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People are simply tired of the brutal modernism that many people live in due to it's quick and cheap construction for housing needs. Architects have been allowed to "go wild" with designs that not only are simply grotesque to look at but, encapsulate depression and the sterile feeling of simply "existing" in their surroundings. I live in a flat in London's Mayfair which has been in my family for over 120 years now. My best friend lives in Canary Wharf in a beautiful sleek flat that overlooks the Thames with view at Greenwich Royal Observatory. However, when I'm visiting him the area doesn't feel like London, but rather a street in Manhattan with concrete and glass as far as the eyes can see One doesn't need to leave Canary Wharf for anything - everything is there from shopping to liesure, parks, entertainment and easy transport access - however, the area feels sterile, sometimes cold and distant from the city. In Mayfair, my flat is older, doesn't command any views or is nearby any shopping center - it is however aesthetically more welcoming, warm and has old-world charm. I believe this stems simply from the fact of modern architecture having gone too brutal without much consideration to individual surroundings needing to be pleasant or at least welcoming. My friend loves modern architecture, so he opted to live in Canary Wharf - it's a personal taste, but I have noticed, he tends to want to meet in Mayfair most of the time to walk through the area which he says is "calmer" has niche stores on every corner and seems relaxed in the overall atmosphere.
I think what Paris is doing is great - bringing back areas much more pleasing on the eye and for those that live there.
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Wrong! First of all, The Ugandan Foreign Minister doesn't have to shake her hand as she is NOT a foreign minister on the same level as him NOR is she a President of any country. Her position is 100% bureaucratic and frankly a switchboard for information flow between the states in the EU. This is not the first time that she was "set aside" and it has nothing to do with being a woman - that's a feminist excuse to obscure the reality - her actual position or lack thereof. She attends the G7 Summit but for what reason? All or most of the presidents, premiers or leaders of each country present, personally attends - so why is she there? If I were the Prime Minister of the UK for example, I wouldn't talk to Leyen if I wanted to discuss a business deal with the German or French Leader - I'd go straight to them directly. The only reason she got this position is because former German Chancellor Merkel got her this job - she wasn't even voted in. Since her inception, she has tried on numerous occasions to assert herself in roles which finds her "backtracking" instantaneously. For example the latest with Russia and the proposed oil embargo. First she makes known privy information to the public about an embargo that most EU countries haven't even agreed on - in particular Hungary - 90% of it's oil comes from Russia. Again, she spoke out of turn and got her azz handed to her. Her job is to ascertain the flow of information between the member states, and work with all of them to formulate and ECONOMIC plan that serves the EU best - that's her job. She failed at her last job as the former German Minister of Defense - zero qualifications or background, but thanks to her friend Merkel, she got that position too. It has nothing to do with being a woman, but the qualifications and duties of said position one is currently occupying - a man in her position would have been told long ago, to stay in his lane - believe that.
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@jackiemartin1422 nice comment but her story is a lie. First of all, she and her supervisor were assigned to the Air National Guard MD under the Air Force’s Air Combat Command, Langley AFB VA. Flight 093 was airborne from 08:45 to 10:50, when it crashed in southeastern PA. At 08:37, NORAD notifies the DoD that Flt 11 has been hijacked - Air Combat Command, along with the then Ballistic Missile Defense (now the MDA), goes on full alert. Two ARMED jet fighters are dispatched from Otis AFB to intercept Flts 011 and 175; at 08:46 Flt 11 crashes into the north Tower - Flt 175 crashes into the south Tower at 09:02.
53 minutes later, Flt 093 crashes at 10:52.
Are you seriously attempting to tell me that from the duration of Flt 093 there wer no armed jet fighter aircraft from the US Air Force after it went on full alert when notified by NORAD and dispatched two ARMED fighters from Otis AFB NY over an hour before Flt 093 crashed? You have got to be kidding me. Secondly, the USAF has armed interceptor aircraft flying 24-7, 7 days a week continuously - since 1948 over American skies. Third, the Air National Guard at Joint Andrews Base MD, where ROOKIE Pilot Lt. Penney was assigned, along with her supervisor, had the peacetime task to defend MD airspace, not a suicide mission role as if the entire USAF was rendered useless in the initial phase of 911 - the USAF remained fully intact during the entire 911 incident. In her ABC Interview, she claimed, she was ordered for a possible suicide mission - who issued those orders? Certainly not General Jumper, Commander of HQ ACC at the time, as he was too busy directing his active duty force compromised of ARMED numbered Air Forces, wings, groups, squadrons and flights into wartime defense while coordinating a possible ground to air missile strike with BMDO should the military choose that option. At NO time was Lt. Penney or her boss recognized by the DoD let alone the USAF as some suicide mission similar to a scene right out of a Hollywood Film. Also, it doesn’t take 20 minutes to arm an F-16, as she claimed during her ABC interview, it takes 8-12 minutes max. Nowhere was she or her supervisor ordered under a time constraint which would have precluded a 8-12 minute load time ad Flt. 093 was airborne and considered hijacked for close to an hour AFTER the initial impact of Flt. 11 at approx. 08:47. Again, do you mean to tell me that according to Lt. Penney along with her supervisor, they were prepared to carry out a suicide mission when completely uncalled for in the first place?? I haven’t seen her supervisor appear on any Social Media circuits confirming her story or where, as her superior, got his orders from. Lastly, how much SENSE would it have made to ram an airliner at the loss of two $66 million dollar F-16s ($132 million Dollars)
while a simple air to air or ground to air missile strike which would have sufficed without the loss of two F-16s and two pilots?? Also the falling debris from airliner, its cargo, and two F-16s would be a larger risk of collateral ground damage than a simple missile strike.
As a former USAF Officer Veteran who was fully involved with 911 find her story unbelievable, inconceivable and simply put, beyond belief. To imply that our USAF was even considering a suicide mission OR that the USAF had no armed aircraft from 08:47 to 10:50 is ludicrous to say the least. This story is nothing more than an attempt to “Jessica Lynch” a thought she and her supervisor had IF the entire US Defense system had failed leaving these two to “save the world.”
Sorry, but no. She retired in 2016 and currently works for Lockheed Martin under the duty title of “Director USAF air superiority” - really? I think the present USAF Commander General Charles Brown might have something to say about that as the USAF air superiority is not headed by a contractor at Lockheed Martin. According to Wiki, she is known for “flying a suicide mission” which she never flew. I commend her for her duty, however this story is a farce with numerous questions needing to be answered by her
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@buggyapp Sorry but no - France downgraded its NATO position in 1966 by Charles DeGaulle but never withdrew from the Alliance and in 2009 fully reintegrated into NATO. During the entire Cold War period 500,000 French Troops were an integral part of NATO - they were not there as tourist. The Dutch were always a part of NATO and was mainly used as a staging area until 1967 when it’s forces were fully up to par - it’s main responsibility was to have tied down enemy forces in the northern Germany region of Hamburg until NATO secured the entrance/exit of the Baltic Sea. The Netherlands was never an unreliable ally nor can it’s position be compared to to military upheavals of former Warsaw Pact and its forced participation by the former Soviet Union. Has it occurred to you that you’re not the only one here with prior military service in Europe? For you to suggest I’m making “textbook” comments is not only premature, but an assumption you shouldn’t have made without knowing who you’re conversing with. I retired in 1995 as Director, European Electronic Security Division/Cryptologic Support Group to NATO, Colonel. 1995-2005. Deputy Director, European Technical Center, NSA, GG15, Wiesbaden/Mainz Kastel 2005-2013; Chief, Special Projects , NATO JSIR Intelligence Fusion Center, SES-1, and now retired as a consultant to NATO/US State Department living as a permanent residence in Frankfurt Germany. I have served my entire career in Europe as an Intelligence Commander, Defense Attache - London, Bonn, Berlin, Athens and a 12 month stint at the US Embassy in Moscow 1987-1988. I wasn’t selected for these positions because I’m tall, handsome or dashing - I’m none of those. I do however posses a Doctorate Political Science, Stanford University with emphasis on International Relations, 30 years military service, Intelligence/Cryptologic linguist (German, French, Spanish & Russian) and NATO Defense Attaché. In short, I believe I qualify to be a reliable source/expert regarding NATO, former Warsaw Pact/USSR history. I possessed a Top Secret Security Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Cosmic Top Secret (NATO) CWNDI, SIOP-ESI and internal Agency VRK clearances with the White House Communications Agency, Bolling AFB, DC. On a special note, I was assigned to the NATO Tactical Fusion Center Börfink which controlled, postured and oversaw ALL US/NATO military assets regarding USSR/Warsaw Pact forces, border incidents and exercise Reforger where I participated in the last one in 1993 after returning from Berlin-Marienfelde when the wall fell - I was not in Berlin as a tourist - rest assured.
Now that I’ve introduced myself, please give me the pleasure of knowing you, military service, rank achieved, academics, integration at NATO, defense attaché experience if any? Assignments in Germany ( I’ve been to every base in Germany) or NATO/US units which specialized in defense posture/structuring as that’s where the decisions are made in lieu of ”boots on the ground“ personnel who do as their told by higher echelon.
I really look forward to our future communications and I’m certain you do too.
Will Bender, SES (retired)
Consultant NATO/AAFCE
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@martinandrew3189 First of all, I am fully aware of the history of Korea prior to it's partitioning after WW2 when occupying Japanese Forces were defeated in the northern Korea by the former Soviet Union and the the southern half, by the United States.
The US. Both the US And the USSR agreed to divide Korea on the 38th parallel; the US created the South, while the USSR through negotiations with China created North Korea.
For you to think that I didn't know this, is laughable. Again, I was a defense attaché for the US State Department/DoD to South Korea. If I need a brief history lesson of Korea, I can always refer back to my Political Science Degree - how about you? Do you have a degree in Political Science? Have you served your country as a Defense Attaché and in this particular discussion, South Korea? Your comment of "we took the rebellions side" is so laughable, that I wonder if it takes you two hours to watch a segment of "60 Minutes." The comment also tells me that I'm most likely writing a North Korean or Chinese Bot working with the IPA or NK's KCIA, as no college educated or Poly Sci accredited individual would write such a ludicrous and uneducated comment. You really need to run along now and have your handlers inform you of your obvious lack of knowledge in Korea or if you aren't a bot, please further your education beyond the 5th grade, graduate from University with a Poly Sci degree and serve as a Defense Attaché and maybe then, you'll come near my level for further discussions. Thanks for the laugh - greatly appreciated.
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Germany is only a good place to move if you are anal retentive, like to follow instead of leading, lead an introvert life until you are "accepted" into their routine and regulations and accept the fact that you can be criticized to include your culture and beliefs, but they cannot be.
I have lived in Germany for it's food, geography, historical sites and climate - my friends are international and I enjoy it so. We can all speak German, but prefer to use English when spending time with each other - I also don't accept the rudeness here (masked by calling it being "direct"), because they don't like it when it's done to them - what a coincidence huh? They talk about Foreigners being loud? Ha! I can hear my neighbors coming a mile away and by the time they reach my home, I know when they are having luch, who's coming, what time and what they are eating. I haven't heard a German "whisper" yet. Their language is bullying and direct -- you constantly hear "Ich bekomme" (I will receive) instead of asking for something - completely acceptable here, yet in any other nation, you'd German has to fight for every cent they can get.
I will gladly retire in rural UK after my employment here in Germany. The UK might not have the strict, regulatory, introverted, cold and programmed daily grind that Germany has, but I will certainly enjoy walking to the local pub, playing some darts and sharing a lager with all that are there over fun and amusing conversations.
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People like her are the DANGERS to America - exactly what she ranted about, is exactly what she herself, portrayed and did. The USA prides itself on Freedom of Speech - however, when ANY organization that claims to be news or an information source is found to have purposely misrepresented itself without returning to publicly apologize to the people to set the record straight, should be taken off the airwaves. It's people like this, that has "dumbed" down Americans to the point of "Fake News, Alternative Facts," lying and purposely deceiving for a political outcome
I clearly remember FOX News having on a "Terrorism Expert" named Steven Emerson that claimed Birmingham, England UK was a Muslim enclave and non-Muslim could not enter. Our Prime Minister at that time, David Cameron, called Mr. Emerson and FOX News "Idiots" for such a ludicrous comment. Birmingham, after London, is the second largest city in the United Kingdom with over 2 1/2 million people (metro area). It would be like a British Terrorist Expert going on BBC and telling the nation that Los Angeles is no longer an American City, but a Muslim Enclave or "No go zone" -- can you imagine the outrage Americans would have portrayed by such nonsense? This type of information is completely inaccurate, not verified, not correct and certainly not newsworthy - however many Americans watching Fox News, actually believed this mess. This type of "news" would not be allowed on the air in the UK or in Europe - we have laws that will not allow "news" organizations whether left or right centered be allowed to spew complete and utter nonsense. Here is that clip of Steve Emerson getting his a** handed to him by the BBC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u1zxtbhyEg
Another bad situation for FOX News was the former Ambassador to the Netherlands under the Trump Administration who claimed with FOX News that there was large "no go zones," in the Netherlands and that a Dutch Journalist was set on fire. Unlike the USA, journalists in Europe not only ask but place the person(s) on the spot, and demand to know where they received the faulty/fraudulant and outright lie posing as "news." - European Journalist branded the US Ambassador - here's the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thIRJLsnIxY
I find it amazing that an entire network like FOX News is allowed to continue to openly make claims that are completely false and have no merit or source attached. I am fully aware that ALL NEWS AGENCIES (I typed in ALL CAPS) to stress that they all have an agenda - left, right, middle, upside-down whatever -- however, to the degree of falsehoods that FOX News has displayed is alarming and what's worse is the number of followerers that actually believe without verifying the validity of the sources, or most cases, no sources to begin with.
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@niccimacci EXACTLY! I have lived in Germany over 35 years, have relatives in Bavaria, speak fluent German and understand Bavarian to the last T. I have been raised in both an English and German Household and I can tell you that the "honesty" and "Directness" always seems to be taken offensive when it's done to THEM. They immediately withdraw like your mother-in-law did and all of a sudden, "honesty" and "Directness" isn't so recriprocol anymore. I have seen this play out over and over again and always go back to what my English relatives said "if you don't have nothing nice to say, keep your mouth shut." There are also ways of being honest without offending and the English are masters of it along with the Americans. If they don't like something, they simply say something neutral as not to offend but rather to "nicely" relate to you that something isn't to their liking or offer another way to look at something. There is nothing wrong with that and in fact, rarely do people get offended. The Germans see that as "talking/walking" around the subject and not being direct - and which culture has the stereotype of being cold, heartless, uncaring, unromatic constantly complaining and basically frigid? I'd rather take the stereotype of being non-direct, smiling, and making irrelevent conversation ANY DAY over the former...just my opinion.
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Portugal isn't the only nation of slow, complicated and frustrating. Here in Germany, even German Citizens are sick and tired of the over-complicated bureaucratic system that won't even allow email correspondence which could speed up the process 10 fold. No such thing as emailing or faxing documents and getting an appointment is contingent on the workload of a specific organization's operating hours. For example, if you need to go to a jobcenter their hours are from 8-11 Mon-Wed-Fri, Thurs from 8-4. You must have an appointment. When asked why these short hours, it's for the organization to "catch up" with the workload, despite the fact, they are never on time or process your documentation in a timely manner - go figure. In Germany, if an organization makes a mistake on your paperwork - it is YOU that has to fix it and resubmit - yes you. 40% of your pay is taxes to maintain an autobahn that is under constant construction/bottlenecks, because no one had the foresight to make all of them 8 lines (4 in each direction) or trains that for whatever reason are no longer timely, strike every other week or get cancelled altogether. Airports: Germany's top 10 largest cities should have airports that can handle international flights. Both Frankfurt and Munich are swamped and overburdened while Berlin is the only international airport for all of eastern Germany - since what 1945? Where do all of our taxes go? Trust me when I tell you Roman, the entire European continent's nations are all jacked-up when it comes to bureacracy which I am now fully convinced is there to stymie all controls, delay things as long as possible and pretend to work for the people which none of them do. Progression means job losses for many "civil servants" who aren't overworked by any means.
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Do you have any PROOF that her story is true? If it so difficult for her to tell her story, then why she has been touring the DC area and making PAID speeches about her so called "suicide mission?" Yes, and her father accompanies her. I have served this country as a contractor, military and civil servant Intelligence Chief, and can tell you, none of her story adds up. First, do you honestly believe our entire USAF doesn't have armed planes flying 24-7 over our nation? Secondly, why would decision makers sacrifce two pilots and two expensive planes when a surface to air missile would suffice? At that time our HQ Air Combat Command and Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, now known as Missile Defense Agency headed also by a general, would have allowed two ANG pilots the responsibility of sacrificing themselves and planes? You have got to be kidding if you say yes. It takes 8-12 minutes to arm and prepare an F-16 so timing was not an issue - who gave her those orders? OR was she given orders to fly up and monitor the situation? I find it hard that a superior officer would give useless orders to sacrifice personnel when the USAF possesses a massive fleet of 5,217 active aircraft, the largest, most technologically advanced, and most powerful air force globally idly sits by with it's thumbs up it's arse? Or what was our Missile Defense Agency doing at this time? Let me guess - they were too busy assisting Will Smith to fight the Aliens over Los Angeles. You either are paid to be here or you were older than most of your teachers by the time you reached the 8th grade -- anyone with ANY military knoweldge, knows this story leaves ALOT to be questioned and investigated for it's "accuracy."
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@stephhhie17 Contractors assigned to the US Air Force at RAF Croughton under a DD Form 254 are also not diplomats NOR are their unemployed wives. It's amazing how both Sacoolas were determined to have "diplomatic immunity" once they were in the USA after being expeditiously transported from the UK to the USA by military Air during an investigation. IF they had diplomatic immunity, there would have been no reason to transport them in this manner nor without knowledge of the British authorities. As a former solider, contractor and Civil-servant assigned to the UK for 30 years, no SOFA status covers CIA operatives (if they had been) plus covers ANY soldier. As a military member, contractor or civil servant, you have an accident in the UK, the local Base Judge Advocate (SJA) represents you to the British Authorities at that level and there are SJAs at every location including RAF Croughton. She was sent back under her husband's contract as an "early return of dependent," which should have been rejected by the SJA at RAF Croughton as she was the subject of an ongoing accident resulting in the killing of a British child. The entire move was done surreptitiously by the DoD (USAF) with info to the State Department and the British authorities know it, hence the outrage. After arriving in the USA, the State Department issues the story that both of them were CIA operatives...hahahhaha what a laugh! Once this was declared, the British Courts had no chance of having her expatriated - no matter how weak the cover story. Are we to believe that a seasoned CIA agent cannot master driving on the "other side" of the road? CIA Agents don't have diplomatic immunity UNLESS under the guise of the US State Department which she didn't. IF she had truly been CIA, the CIA would have transported her by their own means not via USAF channels. The entire fiasco has resulted in Sacoolas having to appear in a British Court via teleconference - shameful on behalf of the US Government who demands extradition of others residing in foreign countries, but turns a blind eye to one of it's own.
