Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Daily Mail World"
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@ransertu7630 The difference, the Soviet-Afgan war was a major cause for USSR's breakup while the US loses interest in Afgan.
Ghani's Afghan army was only trained for heavily armed police roles i.e. no US main battle tanks, no US supersonic fighter jets, no US heavy attack helicopters, no US HIMARS, no US M270 MLRS, no US PAC3s, no US Javlins, no US Stringers, no US Bradleys, no US M109 howitzers and 'etc'.
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@mouradbelkas598
Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government (since its formation) had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq.
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Again, Iraq invaded Kuwait and Iran i.e. those who live by the sword will die by the sword.
Ukraine did NOT invade another country.
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@mouradbelkas598 Against Saddam's argument on Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates stealing oil from Iraq.
American drillers denied that Kuwait would need to incorporate this technology saying, “Oil flows easily from the Rumalia field [to the Ratqa field] without any need for these techniques.” Lastly, it should be noted that a, “Senior vice president of OGE Drilling Inc., a Houston company that provided oilfield supervisors and workers for Kuwait in the same area, said he was ‘positive’ all of the weeks his employees drilled and operated ran vertically down to the Rumalia pay zone. ‘That field crosses the border in north Kuwait,’ he added. ‘Iraqis were drilling on one side, and Kuwaitis on the other side.’” Now of course no company would come out and say they were stealing from Iraq so this information should be looked at with a healthy skepticism.
Due to Saddam's imperialist actions, Saddam deserves to be removed. Despite Iraq's imperialist actions against Kuwait, the US preserved Iraq's territorial integrity. After WW2, the US follows France/UK's post-WW1 Middle East border divisions that were imposed on WW1 loser Ottoman Empire.
Russia does NOT preserve Ukraine's territorial integrity.
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@ransertu7630
Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government (since its formation) had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
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Danny F
You're a hypocrite to single out Trump's "reciprocal trade arguments when other countries engages in their own "Made In XYZ country" programs
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-steel-china/eu-raises-import-duties-on-chinese-steel-angering-beijing-idUSKBN1780VU
EU already raises import duties on Chinese steel in 2017.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-06/europe-renews-tariffs-chinese-steel-pipes-high-72
European Union Renews Tariffs On Chinese Steel Pipes As High As 72%
Read http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/china/
When China joined the WTO in 2001 it agreed to reform and liberalise important parts of its economy.
While China has made progress, some problems remain:
a lack of transparency
industrial policies and non-tariff measures that discriminate against foreign companies
strong government intervention in the economy, resulting in a dominant position of state-owned firms, unequal access to subsidies and cheap financing
poor protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights
In 2016 the EU adopted a new strategy on China mapping out the European Union's relationship with China for the next five years. The Strategy promotes reciprocity, a level playing field and fair competition across all areas of co-operation
The strategy also includes a trade agenda with a strong focus on improving market access opportunities – including negotiations on a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment. It also deals with overcapacity and calling on China to engage with ambition at multilateral level.
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https://global.handelsblatt.com/politics/trump-may-point-eu-tariffs-ifo-says-899083
“The EU is by no means the paradise for free traders that it likes to think,” said Gabriel Felbermayr, director of the ifo Center for International Economics, a division of the Munich-based ifo Institute. The European Union actually comes off as the bigger offender when compared to the US, he added. The unweighted average EU customs duty is 5.2 percent, versus the US rate of 3.5 percent, according to ifo’s database.
So when Mr. Trump complains of “massive tariffs” he is not that far off the mark in several cases. And he does complain. “If the EU wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on US companies doing business there, we will simply apply a tax on their cars, which freely pour into the US,” the president tweeted earlier this month. “They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!”
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In fact it wasn’t even Mr. Trump who first broke off negotiations over a US-EU free trade deal known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the German economist noted. It was actually the EU that put the unpopular talks “on ice” ahead of elections in France and Germany.
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*Trump is late to party on tariff increase game*.
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