standards. The acronym is "ISO" but the name is not International Standards Organization because French insist that the acronym avoid favoring any language. "ISO" stands for "Organization pour Normalization Internationale" in French, and "Organization for International Standards" in English. Never say that "ISO" stands for "International Standards Organization" because the French will get upset by that.
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  794. The fusion overcomes the weak nuclear force which holds the protons and neutrons together rather than the strong nuclear force which holds quarks together to create protons and neutrons.
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  795. The Sacklers need to pay a LOT more than the settlement. $6 billion should be a down-payment. The Sacklers should have to forfeit a large fraction of their personal wealth.
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  796. I vote for them being the intersection with pocket universes that cause cosmic inflation and are the source of dark energy.
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  797. Zelenskyy has been clear that he will engage in negotiations when Russia withdraws from all of the territory of Ukraine.
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  798. This was a poorly constructed question. The question should have been, "Who do you trust more to lead Ukraine politically?" The answers to that question should be especially interesting to people in the US because the US has a long history of electing military leaders to the Presidency.
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  799.  @kadovax6567  Really? I heard a lot say they wanted a Zalushne. I will have to listen again and have pencil ready to count. I am serious, how many did you hear say that?
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  800. We need to get the wealthy to pay more than they do
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  801. As I understand, the Russians knew about this problem and had designed their launch systems to avoid the need for the step where the capsule needed to be in a pure oxygen environment. Also what compounded the problem was that the interior capsule was covered in Velcro because it was useful to attach objects to the interior of capsule. However, it also provided fuel for the fire when the spark ignited the conflagration.
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  802. The expression to use about Russian Propaganda it that "the jokes write themselves."
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  803. Given that the US Senate must ratify any treaties, the most appropriate US official to attend is the President of the US Senate and that is the Vice President of the US.
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  804. The Centrists should revive the Independence Party that H. Ross Perot created. It still exists and has registration in almost everday in the US.
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  805. Lei, your analysis of the Chinese football industry is another example of your excellent analysis. I do note that it is almost half of this overall video, while the section on the semiconductor company Tsinghua Unigroup is the other half. I know you have other videos on China's efforts to build a semiconductor industry. Do you feel that making separate playlists on the China sports industry and the Chinese semiconductor industry would prove helpful? You could split this video into the part on the semiconductor industry and putting it into a playlist with your other videos on the Chinese semiconductor industry. Then you could take the segment on the football and create a playlist about the Chinese sports industry as I recall you do have some videos about CCP and NBA relations in another video, although I may have that mistaken. Your videos are so good, I make this suggestion with some reluctance, but I hope you will consider this editorial suggestion.
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  806. The US Mint has wanted to dump the penny for years, but Congress has been forcing the Mint to keep the penny. Musk is pushing on an open door when he says he recommends dropping the penny
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  807. I never heard that the ATACMS were now limited to targets in Russia but only in the Kursk Oblast. I thought the permission had wider applicability 😊
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  808. Have any corporate jets crashed?
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  809. As I recall in a previous video you have told us that the Russians deliver each artillery a daily of sixty (60) shells which would mean that pile is the result of day's w
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  810. You failed to spend more time a method of approaching his anus from between legs . At the risk of revealing too many family secrets, this was the technique my father used and it is sanitary if someone follows up by washing the area with water afterwards. As my father aged and became more corpulent he got one the Japanese toilets that spray water to clean the user's anus. As an aside, my father grew up in Southern Alabama in the same part of the country as James Carville so James might know people who use the same technique. Thankfully my father died before haiving to experience Trump, but i know my father would have loathed him as much as Carville does because my father was a devoted progressive whose poltical views could fairly be considered socialist as are my own. Okay more than you wanted to know about my family, but James did delve into the nether realms of Trump so i feel justified in following James lead, but in the case of a man whose political and moral attitude were as different from Trump as inaginable.
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  811. Talkative and remonstrative cats like Bruce are a great pleasure to be with. I am glad Bruce has a caretaker who appreciates his expressiveness.
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  812. Arthur I wonder if there is any lawyer in your community who can help file a lawsuit against Patreon to force them to make their reasons public?
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  813. The CCP learned from US Corporations who have used stock buybacks to keep their stock value high make sure that the options held by their Executives will retain value. Lest you think this is speculation on my part, I can assure you that friends of mine in the Fortune 100 where I worked have told me that is precisely what has been happening. I guess the US Corporation have run out of profits to artificially prop up their stock prices.
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  814. Is what you called "regrouping" perhaps "troop rotation" instead. Russian sources indicate that Russian Forces rarely do rotation. Russian withdrawals usually mean regrouping. However, in many cases Ukrainian rotates troops because they have fewer troops. How do you determine what is a rotation versus a regrouping?
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  815. This will be a test for the media. Will they really report on it, or will they try to misdirect people?
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  816. Given the harm people have done to the environment and the pain and suffering people cause each other, why is the extinction of the human race such a bad idea?
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  817.  @MrShobar  well I was winging it on the numbers, and I was hoping someone would correct as you did. Thank you! So how would the numbers work if the Supreme Court Justices were drawn from Appellate Circuits? I did spend time looking at what the Constitution says about how the Supreme Court should be composed and it is very vague. People discussed expanding the number of Justices and limiting terms and the Constitution says nothing about what those should be. Having Supreme Court Justices comes from the Appellate seems sensible because it is promotion system rather than having Supreme Court Justices parachute in from nowhere to exaggerate a point.
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  818. Putin needs to occupy a lot more of Donetsk before he can present this entire war as having had any value.
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  819. They could have made it worse/better by making it a three ($3) dollar bill.
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  820. The flow of water through he Straits of Taiwan are weakest in tge Spring Equiox and the October Equinox, Xi has been firing Generals are I wonder if those are Generals who argued against an invasion on Taiwan in October. I wonder if the US and China will go to war, and that will reduce the amount military assistance to Ukraine.
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  821. You look much younger without the beard. People say the same to me.
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  822. The nuclear power plant is a big deal.
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  823. You must mean why is China so afraid of allowing WHO from investigating the origin of the novel corona virus.
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  824. Dreaadnaught also helped create the first arms control treaty. Countries competed to expand their Navies with ever larger battleships and accordingly larger construction costs. The costs to build baattleships threatened to bankrupt countries unless they could agree on some formula that placed restrictions on the construction of battleships. The Naval Treaty negotiated by US, Great Britain, France, Japan and the US. The Bretton Woods agreement on the size and number of battleships rrepresented to first international arms limitation agreement. It was all set in motion by HMS Dreadnought and the competition to build increasing numbers of powerful battleships modeled on the design of HMS Dreadnought. HMS Dreadnought also created the enormous demand for fuel oil.
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  825. Lol
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  826.  @drumpfdon760  I think you have mistaken me for someone who cares about your opinions. In future you can save yourself the effort of replying to anything I post because I will ignore anything that I see comes from you
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  827. Federal Credit Unions are definitely the way to go.
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  828. I live in New York City and you should never interview someone from New York City if you want to know what people in the US think about something. New York City really like a separate country from the rest of the US and always has been. New York City had draft riots during the US Civil War because they wanted nothing to do with it. On the other hand, if you want to know what people around the world think about something then you can probably find a neighborhood of whatever ethnicity you want and do your interviews there.
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  829. This video of Ukrainian Territorial Defense practicing small group tactics looks like they are practicing the tactics you described https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4WYhcEDOj8
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  830. Russia is already under extreme sanctions and US buys nothing from Russia so trying to slap tariffs on Russia does nothing.
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  831. @xMario209  my point is that such a threat from the US means nothing because the US already has applied maximum economic pressure on Russia. The US just needs to assure that those sanctions stay in place.
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  832.  @kjh23gk  We have a sterling example of this paradox here in the US with the state of Louisiana. Take a look at this YouTube video which explains it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38 I think you will agree it is an example of the "resource curse" as well as the paradox of plenty.