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Quantity was no longer a challenge when NATO outnumbered and continued to do so after it was formed in 1949. NATO, throughout the period numerically could bring in 8.5 million (500,000 more including the French by Treating in 1966 of Special NATO Status) to the USSR/Warsaw Pact's 5.3 million. NATO never lost the numerical lead but to no avail as the numbers were neutralized once the USSR achieved Nuclear Status. Keep in mind that NATO had during the Cold War two nuclear allies already in Europe that could launch their weapons deep in European USSR, while the USA could reach eastern USSR quite easily with it's nuclear bases in AK, and Asia. The USA alone had access to 986 bases worldwide in 1987, the USSR and allies 10, outisde of the USSR to which were frozen 9 months out of the year - a nuclear strike by either meant suicide. On the conventional side, a war in Europe would have also resulted in catastrophe as it's geographic landmass was not made for conventional warfare by urban concentrations and topography. The old Fulda Gap scenario was too mountainous and urbanized from Hanover to Fulda/Frankfurt for flanking movements and didn't allow for quick maneuvering of infantry forces - excellent targets for NATO's superior Air Forces. The Hof Corridor too sits on mountainous terrain, narrowing towards the large urban conglomeration of Nuremberg forcing any infantry to squeeze in small corridors or the Bohemian forest - not good. Russian troops were ill equipped, had no socks, were not trained to make decisions and couldn't rely on Warsaw Pact Nations soldiers to loyally and "voluntarily" defend the USSR. Soviet reinforcements were kept behind the Ural Mountains and would have been far too slow to transport in time of conflict, as the USSR's geography would have been hindered by it's own vast area, notwithstanding it's inferior air force that wouldn't have been able to protect ground reserves from NATO's superior Air Forces and Missiles which had better precision targeting. Both NATO and Warsaw Pact realized that the defense facing each other on such a small continent was simply too saturated forcing both to use missiles and nuclear threats as their main strike capabilities. In 1987, 60% of the USSR's own military couldn't' speak Russian and were treated inferior if from the Middle Eastern RSFR areas (the "STANS," Georgia, and Siberia. The Warsaw Pact Nations had either gone democratic (Poland), or were cutting ties altogether with the USSR; Romania didn't even allow Soviet troops in it's country and Yugoslavia long left and was never really a reliable ally to begin with nor Albania and Hungary. The Czech and East German (most closely aligned had fallen apart internally )and the USSR could no longer finance their satellites. From 1945 to 1991, the USSR and it's allies NEVER matched the West's NATO and USA military might in terms of both conventional and nuclear capabilities as the West simply had the financial, economical and military means to cripple the USSR into bankruptcy in 1991. Currently, there is no other nation that can wage war on all continents while maintaining a home defense beside the USA. Today, Russia has fallen to become a regional power having difficulty invading the Ukraine while China is not willing to help a "losing" side while it looks north to the mineral rich Siberia to which now Russia must trade with on Chinese Terms and not it's own. The Ruble has no value and the dollar remains the number one traded currency in the World since 1945. The next top 8 currencies are from nations allied to the USA in military treaties or have US troops on it's soil - China's Yuan (Renimbi) stands at number 8 and is the exception. The USA's state of California alone has a higher GDP than that of Russia, no more needs to be written about that. The US Propaganda machine worked it's magic and continues to do so to this day. @chromeisbadalex6466
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The bigger KEY question is "Who is Ursula Von Der Leyen" regarding security and defense in Europe? Her position is President of the European Union, the successor of the EEC. The EU is an economic union, not a military one. Her exact duty description is "To foster and liaise financial, economical cohesion in Commerce amongst EU Member States."
There is NOTHING in her job description that entitles her to be involved in defense/security issues - that is the responsibility of each nation's head of state and his/her's appointed defense ministers. This is the EXACT reason why the US Administration did not invite her or any other EU technocrat on peace discussions between the Ukraine and Russia as the EU is not a country, and again, it's not their function as stated in their own charter. In reality, Ursula Von Der Leyen's position is equivalent to the US Secreteary of Commerce or the Commerce Minister of Russia and that's a fact.
What's more ironic is that during Ursula's time as Minister of Defense for Germany, she actually LOWERED the military budget and here she is now, asking for military budget increases to help fight a war, not in Europe's control to begin with - talk about hypocrisy.
Now with Zelensky agreeing to the 30 day cease fire (and Russia working with the US as well), how exactly is the EU going to "wage war" on Russia again? Last time I checked the EU couldn't even provide the military support the USA was giving, let alone financing the war amongst the member states to which many don't agree with Von Der Leyen - again, it is not her position to begin with. What is the EU going to gear up for once the US, Russia and the Ukraine reach an agreement? You can rest assure, the USA will emerge as having won both sides of the situation and continue to move head as it always has. It took the USA one week to cut off military aid to the Ukraine and the result rang through the EU like the London Fire of 1066 - I have YET to see ANY European Head of State go against the US openly, so the question remains, why is an EU Commissioner acting as if she's the President of the United States of Europe?
In the end, the USA will prevail with or without the EU and so long as the US maintains over 100,000 troops in Europe, funds 75% of NATO, and maintains the European defense in terms of intelligence, operations, logistics, training, automated information systems and personnel, the EU better go back to doing what it can do best - commerce.
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@that_bitch1386 She was either raped or she wasn't and if she wasn't physically penetrated by his penis, then she was not raped, but sexually assaulted - there is no "umbrella" terminology for the word rape - it's clear cut. Oh no, not so fast - what I said was and I will make that also crystal clear is that right now to date, we do not know if the accusers allegations are true or not as there has been no investigation into them - NOR do we know if Noth is telling the truth - that's exactly what I said. I don't believe EITHER SIDE until I see a completed investigation that contains evidence that can be verified -- people lie, both men and women and you know that too. I am familiar with the MO of a serial rapist as well as I'm familiar with people that lie about being raped - either way, people lie and that's the reality of it all and there's no getting around it. People like me are NOT the reason why these women didn't come forward before - did you get confirmation from these women that their delay in reporting was that blogger Juicy Fruit intimidated them?? I don't think you did, so let's not go down that path or attempt to shame me in the invented feminist term "Victim-blaming" as it won't fly. Also, there is no "culture" of victim blaming as it's not condoned by law to blame a victim for something they haven't done - nice try wonder woman, but not with me. Victim blaming would have been if I had said "They had the sexual assault coming to them because they probably dressed in a provocative manner, danced or flirted in a certain way - THAT is victim blaming as none of these actions warrant sexual assault. I neither victim shamed nor victim blamed these women - what I said and I'll say it again is that as of right now no one knows who is telling the truth or who is lying. I don't allow the Court of Public Opinion to make my decision; my decision or belief is neutral until evidence (i.e. court actions, sworn credible testimonies) proves one side is guilty - you can assume guilt all you want based on hearsay and media, but you can drop that victim blaming/shaming excuse with me because it won't work here. I won't believe EITHER Side until it can be proven. I hope I made that clear enough for you.
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What a joke -- No guy cares and no, no, no, stop fooling yourselves as IF shaving your head, dumping the men in your lives or creating the 4B Movement is going to change anything -- it won't; that should be rather obvious to many of you ladies as the 4B Movement has flatlined before it even actually got started
Let's get this straight:
1. Dumping your man who voted for Trump isn't going to stop Trump from sitting in the White House.
2. What are you ladies doing to protest all those WOMEN who voted for Trump? Are you going to "dump" them too? Are you going to shave your head in protest against your "Sisterhood" that voted for him? Again, what does that do as it certainly doesn't stop the Orange and his band of merry men & women now does it?
Let's also examine democracy shall we? So we are ALL free to vote for whom we want to right? Ladies, YOU don't have the right to demand that men in your lives vote in YOUR direction simply because YOU want them to - that is NOT a democracy - it's hypocrisy. It would be no different if men demanded that the women in their lives vote against any feminist movement and if the women don't, Men will dump their women, create a movement and so forth -- what does it change? Nothing, but rather, it sounds NUTS and is uneventful -- in order to make a change, you need to start first with your OWN GENDER that voted for this candidate. I still have yet to hear ONE WOMAN place the blame on another woman which is quite odd considering that almost 1/2 the women who voted, voted for Trump.
Secondly, women continue to fight for equal right correct? It's called voting If the majority of women voted to remain where they are - who's fault is that again??? Certainly not the men IF you truly believe in equal rights! Third, how "Equal" is it to blame the male gender for the loss of an election, when your own gender didn't vote or voted in less numbers than expected to change a perceived outcome? Instead of facing that reality, you'd rather blame men who's job it is NOT TO VOTE according to what women desire but to vote on what they as men, feel are their priorities and beliefs. For women to blame men on this last election shows nothing but dependency. Either women are EQUAL and can vote in numbers to make or reverse changes by their OWN numbers OR women are not equal, and need MEN to make the changes with or for them -- again, you cannot have it BOTH ways if you truly believe in equality. In one voice women scream "we don't need men," yet in another voice "we need men to vote for us and if they don't we should punish them." --- that ladies IS NOT EQUALITY or showing that you are wanting equality.
Stop complaining; petition your state's representatives and fight for your rights - stop blaming men and others for your own shortfalls - if enough women vote, they will succeed and make the changes they are rightfully owed.
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Why is this wore out heifer at the conference? She is NO LEADER by any means and hasn't the authority to tell any nation what to do. It's about time someone set her straight and let her know she's nothing but a glorified banker placed in this position by the former German Chancellor Merkel. She was "elected" -- sure, sure. Amazing how the EU's most powerful nation also has a German for the President of the EU??? What a coincidence. Coming from a very rich family with a medical background, her entire career was "paved" for her. I'm always amazed at how she can talk about defense, yet as Germany's former Defense Minister she did ZERO for the German Armed Services - and I mean ZERO. She has the audacity to talk about a failed Ukraine yet, practically, all nations in the EU outside of Poland and Hungary have seen a huge spike of violent crimes by "war refugee/asylum seekers," who come from nations either not at war or are immigrants looking for better jobs. The EU has gone from an economic council like it predecessor the EEC to a poltical machine attempting to dictate and overrule it's member's own political institutions and elected officials -- except in Berlin that is - there the EU has no problem with as German acts as the headmaster for the entire union. Each nation's elected representative should have the chance to sit in the EU President's position, not by vote, but by country - for some reason, I don't von der "lying" would want that to happen. I bet she'll get voted in this position again, and again, and again...just watch and see.
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@Eeluon First and foremost, there is no irony; your behavior of labeling someone as a "bootlicker" is immature and childish. When one has to resort to calling people names, that speaks volumes no matter how you attempt to justify it - there's simply no need for it.
Secondly, I'm not emphasizing on the status of any player or players in playing regarding the well-being of Pheng Shuai - can you quote that I said or wrote this? When you can, let me know, besides making assumptions.
Third, I'm not certain what the term "tf" is; again, attempt to use grammar at a mature level and not one of an impeded child. China has done nothing regarding damage control since Steve Simon announced WTA's decision to suspend tournaments in China. In fact, Pheng Shaui twittered from her home on 30/11.2021 that
"she is safe and well, living at her home in Beijing, but would like to have her privacy respected at this time.”
Personally, I believe the Chinese have her under lock and key and are going to handle her allegation as an "internal" matter in which no outside organization or country will interfere with; certainly not the WTA as it has no power within China nor outside regarding the World's second largest economy - I'm certain the Chinese economy will do just fine without WTA endorsements.
China is going to "front" for the IOC, WTA, UN and any organization in it's attempt to show Pheng Schaui is being taken care of -- do you believe that? I dont. But what I do know is that China will deal with this matter as an internal one thus precluding any involvement from outside agencies.
Lastly, I've decided to report you as being in violation of their terms and policies - for the second time, you appear to not be able to control your "triggered" behavior, name calling and "tf" reference which I just found out what you meant. I will not discuss this event with you any further as it's clear you cannot keep things professional.
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@baardagaam No, they are slowly grinding down to a complete halt by not adapting to the global employment changes that keeps a nation afloat -- why is it that most Germans who possess Masters or Phds in medicine, engineering or social sciences are leaving to overseas locations or elsewhere in Europe? It's because the German employment system, like much of all their systems is rigid, complicated, redundant and most of all not flexible - they have no one to blame but themselves for employment shortages. I work in HR here in Germany and I can tell you horror stories about hiring practices that are illegal, yet still being carried out and such as racial profiling, unbelievable Nepotism and purposely disregarding university accreditation from certain nations regardless of profile - think about the nations that I might be referring to. Keep in mind that Germany was prosperous after the war due to immigrants working jobs that the Germans themselves, didn't want to do and that is continuing to this day EXCEPT that your average immigrant is now as educated as most Germans and doesn't see it fit to work menial jobs when they too, have degrees. "He/she who lags behind change, loses."
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@olddave5084 Whether one is a stranger or not in a foreign country is irrelevent if said country's stereotype and learned behavior is one known for being "difficult to integrate." All expats are at a preliminary disadvantage and must adapt to the culture they are in - this rings true for ALL countries that have expats.
However, for expats it's quite difficult for them to integrate when that particular culture is known to be unwelcoming - that stereotype is German and has been a stereotype for quite some time. Unfortunately, two World Wars, the Holocaust and Germany's stereotype of having treated it's "Gastarbeiters" badly during the country's "wirtschaftswunder" period, hasn't helped it's image inside the country itself. Expats continue to rank Germany high in services and economic matters, but rank it quite low in the daily interactions, racism, arrogance with high difficulties to integrate and become if any, an accepted member of it's society. One then, has to question and critique that culture as to WHY these stereotypes persist and to what extent of flexibility that nation's culture has done to UNDERSTAND that it too, must also recognize and accomodate, to a certain extent, realize the situations expats face as well - it's a two way street, which Germany's behavior tends to ignore - again, stereotypes are there for a reason.
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@rachelwalsh6116 I wonder why? Do you think a MAN would be easily believed if HE waited 5,10,20,30 years to come forward about a sexual allegation? He'd be laughed out of a courtroom and the Court of Public Opinion before he got started. I specifically recall actor Terry Crews openly identified the Hollywood executive who allegedly groped him at an industry party in February 2016 as Adam Venit, the head of the motion picture department at a major talent agency in Beverly Hills. Not only did Terry Crews get mocked, laughed, and ridiculed, the Me Too Movement didn't make ONE effort to rally behind him. Mr. Crews wasn't believed, but it didn't take him 20 years to come forward nor did he receive support from the Me Too Movement like all these women automatically have along with Gloria Allred who didn't even bother to contact Mr. Crews about his possible case - I wonder why?
The bottom line is that men and women ARE NOT believed in many cases as people are suspicious of timing, location, possible former relationships between the two parties and other factors - that is normal and will not change. Do you think that if a person reports a rape in 20 days, or 20 years, which category will be taken more seriously and acted upon swiftly? Yes, the 20 day charge as there might be forensic evidence still fresh that authorities can quickly ascertain instead of trying to piecemeal a case together in which the incident is 20 years old - evidence hardly likely boiling down to a consensual claims versus forced.
If you've been a victim of any assault, the quicker you report, the better your chances and that's a fact
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@Pratt_ Sorry to hurt your French pride, but France didn't defeat anyone in WW1 or WW2 without the help of the Americans and lesser but to some extent the British.
There were NO French troops on German soil in WW1 when the Armistice was signed - the trench warfare took place on FRENCH SOIL, not German, so any collapsation by the Germans on French soil tells you where the troops were and who held the line - I'll give you a hint - it wasn't the French.
The 100 Days Offensive doesn't mean a thing because German soil was NEVER BREACHED by the Allies - meaning Germany was never occupied - It surrendered under the Armistice. "Due to German military forces still occupying large portions of France on the day of the armistice, many French citizens and those angered by the present German occupation in the war, shifted blame on their Government for betraying them and allowing an armistice to be signed while still being under German occupation." Wiki
The French, British and yes Russian Military never defeated Germany on it's own standings and without the intervention and assistance of the USA
Watch your mouth little boy - if you want to hurl insults, let me know as I can give as good as you can dish it. In the meantime, you better control alt delete your smart-azz mouth, and reroute your GPS to someone who cares about you, because I don't. I will run your sorry behind up/down this faster than Flo Jo on the track field.
As far as education goes, I could give you two magnets and you still couldn't make ends meet seeing that you are into "insult-slinging." Now run along; as ignorance and a product of a failed education system isn't a crime, you're free to go.
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@bobthediverdudemerrick6811 The USA is in new times Bob - here in the UK, this wouldn't get traction in the eyes of the Courts let alone media as it sets a dangerous precedence in judicial protocols for future cases to come. The USA has Statute of Limitations for a reason and in a court of law these have some bearings to take into account. However, the USA's Court of Social Media and radical movements have determined guilt before any investigation or inquiry can be started, let alone completed. I wonder how long it will be when men start coming forward with 20 year old allegations about women in positions of power having allegedly sexually mishandled them - will Social Media support the men? The Me Too Movement didn't support Terry Crews when he alleged sexual abuse in 2108 and his case wasn't even a year old. Rather he was told he should have "handled" it as a "man." Will the USA see women in prominent positions or celebrities lose their endorsements, friends, social media followings, employment and the ostracization of their well being after being alleged to have mishandled men 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 years ago - will Gloria Allred represent them as well?
It would be very interesting to see if the nation and social media so willingly "embrace" male victims as the women.
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@GonzoTehGreat - global war is just another name for World War since the World is global. The USA being the only current superpower is als o the only nation that can fight on all continents if it has to. Britain like France was a global COLONIAL Power - the USA not.
Secondly, to go back to the original question from some of the French commentators here, France was a COLONIAL Power at it's height, but never a superpower the way the USA is and the former Soviet Union was.
Also, the French believe they were victorious in WW1 - they were not. When the armistice was signed due to stalemate in trench warfare, the Germans were still occupying the Alsace Lorraine Region of France - when a truce is signed and your enemy is still physically occupying your land, you are not a victor by any means.
WW2 saw the Germans, defeat the French in 6 weeks, divided the country into two parts (France/Vichy) and controlled both for 4 years until the Americans and British (allbeit a smaller force) landed on D-Day. It took over one year from D-Day's commencement, for the Allies to liberate France - again, France was no victor. In fact, the Allies only included the French in the 4 powers agreement due to France's historical ties and being an ally in Europe at the time. Even today, many have questioned why France has a permanent seat at the UN with Veto powers
I agree with them. Sorry for the long response.
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The entire Smith Family has been in question since it's inception back in Dec 97. There is nothing normal about the behavior of a spouse having an affair with her son's friend for starters. It's more bizarre when said spouse makes it public on her "Red Table" show and actually blames everyone but herself for the affair. Will's behavior has mainly been of arrogance to the extent of implosion.
Jada is at most, a C- celebrity lister and despite her movies (Matrix Trilogies, Set it off) and guest performances, her notoriety is mainly due to Will, simply put. I think this has bothered her in many ways; the Red Table allowed her an outlet as a successful talk show, but still hasn't afforded her a strong presence in the film industry. I've seen the Red Table several times and it appears to be self-serving and centered on Jada instead of her guests. She appears to come across as a successful mother who is wise beyond words and without her, the Smith Family would have fallen apart a long time ago - in short, SHE's the glue, successor, boss, provider, guide and guru with Will as an accessory who just happens to be a film star, rapper and producer. Just goes to show you that no matter what level of wealth - all families have issues.
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So what are all of these WOMEN going to protest/do to all their fellow WOMEN who voted for Trump??? The 4B Movement is dead already and it’s not picking up steam because men will just find women who did vote for Trump — this would only work if the vast majority of women voted for Trump — but equal amounts of women voted for him too!!! This means that men have women to go to that will sex them regardless of voting preference.
