Comments by "Art Stone" (@ArtStoneUS) on "Alex Christoforou" channel.

  1. Squashing the investigation is tantamount to admitting the guilt
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  2. Based on past history, this would be an excellent time for the military in Ukraine to stage a coup
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  3. Elensky wanted a preemptive attack. It looks like he got it
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  4. One difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is that Joe Biden was vice president, not president which meant he did not have the power to declassify documents
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  5. So Trudeau just crowned Tucker Carlson as king of the media
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  6. Transit fees for the Russian pipelines is a large part of the revenue stream for Ukraine. Of course, the pipelines were built by the Soviet Union, not by Ukraine. That probably has made Russia unhappy, but until now they didn't really have a choice. The sanctions are going to have the effect of pushing Ukraine's economy over the edge. It was easy money for little or no work.
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  7. Russia has never stated as a goal to eliminate Ukraine.
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  8. Calling a spade a spade has been deemed hate speech
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  9. The EU is almost as dependent on China as the United States. There are about fifty trains a day carrying cargo from China to Hamburg Germany via Russia. I haven't heard that that's stopped
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  10. The legacy of John McCain lives on
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  11. Minsk - fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Ukraine is out of time.
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  12. I thought the purpose of diplomacy was to avoid war, not become the cheerleader pushing for conflict
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  13. Hersh's style is you put out the narrative, sit back and wait for the denials, then drop the other foot with the conclusive data to prove that the leaders are liars. Along the way, you put in enough details that people who were actually involved will realize someone has been talking and they may get really nervous and also become sources
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  14. Blinken needs to have a sit-down talk with Lindsey Graham
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  15. I was watching the protests in Stuttgart Germany. Whistling will not repair the Nord stream pipeline or grow food. Handing out subsidies will not reduce inflation
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  16. It's hard to believe that Bolton could be pranked!
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  17. The governor of Michigan trying to shut down the Enbridge pipeline from Canada has nothing to do with oil prices!
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  18. It hasn't yet occurred to them that it may be the EU that has to pay reparations to Russia
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  19. One thing that is widely misunderstood in the United States is the nature of World War II. We tend to view WW2 as all one big war, where most of the world views it is two separate distinct wars - a European War and a US War with Japan in Asia. Europeans were not helping in Asia even after VE day and Germany was doing very little to support Japan. Our main ally in Asia fighting against the Japanese was Mao and his Red Army, who we abandoned when he made it clear he was not going to be a puppet of the United States.
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  20. The main thing that Russia seems to import is vehicles and vehicle parts, and much of that is from Germany and France. I would bet that Tata motors from India would be glad to fill the gap. Kia also has a factory in Russia.
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  21. I wonder if France remembers how they used prisoners and mercenaries in the French foreign legion
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  22. Roughly half of the coal mined in Poland is brown coal, not hard black coal. Brown coal creates a lot of pollution, and is not nearly as energy dense as black coal. Poland is already a net importer of coal and most of that was coming from Russia. It's always the details that cause a plan to fall apart. 75% of Poland's electricity comes from coal.
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  23. The IMF should create its own army and cut out the middleman
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  24. Well the fastest way Biden could eliminate petty personal politics in the United States would be to resign
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  25. Elon Musk is in a tough position since he's very much dependent on the US government to permit him to launch satellites from government facilities.
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  26. The big problem that Germany has with turning out lots of military stuff is they don't have any excess energy. BASF is also looking to move production outside of the EU, as many of their products require huge amounts of natural gas.
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  27. The guy from the New Atlas keeps making the point that the victor is going to be the one that shapes the battlefield. Russia is looking five chess moves ahead. They had eight years to think about what they were going to do. The Russian military can be downright brutal when they set their mind to it. Blowing up the Crimean bridge will be the key event that set the stage for what is about to happen.
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  28. Why is the United States involved in the EastMed pipeline decision to begin with? Why is it up to the United States to declare that the EU funded pipeline is not economically viable, at the same time the US is ramping up LNG production?
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  29. The EU is playing tidley winks. They're just randomly throwing stuff and hope that some of it lands in the middle of the game
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  30. Grenada, Panama and Yemen agree
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  31. If Ukraine was able to sink every Russian military surface vessel in the Black Sea, shipping would still not resume. Commercial ships would be unable to get Marine insurance, and they aren't going to enter the Black Sea without it.
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  32. I slept through the State of the Union address and I guess I did not miss very much
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  33. For a second, I thought we were seeing the ruins in Ukraine
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  34. Is it possible for a un spokesperson to be punished for perjury?
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  35. In the movie about H Ross Perot's people getting out of Iran, there is a scene where a sole gunman is standing in the middle of the road and tells them to stop. While their instinct is to shoot the guy, the experienced guide tells them to stop. That guy was a tripwire. Right around the corner invisible was a bigger force who would have killed them all. The bridge to Crimea was a tripwire put there on purpose and left largely undefended, looking for the Way est to score an easy victory. Now all the gloves are going to come off. Zelensky is not going to be alive a week from now. Inside the United States, there are about 3 million people who identify as Russians. If history repeats itself, president bidenopolis will start rounding up Russians and putting them in concentration camps.
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  36. Subsidizing energy bills does not create more energy, but it will create more demand and more inflation.
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  37. Russia is out of missiles again?
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  38. There is a lot of freezing going on in Europe đŸ„¶
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  39. 49% of Jewish citizens in Israel are secular, not religious. This is not a conflict over religion. Many Palestinians, especially on the West bank are Christians not Muslims
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  40. The United Nations specializes in symbolism, when it's not busy giving Cholera to the people of Haiti
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  41. How exactly does the EU impose a global oil price cap? It has no leverage over non-members
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  42. Having a recruitment officer with a devastating wound doesn’t seem like a very smart recruitment tactic
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  43. The United States economy is in trouble because of the zelensky tax! 💾
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  44. At least at one time, in South America it was entertainment to have car races where the cars were driven in reverse
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  45. OPEC exports 30 million barrels per day of crude oil. In the fake math, them proposing an additional 600,000 barrels a day is a 50% increase in production. The United States exports 9 million barrels a day of petroleum
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  46. Is Ukraine a democracy now?
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  47. And it will take another two years to replace them after they’re shot down in the first five minutes
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  48. If the child is trapped in the bunker, how does she know what's been going on with her brother on the other side of the country? I'm not buying it
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  49. When he announced the inevitability of global food shortages, President Biden made it clear he needs to protect Europe and the United States. If I was in Asia, Africa or South America, I would not be receptive to that message.
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  50. Being a permanent member of the security means they can block a lot of things. If they don't show up, that goes away
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  51. Apparently himar rockets were sent to damage the bridge crossing the dnipro river at Kherson. The damage is fairly superficial, but the bridge is the most straightforward route if Russian military vehicles were heading toward Odessa. Patrick Lancaster his resurfaced and posted a video showing the damage. The bridge was built by the Soviet Union, and Russia says they have already developed plans for how to repair the bridge. Range and throw weight for missiles tend to be an inverse relationship. If you want a long range missile, it's going to have a relatively small payload.
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  52. Who had the strongest army in Afghanistan?
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  53. Just when you think he can't fly further off the rails...
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  54. The boots will be under the ground
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  55. Was the 98 year old man a Canadian citizen prior to the start of the war or was he given amnesty to flee from the Nuremberg tribunals?
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  56. John Bolton is apparently writing the scripts now for president Brandon
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  57. RT is reporting over 6,000 Ukraine troops surrendering. It was not clear if it's just the current takeover of the city in dombas or whether it includes those captured in Mariupol. The Russian railway company is busy restoring the rail lines in eastern Ukraine
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  58. The sarcasm in today's report is neck-deep
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  59. I hope he didn't have his cell phone turned on while he was on the plane
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  60. Hey it worked on 9/11!
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  61. I can think of at least one situation in the United States where the debt of a company went into free fall because of a likely default. But the company had cash- so they bought up their own debt at a deep discount, and declared the difference to be profit, which made them have a very profitable quarter, albeit not from their operations. If Russia is as flush with wealth as we're led to believe, I'm thinking that Russia could work out an arrangement where the debt is transferred to a third party who won't get in trouble if they accept payment from Russia. Using the financial system as a political weapon is a lose-lose proposition.
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  62. The world economic Forum will control nothing, and we will be happy! 😁
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  63. Who is going to ethically clean Brussels?
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  64. I like how President Trump handed off the question to JD Vance to see how he handled a hot potato
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  65. I think it's even more accurate to say the world has changed in the last 60 years and he hasn't noticed
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  66. People have long memories
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  67. And the Navy base in Crimea has been there under Russian Control since 1783
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  68. King Boris is not wearing any clothes
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  69. The Polish general is talking about the Ukrainian population, not just military casualties
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  70. Does Ukraine have any runways?
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  71. It would be interesting if Russia figures out how to remotely wipe out the software of a drone while it is in flight.
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  72. The discovery of large amounts of natural gas around Cyprus will just push the issue of the unresolved invasion by Turkey to the front. At the same time, Turkey controls the access to the Black Sea. The current situation is laying the foundation for future generations regardless of the outcome.
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  73. That amanpour accent is flawless!
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  74. The guy from new Atlas gave him very detailed description because when he was in the military his job was to maintain Abrams tanks
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  75. Because Ukraine never converted its railroads to standard gauge used by the EU, that greatly complicates any kind of military intervention
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  76. The supply lines from France to Eastern Ukraine are quite long
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  77. And repair of the Nord Stream pipeline and return of the gazprom assets in the EU.
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  78. Sounds similar to recipients of the Rhodes Scholarships
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  79. Well it will lower the price of Canadian grain!
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  80. Even if they are NATO "mercenary" pilots, they won't accomplish anything because they lack an integrated defense and command system. They can't possibly reach eastern Ukraine. Midair refueling tankers would be a great big easy target for Russian defenses.
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  81. The United States is suddenly interested in following international law?
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  82. She wanted to smell his hair!
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  83. Using access to energy to choose winners and losers in your country sounds an awful lot like economic fascism
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  84. Maybe Elensky should be forced to play a game of Russian roulette
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  85. So much good news!
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  86. See: Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc, etc
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  87. PBF operates a facility in New Jersey that imported Russian oil products called VGO that are necessary for distilling in the United States. New England has never broken its dependence on heating oil. About 8 million homes in the United States still use heating oil as their primary heating source, 85% of that in the Northeast. The bedrock near the surface in New England makes it difficult to bury gas pipes in the ground and the laws preventing high density residential neighborhoods make it economically impractical. and the price is getting insane. $4.25 is the spot price today (there is no transportation excise tax on heating oil). 1 gallon of number 2 fuel oil has roughly the same energy as 40 KW hours of electricity.
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  88. Apparently that French general forgot that it was Russia who saved them from being permanently occupied by Germany
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  89. It might be interesting to go into one of the grocery stores, look around and make small talk about prices and availability
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  90. Google and Microsoft should do something similar every time the EU demands that they control the business model. See how long the EU can stay afloat when all of their Microsoft software stops working and they no longer can search on Google
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  91. Wasn't that ad on Twitter the United States attempting to interfere with the democracy of a sovereign country?
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  92. The clutch is broken!
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  93. The fact that the explosions were so big they were recorded by seismographs indicates how big they must have been
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  94. So Castro Jr does not believe in democracy. That's the message that I heard
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  95. The new plan to provide passenger rail service from the Bronx to Penn Station in New York City has increased in price from $900 million to $3.1 Billion - and might be ready in 4 years
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  96. More than likely, they will have trouble getting spare parts, since the companies that made them were told it was an obsolete technology that was going away
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  97. The reason that Ukraine couldn't quickly attack heading east was because of the mud and the long distance they would have had to haul the tanks from the west, and the lack of air cover. As Alex pointed out at the time, sending tanks to Kiev pinned down the military resources to protect the capital that otherwise could have been sent to the East, while the Russians was busy staging their assets to protect the newly acquired Russian territory.
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  98. Funneling taxpayer money to military contractors
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  99. The problem is to be able to speak like that you have to actually believe something
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  100. Bring out the board of education
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  101. Half of the electricity generated using coal in Germany is from lignite, also called Brown coal that is very dirty and relatively low energy. Anthracite is the other half, which Germany was importing from.. drum roll.. Russia!
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  102. A couple years ago, Russia's Fed up production of the sarmat missiles. Their goal is to have 48 of them operational by the end of the year on both ends of Russia
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  103. Perhaps his safe contains a digital copy of Hunter biden's laptop disc
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  104. The reason he was able to do that is there were not 20 other reporters trying to shout him down
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  105. Be careful about interpreting the x / Twitter view counts. That is the number of times the video was offered in somebody's stream, not the number of times somebody watched the video
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  106. Scott Ritter says the hospital is intact
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  107. Once a war is over, the winner will tell you what the truth was
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  108. If the United States has the ability to remotely detonate undersea bombs, where else are there bombs planted waiting for an order?
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  109.  @Nowhereoh  And Syria is nowhere close to the Atlantic Ocean
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  110. It's fairly predictable that the autonomous regions at some point will vote to join Russia, similar to what Crimea did. The United States is obsessed with the idea that borders never change. That's why any attempt to "maintain territorial integrity" in Afghanistan was doomed for failure. It's an artificial nation state created by outsiders ignoring the historical, cultural, religious, language and ethnic differences among the inhabitants.
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  111. Estonia comes to mind as a candidate given their bravado a few weeks ago
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  112. Chess is the national sport of Russia
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  113. Originally, to get dual citizenship you had to become a permanent resident in Israel. In 1991 the law was changed to allow dual citizenship merely based on the assertion that somebody says they are Jewish.
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  114. Stone making company: 'Champagne and Russian caviar time!'
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  115. So NATO decided that it had the authority to tell Libya that Qaddafi could not send its military to restore order in Benghazi. Same script, different location.
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  116. The Polish Church may not be thrilled to have so many orthodox Christians in their country
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  117. I am something of an anomaly as I still have operated a website for 20 years without advertising. I'm not hiding my identity, but I can very easily see things coming where the FCC will want to license website ownership so the government can force your website to be pulled down if you are expressing opinions they don't agree with.
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  118. Did the United States achieve our goals in Afghanistan? Note how thoroughly the US defeat in Afghanistan vanished from news reporting as if it had never happened.
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  119. Wow, the domino theory returns
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  120. The delivery date on those 800 missiles probably 2028
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  121. If Ukraine really wanted to join Europe, they should have started the conversion from Soviet Gauge to standard gauge a long time ago. It probably is one of the sticking points preventing the approval. The EU has very strict guidelines about how passenger trains are operated and having to be interchangeable with similar train control systems. There is still one Soviet gauge railroad across Poland, but it is there fore transporting minerals, not a general purpose interconnected railway.
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  122. Disabling the channel tunnel and blocking the Suez Canal would be a couple obvious possibilities if countries can just do whatever they want
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  123. I can imagine an American president wearing a pin of the flag of Israel
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  124. Just wait until the real famine starts
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  125. Alex mentioned a few days ago that Russian tourists go to Cypress and spend lots of money, and that banning them is going to cause significant financial damage to Cyprus
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  126. He inherited that characteristic from his father Fidel Castro
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  127. Al Jazeera sent a reporter out to see what was happening at the airport. When he got to the gate, he asked the guard in Ukrainian uniform where the Russians were, and he was told you're talking to them.
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  128. Ukraine also cut off the water canal that feeds about 80% of the water needs of Crimea,
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  129. I'm pretty sure Russia's position is that in the event that airplanes are launched from NATO countries with the capability to attack Russia, they will consider those airfields to be legitimate military targets
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  130. The Pacific Ocean is going to be renamed the Western Atlantic Ocean
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  131. If an evangelical Christian approaches a Jewish person and wishes to share the love of Jesus, they will find out very quickly, who is not their friend. This is especially true of Christians, who believe that Israel has to be destroyed in order for Jesus to return.
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  132. And the possibility of him praying seems highly improbable
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  133. See: HAARP
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  134. The district attorney in New York City has his hands tied up with more important matters
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  135. The French certainly do seem to enjoy rioting with a baguette in hand
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  136. Did he say that Ukraine will occupy territory inside NATO and Americans will leave?
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  137. Russia would be thrilled if Turkey reopened the Bosporus to Russian military transport. Of course, there’s always the possibility the United States could blow up the turkstream pipeline 💣
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  138. Quite an interesting news day
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  139. Perhaps the old people haven't realized that Russia is not the Soviet Union
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  140. And coal
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  141. There seems to be a large storage area near the South end of the bridge with construction materials staged. It's not like Russia would be caught by surprise.
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  142. I say that it's time to roll out rationing of sugar in the United States! Michelle Obama agrees!
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  143.  @joycesim  I like to remind people that Daniel Ortega is still running Nicaragua, despite the best efforts of Ronald Reagan and his minions.
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  144. Russia trying to use North Korea troops would have an immediate language barrier
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  145. Before this is over, it may be the people of Ukraine, who are eating bread made from sawdust
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  146. It's not just the agriculture, there are huge mineral deposits in eastern Ukraine
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  147. What is the current situation on whether Cyprus will allow Russian ships to dock?
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  148. It could get very interesting if we start having wars fighting against our allies
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  149. How many millions of Patriot missiles will it take to protect the second largest country in Europe?
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  150.  @rightiswrongrightiswrong806  that's true! However Eurooe, seems to have forgotten that Russia is part of Europe
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  151. Turkey has caught American made military vehicles occupying two islands that are in dispute between Turkey and Greece and are supposed to be left unmilitarized
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  152. Well, if we had not ended the war Russia would have invaded Japan! So we had to destroy Japan to save Japan
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  153. I'm certain there are many Republicans in the House who would rather have a Democratic Party speaker than to support Donald Trump
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  154. I could imagine a Russian jet flying over the convoy and dropping bottles of vodka
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  155. With a pipeline turned off and Russia moving to a world without European customers, Germany is the main country that has something to lose from sabotage to the pipeline. Currently, Russia has no reason to begin repairs
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  156. “ as long as it takes” unless it takes too long
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  157. The RAND report written several years ago includes Belarus as one of the places where the United States can "extend" Russia's military capabilities
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  158. Maybe Rand Paul should be shown where the fire alarm is
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  159. Who will be the Walter Cronkite to tell the country, and the world - "the war has been lost"?
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  160. We could decide this with a winner-take-all soccer (football) match
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  161. The important difference is that icbms fly above the atmosphere so once they are launched, their destination is predictable. This missile m flew through the atmosphere which means that it may have directional control that could change the trajectory in flight
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  162. I remember Barack Obama in Cuba beaming proudly in front of the mural of Che Guevara
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  163. Zelinsky is being invited right?
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  164. The EU putting tarrifs on imported Russian oil only increases the price to customers in Europe. It isn't Russia that's going to pay the tariff, it's the entities that are buying the oil. If Europeans are willing to pay less for the Russian oil, guess what? Russia will sell it elsewhere. I'm thinking these people got their education in international finance from a Cracker Jack box prize.
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  165. The penguins in Antarctica are allowed to vote absentee
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  166. And probably violating the EU mandate against flying over Russian airspace
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  167. I summarize him and his policies that he’s trying to return the United States to 1960s America. That’s how out of touch he is.
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  168. Winter is coming is one possibility. BASF has not figured out yet how to profitablity make chemicals from wood pellets, palm oil and recycled cardboard.
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  169. So how many combat aircraft does the United Kingdom still have?
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  170. Has Israel signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty yet? Have they ratified the treaty on the law of the sea?
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  171.  @williemays2488  They could go to the Senate Sauna and rub each other’s back
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  172. Did Blinken just admit there are "US personnel" in Syria, which last time I checked is a sovereign country with an elected leader
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  173.  @freemenofengland2880  so you're saying that the British motivation was to protect its colonial empire, not to assist the United States...
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  174. Nobody has said the plane was shot down. It sounds like he was killed on the ground
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  175. They are called SIM cards
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  176. Exactly correct! Maybe six months ago, most of the steel factories in Europe shut down because they don't have energy.
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  177. Henry Kissinger is still alive if we need to negotiate the size of the table
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  178. Ukraine is about 1,500 kilometers from West to East. It's the largest country in Europe, with the exception of Russia (just the European portion). Eastern Ukraine is well beyond the range of aircraft from Poland unless they do in-flight refueling. The only way NATO is going to win is for NATO to do the fighting, which means direct war with Russia. That would be a short victory.
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  179. I believe you can see Russia from Canada!
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  180. The economic damage may already be unreversible even if NATO and the EU capitulate to Russia
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  181. I can tell that you were a good chess player
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  182. That quote originated in 1939. United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was referring to the brutal Dictator Somoza in Nicaragua
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  183. Corruption in Ukraine? I am shocked, I tell you!
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  184. So once this conflict is over, will the EU and the United States remove the sanctions?
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  185. Lindsey Graham
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  186. Hey, in 1953 the United States liberated Iran’s Oil from the democratically elected government and gave it to British petroleum. History could repeat itself.
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  187. For Sweden, when they say it's a national security issue, which nation are they referring to?
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  188. Trump's attitude about the situation with Gaza leaves me not caring if he winds up in jail
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  189. And last time I looked, the associated press/ ny times had still not called Arizona or Alaska, trying to minimize the scope of the victory
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  190. If Ukraine is admitted to nato does that make the Ukrainian missiles NATO missiles?
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  191. The pentagon's description of the video is that it's a "depiction" 😋
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  192. Their statement mentioned operational details and locations that would be pretty easy to disprove if they just made stuff up
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  193. Russians are very good at chess, and you're always looking many moves ahead.
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  194. "I know nothing, I see nothing" (Hogan's heroes reference)
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  195. When people say the world would be a much more peaceful place if women ran everything, they apparently have never seen the sales of merchandise on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. The same people would probably not be fans of Margaret Thatcher or Golda Meir
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  196. He spent way too much time in the Senate sauna with John McCain
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  197. And the smart people in Russia play chess as a hobby. Nothing they are doing is random
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  198. And despite the best efforts of Ronald Reagan and Oliver North, Daniel Ortega is still running Nicaragua
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  199. Would that be consistent with the use of mood-altering pharmaceuticals?
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  200. Russia has a huge naval facility in Sebastopol that they were not going to allow under NATO control.
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  201. Why 100%? Why not 10,000%?
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  202. And chew gum at the same time
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  203. We are protecting the sea turtles!
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  204. The Metro stations also are designed protect civilians from war
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  205. Winter is coming to Argentina. They probably would be thrilled if they could get Russian LNG at reasonable prices
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  206. Is there video?