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  833.  @kagnetix6674  admittedly it just kicks the can down the road, but if the issue is where are the young people to pay for the retirement pensions of the old people then you have solved that problem
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  834. If world population does stabilize in 2100 as many forecasts have it, then you could get to a steady state. Leaving aside that desirable state, there is that question of automation. With Japan we may soon see a society with robots to care for older people. Indeed people may design an AI to act as a caregiver for an aging human population.
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  835.  @baha3alshamari152  my comment applied more broadly than just Ukraine. As I recall I referred to all on Europe rather than focusing on just Ukraine.
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  836. Your reference to Bragg in particular is exaggerated. Bragg discovered that the nature of gun sounds was not well understood and that care needed to be taken to separate the sonic boom of the shell from the actual sound of the firing. This problem was solved in mid-1916 when one of Bragg's detachment, Lance Corporal William Sansome Tucker, formerly of the Physics Department, London University, invented the low-frequency microphone. This separated the low frequency sound made by the firing of the gun from the sonic boom of the shell. It used a heated platinum wire that was cooled by the sound wave of a gun firing. I expect that the Russian application owes more to Russian techniques used in the passive sonar systems they use on their submarines rather than the specific solution that Tucker invented under Bagg's direction. I wonder how much someone might learn from that mobile phone software about the signal processing algorithms that Russia uses in their underwater passive sonar systems.
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  837. I give it less than a year before the Ukrainians are giving NATO technology upgrades to the F-16.
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  838. 99% of the Universe is made of Dark Plasma, but this course will be about Plasma you can see.
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  839. The Territorial Defense still needs more training. The instances of Ukrainian troops refusing to fight and returning the arms to the Army have largely been from Territorial Defense Force troops and even more importantly officers who were rushed into battle with too little training. I hope the 10,000 Ukrainians now in the UK for training will be able to transfer that knowledge to other Ukrainian soldiers after the training in the UK. I should add that the US Military was very pleasantly surprised and impressed by how quickly the Ukrainian soldiers learned how to use US and NATO weapons. I hope that also proves true of their training in the UK, and I expect so. Where is a will, there is a way. Without a doubt the Ukrainians have the will.
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  840.  @bbj7383  Thanks! If I ever get over to Taiwan again (unlikely) I will make a point of visited.
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  841. I would think that the financial sanctions would make that crowdfunding campaign impossible because moving the money from the crowdfunding campaign should prove impossible.
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  842. I would guess that cavitation on the hull will gradually wear down any surface
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  843.  @nomad7734  Wait until you are seventy years old, and then give me your answer. :-)
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  844. Cyrus I have tried to watch a number of your videos, but the video framing often obscures your hand the movement. You gesticulate when you talk, and I do the same. However I find it very distracting when sometimes I can see your hands, sometimes not, and worse sometimes I see only part of your hands. Can you adjust your video framing to show your hands at all times?
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  845. What age and class agenda is expected to use your book for study?
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  846. Synthesizing quartz would require using silicon as one of the ingredients. However, silicon is what you want to get from quartz. If you already have the silicon in it's elemental form then that is what you want to make wafers. Having elemental silicon is the objective, and quartz is a means to the objective.
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  847. I should add to my previous reply that when someone speaks about "pure quartz" they are referring to pure silica (silicon dioxide) without any additional elements. There are many types of quartz, such as rose quartz for example. Rose quartz is just as much quartz as pure silica. In fact it is more than pure quartz because it has extra impurities.
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  848. Would "Ivan the most Terrible" also serve as a nick name?
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  849. Very, very
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  850. This may have an interesting positive unintended consequence for Ukraine. Basically it pushed the Ukraine to increasing industrialization. The demographic for farmers is getting older and it would be difficult to replace the population of farmers. The agricultural capacity of the Black Sea Oblasts will be difficult and expensive to recover because it is the most landminded areas in the world. It will take a generation to recover those areas for agricultural production. Ukraine has demonstrated considerable capacity for software development and international companies could economically outsource software development to Ukraine. Also Ukraine has demonstrated excellent weapons production and Western Arms industry might invest and acquire manufacturers in Ukraine. In particular Ukraine has considerable expertise in jet engine design and manufacture. In summary Ukraine may see transition from a agricultural to an industrial economy very soon
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  851. What is the best way to dispose of unusable batteries? Is there a way to recycle them?
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  852.  @janzzen9095  I despise the use of chemical weapons. From Russia's perspective tens of years is better than hundreds of years.
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  853. I want a Kadyrov hand towel or better yet, Kadyrov toilet paper.
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  854. NATO against the US
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  855. I guess the sanctions on Russia have blocked all imports of nicotine patches, but the Russians could use chewing tobacco like baseball players do.
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  856. The attitudes expressed here and only calculated to avoid retaliation by Trump. This is self censorship in deference to the bullying behavior of Trump.
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  857. If Starship needs a "starter motor" to get the turbines started then a Starship needs special launch pad. You might be able to land on a wide range of surfaces, however taking off again will require special facilities.
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  858. I am very much enjoying your Japan trip and reactions. I am married to a Japanese, and our children are bilingual and bicultural. As you might imagine I have visited Japan numerous times over the past thirty years, and your reactions match those of many gaijin like me which makes me chuckle. We also live in upstate NY, but close enough to visit NY City easily. I must share my sushi story with you. On one of my first visits to Japan I went to sushi restaurant with friends, and I asked them where to get the best sushi. They looked at me as if I had lost my mind, and they said, "New York City." Needless to say that stunned me, and I asked why. They reminded me that sushi is raw fish; therefore, cooking has nothing to do with quality of the sushi. The quality of the sushi depends completely on the quality of the fish, and best fish for sushi comes from the Grand Bank Fishery off the coast of Northeastern US and Canada. The sushi restaurants in New York City serve sushi made from fish from Grand Banks. If I wanted the best sushi then just go to a sushi restaurant in New York City. So I have to take exception to the title of this video. No offense I hope. :-)
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  859. There is evidence that Russia has seriously depleted their stocks of precise guided missiles although they have a reserve of less precisely guided missiles
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  860. Putin might get better info he watched YouTube than what his General Staff is telling him.
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  861. Thank LBJ for the space facilities in Texas.
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  862. Thank you! I almost started to watch that
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  863. I think the breakthrough is supposed to be the use of a "room temperate" superconductor to fabricate magnets capable of generate the magnetic field density required to contain the plasma. For a number of years before he retried, my father lead the group at Oak Ridge National Labs who designed the superconducting magnets used in the tokamak experimental apparatus at ORNL. My father's specific area of expertise within cryogenic physics was superconductivity. He had low expectations for using the "room temperature" superconductors because their material properties, also described in this video, prevented making wires from the material which crumbles easily. The design of the magnet shown in this video, and how it uses the superconductor in layers is very ingenious, and deserves description as a breakthrough. HOWEVER, nothing else has changed about fusion reactors. As I have mentioned in other replies here, a fusion reactor generates a sleet of high-energy neutrons from which the rest of system is supposed to draw the energy to heat some liquid and drive a turbine etc. The elephant in the room is that all these high neutrons make the ENTIRE play radioactive over time, and compromise the structural integrity of the steel in the building in ways can only be guessed at now. So ... fusion reactors do produce radioactive waste ... the whole reactor ... Now the proponents of fusion reactors have never explained how to dispose of a completely radioactive building. Bulldoze it and bury it, maybe? A modern burial mound to bequeath many generations to come. Worse even than any fission reactor. Better to spend the money on improving fission reactors rather than building fusion reactors.
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  864.  @galanthuman2157  Well, don't make it a habit, but just be prepared to "go to court" if you do. So, break the contract and see what happens? I think that Germany withholding spare parts because you broke the contract is unlikely. Especially when Sweden could pick up the slack. Yeah some of the parts are likely proprietary and cover by Intellectual Property agreements. However, in for a penny, in for a pound. Break the contract. Ask for forgiveness rather than as for permission.
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  865. Please show the topographic map
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  866. Nothing can express my disgust and horror as I listened to what happened to you. I think I would have died during all of that.