Men make up 90% of the World‘s blue collar, high mortality rate employment in all fields that make the world turn (construction, sanitation, transport, medical, finance and engineering); until,women can equalize those numbers, men will vote the way they want and it IS NOT men‘s responsibility to vote the way women want them to — ridiculous and utter rubbish. If women vote against each other like they did in the last election, they have only to blame themselves or their own gender instead of blaming men for all and everything they always do absolving themselves of all and any responsibilities. If Texas women wanted to vote against abortion, then why didn’t ENOUGH women in Texas petition their state representatives against the governor? They didn’t and the bill passed. So should we blame all men in Texas for this or place the responsibility on women in Texas who didn’t take the legal measures to protest to their state representatives? Apparently enough women in Texas agreed with the bill — yet according to 4B logic, it’s the men‘s fault so withholding sexist is the answer to include the possible loss of relationships or marriages in worst cases — again, utter rubbish! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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@resevoirdog No - you do your homework and the first lesson is to master "reading comprehension" which you clearly don't know. Did I WRITE that NATO broke up the former Yugoslavia? Did I? The answer is no - where on Earth did you get the idea that I stated NATO broke up Yugoslavia?? Do you prefer to labeled as "intellectually challenged," or do you prefer just being labeled "stupid?"
Secondly, as I wrote before, the former Yugoslavia did not even exist any longer at the time of the NATO bombing of Serbia in the Balkan Conflict from 1990-2001 - the break up of the former Yugoslavia is what caused the Balkan conflict to begin with as it splintered into factions - thus making me correct in stating that Yugoslavia no longer existed at the time of the NATO bombing of Serbia. Again, suggest you do some homework and learn how to read first, comprehend second and then make a comment in relations to what you read and comprehended. You can start with Hooked on Phonics as I'm certain, you were older than most of your teachers by the time you reached the 3rd grade.
Let me know when you attain your associates, Bachelors, Masters, Post Grad, Doctoral Studies (8 years) in Medicine, Gastroenterology and be awarded your PhD.
I was also a solider in that conflict under the United Nations Control - Tusla, Camp Bondsteel and Sarajevo in 2007 (Bosnia Peacekeeping Mission), EUCOM.
sincerely,
Sebastian Nedelcut, PhD, Gastroenterology,
Malmo Sweden, Germany and the UK
my linkedin page - just in case you can read after all.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-nedelcut-md-phd-6668b7205/?originalSubdomain=de
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Very nicely put -- Americans come in all shapes and forms to include their personalities.
With two oceans on either side, Americans are sheltered somewhat to Global matters and prefer to keep their way of life. As English is the Universal Language, they see no need to learn languages only to visit/travel - after all English is global. Secondly, brash can be also coined to the French, German, Italian and Dutch more quickly then the Americans and let's not even get started on which cultures are considered, rude, cold, unfeeling, robotic, and under-cover bigoted and racist - hint: it isn't the Americans.
America is the only superpower in the World - it didn't get that way from being brash, dumb, loud or ethnocentric - it beat out all the nations and has by far the largest GDP in the World; if the state of California were a country, it would have a larger GDP than the UK and yet, the US is one of the World's youngest countries - let's not forget about that shall we?
Loud? Have you ever taken public transport in Germany? I can hear my German neighbors coming a mile away and can tell you their dinner plans before they reach the house door - have you heard a French/Dutch or German person whisper??? I haven't so far; theey are just as loud and brash in public as Americans on any given day.
Culture? American culture is 300 years young compared to other nations with over 1000 years of history; yet it's that young American Culture that most nation's youth emulate with regarding music, clothing, cars, and entertainment -- not bad for a young, brash, loud non-cultured country huh?
As a British person, I admire the USA as it's influence is felt globally and has maintained it's position since the 1920s - crazy yes, frustrating yes and when I used to live there, I learned a lot. Europe may have history, but it has a continuous history of failures because it will not learn - Europe repeats its mistakes over and over again. The winner after WW2 in Europe were the Americans - every other nation was destroyed, destitute and a shell of it's former self - The US however, did well and was the only nation to come out of the world conflict as a superpower and has remained to this day - so apparently it's doing something right. - it's called adaptability which Europe still has a long way to go. I wonder what the status is on that EU Joint Military Command which was proposed in 2008 to replace NATO?😂😂😂😂
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@that_bitch1386 Let's take your comment in steps: First, what do you mean if there is no court of law invovled? WHY is there no court of law involved? Oh yes, because it wasn't REPORTED. In the eyes of Court of LAW, who is responsible for reporting a crime has occurred? the accused (which rarely happens), witnesses and most importantly, the VICTIM. The victim should not wash, or tamper with any evidence on their body and report immediately in order for authorities to have something to work with. Secondly, in many cases, rape like robberies, grand theft and violence can be reduced or possibly prevented by watching your surroundings, do not go alone to places unknown (i.e. jogging in the woods at 11 at night as an example) NEVER (either man or woman ) accept open drinks at a bar, club and watch for suspicious behavior (aggression, suggesting to meet in secluded places or asking to come over in a hotel room to "discuss" work at 3AM in the morning). These are not "victim blaming/shaming" tactics - these are preventive suggestions and yes, that's why we have rape prevention courses to help. Just to be CLEAR - victim shaming/blaming would be blaming the victim for wearing suggestive clothing, flirting and acting in a provocative manner or getting drunk at a party - none of these are excuses for being raped - so let me be perfectly clear on that.
Third, I, you or the US/UK public don't have a choice but to put FAITH in our legal system because that's what it is - our legal system. It was not created yesterday, nor two years ago, nor 25 years ago. The system is flawed, but it also functions in many cases. Sometimes it functions in favor of false rape charges where men have been destroyed based on nothing more than an unfounded allegation of rape - i.e.. mattress girl case or the case of the Duke La Crosse Team -- in both cases, those young men were expelled from school, placed on sexual offender lists, lost employment, had to relocate, loss of friends and family members - only to find out the allegation was false. Did the two alleged women incur any incarceration or made to forced restitution? None whatsoever. Our law isn't perfect, but that goes in BOTH directions, for men and women. In In January 2018, a woman using the pseudonym "Grace" accused comedian Aziz Ansari of sexual misconduct in an article on Babe.net, a website that was aimed at Millennial and Gen-Z readers. According to the article, the woman later texted Ansari expressing her discomfort, and he replied to her with an apology. Ansari lost a $50 million dollars in sponsor endorsements, removed from NETFLIX on a $500.000 annual contract and cancelled his tours of "10 American Cities" tour which estimated a loss of $5.7 million in revenues. His accuser incurred no charges claiming she was "upset" that the comedian didn't maintain the friendship after he relocated - now ask yourself how YOU as a woman would feel if a man did this to a woman where she lost her job, source of income, friends, partners, media relations, all based on an UNFOUNDED allegation which the Me Too Movement rallied for all on false premises -- Why didn't Me Too Movement make restitution if the accuser couldn't? How is it that when women are charged with the same crime as men regarding sexual misconduct (i.e. sexual assault of high school students, dating, sex), the women faces less time than her male counterpart???? - it's the same crime regardless of which sex causes it https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/gender-differences-sentencing-felony-offenders
Just in case you don't believe my statement.
So, our legal system has flaws -- yes, but again as I said, flaws that affect men negatively as it does women, so there is NO EXCUSE for not reporting a rape WHEN It occurs and not 1, 5, 20, 30 years later - not acceptable and gives authorities NOTHING to work with except a testimony that cannot be proven. Oh yes, and now the flawed legal system comes into place. I find it amazing that you give the impression that most rapes are reported YET an allegation of sexual misconduct that allegedly happened 20 years ago, carries big weight - just ask Chris Noth -- to date, there has been no proof or evidence he assaulted this women YET he has been fired from his job, contracts lost, endorsements retracted, his co-ownership in the theatre in jeopardy, reputation ruined or questioned, loss of friends and social status --- from an OUTSIDER looking in, I can honestly say that the law works nicely in the favor of WOMEN more than men if a man can be legally ostracized on a 20 year old unproven story against a man -- tell me if I'm wrong here. Women have nothing to gain from coming forward? That comment in itself is so absurd to me that I won't even answer it. I think the current ongoing cases of allegations certainly have gains and not for the men. Again, the law doesn't work for women you say? How about Terry Crews - famous actor who was groped at the Academy Awards - Strange no support or rallying behind him from the Me Too Movement who's slogan is "believe all women" if I recall and later changed to "believe all victims," yet that doesn't apply to male victims as Mr. Crews was laughed at , ridiculed and ostracized for not "taking care of the guy" in a physical sense violent means. I think I've made my point quite clear on the LAW -- it isn't perfect, but it cannot take into account the emotional upheavals of people (men or women) when having to investigate, report on and flush out the guilty party - so no, sorry, waiting years to report based on emotional reasons may be reality, but a reality that works against the victim and women better start standing up and reporting the crime WHEN it happens, as the law isn't perfect and it's certainly no "babysitter of feelings" for either sex. Women can't claim wonder woman equality with men on one hand and play Liza Dolittle damsel in distress when it suits an agenda -- the population is getting tired of all these old allegations that only seem to surface on famous people at the most convenient time for the accuser as if having woken up feeling empowered suddenly -- I don't buy that for one moment. All five of these alleged victims in the Noth Case say the same story - were were afraid to report him because he was so powerful - 25 years ago Chris Noth was lucky enough to be listed as a B/C celebrity and was (still is ) nowhere on the A list celebrity status like Bill Cosby was. It took one woman to bring Noth down in two weeks from today and yet this same woman could have reported him immediately in which the authorities would have had actual evidence to work with 20 years ago and I'm certain, Noth would have incurred the same consequences -- so again, in my eyes, the LAW seems to serve women quite nicely on a 20 year old unfounded allegations -- I wonder if men would be as successful claiming sexual misconduct against prominent women 20 years ago.....for some reason I don't think so, let's ask Terry Crews.....
LASTLY - sorry, but you asked for it -- don't try the old angle of what if this were your family member, sister, relative, mother's pet dog, sister's, transsexuals' lover etc. etc. etc. etc. That angle doesn't work with me. I could easily ask you what would you do if your dad was just fired, jailed, ostracized for allegedly groping someone 20 years ago with no proof? What about your brother who's sitting in jail accused of sexual assault on his former girlfriend who's angry that he left for college a year ago and found someone else??? Oh wait, your uncle has now been arrested for allegedly hugging his female coworker on her recent promotion - other women and men hugged this woman but for some reason your uncle has been singled out because rumor has it, he rebuked her sexual advances at a party last year -- all these "WHAT IF" scenarios are useless as it doesn't change the LAW. We have statute of limitations for a reason and I think that's clearly visible. Let me ask you a question: I wonder what your position would be if men started outing famous women on their former alleged conduct resulting them in the loss of their income, family, friends, social status and more without ZERO evidence but held back due to emotions and fear of the powerful woman -- think about it.
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I mean exactly what I wrote - she has YET to validate her story. No facts, no documentation of her EVER receiving these orders that no other military commander, supervisor, or chain of command has come forward to corroborate. The timing of her story also leaves MANY questions, why the USAF would sacrifice two pilots, two F-16s each valued at $60Million when a missile would have been easily used thus saving two pilots, two planes and debris landing in a town or nearby city. Not ONE person outside of her and coworker have come forward to discuss the heroic deed that never occurred nor was ever documented -- rubbish. The ONUS is on HER to prove her story and to date, she hasn't done it. She however, has made a ton of cash as she tours the DC Area speaking (Paid of course) of her sacrifice to country, yet cannot answer the simple rational questions to which our Media doesn't even show the SLIGHTEST clue of digging further - tells me this is a "feel good" story to cover over a tragic incident (Flight 093) that is acceptable to the US Audience - another Saving Jessica Lynch story and we all saw how well that really panned out when journalists finally had enough of the fake news and found out the story was conconcted by the DOD Public Affairs all along. I believe this is similiar along the lines and her being a blonde female has the automatic support of the Feminist movement and fits perfectly in the American Psyche of a tough woman defending her country. As I said before, the only thing missing in this story is Will Smith, an Alien and Jeff Goldblum as General Knownuts barking out suicide orders😁😁🤣🤣
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Amurica has always been stupid so long as I can remember back in 1976 on it's 200 year birthday. Racism, gun violence, 50 different laws pertaining to 50 different states, poor education system outside of private schools, geographic disconnectivity and isolated in terms of international standings. Your average American from let's say Texas couldn't point out the state's capital (Austin) on a map even if it were color-coded while the country's capital is disconnected mentally from the nation in most every aspect except finance which they all love the IRS (ha).
European and Asian schoolchildren know more about the USA than the average American who votes for his/her president, not on the crucial issues affecting the nation, but how the candidate looks, what color he is and how dirty he can get, mudslinging and being invovled in one scandal or the other. Any other first world nation would never allowed a convicted felon with 34 counts who has yet to face the remainder of his court trials, stored TS/SCI documents in his home, falsified the 2020 election resulting in an insurrection, one sex scandal after another and wreacked havoc with American Allies, would'nt have been able to run for office - period.
US Supreme Court? A lifelong appointment - why? How can the highest court in the nation be contingent on being "Cherry-picked" by each new administration? So the laws are not decided on judicial knowledge, expertise or academic qualification, but rather friends or associates to an incoming adminstration or president - I guess justice is really blind in the USA. It would be interesting to see all the travels, donations and gifts from doners to the court, be made public.
I just finished watching Congress interview office nominees for Attorney General, SECDEF and Surgeon General - none of these nominees could answer ONE question without stumbling, lying or trying to backtrack previous comments not in their favor - pathetic. Nominees shouldn't be based on the President's choice but rather by experience and academic accolades. The SECDEF for example should have a PhD in Political Sciences, having served their country for 20 years, no criminal records or questionable behavior (adultery, tax issues, etc). If a nominee is going to want to occupy the Surgeon General's position, then he/she damn well better have a PhD in a medical field, 20 years of experience in the medical field and so on - same for Comptroller, Housing and Urban Development and so forth - NONE of these position should be appointed to uneducated, nonexperienced persons with zero academic credentials but have donated to the party in power - utter nonsense! You don't hire someone for the Attorney General simply because he/she was a first term lawyer, who's watched 10 episodes of "law and order." That individual will have a Juris Doctorates, at least 20 years of experience as a state attorney or equivalent - rapport witht the Supreme Court and other legal functionaries at the Federal/State level and can answer ALL questions on EXACTLY where he/she stands on legal matters - rather this nation will appoint an AG based on nothing more than how he/she feels about the incoming administration - unbelievable.
The entire US System has faltered from regulatory common sense to one of political posturing that caters to the wealthy. An average American who had 1/8th of a criminal track record of some of these elected representatives would be fined, jailed, stripped of employment or punished to community service literally forever; HOWEVER, you see no level of judicial responsibility metered out to those in power or those elected as if anything inside the DC Beltway is immune to the laws those same elected officials created and voted for.
Good Luck USA, you're going to need it.
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So what are all of these WOMEN going to protest/do to all their fellow WOMEN who voted for Trump??? The 4B Movement is dead already and it’s not picking up steam because men will just find women who did vote for Trump — this would only work if the vast majority of women voted for Trump — but equal amounts of women voted for him too!!! This means that men have women to go to that will sex them regardless of voting preference.
Men make up 90% of the World‘s blue collar, high mortality rate employment in all fields that make the world turn (construction, sanitation, transport, medical, finance and engineering); until,women can equalize those numbers, men will vote the way they want and it IS NOT men‘s responsibility to vote the way women want them to — ridiculous and utter rubbish. If women vote against each other like they did in the last election, they have only to blame themselves or their own gender instead of blaming men for all and everything they always do absolving themselves of all and any responsibilities. If Texas women wanted to vote against abortion, then why didn’t ENOUGH women in Texas petition their state representatives against the governor? They didn’t and the bill passed. So should we blame all men in Texas for this or place the responsibility on women in Texas who didn’t take the legal measures to protest to their state representatives? Apparently enough women in Texas agreed with the bill — yet according to 4B logic, it’s the men‘s fault so withholding sexist is the answer to include the possible loss of relationships or marriages in worst cases — again, utter rubbish! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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@marcelrenes2435 how is the EU going to defend itself militarily? NATO with big brother at the helm, won’t simply let that happen. The former idea of a joint EU military never took off due to nationalism and NATO already being there. Only those EU Nations not in NATO, can claim a military stance, but they are ineffective as it is. The EU has given Germany control of Europe’s economy as its bank master and Berlin runs it, not Brussels in reality. The UK knows this and as such, nationalism and immigration overtook the economic benefits of the UK remaining.
If Germany left the EU tomorrow, it would collapse - that doesn’t make a strong Union, now does it. The EU should have remained as the EEC remaining focused on joint economic issues and not political ones. This is evident when Von der Leyen acts like she’s a president of a country, which she is not. The EU went political and that was a mistake. The two most richest nations in Europe (Switzerland and Norway) aren’t in the EU. When the EU allowed Greece to join despite it already being bankrupt, it was Germany that set the austerity measures, not Brussels and that was painfully obvious who held the power there. Why isn’t Turkey an EU member? The EU, well Berlin actually, vetoed its admission due to Human Rights issues, yet allowed both Romania and Bulgaria to join, despite their Human trafficking records that are the worst in Europe. The real reason is that Turkey’s population ( roughly the same as Germany’s) and it’s GDP being the 5th largest, would force Germany to have to share power in representation and Germany isn’t having none of it - it has nothing to do with “human rights,” despite the fact Berlin turns a blind eye to the 436,000 Turkish “guest workers” in Berlin alone, mainly doing jobs the Germans themselves don’t and won’t do. The UK population was weary of these things and coupled with nationalism, rise in crime focused on illegal immigration despite the fact that the EU continues to allow and the hawkish bullying tactics used on EU members that don’t confirm to Germany’s uh, I meant Brussels direction(😂), made the UK leave despite cutting its own nose off economically. Had the EU remained focused on economic policies like its predecessor the EEC, I believe the UK would have stayed.
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@ani-rf4my First of all I DO LIVE IN GERMANY; second, I am German by way of my mother's family - Bavarian/Franconian to be exact.
I have also American/English heritage and was born and raised in Germany. Due to prior employment, I have had the opportunity to travel and work on each continent except Antartcia - I believe I can safely say, when it comes to cultures, I can match you or mostly anyone on this site regarding perks, good and bad.
I'm glad you choose to learn the language - good for you, but that opinion fell on deaf ears and in particular mine, as it's a moot point. I speak, English, German, French, passible Spanish and was trained as a Russian Linguist during my time in the Military. I didn't need to learn German, as it was my second language after English in the family growing up with Franconian/Bavarian Dialects to be specific. I'm also not a "Tourist," not sure where you derived that from, but nevertheless that too, was a moot point. While working at Interpol in Lyon France, I spoke French and had very little issues with the French, despite the fact they frowned at Interpol often, as ENGLISH was the language spoken there; after all it is the GLOBAL recognized languge.
The issue I have is the "directness" that many Germans use as a guise to be rude, aggressive and bullying in their commuications - a good example of this is the term most use at the Bakery "ich bekomme" translating to English - " I will get or receive" - that's not asking, that's demanding. Is it bad? no not necessarily, but the language is coarse and their culture matches it. How many German comedians do you know of from a Global perspective? Those known comedians are mainly English, American or speak English - the same with comedy movies that have achieved "acclaim" via Hollywood or Indepedent Filming - not many Germans there either. Where do you think the German stereotypes came of having little to no humor, no feelings, cold, aloof, withdrawn, racist on an ignorant level, and not known to be "foreigner friendly." All stereotypes of nations have some truth to them and Germany isn't excluded by any means.