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  207. NATO has 29 European members in addition to the United States and Canada
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  208. Assuming that it's the United States, what would be the consequences of Russia or a friendly country cutting fiber optic cables carrying phone calls and the internet? Or disabling communication satellites?
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  209. I thought blackrock had that contract
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  210. One of the costs of complexity is it it takes an extremely long period of time for military people to learn how to operate the equipment. Instead of somebody signing up for four years, you need them to make a lifetime commitment before you invest millions of dollars in training. And if they quit or are killed, it’s impossible to replace them quickly
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  211. ​ @yolantadianow1584  that's exactly the context of Cinco de Mayo when French banks decided they were going to take over
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  212. and Trump is stuck in the 1960s
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  213. Especially, how are you going to get the tanks to travel a thousand miles to get to Eastern Ukraine with no fuel? If railroad bridges are fair game now, things could get much worse for Ukraine.
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  214. But at least the Navy submarines have gender-neutral bathrooms!
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  215. A good starting point would be to have Cuba allow GuantĂĄnamo Bay to be used by the Russian navy
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  216. A little bit of the wheat might be able to go through the canal system that follows the Romanian / Ukraine border and ultimately winds up at the North Sea, but nowhere near enough to feed Eorope, and certainly not Africa
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  217. He said nothing about the ability of the ukrainians to take territory on the east side of the river. I still think they're setting the foundation for the negotiation to establish the border between Russian Ukraine and Polish Ukraine using the river as a defensible border.
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  218. That was also an effective technique in the Battle of Gettysburg during the United States Civil War. Pickett thought that the Union army was out of ammunition and when the Confederate infantry troops charged across the field, they were massacred when the artillery resumed firing.
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  219. Mark Twain: if voting could make a difference, they wouldn't allow us to do it
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  220. That was interesting is the two of them were trying to assert dominance during the photo shoot
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  221. Maybe they could have an arrangement where Russia operates the port in Odessa and charges a tax for Ukraine to use the port. A legal question
 If Ukraine becomes a landlocked country, does that change their status under the Montreux agreement?
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  222. Thank you for clearing up that confusion. To explain it another way, imagine that you're piloting a boat from Kiev down to the Black Sea. While you're going towards the Black Sea, the bank of the river to your right is the Right Bank.
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  223. It's entirely predictable what will happen. Shortages, rationing, then the black market takes over
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  224. Disclosing classified information would be very different than having classified information in your safe. The president cannot unremember classified things he learned as president
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  225. Survivors of Auschwitz have indicated that as the trains were approaching the extermination camp, ordinary polish Farmers along the tracks were cheering
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  226. If you read his biography on Wikipedia or elsewhere, including his family history - especially Maurice H. Blinken, his motivation becomes clear
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  227. Graham Phillips has been very prominent on YouTube
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  228. Why do you think Egyptian should be kept out of BRICS?
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  229. Elvis Presley has been spotted in Poland training the Ukraine military!
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  230. Ukraine and Belarus use the Soviet gauge for their railroads which hampers exporting anything to Europe. Germany was going to set up a transloading facility where the Ukrainian grain could be transferred to EU standard gauge railcars. The maximum carrying capacity of a European cargo train is around 2,200 tons. One grain ship typically carries around 40,000 tons. The EU imports around 20 million metric tons of grain per year. Or roughly 54,000 metric tons per day. The quantity of Ukraine grain that's being shipped to Europe is trivial in the big picture. There are lots of other countries who send their agricultural products to the EU. President Biden trying to suggest that Europe is going to starve because of lack of Ukrainian grain is an absolute lie.
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  231. ​ @hartz1696  I'm glad that somebody still remembers that! Somehow mysteriously passport pictures of all of the hijackers appeared on the NY ztimes web site a day or two after the attack. Even with a manifest of all the passengers on the planes, how would you know which of them were the ones who were involved?
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  232. ​ @eduardodelatorre9439  and figured out a way to set them off simultaneously 100 miles apart!
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  233. That's The logical conclusion - that if it's okay for poland to reconstruct its original empire that means that Russia should be free to go ahead and recreate the Soviet Union
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  234. Turkey also has a formidable weapons manufacturing capability that's not dependent on NATO supplies or technology. If they grow closer to Russia, that would provide additional capabilities...
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  235. ​ @peterrezba995 the booing in that clip was the crowd was booing the name Elizabeth Warren
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  236. I would like to thank the associated press for reminding me that Donald Trump won the 2024 election😊
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  237. I hope a drum cadence cannot be copyrighted!
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  238. Hitting Russia civilian area with long-range bombs sounds a lot like V2 buzz bombs hitting London
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  239. Maybe the hospital had an artillery piece stored in the operating room
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  240. The Dnipro River freezes during the winter, and the issue of bridge crossings could become irrelevant for a couple months, allowing Russian troops to storm the western side of the river without needing any elaborate pontoon bridges. I have a sense that the Western military planners have overlooked this possibility. Of course that's dependent on the weather, and would not permit trains to cross the river
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  241. Argentina is starting to get concerned. They don't have enough natural gas without importing LNG, and all those ships are headed to Europe
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  242. The jewelry lobby?
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  243. The city where the depots exploded is the location where both oil and natural gas pipelines heading west to Europe are located. The natural gas pipeline goes from Moscow to Kyiv. One way to undermine gas for rubles is to blow up the pipelines
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  244. On the other hand, encouraging civilians to own lots of guns might have unintended consequences
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  245. It would be interesting to see how many European NATO members back away when they realize they were going to have to implement involuntary conscription
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  246. You can see Russia from Alaska!
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  247. The USDA has reduced its expectations of crop yield for this season, probably because farmers can't afford the fertilizer and diesel fuel
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  248. I've been reading up on Kamala's mother. She was part of the Brahmin class, part of the top 1% of Indian culture. That enabled her to go to college at UC berkeley, which was very unusual at the time for an Indian woman
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  249. And there was more than one explosion in multiple places!
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  250. My wife draged me to the movie about Churchill about 5. She is an Anglophile and all that movie ended up doing was convincing me that Churchill provoked Germany to a large degree. Perhaps Neville Chamberlain was right.
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  251. Going back in ancient history, Russia fought Turkey for control of Crimea and won
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  252.  @snakerstran9101  it was made of kryptonite! Not sure with color though.
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  253. President Biden also hammered this in his farewell speech where he went out of his way to say that he was the one responsible for not Trump
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  254. This is consistent with my prediction all along, that the river will become the defensible dividing line between Russia and Ukraine. Kherson is on the wrong (North) side of the river. Creating an enclave like East Berlin inside enemy controlled territory is not realistic. Hopefully Ukraine uses a little restraint in not punishing the civilians while they evacuate, or those that choose to remain.
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  255. The mayor of Kyiv is currently talking to the World Economic Forum
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  256. The original Rand corporation study from 2019 said that a war in Ukraine would be unwinnable because of the logistics problems and Russia having a short supply line to reach eastern Ukraine
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  257. But he is diverse!
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  258. Russia already has plans to build a pipeline connecting their Western oil and gas reserves that are near Europe with the pipelines in Asia serving China. All they have to do is reverse the direction of the pipelines in the West end of Russia to flow towards pipelines to Asia. Without interference from environmental groups or indigenous peoples, pipelines can be built very quickly. When the United States was concerned about German U-boats sinking oil tankers, United States built oil pipelines from Texas to the Northeast in less than 2 years, realizing it was a national security issue. So far the Biden administration does not understand this.
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  259. It was a trial balloon! 🎈
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  260. Joe Biden's name is not on the ballot in New Hampshire. Could that be to encourage Democrats to vote for Nikki Haley instead of Trump in the open primary?
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  261. Because at some point in the future, Russia might need them to move West, especially the railroad bridges that are built to Soviet gauge
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  262. If the Russians only took out the power substations, Ukraine still has diesel locomotives. They’ve been aggressively trying to convert everything to electric, Including buying Soviet gauge locomotives from General Electric in the United States
 Perhaps more importantly, Ukraine uses the former Soviet rail gauge, while Europe’s trains are standard gauge. There is an important exception. There is one Russian gauge route that still goes across Poland from Hrubieszów to SƂawków, which could allow the Russian military to move their equipment into Poland if Ukraine falls and the notion that Russia might invade Poland comes true.
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  263. They described it as a "depiction", which could mean anything up to and including deepfake. That works so well with the Gulf of Tonkin
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  264. The firebombing of the civilians in Tokyo killed an estimated 100,000 people
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  265. Aircraft carriers are too big to go through the Panama Canal, so West Coast based carriers will have to go through the Suez Canal to reach the Mediterranean (or around the tip of Africa if the Suez Canal is shut down)
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  266. Chess is the national sport of Russia
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  267. Rare Earth minerals are not rare in the ground. They are rare because of the difficulty in refining them into the finished product.
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  268. It seems unlikely that Ukraine has any airplanes capable of dropping paratroopers
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  269. Natural causes?
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  270. I think Donald Trump just declared economic war on the entire world
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  271. Queen to rook 8
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  272. I hope the second update covers Henry Kissinger leaning on zelensky to back off, and turkey's threats against its Southern neighbors. Enjoy Cyprus while you can
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  273. Maybe the UN can issue a stern admonishment!
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  274. While watching the border crossing into Poland, it was pretty clear that local Polish people were helping themselves to the humanitarian aid, and ukrainians that live near the border were coming across to get free stuff then head back home. But for the most part, people were just walking by and not taking anything.
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  275. Well, historically the border between Poland and Germany has been a bit fluid
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  276. How fuelish! đŸ€Ą
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  277. Perhaps we should change the name of the Department of Defense back to its old name - the Department of War
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  278. For those who don't get the connection immediately, Siemens provided assistance to the US and Israeli governments to allow the stuxnet worm to damage Iran's Uranium centrifuges. It is not unreasonable that at some point the United States government would do something similar to cripple Russia. That might be why Russia was demanding lots of documentation about the repairs.
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  279. I don't see how you're going to freeze the front line when neither party will agree to it
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  280. The national sport in Russia is chess. A discovered check is very unpleasant to have happen to you
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  281. There would be lots of applause from many places!
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  282. This story that the Russians are forcing civilians to leave the eastern part of Ukraine may just be that they want to protect them from what they know is coming
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  283. Who is on first base
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  284. The first update was pulled down about 5 minutes after it was posted
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  285. Kind of like how the passport of the 9/11 leader was found intact on the ground at the base of the World trade center
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  286.  @NinaAndCoco  assuming that they mean shifting production of the German tanks, that means tearing out the stamping presses and moving them to the United States. If you do that, they're never going back. Not only do you have the assembly operation, but you have all of the related industries making components. Either they all have to move to the United States also, or now you're talking about having to put parts on ships to cross the Atlanta Ocean. Those ships would be very susceptible to attack if we literally wind up on war footing.
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  287. Is she allowed to be out in public without being accompanied by a male relative?
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  288. I thought it odd that the UK is doing this to help out Europe. I thought the UK didn’t want to be part of the EU
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  289. One of the targets near Kiev is the factory where they manufactured the anti-ship weapons. It's amazing that a weak country like Ukraine had the capability to design and independently manufacturer an anti ship missile that's more sophisticated than the Russians.
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  290. I am not buying the "like him" part at all
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  291.  @briancarno8837  you can see Russia from a front porch in Canada! More seriously, eventually Russia and Canada are going to get into it over access to minerals under the Arctic Ocean and an ice-free Northwest Passage.
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  292. Imagine the VP debate with JD Vance versus Kamala Harris
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  293. The biggest long-term effect of this conflict is the Russians are learning very much about effective tactics against NATO weapons systems at a relatively low cost
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  294. I hope the Ukrainian troops standing out in the barren fields have lots of good winter clothing. The Russians have no idea how to fight in cold weather
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  295. Part of what's going on is the one of the religious factions in Israel refuses to allow their children to be drafted
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  296. Perhaps the Dutch people did not like the idea of the government shutting down farms during rising food prices only because the EU wants to reduce nitrogen emissions
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  297. Probably targeting the Crimean bridge again
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  298. The military term for this is standoff. If your artillery can accurately hit further than other side's, the other side cannot inflict any damage if it is an artillery-only battle.
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  299. Troops entering through Belarus would be headed to Kiev and Western Ukraine. That would not be happening except for the attempt to destroy the Crimean bridge. The ante has been raised. Remember that russia, belarus, and Ukraine all share the same Soviet railroad gauge, which is not used by the EU. I have long believed the Russians were not blowing up the railroads and anticipation of a full scale invasion via the railroads
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  300. Blinkin’s grandfather lived in Kyiv, Ukraine while he was working, establish the framework of the country that would become Israel. It’s quite possible he does speak Ukrainian.
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  301. Ukraine celebrated Christmas on December 25th. The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 6th.
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  302. "Governor" Trudeau 😂
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  303. It will take at least 20 years to create new soldiers for that future fighting force in Ukraine
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  304. He learned at the feet of Senator John McCain, who famously sang a rendition of "bomb bomb Iran"
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  305. I think German TV shows show the clip of Donald Trump warning Germany about dependence on Russia for natural gas, and the people in assembly smirking at him
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  306. If you read the biography of Antony Blinken and his ancestors, his motives become very clear.
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  307. Jill Biden celebrated Birthing Parent’s day (a US holiday previously known as Mother’s Day) by meeting with Mrs Elensky in a surprise visit to Uzhhorod, a small city in extreme Western Ukraine, on the border of Slovakia. Uzhhorod had been in Hungary prior to Workd War one. It has a small airport with one runway that ends right at the border. Mr Elensky is at an undisclosed location, but if you wanted to be at a place for a quick getaway, this would be an ideal location
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  308. I wonder if Blinken’s relatives in Kyiv are excluded from the conscription

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  309. It had the feel of that German leader of the 1930s demanding that his subjects cheer him on to victory
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  310. And after the EU is scared, then buy massive quantities of very expensive weapons from United States weapons manufacturers
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  311. The territory controlled by Russia, has a very large coal mine, lithium, and rare earth metals. The counteroffensive to push Russia out has failed miserably. Ukraine is now having to import coal through Romania just to keep it steel mills running
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  312. As soon as you start extracting those rare Earth minerals, the market price will plummet
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  313. When is Ukraine going to have an election?
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  314. It is going down to 40° Fahrenheit (4⁰C) in Kiev tonight. Pretty soon the ground will be frozen. Then the Russian tanks can barrel over the remaining troops who are freezing in the cold without weapons, ammunition or adequate clothing
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  315. Russia stopping right now would do nothing except give Ukraine time to deploy the brand new toys right on the Russian border
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  316. Biden is officially senile
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  317. And it’s currently winter time at the southern tip of Africa, which makes shipping very perilous
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  318. There were no deaths and no injuries in this derailment in real life. That movie was set in 1984 at a fictional University that does not exist. While the film was filmed in Ohio, none of the shooting locations were anywhere near East Palestine. The overhead view of the fictional college was enhanced with buildings created with cgi.
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  319. If I were Russia I would not turn on Nord stream 2 until all of my frozen assets were returned
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  320. The process for the United States to launch nuclear missiles requires the Secretary of Defense to agree with the president's recommendation. In the event of a Russian first strike, the time window to make the decision is very short, or if the president is mentally incapacitated this signoff is a defense against an irrational launch order.
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  321. The point of the Biden clip is that the bridge in Baltimore has no railroad tracks, and would not be on the route from Washington DC to Delaware. There is another Francis Scott Key bridge in Washington DC but again would not have been on the route to go home nor does it have railroad tracks
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  322. Well, they live in a garbage dump
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  323. Perhaps Disney could do an update to the pirates of the Caribbean in Euro Disney
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  324. Rather than facing a new currency on gold, they should base it on Petroleum and Natural Gas
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  325. So gasoline has gone up a $1.70 a gallon since Russia invaded Ukraine. What caused the price increases before February 24th? Did the greedy oil companies know that Russia was going to attack?
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  326. They are just blindly firing the artillery outside the concept of an integrated battle force. Not only are they wasting a ton of ammunition, they are wearing out the barrels by firing too rapidly and overheating the barrels - speeding up their decline And reducing the accuracy
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  327. Along the way, they'll probably get to learn how to make a 360⁰ turn
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  328. Even though it took 45 years to play out, eventually the funds seized from Iran in 1979 were returned, much to this chagrin of the newsmax folks
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  329. There are definite parallax issues where the background is moving even though he is stationary
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  330. Do any of the Polish tank operators have real world experience? The Russians certainly do
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  331. So once every Ukraine soldier is dead, you don't have lots of options to keep fighting other than direct confrontation
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  332.  @mikestevanovic5000  the first time I glanced at this, I thought it said Bolton was God's prank on Hannity 😆
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  333. I seem to remember the same people saying that Russia is not going to cross the border into Ukraine
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  334. Ukraine collects the transit fees from the operator(s) of the pipeline(s) who charges the shipper - aka Russia. Kazakhstan also sends products through Ukraine but has to go through Russia's pipelines to get there. Shutting down Russia without shutting down Kazakhstan would be difficult.
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  335. The Ukraine Navy is on the way to North Korea right now!
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  336. The long arm of tel Aviv tapped her on the shoulder
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  337. Since the EU is establishing price caps, it sounds like they won't be buying any more oil no matter what the price
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  338. This has been under the radar of most people, but the silk road trains going from China to Europe are up to the 20 trains a day, mostly running through Russia. One of the challenges is that there are not a lot of goods flowing back to China. Perhaps rail could be a temporary way to get oil from West Russia to China. One complication is the railroads in Russia are built to Soviet gauge, but China is using standard gauge. Necessity is the mother of invention. I'm sure China would be thrilled to build a large fleet of oil tank cars that are adaptable to dual guage
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  339. That was because Ukraine had cut off the irrigation canal bringing water down from the the dnipro river, causing the entire rice crop to die
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  340. ​ @davidlazarus67  and how many years will it take? Does the United States even have enough steelmaking capacity to make much of anything?
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  341. The teleprompter probably said [wait for applause]
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  342. The UK needs to have an austerity campaign imposed on it by the IMF
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  343. How many EU members does it take to change a light bulb?
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  344.  @Vergissmeinnicht01  Nice virtue signal there! đŸ€Ą
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  345. I learned a lot of interesting things by reading the Wikipedia article about her. She very much thinks she rules the world.
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  346.  @eugenebabitchev9549  and where did those humans get their energy from?
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  347. Trudeau actually went to Irpin and has a meeting planned with Elensky (zoom call?). Irpin is in Kyiv Oblast but not the city of Kyiv
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  348. One clever thing that Russia could do would be to provide passenger service carrying sub-Saharan Africans to Europe. Who is going to possibly object to protecting immigrants fleeing famine?
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  349. The Putin is encouraging that
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  350. I wonder if he would cry for Argentina?
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  351. I bet at least one of them was in Washington DC on January 6th 2021!
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  352. Dollars are intangible - coal, oil, gold, natural gas, uranium and aluminum are tangible. Most real wealth creation comes from taking things out of the ground and processing, not shuffling pieces of paper.
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  353. Probably the same reason the Pentagon thought they were going to win in Afghanistan
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  354. I have a hunch that Liz got the report that the United States blew up the Nord stream pipeline and quit in disgust
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  355. Flying under the radar, Chevron workers in California have gone on strike at the oil refinery. I only heard about it because of the world socialist website put it in a YouTube video
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  356. Remember Afghanistan?
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  357. At the beginning of the movie Patton starring George C Scott, during his opening profanity laden speech, he is telling soldiers (us the audience) that being a hero is not dying for your country - it is making the other soldier die for his country. If Ukraine fights until the last man is dead, that implicitly means that Ukraine has lost the war. Elensky is not a military thinker.
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  358. Do the building codes in Cyprus require sprinkler systems? While there's obviously damage, it looks like it was relatively contained and did not destroy the integrity of the building.
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  359. How would blinken know that no u.s. agency was involved in blowing up the pipeline? Did he check with every one?
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  360. Will Haiti be sending anyone to the Coronation? The fact that a hereditary monarchy is still part of an allegedly democratic society borders on bizarreness.
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  361. Why isn't this slush fund being maintained by NATO rather than the EU?
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  362. Iran has been weeks away from having a nuclear weapon for the last 30 years
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  363. How was the United States expecting to deliver cluster bomb munitions against Russian troops without airplanes??
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  364. Antony Blinken's ancestors came from a village near Kyiv Ukraine
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  365.  @MaryJones-fs4wf  YouTube lies. Or maybe he got a warning that if he did not remove it he would get a strike. Hopefully he'll sort this out and let us know
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  366. I look forward to seeing solar powered long distance trucks. Or maybe they could mount windmills on their roofs to generate free electricity. One thing we could actually do, but it would be expensive, is to follow the example in Europe and South Africa and use electricity to move our freight trains. But you won't move a 15,000 ft long train doing that
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  367. The idea that he's defending his religion is bizarre. Has he ever even been inside a Christian Orthodox church to worship Jesus?
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  368. It's baaaaaack!
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  369. His ancestors lived in Kiev Ukraine. Do you think that might be related?
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  370. The Polish elections today are yet one more example of how things are going to change quickly. The four referendum questions put forth by the ruling party were defeated by 95%+ and more than half of the people voting even refused to vote in the referendum
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  371. Incoming! 🚀
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  372. Pretty soon, women will be standing in line for hours to try to get one chicken to feed their families
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  373. The bank in New York state had former representative Barney Frank on its board of directors. He previously had been the chairman of the Banking committee in the US House. Hello revolving door!
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  374. Unlike the bridge in Baltimore, the piers of that bridge are protected by very substantial barriers
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  375. The United States exports around 9 million barrels of petroleum products a day. The only reason we import oil from the Middle East is that Saudi Arabia owns a large petroleum refinery in Texas, so they source their own crude oil instead of using the oil from Canada.
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  376. The Saudi Sovereign Wealth fund just agreed to buy Scopely for $4.9 billion. They operate online games, most notably Star Trek Fleet Command
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  377. The New York times does not have any f-35s or anti-aircraft guns
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  378. Do cats have whiskers?
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  379. Starlink is dependent on NASA for launching their satellites
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  380. Nicaragua and Daniel Ortega want their land back
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  381. Russian troops and equipment are staging in Belarus, which is where you would go if you were going to invade Western Ukraine
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  382. Perhaps that's part of the reason Norway did not join the European Union
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  383. And never threaten to quit your current job before you have a new job lined up
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  384. Here's a heads up. The German chemical giant BASF just reported dismal earnings because of increased cost of supplies and shutdowns of factories.