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  867.  @drumpfdon760  why two D's? Nobody speaking English uses double D's in the word "kid" unless they mean the family name "Kidd" as in the name "Captain Kidd" who was a famous pirate. Therefore, I am left to conclude that double D's fascinate you because even your name has double D's. There actually is a name for a double D fixation, but then I am sure you know what I mean.
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  868.  @drumpfdon760  Sorry to see you have returned. I hoped to see your back as you walked away. ROTLMAO
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  869. The term "wokeness" is demeaning when the word should be "awareness" especially awareness of racism and discrimination based on gender as well as non-European ethnic background
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  870.  @drumpfdon760  Don't quit your day job.
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  871.  @drumpfdon760  so just for the entertainment value ... on what do you base calling me "an old, childish, and hypocrite kidd" ? BTW, I really do recommend fixing your spelling of "kidd" to "kid" which has only one "d" rather two. I thought they taught you guys better English in your CCP troll school.
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  872.  @candykane4271  That was the case in the Russian attempt in the past but the Ukrainians had the Russians on the run, knew the area better, and probably did not try to cross in force initially, but increased the force as they pushed ahead.
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  873.  @quantumresonance8201  I suggest you watch this video "The Fallen of World War II" https://youtu.be/DwKPFT-RioU You might find this useful to give an example of what Russia was prepared to do inn the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Seelow_Heights
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  874.  @Ray_LF  Keep in mind that Ukraine used to service MiG 29 from around the world. Ukraine has expert jet mechanics. How would those Su25 and MiG 29 keep flying with maintenance. I expect the Ukrainian mechanics who already must deal with at least three different jet engines when you include the helicopters, can learn how to maintain an Abrams tank. The Abrams also uses Field Replaceable Units for many parts of the tank including the power plant. The suggestion that Ukraine will have great difficulty transporting jet fuel, aka kerosene, has also been overblown. Ukraine already must have some storage and distribution for kerosene for their airforces alone. Also, despite the fact that almost all of Ukraine was electrified, I expect that kerosene was still used by a substantial number of people. My point being that kerosene has a use other than to power jet engines. In fact, the worldwide consumption of kerosene to fuel air transportation is almost equal to the worldwide consumption of kerosene for illumination. Kerosene is not some exotic petroleum distilate.
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  875.  @Ray_LF  Oh yes the Budapest Memorandum has been on my mind a lot in the past year, and I have reminded a number of people in various comment threads about it. As to supply of fuel to Abrams tanks, you are correct that it is an issue of volume rather than type. I simply was saying that Abrams tank actually runs on a less expensive fuel because it runs on kerosene. I also did know that the fuel consumption of an Abrams should be measured in GPM or Gallons Per Mile rather than MPG or Miles Per Gallo. Your number closely matches what I have been told, which was 6 Gallons Per Mile. If this question of fuel distribution in a battlefield is of interest to you then you should look up how the Russians handle the problem. It really is bizarre to my way of thinking because they actually lay down pipes. In fact that was part of what that infamous 30 km of trucks was doing. They were not only carrying fuel, but they were laying pipe by the side of that road to pump the fuel later.
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  876.  @Big.Bad.Wolfie  Well vodka sure seems to be in ample supply from the Russians. The Ukrainians can augment the fuel the West sends supply with fuel from the Russians the way they got their supplies from the Russians. BTW did you realize that Russia is actually the largest arms supplier to Ukraine because of all the captured equipment. I must that I am rather embarassed by that fact. We should have given the Ukrainians the weapons when they asked for them. They desperately pleaded for HIMARS to help them to defend themselves in the retreat from Severodonetsk. I wonder how many Ukrainian lives were lost because we refused to HIMARS systems at that time?
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  877. I can read CNN articles by myself. What added value does this video offer?
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  878. I seriously believe that Brett did not realize that the show producer had setup the wrong clip, and the body language you saw was shock when he realized the clip was wrong. Brett got sandbagged, and his apology for lying is he taking one for the tesm.
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  879. If this was a militarial exercise then the military will say very little about it, and attenpt to ssweep it ubder the rug
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  880. Once again, you get my admiration for how smoothly you transitioned from the report to your sponsor. When Ukraine wins this war, I think you should get a job in broadcasting or transition channel from covering a war to covering the reconstruction. There will be a lot to report about the reconstruction both in terms of how it is progressing as well as the politics involved and the corruption that there will inevitably occur. When the US poured billions of dollars into the US economy during the COVID epidemic to help small businesses, that scale of fraud and abuse went through the roof. Whenever a government is providing vast amounts of money to restart and economy or keep an economy running there will always be stories about people who took that opportunity to steal that money. That alone will make for good reporting. So, keep up this extraordinarily professional reporting and consider making a career out of it.
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  881. A German friend of mine wrote me this comment after watching this report: "This guy is particularly detestable, and, sadly, is too representative of the contemporary SPD. It has rejected the legacy of Ernst Reuter and has embraced the neutralism of Kurt Schumacher, which is a shame. The Greens are the most resolute supporter of Ukraine in Germany these days. Thank God for Frau Baerbock."
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  882. Read-only still allows them to collect and make a copy of all the information on people related to tax returns, soc sec, Medicare, Medicaid, Vet Affairs as well information on contractors as well as Defense Department spendings and contracts
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  883. Time for you to set up an independent website. This has also been happening with pro-Ukraine which been repeatedly demonetized. That video creator created a web site and they contnuue to post on YouTube.
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  884. The objective of the price cap on gas is to constrain revenue to Russia. The fossil fuel is not a free market any more than the diamond market is. Both the fossil fuel market and the diamond market are controlled by cartels who set the price by controlling the supply. Putting price controls on a market that is controlled by a cartel constrains the power of the cartel. It is ludicrous to try to apply simple supply-demand economics to the energy market, and especially the fossil fuel market.
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  885. How about ornithologists who would studiied starling murmurations before the invention of inexpensive.drone technology?
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  886. Oops, the example of the letter from Queen Victoria to Mary Lincoln continues a grammar error in the very first word where it says "Thought" instead of using "Though" which is the correct word. You might want to let your sponsor know to fix that.
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  887.  @wafudave6041  what are the four Meteorological days because I have heard of the Geological identifications of the two equinox and the two solstices. We have to keep in mind that what season those equinoxes and solstices mark are different for the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. My friends in Australia laugh at people who suggest that the September Equinox means the shift from Summer to Autumn because they know very well that the September Equinox marks the transition from Winter into Spring.
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  888. Romania and Hungary have played tug of war with Transylvania for close to 2,000 years and there is a lot of hard feeling about it. By the way it was Stalin who assigned Transylvania to Romania most recently. I know nothing about historical disputes over borders between Romania and Ukraine or Hungary and Ukraine, but I would like to learn if there are. My Romanian friends will complain bitterly about the Hungarians, but I have never heard any of them complain about Ukraine. Complain about the Soviet Union, yes. Complain about Russia, yes. Complain about Ukraine, never heard any.
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  889.  @pfroudzdo  I agree with your point about stopping countries from interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine, but what was the CIA and MI6 plan of which you speak?
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  890.  @pfroudzdo  Oh the Polish remember. I grew up in a part of the US with very large Polish American and Ukrainian American communities, but they got along despite the history. They all saw Russia as a more serious and immediate threat, and they were right to do so as we have seen.
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  891. Congrats!
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  892. Wow!
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  893. Aren't there five sided Penrose tiles?
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  894. Look at Marco Rubio trying to disappear into the couch.
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  895. When i worked in South Korea on a foreign assignment, i found out that many of the Koreans i worked with were also US Citizen because their mother gave birth to them in th US. They told me that it was a common practice to send preegnant daughters to the US so their babies would be US Citizens at birth. They would return to Korea with their new born US citizen. The reason for this was very practical. South Korea is continually worried about invasion from North Korea. Having US citizenship would give someone a way out if the North succeeded in takiing over South Korea.