Good to hear that you work in France, have many international friends and work in a French Library - should I come across any French persosn, I'll be sure to let them. know.
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@RyannLagattuta Not sure to whom you are responding to but if it's me, I can assure you that her story doesn't add up and what's even more strange is that our own press, who will tear apart a story about girlscouts stealing $1.50 from a cookie sale, turns a blind eye to this story with ZERO investigation behind her claims. First, there was NO Kamikazee orders - she and her coworker later claimed that they would have "sacrificed" themselves for their country -- that's quite a leap from having official orders to be "sacrificed."
Secondly, no one in their RIGHT mind in the Department of Defense, would sacrifce two pilots, two F-16s (cost $60 million a piece) to "ram" into an airliner causing 3X the debris landing to the ground to damage property and an increase in killing more people below - BS! A simple ground to air missile, air to air missile or in longest case, sea to air missile could suffice. We have a Missile Defense Agency for such contingenices that used to be called Ballistic Missile Defense Office (BMDO), back in 2001. NORAD was also asleep at the helm I guess? Flight 093 crashed at 10:50 over PA after taking off from Newark at 08:50. The NY Trade Center was already hit at 09:18 and the Pentagon at 09:37 putting the nation's defense immediately on alert.
Any F-16 Crew Chief will tell you it takes approximately 8-12 minutes to arm the aircraft. So from 08:50 to 10:50 (2 hour lapse)was the duration of flight 093 before it exploded near Pittsburgh. Are we then to believe that within that two hour span crew chiefs couldn't have armed Penney's plane?? Seriously? Secondly, her unit's mission was not to patrol the skys over PA but rather the National Capital Region (NCR). Last time I checked, the NCR didn't include PA. Speaking of PA, what happened to the PA Air National Guard like the 193rd Special Operations Wing at Harrisburg who's mission is to control the skies over PA. The PA ANG fly A-10C Thunderbolt IIs provide forward air control support of close-air support missions. The general-purpose fighter force is equipped with F-22 Raptor, F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon and A-10 aircraft. I guess the PA ANG was dead that day as well - all probably resting comfortably at home knowing that Lt Penney was "leading the way" with her supervisor. Doesn't anyone else, also find it odd that such a "heroic" effort has not been validated by the then acting Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of the Air Force, HQ Air Combat Command Commander, VP or President? I would have also included the former SECDEF but he has since passed. There is not ONE interview outside of Lt Penney and her supervisor in/out of her former chain of command to has come forward in support of or at least corroborate the story or at least partake the credit of this "sacrifice" on the day the world's largest and most sophisticated and powerful Air Force, NORAD, BMDO, PA-ANG, US Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Air Force Global Strike Command, STRATCOM, all were paralyzed or rendered ineffective leaving the security of the Free World on the shoulders of Lt Penney and her supervisor. This story is so reminiscent of the Saving Private Lynch story, which too, proved to be a propoganda piece by the DoD after journalists began to seriously investigate it's "merits."
The only thing missing from this story is Penney and her supervisor and Will Smith flying to ram the alien's spaceship with the Aerosmith song playing in the background "don't want to miss a thing."
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@ what obligations? Europe has been sucking on the U.S. teat since 1945 - had it not been for the US, mainland Europe would be speaking fluent Russian now! The US had to get involved in Europe‘s stupid affairs twice, fed Western Europe through the Marshall Plan, created and financed NATO to this present date and had to militarily handle the Balkan Conflict on its own dime. European nations have not funded their own military and security as it was too easy to rely on good ol’ Uncle Sugar to do it for them. Reliable ally?? How much more reliability does Europe want? Why hasn’t Europe solved the Ukraine Russia conflict on their own - it’s been since 2014 since the conflict started - 11 damn years and what has Europe achieved on its own? Zero! A measly 2% Germany spends on defense is a laugh as the World’s 4th largest GDP; most European nations spend less than that! Let’s close the US bases in Europe!!! German cities like Ansbach, Grafenwoehr, Kaiserslautern, Wiesbaden and Baumholder would feel the economic crunch immediately! Why didn’t these cities diversify their economic avenues since 1945? Oh yes, that’s right! It was much easier to rely on the unreliable USA to keep their economies going all these years. Let’s ask all those local nationals who are employed by the unreliable US bases to see what they think about losing those Cush nicely paid jobs that pay more than their counterparts outside the gates who work twice as hard with less? Isn’t it the unreliable US that is still paying for the training of European militaries? Research that one! How about all those local national landlords that live off US persons renting their homes for double the rent charged?? These persons would disagree with you regarding the unreliable US - most drive BMWs and Mercedes - take the hint.
Exactly where has the US been u reliable regarding the Ukraine again? I recall Ukrainian President Zelensky clearly stating that without the US support, Ukraine will lose the war -doesn’t sound like the US hasn’t been unreliable for the last 11 years according g to Zelensky. A bigger question for you is how reliable has Europe been for the Ukraine? Let’s ask Zelensky shall we? Ask yourself: what does the US have to do with the Ukraine? Nothing, YET, since the start of the conflict, ths “unreliable” US has supported both Ukrainian and European efforts to defend it by military aid, finance, and economical means - in fact, the “unreliable” US has paid the most by FAR!
I’m a Cold War child and remember well when Europe was divided - you, most likely, weren’t even born based on your comment. Suggest you research heavily in this topic before making further uneducated comments
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@teekay_1 I haven't heard anyone stating that US troops would be in the Ukraine as the US never stated it should be in NATO. Secondly, Finland, the Baltics and Turkey border Russia - they all have NATO troops there and American troops are there also (mainly in deployed status).
In the long run, I think Russia will lose in either direction. IF the Ukraine opts for neutrality, it will still maintain a military - who will sell arms to the Ukraine? China, the EU, USA, - there is nothing Russia can do about a "neutral" country arming itself as all neutral countries have a defense.
If the USA gets the mineral rights as it wants, the presence of US contractors and large conglomorates will benefit not only the Ukraine's economy, but those around it. Again, Russia won't risk a direct confrontation with a US presence there that benefits it as well in the long run.
If the Ukraine remains neutral but joins the EU - the economic advantage for Russia is good as cross trade between the Ukraine and EU with Russia benefits Russia as well while having a neutral Ukraine as it's neighbor. Again, though, the Ukraine will have the right to defend itself and who will arm them - almost everyone that wants to make profit --
It's all about mineral rights, monies, and business -- it's the average citizen of the Ukraine that suffers and receives nothing in return.
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@Erdie65 I have been ALL OVER Germany and lived here for over 35 years and my comment are of GENERAL Germans and not strange ones. I being, part-German myself, know my own culture quite well; locations notwithstanding. The culture itself is cold, introverted, arrogant and tuff until they accept you into their circles. Thank God, I was also raised with UK/US family members who accept you immediately, have a sense of humor and understand the basic principles of human interaction which is required versus being a robot.
The friendliest cities I lived in were Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Nuremberg and Regensburg - all others were stoic, cold and devoid of any charm or international flair and that inlcudes Berlin, which Frankfurt is far more international than the capital. Thanks for your insightful comment
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@angelicfaithh2664 He could have offered her 5 different amounts and it still wouldn’t change the fact that we can only speculate what really happened. One can also say that she’s lying due to the number of years, she remained with him and not once, ever reported her “alleged” abuse despite the fact that had access to friends, family, associates and authorities as she wasn’t physically restricted in the 11 years she resided with Diddy. Remember, that they both settled quickly, possibly suggesting that her allegation wasn’t based on principle of abuse, but rather fueled by money or that Diddy was advised by his attorneys, to settle as either way, he wouldn’t be able to prove his innocence, therefore, alleviating long-term costly attorney fees and the same can be said for her too. It’s my opinion that are simply too many unknown variables that we don’t know in order to ascertain if the allegations are true or not - anyone outside the actual allegation with no first-hand knowledge or that cannot legally attest or corroborate the allegation can only speculate or assume like you and I are doing.
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@angelicfaithh2664 Nice speech dear, BUT her allegation and statement alone, doesn’t prove a damn thing unless it can be corroborated - which it hasn’t been in case YOU didn’t notice. The case was settled by BOTH Diddy and she real quick - one can assume that they both had something to hide, they both lied, money was the main goal versus principle, they both conjured this story to make Diddy appear straight versus gay while she banked the money - who knows? You weren’t there and neither was I so we’ll never know what really happened and that, in case you didn’t notice, is what I’ve been writing::: I DO NOT ASSUME a story that has NOT been proven by a court of law, authorities or written testimony proven to be true. One person’s unfounded allegation does not make a story true nor does it make it a lie. Unlike you, I don’t assume something to be true or false based on nothing more than an unverified allegation, comment or gossip. As they both settled quickly, we’ll never know what really happened - suggest you don’t assume a story simply because of gender - try again and this time, don’t assume
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@americandreamisover9658 Keep dreaming -- NATO is far more of an economical structure for countries like the UK and Germany than a defensive one. The USA will not have a repeat of WW1, 2 and possible 3 without having a military presence in Europe. Europeans for whatever reason, cannot achieve peace on their continent without a foreign power overlooking or presenting itself with the confines of the continent. The only winner in WW2 was the Americans - an outside country coming in and constructing the European continent with the exception of former Warsaw Pact nations and Russia -and eventually they all fell apart. Russia lost 22 million people in WW2 and only could create a buffer zone (Warsaw Pact countries) which eventually fell apart as Russia didn't have the monetary means to continue the Cold War. Do you know how much money the US military presence pumps into the economy of Germany, UK, Italy, Greece, Netherlands. Belgium, and now most former Warsaw Pact nations? For example the Base or Post Exchange (Shopping center) at the Kaiserslautern Military Community/Ramstein Air Base makes more revenue than all the Post exchanges combined in the USA - do you know how many Germans are employed there? The same in the UK and other nations. You do realize that since it's birth NATO has always been led by an AMERICAN General - do you think that's a coincidence? The EU trying to build it's own military is a laugh - no French General is going to be able to command a German, Italian, Dutch, UK, Norwegian or other country's military and vice verse -- Europe lacks the homogony and exudes too many cultural and economical differences to create a combined force -- the EU struggles every day to maintain it's position from a country that itself has no central government and itself is literally split in 3 factions (Belgium). Europe still relies on the USA's GPS system - why is that? Europe has the European Space Agency, a first rate organization but who will fund it - what percentage will go to what country, who will repair it and at what costs? Europeans are too distinct and independent to sing cumbia hence the UK leaving the EU. The Ukraine issue of one of past expectations that neither camp could have foreseen. Russia is concerned that it's borders are surrounded by NATO countries - too late. Russia will not tolerate the Ukraine to also go "Nato" - understandable. Unfortunately, Ukraine is a sovereign nation and it decides what course of action to take for the betterment of it's population - Russia has to understand that. In reality, the Ukraine doesn't need to go NATO or EU - it will be supplied by the west economically and militarily regardless of Russia's opinion - that's reality. I can certainly understand Putin's concern, but his concern will be overridden by the mere fact of economics and trade - The Ukraine will eventually be armed to the teeth and in the European camp whether in Nato/EU or not.
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@tsugumorihoney2288 Operation Barbarossa started on June and within 6 weeks (Aug 15) the German Wehrmacht was already 1/2 way to Moscow. Hitler ordered his military to move south and capture Kiev -- Moscow was not his priority - had it been, Moscow would have fallen in early September. Secondly, the USA began to furnish Russia with supplies/equipment and finances beginning of January 1943, one month after the declaration of war due to Pearl Harbor in Dec 1942. Third, in January of 1944, the Wehrmacht held all territories south of Leningrad which was besieged from Sept 1941 until 27 Jan 44 - all lands south and west of Leningrad (present day Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine and to Rostov. So in short Russian territory was occupied from Jun 41 to Jun 44 when D-Day commenced. Without the American invasion in the West, Hitler would have been able to commit 100% of the Wehrmacht's resources in the East and Russia would have fallen behind the Urals. The only nonsense here is your delusional belief that without the allied second front, Russia would have won against Germany - sorry but no. Next time, don't let your pride write your comments, research, have a bowl of borscht and then come back to me when have facts, not pride.
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@jaobidan2358 No sorry Jao, but that is not true whatsoever. The simple solution to all this hysteria was for Trump to publicly release the warrant, which would have shown exactly what the FBI was looking for. If Trump is such a victim, why wouldn’t he do that? And why were his GOP allies not pressing him to? Instead, it was Attorney General Merrick Garland who had to request that the warrant be unsealed, given the heightened public interest.
Garland is calling Trump’s bluff, forcing his lawyers either to argue against unsealing the warrant — signifying Trump has something to hide — or make the warrant public so that the secrecy can no longer be used as a weapon against the Justice Department.
Trump and his inner circle have played up how “cooperative” (his lawyer’s word) Trump had been with Justice Department officials in their quest to get the documents back — as if, two years out of office, an ex-president gets to negotiate the terms under which he might be willing to obey the law.
After leaving office, Trump had to be hounded for months by the National Archives to return 15 boxes of classified documents improperly spirited to Mar-a-Lago. And then it turned out that he hadn’t turned over all of them, and the search reportedly uncovered 10 more boxes of documents.
Trump consistently demonstrates an attitude that the rules don’t apply to him. Yet Hawley and the rest automatically took Trump’s side without knowing the facts and ignoring Trump’s obvious disregard for the rule of law. Many have demanded that the Justice Department explain the justification for the search, either not knowing or not caring that the agency can’t reveal details of its investigation without a judge’s approval, as Garland explained Thursday.
Trump was never under such restrictions. He could have immediately publicized what the warrant sought and what was seized. Republicans suddenly sided against law enforcement and seemed not to be interested in pressing Trump for those answers. That’s a clear indication they don’t want to hear the actual legal justification for the search. Outrage works far better than facts when the goal is to whip up the base.
And no, I'm not a Repub or Demo so let's not attempt to go down that road.
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And there’s a lot women couldn’t tolerate that men have to endure. Men constitute 91.5% of the World’s hard labor, high mortality rate blue collar jobs of the world in areas of transport, construction, sanitation and freight and defense. Women complain about cuts they receive when shaving their legs, while many men must shave their faces daily luckily avoiding the Jugular Vein while enduring barbers rash and other skin afflictions. Why is it that when a ship sinks, it’s women and children that evacuate first? I can certainly understand the children, but why women? Your vagina can’t impregnate itself without support from a penis now can it? Why are women always favored in divorces? Why is it that a young man will give his seat up for an elderly woman or man, yet a young woman will not give up her seat for an elderly man?? Why are women firefighters and female military service members paid the same as their male counterparts yet, their physical test and lift standards are less? This means in a time of war, who has to supplant the difference to complete the mission? A hint; it’s not the female. When are women going to be required to sign up for the nation’s Selective Service Act? It’s mandatory for men, why not you women? Let’s not play the “tradition gender” game as that would put you as a woman, back into the kitchen barefoot and pregnant right? Again, there is no excuse for men to be the only gender to be forced to register for the SSA. Pain? How many pain medications and over the counter pain relievers are there for menstrual cramps? Many!!! Yet, women can’t seem to control their periods or prep themselves for a timed projected monthly bodily function - just a lot more easier to take your mood swings and nasty temperament out on the men around you for a pity party. You do know that men’s kidney stones are so severe that many pass out from the pain - try finding an over the counter pain medication for that. You know what I got for my stones when hospitalized? Yes, Demerol!!! Now who else gets Demerol for their pain during childbirth?
When you women equalize out the impartiality of the aforementioned pain and gender comparisons to a 50/50 scale, then come talk to me about what men can’t endure. Now run along… you’re done here
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@tjaspire Bullshit. Men endure just as much hardship as women and just because we don't bleed once a month, doesn't mean we have it any easier in life than a woman does. As I said before, MEN constitute 90% of the World's hard labor intensive, blue collar, high mortality rate jobs that affords you to eat, transport, get medical support, sanitation methods for you to shit/piss in and in most cases the ability to drive your car as most mechanics are men. What a joke that you claim "it's always not about you men," yet YOU made the comment that it's women's suffrage that men don't have, - hypocrite much honey? You did exactly that - made it all about the women and their struggles. Men rule this world and always have because we are the builders and providers - women are the "Users" of this construct and the bearer of children - and before you go down the baby /biological clock road again, without sperm, you have nothing but eggs needing fertilization from a man! You have the audacity to think that women are the only sufferers in this World? I bet that by the time you reached the 5th grade, you were most likely older than your teachers. Outside of a menstrual cycle, what suffrage do women have that men also don't endure???? none! i could give you two magnets and you still couldn't make ends meet and no, a biological clock isn't suffrage - it's biology. When women can constitute 50% of the hard labor, high mortality rate blue collar jobs in transport, freight, construction, sanitation, medical and defense, then come back at me - until then, take several seats and shut up.
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I lived in SA from 2003-2008 and you are right. The city's core is very beautiful to include the Riverwalk and the Alamo. Unfortunately, the rest of the city has little in between SeaWorld and 6 Flags Texas. The city is also very segregated; NW/North-Central and parts of the NE are predominantly white collar, expensive homes, country clubs; the SW/SE military bases, blue collar; Eastside, poor and less urbanized. I lived in the North Central and worked in the SW - it was two different worlds. The downtown also needs a better skyline - and no, tall glassy skyscrapers can comingle with historic homes and buildings - Boston is a perfect example. SA has the worst skyline of any major US city and certainly out of the top 4 biggest cities in TX.
Despite this, I enjoyed living in SA, friendly people, and a nice vibrant core, which most large cities unfortunately lack these days.
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@jurgenrudiger I don't care if he bought a ticket from the late Queen Elizabeth; the bus driver should have attempted to tell him or SHOW him to stamp the ticket, instead of sitting there, with the bus being stationary while others "GLOTZED" him on. This made the traveler nervous while fumbling to find a ticket HE JUST PURCHASED - so the driver knew he paid. In the USA, UK, Australia, the bus driver would have gotten up OR someone and guided the person to stamp the ticket - not in Germany; it's just easier and more friendly to stare the lost person down or stay stationary until he "figures it out." If you call that friendly, suggest you never go into public service, in particular, anything to do with caretaking.
Just like you call Americans & British, "indirect" making useless conversation or being loud as being indirect or not honest. Well, guess what - German stereotypes are as follows: rude in the disguise of being "direct.", cannot multi-task to save their lives, unwelcoming. Lastly, I am GERMAN, so think twice before "educating" me on German Culture, Jurgen - so much for YOUR post.
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@JazzyJae88 I never said, there were NO million dollar homes along the James between Richmond and Newport News - but this area is a far cry from the Hamptons NY, Laguna Beach or Carmel CA. For starters, the cluster of million dollar homes in Richmond is focused on Windsor Farms hovering between $900,000 - $1M and up. From Hopewell to Newport, there are NO subdivisions that contain million dollar homes until you arrive in Williamsburg at South England Point/King's Mill where Busch Gardens is located. The average home there is $800,000 to $1.5Mil. Newport News's $1M and up are all located in Hidenwood, which currently are three. There are currently 4 homes listed between Hopewell and Newport News between $600,000 - $1M and all four contain over 2-3 acres of land along the James River - in these homes, it's the land, not the home that drives the price.