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  385. The introduction was cut off before Tucker announced that he had already done the interview before he made that little promotion and he said it was acvery interesting conversation
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  386. With a bit of afterburner action
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  387. The natural gas pipeline to China is complete and another is under construction. Russia does not need Europe as a customer
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  388. The official statement is that he's in water reed hospital. That shouldn't be too hard for somebody to confirm
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  389. The most interesting aspect of that video is the little detail that they are having to drain the fire suppression systems in the buildings because the water is going to freeze. It's a pretty safe bet that the fire hydrants also are not pressurized, so fire could spread very quickly from building to building.
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  390. The speaker was Gregory Meeks, Democratic House member from Queens in New York City. This was a delegation of democratic house members, and he serves on the foreign affairs committee.
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  391. One of the failings of the leader of Germany in the 1930s and 40s was he ignored the advice of his military officers
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  392. She meant 360° using the metric system!
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  393. But how long will it take?
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  394. Reagan use the term "evil empire" - Bush's speech writer in 2002 took that concept and tried to blend it with the Axis powers of WW2
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  395. In the past day or two, a military train was traveling through Belarus towards the Polish / Ukrainian border
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  396. In retrospect, the Cuban missile crisis looks like amateur hour. Have they got around to pushing the Doomsday clock toward midnight or do they only do that when the Republicans are in charge?
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  397. Open AI is doomed because they feel this need to have human editors filter out facts that are unacceptable
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  398.  @ronaldkulas5748  I've had the same thought. Whether or not it was a plan, I think Turkey is going to come out the winner. To a large degree, the EU has been a competitor to the US, not necessarily an ally. They have developed their own alternative to GPS, and their own weapon systems and built a new SWIFT data center so the US cannot intercept the message traffic. The United States blocking the Nord stream 2 pipeline could reflect the United States thought Germany was getting too cozy with Russia.
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  399. Russia should announce that it intends to charge 20% interest on the stolen assets and the interest will be wrapped into the ultimate terms of the surrender of Ukraine
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  400. Are you being paid by the message?
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  401. I can't emphasize enough how important this is. Not only is his family from the kiev area, his grandfather laid out the financial plan for the state of Israel.
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  402. It's the nuclear waste dumps
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  403. well, the movie was actually set in Georgia, but that's close enough
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  404. The most offensive thing you can say to most Canadians is... I like Canada because the people there are so much like us
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  405. The problem is sophisticated weapons require people who are trained to use them - who do not exist unless NATO and the US want to get directly involved in the war and do away with the charade. Even then, the military people may not have experience beyond training exercises. Russia has had over a year to hone their skills and improve their tactics.
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  406. Wikileaks clearly proved that Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State would say one thing in public, and say the opposite in the private cables within the state department. It's almost like people in The Establishment media don't care about things, unless it involves sex
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  407.  @vumba1331  Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is in extremely good health!
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  408. Maybe we could use the term blue jeans on sale
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  409. The risk when you force an Us versus Them decision is they may choose them (BRICS)
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  410. Is ice cream kosher?
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  411. Kaboom đŸ›©ïž đŸ’„đŸ‘»
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  412. I sense there's not an understanding of the difference between being on the security council and being a permanent member of the security council. The membership of the security council changes, but the permanent members have a veto of any actions of the security.
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  413. I think the word you were looking for to describe Putin is "visionary"
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  414.  @matthewfusaro2590  If Zelensky knew anything about military tactics, he would ask for the A-10s
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  415. 1945?
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  416. The losses on Treasury securities is not because the FED raised their interest rates - buyers are not willing to buy treasury securities at the weekly auctions is causing the rates to go up, which causes the value of the existing treasury bonds to go down. Can we think of any countries that might have stopped buying treasury securities recently? Who in their right mind would invest in treasury bonds now knowing that at any moment the United States government might steal your assets without any due process?
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  417. Unless the country doesn’t want their school children being taught about LGBT, in which case they are not sovereign countries
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  418. Of course, the king of England is actually the head of the military of Canada
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  419. The big boy pants have a diaper
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  420. They keep forgetting the to have War crime trials and payment of reparations, first you have to win the war! 💣
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  421. I have been waiting for this moment when Jill Biden would recognize that she needs to protect her husband - by having him resign as President of the United States. She should be doing it for the good of the country, but she is probably the only person who could convince him to step down voluntarily. Yes, that means Kamala Harris would become president. She's enough of a dolt that she'll just go along with what the people who understand what's really going on tell her to do.
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  422. Can we look the other way on Saudi Arabia
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  423. It's a lot easier to build more Iranian missiles than it is to build more Patriot interceptors
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  424. I'm sure they will be able to buy Xbox clones from China
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  425. It's hard for the people of Ukraine to be "watching us" since they have no electricity, internet, or television down in their basements
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  426. Russia has not blown up the rail line from Poland, yet.
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  427. President Biden has proudly explained that when Abraham Lincoln freed the black slaves, the Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in Delaware because Delaware did not join the Confederacy
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  428. The Pentagon had a press release today about how the United States is going to split the cost of refurbishing old 25 old t72B tanks that came out of mothballs from Czechoslovakia. In comparison, Russia has an estimated 8,000 of the tanks in reserve They said they expect some of the tanks may reach Ukraine by next month. The really relevant question is how is Ukraine going to get them from the Western border to the fighting on the Eastern side of Ukraine 800 miles away? My assumption is a lot of this targeting of the electricity is to disable the electric powered freight railroads without destroying the tracks. Ukraine undoubtedly has very few diesel locomotives that are Soviet Gauge width able to pull tanks.
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  429. A long time ago, Russia said that in the event of unacceptable attacks they would go after where the decisions were being made, which is not necessarily in Ukraine. Batten down the hatches in Brussels
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  430. Ukraine?
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  431. The significance of "never again" is being seriously undermined
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  432. I guess she doesn't know that the president's wife is not a medical doctor, but has a PhD in Education
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  433. Having a lira pegged to the Russian ruble might be workable
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  434. Well, certainly the former East Germany could claim that their borders were changed without their consent. 😁
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  435. I thought it was Kamala Harris who said that
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  436. Well, they wanted to honor their contract
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  437. ​ @MarkNOTW he was a public relations reporter for the Marine Air Wing
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  438. I think the president was trying to pretend he was as smart as JFK during the Cuban Missile crisis
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  439. And this is not the first time this has happened
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  440. This narrative about North Korea troops helping Russia is originating with South Korea's intelligence service
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  441.  @sarahbrown5073  the reason that Richard Nixon was forced to abandon the gold standard was there is not enough gold in the entire world to cover more than a few seconds worth of the trillions of dollars of transactions that are occur every day
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  442. So as the coal fired electric generation plants get restarted, who is going to provide the coal?
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  443. They will contract with a hobby company to manufacture balsa wood airplanes, powered by rubber bands
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  444. All it takes to convert objectionable speech to illegal speech is a new law
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  445. If that happens, can we disband nato?
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  446. Time to stock up on toilet paper!
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  447. And Anthony Blinken's grandfather Maurice Blinken was sitting at the table
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  448. When Barack Obama said he was visiting 56 States, he was foretelling the future
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  449. The United States is exporting 9 million barrels a day of petroleum products, a lot of that to Europe. Rather than trying to increase domestic production, maybe we should reduce incentives to export. Then Germany can blame Joe Biden for their high gasoline prices
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  450. I seem to remember Hillary Clinton being involved in several different situations where the United States overthrew the sovereignty of other countries
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  451. Respect for property rights is a fundamental building block of civilization, even the property of your purported enemy
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  452. For a Russian flagged tanker to get to Syria from the Black Sea, it would have to go through the Bosporus. Is Turkey allowing non-military Russian traffic through?
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  453. Separating impeachment from removal from office - for the Senate to remove the president from office would require 67 votes. Republicans have 49. The idea that 18 Democratic senators would vote to remove their own president is preposterous
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  454. I thought we buried the Domino theory after losing in Vietnam
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  455. Plus a billion dollars for the dentists
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  456. I was looking at the history of the pipelines in Ukraine, and the answer your question is yes, it's already happening. There is a pipeline that runs from Russia to Russia through far Eastern Ukraine. Keep in mind this gas network was built back in the Soviet era for the most part. This particular pipeline was not necessary anymore, but as recently been reactivated.
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  457. Mark!
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  458. Why are the Republicans not filling the media with demands for invocation of the 25th amendment? Time is running short
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  459. Because I have a long memory, I remember when Jimmy Carter sent helicopters into Iran and they crashed, and it was a total disaster
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  460. $40 billion + a classified amount for the CIA
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  461.  aureumscriptum275  Shocking, I know 😆
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  462. Paraphrasing General George Patton, being a hero is not dying for your country, it's making the other guy die for his country
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  463. Belief is reality!
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  464. When a Ukraine s300 missile accidentally shoots down a NATO war plane patrolling over Ukraine, then undeniably that is Russia's fault!
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  465. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person who pronounces punctuation explanation point
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  466. If one draws z sideways, it looks like n. So N has to go too!
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  467. She does not have a PhD. Her undergraduate education was at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, and then she got a law degree from an unremarkable law school in San Francisco California.
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  468. I have the sense that he hasn’t watched the movie Lawrence of Arabia
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  469. Perhaps a compromise would be to cut off their trigger fingers
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  470. It's important to know that both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris have very close ties that organization. This could be why there is this sudden shift in attitude in the White House about forcing Israel to allow humanitarian aid in
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  471. The story was in The Washington Post, not the Washington Times. They are very different publications with a very different history
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  472. It's also worth mentioning that Vietnam was originally called French Indochina
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  473. Pelosi did this before when she visited Assad in Syria without coordinating with the George Bush state department
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  474. It is disconcerting when a US spokesman (Rep Gregory Meeks D-NY) doesn't know the difference between strategic nuclear weapons and tactical nuclear weapons
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  475. How long does it take to build ships capable of hauling LNG? Or Ports able to convert the liquid LNG back to gas and inject it into domestic pipelines that don't exist? Germany does not have a single LNG port.
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  476. Or vice versa
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  477. If it becomes clear that Norway played a role in this, the just completed Norway to Poland pipeline becomes an interesting potential target. Is Alex said it's in nobody's interest to start blowing up under sea infrastructure. Once you cross that threshold, you can't bring it back. It can't be defended against military attacks.
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  478. The media seems to have forgotten that in 2006, there was an election to create a democratic government for the West Bank and Gaza. Hamas won the election and became the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. In response, Israel immediately implemented a total blockade of Gaza.
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  479. How many people died in East Palestine?
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  480. But now they're going to have to take more chips out of the washing machines so the missiles can find their targets!
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  481. The source for this Michigan gasoline story was from Allegan county, population ~120,000. The sheriff is responsible for patrolling areas outside of cities located in their county. The TV station got the quotes from a lieutenant, not even the sheriff. The whole thing is very sketchy and not representative of Michigan as a whole.
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  482.  @NormanF62  I think you've gone to the real issue here. There are 83 counties in Michigan. The population of Michigan is about 10 million people. In Michigan, Sheriffs are elected officials. It's the county commissions that set the budget for the sheriff. In places I've lived, the sheriff department typically has the least trained officers - often friends or relatives of the sheriff. One sheriff department having budget issues may be that the local county commissioners wanted to defund the police. There is a saying in rural America "when seconds count, the police are minutes away". This is especially true in rural areas, where even in the best of times it might take 15 minutes for a police car to show up running lights and sirens. People in Europe are confused why Americans value their firearms so much. The United States is a very large country that is sparsely populated outside of the east and west coast and a few major cities. Fortunately, those tend to be areas with low crime rates, but drug issues are starting to be an issue everywhere. Hopefully this explains it a little bit.
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  483. We've gotten to the point where Ukraine and Russia cannot coexist. Russia isn't going anywhere. We reached the point where relatively few people remember the forced famine in Ukraine in the 1930s. A hundred years from now, the country that Ukraine is replaced by will still be feeling the pain.
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  484. And submarines that can accommodate women
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  485. Putin made the Federal reserve raise the interest rates to make mortgages more expensive to make housing unaffordable!
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  486. Was macrone's husband present?
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  487. Actually, that's not completely untrue. It was Donald Trump's intervention that put nord stream 2 on hold. He had warned the Germans about dependency on Russian energy resources. Of course, the root cause here was the US overthrow of the elected Ukrainian government in 2014
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  488. In professional wrestling, the ultimate is called the Texas Steel Cage deathmatch
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  489. Just wait until Turkey cuts off access to the Black Sea to the United States and NATO. Turkey has a significance domestic manufacturing capacity for weapons that are not dependent on NATO technology. Pretty soon the United States will impose sanctions on every country on the world, which will leave the dollar completely isolated as a reserve currency.
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  490. In theory, it would prevent Turkey from attacking them.
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  491. If a person in the audience at the opening ceremony recorded the event on their smart phone, how could the Olympics assert a copyright on it?
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  492. Without maintenance and three compressors doing the work of five, it's just a matter of time until there's not enough pressure to push any gas through the pipeline
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  493. That sounds vaguely familiar
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  494.  @gems3604  and let's not forget the fire bombing of Dresden and Tokyo
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  495. I tend to doubt this having much of an effect. One of the other channels I watch is a guy who unloads ships in turkey using a crane. One of his recent videos showed him unloading a ship full of grain from Ukraine. It was in an old ship that leaks and most of the grain was ruined because it was wet. It's probably going to feed cattle. Insurers are not enthusiastic about using expensive ships to go into Ukraine, so you're getting ships that were ready to be scrapped anyhow.
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  496. Perhaps the jet fuel dissolved the paint? đŸ€”
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  497. The Adria pipeline runs from Croatia / Serbia to Hungary and can provide oil to Hungary. The direction of the flow is reversible
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  498. The official voices of the Russian government should take John f Kennedy speech in 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, and modify it to reflect the placement and use of weapons inside Ukraine provided by the United States will be considered an attack on Russia by the United States.
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  499. Based on this idea, the United States should invade Mexico and create a 20 mi safe buffer zone protecting the US border
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  500. Just wait until 40 million starving sub-Saharan Africans arrive on the Northern shores of the Mediterranean looking for food
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  501. It's not just his college level vocabulary, but also the inflections of his voice and the usage of idioms.
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  502. Hello, I'm from the government and I'm here to run your bank! Don't run away!
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  503. Would you like the Constitution to be changed to allow someone born in South Africa to be president?
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  504. Bloomberg has made it nakedly obvious what should have been apparent all along, which is they are a propaganda arm of the CIA
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  505. One benefit of all of these investigations - that really belong inside the court system - is that the legislative leaders are distracted from passing new laws, which would be much more damaging
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  506. Especially since Turkey controls access to the Black Sea. He also is not likely to bring up the Armenian genocide.
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  507. It's time for Russia to announce that it doesn't care about article 5
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  508. His money is on the way to Mars
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  509. Trying to refine rare Earth minerals, which by itself is a very vague term - is difficult without damaging the environment. China has developed the processes and the technology to refine these things, in fact the rare earth minerals in the United States are currently sent to China for processing. Getting access to Ukraine's resources doesn't end our dependency on China.
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  510. The American public is starting to realize that our domestic natural gas prices are going up because a lot of the gas is being converted to LNG to send to europe
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  511. There is enormous symbolism that Elensky is coming to Trump Tower rather than the other way around
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  512. Are you including Margaret Thatcher?
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  513.  @burtrand8960  "Argentina was initially planning to order 60 to 65 LNG shipments, but current prices force adjustments to the original strategy,” Marcos Bulgheroni, CEO of Pan American Energy, one of the country’s largest gas businesses, said during a conference held in Buenos Aires. This means Argentina is “on the verge of having to restrict energy supplies to industrial consumers,” according to reliable government sources. “It’s going to be a tough winter in terms of fuel supplies because of Argentina’s diminished access to strong currencies like the dollar,” said Agustín Gerez, commander of state-owned energy company Ieasa, which organizes the country’s LNG tenders. “We hope winter will be mild and contain the demand”.
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  514. There might be a delay due to issues in the Microsoft support center
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  515. I'm surprised there has not been more discussion about Ukraine's failure to live up to the Minsk accords.
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  516. If United Nations had any credibility as a democratic organization, India would be the country that deserves a permanent seat on the security council
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  517. Is it possible that Jeff Bezos got communications from the EU that they were going to confiscate some of his Billionaire assets to pay for the damage from the war? Amazon has been making a lot of money in Europe.
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  518. Even though we started with 400 years of slavery!
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  519. It would be interesting if a reporter asked a detailed question that about that statement, and flush out that President Biden doesn't even know (or remember) the content of the opinion that he allegedly authored.
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  520. It's been a long time since he's been able to run. Just walking is a challenge
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  521. France is playing right into the hands of Vladimir Putin, who has been asserting that Europeans are continuing their colonial intervention in Africa
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  522. Russia needs to tell Cuba and Venezuela that they are not permitted to sell their tanks to Ukraine!
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  523. ​ @mikewardrop5962 it's not about physical possession of the missiles. They were always under the control of the Soviet leadership in terms of targeting and enabling the warheads. Turkey has physical possession of NATO nuclear weapons, but they don't have the ability to launch or detonate them.
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  524. The Canadian National railroad (CN) also just went out on strike. I hope they were not planning to use rail to move those Siemens compressors needed by gazprom. Canada is also a very important exporter of grain. It's great when a plan comes together.
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  525. And chemical weapons and barrel bombs! â˜ ïžđŸ€”
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  526.  @MaryJones-fs4wf  I was in the middle of writing a comment and got an error like "unable to post message" and it vanished from my history
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  527. I'm sure they have lots of money and trained people to increase security on the channel tunnel and the subways
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  528. I'm puzzled why the West has this notion that if Putin would just step aside that this would end. It's just as likely that an even more aggressive nationalist Russian would take over.
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  529. But if you actually said things in an email, Julian Assange would get a hold of it and show that Hillary was saying one thing to the public and another to the people she was talking to
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  530. People Magazine has a picture of her when she was getting a tattoo along with her 18 year old granddaughter
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  531. He is planning to be in Paris at the same time that Donald Trump will be there at the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral
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  532. Does this mean the 101st airborne won't be available in Asia?
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  533. Brussels will not exist a year from now
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  534. We could make them metric barrels of oil that contain 100 liters
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  535. Body double!
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  536. "the world is the enemy" sounds like a slam-dunk diagnosis of dementia
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  537.  @oldguy217  To reasonable people in the United States, it means the same thing. To political opportunists who want to be offended, anything can be made “hate”
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  538. I would think blowing up some railroad Bridges might be the unpredictable outcomes. For now the Russians seem to want to allow the ukrainians to go west, but that might not last if the railroads are carrying weapons heading east
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  539. And immigration is masking the bigger problem
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  540. ⁠ what’s the point of a loaded debit card when there’s no electricity and no roads?
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  541. It’s just a matter of time until Donald Trump is under house arrest in our democracy
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  542. FDRs lie that the attack on Pearl harbor was unprovoked seemed to work pretty well. Economic sanctions almost always escalate into war
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  543. He is headed to Paris and will be in the proximity of Donald Trump
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  544. Well, the Chechens used to be against Russia, and now they are some of the most effective fighters for Russia. The Azov forces will remember being abandoned by Kiev for a long time. Maybe they'll even help take out the government.
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  545. The letter z has been banned in Europe
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  546. No problem! Putting a speed limit on the Autobahn will solve a lot of Germany's problems
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  547. Is this story from Hersch laying the foundation for the impeachment of President Biden or worse?
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  548. Don't forget the cost of the jet fuel and the carbon footprint!
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  549. In the past year, the cost of a one-bedroom apartment has gone up 74% in Greensboro NC. Meanwhile the city government has raised property taxes 50% to create more affordable housing. I look forward to those Soviet housing blocks going up
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  550. And he was flying 200 ft higher than he was permitted to fly
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  551. Self-driving, self-balancing electric scooters are under development in China
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  552. Has she put on some weight recently?
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  553.  @vanacma1  Thank you! I saw on another video that it is a cumulative number since the start of fighting
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  554. I tried to backtrack to find out the date and location of that video and came up empty. Is flagged as being rebel News Canada, but that just wound up with a group of about half a dozen websites all copying the same text about the alleged man crush. I'm pretty sure it's not a fake video, but it matters if it was 2 days ago or back in March
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  555. My guess without any actual information is that it has an unfunded actuarial deficit, meaning it doesn't have the money today to pay future benefits and is dependent on future income to make those payments. That would mean it's very similar to Social security
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  556. Getting a significant number of soldiers from North Korea to Eastern Russia would be a huge undertaking
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  557. I can't speak for anybody else, but I'm revolting
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  558.  @Truthorfib  hold on! Are you saying that Russia is a democracy?
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  559. The most vocal Republican proponent of spending 40 billion dollars on the conflict in Ukraine is South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham does not get along at all with Donald Trump, particularly the remarks Trump made about John McCain.
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  560. The investors in silicon Valley Bank's stock will be able to get a tax write-off for the loss which is going to cost the US Treasury money
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  561. Why do they think that if Putin goes away that Russia will suddenly become a passive pussycat?
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  562. NPR has details from 2018. He specifically mentions Germany in his speech where he’s complaining about NATO. “Germany is just paying a little bit over 1 percent, whereas the United States in actual numbers is paying 4.2 percent."
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  563. You don't have to guess if Russia has detailed blueprints of the buildings
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  564. I would like to see a list of all the journalists they have trained
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  565. From the very beginning, the Rand think tank said the war was unwinnable
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  566. Someone should ask him if he would like Kamala Harris to be president
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  567. I can think of another option, which is Russia reverse the pumps and removed the gas currently in the pipeline
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  568.  @adelaidesafoa3850  I wrote that before we were getting the information that there are huge gaping holes. What they could do instead is to start pumping air into the pipeline to reduce the intrusion of sea water, if they actually care
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  569. And Ukraine certainly does not have that capability. That anyone would even suggest that Ukraine did it shows an immense lack of knowledge. That being said, Ukraine might have asked a third party to do it on their behalf.
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  570. If he stays as vice president until halfway through the term (2026), he could then run for two full terms on his own, being president for 10 years
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  571. It's not that much of a consolation, but with the electoral college, there's zero chance that Trump was going to win in colorado, so keeping him off the ballot is only symbolic - other than there may be a whole lot of writein ballots that have to be counted
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  572. ​ @durango8882 my sense is that Putin does not want to destroy Kiev because of its history, but at some point...
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  573. Brussels?
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  574. So that opening was very confusing. Is President Biden advocating for regime change in the People's Republic of China?
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  575. Perhaps Russia informed Elensky that the transit fees it gets from Russia will be delivered as rubles.