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  896. Until Chinese yuan is transparent in its supply and accounting they will never become reserve current
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  897. When that soldier speaks of sexual assault by other soldiers, I think he is referring to sodomizing POWs with objects like batons. There was an interview with Americans who fought with Ukrainians, taken captive by the Russians then released in a prisoner swap. They said they were threatened by the interrogator that he would shove the truncheon he had up their rectum. The American said he was terrified because he knew the Russian was entirely capable of doing that.
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  898. Oh great, an advert for storing water in plastic containers
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  899. How many refueling missions will be needed? I have heard it will take as many twenty (20) refueling sessions. How much time will that get done? Years?
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  900. I think those people behind him are looking up at the jumbotron television. They are sitting behind Trump and need to look at the television if they want see Trump from the front. Also, I wonder if the people behind Trump are paid to sit there.
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  901. Perhaps you could get YouTube to specifically assign a team to China reporting channels. Both the state sponsored, and privately produced videos.
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  902. Another stand out video! By the way, at time 7:39, "Corruption" misspelled
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  903. How interesting that General Shinseki is reviled for an aesthetic decision about headwear instead of being praised for adopting a wheeled vehicle and for the monumental changes he made to the force structure of the Army. The tank commanders are at the top of the prestige hierarchy in the Army just as the Naval Aviators are in the US Navy. Shinseki got savage push back from the advocates of treaded vehicles who with their supporters in Congress compelled Shinseki to do a series of expensive and largely unnecessary head-to-head tests of treaded versus wheeled vehicles. The tank advocates never forgave Shinseki for diminishing the role of tanks, and they focused their anger and revenge on Shinseki on the matter of dress uniform headgear. How sadly predictable that Shinseki is remembered for the trivial matter of headgear in the dress uniform rather than the substantive matter of force structure and the adoption of more practical and logistically supportable wheeled combat vehicles. Add to that the comment also made below that Shinseki told Congress the truth that it would take 300 thousand troops to occupy Iraq about which history showed he was dead-right as opposed to the fantasy that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was peddling at the time. The tank clique and the neo-cons got revenge on General Shinseki, and he was forced to retire as Army Chief of Staff. Clinton brought him back as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs where he began but was never able to finish cleaning up the VA mess. It is interesting to note that Clinton's appointment of Admiral Borda to Chief of Naval Operations drew the ire of Naval Aviators because Borda was the first Chief of Naval Operations who rose from the ranks to General Staff. Borda was hounded by the Naval elite about a misunderstanding about battle ribbons that lead to Borda committing suicide in despair over the matter. It is especially interesting to note that Shinseki was the first Asian American member of the General Staff and Admiral Borda was a Jewish-American who was Chief of Naval Operations. I feel certain that animosity against those two ethnic groups had a lot to do with how unjustly Shinseki and Borda were treated by their respective branches of the military. As an historical footnote, Borda was born in Ukraine.
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  904. Perhaps using a ratio of military to civilian deaths could help estimate Ukrainian military losses. The civilian casualties in Ukraine are well documented by multiple sources; therefore, we can consider the civilian casualty numbers as a reliable number. The squishy part will be the ratio of civilian casualties. If there is a reasonable multiplier then you could use that to estimate Ukrainian military casualties. I should note that casualties is always a larger number than deaths given casualties in military parlance means soldiers who can no longer fight, and that maybe due to wounds as well as deaths.
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  905.  @cruiser6260  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
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  906.  @xoxou5388  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
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  907.  @cruiser6260  That is why I put my original comment in the subjunctive rather than the declarative. Do any of those wars have a parallel with this one?
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  908.  @xoxou5388  That is why I put my original comment in the subjunctive rather than the declarative. Do any of those wars have a parallel with this one?
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  909. https://youtu.be/DwKPFT-RioU?t=705
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  910.  @cruiser6260  https://youtu.be/DwKPFT-RioU?t=705
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  911.  @xoxou5388  Yes, I had no desire to be contentious. My question was sincere. I would like to a good fix on casualties on both sides of this conflict. I suspect they are both horrifying.
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  912. Absolute nonsense from the CCP. The list of Debt Traps from China is long. Look at Sri Lanka and Pakistan. If people reply that those countries have never complained about it then just think who benefits and who loses when a country complains about the debt it owes another country. The CCP has been very clever in using Debt Traps in Africa as well as other parts of the World
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  913. Unfortunately, the land that Russian has occupied is extremely value. It is te source of Ukraine's "blac soil" which makes Ukraine who effective in Agriculture. Nobody understands why that type of black soil except for an inexplicable occurrence in a small area in Australia. The Black Soil in Ukraine is sufficiently valuable that ships will load up and smuggle the soil to other areas. The are the area that Russia occupies is more than just a chunk of land even coastal territory. As far as reparations are concerned if would make more sense to force all Russian grain to Ukraine at a price at some percent below the market price, and then let Ukraine sell the grain on the open market. Sharing revenue from fossil fuels simply puts Ukraine in the position of wanting to increase product much to irritation of the Climate Crisis. Let me give you some insight into Putin's mind and Xi's as well. Putin, Xi and I were all born in in the last quarter of 1952. That makes us all 72 years old. You begin to confront the end of your like when you get beyond seventy, and you begin to wonder what your legacy will be. Notice that both Putin and Xi are Nationalists therefore the natural place to leave your mark is the territorial expansion. Beware of an old man in a hurry. Fun fact: Putin Palace's in Sochi has been razed to the ground and there is much speculation about why. My belief is that some sabotage did visible damage to the building. Putin simply destroyed the entire building rather than try to fix it which would take time and give other Russian resistance that idea that successful attack on the Putin's Palace was possible and effective. https://img.nzz.ch/2024/10/10/f9cc7e9c-e8ed-400c-b132-e0bd33d783e5.png
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  914. You mean the Sackler Family ... Perdue is chickens not phrama
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  915.  @robertsmith2956  perhaps it is, but that is not the "Perdue" referred to here
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  916. Denys Davydov has also been showing the areas where satellites show fires https://youtu.be/do7bhgbqoik?t=210 Might be interesting to show those as well.
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  917. I watched an analysis by the Austrian Military Academy of the Ukrainian retreat from Sevierodonetsk and they described it as a text book implementation of a tactical retreat which would serve as an example of an excellently executed retreat. A tactical retreat is very difficult as the instructor in the Austrian Army explained and the Ukrainian Army did it close to perfectly. My point is that a well trained and well commanded army can do a tactical retreat without suffering casualties that destroy the combat effectiveness of those troops. It is far more stupid to try to maintain a position in the face of larger numbers of opposing troops. That will lead the destruction of an army, but a retreat allows an army to "live to see another day" as the saying goes.
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  918. I expect Trump to be intransigent with Japan because he thinks that bexause US defeated Japan in the Second World war and the Japanese should remain subservient to tge US. Also Trump's racism also get in his way when he looks at Japan. I believe that after shabby tratenent at the hands of Trump, then Japan will decide to liquidate a large tranche of the US Treasury bonds they have simply to show Trump what can happen. A bit like one country dropping two atomic bombs on an other country in order for the first country to demonstrate the amount of destructive power it has.
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  919. Oh darn it! I am not a Tiger, I was born in the year of the Dragon.
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  920. Now I will believe anything about the health conditions of Xi and of Putin. There have been recent speculations about whether Putin has Parkinson's disease. When Putin and Xi met prior to the Olympics, Xi mentioned to Putin that he and Putin were very close in age. Putin is a few months older than Xi. As it happens I am the same age as Putin and Xi. Trust me. At my age any health problem is possible. The human body just begins to break down.
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  921. There is a third point that should get them to hear, 3) What Elon Musk is doing is jeopardizing our national security. The data maybe "read-only" that means they can make a copy. China has long wanted a copy of all this data. Elon could sell this informatioon, he is very close to China. Now Elon is going into the Defence Department data, and that will reveal all the projects funded by the Department including secret projects. Elon can hand out nation's secret to an adverasy like China and Russia. Please stop Elon. I fear for our country, my family. Please help.