Again, the James River from Richmond to Hopewell is mainly rural and industrial. After the Industrial Estates at Hopewell, the James widens and is rural until it reaches the Tidewater area where it becomes industrial and residential - no one said it was "bad there." I live in the UK and worked as a Real Estate Agent (Keller Real Estate) before earning my PhD in Gastroenterology, if you couldn't tell:-)
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@sirtwiz I missed ZERO points just because you disagree. I have lived in numerous countries - Germany being the main one and it's my decision whether or not to learn the local language, what capacity I currently reside it, what my job entails and what I surround myself with in cultural and religious form. The English Language being the top of the World was not due to the British, but rather due the economics of this World and it certainly isn't the Russian or French Language now is it? These nations also had colonies to include the Spanish, yet English remained dominant and the USA spearheaded that after it's independence as the World's only remaining Superpower - what a coincidence. I live in Germany and know 4 languages (German being one of them) and no matter how well I speak it, I'm always put in my place as the Auslander or foreigner here -- strange that doesn't happen in Britain, Cyprus, Spain, Luxemburg or Switzerland, but Germany yes and quite often. If you have an issue with the US Media Machine, suggest you do something against it -- good luck in losing as all of those nations CHOSE to integrate and make English compulsary in their schools despite the fact they many of these nations were NEVER a British / US Colony, territory or dependency - yet they must learn English in their schools and that has ZERO to do with the "US Media Machine" which millions gladly cater to and follow. The USA is s superpower because the Americans made it so and part of that is their language, their business sense and the way they treat others - don't attempt that in the German Society; you'll get stopped in an instance if you don't follow the old, rigor mortis routine, outdated cultural demands, aggressive stances and their lovely "schadenfreu" which literally means to enjoy the suffering of another and oh do they do that well until it's them on the cutting table. In the US you get greeted by everyone regardless of your background and get spoken to simply to even make light conversation. In Germany, everyone looks as if they've got a corn cob up their nether regions, always complaining, angry, never smiling, can't see any sense of humor as they're too busy "anal"yzing the joke to begin with and when throwing parties, have no music, a strict set time when one arrives/goes, limits the group to small interactions which ALWAYS evolve around work, politics or some financial trend - it never fails. I have lived here for over 25 years, so please tell me what I "missed." As I stated before, Germany may run like a clock, but it's people are burnt out, paid badly and must plan for every step of their lives in such a manner, one cannot even enjoy what they have. Back in Britain, things look rough BUT the human factor is what keeps the nation going and in the US as well - something Germany has forgotten.
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@ACryin_Shame No, that's not what I saying. I'm saying that this case is extremely political in nature and being handled "out of ordinary avenues." First, a British Court cannot rule if an AMERICAN Citizen no more than a US Court can force the extradition of Prince Andrew. Secondly, the State Department ruled she was under diplomatic immunity and the British Court agreed. Don't you think it odd that this American, who IS NOT a CIA Agent, nor was she working at the time of the incident, has diplomatic immunity??? ONLY Americans assigned to the State Department working overseas have diplomatic immunity and not all of them might I add. Had she diplomatic immunity from the onset, she wouldn't have been whisked out undercover and away from British authorities like she was....The British Courts alone don't have the authority to rule whether or not she had diplomatic immunity - the US State Department makes that ruling and the British Courts agreed. As of today, there are 15,000 US citizens working in the UK (mainly in the Air Force). Let an airman drive and kill a UK citizen and see if HE/SHE has automatic diplomatic immunity - the answer would be NO. He/She would be under US Law by that installation's SJA (as I mentioned earlier) and the SJA would work in conjunction with British authorities until a court date could be set or an investigation completed. This woman was a simple family member who's husband was working for the CIA (not State Department) and was himself, not under any diplomatic protection, and neither was she. This case is 100% politically handled involving the Department of Defense, Ministry of Defence, State Department, Home Office and "others" (Intelligence agencies) who all are wheeling/dealing to keep this matter kept out of the media at all costs. In the end, she will remain in the USA, the Media won't report a single story and the family will receive "compensation"...just watch and see.
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@5jjt The US Constitution has worked well for America thus so far -- as with all laws, change is required to keep up with the current status quo - not what was ratified in 1789 - 232 years ago. I don't believe that you are allowed to speak your mind in America - depending on what you say, you might find yourself arrested. Secondly, the right to bear arms is certainly there - the question now is what is required to defend oneself? A.38 Caliber, M-16, Bazooka, Double barrel shotgun, Patriot Missile, Howitzer? Who's to say?? Who decides this and at what level is "self-defense" under or over justified??
An impartial judge or jury? From what I've seen, most cases in the USA are tried by Social Media, race relations, Gender pressured movements or political posturing. Also, what knowledge do 12 jurors possess in Law? None in most cases and how many "deals" are made between the Prosecution, Defense with information not allowed to be admitted or plea deals to avoid a penalty? Many believe that there is one law for the wealthy and another for the normal American citizen. Four days ago, Steven Bannon was charged with Contempt of Congress - a federal charge. I firmly believe that if you were charged with Contempt regarding a federal investigation, you'd be in a jail cell by now - just my opinion. Didn't America recently have an insurrection? A democracy? Now there's a twist - isn't going against the US Constitution considered treason and sedition? More than 691 people have been charged with the January 6 Insurrection and awaiting trial - yet the Senators who possibly partook in this event have yet to be investigated - why? It's now November; if your nation's FBI can question 661 persons, they certainly can walk across the street and interview those Senators who possibly participated in a week, one would think.
Can you cut and paste where I wrote and I'm quoting your statement that "I believe the Chinese are much happier than we are and its time to reinvent America." Please show me where I wrote that statement as you clearly were either on medication, drugs, drunk or simply blinded by unnecessary patriotism which seems to afflict many Americans who cannot get their two parties (Dems/Repubs) to simply work together. Again, show me where I wrote that - appreciate it.
In closing, many people come to the US for a better life; many people also leave the USA for various reasons. In fact, In 2020, the UN estimated that about 5.2 million people from the United States were living elsewhere or emigrated from the US to other nations - primarily Europe, Australia and South America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration_from_the_United_States#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20estimates%20the,United%20States%30were%20living%40elsewhere.
In closing, what I'm saying is that the US Constitution is like any other document - it was written to lay the "groundwork" for this nation, but it does not and cannot address specific situations that rise from numerous circumstances ranging from age to technology - it must evolve as the US evolves and that is what I have said all along.
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First and foremost, the EU has NO BUSINESS being involved in the Ukraine-Russia War to begin with. The EU is an ECONOMICAL Union which is based on the former EEC which NEVER bothered itself with European Defense, militaries and security strategies. The EU was build to address the cohesion of it's member states' commerce, trade and finance - there is NO room in the EU's Charter that allows it to act as some Defense Ministry for Europe.
Second, NATO is still in tact and has always been there to address security threats to Europe and it's members. As the Ukraine is not an EU or NATO member, the Ukraine is a regional conflict between two "regional" powers as Russia is no longer the power as it was under the former USSR.
In short, so long as a NATO member is not attacked, NATO has no business supporting this war for Europe.
Third, who is Von Der Leyen, Kallas or this Danish PM? I can understand a Danish PM making waves as she IS a head of state, but Von Der Leyen isn't even the head of Euro Disney and Kallas is a "Foreign Advisor" of the EU??? Why does the EU need a foreign advisor outside of economical matters? I thought all nations had their own foreign advisors to deal with THEIR foreign affairs just like they have a Minsiter of Commerce to work with the EU - so why is Von Der Leyen in all of these security meetings and telling Europe to brace itself for war? Her stint as the former German Defense Minister, saw it's budget slashed under her watch and the scandals of illegal contract awards to her husband's pharmaceutical company during COVID is nothing short of scandalous; the investigation is still ongoing which is odd that she never comments about and refuses to cooperate with the investigative staff.
Greenwald is correct - Europe couldn't defend itself against the Boy Scouts of America and that's not a negative slur on the Boy Scouts - it's a fact. Since 1990 Europe (NATO members) have failed to even reach 1.9% of NATO's 2% contribution, while the USA is still funding 75% of NATO today.
The EU should go back to being the "economic" union in Europe or disband altogether. If Von Der Leyen wants a war, then send her children (all 7 of them ranging from age 26-38) who are currently in high paid, cush positions to the front. She wants EU nations to cut funds in social care and welfare programs to fund an assault against Russia? - Let's start by cutting her salary and that of all those who preach this "Europe vs Russia" campaign when they don't even have a pot to squat over.
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@korlilkatana7653 Nice sexist try in an attempt to sway away from the real subject at hand and that remains the validity of this fascinating tale - I have no hate for either persons - my beef is that the public should demand a more thorough investigation or interview as their story is full of holes.
Also my disappointment comes from the fact that our media has done this before and also had a willing female play the part - Saving Private Jessica Lynch. Sadly, sexism plays a role here as if two male pilots were involved, the media would have wanted more information I can assure you. As Flight 93 was a tragic account to begin with, a female pilot not only warms the patriotic heart regarding strong women thus automatically garnering the feminist support for the account. As with Saving Private Jessica Lynch, our media did not display any detailed investigation of the story; once savy journalists who questioned the story caught traction, the episode fell apart leaving the main star of the show, Jessica Lynch to leave the US Army and is now a teacher. The following is the direct excerpt from the Congessional hearing regarding the media story of Lynch:
" Critics have also accused the media of bias in the coverage of Lynch versus that of her fellow soldiers, Shoshana Johnson and Lori Piestewa. All three were ambushed in the same attack during the Iraq War on March 23, 2003, with Piestewa being killed and Lynch and Johnson being injured and taken prisoner. Lynch, a young, blonde, white woman, received far more media coverage than Johnson (a black woman and a single mother) and Piestewa (a Hopi from an impoverished background, and also a single mother), with media critics suggesting that the media gave more attention to the woman with whom audiences supposedly more readily identify.[37][38]
Congressional hearings
On April 24, 2007, Lynch gave congressional testimony before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that the Pentagon had erroneously portrayed her as a "Rambo from the hills of West Virginia" when, in fact, she never fired a shot after her truck was ambushed.[39][40]
She began her testimony by noting for the record that her appearance was not politically motivated.[40]: 21 In a prepared statement, she said:[7][41][40]: 24–26
I believe this is not a time for finger pointing. It is time for the truth, the whole truth, versus hype and misinformation.
I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales"
Sounds familiar - it should. All I am saying is that this story of Penney and her coworker require far more in-depth look than what was done here.
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@mer8795 Again, nice sexist attempt to deflect from my main point which is no one has verified the accuracy and truthfulness of this story.
The reason why I focused on Penney is that she is the main one in the greater DC area going to military institutions and talking about it - not him which is ironic since he was the SENIOR officer in this story - strange too, how NONE of their former chain of command officers who allegedly gave those orders nor anyone besides these two, have been interviewed or corroborate their stories - that you don't find a bit strange though.
Your entire comment made no sense when it comes to MILITARY planning as it's clear you never served. I am a 25 year old USAF Veteran who worked as an intelligence specialist during 911 - I think I'm better qualified to know how the Department of Defense functions than you. Flight 093 could have been shot down immediately after it departed Boston as it veered off it's original flight plan - that alone alarms the FAA and in turn contacts the DoD - keep in mind that the twin towers were already impacted at 8:46AM, our defenses were already on alert before flight 093 crashed at 10:03AM
It takes approximately 8-12 minutes to arm an F-16 - do you mean to tell me that from 8:46AM to 10:03AM, Lt Penney and her senior officer sat around until they allegedly received their "kamikazi orders" so late, that they didn't have time to arm their F-16 - utter BS and you know it too. Secondly, why on EARTH would our Secretary of Defense, Commander, Air Combat Command (ACC) or our Missile Defense Agency decide that it's simply more effective to lose the life of two pilots and two expensive F-16s causing way more damage/debris towards the ground than a simple missile strike on the plane?? No answer there right? I can assure you that IF our Joint Chiefs of Staff or Commander, ACC had taken this approach, they would all be looking for jobs the next day-guaranteed. Our military doctrine is not predicated on "kamikazi missions" as we have too much availabe resources to liquify a plan over US airspace. What do you think our North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) does? Do you mean to also tell me that our entire Air Force, the largest and most advanced in the World, doesn't have armed jets patrolling US Air Space on a 24-7, 7 days a week schedule? If you honestly believe we had NO armed aircraft flying on that day, I have got some gold to sell you from a Nigerian Prince looking to place his millions in your bank account.
You attempted to use sexism as a response by me focusing on Penney --oh how wrong could you have been. She has been touring this country and in particular the DC area telling everyone about her "heroic sacrifce" which never occurred nor has she even proven her story - Keep in mind the ONUS is on HER to provide the information, not us having to hunt it down. Secondly, go on YouTube and type in Penney and Sasseville and see how many hits you have for Penney and Sasseville - her tour, interviews outnumber his by at least 4 miles and he's rarely in the "Driver's seat" on shared interviews as if SHE was the senior officer. Doesn't it strike you strange that only these two are being interviewed? Why not interview all those key-decision makers and senior military officers that gave these two the orders? Where are they? Let's not use the old worn out story that much of this remains classified as if this were the case, Penney wouldn't be touring the nation speaking about nor would Sasseville to begin with.
Lastly, don't try the feminist/female blame angle with me. I'm far too educated to stoop to that level as a convenient distraction of what the real issue here is - accountability and truth regardless of Gender.
You said it best "if you've never experienced it," - yet you never experienced it either but didn't stop you from trying to explain military protocol from which you know nothing about.
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@davidcolin6519 No, I replied twice to your comment and yet it is not posted here. I checked with the site owner who stated that my account is neither blocked nor being blocked by YouTube so the question then is why have you blocked me account from answering your comments?
NATO has always vastly funded by the USA since it's inception in 1949. That's a fact and no attempt of "acquisitions costs of military hardware" changes that fact. Also, Europe has yet to form a military industrial complex since it's inception in 1993 and the US is not to blame so don't even try that angle.
3 years after being told to increase their defense budgets (NATO members), the EU was created - to this date, (35 years later), the EU doesn't have:
a. A shared industrial complex
b. A unified military.
c. An independent Intelligence platform.
d. Arms Production: The USA holds that title with a whopping 43% of the World's Arms I think it's going to be quite some time for the EU to "challenge" the USA regarding the capability to manage it's own arms resources
e. Miltary Forces: Here are the following 5 strongest militaries in the World:
1. USA, 2. China, 3. Russia, 4. India and 5. Japan. Notice how no nation in Europe is in the top 5? In short, you first have to build a joint EU Military and then fund it to include all those other nations in the EU that cannot afford it.
f. Currency holding: The U.S. dollar is predominantly the standard currency unit in which goods are quoted and traded, and with which payments are settled, in the global commodity markets.The USA is also the only nation afforded the special drawing rights of the International Monetary Fund. The United States exercises oversight over the SWIFT financial transfers network and consequently has a huge sway on the global financial transactions systems, with the ability to impose sanctions on foreign entities at will.
On a personal note: First, I'm not American I have however, served my country for 35 years, honorably discharged and deployed in the following campaigns: Operation El Dorado Canyon 1986, Search and Rescue Congressman Leland (joint US/UK), 1989, Operation Desert Storm, 1990, Operation Provide Comfort 1991, Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003 and Operation Enduring Freedom. I retired and returned as a civil servant and worked at NATO from 2008-2016 and Interpol from 2018-2020; I am a Gastroenterologist Baritric Surgery PhD. My Masters is Political Science and the military paid for my medical school.
How about you? Would you be so kind to share your credentials? Military Service, Ties to NATO? Academic background for this discussion? I believe, I have spent more than "a tour" in our political world - how about you?
Current events: Today, the Dutch rejected the EU-Ukraine Treaty; Hungary reimposed it's former immigration laws along with Poland thus, rejecting new EU immigration policies. Thousands of Romanians protested the EU interference and non-acceptance of their nation's presidential election. Germany's AfD agrees saying that the EU interfered with the recent German elections as well trying to ban it's party altogether.
When Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the €800-billion project on 4 March to "Rearm Europe,” many EU members questioned where this money will come from giving the fact that not ONE nation outside of Germany had met the 2-5% defense budget. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated that NATO Members should simply increase their budgets in NATO to 2-5% She continued to state that if Europe has 800 million Euros to "rearm" Europe, NATO members certainly have enough to meet the NATO quota. Her Spanish counterpart, Pedro Sánchez, asked who will fund the US led cybersecurity, anti-terrorism, quantum computing, artificial intelligence and satellite connections that Europe freely receives from the USA? We also need to be reminded that the EU is NOT a NATION but rather a union based on economic matters and commerce – it is not the Pentagon 2.0. Defense, security and military matters are under the control of EACH country's internal structure and needs to remain there." Both Von Der Leyen and the EU's Foreign Advisor are acting like heads of states or defense ministers to which they are not said the NATO General Secretary. The Greek Minister of Defense Nikos Dendias said “she and Von Der Leyen need to refocus their duties as neither one of them rest or sit in military, defense or security matters." The US Ambassador to Germany along with the Russian Secretary of State both reminded Europe that Heads of State and their defense ministers should be setting the pace for their own nation's defense policies and not an EU foreign advisor.
So, please tell me again, how the EU plans to successfully migrate itself as a collective union of countries under one defense when it's own commissioner is not a head of state, secretary of state or defense minister? As the EU is not a nation, how is it recognized in the United Nations? So in essence you've got an economic union with two women who have certainly seem to be suffering from a Napoleon Complex causing current deep riffs in the EU.
Let me know how that "unified military" is coming along and don't forget to include your academic/military credentials – thanks.
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@CiaofCleburne And you deserve it. Amazing how you just "overlook: the last four years of the most fired/hired/changed administration in your nation's history, 2 impeachments, an insurrection that I'm sure you supported along with an EX president which is treason/sedition; the worst track record of ANY president regarding World Affairs - no amending with North Korea, Isolation from Europe, first wanted to dismantle NATO only to find out it's run by the Americans and then supports it. Places sanctions on China yet turns his head when his own daughter Ivanka, cleaned house with product rights in China for marketing her company (hello, conflict of interest??) Nepotism in his family being placed in key position with zero knowledge of what they were placed for; scandal with Russia's Putin who openly joked and stated that Russia got their "man" in the White House. 26 cases of voter fraud - zero verified and all debunked by the Supreme Court and in each state claimed. Shall I go on? NOW, here you are criticizing a NEW Administration that has to incorporate ALL those previous mistakes left by the Orange Admin and before you decided to challenge that, the Obama Administration left with a SURPLUS in the budget; Trump changed all that in a matter of 6 months, while taking more leave/holidays than the last 3 presidents combined. Oh don't take my word for it - google is your friend but of course it's all fake news to you -- a phrase that the US never heard of before and along with "Alternative facts" is nothing more than lying and pretending to get away with it. The Orange SAT on COVID from January to March basically telling everyone that a mixture of bleach and water could help -- BLEACH - oh how we forget and suddenly it's all Biden/Harris' issues and responsibilities. Race relations are at their worst thanks to the Orange, but of course you don't agree while getting your info from FUX News, OAN, Sky Australia and other right wing organizations that they themselves claim, are not news sources.