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  576. "Casualties" includes captured soldiers and desertions
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  577.  @sacco_vanzetti  My guess was silly string
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  578.  @daviddoran3673  if that report is true, that ship left Ashdod Israel on June 12th. It is heading due West towards Gibraltar at 12 knots, and is going to arrive at some unspecified point in 6 days. If I can see the ship in the MarineTraffic app, the Russians. must have a pretty good idea, too. Assuming that this is true, why did Israel have a stockpile of these, and are they weakening their own military capability by giving them up?
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  579. There are polish troops in eastern Ukraine with anti-tank weapons. If Russians kill polish soldiers in Ukraine, does that trigger NATO to declare war on Russia?
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  580. It's worth reviewing the history of Western Ukraine following the Russian revolution up until the formation of the USSR
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  581. And Vietnam
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  582. How quickly the New York Times has forgotten about the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan and how quickly it all crumbled
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  583. I'm pretty sure the United States is not importing wheat or corn from Ukraine
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  584. The same observation was made about a political leader of Germany who decided that he was going to micromanage his military and tell them what to do
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  585. There's also the issue that most of the steelmaking facilities in Europe have shut down because of the high energy cost
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  586. A lot of people lost track that the EU perceived itself to be competition for the United States, not an ally. That's why they went off and created their own GPS system and started building their own military aircraft since they didn't want to be dependent on the United States. When it came time for NATO to bomb Libya, the Norway Air Force was the only one that had enough planes capable of doing the job. The European built planes were either never finished or had no spare parts or were not compatible with the US made equipment. There is one country that manufactures its own equipment that's not dependent on either the United States, the EU or even Russia. That country is Turkey
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  587.  @666millsy13  people in the media often gloss over the difference between a nuclear-powered submarine and a submarine carrying nuclear weapons. Nuclear powered submarines are pretty innocuous. It allows them to stay underwater for months at a time, where a diesel powered submarine has to surface to recharge its batteries - which makes them vulnerable to detection and attack. The worst case is the submarine winds up on the bottom of the ocean. Even if the containment vessel ruptured, the amount of radioactivity would be thoroughly diluted in the water. The oceans are huge.
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  588. Freedom is slavery, ignorance is knowledge
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  589. Stop staring at the woman cleaning the window!
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  590. I think it's a safe bet that an American hand is targeting the missiles remotely
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  591. A very large portion of pharmaceuticals consumed in the United States are manufactured in India. Threatening India could turn ugly really fast. India is also the second largest producer of wheat in the world.
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  592. There is no such law
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  593. Has Sean Hannity found Natalee Holloway yet?
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  594. Long Island New York would seem to be a suitable alternative
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  595. Even in normal times, Ukraine is a very minor exporter of wheat and grain. Russia grows and exports more.
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  596. Let's just crown him King Zelensky and establish a monarchy. It's the British way. Does he have any children?
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  597. Russia should launch thousand spy balloons over the United States since it’s the only weapons they have left
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  598. But it's renewable!
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  599. ​Add to that it was infrared vision gear
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  600. The United States revolution in 1776 was done on the backs of privateers, essentially legal pirates because they have a piece of paper from a government
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  601. The prior president was not capable of carrying on a meaningful conversation
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  602. Except for the past 2 years, a lot of students have not been riding a school bus. She is touting replacement of school buses with electric versions, and this is not the first time. She might want to look at the video of the electric public transit business in Paris that burst into flames spontaneously and think about what she's going to tell the parents about their dead children.
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  603. The Pentagon is blind to the fact that wars are not just fought with airplanes and tanks
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  604. Meanwhile, China has more steelmaking capacity than the entire rest of the world combined. The amount of railroad traffic going from China to Russia (originally traffic to Germany) was up to 40 trains a day. Does NATO/EU really believe they can prevent China from selling steel to Russia? Perhaps Russia could "ban" exports of Chinese steel to Europe!
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  605. While it's true that one of the routes goes through Ukraine, it is not the only route used for this traffic. But that begs the question as to whether Chinese trains going through Russia to Europe would be subject to the Russian sanctions. For the pipelines, for now, non-russian oil is allowed to go through the Russian pipelines.
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  606.  @fokthewef  In 2021, there were over 15,000 trains from China to Europe, mostly through Russia. Assuming that number is for one direction, that means about 7500 round trips per year or 20 trains a day. That's close to the frequency of the BNSF main line from Los Angeles to Chicago, although the American trains are much longer
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  607. I'm pretty sure that nurse was cornpop's mother
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  608. Borrowing more money does not prevent a bank from failing 🙄
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  609. Russian can spend Euros in places other than Europe
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  610. Samsung can just rename the phone "N"
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  611. I wonder if the MREs that we’re dropping into Gaza are pork
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  612. NATO pushed Russia and China into each other’s arms
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  613. Keep your eyes on the Beskidy Tunnel connecting Romania and Ukraine. The EU put a lot of money into replacing it since 2014. Russia allegedly tried to target it in June 2022
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  614. Does that mean the Polish police will be able to extort bribes from ukrainians?
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  615. There's a general scam running around where people put glue in the ATM Slot waiting for the next person to not click the button saying that they're done, then walking up and doing several cash withdrawals. There's also issues with zelle transfers out of the account if the password was compromised. I don't know if it's been fixed, but some banks have no option to allow you to say that outbound Zelle transfers are not allowed.
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  616. Israel's still refuses to join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
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  617. I wonder if he’s gonna get any journalism awards for doing this
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  618. For that to work, he's going to need a birth certificate from Hawaii
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  619. Imagine if China has a similar capability in the smart light bulbs operated by Alexa
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  620. Belensky is the Abraham Lincoln of Ukraine!
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  621. David Axe is a military correspondent with direct connections at the Pentagon
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  622. A 60 Billion deficit is around $1500 CDN per person
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  623. The new plan is that the East Med pipeline would go through Egypt and head North instead of going via Cyprus. The EU/NATO is going to have way too much on its hands the next few years to be focused on building a pipeline
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  624. Pipelines do not have infinite capacity. The reason Nord stream 2 was being built to Germany was Nord Stream 1 was already reaching capacity. During summer, the gas is mostly pumped into storage areas in Europe so it’s available in the winter. An interruption now will show up as a shortage in Europe when it gets cold, even if the flow is resumed
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  625. Never lose sight of the fact that the national sport of Russia is chess, not football
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  626. In the text on the BBC website describing the video, at least three times they dismiss the azov fighters as being former "right-wing". I guess now they're just cute puppy dogs
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  627. With cruise missiles and drones that require only a short runway and are on a one-way unpiloted trip, aircraft carriers and aerial dogfights are obsolete technology
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  628.  @BroonParker  I remember when the UK tried to help destroy Libya, and they had just retired the last harrier jump-jet. Norway had to end up doing the work for NATO
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  629. Are there any permanent members of the UN security council that would veto this piece resolution?
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  630. BASF smuggly says that only 1% of their sales are to Russia. Apparently, they are overlooking what they buy from Russia 😆
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  631.  @rockyfjord3753  Your reply appears to have been suppressed by YouTube. Yes, BASF had complicity in some very bad things
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  632. The drone video is being misunderstood. There were actually two drones that hit the same building at exactly the same place. When you see the second drone hit you'll see that there is already damage to the building
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  633.  @klardfarkus3891  Underground inside Azovstol?
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  634. If really big countries are a bad thing, then it is time to dissolve the EU
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  635. Poland has the nerve to suggest that children should not be taught to be transgendered in school
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  636. There are probably a lot of people inside the Ukraine military who are not on board with any of this - who would be more than willing to supply Russia with information
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  637. The Rand corporation report that laid out all of this strategy years ago pointed out that NATO victory in Ukraine was extremely unlikely because of the Russian advantage in having short supply lines, and Ukraine have a multiple difficulties being able to handle logistics. Part of this is that the Ukraine railroad system was built by the Soviet Union and is not compatible with NATO's railroads. You can't just run military trains in carrying tanks and weapons. They have to be transloaded and might not even have compatible equipment.
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  638. Indigo traveller is currently in-country having travelled to Kiev from Hungary by train. He hopes to continue east to Mariupol, apparently believing his government sources that Ukraine is still in control of the area.
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  639. He is lonely now without his daily "briefings" from John McCain
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  640. When the UN spokesman is confirming a negative (there are no US soldiers on the ground in Syria) he is confirming that he is lying. If he just said "I don't think that there are", he would retain plausible deniability
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  641.  @Dango167  Russia has unfinished business with Finland because of Finnish support of Germany during the siege of Leningrad
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  642. You can see the border of Russia from Alaska
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  643. President Biden is making the same mistake domestically that he is in Europe, believing that the only effective weapons are fighter planes and bombs. How long would the country survive if all of those Trump supporters didn't show up to work tomorrow
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  644. If you believe that Russia blew up Nordstream, wouid do you like to buy a slightly used pigeon?
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  645. My sense is that the collapse of the US stock market is because China wants to get its assets away from where the United States could “freeze” them
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  646. There is a person in Israel reporting that Iran is getting ready to recognize the Turkish controlled northern part of Cyprus as an independent government. It's probably not true, but people were running things up the flagpole
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  647.  @scottmcloughlin4371  while some European countries sent non-military aid, the United States actions in Vietnam were not a NATO operation.
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  648. If they send 300,000 Arctic items, that means each of the million Ukraine soldiers will only get 1/3 of an item
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  649. And will remind people for the next 50 years of the consequences of War
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  650. It's going to be huuuuuuuge!
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  651. I should probably mention that the concept of Russian Roulette is not an actual thing in Russia. It was a fictional creation in the United States that was used in Hollywood movies. It's kind of a slur on Russia the notion that people would play a fatal game for entertainment. Of course most of the victims of "Russian roulette" are Americans
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  652. There was a time when the state department’s purpose was to avoid war. With Blinken in charge, he seems to want to bring back the department of war..
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  653. Please don’t throw me in the briar patch!
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  654. The letter z has been banned in Europe
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  655. Why does Lindsey Graham believe that if Putin is removed that Russia won’t get even more belligerent and aggressive?
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  656. Pretty much every source that I look at describes Galloway as left wing. So advocating for a cease-fire in Gaza is extreme violence?
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  657. President Biden must have really said something infuriating during his visit to Saudi Arabia. Maybe he noticed that Saudi Arabia is not a democracy and does not have drag queen story hour in school
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  658. I had read a press release from the US embassy in Moscow strongly discouraging the few remaining Americans to avoid being in crowds
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  659. If I had my dates right, Liz Truss was busy authorizing the attack on Nord stream at the time
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  660. Maybe Russia should create a currency that's pegged to global oil prices, to become the world's new reserve currency. That would greatly simplify a lot of things.
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  661. And Russia buying a handful of Facebook ads to support Bernie Sanders was an existential threat to democracy!
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  662. I wonder if that group of Ukraine commanders was holding a secret meeting to figure out how to kill zelensky
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  663. Just show me the cash! đŸ’”đŸ’ž
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  664. And Daniel Ortega is still running Nicaragua
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  665. Stars and Stripes magazine is basically an informal industry publication for people serving in the US military. They just ran a story describing the situation in Ukraine, and it is pretty clear from the tone of the story that they realize Ukraine is a lost cause. Things have devolved to where the Ukrainians with no ammunition are digging trenches like in World War I to try to hide from the Russian fire. It is not working. They know it's just a matter of time until the Russians surround everyone and demand surrender or just kill everybody. The United States politicians are banking on the idea that sending MLRS (multiple launcher rocket systems) will turn things around. What they don't understand, but the military people do, is first you have to get them a thousand miles across Ukraine without fuel or protection, the ukrainians do not know how to operate them, and they will be sitting ducks since Russia controls the airspace. The military leaders are pushing back on the request for the version that can go 180 Miles, for fear the ukrainians will use them to randomly attack inside Russia, further escalating the conflict and the Russian response. These devices are intended to be used as part of an integrated command and control system, not just randomly firing off rockets in some general direction to scare your enemy.
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  666.  @bitsbobs8613  and I think in-flight refueling would be a bit problematic as tanker planes would be easy targets. It's easy for people to forget how huge that country is.
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  667. There are members of the NATO that are not members of EU - the United States, Canada, UK, and Turkey are the most important
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  668. I bet if we went back in the archive, we could find a quote that it seems like every time he goes into any restaurant, the employees are speaking with a Greek accent
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  669. So Ukraine and NATO spent a lot of time and money building layered concrete bunkers so they could lob artillery shells into civilian areas in the east. Meanwhile, Russia had 8 years to make more artillery shells and cruise missiles.
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  670. The statement from judicial watch brings an entirely new meaning to "watchdog group"
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  671. It's worth knowing that Syria has mineral rights to the natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean, and Russia had the contract to do the exploratory drilling
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  672. Perhaps they were discussing the great schism and the Roman church sacking of Constantinople
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  673. I wonder if he mentioned Putin's ailing health and mental problems
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  674. Zelensky is the modern-day Rasputin
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  675. I think Alberta would vote to join the US in a heartbeat. If they became part of the US, the pipelines can run through the United States without interference from Ottawa
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  676. How much do ATACMs cost?
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  677. You are absolutely correct. All he said was he'll step down after his party selects a new leader.
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  678. For a long time, the United States has had the technology to splice itself into undersea communication cables. Poking a hole in a pipeline would not require different technology.
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  679. It's a bit early to already be working on your 5th
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  680. In the age of cruise missiles and drones, air to air combat with a human pilot is an archaic weapon comcept. The f-35 evolved into a multi-purpose airplane, which means that it's not good at any of its roles.
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  681. Another factor is that the value of the dollar has been dropping. The weaker the dollar gets, the more dollars you need to buy oil on the global market
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  682. And as the natural gas supply inside the United States is diverted into compressing LNG for export, that's going to push up natural gas prices in the United States
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  683. I'm curious if the bunker was built by the Soviet Union... My guess is it was, in which case the probability of success goes way up when you have the blueprints
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  684. I wonder if he received stock options as a part of his employment
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  685. Given the amount of time that has passed, I would be shocked if Russia hasn't staged supplies to repair the bridge quickly if it is attacked
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  686. You're not the only one. Stretching 5 minutes of content out to half an hour to make YouTube happy is a waste of my time
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  687. Anthony Blinken's ancestors lived in Kiev Ukraine. His grandfather was part of the intelligentsia that came up with the idea of a Jewish State in the middle east. Once you learn about those connections, everything else makes a lot more sense
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  688. We must call off Winter and charge it with crimes against humanity
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  689. It's all pretty transparent, isn't it?
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  690.  @frankpeters935  Plausible deniability 🙄
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  691. The expansion of the Panama Canal was not funded nor owned by the United States
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  692. I wonder if the ZEIT report is a parody 😆
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  693. Who is "he"?
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  694. Your understanding of history is backwards. The Continental Congress issued letters of Marque so that pirates (like John Paul Jones) could steal from British commercial ships "legally" as long as they gave a portion of the loot to fund the American Revolution. See: privateering
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  695. I think it goes much deeper than that. If Russia wins, they are not going to stop at just their original demands. NATO and the EU have turned this into an existential threat to Russia. There can only be one winner. Russia has been pushing the idea for the long time that the United States should break up into a bunch of smaller countries. Maybe that's real, or maybe it's just mimicking the propaganda from the US government suggesting that Russia needs to be broken up.
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  696.  @chamberpot969  your reply to me was suppressed by the algorithm
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  697. It looks like Janet Yellen has had a stroke. Maybe she had a bad reaction to a vaccine
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  698. That lizard was spying on behalf of Ukraine
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  699.  @Idcanymore510  if Ukraine has working locomotives, they can bring in tank cars of diesel fuel from Poland
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  700.  @tatfly5779  97.62% of statistics on the Internet are just made up by the author
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  701.  @kathylarson8876  I don't think Russia has any intent to invade Poland, but the United States and NATO is using that threat to get cooperation from Poland.
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  702. Germany exported a lot of electricity, and Italy was one of their big customers. Germany has cut off exports, which leaves Italy with an inadequate generating capacity since they've retired their own generating plants.
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  703. As the guy from new Atlas frequently points out, the Soviet era tanks require extensive maintenance to keep them running, and without the facilities and supply chain, you have to drag them back to Poland to have them repaired.
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  704. Putin and Brandon should have a race up the steps of the Empire State building in New York City - winner take all for leadership of the world (outside of China)
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  705. John Bolton has a very strange notion of what the word democracy means
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  706. JD Vance is a master debater
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  707. The fat lady is singing đŸŽ¶
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  708. Spring is the time when nuclear power plants swap out spent fuel rods while power demand is low
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  709. Wasn't the narrative that if women ruled the world, war would be over?
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  710. And wag your tails
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  711. You just verbalized what I've been thinking for a number of weeks. Looking at the presidential election map, Ukraine is two very different countries. Big Rivers make good neighbors. Concede everything east of kiev to Russia with the river as the boundary between East Ukraine and West Ukraine. Provide a period of time during which people in East Ukraine can declare their citizenship, and then move to the other half of the country if that's where they feel more comfortable. Negotiate whether East Ukraine is a non-militarized buffer country or becomes part of Russia. West Ukraine can remain independent or join NATO or the EU or merge with Poland, Moldova or whatever they choose. All of this traces its roots back to arbitrary boundaries carved by the winners in wars. We need to deal with the root cause
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  712. In Vietnam, victory was always "just around the corner" while Robert McNamara was deliberately fabricating statistics
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  713. They need to retroactively blacklist Larry King and Ed Schultz!
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  714. Does this mean Gaza will be the 52nd state?
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  715. Ukraine is 233,000 square miles, roughly a thousand miles across - the size of Texas. Poland to Kiev is around 500 miles. Unless there is an intact air facility well inside Ukraine, keeping planes in the air using in-flight refueling, enforcing a no-fly zone, is pretty impractical. And what will the rules of engagement be? Who will be flying the planes? Who will be giving the orders to fire? Sevastopol to Odessa is 190 miles (300 km). While it is primarily Russia's Navy base, there is an airport there. A no-fly zone will inevitably result in direct United States to Russia military conflict.
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  716. The US losing visibility between Russian and Turkish entities is a direct result of kicking Russia off of Swift
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  717. Export statistics are more relevant than aluminum production statistics. Russian only sells 2.3% of the aluminum products imported by the United States. Russia's main customers are Turkey, Japan, China, the Netherlands, Greece, and Taiwan. China produces 10 times more aluminum than Russia and would be glad to step in and fill the void. Aluminum prices are already depressed. Using EU logic, if Russia stops exporting aluminum, that will make more aluminum available to create more weapons.
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  718. The helicopter and the air traffic control agreed that the helicopter would maintain visual separation, but it appears that the helicopter pilot was looking at the wrong airplane.
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  719. The war is not about Putin's emotional state. The national sport of Russia is chess, and the last thing a good chess player is going to do is make moves based on emotion. russia has lots of tools at its disposal short of nuclear war. For instance, they could withhold raw materials that are desperately needed in europe! Oh, that's already happened. Military men tend to think in terms of tanks, ships, airplanes and armies, but ultimately wars are won or loss based on economic factors as one side runs out of the materials necessary to keep the war going.
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  720. Get Dependsâ„ąïž
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  721. "working Royal" is an oxymoron
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  722. There was also a mass shooting in Queens New York on New Year's Eve, but it vanished quickly from the news because of the ethnicity of the victims and shooters, and nobody was killed. The nightclub was a known gang hangout
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  723. The reason that the quantity of artillery attacks has gone down is the Russians are running out of targets
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  724. And Nord stream 2 is only half owned by gazprom. The people who fronted half of the cost of building it probably would like to see it turned on.
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  725. Biden wants shuttered refineries to restart, and at the same time threatening them if they make excessive profits. Suspending the special gasoline blends required by the EPA would immediately drop the price of gasoline. We've done that before.
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  726. And Panama, and Granada, and Nicaragua, and Libya, and Hawaii, and Haiti, and Mexico, and Lebanon, and Puerto Rico, and Vietnam...
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  727. JD Vance is going to be the president of the United states, it's just a matter of when
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  728. Kazakhstan also has a stake in this decision. All of their natural gas to Europe via the Central Asia pipeline flows through the Russian owned pipelines across Ukraine
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  729. Is your question trying to frame the rules under the Montreux treaty if Ukraine were to join NATO? If Poland were to merge with Western Ukraine, would that make the new country a border country that would allow free passage into the Black Sea? I doubt that kind of privilege extends to friend of a friend. For purposes of international Marine law, could the EU declare that it is all one country?
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  730. Everything is for sale if the price is right
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  731.  @mikanfarmer  Living where? Are you a native African who worked in the gold mines?
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  732. My conspiracy friend believes the Chinese balloon is there to release more covid or other biological agents on the United States.
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  733. Vance's statement on Ukraine is more powerful than Lincoln's Gettysburg address
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  734. But both currencies are dropping compared to the Russian ruble
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  735. John McCain was not Lindsey Graham's father
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  736. Do the Turkish immigrants living in Germany want to fight Russia?
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  737. The only way you get better is to play against somebody who's better than you. That's true for more than just chess.
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  738. I read an analysis earlier today that the long-term consequences of what's going on in Ukraine is we're discovering just how weak and ineffective the US / NATO weapons systems are on a real battlefield. They are way too expensive and way too complicated and we lack the people to effectively use the systems. When you're banking on an integrated battlefield, if you lose any one of the parts of the integrated environment, all of the pieces fall apart.
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  739. Many of the citizens of Israel are refugees from Russia who are probably not interested in having a war against Russia
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  740. I think the root cause here is that Putin knows in no uncertain terms that the President of the United States is incapable of making decisions on military issues, which we see reflected in this continually changing strategy - probably infighting between the CIA and the Pentagon.
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  741. Out of chocolate chip ice cream, sorry
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  742. Ads that were supporting Bernie Sanders 😆
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  743. Hillary Clinton is the head of Columbia University faculty recruitment committee
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  744. How big is the Greek Navy? ⛮
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  745. It's hard to remember back when he was trying to pretend to be a Conservative Republican
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  746. The country of Israel is the creation of the United Nations, however, they always ignore when the UN tells them to do things. They are also not a party to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
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  747. Is President Biden thinking that Africa and South America won't be affected by global food shortages?
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  748. Fast talker!
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  749. The last time the Suez Canal was shut down by war, it was closed for 8 years. With the Panama Canal slowed to a trickle because of the drought, imagine the number of ships that are going to have to go south of Africa or South America. There is another viable option, which is the railroad that goes across Russia from China to Germany.