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  922. The tariffs are in fact a sales tax on the US consumer and is a regressive tax that benefits the wealthy at the expense of the rest of society. It is a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. Nothing good will come from these tariffs
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  923. You got the wrong clip for Vance's reply about Big Tech😊
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  924. I pray that the higher cost of debt for the US while cause Coongress to reject a trillion dollar tax cut that will require taking ob more debt. China and Japan dumping US Treasuryy Binds could do the American a favorby detering the tax cut the benefits the most weslthy in the US. I am not holding my breath
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  925. ​ @DoSe420 and a smaller percentage of their income. Raise the tax rates on the wealthy with a true progressive tax and use that to reduce the deficit
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  926. @mikeackles8937  and that is what percent of total income tax revenue? You need to get some perspective, pal
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  927. @mikeackles8937  just took a look at your channel and your comments which are what someone would expect from a reactionary stooge.
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  928. Interesting that both "Total Recall" and "Bladerunner" are adapted from Philip K. Dick short stories.
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  929. That gunner is doing it right by firing bursts rather than just spraying bullets on automatic. Even so, you can easily see how Ukraine would need the most recent supply of one million rounds of ammunition from the US. One million is a big number. Keep in mind that the distance from the Earth to the Sun is 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. I can scarcely imagine how many million rounds of ammunition have been fired by Ukraine and Russia combined in the now over 510 days of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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  930. It is not the first time that Ukraine told everyone where they would counterattack. Ukraine said the first counterattack would be in Kherson and then pushed through the Kharkiv oblast. So this is the Second time that Ukraine publicly discussed their counterattack. Look how well those announcements worked out for those who believed the public statements.
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  931.  @gravkocher5677  I was making a different point. The author of this blog said this counteroffensive is the first one that the Ukrainians discussed publicly and he implied it was foolish to do so. My point was that not only did they discuss a previous comment counterattack before this one, but all the talk was intended to draw attention away from the true position of the attack, and it worked. These milbloggers should stop acting like armchair generals, and devote their to reporting the situation without trying to second guess what will happen.
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  932.  @gravkocher5677  I agree that there is good reason to suspect the numbers for either side. I was speaking purely about intention. Whatever numbers we might consider accurate, everyone agrees that the Ukrainians said they would attack Kherson and then advanced quickly in the Kharkiv Oblast. It was like a boxer who feints with the left hand to draw away from his right hand then hits with the right hand. So that was the first of the counteroffensive and it involved a static deception. Now we have a second counteroffensive and Ukraine seems to be doing a good job of making it look like they will attack everywhere and anywhere.
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  933. I am surprised that the Awiss Franc is not on rhe top five
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  934. The START treaty 1991 at the time limited the US and USSR to one anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems each and positioned wherever each side chose as the location to deploy the ABM System. The US decided to place their ABM system to protect some ballistic missile bases located in sparsely populated areas in order to preserve the ability of the US to launch a retaliatory strike if Russian launched a pre-emptive first strike on the US. The Russians located their ABM system to cover Moscow and probably to protect the Russian leadership. What is most interesting about this choice of Russia to put their ABM system is that in 1991 the means used by both sides lacked precision and an ABM systems destroyed a nuclear missile by detonating an air-burst nuclear explosion. This means that the civilian population in Moscow would be exposed to the radiation and radio-active fallout from the air-burst nuclear explosion needed to destroy the incoming missile. Nothing expressed the Russian disregard for their population better than the Russian choice of location to deploy their single ABM System allowed by the START treaty.
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  935. What a disappointing video. Nothing in this video provided any new analysis of the Russo-Ukraine War. Perhaps it is useful to someone who has been living under rock for the last year. Thanks for phoning in the story, Vox.
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  936. He said that ICE officers could raid hospitals and doctor's offices!!
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  937. I was really amused by the comment that China will be here for another five thousand years. Geez, humanity won't be here in five thousand years. China especially won't be here with their shrinking demographics.
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  938. Soldiers lined up to fire because they used smooth bore muskets before rifling was invented, and with a smooth bore muskets the bullet might go off in any direction. You needed massed smooth bored muskets so that the collected fired bullets would probably went in right direction.
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  939.  @matthewdievendorf9609  Such as Russia destroying the dam at Nova Kakhovka which would drain the cooling pond for the spent fuel rods at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, for example?
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  940.  @matthewdievendorf9609  As much as I want Ukraine to win and the Russians pushed out of Ukraine, the prospect of a reactor disaster is bad for everyone. I hope the Russians have more sense than to do this; however, I fear they do not.
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  941. A small comment about presentation style. Having your reporter hold paper makes small gestures quite distracting. I like your videos, and I make this comment to make your videos even better.
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  942. Who knew that 7 Oct was a holiday with fireworks in Russia
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  943. Yeah, that military genius Donald Trump.
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  944. Smell of rain is the most pleasant for me. I have also noticed that my sense of smell is better than anyone in the rest of the family. I can smell increased humidity before it rains, and of course I smell rain far more intensely than my other family.
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  945. ​ @TesseractPleiadesOrion At the end of the Second World War the US had 25% global industrial capacity. A dominance of the global industrial capacity that continued into the 19660s. US manufactured goods dominated global markets simply because there were more of them. When Japan and Germany began to produce higher quality goods then the ZUS market share began to drop. The US was a victim of its own dominance of global manufacturing. When you have the largest market share then why bother trying to import the product. I have seen that attitude so often with management. The US may have had the largest share of manufacturing capacity after the war, and I expect the largest share of incompetent management. It takes longer to improve the quality of manufacturing than it does to improve the quality of management because low quality management stands in the way of improving both manufacturing and management. Look at what happened to Great Britain after the War. They had been training management to run an Empire then they lost the Empire. Never really have recovered.
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  946. This is extremely misleading because many South Korean families send their pregnant family members to the US to give birth in order to gain US citizenship.
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  947. So Russia's actions are threatening the world with a nuclear catastrophe
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  948. That huge drone is typical Russia. They always think that the biggest is the best. Russia insists of having the bragging rights
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  949. Perhaps focused microwave could affect people cooking team from the inside out. However, humidity does affect microwave
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  950. The USAID Inspector General had initiated a probe into Starlink satellite terminals in the Russia Ukraine war. The USAID Inspector General was fired and the investigation into Elon was shut down.
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  951. An additional perspective on how the Russian Federation can come apart. Watch "Siberia Joins Ukraine to DEFEAT Russia" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IgIw5TJG60
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  952. Although highly speculative, if Belarus attacks Ukraine from the North then Poland might enter the war with troops. Poland can enter a war and remain part of NATO. All the NATO treaty commits its members to do is to defend an attack on one member as an attack on all members. NATO truly is defensive and does nothing to prevent a member from attacking some non-NATO country. That is exactly what the US did in the Iraq Gulf War and in the Afghan war. While it is true that some NATO countries such as Canada and Romania and the Baltic countries sent troops to assist the US, and eventhough people have represented the US wars in the Middle East or even the Yugoslavian War as NATO actions it really was not under the NATO treaty and the NATO countries that allied with the US in the Yugoslavian War and the Middle Eastern Wars was really about the US looking on those NATO with favor. Note that neither France nor Germany although NATO countries never participated in those wars with the US. The point is that Poland could enter the Russo-Ukrainian War on the side of Ukraine without violating the NATO treaty or requiring that other NATO countries from joining. Another consideration in favor of Poland joining Ukraine is historical given that Ukraine, especially Western Ukraine was part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth which lasted from 1563 to 1795 which is comparable to the age of the US now. At the height of the Polish Lithuanian Commonweath it extended from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth was a major counterweight to the expanding Russian Empire, and it was Catherine the Great who dealt the death blow to the Polish Lithunian Commonwealth when Catherine annexed the area of the Black Sea from Russia to Odessa as well as whatwe consider Ukraine today. Sound familiar. Poland wants to avoid that today and would prefer an independent Ukraine to a Ukraine dominated by Russia. It is also worth noting that part of the reason why Ukrainian is a different language from Russia is because of influence and incorporation of parts of Polish into Ukrainian. However that is a story for a different comment.