So yes, you are aiming low -- when you can pass a "Fair" judgement, open your eyes and see that each new administration has to deal with the problems of the past, you are aiming low, but not acknowledging the faults of the former administration that put your country in it's current situation. At least children aren't being ripped away from their parents at the border, I'm sure you enjoyed that as well. Uneducated, ignorant and not knowing any economical standards beyond the county/state you live in, is not the way to lead your life....trying aiming higher.
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@Thorium-j3q Exactly! All these idiots her conveniently "forget" the insurrection, not to mention the worst administration track record (26 hiring/firing) in four years; constant scandals, damaged foreign relations, nepotism at the highest levels, bribing GA for votes, 26 lost voter fraud cases, illegal usage of private residence for profit while residing in the White House (Melania in NYC, costing taxpayers double the amount for her protection), private attorney Giuliani interfering with official federal State Department matters and the list goes on and on. This is why "trumpsters" are associated with low to no education, ignorant, mainly economically disadvantaged by lack of skills, racist and mainly in the southern areas of the USA. These people couldn't even identify their own nation's capital, let alone their state's capital on a map if it were colored in for them. These mainly uneducated people have no concept of global economics in which the USA plays a pivotal part. They use such terms as "commie" or "libtard" because they simply don't know any better. They confuse the terms "Socialism" with "social programs" they simply are that stupid. These people cheered an insurrection on a democratically elected president and contrary to their silly beliefs, NOT ONE CASE of voter fraud was ever proven. The term "alternative facts" and "fake news" wasn't even heard of before the disastrous Trump Presidency; these terms are used to lie, deceive or deflect from the truth - any person with an education past the 12th grade knows this. Trump openly stated that his inaugural address crowd was the largest ever -- a blatant lie and proven - that alone shows the mentally challenged state of mind he was in at the time of his election win. Wasn't this the same person who recommended Bleach to help kill Covid? A pandemic that he sat on from January to April before asking the CDC to take action - of course, Trumpsters don't recall this either. Oh of course, it's all fake news - yet the only sources Trumpsters can refer to for source is FOX, OAN, AmericaOne and other extreme radical organizations that have yet to date offer any proof of their reporting. One of Trump's largest supporters is Majorie Green - a senator who won by default is so ignorant and again, uneducated, she thought Jewish "space lasers" were abducting people, and Nancy Pelosi was arresting people with her "Gaspazo" Police Force -- How stupid must one be to confuse Gazpacho soup with Gestapo? Another sick, demented, person, who has the education level of a fruit fly to begin with. This is what the US has for a senator? Another Trump supporter is Senator Gohmert is more batshit crazy than Greene. He honestly believes we have Russian babies all over the USA, waiting to turn 18 so they can invade the nation -- again, this is a senator from TX - what a shame, right along with Matt Gaetz who seems more interested in sexual encounters with underaged youths much like Senator Jim Jordan and let's not forget Madison Cawthorn who has been charged with 4 counts of sexual harassment has a video of him naked in bed, thrusting his genitals towards another man's face while moaning. These are your average trump supporters, again, uneducated, ignorant, lack of skills and economically/culturally deprived. THANK GOD, I live in Europe. We have our idiots here too, but they don't nowhere near as far as they do in the USA.
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@jayew1025 You have MANY that agree with you here - unfortunately you have the uneducated, racists, ignorant and simply intellectually disabled here as well. In most of the USA, educated (past 12th grade), sound jobs, urban dwellers vote and will continue to vote against the orange - it's simply called education and those that understand the Global part the US plays beyond the borders of their own nation's boundaries and states. The Trump voters have zero knowledge of Global affairs, are mainly racists, honestly believe that the nation will be overrun by "commies" and so forth - simply stupid, uneducated, ignorant, no knowledge of global issues or any complex matters beyond the level they know of their "local" area. These people honestly believe that Fox, OAN, Sky News Australia and other right wing orgs are gospel, believe in "fake news" and alternative facts, and actually believe an insurrection never occurred - these are SCARY, ignorant people. Don't bother with them, - they're mentally disabled.
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@merullesr Oh my! Did someone get upset? Battalion, Flight, Army, Regiment, Group, Squadron, Brigade, - it is all irrelevent. France SURRENDERED to Germany on 22 June 1940 - that means the entire country to include it's military OFFICIALLY stopped fighting The army of the Alps were useless from June 1940 to late 1944 when Germany OCCUPIED France as they alone couldn't liberate France - so again, you're point is moot to begin with. Those are the facts, whether you like it or not. Now, run along and find a nice sweet au chokolat Éclair to eat and remember, You know you’d be speaking German if it wasn’t for the Americans.
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@KM-pq7sr The Euro has also been a disaster for may eastern European Nations as well. The Euro and EU have only benefited the Rich, politicians and the the banking industry that's it. With the exception of easier travel restrictions (no borders), what has the average citizen seen as an increase in their standard of living? ZERO.
The EU was born from the earlier EEC which was looked upon favorably by Europe as an "economic trading organization" between the European nations - it was not political which is what the EU has morphed into.
The EU was basically a construct that gave Germany control of the European economies by being the "bank" and master. This was highly evident when Greece joined the EU and was placed under austerity measures to bring the country back from bankruptcy. It was painfully obvious that Germany and Germany alone controlled the purse strings of Greece; no other EU nation had a say in the restructuing of Greece, outside of Germany. What many didn't know is that Germany has numerous investments in Greece; therefore Germany was not about to let it's investments tank - in short, Greece was allowed to join the EU out of a self-serving interest from Germany. At the same time, other nations with a serious debt/bankrupcty were allowed to join before Greece because their young labor force were shifting to Germany, France, Netherlands to do the jobs that the citizens of these nations weren't and aren't willing to do. Turkey was an exception - being blocked by Germany based on Turkey's "human rights" record was short of a joke when both Bulgaria and Romania's human rights records were as atrocious as Turkey's not to mention those of Macdonia, Bosnia and Serbia.
The real reason for Germany not wanting Turkey to join is that Turkey's GDP would be the 4th largest in the EU and with a population of 83 million (comparable to Germany's), the power of the EU would have to be shared with strong-voiced Turkey and Germany will have none of that - and that is the main reason for Germany consistently blocking Turkey. Turkey is no longer interested in the EU membership as it's markets are large enough to sustain it's economy and has viable options outside the EU due to it's geographical location. The crux of the story is that the EU is a political machine and no longer one concerned with the "economics" of it's members which should have remained it's number one priority as originally outlined.
Since the Austerity measures were introduced, Greece has not been doing too well as evidence by these videos and others. Although austerity measures needed to be reinstated, the way in which they were implemented were too fast, harsh and hard for the general population to adapt to overnight. Germans are not Greeks and vice verse - you cannot impose one set of rules to which a culture is accustomed to expeditiously on another country's culture not familiar with standards unknown.
The EU is basically no more than Germany's bank with loan applications. The UK having left the EU saw itself go through extremely tough measures which it still faces today - I'm not certain why the UK has not opened itself to the American / Asian markets for trading to include goods and services from it's trade agreements within the Commonwealth Nations of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Pakistan being the largest GDPs in that group. I'm certain that trade amongst these nations would ease Britain's issues to that of giving it's citizen's time to readjust being out of the EU while trade agreements with the EU can form.
I have lived in Europe for 40 years now and honestly cannot see the benefits of the EU over the former EEC. Prices have gone up, markets are unstable and more persons are becoming welfare recipients and I'm speaking of Germany now. Eastern Europe remains behind economic standard from it's western counterparts (exception being Poland) and it's young skilled labor force are still migrating to western Europe for better employment prospects bleeding their home nation dry of better wages and services.
Germany benefits the most thus being able to not only enjoy it's 4.5 trillion dollar GDP, but can maneuver it's economy to adapt to changing times, thus making other countries more dependent on the German ATM Machine we call the EU. Unfortunately, the average German doesn't benefit from the "Trickle Down Effect," whatsoever; only the German financial sector, it's lobbyists and wealthy see the EU as a positive force. In fact, the Deutsche Mark had more power than the Euro prior to it's inception, but within the nations that traded with Germany. With the EEC gone to way of the EU, Germany basically took over the economy of Europe as it's financeer - simply put.
If Germany were to leave the EU tomorrow, the EU would cease to exist - that is by no means a "union" now is it?
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@oml81mm Unfortunately for you, the Isle of Man belongs to the UK as a crown dependency - again, the key word being Dependency. It is not a sovereign nation, it uses the Pound Sterling as currency, passports are UK, defence is UK, and trade/economics fall under the UK Jurisdiction - in short, it's the UK. I don't CARE about internal word usage about a constitution - it means NOTHING so long as citizens of the Isle of Man hold UK PASSPORTS, use the UK currency, are defended by the UK Ministry of Defence -- PERIOD.
You're not special, you are not a sovereign nation and that's the end of it.
Now run along, you've been "Done and baked" here for a long time.
Either you're intellectually challenged or just being stupid -
either way the UNION JACK flies over Stanley and until that's taken down, currency introduced, new passports indicating an independent nation, it's own defense force recognized from outside the UK Ministry of Defense, and recognzied by THE UNITED NATIONS as a sovereign state - you AZZ belongs to the UK!
Hopefully this message won't be "deleted."
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@BlackAbe007 I get that feeling too -- Here's my reply to someone who just attacked me like a Rottweiler to a hot dog simply because I said, her story needs "reviewing.' Check it out:
Lt Penny served her country honorably from 1998-2016. We are now in 2021 meaning that five years ago, Lt Penny was on active duty with the MD Air National Guard. I say this because 10 years ago, she couldn't have discussed her alleged suicide mission as she was on active duty. I don't recall ever stating she has spoken about her experience ten years ago. Can you explain your "10 year" comment?
Since 2016 (four years after her discharge), Ms. Penny has given over ten speeches, eight interviews, and as recent, as 7, 2017, gave a lecture, entitled 9/11 Perspectives at National Air and Space Museum. In short, she's spoken quite frequently over her suicide mission in the past 6 years to be precise.
Now, let’s discuss the story; Lt Penny claims the following:
"In the days before Sept. 11, there were no armed aircraft standing guard in Washington, D.C., ready to scramble at the first sign of trouble. And with a Boeing 757 aircraft speeding in the direction of Washington, D.C., Penney and her commanding officer, Col. Marc Sasseville, couldn't wait the dozens of minutes it was going to take to properly arm their respective jets. "It was decided that Sass and I would take off first, even though we knew we would end up having to take off before our aircraft were armed," Penney, among the first generation of American female fighter pilots, said to C-SPAN. Penney said each jet had 105 lead-nosed bullets on board, but little more. "As we were putting on our flight gear … Sass looked at me and said, 'I'll ram the cockpit.' And I had made the decision that I would take the tail off the aircraft," Penney recalled. Both pilots thought about whether they would have enough time to eject before impact. “https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44459345. - these are her words.
It does not take 20 minutes to arm an F-16 as Penny stated in her ABC interview nor 12 minutes as Col Sasseville stated - it takes 8-10 minutes max. I've attached the F-16 load link directly from HQ ACC for you:
https://www.acc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2765571/acc-commander-completes-f-16ex-eagle-ii-qualification/arming-training/contingency_Ops/crewmaster.load.qualfications-222/5571. As a reminder, these are not my words, but crew members.
The first flight to hit the Trade towers was at 8:46 (Flt 11); the second plane (Flt 175) impacted the Trade center at 9:02. Flt 93 had taken off from Newark IAP at 8:42 minutes before the Flt 11 crashed into the North Tower. Flight 93 crashed over Pennsylvania at 10:50 - two hours after the 911 attack had begun.
Are we to believe that there were no active-duty armed aircraft in and around the National Capital Region/Corridor? from 8:42 to 10:50? Even if it takes -10-20 minutes to arm an F-16, Flt 93's course lasted from 8:42 to 10:50 when it crashed -are you going to tell me that during this time, the entire US Air Force didn't arm a single plane in the following fighter bases that protect the National Capitol Region:
Langley AFB, Wright-Patterson AFB, Seymour Johnson AFB, Joint Andrews Base (where Penny was located), Charleston AFB, Shaw AFB and the Air Combat Command Fighter contingent located at BWI/Fort Meade? I believe 20 minutes would have been more than ample time to have both Lt Penny's and her supervisor's plane armed with missiles for their "suicide mission."
Did Lt Penny and her supervisor honestly think that they were the first line of defense for this nation within minutes of the initial onset of 911 while Flt 93 was nowhere near its destination over southern Pennsylvania until 10:30 1 1/2 hours later? Again, are we to believe that while the nation was under attack since 8:42, the Air Force’s Combat Command, had none of its fighters armed from 8:42 to 10:30 (25 minutes before Flt 93 crashed at 10:55)?
I assure you, had this been true, both General Jumper and his Vice Commander, General Cook HQ ACC Commanders at the time, would have been relieved of service along with the Chief of Staff of the Air Force himself, to include the Secretary of the Air Force for such a disastrous blunder. Are we to believe that the HQ ACC Commander, who was notified by the SECDEF about 911and his own command post at Langley AFB, decided to contact the 121 Fighter Squadron (ANG) at Joint Andrews with a suicide mission which would cost the US Air Force $130 million dollars ($65 million cost per F16), one rookie pilot and one seasoned pilot, INSTEAD of ordering his active duty numbered air forces, wings, groups, squadrons and flights into combat as the Air National Guard units would be charged with controlling the skies over the states to which they are assigned as identified by Air Force Protocol?
The Air Force tracked Flt 93 from 8:42 to 10:50 when it crashed -- more than ample time to arm any fighter aircraft. As the F-16 can fly 1,360 miles per hour, jet fighters from Langley AFB would have been able to intercept Flt 93 in southern PA in a matter of 20 minutes after initial takeoff, launch its air-to-air missiles and return home in time for lunch. Again, we are to believe the entire USAF didn't arm a single aircraft from 8:42 to 10:30 that day?
Why would the USAF risk losing two F16s and two pilots to simply ram a commercial airliner causing immense damage/debris when a missile strike would suffice, saving both pilots, and fighter planes had the hijackers not complied with landing orders? Speaking of missiles. Our Ballistic Defense Missile Organization (now called Missile Defense Organization) could have shot Flt 93 from a surface to air missile at any given time. The US Missile Defense System is the best in the World and covers the entire area of the United States – strange how no one mentions this overlooked capability HAD the Air Force been rendered useless – which we know it was not.
I assure you. I believe Lt Penny and her supervisor meant that the F-16 assigned to the Air National Guard were not armed. This, however, still negates from her story as active-duty Air Force Pilots were surely armed in their aircraft at various bases in the US, especially after the initial impact in Tower one at 8:42.
Let me be perfectly clear: As a former Air Force Officer, and current DoD employee, I commend Lt Penny for her service and dedication – however, I do believe her story appears somewhat flawed and not precise. I believe she and her supervisor unilaterally decided that should push comes to shove, they were both willing to sacrifice themselves for our nation --- their sincerity is not in question here. I just believe there is more to this story - that's all.
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@courcheval Based on your last comment, grammar and utterly incorrect historical data, I suggest you lay off the pipe, sober up and get an education beyond the 12th grade. Honestly, your comment was humorous, that I'm still laughing now. Russia is no superpower and can barely wage a LOCAL battle in the Ukraine without enlisting support from other poor states like Belarus. The last time I checked, English was the international language and the Dollar speaks on every continent and In Russia as well. Do me a favor, earn your Master's in Political Science like I did from the University of Maryland in 2001, serve your country as a military, civil servant and corporate individual and now am a consultant with the Department of Defense. Come talk to me when you've accomplished those feats and in the meantime, stop making further ignorant comments. A word of advice for you: Sometimes it's better to remain quiet and let everyone think you're dumb, rather than to open your mouth, and prove to all, that you really are that dumb......take the hint.
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@courcheval Your entire comment is false and not within any sound facts. Russia outside of Kazakhstan, has the worst relationships with it's neighbors and you know it too. I am convinced now that you are FSB or a bot for Russian Information Operations. 'Your comments have seriously no facts, complete fabrication of Russia's current position and intervention isn't exclusive to America - just ask any former Warsaw Pact Nation about "Russian interventionism." Also, the last time I checked, the Ukraine didn't intervene in Russia, but the exact reverse occurred. This is the exact reason why I said, you lack the education and experience to hold any political science discussions - simply put, you have no academic knowledge. I'm sorry, but it's true. However, it was nice hearing your opinion and I wish you all the best. In the future, please enroll in University and in particular, Political Science - you desperately need the education and experience to discuss matters with me. Take care and I wish you the best.
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@charlesknowles6301 again, what you believe to be a good leader, can be interpreted to others, as a bad leader. There are some who believe FDR caused scandal by packing the courts, controlling both the Democratic and Republican parties while centralizing power - see FDR scandal under Wikipedia. Our country has just elected a new Prime Minister in just under 8 weeks. There are those who think the last PM was good; others not. So again, what you consider a good President, may be viewed as others, as a bad one. There are actually people who believe that Hitler was a good leader by building the autobahn, centralizing the regional governments of German states and getting Germany from under the Treaty of Versailles - I don’t agree, however that’s my opinion versus someone else’s. JFK is known to have been a good leader by handling the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962; others claim he was a bad president by being a womanizer and not being a bigger proponent for civil rights - again, it’s a matter of personal opinion.
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@linda-moonlight There you are - couldn’t stay away for long could you? Power to insult, insecurities, stereotypes and scared: all things you have placed on others here, simply because they didn’t agree with your comments - your best friend is hypocrisy and your disease is deflection - I know those are big words in your vocabulary. I‘m certain that by the time you reached the 5th grade, you were older than your teachers. Strong women, but of course - you’re simply not one of them, the fear factor therefore, is zero. Power to speak up is attained through credibility - waiting 15-20 years to speak up isn’t a credible virtue and assuming guilt before any verification of an allegation is presumptuous. Can you Name me 10 female inventors outside of Marie Curie? Why are you not required to sign up for your country’s Selective Service System but men are? Your country has women serving their country since 1940, so use that powerful female voice to make the law compulsory for women as well. As you’re all about Women‘s equality, please represent your womanly presence in the US Workforce where the blue collar, hard labor, high mortality rate, highest long-term disability rate, lowest incomes, longest hours are performed by men at 91%. When you can equalize that undertaking, come let us know.
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@@lizmast are you naturally naive or have a reading comprehension issue? Where on Earth did I state that I care about what others view or identify themselves with? Go ahead - show me where I stated that I concerned myself with other’s sexual orientation or gender identification. I am a general surgeon - Bariatric Surgery and I operate on people frequently in London where I reside and my clinic in Sweden. I have all sorts of people and their walks of life come to my clinic. I can identify myself as an Asian woman, but at the end of the day AND in medical practices, I was born and remain a Caucasian male no matter how much surgery, hormone and psychological undertakings I undertake. You cannot replace your born biological DNA - face that fact!