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  750. It looks like Mitch McConnell will be dancing with Dianne Feinstein shortly
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  751. Poland demanding reparations from Germany over world war II is laying the foundation that the EU is going to demand Russia pay reparations to Ukraine. There's at least two problems with that. You don't get to demand reparations until after you've won the war. Those with long memories understand that one of the primary reasons for Germany starting the war in Europe in the 1930s was because of the unpayable reparations demanded at the end of world war I codified in the treaty of Versailles. At some point, you have nothing left to lose.
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  752.  @Tamara-nn1wr  and medical doctors who couldn't get into better medical schools.
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  753.  @davidcox8945  The United States invaded Canada only one time!
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  754.  @DavyRo  I typed quickly to get near the first comment! đŸ€“
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  755. Is there any remaining doubt that Bloomberg and his organization are controlled by the CIA?
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  756. 500 billion would keep the US government afloat for about 1 month
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  757. If Europeans send troops to ukraine, does zelensky think that he will be able to give them orders?
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  758. Lindsey Graham is definitely in violation of that legal language
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  759. If Ukrainian troops fire at Ukrainian citizens in eastern Ukraine, does this mean that Ukraine just attacked Poland?
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  760. It's the perfect model if your goal is to have a 20-year unsuccessful war and spend many trillions of dollars on military contractors
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  761.  @evomark5405  last time I checked Egypt is in Africa
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  762. A day or two ago, the Biden administration made an executive order that the Department of Homeland Security will be in charge of regulating and controlling artificial intelligence - as if AI is something created by the United States
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  763. If "grain" ships are going toward Ukraine and their level in the water shows that they are carrying cargo, they have some explaining to do. The sinking of the Lusitania was because the passenger ship was carrying large quantity of munitions into a war zone. That ultimately led to the United States involvement in the first world war
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  764. ​Source?
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  765. A typical ocean-going ship burns about 15-20,000 gallons of bunker fuel per day, which is the fuel product that trades at discount to the raw crude. A metric ton contains ~300 gallons and the global average is ~$740/mt or about $2.46 per gallon It is common for ships to take on bunker fuel offshore in international waters, so I'm not sure how you could enforce a price cap
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  766. What's going on here is the Democrats are continuing to be afraid of Donald Trump and trying to play up the false Putin narrative
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  767. Don't forget that the Russians don't have any cold weather gear and no experience in fighting in cold weather
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  768. Also, this is last week to use or exchnge the paper pound sterling currency as it is being withdrawn by the bank of England.
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  769. I decided to pay for a subscription to X this week. Without censorship, it's a very different place
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  770. And work on brevity to make their speeches not be snooze fests like tucker’s interview with the P man
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  771. Those mashed potatoes would have been more useful if they had been made into Russian vodka
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  772. Since the widow of Joe biden's beloved son was turned on to crack by Hunter, it's kind of hard to maintain the image that he's just an innocent artist
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  773. Russian bots! đŸ€–đŸ™„
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  774. Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but I thought that the leader of Russia endorsed Kamala Harris
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  775. Not many people seem to remember that Democratic party influencers Larry King and Ed Schultz worked for and were paid by RT
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  776. Kamala had the option to invoke the 25th amendment and push Biden aside officially
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  777. I would support Jenna McCarthy being speaker of the house, as long as she would run the House in a bikini
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  778. But Donald Trump does not spend money on advertising on conventional media
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  779.  @jgriffin282  The secret to success in warfare is to support both sides in a conflict. The Iran Iraq war was a textbook example
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  780. They put up with being occupied for 75 years. Why change now?
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  781. Another thing they are overlooking... When you start talking about war crimes and tribunals and reparations, first you have to win the war. NATO is sort of skipping over that step.
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  782. Or alternatively, you blend the Russian oil with non-russian oil. Then maybe you run it through a refinery to create diesel fuel with no way to realize that your diesel fuel in Massachusetts was actually made from Russian crude oil. It's just a matter of paperwork...
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  783. So if you are Vladimir Putin, what is on your list of demands to end the special military operation? We know he wants autonomy in the east, and demilitarization of Ukraine. The latter has pretty much been accomplished. Do you want the billions of dollars unfrozen? Reconnecting to SWIFT? Unblocking Russia news media? Release of the stolen yachts of the oligarchs? Opening the Nord stream 2 pipeline?
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  784. The transit fees for Russian gas is a major source of revenue for Ukraine!
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  785. The fat lady is warming up in the wings of the Opera House
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  786. I would like to thank Google for constantly reminding us who won the 2024 election
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  787. Anthony Blinken's family is from Kiev, and his grandfather was very instrumental in forming the country in the Middle East.
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  788. Dictator just means a leader who does not immediately capitulate to whatever the United States wants
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  789. The major customers of German electricity are Austria, Italy, Poland, and Switzerland. Because France had shut down so many of its nuclear power plants, they have started importing electricity from Germany. Those other countries probably lack generating capacity to fill the gap, so they're going to be even more in a world of hurt. Everyone was getting a free ride on the really inexpensive Russian natural gas. The pretense of replacing fossil fuels with windmills is now fully exposed
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  790. The US House, initiates, appropriations, not the Senate
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  791. You don't have to be a genius to see the usaid connection to the CIA
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  792. Who?
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  793.  @JordanWallace-nb4id  Your source?
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  794. The big takeaway from the pictures is the metal is bending inward rather than outward. With the high pressure inside the pipeline, a failure would blow outward. This looks very much like shaped charges were used to punch a hole in the pipeline. It also wipes out the crazy conspiracy theories that somehow Russia had put a bomb inside the pipeline.
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  795. Sunak is telegraphing the future for the people that work in international finance in London
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  796. It's probably Bitcoin miners, not TikTok
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  797. I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Juneteenth when they realize that the post office is closed on Monday
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  798. Like the Eritreans?
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  799. It’s probably not for nuclear weapons to explode in the space, but nuclear power provide large amounts of energy to power lasers to blow up satellites
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  800. The lack of catenary over the alleged Ukrainian train would immediately clue you in that it is not what this is a picture of
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  801. Without infantry support and air defenses, tanks are useless
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  802. Does this mean the ICC does not have jurisdiction over Vladimir Putin?
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  803. If the UK wants us to believe that they were not involved, they would be supporting Russia's desire to be involved in the investigation before all the evidence is destroyed.
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  804.  @johnrobboe9103  or locked in an apartment in Shanghai China
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  805. Well Ukraine could sell it to Africa!
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  806. Of course, today in Brussels, President Biden announced that the world needs to get ready for global food shortages. Don't panic!
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  807. Ukraine has a Navy that has to be protected with anti-ship missiles?
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  808. Giving people money because they can't afford the cost of living is a great way to fight inflation by reducing demand!
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  809. It's only binding if Israel complies. Is the UN prepared to blockade Israel, impose financial sanctions or outright war against Israel?
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  810. That means that followers of orthodox Christianity get to take advantage of after-Christmas sales!
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  811. Should we remind these people that Russia (Soviet Union) was our ally in World War II?
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  812. But Trump! đŸ€–đŸ™„đŸ‘»
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  813. At the same time, YouTube is promoting the Ukraine government propaganda channel, and raising money for Ukraine refugees.
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  814. Loose lips sink ships!
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  815. I thought Donald j Trump was going to end the war his first day in office
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  816. I continue to be puzzled why the Western leaders believe that if Putin steps aside that he won't be replaced by somebody who is even more aggressive
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  817.  @caoimhinomurchu1843  When I was much younger during the Cold war, I believed that a capitalist Russia was potentially much more dangerous to the United States than a Communist Soviet Union.
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  818. The EPA is forcing very special blends for pollution reasons, and there is limited capacity to produce those exotic gasoline mixtures. An executive order to allow imports of ordinary gasoline would immediately collapse these high prices.
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  819. "another"?
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  820. We'll import everything from China! Uh-oh đŸ™„đŸ‘»
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  821. Starting an economic war with China would be devastating to the EU. So would a shut down of the suez canal. Another big ONE container ship got stuck a few days ago, but this time they were able to get it off the shore in a few hours
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  822. I don't think a lot of Americans, especially politicians, realize how interconnected we are with Brazil. One example is JSB, the global meat producer. General Motors makes automobile engines. As we keep wanting to punish other countries, it's only going to cripple the United States economy. This is The logical fallout from the stealing of Russia's banking assets.
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  823. Borders are sacred, unless NATO decides to change the borders
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  824. It's looking like any comment I post mentioning Russia is being suppressed by YouTube 😊
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  825. Tanks are completely vulnerable unless they have infantry support.
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  826. Back in 2015 when Trump asserted that he knew Putin personally, the media ripped him to shreds because the only actual contact the two men had was they appeared on the same recorded episode of CBS 60 minutes.
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  827. I would be curious to know if the afghanis have been selling their surplus US equipment to Russia. It would provide a lot of useful intelligence information.
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  828. SiriusXM proves that you don't need advertisers to have a viable business model. They have 36 million subscribers willing to pay $15+ a month. Howard Stern proved you could tell the government to F themselves and survive
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  829. Let's defend Rand
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  830.  @areweaskingtherightquestio1348  China has more steelmaking capacity than the entire rest of the world combined
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  831. I didn't know that Charlie Brown and pigpen had fans in Athens
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  832. Putin will fight NATO for as long as it takes
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  833. War is peace! Freedom is slavery!
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  834. If the United States government puts pressure on SpaceX / StarLink, would they be able to launch their satellites from Russian territory?
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  835. Several of the United States held referendums to allow the people to decide whether to secede from the country. In the end, weapons win over democracy
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  836. The Biden administration was pretending that Tesla doesn't even exist
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  837.  @crhu319  Let's not forget Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire that bailed out the New York Times
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  838.  @KeepPushingDontGiveUp  I know, facts can be annoying things. I just did a rough calculation that the replacement of natural gas from Nord Stream 1 would require 300,000 LNG ship trips per year. 55 billion m³ / 170,000 There are a total of about 600 LNG ships in the entire world. Houston, we have a problem.
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  839. The Armada of LNG tankers steaming towards Europe were originally headed to Asia and South America.
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  840. The revival of nuclear power plant construction in the United States failed because fracking for natural gas undercut the financial viability of nuclear power. The rest of the world is just beginning to explore using fracking
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  841. To be useful, the Patriot system has to have active radar turned on. That's fine for maybe stopping a ballistic scud missile launched from 500 miles away with an accuracy of +/- 5 km, but it's not 1991 anymore.
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  842. The attack on the oil and natural gas facilities in Saudi Arabia is going to squeeze them even more
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  843. Citizens living in Puerto Rico do not get to vote for President
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  844. Don't forget the coal, wood, uranium, iron, steel, uranium...
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  845. They say yachts are a hole in the water that you pour money into
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  846. The CEO of the largest bank in sub-Saharan Africa died in a helicopter crash near Las Vegas. Coincidence?
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  847. Pumping carbon dioxide into wells that are declining in production is becoming very common, partly because the financial incentives are there for sequestration of the carbon dioxide. You drill wells around the periphery of the pool of oil, and the carbon dioxide under high pressure pushes the oil towards the wells at the center.
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  848. Iran has been just days away from creating a nuclear weapon for the last 20 years
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  849. In fairly recent memory, Israel sent troops into lebanon, and it didn't turn out well. As a general principle, soldiers are more willing to die on their own soil rather than invading somebody else's home.
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  850. Perhaps they remember when they invaded Lebanon and got their heads handed to them
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  851.  @judithrebeccaokeno8057  using your definition, if NATO struck Russia at the request of Mr Zelensky, would that be a preemptive strike?
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  852. Follow the money
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  853. They may just be probing Germany's ability to spot the drones and counter them. Russia has had a year to figure out how to disrupt the communications that are controlling Ukraine's drones and knock them out of the sky
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  854. The uniform, definition of “casualty” also includes desertions and soldiers captured
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  855. Of course, the number was up, but not as much as it would have been if we hadn't passed the inflation reduction act to spend a lot of free money!
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  856. How much for that bus?
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  857. You have to watch out for those ophthalmologists educated in London. Pure evil.
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  858. I read a press release today that the Air Force is outfitting 3 f-16s to be flown without a pilot
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  859. But American LNG shippers will profit!
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  860.  @frederickfrenchjr8667  The price of LNG is up about 30% since this started. Of course, ocean shipping from the US will add costs. What is the basis of your 1500% guess?
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  861.  @frederickfrenchjr8667  What price was Germany paying for Russian gas? Please cite a source
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  862. Your generalization assumes cash flows based on a constant price. If the value of crude oil doubles, it doesn't need to produce as fast to still be a viable payback
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  863. Joe Biden was the ranking (minority party) leader of the Senate foreign relations committee for 12 years. This is an area where he actually knows things, if he's able to remember them
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  864. Wars have been fought over much less than stealing $500 billion dollars of another country's assets
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  865. The more complex the weapon systems, the more training the operators need and coordination between intelligence gathering and targeting. Ukrainians are not going to acquire those skills before they lose. The only way to stop Russian advances is with direct US intervention. Even so, when we decided to go after Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War, it took a year to get the heavy armor in place in the desert of Saudi Arabia to cross the border into Kuwait, due to a lack of ocean shipping capacity.
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  866. I think the Wall Street Journal report suggesting an imminent attack on Saudi Arabia by Iran is about scaring Saudi Arabia, not the West. The historical divide is over Suni vs Shiite factions of Islam. United States probably stokes that fire as much as the FBI was used to get the crips and bloods to fight each other. If the Muslim world united and becomes friendly to Russia that's a huge problem for the United States. George Schultz (former Bechtel President) caused millions of deaths by helping both sides during the Iran-Iraq war
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  867. Pretty much everything that exists in Ukraine was built by the Soviet Union, so they have the blueprints
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  868. Just wait until Siemens has to shut down their factories due to lack of energy!
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  869. Over 80% of France's electricity is generated by nuclear power. Care to guess where they get the enriched fuel from?
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  870. If the bridge to Crimea is a legitimate military target, then so is the railroad that runs up to Western Ukraine through Romania. Because it is standard gauge rather than the Soviet gauge, the EU invested a lot of resources as a primary way to ship materials (including military supplies) to and from Ukraine
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  871. Libya comes to mind
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  872. One of the crimes he committed in Greensboro North Carolina was he owned a fully automatic machine gun
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  873. Undoubtedly there's a Russian connection!
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  874. There was a fire at an LNG export terminal in Texas that will knock it out of operation for at least 3 weeks. 65% of its exports have been going to Europe. The result is a collapse in domestic natural gas prices in the United States, and a huge surge in Europe. The biden administration is sucking the United States dry of its own energy resources.
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  875. An actual democracy - where votes at the UN would be based on population without a Security Council veto - would give India+China 9x the voting power of the United States
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  876. Oh no! Does this mean the US will no longer be providing weapons to indiscriminately kill civilians in Yemen?
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  877. Well, NATO weaponized the stealing of wealth, so it seems just fair. War is not just airplanes and tanks
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  878. That was brutal! It is amazing how the American media has covered up the collapse of our 20-year trillion-dollar effort to control Afghanistan
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  879. President Joe's chess skills are likely to show up as falling for fool's mate
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  880. I have a vague memory of some Rosenbergs a long time back in American history. Something to do with this Soviet Union and nuclear technology
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  881. That's The logical compromise to be the basis of a settlement. It provides an obvious defensible border between the surviving Ukraine and the territory acquired by Russia. Another part of that is some sort of commitment that no offensive weapons will be left in the eastern part of Ukraine that have the potential to reach Russia.
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  882. Just wait until Joe Biden issues an executive order to start drafting young people! At least we're prepared, since the submarines have gender-neutral bathrooms and male Navy officers can wear dresses. Or that might have been Canada.
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  883. Even before the war started, the United States was exporting 9 million barrels a day of petroleum products. Part of that export trade is gasoline and diesel fuel to Mexico. What happens to Mexico if that instead goes to Europe?
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  884. Belize?
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  885. All it took for the United States military to freeze in place, was to have one female soldier, captured and held prisoner
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  886. Cry me a dnipro River
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  887. Joe Biden could stand in the middle of Times Square and Elinsky could hand him a suitcase of cash on live TV and none of his supporters would care
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  888. 49% of Jewish citizens of Israel are secular. Reconcile that with your belief.
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  889. Senator Ted Cruz made a similar statement a couple days ago painting Brazil as a future enemy
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  890. ​ @luckyguy600 Biden is the one he is playing
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  891. You can definitely trust the Dutch to keep secrets!
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  892. Cuba has lovely flowers. If you're wondering why I'm saying random things, I'm exploring the comment filter ✔
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  893. The US Coast guard has exactly one Icebreaker
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  894. The order for the new air defense systems will probably be fulfilled in 2028
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  895.  @suomi1416  which is the reason, NATO members are not allowed to attack each other
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  896. How would crashing the price of oil hurt Russia since Russia has been banned from exporting oil?
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  897. There is an alternative scenario of Ukraine loses which is that the United States reduces defense spending
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  898. No troops on the ground. They're flapping their arms and hovering 2 inches off the ground
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  899. Of course, bin laden was killed in Pakistan where he was in a safe house maintained by the Pakistani ISI, not in afghanistan
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  900. Are Ukraine having too many white people
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  901. Last time I checked, South Africa is not a member of NATO nor the EU. Has the United Nations sanctioned Russia? Of course not. Russia has a veto on the security council
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  902. That probably was originally the goal, but I think we're rapidly headed towards the goal being the destruction of the EU as the member countries start fighting each other as the resources run out. Control of resources is often the cause of war.
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  903. Russia did not take out the railroads for a reason. Since Ukraine is not willing to compromise, the logical next step is occupation. Russia will hold off destroying things that will be important once they are running the entire country. Intact railroads greatly simplify military logistics.
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  904. The grain in Ukraine stays mainly on the plain
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  905. I am going to eat a bratwurst in honor of Mr Kissinger
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  906. Maybe he took seriously Russia’s plan to explode a nuclear weapon in the ocean west of Ireland and create a 500 foot tsunami to inundate Ireland and Britain. However, it seems like sending aid to Ukraine increases the probability that this attack could happen, maybe as early as tomorrow
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  907. There is an industry report within the United States that u.s. grain producers are realizing they're no longer competitive on the global market. We used to sell lots of soybeans to China to feed their pigs, but now China is close to self-sufficiency
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  908. Some comments are automatically shadowbanned but yours is visible at least for now
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  909. Blinken believes a nuclear war is winnable
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  910. The like counts and view counts lag during periods of high activity
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  911. Ukraine is planning to send a manned rocket to the Sun. They are going to do it by traveling at night
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  912. Perhaps suddenly a bunch of under sea fiber optic cables will be cut
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  913. The New York Times holds the leash on all of the other American newspapers, and they will do what the CIA tells them to do.
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  914. The height of the brainwashing was a couple years ago when radio:TV host Glenn Beck visited Israel, and then announced that if you’re a “good”Conservative, you must wear an Israeli flag pin on your lapel
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  915. 97.62% of statistics on the Internet are just made up out of whole cloth, according to the international society for the preservation of statistical accuracy
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  916. Watching the ships in the Black Sea online, is very apparent that Turkey is willing to play the role of middleman to bypass sanctions. The ships go from a Russian port to a Turkish port, then get exported from Turkey to the world since they control the Bosphorus. While Turkey is in NATO, they are not a member of the EU. Does the EU want to pick a fight with Turkey?
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  917. The Obama administration, of which Joe Biden was vice president, was openly hostile toward Netanyahu - including sending money to try and interfere with the Israeli elections. My first reaction when this story started to break was that this Hamas attack was designed by the US intelligence agencies to force Netanyahu out of office.
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  918. How difficult is it to hook up a natural gas turbine power generator to a transformer?
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  919. Even if you thought that giving money to Ukraine for weapons was a good idea, it's way too late. The war is over
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  920. Well, that pay raise won't even begin to cover the increased energy costs of the EU employees
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  921. Beavers have a big flat tail that they use to thump the ground to warn of danger
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  922. Rasputin
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  923. The thing that NATO does not understand yet is that it is the loser in a war that pays reparations after the war is completed
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  924. It's no coincidence that Russians enjoy playing chess
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  925. Et tu brute?
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  926. It's NATO that's bluffing
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  927. ​ @ralfsxm851 the widow was the second largest campaign contributor only behind Elon Musk
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  928. Back during the George W Bush administration in 2007, Nancy Pelosi made an unauthorized trip to visit with bashar Assad in Syria without coordinating with the state department. She seems to be confused which branch of the US government she works for.
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  929.  @kensei232  Siemens Canada acquired Rolls Royce Canada in 2014.
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  930. Russians play chess. You don't risk sacrificing your queen to take a pawn.
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  931. I'm thinking that Ukraine is going to have difficulty planting their crops given the lack of a reliable diesel fuel supply
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  932. Does this mean that we're not going to send more money to israel?
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  933. The NATO invasion in Libya should have been a warning how unprepared NATO was for war against a real adversary
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  934. So the United States has been sitting on nuclear warheads from the Soviet Union that haven't been maintained for 30 years?
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  935. Reuters is of course a British legacy media operation
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  936. Providing modern weapons to Afghanistan really turned out well, didn't it?
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  937. Who gets to vote in this election?
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  938. Sam's comment did not age well
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  939. Just wait until it leaks out if the FDIC is giving billions of dollars of bailouts to billionaires
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  940. In 1939, it took a couple hours for the Soviet Union to liberate Estonia
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  941.  @xmaniac99  Kia/Hyundai have said they suspended operations last month because of supply chain issues, not that they intend to divest the plant. Last I looked, South Korea is not a member of the EU or NATO.
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  942. The Ottoman empire also attempted to occupy Crimea and it did not end well. They ended up conceding that Crimea is Russian territory.
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  943. It was just a few days ago that President Biden threatened that the United States has tools to shut down the pipeline
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  944. Research opal vadhan - she was Hillary Clinton's assistant during the 2016 campaign, and now is a senior aide to Kamala Harris. They actively send text messages back and forth.
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  945. I suspect the drones came from the US Embassy
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  946. And the railroad cars to transport the tanks long distances are built to standard EU gauge, not the Soviet gauge present in Ukraine
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  947. The United States has some cognitive dissonance issue regarding the revolutionary war. Some people think the Bible is the basis of the moral authority of the United States and the Bible says thou shalt not steal, but the United States was issuing letters of Marque to allow privateers to commandeer commercial ships and steal their cargoes and turn the ships into warships for the US Navy. It is not piracy if you have a piece of paper from a government, and give the government a portion of the loot. Arrgh đŸŽâ€â˜ ïž. People also seem to not realize that the evil British redcoat soldiers were also Christians. The United States did not win the revolutionary war because Jesus was on our side. We won it because France helped us with troops and gold because France wanted to separate England from the natural resources of the new world.