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  953. The desire by France for a Europe without reliance on North American often masks a desire for France to be the arms dealer of choice to a "European Army." However, with Sweden a member of NATO, France may find that Sweden can offer better purchases terms to other NATO countries than France can. I believe the US should support Ukraine; however, we should realize that many of the large military spending is actually the US transferring ownership of F-16 fighters that the US would have to put in storage otherwise. I expect that the willingness of many NATO countries to provide arms to Ukraine comes with steep discounts on US equipment to replace the weapons given to Ukraine. I suspect we will see a number of African countries who had Soviet tanks now have Bradley fighting vehicles and Stryker systems, which are better suited to the environment of their battles. Keep in mind that selling F-16 at a discount means a larger after market in parts, maintenance services and the sale of more advanced missiles that the F-16 can carry. This is the McDonalds pricing strategy: sell the burger at the cost of manufacture, and make up the profit on the fries, milkshakes and other soft drinks. By the way, the most expensive ingredient in your cup of iced soft drink is the ice because the cost of the energy to freeze and frozen water exceeds the cost of any other component in the carbonated water, the plastic cup, the flavoring syrup. The money to be made from F-16 aircraft sales comes for the external parts and replacement costs. France wants to have that business, but the US has it now. I think Sweden produces more effective and better designed weapons for operation in the European terrain and environment.
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  954. I advocate abolishing the Senate, getting rid of the Presidency, and merging the US House of Representatives and the Canadian Parliament into a Parliament that covers all of North America. Oh the Governor General has to go too. The North American Parliamentary Republic needs neither a President or a Governor General. Given how Global Warming is proceeding, we may all be moving further North anyway.
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  955.  Gabby-c4x  GG is counterpart of Presideny because GG is prepresentatibe of the Monarch, head or state just as the President is. No President therefore no GG. The Canadian Prime Minister corresponds to the US Speaker for the House; However, a Partialmentary system has a role of "Speaker of the House"who polices decorum in the House. Not quite sure how to handle that function.
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  956. @ The PM is the head of the government, but the GG is the head of state, or more precisely the representative of the head of state who is the monarch. This is why Canada is said to have a form of Constitutional Monarchy.
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  957. @Gabby-c4x Go back to the neginning and read carefully, "The North American Parliamentary Republic needs neither a President or a Governor General" why would I put those in the same sentence they served differeny purposes as the Command and Chief?
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  958. The Silk Road conviction involved a warrsntless search by the FBI of the Silk Road servers located in foreign countries and which the FBI stole in the foreign countries and brought to the US.
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  959. Isn't this video an example of what YouTube prohibits? https://youtu.be/l-8cbuTDE7w?si=pSkqiCP5EKXMUKHC&t=303
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  960.  @L98fiero  the justification is that Wagner recruited more troops to take Bakhmut and wasted those troops rather than simply lay siege to Bakhmut under fire control. Why bother taking the land if you can prevent your opponent for using it? Progozihin wanted a political win ( Wagner took Bakhmut) rather than an operational win (Wagner has Bakhmut under fire control) Most people watching TV in Russia or the US for that matter have no idea what "fire control" which means it makes for a bad headline. "Wagner captured Bakhmut" sounds much better, and Progozihin wants the publicity.
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  961.  @L98fiero  someone else used the term "operational encirclement" and I wondered what is the difference between that and encirclement?
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  962.  @L98fiero  Ah! Thank you for the clarification!
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  963. My sons have played Minecraft more in the past than now; therefore, I knew something about it when I watched this vid. However, when I heard that Microsoft has control over the game/tool that completely killed my interest. In fact the only thing worse would have been if it was Facebook or Google that had control of Minecraft. Is the an open-source version of Minecraft?
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  964.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  I agree. I felt the comparison failed to capture the magnitude of the destruction. A comparison of Hiroshima after the storm bomb versus say 10 years later would have been interesting. Or perhaps Dresden or Berlin immediately after the War and then in the 1960s would have been interesting. In any case, the rebuilding of Germany and Japan was aided by a lot on investment. The Germans and Japanese deserve credit for what they did themselves to rebuild, and the Ukrainians show every bit as much determination and drive to be able to rebuild. However, they will need funding, and hope that the countries who have given them weapons will also provide reconstruction assistance rather than tell Ukraine that they are on their own after the War ends.
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  965. Cruz uses a broad brush paint voter attitudes in the North Eastern US as well as assigning motives without any evidence of intent. However, Cruz chastises the witness about presuming intent without evidence. Oh well, Cruz never asserted that his statements had consistency. I will also acknowledge that Cruz went to Harvard so he surely has internalized the attitudes of the NE.
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  966.  @collins48lc  you mean not too intelligent?
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  967. People are ignoring the elephant in the room too. Many Americans remain misogynistic and racist, and refuse to vote for a woman for president or refuse to vote for any one other than a white guy. For those people Kamala was their worst nightmare, a woman.of color.
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  968. I recall that Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy countries were the European countries with the greatest number of Chinese Police Stations?
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  969. I suppose we should expect Frenchmen would invent a process like Autochrome given the painting technique of pointillism used by French painters
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  970. The Chinese characters for Japan are exactly the same as the Japanese Kanji for Nihon, the Japanese word for Japan. Are the Chinese characters for Japan/Nihon are purely phonetic, or do the Chinese deliberately use the same characters as the Japanese use to refer to Japan? https://youtu.be/FbMCZxxl0Iw
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  971. @ yes there is. They simply wrongly described the death of Archimedes. The account of Archimedes death is attested to by many contemporaneous sources. Even if the account of his desth is apocryphal, it reinforces the character of Archimedes who I and others consider the greatest mathematician is all of recorded history.
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  972. @BS-vx8dg  It is at 1 min 03 secs which is at the end of their discussion of what Archimedes did. I will get the time stamp but let me describe where because it is easy to find. It is at the end of the segment on Archimedes when they show a cartoon figure standing on a city wall being struck by an arrow. The voice over says the Archimedes was killed during that war between Syracuse and Rome. That flat out wrong. Archimedes was killed after the war, and he was killed at his home as he was studying a geometric problem drawn in sand in front of Archimedes. I suggest you read some of the other comments. Now I will get the time stamp.
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  973. @BS-vx8dg  1 min 03 sec
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  974.  @BS-vx8dg  You are most welcome. I studied Ancient Greek Philosophy and Language in University, so I am ultra-sensitive when I hear anything about people or events in that time period. I expect that for most people it just flashed by them.
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  975. They be prohibiting cameras because they want to prevent pictures of the customers. Who wants a have a picture taken of them in those circumstances.
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  976. China makes a serious mistake thinking the Biden Administration is weak. The CCP has little regard for laws and treaties and fails to comprehend anyone respecting limitations imposed by a treaty organization such as NATO. The Biden Administration has shown great restraint by avoiding a direct confrontation with Russia while doing much to provide weapons to Ukraine. If you want to demonstrate that NATO exists purely for defensive purposes then you must avoid using the NATO treaty as a means to attack Russia without Russia having first attacked a NATO. It should make the CCP concerned that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused the EU countries to consider having an EU military as well as causing Germany to reverse seventy years of foreign policy and now will expand it's military budget. The Biden Administration accomplished that through diplomatic means. The behavior of the CCP in the Pacific has pushed Japan to reverse the same seventy year policy against using the military in foreign engagements. The Biden Administration encouraged that as well. What the Biden Administration has done in Europe using the NATO treaty to get the European Country to rearm, and using Mutual Defense Agreements in the Pacific to increase weapons sold to Taiwan, to encourage the Japanese to expand their self defense to include any country attacking Taiwan should give the CCP pause. Attacking Taiwan before the end of the Biden Administration would provide a political gift to Biden. The US can cloth itself in self righteous indignation and even make comparisons with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A war with China would close political divisions in the US. There is another aspect to a war with China that as a US citizen it shames me to admit, racism would help fuel a war against China in a way that a war against Russia never would. The white supremacists including those in the Republican Party support Putin eventhough Russia invading Ukraine involves "white" people fighting one another. When it comes to China then all the political parties unite in hostility to China. The white-supremacists would support a war on China for reasons alone. The fact the US would have Japan, Taiwan and Korea as allies works in favor of white-supremacists thinking because it would be the US, a "white" country, leading Asian countries to counter an Asian adversary. A war between China and the US has some many ugly overtones that it makes it disgusting to imagine. However the CCP could deliberately walk into such a war because of the CCP already using Han racism as an excuse for the genocide of the Uyghurs. We could easily end up with a Third World War in which China and Russian are allied against an coalition of US, EU, Japan and ANZ (don't forget Australia, it can function as a huge air base). The CCP could cause all of that to occur if they attacked Taiwan.