Now with that common sense analogy out of the way, I’d like to ask you a question: Do you posses a PhD in Psychiatry or Psychology? If you don’t, then you have ZERO right to attempt to analyze an individual’s reflections or viewpoint on LGBTQ positions based on sexual insecurities of their own being. LGBTQ persons can identify themselves to what they choose - however, they have no right to force their beliefs on others - the sword cuts in both directions and you need to recognize that without retorting to sexual inadequacy of persons based on their rights - you have got to be kidding with such a broad statement. I have performed numerous surgeries on LGBTQ persons and always extend courtesy to calling or identifying them with what they are claiming - however, I must identify them in their natural biological state as it’s a medical law - got it? I have a nephew who is married to a biological man who identifies himself as a woman - I respect their position and address Michael as Michelle as “she” would like to be addressed. However, that’s MY choice to do so, not mandated by LBGTQ rules or forced upon me. I couldn’t have wished for a more harmonious union of my nephew and I’m proud of them both. Regardless, at the end of the day, Michelle is still biologically Michael and that’s concrete. You need to learn to separate the black from white while slowly absorbing all sides of the grey matter in between before making brushstroke statements from a zero vantage point. Please let me know if you’d like to entertain this issue further with me - as a Medical PhD, I’d be more than happy to entertain you and reference you to Dr. Hana Nemecek, Senior Psychologist, Prague University, Czech Republic OR you can look up my credentials under Dr. Sebastian Nedelcut LinkedIn on Google as well. Please provide your medical credentials as discussions in these matters are not based on personal or emotional viewpoints - just the documented facts. I look forward to hearing from you
Sincerely,
Dr. Sebastian Nedelcut
General Surgeon
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@keng9945 really? Under Trump, you had two impeachments, an insurrection increased racism (Charlottesville), failure with NATO, North Korea and Iran, 26 changes within the administration in less than 4 years, no weekly press conferences, created the terms “fake news / alternative facts” which basically means to lie your tail off, 62 cases of attempted voter fraud - all failed in every state including those that Trump had a lead in, scandal with Russia; Trump praised Putin like BFs in High School, took more vacation than Bush/Obama combined in their 8 years and constant instability in the economy
Boy please! I guess you just conveniently forgot all about that right? Control alt delete you BS and sell it to someone who’s just as ignorant, uneducated and blinded like you are.
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@niloccoling I'm extremely juicy and a doctor of Gastroenterology. As both our degrees aren't in Political Sciences, you don't know more about immigrants than I do.
I too, follow US/Global Politics -from sources that are recognized as such and not those that are currently being sued for misinformation. Can you supply your legal government source that specifically states that the "VP of the USA allowed 2.1 million immigrants over the border since her inception on Jan 20 2021" as this would equate to 112,000 immigrants crossing the US Border on a monthly basis. I look forward to seeing it.
According to the US Migration Policy Organization and the USCIS, "There were 571,159 encounters of immigrants (illegal, legal and refugee status) arriving between US ports of entry during the period of 15 January 2021 - 20 December 2021 and 398,742 encounters from 12 January 2022 - 1 October 2022." https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/2022-migrant-encounters-us-borders/mexico-canada
https://www.uscis.gov/immigrant- refugee/US/news/2022/08/24/control /BPaBRGen=9ZWSA.
Based on the legitimate sources above, you seem to be overpopulating the actual number of immigrant into the US by 1,130,091. Maybe you should have pursued a degree in Mathematics versus Computer Science. I regret to inform you that I'm not an Australian, but I did work at Pine Gap prior to getting my PhD. - Australia is a beautiful country and I did enjoy shrimp on the barbie and Chil is spelled Chill. Again, provide your governmental source to prove that I am "wrong on so many accounts." As far as smelling roses, no thanks, I prefer hyacinth and lavender. Regarding your unessential rant about secure borders strong a country not divided, people employed and not a man winning the woman's title in swimming, those categories are for the American people to decide not you nor I. Last I recall, the US has the largest and strongest GDP in the World, the strictest immigration control of any first world nation, and a 3.5% unemployment rate, one of the lowest in first world nations. As far as a man winning in women's sports or a nation divided, that is decision left up to the Americans and not you nor I.
I have a great life and I don't need to spread misinformation to make it so. I don't blame you for being ignorant, a radical and yes, a racist - I bet it killed you when Obama was the US President didn't it? With that said, I wish you a good life, enjoy cuddling your "trumpy bear," while watching the Proud Boys on YouTube. Should you need any medical assistance in the form of Psychiatry or Psychotherapy, I'll be glad to write you a referral.
My credentials are below: Cheers from London.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-nedelcut-md-phd-6668b7205/?originalSubdomain=de
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Sebastian-Nedelcut-2137507841
I might have to call you when my computer needs software updates...thanks.
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@niloccoling You are a racist as it's clear you don't mind "White immigration" in Canada which stands at 831,000 between 2021-2022 - with that you're ok as the vast majority aren't from Latin, Middle-Eastern or African origin - did I hurt your feelings? "Sad excuse for a human being?" As I recall, you wrote me FIRST after I commented on this board - since I didn't agree with YOUR comment, you insulted me first. You don't have a good memory do you. I DON'T CARE about you having family in Texas or any other border states - that does make you any more correct in this discussion than those that don't. I have lived in two border states (NM/TX) myself for 15 years - so does that make me an EXPERT in immigration? No -- try again. Are we talking now about CA, Covid shots, the FBI, Facebook or what??? If you cannot stick to one subject which you have YET TO PROVIDE A LEGAL SOURCE for, then you're already done here. FYI: Hunter Biden's laptop is on no one's radar and will never be. Again, you need to get your sources from REAL reputable agencies and not the radical left OR Right which you clearly do. Next, are you going to tell me that Trump had the largest inaugural crowd? Or are you going to tell me that trump handled immigration better as he's currently under investigation for family separation under Federal statutes??? Oh let me guess - all fake news right???
I bet it takes you 3 hours to watch a segment of "60 Minutes." The word Racist has a clear definite meaning and apparently has struck a nerve with you as you are a Racist and you know it too. You're so slow that I bet you'd stare at a carton of orange juice because it was labeled "concentrate." You believe all these conspiracy theories and have YET to provide ANY credible source for it - that alone should, tell you how dumb you are.
Come back to me when you can provide credible sources, stick to ONE topic and replace the cucumber which you mistook for your toy that's losing battery power sitting in the fridge. In the meantime, so stupid, put airbags on your computer in case it crashes.😂😂
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@niloccoling Oh there you are - I was certain you were too busy driving to Arizona to see if you can still change the election results in that state. Oh dear, I see Mr. Dictionary failed you yet again. Correct grammar would have you spell out the numbers one through ten and afterwards, you use the numerals. Secondly to be medically correct, your blood changes hue when exiting the body; so what you meant to write is that we all bleed red but in hues when oxygen enters the blood - sorry, but I did warn you, I'm a doctor. "Wake p" I'm certain you meant to write "Wake up" - I'm quite woke and apparently you're triggered - as most racists are when they are called out from making racist comments and gestures. I'm certain you have no quarrels about Northern European immigration and Caucasian females as a VP, but anything darker than the orange that recently occupied the White House, is a no-go with you right?
Spreading misinformation? As I recall, I was the only one who provided "Sourced, legal and credible" documentation - I even provided it for you to research. You however, still can't source any comments you've made and as usual, an ignorant, bigoted racist normally cannot provide the information that proves them correct - again, you'll cry the "fake news / alternative facts" comment that wasn't known prior to Trump's presidency and scream insults to decoy the real message you intended to spread - racism in immigration. You could stand on a ten foot pole and still not be at my educational level. Stick to computer games as that's your specialty; I bet you're an expert at "ethnic cleansing" video game.😎😎
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@niloccoling Haha! You do have a humor - warped like your outlook but at least it's there. I am a medical doctor with my PhD from Germany, consulting in Malmo Sweden, living in Mayfair London and can afford clothing you couldn't even pronounce, let alone spell. I operate on people for a living (Bariatric Surgery), while you can barely win a game of "operation" with your friends, who like you, live in your parent's basement wearing a boiler suit, bad acne, no relationships and are masters at X-Hamster. I'm not sure who Rob Thomas is, but I'm sure you know the KKK now don't you? I still see you can't source any information you wrote - typical of what you call a "loser" self reflection is delicious - the largest hypocrite here and what's worse, you can't even master grammar. Are you infatuated with my chin and balls? I bet you close your eyes and think about me tea-bagging you while you fantasize about your white hood and burning crosses - that gets you excited ...I can tell by your comments above. Sorry, but no, 2.1 million isn't correct; I corrected your lies by simply looking at the USCIS stats - it's called research; something you know nothing of. I don't blame you for being stupid - you're a product of "no child left behind," which they certainly left you behind. Me a loser? I make more money in a month than you, your dad, uncle and step brother, all sliding down those poles for Canadian dollar bills. Loser? This comment coming from a child so butt-ugly that your mom had to get drunk just to breast-feed you. I noticed you don't have your pic posted here - camera's don't break on their own😂😂😂😂😂😂. Now, run along David Duke, you're done here. 😂😂
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@rupertmurdoch4750 This entire site is Pro-Trump as Sky News Australia receives money from the Trump Organization. These people are so lost that they simply ignore the real news and scream "fake news" when it suits them. Some of these people are mental, others are mainly uneducated, rural-dwellers, some racists and others radicals. Take Herschel Walker for instance - this man cannot read, speak coherently, has no stance on ANY issues except abortion, which he is against, but funded two of them with his ex girlfriends. This is a man who cannot ascertain the difference between a real sheriff's badge and the one he has - fake. YET, trumpsters support him simply on the grounds of that face that he's a republican - that is simply abhorrent. I just saw on FOX, the commentators explaining how the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband is "normal" as many people are "attacked" with hammers. I wonder if these same commentators would find this true if Majorie Taylor Greene was attacked by an intruder and beaten with a hammer in her home?? Regardless of party affiliation, an elderly man was attacked in his home by an intruder with a hammer - that is a crime. Rupert, I have never seen people like this either that blindly follow an individual who has accomplished not one thing during his four year in the White House. He did not reduce unemployment, worsened foreign relations, never built a wall, separated families from their children (immigrants), involved in scandals (still is), egged-on an insurrection, claimed 67 cases of voter fraud with Giuliani (all proven false), and is becoming more incoherent and violent as the days go by. How much do you want to wager that I'm going to get 100 responses ranging from Hiliary Clinton's emails to Hunter Biden's laptop to Kamala Harris having slept around to Joe Biden being responsible for the inflation that ALL nations are currently experiencing regardless of who is in power? You're right - they simply are brainwashed, running around rallies with their confederate flags with Proud Boys T-Shirts, praising their hero's: Marjorie Taylor Green (radical), Gaetz (underage sex scandal king), Gohmert (thinks Russian babies are infiltrating the USA), Walker (Fake credentials, badge, abortion payer etc), Boebert who claims a "red wave" is coming and so many other nuts that themselves haven't produced one ounce of legislation. I am a registered Republican, but I will not simply follow this party for the namesake of partisan wrongdoing.
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The majority of people who support Palestinians who are not Palestinians, have NO IDEA on what they are protesting for. The people they are supporting have a horrific track record of human rights, violence, and suppression. I wish just ONE of these women, protesting would spend 2 weeks in an Arab Nation, particularly Syria or in Gaza itself and see how those "equality rights" go.
Secondly, as the moderator stated, Gaza's leaders have all moved to other nations and left Gaza in a perpetual state of poverty due to millions of monies that were poured into Gaza. As the moderator stated, Gaza should look like Beverly Hills, yet it remains a ghetto to this date. Islamic radicals claim that Israel has been violating Palestinian rights since the creation of Gaza, yet history tells us that in every instance, Arab Nations were the aggressors in the conflicts to this date. Oct 2023, saw Hamas surprise-attack Israel and now we are in the current crisis today -- Yet no one condemns Palestine or Hamas for this attack - the only condemnation has been towards Israel for defending itself yet again, from terrorist attacks. The Middle East nees to recognize that Israel is there to stay - period. Secondly, Israel should handover Gaza 100% to the Palestinians and let the Arab nations, build it, pay for it and keep it completely separate from Israel. The first time a weapon is launched from Gaza, Israel retains the right to invade and absorb the land into Israel.
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You know the party is in trouble when persons are begging a pop music star to join the GOP; so I gather FOX News is not a news station after all, but a think-tank for the GOP. I don't recall ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN endorsing either the GOP or Democrat Party so what is FOX doing? Hannity should be the LAST person to attempt anyone to join any party let alone the GOP. The GOP has two candidates for the 2024 election: one who doesn't recognize racism in the USA, and in the next breath, she states how she's experienced racism while growing up; the other has a list of litigations (federal/state) piled up, impeached twice during his one year term as president and scandals so numerous, one doesn't know where to start or end.
I have been a Republican for the longest time; however, I cannot endorse it's current condition as it's painfully clear the GOP needs to restructure and align itself back to what it used to be. Truthfully said, we simply have no good candidate for 2024 and need to go back to the drawing board until we get back to some form of sanity.
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@rinzler9775 It's also been the norm for those that voted for Trump still fail to recognize he lost through a bonafide election -- even ARIZONA has made this known, failed to win any of the 67 court cases of election fraud through his now debunkt attorney sweet Giuliani, won't concede as he's too mental to do so, did nothing about North Korea, Iran, or China - oh wait - yes in China, Invaka was given production rights so her products could be manufactured there without overseas taxing. Trump wanted to pull out of Afghanistan, but like Biden, also didn't know how, waited from Jan to Mar 2020 without acting on a Pandemic which the US still cannot get under control, had more cabinet changes than any other administration without success, racketed with one scandal after another ranging from the Ukraine to pussy grabbing to attempting to force GA to change or "find" votes. It can't get any better - yet you focus on the blame trump game??? Yep, another uneducated, ignorant, American ascends to the throne of sheer ignorance who cannot see that BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES are at fault for the state that your country is in.
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@World2021Order wrong that's not what matters as GDP is only ONE measurement of the overall status of Alpha Beta and Gamma cities to which they are ranked. (GAWC). The GaWC examines cities worldwide to narrow them down to a roster of world cities, then ranks these based on their connectivity through four "advanced producer services": accountancy, advertising, banking/finance, and law.[3] The GaWC inventory ranks city economics more heavily than political or cultural factors.[why?] Beyond the categories of "Alpha" world cities (with four sub-categories), "Beta" world cities (three sub-categories), and "Gamma" world cities (three sub-categories), the GaWC cities include additional cities at "High sufficiency" and "Sufficiency" level.
GaWC has published city classifications in 1998, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2020.[4] The 2004 rankings added several new indicators while continuing to rank city economics more heavily than political or cultural factors. The 2008 roster, similar to the 1998 version, is sorted into categories of Alpha world cities (with four sub-categories), Beta world cities (three sub-categories), Gamma world cities (three sub-categories), and additional cities with High sufficiency or Sufficiency presence.
London and NYC are the ONLY two cities in the World with Alpha ++ ratings; Tokyo is Alpha +
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_and_World_Cities_Research_Network
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@AttilatheThrilla Bro - we all know that - riddle me this: why didn't Aaliyah's parents press charges against him? According to the BBC: "In a 2016 interview with GQ magazine, R Kelly described his relationship with Aaliyah as friends with benefits, so they decided to get married. When asked why her parents didn't take legal action against him, R Kelly stated: the family knew, but declined to comment on their marriage, saying: "I will never have that conversation with anyone. Out of respect for Aaliyah, and her mother and father who has asked me not to personally."
Instead of respecting other's viewpoints, you decide to act like a child looking for it's pacifier. I'm sure by the time you reached the 3rd grade, you were older than your teacher. You have harassing people on this blog - calling them child rapist supporters, stupid and as in my case, idiot - simply because we state another viewpoint - how old are you? Tell, me, is being stupid a profession, or are you just gifted.
As you weren't present for what actually happened nor was I regarding R Kelly, we can only assume based on Social Media -- that's our right. It is also everyone's right here to voice their opinion without "idiots" like you harassing them simply because you could have two magnets, and you still couldn't make ends meet. There are some remarkably stupid people in this world - thanks for reminding me - just imagine what a beautiful World this could have been if you're dad had just pulled out.
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@roberthiengler2845 The claim to me being a Bariatric Surgeon is that unlike you, I had to pass a bar and as a result save lives unlike you who can barely save your own breath.
Secondly, if one had chosen to GOOGLE the differentiation between London and Vienna for overseas and in particular, Russian assets, one would have easily found what I wrote. However, this task comes as difficulty to those, like yourself, who cannot research due to being intellectually challenged. As a reminder, the ONUS of proof is on the person who "initially" claimed that Vienna held more Russian assets than London - that wasn't me. I however challenged that comment and to date, the original commentator has YET to provide ANY proof that Vienna is ground zero for Russian oveseas assets. Any professor in Political Science would tell you this, but then again, when one's education level is sub par, they resort to name calling, intimidation, shaming and insults - that would be you in this case.
Due to the GDP holdings of the UK and Austria coupled with the fact that both capitals can be easily compared to overseas holdings and Russian in particular, one only needs to research this, which you apparently failed to do initially. Research is learned - take the hint.
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Please don't start the act of attempting to justify terrorist activities based on the past number of years of who started what, when, where, how and why - it is irrelevant! For every person who said Israel took Palestinian lands there is another person who can state that Palestinians were not living in the current state of Israel or present day Gaza - who is right, who is wrong - we will NEVER get a solid answer....so let's not even attempt to go down that road.
Now with that out of the way, let me make it perfectly clear. On October 7 Hamas attacked Israel - PERIOD. In return, Israel has now attacked Gaza and is occupying its western half, cutting Gaza in two. So far 1500 Israelis have died and approximately 10,000 in Gaza are dead - a waste of life on BOTH sides.
A terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas on 7 OCTOBER 2023, has now resulted in the conflict we see today - that is a fact - and no amount of historical backtracking is going to justify EITHER side's story or justification -
What is certain is that ANY terrorist attack on a country is going to result in an action to reaction and ultimately a consequence - and that is what we are seeing here now. Again, it makes NO SENSE to justify YEARS of "tit for tat" - as you'll never get an answer that can justify all the deaths and wrongdoings - what is certain is that if anyone commits an attack, expect a reaction and follow-on consequences....simple as that. @dancinginfernal
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@Saphire regis sorry Wonder Woman, but your stats are wrong. 70% of black divorces are brought on by women. Black women also have the highest rate of having children out of wedlock - 24% vs 5.8% compared to Caucasian. Why is that? Why are more Black men marrying outside of their race today than they did 10 years ago?
Single black mothers increased from 3.4 million to 4.27 in 2022; Is the problem that the fathers jumped ship or are black women too dumb to keep their legs closed until marriage and prefer to collect welfare instead? Black women are the highest in divorce rates and lowest to get married - of course it’s always the man’s fault, right Lakeesha? FYI: The angry black woman persona isn’t to a black woman’s advantage and with those bad statistics, superwoman, you’re not. Like Kevin said, taking responsibility for her own stupid mistakes is like kryptonite to women - just easier to blame men😁. Did you know that 90% of the World’s hard labor, high mortality, transport, construction, medical, sanitation is done by men? Until women can equal those numbers in these categories, take several seats and concentrate on self-sustainment instead of blaming men for your own failures and mistakes 🤪
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Her story was never verified nor can she prove, she was sexually assaulted as a child herself. She stayed silent the entire time the term "believe all women" was incorrectly coined making men "guilty" before an investigation was completed in most cases. She's backtracking here of the damages her movement has caused. She talks about "Any victim of sexual abuse," but where was the Me Too Movement for Johnny Depp? Terry Crews? Ansari Aziz? These men, along with others had ZERO support from the Me Too Movement. Should we be waiting for a documentary, sponsored by the Me Too Movement, backed by Oprah and Gayle King entitled "surviving Amber Heard"? Why not? She was found guilty of lying regarding domestic violence and sexual abuse - so where is Depp's recognition by this movement? Not one word from Tanara or her movement, which if Depp was found guilty, would have plastered themselves all over that courtroom, I assure you. Ms. Burke claims she was sexually assaulted in her earlier years, yet, there is no record on file which indicates her claim to be true or false. If her movement is really about victims of sexual/domestic abuse, then men should be recognized and championed for as well as these crimes are not gender specific.