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  948. Is it even possible for ukrainians to operate these sophisticated weapon systems without being fluent in English?
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  949. Missile democracy. Western values.
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  950. The Putin should announce it in 60 days he intends to violate article 5 of NATO, then watch all the member nations start drafting all of their young people (that don't exist) and tanking their "wartime" economies even further.
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  951. In 2021, the United States exported an average of 9 million barrels a day of petroleum products
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  952. The same people were afraid of Margaret Thatcher
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  953. It's Donald Trump's fault!
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  954. Cyprus was a British possession for about 40 years
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  955. Presumably the 500,000 people who are going to be forcibly conscripted are currently doing work like driving trucks, making food, farming grain, running trains - how can this not collapse the economy even further?
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  956. As one of the major members of the cabinet, Austin would have a vote in the event that Kamala Harris calls a meeting to invoke the 25th amendment to involuntarily push Joe Biden aside
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  957. Want the hardliners want to push Putin out and then they’ll run the country? How does that improve the situation for NATO?
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  958. Well, keep in mind this is Canadian "dollars"
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  959. Which begs the question of whether the United States was behind the entire thing
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  960. Based on my personal interaction from affluent people from India, there will be no shortage of buyers for Russian gold. How could you even tell that it was Russian gold?
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  961. The count says 14 replies now, but only eight are visible. I am wondering if the difference is YouTube’s algorithm is shĂ dow banñing some replies.
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  962. There is a Mobile video game called train station 2. About six months ago they removed all of the historic Russian trains and replaced them with trains from Finland, which has absolutely no historical significance in railroads. Finland has nothing comparable to the Trans-Siberian railroad I posted a review pointing this out and have not played since. This is right up there with the mob tearing down statues of people to rewrite history or express racial antipathy. To be honest, their opening splash page shows an Amtrak locomotive pulling a freight train, so historical accuracy may not be their strong suit.
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  963. Does "Russian society" actually have a say in what happens?
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  964. Military equipment requires steel - steel requires a lot of energy and iron and coal. Germany used to buy all three of those from Russia.
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  965. What’s going on in Greece is going to be nothing compared to the millions who die in Shanghai from starvation
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  966. ​ @DanielKrivtsov-pq1er  it's called the S&P 500 index
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  967. This is our prima facie case of conspiracy to commit fraud
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  968. China just announced that Kenya has defaulted on their loans. The trap has been sprung.
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  969. This is a rhetorical question, but does the Ukrainian army possess any Russian missiles that they could fire into a civilian crowd at a railroad station as a fake attack?
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  970.  @bfa-xi1py  Go back to reading Huffington Post
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  971.  @patb5266  The flying tigers were Americans 😋
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  972.  @alickmunro8985  do you consider Indians to be Europeans?
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  973. I do have the sense that Russia is using technicalities to declare some of the compressors not operational
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  974. Yet
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  975. Perhaps they could also flood the dead sea!
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  976.  @dutchchessbetterthancheese1239  I would like to know more. Ammunition name, range, required artillery device, anything else that you can tell me.
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  977. The electric grid in Ukraine is almost non-existent at this point, and highly dependent on imports from Europe. It would be a shame if there was some catastrophic damage to the high voltage power lines.
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  978. Were you planning to "eat the rich"? (Graffiti)
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  979. Bolton's comments are on the edge of being treason
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  980. Anyone who calls this a leak rather than sabotage is not a credible spokesperson
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  981. The Thursday morning update has been pulled down. By whom I'm not sure
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  982. Do the guards have real guns with bullets?
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  983. Some of the gas and oil going to Europe does not originate in Russia, but only transits through Russia. For now, Europe is okay with that, however it leaves the question open how Russia is going to be paid its transit fee. The same is true of the 20 container trains a day going from China to Europe through Russia
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  984. Pushing every single dollar possible 💾
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  985. Perhaps the United States should cede control of the International Space Station and let Ukrainians run it all. I've heard they're so smart that they don't need any training on anything.
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  986. The new president of Mexico is an environmentalist and participated with the UN committee on climate change. At the same time, she was very active and trying to survive the oil industry in Mexico.
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  987. The Democrats do control the Senate, although Fetterman is probably not going to show up anytime soon to vote
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  988. If you make a 180 ⁰ turn
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  989. I don't think it's a big stretch to think that Bloomberg's reporters are cover for the CIA operations
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  990. Maybe Europeans should have more children!
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  991. The Pentagon is continuing to feed the disinformation that it was the MIG that crashed
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  992. Since he probably plays a good game of chess, he's probably about to unveil a discovered check
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  993.  @dkblack1289  Two weeks to flatten the curve!
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  994. Which dad?
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  995. With the dam damaged, there still will be water flowing in the river above the dam. It should be relatively simple to get portable pumps to continue the flow into the canal to crimea. While it is important, the canal is not actually that big, and Russia had done a lot of work digging wells to fill the gap. If you look at Crimea in google earth, a lot of crimea is barren desert
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  996. Maybe the US military could purchase some used weapons from Afghanistan
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  997. Giving people a government-funded subsidy to pay their utility bills does not reduce demand, in fact it's going to increase demand - making the inflation problem and energy shortages even worse
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  998. His feet are frozen solid
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  999. Yet another front in the United States war on the world
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  1000.  @discoboy8169  Two words - Hûnter Bßden bribes
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  1001. Apparently, we have lost some States since President Obama said there were 58 States in the United States.
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  1002. When I read that, I thought I saw tampon shortages
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  1003. If Russia succeeds in making Ukraine landlocked, and disables the railroads to Europe, it's going to be very hard for Ukraine to sell their grain, assuming they're even able to plant it in the middle of the war
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  1004. His hair is no longer Orange
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  1005. Well, when Russia said they might have to attack the place where decisions are being made, and that decision making place is not inside Ukraine, that's the obvious target. Hurricane Ian might also be causing a natural hit on Tampa Florida , the headquarters on the US Central command. That's where the US military has been remotely flying drones on the other side of the planet.
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  1006. I wonder if Lindsey Graham knows that the Russians were our allies in World War II
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  1007. Perhaps the United States exploded a nuclear weapon underground! 🙄
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  1008. And the F-16s will wipe out a portion of the supply of handheld surface to air missiles
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  1009. Those towers right on the water would be perfect for all of the Russian oligarchs!
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  1010. Congress just discussed spending $1.6 billion dollars on anti-chinese propaganda
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  1011. China is also looking to develop capability to send long-range missiles over the South Pole, but they're a little behind the Russians
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  1012. Perhaps wearing UN Blue Helmets - absolutely
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  1013. At least in the movie, General George Patton of the US Army was very frustrated with British General Montgomery, who would only move forward if all the conditions were perfect. The more Ukraine stalls for time until victory is guaranteed, the more prepared Russia will be.
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  1014. Of course, the rationalization was that the slaves were not human, so all that stuff in the declaration of independence didn’t apply to them
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  1015.  @yurichtube1162  NATO could plant the bomb, and someone in Estonia press the button.
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  1016. There were an additional four turbines that were intended for use on Nord stream 2. IF they are identical to the original nordstream one, then there may be four spares available, although there would the logistical issues moving them around and issues about who owns the turbines, since the two pipelines have a different ownership structure.
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  1017. But much of the petroleum business in the United States is owned or controlled by global entities, not Americans. Why would Venezuela want to help the United States to be good Patriots? BP? Shell? Saudi aramco?
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  1018. The Dominos continue falling in Germany: "Leading steelmaker ArcelorMittal is going to idle blast furnace three at its Bremen site in Germany from the end of September indefinitely, due to unsustainable energy costs in Europe. The furnace can produce 1.2mn t/yr of pig iron."
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  1019. It used to be that Cyprus was full of Russian tourists
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  1020. The dairy farm that blew up and killed 18,000 cows in the United States was designed to capture the methane inside the building where the cows were kept.
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  1021.  @yfelwulf  unironically, the card game Spades is very popular within the African-American community
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  1022.  @JeffreyJordan-gw9vt  if you do a web search, NPR did an entire story on whether that phrase is racially offensive
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  1023.  @oldguy217  the phrase originated in the United States in the 1920s in Harlem in New York City
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  1024. The honeymoon is over, now we fall into the depression of realizing that you have to live in reality
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  1025. However, fracking is banned in Germany! They have the solution right in their hands to break away from Russia.
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  1026. We require every country to support the international rule of law, so turn over the $300 biillion
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  1027. Without any air fields, and a country that's 800 mi wide, exactly how would NATO enforce a no-fly zone? They would have to have inflight refueling with huge tanker planes that would be sitting ducks. The US Air Force is structured for offensive aggressive military action, not loitering around endlessly to see if an enemy plane shows up. Air-to-air dog fights are so 20th century...
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  1028. Rosa Delauro was my Congress critter when I was living in Derby Connecticut 15 years ago. The only thing that I remember her doing was extracting federal government money for something that's not consistent with the US Constitution. In downtown Derby, we had a local natural gas services line under the street blow up, destroying a building next to it. The main street is a Connecticut state road that has no connection outside the state of Connecticut. There is no "interstate commerce" justification for why the federal government should have paid to repair this road.
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  1029. Everyone needs a dream!
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  1030. Perhaps the "people looking good while doing evil" was a reference to Netanyahu
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  1031. It reads like it was written by artificial intelligence after scouring Ukraine military press releases
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  1032. Who built the new Panama Canal?
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  1033. What were the reaction be in Germany if they realize that it was the United States that blew up their natural gas supply and their population started freezing to death...
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  1034. Someone was probably paid quite well!
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  1035. Even if it is a "Russian" missile, that does not mean it was fired by a Russian. Ukraine has proudly shown off weapons they've captured from the Russian forces.
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  1036. Radio free Europe posted a youtube video yesterday showing the massive graveyards in Kiev. Somewhat surprisingly, it didn't really seem to be taking a position for or against the war.
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  1037. Does Finland have an ancient monarchy hanging around that could be revived by the United States so that they could replace representative government like they tried to do in Benghazi?
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  1038.  @cybervigilante  totally agree with what you said, even though YouTube has suppressed your reply.
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  1039.  @alpovratia6488  even if there's no factual basis, I'm sure the CIA would be glad to invent some proxy claiming ancient ties to a non-existent monarchy
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  1040. Maybe the reason is that the Biden administration wants isreal to be defeated
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  1041. They probably think it's about that state next to Alabama
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  1042. Isn't the United States committing coercive action by blocking Iran from selling its oil and occupying Syria's oil production facilities in Eastern Syria?
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  1043. Depleted uranium is not radioactive - it is extremely dense making it extremely effective at penetrating armor
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  1044. NATO has no down escalator
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  1045. I guess the US plan to make Iran and Saudi Arabia enemies isn’t going to work after all
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  1046. The United States supports "democracy" until the wrong person wins, with the exception of Saudi Arabia where we don't even have the pretense that it's a democracy. Russia, Libya, and Syria all had multi party elections to choose their leader. Ukraine just canceled presidential elections again.
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  1047. I have relatives with the last name of Koch and I think Germans pronounce it kind of like clearing your throat, a deep gutteral sound.
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  1048.  @pekkarousu3616  I have a theory that the reason the West Coast ports are completely empty now is China realizes they don't want more dollars from selling stuff to the United States. Exporters might need to purchase their Chinese goods in yuan or rubles or whatever bric currency evolves. The exporters then get to deal with the risk of the dollar devaluing while they're holding the inventory until it sells.
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  1049.  @gtengineer1967  a couple days ago the Los Angeles Times reported that there were zero ships waiting to get a berth in Los Angeles
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  1050. It's too shallow to be very useful for commercial shipping
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  1051. Here is a hint. When the country of Mexico repudiated its debts with France, France invaded Mexico and installed a king. Ultimately, France left Mexico because Abraham Lincoln had threatened France with war.
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  1052. It might help to know that many of Blinken's relatives live near Kiev
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  1053. If Turkey left NATO, then they would have a freer hand to resume the conflict in Cyprus
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  1054. The US media has done an excellent job of hiding Afghanistan in the memory hole
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  1055. He Is not up for reelection until 2026
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  1056. The EU has a navy capable of ocean transits?
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  1057. By imposing these sanctions, the end game is that Russia will become much more self-sufficient
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  1058. Cyprus has been a very popular tourist destination for Russians, who have a reputation of being very generous with their money
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  1059. WC Kitchen is very close to Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris
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  1060. If there were elections in ukraine, who would get to vote?
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  1061. I'm curious how far the New York Times will go advocating war against Russia before its readers will wake up
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  1062. Many of Blinken's relatives live near Kiev. His grandfather was influential in the creation of the state of Israel. His job is not to pursue his own personal interests.
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  1063. Is this information about Nord stream is true, why is the one pipeline that is still intact? Not back in service?
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  1064. If the United States had a balance budget and people actually had to pay taxes for this war, there would be people in the streets. However, we’re just borrowing more money from China. Coincidentally, Blinken in China to threaten them for cooperating with Russia.
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  1065. When he says "we have a right to defend ourselves" is he talking about Israel? If "we" didn't have a presence in the Middle East, there would be nothing to be attacked
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  1066. The supplier of natural gas waiting in the wings is in the eastern Mediterranean just south of Lebanon
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  1067. Or a Peter Paul and Mary song from the Vietnam war era
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  1068. Well of course, his hope was that Russia would win, so the resolution passing was a failure
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  1069. As stupid as the 81 million people!
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  1070. Just any day now, Russia's going to run out of aviation fuel!
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  1071. The same argument has been made that Ukraine is not "the Ukraine"
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  1072. Dig under the W
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  1073. The US will make a loan to ukraine, and then that money will pay to buy IOUs for future deliveries of weapons in 2026
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  1074. A couple years ago, the Federal government tried to shut down press tv the official news service of Iran
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  1075. The Sea of azov is not international waters
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  1076. My God can beat up your God!
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  1077. Of course, the people that work for the FDIC have absolutely no experience running a bank 💾
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  1078. Silence is complicity. This should never happen again
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  1079. Maybe it's saying that Ukraine is out of air defense missiles in hopes that Russia will fall for misinformation and start sending their Air Force en masse and all be shot down. That was the essence of how the US Confederacy lost the battle at Gettysburg - General Pickett thought the Union Army had run out of ammunition and ordered his troops to attack the waiting cannons
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  1080. I seem to remember usoverthrowing the government and arresting Manuel Noriega
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  1081. I have a lingering theory that zelensky is actually working for Russia to destroy NATO
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  1082. Piloted by pilots with no experience and no understanding of English, facing the world's most formidable air defense systems (if they aren't destroyed on the ground first)
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  1083. This is like when a family has to tell Grandpa he's not allowed to drive the car anymore and take the keys away
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  1084. There is no need to worry. The Vatican is protected by a very thick wall
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  1085. 10,000 troops is a lot less than 1 million
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  1086. It's almost like the capitulation document is part of the script of the movie, as if it's going to make a difference in the outcome
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  1087. So Yellen is encouraging African countries to buy more Russian oil?
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  1088. Well, in theory they could, but not without the consent of King Charles
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  1089. To bring manufacturing back to the United states, you need to be able to make the machines that make the machines that work in the factory. We no longer even make much steel. You would also need to work for us it's well-trained and not think that work means sitting at home playing on tik Tok
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  1090. Is there an alternative parts supplier for the f-35?
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  1091.  @tatfly5779  I'm shocked that the US and/or NATO would set up a front organization to give Ukraine a military capability that they didn't develop themselves! It would be interesting to see the software that's used in the missile, and the electronic components
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  1092. Can you imagine the Suez canal being closed for 8 years like it was after the Yom Kippur war in 1967?
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  1093.  @corvusduluth  Minnesota has been a dumping ground for refugees. Somalis are one of the larger groups. When my sister was living in Wisconsin, her town had a large contingent of Hmong (who helped is in Vietnam). There is this pattern that we create military conflicts and then flood our country with refugees who get free stuff
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  1094. Perhaps United Nations and or Red Cross should volunteer to escort civilian convoys
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  1095. War yachts?
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  1096. USAID has 11 billion dollars in outstanding loans and loan guarantees.
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  1097. Allowing Ukraine to join the EU is a throwaway. It’s not going to happen. That would require Ukraine to accept the “rule of law“ from the people in Brussels, and a thorough investigation of the finances of the Ukrainian government
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  1098. The description put out by the Pentagon describes this video as "a depiction", kind of how NASA generates a video based on telemetry data 😂
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  1099. Back around 1995, I had my first online contact on AOL with a former East German. It was eye opening to me that Germany viewed the American presence as an occupation to keep Germany from becoming a military power again. It had very little to do with protecting Germany from Russia.
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  1100. What happened to the Soviet military equipment that East Germany had before reunification?
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  1101. It goes deeper than that. If a foreign bank violates the US sanctions, they risk then being unable to conduct business with any US Banks and having their assets seized by the US Treasury. That's a risk that most banks would not be willing to take.
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  1102. We need to convict blinken of 34 felonies for interfering in the elections of another country
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  1103. Sean Hannity is reporting that Natalie Holloway might be held captive in Iran
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  1104. Norway has the means, opportunity and motive to do the sabotage. Norway did much of the underwater construction and would be trivial to have attached explosives during construction or after. The Norway to Poland natural gas pipeline just went live this week ahead of schedule.
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  1105. ​And how many of those are logistics and paper pusher people, as opposed to trained soldiers?
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  1106. To be able to attach these fake messages to threads, they must be using an API to see new messages. That should be pretty easy for YouTube to stop if they wanted to
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  1107. Long range artillery can fire nuclear capable tactical weapons. Does that mean we should expect NATO to preemptively start blowing up Russian artillery directly because in theory it could lob a nuclear weapon? The NATO article 5 principle that an attack on one is an attack on all – what if the NATO member is the country that initiates the attack and Russia responds in kind?
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  1108. Putin is also losing the war in Afghanistan!
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  1109.  @TrilobitesRTasty  Those who win the wars write the history
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  1110. How would they enforce that?
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  1111. And Saudi Arabia has made absolutely no progress against them with American weapons. All they’ve been able to do is drop bombs in discriminately on civilians.
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  1112. To refill the strategic oil reserve?
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  1113. Slavery is Freedom!
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  1114. And his mentor John McCain ruined his life by thinking that North Vietnam could be bombed into submission
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  1115. France just shut down 6 gigawatts of electricity generation from nuclear power because they're trying to conserve their supplies of enriched uranium
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  1116. What path would coal take to get from Australia to Poland? Are there spare ships available to do that? The price of export coal in Australia has gone up 400%. Prairie Mining of Australia has a large lawsuit against Poland claiming that the Polish government prevented them from operating their coal mines in Poland. In 2021, Poland imported 4 million metric tons from Russia, and 1.4 million from Australia. Australia's thermal coal exports are around 200 million metric tons, with the largest portion of that going to Japan.
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  1117. The Blue Stream pipeline goes to Turkey through the part of Ukraine under Russian control.. Turkey would be glad to be an intermediary in selling Russian oil to the world. Turkey is in NATO, but they are not in the EU. This pipeline was not terribly important since the end of the Soviet Union, but it might have just gotten a new life
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  1118. The South China Sea is going to be renamed the Western Gulf of Mexico
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  1119. The biggest active port is in Romania. Romania is a member of NATO. Does that influence your plan?
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  1120.  @Useaname  I'm pretty sure that Ukraine does not have any submarines!
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  1121. The most convincing proof of a conspiracy being true is the lack of evidence!
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  1122. And the increases in price of energy will cause factories to shut down in Europe putting people on the unemployment list
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  1123. And give a 10% tithe to Hunter Biden
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  1124. The Redacted channel pre roll has that entire conversation. And let's not forget that senator Hillary Clinton demanded that George Bush go after the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
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  1125. That’s another thing that seems to have been forgotten, that it was only a couple weeks ago that Netanyahu was going to build a huge to keep eritrean invaders out
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  1126. Notice that he said he will resign after the party selects the next leader, which could be like months in the future
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  1127. If there was an exodus from Europe heading to the United States, you can be sure they would be welcomed
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  1128. It's interesting to see which media outlets are bending over backwards to try to deconstruct the meaning of the word genocide
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  1129. This is negotiating 101. Demand to your wife that you want permission to buy a Lamborghini and she'll be glad when you only buy a Corvette
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  1130. Absolutely, but there would be significant consequences
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  1131. A year ago, the president of the United States announced that the world should prepare for global food shortages. I don't know why people didn't believe him. Then you have European countries actively trying to shut down food production
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  1132. 30 or 40 years ago is not world war II. So either it's a reference to the Falklands or to Libya.
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  1133. With covid season ramping up, how is that going to affect this conflict? Having people in Germany huddle together in heating centers to stay warm sounds like an excellent way to transmit covid. How about the Russian army? Do they have adequate resources to deal with battlefield illnesses?
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  1134. How would the UK even have supplies of depleted uranium if it didn't come from the United States?
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  1135. Well, Senator Hillary Clinton did demand that George Bush invade Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction!
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  1136. Perhaps somebody is going to try to invoke the Logan act
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  1137. It is bigger than that. Is declaring the end of civilization
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  1138. That's correct. Originally Macron was going to be on that call, but he decided to go to the White House. There's a local photographer in DC that has a YouTube channel called penguin 6. He covered macron's arrival, and was a little bit surprised that macron's car showed up, since he was staying at the Blair house right across the street. It's all about the optics.
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  1139. The good part of this conflict is it's really exposing the media outlets who will say outlandish lies as if they're the truth
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  1140. They can even take over Yemen! 😂
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  1141. Venezuela has two main deposits of oil. One is as thick as tar and requires special types of refineries to break it down.
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  1142. Unfortunately, Elon Musk is wrong. The database is of everyone who ever was entered into the social security system. Most of those people died before they were old enough to collect social security, but their death was not reported to social security
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  1143. Perhaps China has an opportunity here to found a insurance company to insure Russian vessels
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  1144. If he were to leave office, he would be replaced by a Democrat appointed by the governor
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  1145. He owes his role as prime minister to his advocacy of legalizing 420
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  1146. Have we ruled out that nuclear weapons were used to breach the Nord stream pipeline? Is anybody monitoring radiation? Would that be classified information?
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  1147.  @7owlfthr  do you have a source for that information?