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  977. US has good customer service? Wow! You need to visit Japan to see real customer service. I have been married over thirty years to a woman who grew up in Japan. Even after thirty years she is appalled at customer service in the US. Also tipping is also still alien to her and she has get difficulty knowing when to tip and when too as well as how much.
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  978. May I suggest you analyze some battles in Vietnam, especially "Hamburger Hill" https://youtu.be/Jtih6FZ1nJM
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  979. Quantum Computers are going need some serious shielding against cosmic rays and X-rays which can easily introduce errors in quantum computers.
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  980. I expect that politics as this report indicated was the overriding reason; however, a can see that the refueling issue was a sufficiently new technology to give pause and was more dangerous as the report indicates That would have been reason enough. Reassuring that there was a back up plan.
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  981. You might find the "Rapid Dragon" system interesting. There are a number of videos on YT about it. Plus, a real nail-biter simulation done by Grime Reapers using the "Rapid Dragon" against the Russian Black Sea fleet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvUTl6xjxqY
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  982. The attack on the Kursk NPP was faked in order to provide Russia with an excuse to attack the NPP in Ukraine.
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  983. I like "delirium" better than "deuterium" because "delirium" describes the fraudulent nature of fusion reactors very well.
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  984. If the rich actually worked for their money then this video would make sense, but in fact most rich are rent extracters just a landlords who extracted rent without working while their tenants did the real work. People who are extracting rent based on the work of others then they should pay more of it for benefits they derive from resources that benefit the common wealth.
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  985. Yikes! That is a dangerously high temperature! I hope you both get well soon
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  986. Do you live in a Russian community where you can interview people in the street about their opinions?
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  987. US backing cryptocurrency frightens me.
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  988. I hope Putin keeps Shoigu who has helped Ukraine in so many ways
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  989. Russia supplying oil and grain overland to China diminishes the strategic importance of the Strait of Malacca.
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  990.  @JeffreyGoddin  I sent an email to Senator Manchin about this, but I never got a reply. I even went so far as to talk to a staff person for my Congressional Rep who has a lot of influence in the Democratic Party. I sent the email, confirmed on the phone call that she received it. Explained it because she had never heard of rare earths. And guess what? I never got a reply eventhough I asked for reply just to confirmed it and had taken it to the relevant person of Se, Manchin's staff. Now if I had had a problem with Medicare then they would have swung into action immediately.
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  991. Wow Elon gets crowds as big as Trump's
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  992. Can people in China see this channel or it is blocked. If a channel is blocked in China, and posts that praise China then I find the channel suspicious. If you have positive comments to make about a country then people in that country should be able to see and hear those comments. If they are blocked from seeing the positive comments then those positive comments are most likely lies. For this reason I believe CGTN lies.
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  993.  @Real_MisterSir  Make sure to bring your dirty bombs and chemical weapons.
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  994. Well as to the issue of combined arms training, that is exactly what Ukrainian soldiers are learning at Ramstein as we speak. As I recall the number of Ukrainian troops is in the thousands rather than hundreds. The UK training was more about how to do combat in a company or platoon. Very, Very Important, but not combined arms. One does need to walk before they run. Now the Ukrainian soldiers are getting combined arms training in Ramstein. You may not have heard, but the General who heads the Ukrianian Armed Forces had done training with NATO forces, and was even underway with as reorganization a training of the Ukrainian Army when Russia attacked. You may recall that there were Florida National Guard in Ukraine when Russia attacked. They were doing training in NATO tactics. Rome was not built in a day, and now there is more training with more troops in the UK and Ramstein.
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  995. What is the age breakdown on those numbers. I expect the younger the respondent then the more likely respondents doubted the US commitment.
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  996. Putin is hiring more Police
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  997. 3 super powers tried to occupy Afghanistan. Keep in mind the Afghan Wars fought and lost by the British Empire in the 19th century. The only superpower that conquered Afghanistan was Alexander the Great. Russia is no longer a superpower and will never successfully occupy Ukraine. Ukrainian partisan resistance will be bloody for both sides, but I can't imagine Ukraine giving up.
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  998. Is this the Constitutional crisis that people have feared? The Executive defies a Judicial decision?
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  999.  @dimiturgeorgiev8743  Can you specify what exactly is "silly" about those comments? Russia did use chemical weapons in Syria.
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  1000.  @dimiturgeorgiev8743  Oh, now I see that your channel is empty. No doubt you are a member of the Russian 50-cent army.
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  1001.  @dimiturgeorgiev8743  Tell it to the Syrians mate
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  1002. Probably only those people who took a Russian passport when they were forced by the Russians to surrender their Ukrainian passport. The outcome is a foregone conclusion. Putin would only hold a referendum if he could put his thumb on the scales to determine the outcome he wanted. What a farce.
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  1003. Might be worth making a documented list of Trump's promises in his campaign and show the status for each promise on a weekly basis. Some might even be in process with and exoected end date. By the way, every campaign promise should have a projected enddate even if the date sliips. That is how we manage projects in business
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  1004. I dunno. I think I see some jowls developing on Vlad. Looks like he may start giving Lavrov a run for his money on who has the best jowls. We can only guess who has the best chops.
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  1005. So in Chinese, women are by definition the "better half".
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  1006. Here’s how you can help Ukraine Across the world, many people are desperate to support Ukraine as its people try to fend off a Russian invasion that has left hundreds dead, thousands homeless and millions fearful of what could become of their country in the weeks ahead. Voices of Children, a charitable foundation based in Ukraine, has been serving the psychological needs of children affected by the war in the country’s east since 2015, according to its website. The group’s psychologists specialize in art therapy and provide general psychosocial support with group classes or individual sessions. Many of its psychologists are based in the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, areas that have long been controlled by Russian-backed separatists and that are on the front lines of the current, wider conflict. Now, Voices of Children is providing assistance to children and families all over Ukraine, even helping with evacuations. You can donate here. Journalists with the Kyiv Independent have done tremendous work covering the war, offering the world constant updates as they fear for themselves, their families and their homes. The Independent has started a GoFundMe asking for support, but they’ve also promoted a separate GoFundMe — “Keep Ukraine’s media going” — for journalists around the country who have received less international attention. “[Ukraine’s reporters] have shown extraordinary courage, but the reality on the ground is that most operations cannot continue from Ukraine alone,” one organizer wrote. “This fundraiser is aimed at helping media relocate, set-up back offices and continue their operations from neighboring countries.” José Andrés, the beloved D.C. chef famous for feeding people in need around the world, is already in Europe with his World Central Kitchen team helping provide “thousands of meals in Poland, Romania and even inside Ukraine,” he wrote on Twitter. Anyone who wishes to donate to the efforts can go here. Razom for Ukraine was founded in 2014 and has since launched efforts to build a stronger democracy in the country. Now, according to its website, the nonprofit is “focused on purchasing medical supplies for critical situations like blood loss and other tactical medicine items. We have a large procurement team of volunteers that tracks down and purchases supplies and a logistics team that then gets them to Ukraine.” Razom — which means “together” in Ukrainian — posted a list of the lifesaving supplies it has already purchased and is asking for more support here. Click on the website for Care, the international humanitarian juggernaut, and a pop-up window appears. “UKRAINE EMERGENCY,” the alert says, with a photo of a woman holding a child. “Families in Ukraine are fleeing violence and urgently need emergency aid. CARE is providing food, water, and more,” the homepage says. The group has partnered with People in Need and hopes to build a fund that can reach 4 million people, especially women, girls and the elderly. Donations for Care can be made here. Save the Children, founded more than a century ago, is blunt about the grueling nature of its work: “We work in the hardest-to-reach places, where it’s toughest to be a child,” its homepage says. The organization says it is “gravely concerned” for the children of Ukraine and Afghanistan. Its donation page says that $50 can prevent three children from going hungry for a month, $150 can provide warm blankets for 30 children, and $300 can furnish masks to refugee health workers on the front lines. Sunflower of Peace is a small nonprofit with ambitions to help Ukrainian orphans and internally displaced people. A post on its Facebook page in mid-February said it had launched a fundraiser for first-aid medical tactical backpacks. Each backpack, it says, can save up to 10 people. They’re packed with bandages and anti-hemorrhagic medicines, among other critical items. The group has worked mostly off its Facebook page, where it’s accepting donations. Even with Western support, Ukraine’s army and its legions of volunteer fighters are severely outgunned by Russian forces. The National Bank of Ukraine has created an account where people from around the world can donate to the country’s military. You can also donate via this link https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ . It’s the biggest fund in Ukraine that supports Ukrainian Army.
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  1007.  @pudding7074  Precisely my point in the historical case I cited
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  1008. Hope you win. My small donation to your campaign. I hope it helps.
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  1009. Ukrainian OpSec has been masterful.
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  1010. I wonder what role Elon Musk will have if Trump's Cabinet declares Trump incompetent and J.D.Vance takes over as President? Given that Peter Thiel bankrolled Vance then perhaps Vance will have both Musk and Thiel in the White House as "advisors"
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  1011. Russia could become a failed state and a banana republic without the sunshine . The Russo-Ukrainian war has made banana made clear that Russia is a kleptocracy whose economy is based largely on the extraction of natural resources.
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  1012.  @souka720  Two million people who might want to spy on China for the US? Well not all 2 million, but I bet the US could recruit many. Will the Chinese Communist Party welcome the Chinese diaspora? I doubt it. Expect a better welcome for Chinese in the US, than US born Chinese in the PRC
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  1013.  @billinsf88  A diaspora (/daɪˈæspərə/ dye-AS-pər-ə) is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale. synonyms: relocation · resettling · population movement · transhumance · moving · moving abroad · emigration · expatriation · posting · exodus · departure · hegira · defection · trek · Völkerwanderung Indian people living outside India. the dispersion of any people from their original homeland. "the diaspora of boat people from Asia" the people so dispersed. "the Ukrainian diaspora flocked back to Kiev" I will try to find the video of a writer who was forced to leave the PRC because it was becoming difficult for his Chinese friends.
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  1014.  @billinsf88  Chinese diaspora - number over 50 million worldwide with other estimates range up to 100 million total of Chinese descent. The largest overseas Chinese communities are in Asia. Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam and Myanmar (in descending order of ethnic Chinese population size) have at least 1 million ethnic Chinese each. Three countries outside Asia, namely the United States (esp. States of California, Hawaii, New York and Washington State), Canada (esp. urban areas of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver) and Australia (esp. cities of Sydney, Melbourne) have populations over 1 million in size. Other sizable communities may be found in Japan, Cambodia, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa, each with over 100,000 ethnic Chinese. Hakka people. Hui - Muslims in China. There have been isolated incidents of anti-Asian behavior. My wife is Japanese so she sometimes remarks directed at you. It is comparable to the comments made to me when I visit Japan, Korea, but most of all in China where the belief in the manifest destiny of the Han Chinese to rule the world eclipses the racism of both Korea and Japanese. A data driven reasoned (as opposed to emotional) assessment of racist in the PRC, Korea and Japan might make for a good video. It might be hard of collect relevant data though.
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  1015.  @billinsf88  Yep I have heard it too
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  1016. Interestingly, I also married a Japanese woman, and I spent about a year in Korea on an assignment. I have personally seen cases of "round-eyes" attacked by Orientals, both in Korea and in Japan. I suppose you might consider the current genocide against the Uyghur people counts as just one example even though we are talking about the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
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  1017.  @billinsf88  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrzJcnK_c-4
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  1018.  @billinsf88  Excuse me, but is there some serious dispute about what the Han are doing to the Uyghurs? If not genocide, then certainly denocide?
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  1019.  @billinsf88  @billinsf88  There are many diaspora. There is a disapora of East Indians as well as of Chinese. Of course, the most famous disapora is Jewish disapora that resulted from the Romans expelling the Jews from Palestine in the 6th AD.
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  1020.  @billinsf88  https://youtu.be/ZLg5JNA-TIs
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  1021.  @billinsf88  Are you naturally contentious, or is this something you only do on the Internet?
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  1022.  @billinsf88  no problem. I am glad I could help you understand the situation better.
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  1023. Who gets to vote? The people that the Russians forced to surrender their Ukrainian passport and to take a Russian passport? This "referendum" is more like a passport check.
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  1024. I appreciate learning about Friedman who i knew nothing about however, tn future could you avoid repeating what we aleeaady heard from the video clip? I want here something more than recitation of what the people on the video said.
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  1025. @sayjay26  you are right plus SPACEX is built on technology that NASA pioneered. Lookup the "Delta Clipper" for example.
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  1026. He is trying justify why Wagner is wasting all this effort on Bakhmut. Fact of the matter is that when Wagner fails to take Bakhmut then Wagner will look like imbeciles.
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  1027. He matches the guy who had his body armor removed when he surrender and had his hands tied behind himself.
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  1028. I do believe that the US aid has been overstated, I would ask Arturo to temper his emphasis on Russia as the archenemy of the US because also has an archenemy on the Pacific side. Sadly I lack the specifics about US military expenditures in the Pacific.
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  1029. @Kateřina Červenková In a word, "Yes"
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  1030.  @jeffnorris8848  In a word, "Yes"
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  1031.  @rey6708  That is precisely my point about NATO acting as a police force where the members protect one another as a consequence of Article 5. One might reasonably argue that was not the original purpose of NATO, but my comment was "an additional" reason rather than the reason.
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  1032.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  sad but true. Perhaps I should have been more nuanced but I was trying to make a point. I do believe that NATO was able to bring pressure to bear that kept the situation from breaking into a war. Rather like some cousins who never stop arguing, but the other cousins kept the disputes from becoming deadly. Nothing can stop the cousins from arguing. Too much history behind them. More than two thousand five hundred years to be more specific. That side of the family is especially long lived.
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  1033.  @rustinhaigood  not necessarily. Many people don't commit crimes because they fear getting caught. Without someone to enforce the law then people will run riot. Countries are the same.
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  1034.  @jaspertanner3463  My family is from Alabama although I grew up in Western NY, and the comment is dead-on. However, I would add this to the comment, "Folks in the South will not only tell you their life story, but they will also ask you to sit down so they can. However, they will want to know yours. These is a reason for it. People in the South attach get significance to who your ancestors are, what family you come from. Therefore, knowing someone's life story establishes where they are in the social order. In my case, my mother always insisted that we were descended from the indentured servants and petty criminals sent to the Oglethorpe Colony in Georgia. We have family throughout Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. On one occasion when I visited Australia, I was staying in a hotel on Botany Bay where the first prison ships landed. The monument list everyone one the ships, and the convicts have dot in front of their name. My family appeared as a British sailor, a guard and a convict. So we had all the bases covered. It was reassuring to know that a generation after my ancestors were sent to a penal colony in the American Colonials that when the British could no longer send their convicts to North America, but now had to send them to Australia that my family had continued their thieving ways. I told that story to a fellow in Atlanta who shared my family name, and it visibly disturbed him. I always felt the being descended from the criminal classes put me in the mainstream of culture in the US. Now you see, I have now told you my family history. :)
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  1035. Could Congress refuse.to pay for Execrive powers. For example, stop paying the military?
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