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  1148. There is no extradition treaty between Canada and Poland
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  1149. For those who are not familiar with her, Mika Brzezinski is the daughter of the late Zbigniew BrzeziƄski, and spouse of the faux conservative Joe Scarborough. Zbigniew BrzeziƄski was the Polish born National Security advisor to Jimmy Carter.
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  1150. That's dancing around the question of how extensive the ties are between Google and the CIA. Here is a clue: Google Earth was originally a product they acquired called "Keyhole"
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  1151. Joe Biden was factually wrong. China is the world's largest wheat producer, followed by India, then Russia.
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  1152. Ukraine is about 2000 mi wide (233,000 square miles). The United Kingdom has around 130 airworthy combat aircraft. And Russia is much closer to Ukraine.
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  1153. I used to saying that don't start a war unless you're prepared for the consequences of losing
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  1154. The live streaming cameras at the Poland border seem to have all gone away 8 months ago. Back then the people were in good spirits as if they were going shopping in Poland. The trains are probably not running anymore, so the people arriving at Poland will be hungry, cold, and scared. The ngos are through with their fundraising show, so that'll probably not be there handing out free food and blankets
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  1155. What's a Greek urn?
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  1156. If you look in Google Earth at the port in Yemen that was bombed by Israel, it is nothing short of bizarre. It is wall-to-wall fishing boats crammed as close as possible. They aren’t going to run out of remotely controlled bombs anytime soon.
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  1157. Even if she meant casualties rather than deaths and she meant soldiers rather than officers, the hospitals would be still be overflowing with patients, all of whom have relatives. You can't hide the cost of this from the Ukrainian people.
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  1158. Creating ammunition requires huge amounts of energy and steel. Germany is so scréwed, on top of not having enough children for a couple generations
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  1159. The lander is expected to work for only 2 weeks
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  1160. South America has a long history of providing safe harbor to national socialists
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  1161. A significant number of the nuclear plants in France that are responsible for 80% of electricity were shut down due to corrosion problems, making France a net importer of electricity. The government has reversed itself and will push all nuclear power plants to go back online. What could possibly go wrong?
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  1162. 26:21 the statement is a thermal power plant, not a nuclear power plant
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  1163. I blame Jennifer Lopez
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  1164. Cuba is within missile range of Florida
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  1165. So President Biden's commitment to democracy is that he has declared that he is not going to allow Donald Trump to win the election
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  1166. The Ukraine intelligence services are taking credit for two bombs exploding on trains on the route from Russia to China
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  1167. I have no children. Why should I care?
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  1168. The pictures I saw showed them traveling to Kiev on a yellow bus trailed by security. I infer from that detail that the Russians knocking out the substations on the electrified railroad meant they could not travel by rail to Kiev as other visitors had in the past. Poland probably does not have a lot of Soviet gauge diesel passenger locomotives.
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  1169. NATO would get more bang for the buck by converting Ukraine's railroad system to standard gauge
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  1170. Regarding Poland, apparently the YouTube algorithm is going to force us to spell trĂ€nsgĂȘñdēr
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  1171.  @ccahill2322  the same type of pumps that are already in place to compress natural gas! After I posted that I did more research, and the pipeline was built with several emergency underwater cutoff switches that can be activated with a submersible vehicle.
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  1172. Adding additional decimal places makes this statistic look more credible - I lead the 97.62% ngo
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  1173. Well, in theory, the United Nations might have a say in the issue
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  1174.  @talisikid1618  Native tribes "owned" the Western hemisphere until the Europeans "stole" it. Ownership of territory is a very fluid concept, however the United Nations in the United States have this believe that borders are sacred and unmovable. Unless of course it's Serbia and Kosovo. Without international recognition, the annexed areas will struggle. Just ask the country to the south of Lebanon. I just learned yesterday that the DPR has the second largest coal reserves in Europe. People are focused on the grain production, which is really a minor part of the big picture.
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  1175. The Russian invasion was as unprovoked as the Japanese bombing of Pearl harbor. That was the biggest lie FDR made, since we were strangling Japan's access to oil.
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  1176. Mexico!
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  1177. Is worth remembering that East Germany used to be aligned with the Soviet Union, so not every German hates Russia
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  1178. There's a lot of high-quality coal in that part of ukraine, unfortunately demand for coal is in decline
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  1179. The other senator from South Carolina just announced that he is running for President in 2024. Senator Tim Scott is a Black Republican and thinks more sanctions on Russia is a good idea
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  1180. By their nature, nuclear power plants using fission create plutonium. Separating it from the uranium and then making it into a deliverable weapon are a bit more difficult.
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  1181. When this conflict started, Ukraine had about 10 functional s300 batteries to cover a country that's 750 miles wide and 500 miles n/s. The range of the S300 is about 100 miles. Without air cover, as soon as you turn on the radar, Russian missiles will blow up the anti-aircraft missile battery. Ukraine probably has no functional defenses left. Don't lose sight of the fact that these were built by the Soviet Union, and Russia knows everything about them including their weaknesses. The NATO supplied systems will require months of training unless NATO personnel staff them, but you still have the problem without air cover they will be sitting ducks. Is NATO ready to send in pilots to engage in dog fights with Russian pilots?
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  1182. Just ask him and I'm sure he will confirm that!
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  1183. Alex misgendered lavrov
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  1184. Rubles for Grain!
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  1185. Firing missiles into Ashdod would certainly create some complications
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  1186. Alex Jones
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  1187. There are lots of baby seals that need to be clubbed to death
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  1188. What is the over / under for the date when Kamala Harris becomes president?
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  1189. 97% of statements from Ukraine are fabrications
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  1190. Russia has not achieved its goal of starting a space colony on Mars!
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  1191. The United States still has forces in Iraq? I'm shocked, I tell you
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  1192. I’m shocked that somebody borrowed the plan from Kuwait of saying that Iraq was murdering babies in the preemie hospital
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  1193. Cyprus was part of the British Empire from 1925 to 1960, the period during which automobiles became common - so they adopted the UK standard
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  1194. How stupid do they think we are?
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  1195. "Let me make this very clear" = Here is the lie I expect you to report
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  1196. Does President Biden have any plans to attend the World series?
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  1197.  Viễn-PhÆ°ÆĄng  only if he can get a fabricated birth certificate that says he was born in Texas
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  1198. Raytheon is the manufacturer of the Stinger missiles - however they say it would take several years to restart production
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  1199. And would not use the love of Jesus to rationalize genocide
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  1200.  @Neyreyan  does the word “savages” ring a bell? in regards to Europeans killing Native Americans who refused to accept Jesus?
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  1201. Israel ignores the United Nations except for the document that created the country
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  1202. An unprocessed minerals in the ground are entirely different than the finished refined products
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  1203. It occurred to me this morning that Donald Trump's view of economics reflects the world at the time he went to Wharton Business School in 1968. He is viewing the trade deficit as a country by country issue, where global trade is multilateral.
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  1204. Maybe they were trying to get Scott Ritter to apply for Russian citizenship
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  1205. China should urge South Korea to get rid of troops from the United States
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  1206. I look forward to the synchronized swimming events that are gender neutral
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  1207. Until he needs to launch the next satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral or Vandenberg Air Force Base
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  1208. The Dnipro River would be a defensible border between a Russian Eastern Ukraine and a Kiev controlled Western Ukraine, however that leaves Kherson on the wrong side of the river. This may well be a deliberate relocation of the Russian speaking population out of the city in preparation for a ceasefire.
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  1209. Deep seek is available on the web without using an app
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  1210. If a missile targets the EU headquarters building in Brussels, does that constitute an attack on NATO?
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  1211. The opposite of the normal
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  1212. Cypress would be full of people except that the sanctions are preventing Russians from coming to spend their money
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  1213.  @BillOweninOttawa  see: Saturday Night Live parody of Sarah Palin 😁
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  1214. It's pretty easy to sit in the hotel Ukraine overlooking Freedom Square, and think that you are actually gathering news.
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  1215. What would a second EU use for its currency, and who would control the central bank? I'm going to guess the British pound and the Bank of England?
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  1216. Norway ended up having to do the bombing in Libya on behalf of NATO, because the other countries of NATO abandoned US weapon systems in favor of developing their own line of combat aircraft. France's ancient aircraft carrier ultimately had to be staffed by Americans because the French navy didn't have the skills to operate it. That aircraft carrier could only launch or retrieve, but not both at the same time. So the ball got passed to Norway with having to do in-flight refueling to reach Libya.
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  1217. How much time is left in the 2-3 weeks for the Ukraine counter-offensive to destroy Russia?
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  1218. And elensky is suggesting that Americans send their sons and daughters to die in Ukraine!
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  1219. Ronald Reagan's Marine occupation of Beirut Lebanon ended poorly.
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  1220. Next time, the Russians should consider using silly stringâ„ąïž
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  1221.  @KaiserHooray  are you saying that tiktok would not comply if the CIA demanded that they pull down content that contradicts the narrative of the US intelligence community?
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  1222.  @greywolf2004  so you're still believing that made-up story from the fake native American professor about native Americans being deliberately given smallpox?
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  1223. The other Alex talks like he's still working for Sputnik and has a really problematic condescending facial expression
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  1224. So how is Russia going to agree to resume natural gas or LNG shipmets without a secure arrangement to make sure they get paid and their funds will not be "Frozen" in the future?
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  1225. So if Russia abrogates the existing natural gas contracts, it's not like suing gazprom or Russia is going to accomplish anything.
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  1226. Is Robert McNamara’s ghost still alive?
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  1227. The floating LNG terminal for Germany has been delayed by at least a month
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  1228. The transponder data for the Andromeda says that none of this is true
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  1229. I won't believe that until the White House has their next press briefing and the press secretary gets a question about interest rate arbitrage
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  1230. Perhaps the EU should try to seize the assets of Saudi Arabia. It's not like they have much of a military to defend themselves
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  1231. This is a really important point, BASF is a huge consumer of natural gas in making their chemical products. They have to be concerned with the government is going to prioritize heating houses over manufacturing ammonia for fertilizer. Moving production of those products to China will mean that other related products will also want to move there.
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  1232. Most of which were supporting Bernie Sanders, Vermont's socialist senator, in the Democratic primary
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  1233. What if that country is Israel?
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  1234. I have the sense that the statement that Ukraine consulted NATO before moving the Patriots to the front line was sarcasm đŸ€”
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  1235. Maybe Nehru jackets will make a comeback!
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  1236. Perhaps they're having difficulty finding a replacement diversity candidate
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  1237. I don't know how natural gas pipelines work, but once the gas enters Europe, can they still prevent it being delivered to customers who aren't paying?
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  1238. Hannity was the single loudest voice screaming about the "weapons of mass destruction" that we KNEW were in Iraq.
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  1239. President Donald J Trump wanted to have a military parade in Washington DC and was told it was not possible.
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  1240. January 20, 2025
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  1241. Dead men don't pay taxes
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  1242. Joe Biden will be president as long as it takes!
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  1243. The variant that we gave to Ukraine drops cluster bombs
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  1244.  @JamesBond-yn8kd  Is that true? Haha
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  1245.  @JamesBond-yn8kd  Source please?
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  1246. If we were stupid enough to sanction China, we will realize how much the United States is already run by China
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  1247. A year ago, when I was in the emergency room, cell phone service did not work because it was underground
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  1248. Ben Stiller is the son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
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  1249. Wow, that was a stretch. United States sent two astronauts to the moon in 1969, and has rovers exploring Mars. India has a Rover on the moon with a life span of two weeks. Perhaps Pakistan is humiliated
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  1250. for several decades, the US has offered a path to citizenship to non-citizens if they join the u.s.military. This was a solution for failing to meet recruitment goals. This resembles the final days of the Roman empire when the visigoths walked in the gates of Rome..
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  1251.  @spiritlove3168  Meeks was in Poland, but not in Kiev
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  1252.  @FJTx100  The answer to your question depends on whether you count the people in the annexed regions as still being citizens of Ukraine. The Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine is followed by about 4% of the population of Ukraine.
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  1253.  @evgeniya7853  is it your custom to always upvote your own comments?
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  1254. I thought that the political consensus was that women don't start wars
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  1255. China is systematically colonizing Africa while most of the world is not paying attention
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  1256. And senator Lindsey Graham has directly and overtly advocated genocide
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  1257. I would humbly suggest that you limit individual topics to five minutes rather than stretching them out to create filler for a 30 minute podcast
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  1258. If the United States withdraws military support from Saudi Arabia, doesn't that open the door wide for Iran to attack?
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  1259. Combine this apology with his statement that it took a long time to get the funding sent to Iraq.
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  1260. It would be interesting if RT were to make an offer to hire him
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  1261. I don't think they believe anything Biden says, but they know which side of the bread the butter is on
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  1262. That is probably the reference to "integration". Perhaps they'll try to figure out how to attach the JASSM to a Soviet airframe
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  1263. So the usaid (CIA) was funding election interference?
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  1264. The money currently frozen - how many of the Euros and dollars are being held in British banks in London as an interest-free loan?
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  1265. Does Joe Biden have any "dear friends"?
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  1266. Next the EU needs to cut off the phone system and the internet from Russia!
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  1267.  @lewstherintelamon1377  and Beijing is Peking and Mumbai is Bombay!
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  1268. As New Atlas likes to point out, equipment is worthless unless you have experienced trained soldiers
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  1269. The closer winter gets with the natural gas storage in Europe empty will eventually bring some reality to the demands being put on Russia
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  1270. Donald Trump will be the hero of the people on tik Tok!
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  1271. I think Biden is more accurately playing chutes and ladders
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  1272.  @blooter6162  if you’re trying to push a string, it doesn’t matter
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  1273. Don't forget that most of the infrastructure of Ukraine was built by the Soviet Union. So if you need replacement parts, who you gonna call?
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  1274. Just any day they will have their undercover investigation of the brutal working conditions at Amazon
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  1275. Amazon wins! 💰
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  1276. The idea in NATO that if Putin was eliminated then all of the problems are solved overlooks the fact that Putin may be the moderate in the Russian government.
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  1277. As you pointed out, the Saudis understand that if they could sieze Russia’s property, they could just as easily sieze Saudi assets. I guess Mecca schools will not be having drag Queen story hour
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  1278. Does this mean the United States will be on the hook to financially prop up Ukraine for 71 years?
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  1279. Is she saying that the Biden administration slow roll the aid to ukraine, that is basically saying that the foundation is an arm of the US government. Surprise, surprise
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  1280. You have to think that if Israel engaged in overt genocide, the backlash would spill over to Jewish people all around the world. Perhaps it is the more moderate Jewish leaders who gave Netanyahu instructions to Stop It.
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  1281. Many NPR affiliate radio stations in the United States carry the BBC overnight. Rules crafted in the 1930s concerned about German propaganda opposing us entering the war in Europe prohibit radio stations from being owned by foreign governments or carrying government propaganda. Most Americans don't seem to realize that the world service is funded by the home office and is direct British propaganda
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  1282. Lindsey really misses those early-morning sauna sessions with John McCain
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  1283. When Elensky talks about victory, he is not talking about retaking territory of the last 4 months. He is including Crimea.
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  1284. Please elaborate đŸżïž
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  1285. One election, one time.😂
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  1286. That would explain the strange delay in Trudeau returning to Canada
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  1287. Now the Germans are going to be worried that the Russians are going to invade using the Nord Stream 2 pipeline!
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  1288. He and the New FBI director and the new attorney general are such a contrast with the senile old man and his corrupt gang of thieves. Young people must be noticing this difference
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  1289. Iceland?
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  1290. ​ @44bett  for those who might be concerned, if you go into the app, you can set both a maximum ATM withdrawal, and also a daily limit. You can also turn on notifications so your phone immediately beeps as soon as somebody tries to do the withdrawal
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  1291. The more booster shots he gets, the less his brain seems to be working
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  1292. Patsy Schroeder didn’t live long enough to see a female presidential candidate cry
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  1293. But the women who work in the administration who were born as men are still considered to be women. The only women that I can think of who are not women are those who identify as non-binary. If a non-binary woman is pregnant and is the birthing parent of a child, can they still identify as being non-binary? This is getting very confusing
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  1294. Russian tourists were a big part of the economy is Cyprus, and Turkey
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  1295. Rook to Queen 8
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  1296. Before Donald Trump ordered the divestiture, the most automated shipping terminal in Los Angeles was owned by a Chinese company and was being acquired by the Chinese government. China doesn't need secret spyware on the cranes. They are the dominant supplier to the United States and if one day they shut off their experts to the United States, we would be in a world of hurt. This horse left the barn 40 years
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  1297. If the United States attempts to apply the same sanctions on Chinese Banks because they facilitate Russia's money transfers, United States will find out just how little we actually make any more. How would Amazon pay for its products if they're not allowed to use Chinese Banks?
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  1298. Early on, I saw a report from Al Jazeera before the fighting got intense in the east. They pointed out that part of the friction with the kiev government is that the water canal that feeds the Crimean peninsula was cut off in 2014, resulting in a complete crop failure. Russia has been digging wells and trying to improve the situation with technology,, but one of their goals is clearly to reactivate that canal. It was the first thing they did once they got control. In addition to irrigating crops, it also provides water to the municipal water systems of the cities
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  1299. The story is serving its purpose. Instead of pursuing the real investigation, people are now distracted by the make-believe story that every rational person believes is not true.
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  1300. One of his closest friends during his life is boxing promoter Don King. That makes your analogy all the more apt. The Republican establishment did not want Don King to appear on the stage at the RNC.
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  1301. Ukraine is not the last remaining pipeline capable of transporting Russian natural gas to Europe. There's a pipeline that runs through Belarus. There is also the pipeline that runs through Turkey. That pipeline does transit through the part of eastern Ukraine which is currently under Russian control. It was built by the Soviet Union when nobody cared about borders, but could pretty easily be moved to the Russian side of the border with Ukraine.
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  1302. Perhaps the US could translate all of the training courses for the F-16 into Ukrainian, although there might be vocabulary words that don’t exist in Ukrainian
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  1303. By American style, do you mean like in Afghanistan? Where we paid the Taliban to not attack US troops?
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  1304. Rock and roll is dead.
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  1305. Russia's long-term plan is pretty clear. They're going to reverse the pipelines pushing natural gas to Europe, but instead biuild a relatively short pipeline connecting their Western gas resources with the pipeline to China, and ultimately through Mongolia, leaving the pipelines through Belarus and the Ukraine having no purpose. Nord stream one and or two could still deliver gas to Germany, but on Russia's terms.
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  1306. "weapons inspectors" is covering their real purpose, which is to make sure the weapons don't go straight to the black market
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  1307. Following the Yom Kippur War in 1967, the Suez canal was closed for 8 years. Imagine that with that would do to the global economy
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  1308. So originally, the EU was building up their military infrastructure so they could break free of NATO. They built their own GPS system and started building their own airplanes. At a minimum, their competitors. At worst, they will become our adversaries
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  1309. The irony of the United Kingdom to cry about the evil of colonialism is beyond belief
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  1310. The cost for Saudi Arabia to "lift" another barrel of oil out of the ground is currently about $2.80 per barrel. They would have to have quite a plunge in price to be losing money no matter how low the price goes.
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  1311.  @McFraneth  I will gladly ignore your reply
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  1312.  @michelegosse7116  Is that a reference to the crossing further North over the hydroelectric dam? If so it’s a significant detour.
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  1313. After World War II, people were asked, "why didn't you stop him?" They said "well, we didn't know". People did not believe that explanation, and it won't work this time.
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  1314. The byline is the indication of the author or the source of a news article. The information underneath the headline that elaborates on the details is called the subheading
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  1315. All of the western propagandist media do their broadcasting and reporting from the Ukraine hotel right across the street from maidan square. Ukraine set the precedent in Kherson that hotels with journalists are a legitimate military target.
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  1316. The Pentagon and/or Ukraine military would distribute a fake video to their paid propoganda agents? Perhaps it's from a video game. I am shocked!
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  1317. It's hard to imagine, but not impossible, that the United States and Israel could become in a hot war with each other. The United States would probably lose.
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  1318.  @jackneuman5108  Perhaps you did not watch the video. Russia has already announced that they are going to evacuate the city and relocate people to the east/west side. I understand that many people are heavily invested with the notion of perpetual war at any costs.
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  1319. đŸ’°đŸ’”đŸ€‘đŸ’ž
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  1320. It would take a lot of nuclear weapons to kill 1.4 billion people
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  1321. Closure of the Suez canal would be even more disastrous
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  1322. In 1944 the Democrats replaced the vice presidential candidate of Henry Wallace with Harry Truman because they knew FDR was going to die soon, and that Henry Wallace would be a disaster as president, at least according to the people in the south. Since it's becoming more likely that the Republicans are going to self destruct, hopefully the Democrats come up with a competent replacement for Kamala Harris at the convention. đŸ€”
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  1323. Norway did much of the original pipeline construction and would be the obvious candidate to do the repairs. The pipeline has several remote control emergency cut off devices along its length.
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  1324. The EU would have to vote to end the sanctions against Russia
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  1325. In the past, Russia has threatened to attack where decisions are being made, and that is not inside Ukraine
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  1326. Consensus has been reached! The debate must end
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  1327. Assange is posting them from his jail cell
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  1328. This seems to be widespread and for many months. It makes me want to not bother researching topics to provide useful answers
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  1329. Normally, when your currency gets stronger, that can damage your economy because people will just buy imports, or go spend money on lavish vacations. In this case, the sanctions prevent that from being much of a problem, with the exception of the imports from China
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  1330. But then President Gerald Ford solved the inflation problem by handing out whip inflation now (WIN) buttons!
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  1331. There is no such thing as a former Marine
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  1332. I guess the refinery fire in Houston means that the ship being held by Iran with Kuwaiti oil heading to Houston isn't needed anymore
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  1333. And BMW and Mercedes-Benz might have a vehicle car production
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  1334. It looks like EU is as committed to democracy as the United States. We support democracy as long as the correct person wins - then we overthrow the government if the wrong person wins.
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  1335. I’m pretty certain an AK-47 is not a sniper weapon
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  1336. The problem with taking your money out of the bank is you have to put it somewhere. If you take it home and put it under your mattress, you're a big target for an armed robber.
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  1337.  @barbarawilson9565  Since I don’t understand German and there was no translation, what were they demanding?
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  1338. 12 minutes of visa talk is way too much
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  1339. If they have 100,000 dead officers and they're winning the war, just imagine how it would be if Ukraine was losing!
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  1340. Railroads in the United States, with very few exceptions, are owned by private corporations, some of them are now Canadian
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  1341. Private Capital supplied by the US Treasury?
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  1342. In American parlance, Lindsey Graham is not a neocon. He is NOT a liberal who had a sudden awakening and realized he was on the wrong team. He's always been an extreme conservative, the protoge of deceased senator John McCain. He is a paleocon.
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  1343. Zelensky is actually a double agent working for Putin to demilitarize NATO
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  1344. Although not possible anatomically for most people
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  1345. It's like the periodic thought that we should mine meteors for diamonds. The value of the diamonds on the meteors is essentially zero because there's no realistic way to get them. Even if you did, then the sudden flood of diamonds with crater the diamond market and make diamonds worthless
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  1346. The action in poland suggests he was shooting at polish soldiers, not russians
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  1347. So what could the possible unintended consequences be?
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  1348. We need more sanctions!
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  1349. She's too young to remember that Richard Nixon tried wage and price controls
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  1350. The big misnomer is that rare earth minerals are not actually rare.
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  1351.  @annarock8966  I am part of the rock family 😂
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  1352. Does the WEF have a pipeline ROV?
    1
  1353. People are much more willing to die for their own country than to risk death for someone else's country
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  1354. When I hear the term Roma, I definitely think of integrity and honesty
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  1355. The United States seems to have a history of needing to run in and fix problems created by France
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  1356. Egypt was most recently a non-permanent member of the security council in 2016 2017
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  1357. The BBC has this notion that government funded propaganda can shape reality
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  1358. He learned that from watching movies. You can tell the good guys because they're wearing white hats and the bad guys are wearing black hats. The native Americans were wearing no hats. All quite simple. Until you look in the mirror and see that your hat is black... đŸ‘»
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  1359. Especially with all the Mass Hysteria over the train derailment in Ohio. The United States has become a nation full of cowards unwilling to accept any risk. There is video of Abrams Tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles on the move in the past few days in Oklahoma and Kentucky (see Virtual Railfan)
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  1360. I wonder if vice president Harris knows that we totally lost the war in Afghanistan
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  1361. Perhaps Tucker Carlson will get a show on RT once he gets banned from living in the United States
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  1362. Would that type of a boundary change require approval by the UN Security Council?
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  1363. Perhaps they're getting focus group results telling them that young people are not enthusiastic about bringing the draft back. It's one thing to put a flag on your Facebook page, it's another to involuntarily go halfway around the world to die as cannon fodder
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  1364. Linda McMahon, the woman who was the head of WWE served under Trump as the head of the Small Business Administration. Donald Trump appeared participating in a wrestling match involved the loser getting their hair cut
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  1365. Can an ROV be controlled remotely by radio, or does it require a tether from a surface ship?
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  1366. Will things devolve to the point where the Polish troops will be shooting the Ukrainians in the back for not fighting?
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  1367. Can Germany unilaterally ignore the sanctions that were voted on by the EU?
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  1368. I'm pretty sure article 5 does not apply to retroactive membership
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  1369. You won't have to search for a hard to see YouTube videos of him speaking without a teleprompter
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  1370. It could not be more clear now that Israel supports US politicians for the purpose of looting the US Treasury at will
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  1371.  @adoatero5129  Encyclopedia Britannica "Siege of Leningrad, also called 900-day siege, prolonged siege (September 8, 1941–January 27, 1944) of the city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the Soviet Union by German and Finnish armed forces during World War II. The siege actually lasted 872 days." Please stop rewriting history.
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  1372. Donald Trump may well win the Republican primary, but there's zero chance he's going to win in Colorado in November. Biden carried the state of Colorado by 13% in 2020. In that state, it's winner-take-all for the electoral votes
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  1373. Does the Piccadilly snack place offer delivery to the United States?
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  1374. Swift is a secure method for financial institutions to request a transfer of funds. Is not the actual transfer itself. A swift message can say to transfer a billion dollars from Chase Manhattan Bank to some Bank controlled by Russia and beyond the reach of sanctions
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  1375. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas warned that ex-military people were a potential source of terrorists. People thought that was crazy.
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  1376. Turkey and Greece have apparently decided that other countries are now their biggest enemies. Maybe they learned from how the United States positioned Iran and Iraq to fight each other and stoking the anger. The fat lady that's going to bring down the curtain on the United States is singing in the wings
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  1377. Russia has put the threat out there that if things escalate, they will attack the locations where the decisions are being made, and that is "not inside Ukraine". Brussels is the obvious candidate.
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  1378. Hey, President Biden thinks there's thousands of trillionaires in the United States
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  1379. Cushing Oklahoma is the epicenter in the United States for the storage of crude oil and interconnection of oil pipelines. It is perpetually at capacity, and this has not stopped Texas from pumping more oil toward Houston. Cushing has 91 million barrels of storage capacity. The United States consumes roughly 18 million barrels per day from all sources. A lot of that comes from Canada.
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  1380. It's hard to overlook how thorough Russia's knowledge of what's going on in Ukraine is
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  1381. Does Trudeau not know that Russia was fighting against the Germans and were allied with United States and Canada (and others)?
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  1382. That's not true. Her net worth is somewhere around $30 milion
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  1383. I'm beginning to understand why you might be keeping your distance from mainland Greece
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  1384. The Russians have nothing better to do then send their conscripts to attack enemy positions, using nothing but shovels!
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  1385. Just when you think there can't be more really important news...
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  1386. There comes a moment when you realize that the most evil country in the world is not Russia. It will take a while for that to sink in to the Western public.
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  1387. If you're no longer potentially at risk of being charged with a crime, you no longer have a fifth amendment right to not answer questions
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  1388. And there are very few Christians in China
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  1389. The b-52's landing in England a few days ago were not very subtle
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  1390. Are Larry King and Eddie Schultz going to be charged retroactively with spreading RT disinformation?
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  1391. Argentina sees winter coming and they don't have the resources to buy the natural gas they need, even if it was available
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  1392. Many of the big three Auto factories no longer exist
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  1393. Source?
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  1394.  @crhu319  do you have a source for the $500 billion dollar estimate?
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  1395. How many of the 1200 people killed on that day were Israeli Arabs?
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  1396.  @kimlavender185kimlavender9  Germany is talking about following in the steps of Jimmy Carter in the 1970s. They believe that by imposing a national speed limit, people will drive less. All it will do is make the economy less efficient and exacerbate the shortage of truck drivers and increase the cost of moving products.
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  1397. The United States can't possibly survive if we impose sanctions on China
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  1398. I wonder how many Ukrainian soldiers are fluent enough to read the air defense manuals written in German
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  1399. The Pope probably admirers zelensky for his willingness to destroy Orthodox churches
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  1400. Who is John Galt?
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  1401. I doubt that Joe Bidenopoulos will be carrying his partner over the threshold
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  1402. So President Biden apparently needs 100,000 police to go attack those rascally Republicans - to "preserve democracy". He must be taking lessons from Elensky
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  1403. a similar thing happened when the Trump administration forced the divestiture of the OOCL shipping line because it was controlled by the Chinese government. They had constructed the most efficient automated container terminal in the world in Los Angeles. So the legal ownership of the terminal was transferred to a shell company in Australia. Nothing else changed.
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  1404. The United States government only supports democracy when the right person wins
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  1405. Once russia controls Odessa, the war is essentially over, at least phase 2 is
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  1406. The missiles that hit Ukraine don't actually exist
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  1407. Putin and Joe Biden should arm wrestle and the stakes are the entire world leadership. If you don't like that, perhaps a game of chess
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  1408. The pipelines to Europe are relatively short and have operated reliably. Russia has limited ability to export oil from Western Russia. Keep in mind that Russia spans 11 time zones and is an absolutely huge country. From Moscow to Vladivostok is ~4000 miles "as the crow flies" . Eventually, Russia probably will sell oil from its Eastern oil fields to China, but that will take a couple years to build the capacity. For now, it is prudent to just wait out and then stick it to Europe once they get desperate enough.
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  1409. That's a complete lie. Depleted uranium is less radioactive than unprocessed uranium. The health effects are because it's a heavy metal and cause things like kidney damage.
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  1410. ​ @Gumpmachine1  and people living longer. The longer you live, the more likely you are to die from cancer
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  1411. Our friends at BlackRock have announced that they have been given the task of managing Ukraine's financial resources
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  1412. The longer the conflict goes on, the more that Russia will demand at the negotiating table
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  1413. The more gasoline you buy, the more money you save!
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  1414. The purpose of diplomacy is to avoid military conflicts, not cheerlead for them
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  1415. Somewhat unrelated, Greece just got a debt upgrade
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  1416. He served in the Iraq war in 2005 operating as a public relations officer for the marine aircraft wing
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  1417. An acquaintance of mine from Canada points out that the prime minister is not the head of the military in Canada. The commander-in-chief of the Canadian military is King Charles of Great Britain. There is a Canadian called the Governor General. She is currently an indigenous person and does not have the power to independently direct the military to do things without the consent of King Charles. This is why he had to ask the United States to shoot down the object.
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  1418. Grain is not going to get from Ukraine to Western Europe by rail without going through a "break of gauge" between Russian broad gauge and European standard gauge. That means having to transload the grain between rail cars, but there probably are almost no rail cars of either gauge for shipping grain. Shipping by rail was not price competitive compared with shipping by sea. Military planners and politicians often have huge blind spots in their understanding of how the real world works. Loading and unloading large quantities cars of grain requires specialized equipment, you don't just dump it on the ground and scoop it up with bucket loaders. You need a place to store the grain located right next to the tracks
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  1419. The fact that there is natural gas 30,000 ft below the bottom of the oceans is strong evidence that they are not "fossil fuels", but are rather the result of the heat of the Earth's core caused by the intense pressures and perhaps interaction with magnetism or gravity of the Sun
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  1420. There goes the Suez canal!
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  1421. The protest at the Cannon office building was organized by Jews for Peace. The news media rushes to the judgment that anyone who wants to stop the violence in Gaza must be pro-palestinian. This might be a shock to some, but many Jewish people do not support Benjamin Netanyahu and his government.
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  1422. And a pickle up his posterior
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  1423.  @grahamcook9289  Hersh or me? Haha... You must be new here.
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  1424. But they have many thousands of people listed in their conscription database with no training!
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  1425. The flaw in the pentagon announcement is the assumption that with enough money, you can make artillery shells magically appear in Eastern Ukraine
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  1426. I think the smarter of the Jewish people realize that. Netanyahu does not speak for all Jewish people
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  1427. Kamala Harris's intelligence speaks for itself
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  1428.  @joethekinghawk7514  Pretty soon, Ukrainian Generals may force him to play the game, but with a bullet in every chamber. At that point, the last Ukrainian will have died.
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  1429. Tucker is a Putin puppet!
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  1430. The Kennedy family has lots of experience smuggling illegal alcohol products
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  1431. Turkey is also about ready to apply for membership
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  1432. It is probably worth mentioning that the domestic BBC service is funded by the television tax. It's the BBC World Service that is directly funded by the home office, the UK equivalent of the US State Department. There is a close parallel with the United States Voice of America, which everyone understands is government propaganda.
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  1433. That of course is why the United States MUST lead the investigation! OJ Simpson is still in charge of finding the real killer of Nicole Simpson
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  1434. Once again, the protest in Grand Central station is being described as pro-palestinian when it's actually Jewish people protesting for peace
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  1435. Maybe the Russians bombed their own strategic bombers! 😆
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  1436. There is a very clear alternative to the Suez canal for cargo from China to Europe... The railways that cross Russia
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  1437. The British Royal family are direct descendants of Jesus!
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  1438. Technically, he's the prime minister. Unlike France, there is no president of Canada
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  1439. The FDIC has $100 billion in their fund to cover bank failures protecting around $20 trillion.
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  1440. This is probably pay back for the Ukrainian attack on the refinery north of Moscow
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  1441. And Galloways most recent ex-wife is a Palestinian Arab
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  1442. FEMA has no resources because they spent them on bringing in more immigrants
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  1443. So President Biden thinks he will refill the US Strategic Reserves next year. One would think that would increase the cost of oil, unless he’s expecting a windfall of free oil from somewhere
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  1444. Slingshots!
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  1445. Here are a couple thoughts. Every few days, I get asked to rate a specific video, and they're always conservative ones. I'm pretty sure they're using that to downgrade channels they don't want. They probably assume if you don't respond, that you want to give it a horrible rating. Also, if you use "ignore this video" just to get them off your homepage, be sure to click on tell us why and say the reason is because "I've already seen it"
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  1446. And Ronald Reagan pulled us out of the area, reinforcing that the United States will not risk casualties for any reason
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  1447. Knowing now that there were two unexploded devices, it is obvious now why the NATO forces wanted to prevent Russia from investigating.
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  1448. I think it has more to do with knocking out electricity in the Eastern Ukraine, not even necessarily requiring anything more than the plant shutting down as a precaution
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  1449. Giving consumers extra free money is an excellent way to slow inflation!
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  1450.  @tommiddlefinger6188  the West seems to have this idea that if they can just get Putin out, all the problems will go away. It's possibly even more likely that his replacement would be even more aggressive toward the west.
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  1451. The biden administration has aggressively tried to shut down the oil business inside the United States along with the coal business. A huge part of the cost of gasoline is the epa's demand for custom blends to reduce pollution
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  1452. The Ukrainian mines floating in the harbor?
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  1453. Israel has 8,520 square miles to defend. Ukraine has 233,000 square miles.
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  1454. Are the South Korean missiles being shot at the phantom North Korean soldiers?
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  1455. China has a lot to lose if the Suez canal is closed again for 8 years
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  1456. If World War III happens, it’s kind of unimportant who started it
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  1457. They probably cannot get that completed in time for winter in Germany
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  1458. Source?
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  1459. The British pound sterling continues to fall and is approaching parity with the US dollar
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  1460. When I was reading about Henry kissinger, Seymour Hirsch was the only media person who wasn't swallowing the lies that Kissinger was telling
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  1461. The associated press style manual really needs to mandate that people use the terms gasoline or natural gas and never use the word gas by itself as it's very ambiguous.
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  1462. It’s not that Biden doesn’t want World War III, he doesn’t want to be responsible for creating it
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  1463. If Ukraine theoretically defeated Russia, why would Ukraine need to be making more weapons? Who would they be fighting against? Turkey? China? Kazakhstan?
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  1464. The Democrats would like to make up a law that the speaker of the US house is only allowed to talk to other elected officials
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  1465. Are there any three-letter government agencies based in American college?
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  1466. The reality that most Americans don't understand is our revolutionary war was a war led by pirates and smugglers
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  1467.  @serasichongchinliong3450  Will the EU and US try to sieze bank assets and impose sanctions against China? What would happen next?
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  1468. That power bill says it covers a period of 73 days, basically two and a half months
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  1469. Rope-a-dope was Muhammad Ali's strategy to fight by not fighting
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  1470. Estonia has around 700 active military according to Wikipedia
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  1471. Of course, the big lie was that if the world was run by women, there would be no more wars.
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  1472. The Pentagon has made it very clear that they're going to fund propaganda. Of course that's nothing new.
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  1473. If you believe Alex Jones, the world economic forum and its supporters want about 4 billion people to die
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  1474. Strategically, Romania's railroads are based on the standard gauge and the eu's specifications, which makes that route useful as a path to get material to Ukraine. Ukraine's railroads were never converted to standard gauge from the old Soviet gauge.
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  1475. He probably has lots of classified documents in his garage to blackmail people
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  1476. 21,000 rifles and 1.4 million rounds is ~60 bullets per gun, but they won't even get to use that much before they're dead
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  1477. It's time for Putin to say, repeating the words of JFK during the Cuban Missile "crisis", that an attack on Russia by Ukraine will be considered an attack by the USA and will be dealt with accordingly
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  1478. Train derailments are a fact of life. Time to move on. đŸš‚đŸ‘»
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  1479. Germany could fulfill its gender neutrality by creating a new post in charge of baking cookies (Hillary Clinton reference)
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  1480. I'm sure Turkey would be glad to let the Russian tankers unload in Turkey, and then pump the oil into another non-Russian tanker to go on to Europe 💰
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  1481. I have no real source on this other than a YouTube comment, but it seems logical - that the Ukraine s300 is shooting down the NATO air defense rockets 😄
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  1482. An intermediate possibility is Biden could invoke the voluntary section of the 25th amendment, similar to when Ronald Reagan was shot. It is a temporary transfer of power to the vice president without actually resigning. She would become acting president and have most, but not all of the powers of being president. That would give America a chance to see if she's capable of handling the job
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  1483. Russian troops are going through the command center down in the basement of Azovstal, collecting records and evidence. If The Guardian still thinks the ukrainians won, they might as well just quit and give their money back to Bill and Melinda Gates.
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  1484. The pipeline through Ukraine is feeding natural gas from Kazakhstan (in addition to Russia)... But the products would have to move through Russian pipelines to get to Ukraine. So far, the sanctions permit non-russian energy products to transit through Russia as long as they aren't from Russia. But that leaves the question of how the Russians will be paid their Transit fees, as well as how you can tell what country the natural gas came from.
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  1485. So who is going to bell the cat?
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  1486. If you put farmers out of business, you get no butter
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  1487. YouTube ran this video through its "rate this video" process where they attempt to gather data to justify censoring future videos
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  1488. And contribute about 13% of the global gdp, but that number is dropping
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  1489. How much of the additional electric capacity is going to be consumed by all of the Tesla automobiles?
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  1490. There is not an infinite capacity for Russia to transport oil to Friendly Nations. If they are not selling oil to Europe, and can't get the oil out through the Black Sea, that means global availability will go down. There's not a lot of excess capacity in the system. Also, oil traders anticipating a shortage in the future will drive up the price today.
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  1491. Given all of the loud talk. I think it's a safe bet that there are lots of Polish troops in Ukraine familiar with NATO equipment
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  1492. You don't want to be part of the government bail-in?
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  1493. Are those ovens used to burn bodies? 17:36
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  1494. And China will probably be able to negotiate a lower price
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  1495. I thought that was Lebanon
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  1496. Americans will support boots on the ground until the first female soldier is captured and then we will give up
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  1497. There is a fundamental principle at work here. Governments do not make mistakes. They double down to prove that their first mistake was not a mistake.
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  1498. Take the fear-mongering about Dutch food products with a grain of salt. A large percentage of the "agricultural" products in their GDP figures are flowers and decorative plants, not food
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  1499. I seem to remember a long time ago a threat to explode a nuclear device in the Atlantic Ocean to flood Ireland
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  1500. Elon Musk is trying to whitewash the blackmail
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  1501. Does this mean that people in Syria will no longer be able to buy Ben & Jerry's ice cream?
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  1502. Peter Thiel appeared on the stage and gave a speech at the Republican National convention in 2016 endorsing Donald Trump
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  1503. If Poland attacks Russia, that would not cause article 5 to be invoked because Poland would be the aggressor and Russia would have a right to self-defense.
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  1504. Is propaganda effort to mobilize some Christians in the United States has paid pretty big dividends
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  1505. Donald Trump remembers 9/11
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  1506. Did you catch the early bird worm?
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  1507. So Greenland is now in Europe?
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  1508. How is a readout similar to or different from a transcript?
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  1509. Where can I read more about that?
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  1510. More important is whether the pilot survived. They have fewer trained pilots than they have f-16s
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  1511. How would crashing the price of oil hurt Russia since Russia has been banned from exporting oil?
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  1512. All rare earths are not created equal, and the rare part refers to the difficulty of economically processing the ore into the final product without creating an environmental mess. The raw rare earth ore is not rare
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  1513. I wonder if Disney knows about that mural of Scrooge McDuck
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  1514. Deploying random incompatible air defense systems is going to result in them shooting down their own air defense missiles
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  1515. This is the first time since I've been watching that you've been 100% completely wrong. Fear-mongering about depleted uranium is direct Russian propaganda. You could wrap yourself in U-238 for the rest of your life and nothing would happen. The radioactive half life is in the millions of years. The Russian-built Chernobyl complex inside Ukraine on the other hand... The health effects are not from Uranium, but the byproducts of fission: Iodine-131 Cesium-137 Strontium-90 Plutonium-239 Americium-241 Ruthenium-106 Zirconium-95 Xenon-135 Cobalt-60
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  1516. That's not true. He and his parents are all from the United States
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  1517. What is going to happen in pakistan/india/bangladesh once the famine starts?
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  1518. Proximity and maneuverability?
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  1519. Let’s have a chess match with winner take all - and avoid all the killing
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  1520. By the way, the railway workers in the UK are going on strike. The dock workers in the United States have a contract that expires July 1st. The railroads in the United States are falling behind because of the lack of workers and an inability to find people who want to work for the railroad. The trucking business is in collapse because truckers can't afford the diesel fuel. Who is John Galt?
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  1521. Don't worry! Secretary of defense Austin is the person who will stop the president from launching nuclear weapons, as long as he's not in the hospital in comunicado
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  1522. Is x pulling down hate-speech advocating genocide of Palestinians?
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  1523. And the SEC
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  1524. This whole thing is ballooning out of control
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  1525. Up Hunter Biden’s nose
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  1526. It's around 1/2 of 1%. Care to guess where that money is invested?
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  1527. I saw a news story where oil companies are taking the methane from their oil wells and using it to generate power to mine Bitcoin
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  1528. I guess it's time to get a Ukrainian wife!
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  1529. If you take the definition of victory as defined by Ukraine, winning the war over Russia is impossible.
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  1530. If the EU is going to demand a war crimes trial before they have won the war in which they aren't a participant, doesn't that mean that Russia would have the opportunity to present evidence to the court? Or would it just be a Soviet style Stalinist show trial? The more that she heads down this path of confiscating Russia's wealth, the more likely russia's attitude will become that they don't have anything to lose and just cross into Poland and keep going until they reach Brussels.
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  1531. How hard would it be for Russia to shut down the Suez canal?
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  1532. Russia reportedly has already constructed an LNG compression station at their end of the pipeline, so they can still market their natural gas to the world, even without the Nord Stream pipelines.
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  1533. This cannot be true. This is the one-year anniversary of the day Russia ran out of missiles
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  1534. Sorry, but the troops from Ghana are tied up down in Haiti
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  1535. There is also a video from a guy who travels the world in places that are dangerous (ie Libya) and he currently is in Ukraine, having gone by train from Hungary to Kiev.. However Ukraine Security forces forced him to delete most of his footage. I was curious if his train was being pulled by a diesel locomotive inside Ukraine. In Kiev, there are massive lines queuing for gasoline.
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  1536. Maybe eating donuts is not good for your teeth
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  1537. I wonder how long until we end the sanctions against Cuba
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