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@ wrong - US bases in European nations are under US control and are leased to the US. Let Germany try to force the US military out of Germany and see how far that goes. Furthermore, the US has always paid the lion‘s share in NATO and continues to do so to this day, so let’s see who suffers more should NATO be disbanded. Here’s a question for you: why don’t France and Germany deploy their troops to the Ukraine? Or better yet, why hasn’t any European NATO Country done so? It’s been 11 years since Russia took Crimea so what is Europe waiting for? You deployed and saw zero combat because the US was again, doing the fighting, while your nation sent troops to provide ”logistical support“ which is a fancy way of sitting on your arse while the US again, paid for and provided all operational support. Your country’s presence there was to show the World a ”United Front“ but we know who took the losses and paid - hint: it wasn’t your country. Had it not been for NATO since 1949 formed and headed by the US, your simple simon arse would be speaking fluent Russian and your parents as well. Your nation along with most in Europe sat on their fat side and never increased their defense budgets and look at them now! All crying because Uncle Sam isn’t letting the children continue to suckle on the teat!🤣. Where’s the EU right now? Shouldn’t your nation‘s leader, be mobilizing its military and deploying troops to the Ukraine? I’m sure the EU President 4 star General Von Der ”Lying“ should have this under control!! 🤣🤣. An EU bureaucrat who’s Job it is to advise EU member states on economical matters like her predecessor the EEC did, is not a head of state; therefore, she’s out of place nor is she a defense Secretary, yet, here she is acting like one - this is exactly why both the US and Russia excluded her as heads of state should speak directly to each other and not some Brussels Bureaucrat who’s done nothing but wasted time. Why didn’t she accompany Zelensky to Washington DC? Because Trump would have relegated her to speak with her equivalent for the US which is the US Secretary of Commerce and Economic Development. You don’t see this man traipsing around the US and Europe battle crying for the Ukraine do you? It’s not his place and it’s not Von der Lying’s place either. She found this out the hard way with the Chinese Premier, Turkey’s President and other nations as well who put her in her place. What’s ironic is that Vin der Lying was previously the German Defense Minister and during her tenure, she increased the defens budget by ZERO percent - zero! Yet, here she is talking about supporting the Ukraine while expecting the US to continue providing the logistical and operational support after the U.S. has already done so totaling $120 billion dollars - more than any EU/ NATO nation alone and equally as much as the entire EU states combined. Zelensky left without signing any deals - let’s see who that hurts the most - give it one to two weeks and see how that goes for him and the Ukraine. Wait! I forgot! Now that the US appears to be “out of the game,” this gives the EU member states AND European NATO members the green light to immediately deploy their troops to the Ukraine and militarily engage Russia if I’m not mistaken. Like you said, these nations have excellent transportation networks and logistics already in place to do this right? Those were your words if I recall correctly. So when can we expect these troops in the Ukraine?
I’ll let you answer that. I’m certain that your nation’s 2% contribution to its defense budget will go a long way, despite the fact that Germany’s GDP is the 4th largest in the World - pathetic. I hope the U.S. shuts down NATO and leave Europe - I’d give it one year before European nations turn on each other and try to drag the US into another world war like it did previously hence why US troops are in Europe now, built Western Europe through the Marshall Plan created NATO and ensured peace remained in Europe for the last 60 years. I’m more than certain Europe can manage fine without the U.S. according to you right? Let’s see how that goes🤣 let me know how that goes for your country👍👍👍
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@mahnli Correct - I cannot verify on YouTube my honorary service to the DOD for 30 years NO MORE than these two pilots can verify their orders, commander's name who issued those orders, and who in the DOD oversaw those orders as it would certainly have come from the SECDEF (then Donald Rumsfeld) with info on then President George Bush Jr.
What also can't be verified is the timing of their story according to the timing of Flight 93's depature from Boston veering off course towards the PA Airspace - that takes far longer than 12 minutes which is the approximate time for a crew to arm an F-16. What also can't be verified is that our Air Force, the largest and most technologically advanced in the World, had ZERO armed aircraft flying over US Air Space on that particular day? What also can't be verified is that the SECDEF would issue a kamikaze order when our Missile Defense agency (called BMDO during 911), could issue a ground to air, air to air or sea to air missile strike thus saving the lives of two pilots and two costly F-16s. What also can't be verified is why our media doesn't ask or investigate these particular questions - Norah Jones asked none of this and those questions are rather simple don't you think? Sorry, I forgot you obviously have a limited capacity on thinking.
I served as a military member (USAF) as a 201XO Intelligence Analyst and ended my career 25 years later as a GG-14, Series 0132 and served in Europe, Australia, the USA (New Mexico, Texas, DC) and was discharged with honors and 3 Meritorious Service Medals. I held a TS/SCI clearance the entire duration of my tenure - I believe I'm more qualified than you to know the defense posture of our great nation - and this story leaves a lot to be scrutinized.
One thing that can be verified is your intellectually disabled position on verification and telling someone to "Get a life." Let me give you some words of advice:
Sometimes it's better to remain silent and let everyone think you're ignorant versus speaking, proving to all that you really are that ignorant - thanks for making that statement a reality.
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@QUEENBEE200384 wow! Look everyone, a psychic! We’ve got a live one here!!! She can tell you where you’ve worked, what you did, when, how and more but basic math escapes her along with common sense. I’m 57 and minus 30 would be 27, not 17 like you wrote - for me to have been 17, you’d have to subtract 57 minus 40 not 30 - please stay in school.
You do realize that former directors of our intelligence agencies have published several books right and reside in the DMV? No? For some reason, that doesn’t surprise me. Seeing that you possess psychic abilities, maybe you can explain Penney and Masse’s heroic story as it has more holes than Swiss cheese with no one else coming forward to validate such a patriotic endeavor that never occurred or made any sense from a operational planning especially under an “emergency.”
I’m sure you have all the answers right seeing that you can foretell me, better than I can - I’m certain you can hear me laughing from where I am.
Seriously, you’re not stupid; you just have trouble thinking and let’s face it, math escaped you as well.
I simply don’t have enough time or crayons to explain the basics of this top gun wannabe story’s deficiencies to you - however, I’m certain you’re the reason why tubes of toothpaste have instructions on them. Now fly your behind back to your hive Princess, you’ve had enough stings for one day
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Wrong - there is NO mention of ANY orders given from the SECDEF to the JCS to the Chief of Staff, USAF to the HQ ACC/CC to have an ANG unit "sacrifice two pilots and two F-16s by ramming Flt 93. Tracon Dulles monitored all the hijacked planes and never gave an order as it's not their function in a wartime or hostile event such as 911. Again, I find it rather odd that this story can only be corroborated by these two pilots, yet our media shows ZERO interest in "interviewing" all those invovled in such a "heroic" endeavor as surely the entire chain of command was behind this effort. Amazing too is the timeframe of the story that from 08:43 when Flt 93 departed Newark to 10:40 when it crashed in Pennsylvania (not far from Pittsburgh), not ONE armed plane was available in US Airspace for almost two hours. Secondly, it doesn't take two hours to arm two F-16s - it takes 8-12 minutes, so IF we had no armed planes at the time, two hours is more than sufficient time to arm two F16s that were "ordered" to intercept and ram Flt 93. Third, why on Earth would the DoD sacrifce two trained pilots and two F-16s costing approx. $60M a piece, to ram a plane when a missile strike would not only suffice, but save the pilot's lives, spare the cost of $120M dollars (F-16s) and immensely reduce the debris of falling damage to the ground. Let me guess, our Missile Defense Agency didn't have any missiles available at the time? (Ground to air, air to air or last option, sea to air). No, of course, it just makes more sense to sacrifce two pilots, two F-16s that could be armed in 12 minutes max, than the aforementioned scenario of a simple missile strike. No answers given there nor has our Media (journalists) asked those specific questions as two trained F-16 pilots would surely be able to easily answer right? I'm not trying to be combative with you, but these questions are simply too easy to investigate, YET our Media and the USAF Public Affairs Office seem to just "accept" this story without interviewing anyone else that certainly would have been involved with this "heroic venture" that never occurred. What about the ground crews? The HQ ACC Commander, the JCS? With such a heroic story, one would think that these people would clammer to being recognized as "Saving the US" should it be called for. I have yet to see BRASS shy away from a sure-win opportunity to shine in the Media - yet only these two are on camera rehashing the tale when 911 comes around.
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@shithalshetty9762 No, I'm not "fucking" dumb - however, you not being able to write coherently without using curse words and being triggered, makes you look like the "dumb" one now doesn't it?
I am fully aware that both countries consider themselves to be communist; however, both countries do not "hate" the West. China's brand of Communism is not the same as NK. In fact, China's number one trading partner is the USA with Australia coming in at number seven. The first 10 largest trading partners for China are all non-communist nations. NK's largest trading partners are all socialist nations with the exception of Luxemburg ranking at number seven. NK hates the USA, not the West; China doesn't hate the West, but rather laments the democratic process of these nations.
Again, Australia's largest trading partner is China, despite the fact that their political relationship has been deteriorating.
Can YOU predict the future that DPRK will attack? The answer is no; so you asking me that same question is a moot point as neither one of us can "tell" the future now can we?
I don't care what a North Korean or North Korean's said about giving their lives to their Supreme Leader - it's an interview! The person was either forced to say it OR he meant it -- either way, it's been 69 years since the division of the Korean Peninsula. Every year the NK Leadership has threatened to invade SK - so far nothing. The last ten years, they've shot missiles in international waters and into the airspace, and yet, no invasion - just saber rattling to get material possessions - even China is tired of them.
Now with all of that out of the way - let's get something straight: Stop cursing and calling me dumb - Just because I don't AGREE with you doesn't make me dumb. Either you write back in a coherent and mature manner or don't write back at all. Also, just because I don't agree with you, doesn't make you an EXPERT in Political Science - unless that is, you have a PhD in Political Science - do you? You don't know any more about NK than I do or anyone else here on this blog, so stop pretending you're an expert - you're not.
I am a medical Doctor - Dr. Sebastian Nedelcut, PhD, Gastroenterology, Cromwell Hospital, London & Consultant to both Barmherzige Brother, Regensburg Germany and Skane University Hospital, Malmo Sweden.
Do you have an associates, bachelors, masters or doctor's degree? I do. As a Gastroenterologist, I am a medical EXPERT in Gastroenterology, but that does not make me an EXPERT in Political Science now does it? So unless you have a PhD (my equivalent) in Political Science, I suggest you think twice before calling someone "fucking dumb" simply because they don't agree with you - it's immature.
Here is my LinkedIn profile for verification.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-nedelcut-md-phd-6668b7205/?originalSubdomain=de
Dr. Sebastian Nedelcut
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She is ON CAMERA supporting an insurrection of a democratic nation - YET she's never been investigated, arrested, charged or fined. We currently have over 800 persons being looked at by the FBI, some already are serving Jail sentences. YET, we have senators who openly supported that same Insurrection and not ONE of them has been investigated to date. America is and always will be racially, politically, culturally and economically imbalanced - your future depends on how wealthy you are, your race, your political connections - that's it. The Republican candidate for the presidency is a former president twice impeached, embroiled in court cases, scandals and now, a convicted felon (34 counts). IF this doesn't tell you your nation is in serious trouble - then you deserve what you get.
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@fj9460-lr They were paid to tell their story as Penney has been touring the nation (DC Area in particular) with her father - yes she get's paid to speak.
ALL members of the Department of Defense (military, civilian, contractors) mission is to defend our Democracy whether it be the Capital or any other territory of the US and it's allies - and indirectly the President if his personal security staff should fail - rather obvious don't you think?
Secondly, I'd like for you to personally go the then Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld) and tell him he "failed" to protect our nation and afterwards go to former President Bush and tell him the same thing - while you're picking up your teeth and figuring out if you're intellectually challenged or just ignorant.
Third, The Departmet of Defense did not fail on 911 - they were caught by surprise due to the failure of communications between the intelligence organizations - plainly put.
Fourth, I'm not here to impress you - in order to be impressed, you have to possess some form of intelligence - that counts you out.
Fifth, Flight 93 was tracked out of Boston the minute it veered off course and it takes longer than 8-12 minutes to fly from Boston to PA - the same amount of time it takes to arm an F-16. Again, you mean to tell me that on that particular day, the entire US Air Force fighters (1,511) were unarmed and not flying over US Air Space right? Even if 1/2 of the total number was not armed, the other half were, I can assure you - to even say that we had ZERO armed aircraft over US Airspace on that particular day is absurd.
Lastly, you don't know much about missiles do you? Why on EARTH would we risk losing two pilots and two F-16s when a ground, air or sea to air missile would be sufficient to bring down Flt 93? Let that sink in for a while as I'm certain it takes you two hours to watch a segment of "60 Minutes." Troll? Were you taught to be this stupid or were you born this way. As I recall, you answered my comment thus making you the troll - your comment was so loaded with crap, that the toilet is envious of you. Run along, you're done here.
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@denisewalsh6586 Ich nehme translates to "I will take," which again is directive in nature and demanding; you are however, correct by saying I would like or Ich möchte or ich hätte gerne.
I have lived in Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Nuremberg and in ALL locations, I have constantly heard "Ich bekomme" or "Ich kriege," in many establishments, not just bakeries and restaurants - as a native German, I'm pretty certain the phrase "Ich bekomme" is used quite often and just yesterday morning, I heard it at our local bakery - it's abrasive, not direct and completely unnecessary; If you want something, you ASK for it, not demand it.
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@davidgriffin9247 Exactly David -- ARIZONA should prove to all that these crazy conspiracy theories, alternative facts, falsehoods, cofefe, tweets, etc. are all unproven and false. However, these clowns will follow the orange over a cliff because they're his type: uneducated, ignorant, little to no knowledge of world affairs, mainly racists in their root thinking and couldn't point out LA, or their own state on a US Map. Don't bother -- it's just ignorance at it's best.
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@brockdailey703 Here's a better question: Name one thing Trump did while in office that helped the US - and no, the insurrection, two impeachments, numerous scandals, administration hiring's/firings, failed international relations, sex scandals, racial violence and those are his good qualities? Trump didn't do shit against Russia and in fact, praised Putin over our own intelligence agencies. Sit down and shut up - the last time I checked, Harris wasn't being indicted, lost the election and failed to win not one single of his 60 election court cases - you're done here. You're the epitome of an uneducated, ignorant, and completely inept American who was most likely older than his teachers by the time you reached the 6th grade. I could give you two magnets and you still couldn't make ends meet. Run along and don't forget your white hood for the Proud Boys Rally tonight - oh sorry, I forgot, they're getting indicted too. Not too worry, you can always stare at the Herschel Walker Poster that's hanging over your bed while listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene being afraid of the Gazpacho Police on Capitol Hill. Let me guess: all fake news and alternative facts for you?? Sorry kid, but Fox News isn't going to save you, the South shall not rise again and no, the "commies" aren't coming. Go back to your favorite pastime - sucking applesauce through a straw, while your wife, who just also happens to be your step-sister, washes your stinky feet. Run along, you're done here. Get back to me when you earned your PhD in Medicine like I have and then you'll be 1/4th of your way to reach my level.
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@1985Fritz The discussion prior to your comment involved the success rate the CPUSA had in the USA since it's inception. If memory serves me correct, Gus Hall, Jarvis Tyner and Angela Davis were no where near being elected in any official capacity of this country outside of their own party correct? So in essence, the CPUSA has NEVER had a successful candidate run or become an elected official in the USA as I previously stated. In short, their organization has little to no merit in US Politics and structure and still doesn't to this date. You might want to invest in a Master's Degree, Political Science - you just might learn the difference between a successful party and one that fails to deliver like the CPUSA. My PhD is in Gastroenterology - not relevant to Political Science discussion, but I can certainly help you with that blockage you seem to have in your lower extremities - an herbal enema should do the trick.
Czechoslovakia you say? Did you mean that you, your mother and younger brother were refugees from Stalin's Socialist workers "Paradise" or "parade" as you wrote it. I haven't heard about many people escaping a "parade" - I knew Stalin was a ruthless dictator, but he had people escaping from "parades" too?😂😂
Now, assuming you meant worker's "Paradise," in what year did you family escape Communist Czechoslovakia? Klement Gottwald was the Prime Minister from 1948-1953 where the famous "Show trials" took place and Jan Masaryk fell or was pushed to his death from a window. Gustáv Husák,was in charge from 1968 to 1972 when former Prime Minister Dubcek was removed during the Prague Spring of 1968. I am quite familiar with the show trials of the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany and other previous Soviet satellite nations. I would be more than happy to discuss these trials with you as I have a Master's in POLITICAL SCIENCE - which taught me to be an expert in the knowledge of state and systems of government and the scientific analysis of political activity and behavior. History is a large part of Poly Sci if you hadn't noticed. I am also very familiar with the former East Germany (DDR), yet I never lived there - so much for your theory about experience of having "been there." Were you at the show trials yourself? Considering the timeframe, I highly doubt it, yet you're telling me about an experience of an incident you, yourself didn't attend! You might want to take your own advice on that one.
Oh the humor and hypocritical irony you've displayed certainly gives you something to chew on and don't worry, you shouldn't take yourself too seriously, as I certainly haven't.🤣🤣😁😁
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@1985Fritz I am genuinely glad that your family escaped the former Czechoslovakia in 1948. interesting enough is meeting an American Officer on horseback instead of a border patrol vehicle as no horses were assigned to the Army’s 7th Corps in charge of securing the Bavarian border with Czechoslovakia. None of the BCP units at Schwandorf, Weiden, Hof, Waidhaus, Bayerische Eisenstein, Cham, or Fürth Im Wald Reconnaissance Units covering the Passau southern flank had horses assigned. Maybe the American Officer wanted to simply impress you and borrowed a horse from a local farm. Also, nowhere and no where are accepted in both formats according to Webster’s Dictionary - nice try. I mentioned my medical degree to distinguish the fact of your comment about "experience." In short, your comment had no relevance as although I wasn’t alive or participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, doesn’t mean I don’t possess any knowledge about it correct? So experience is not the only factor in knowledge, education is as well unless one believes a medical degree speaks volumes over a Poly Sci one over Poly Sci discussions - exactly - irrelevant, like your earlier comment. I am familiar with Canada - I have an aunt in Victoria British Columbia and cousin outside of Toronto. Are you familiar with Pine Gap Australia? I used to work there.
I figured I’d reference my former employment as it’s irrelevant as your comment of asking me if I were familiar with the country of Canada. The difference here is that I’m familiar with Canada while you were never at Pine Gap nor familiar with its functions - your sarcasm is a moot point - however, you get an "E" for effort nevertheless. Regardless, I would be more than happy to discuss the former Czechoslovakia with you, prominent escapes ( maybe yours is one of them), the Sudetenland and it’s significance in the ethnic cleansing of the border town of As or Asch and Cheb or we can discuss the present Czech Republic (Czechia) as well. If that doesn’t work for you, we can go back to the CPUSA or Communism in general to ascertain the "Commie" threat to the USA 😂😂😂.
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@martinandrew3189 First of all, did I ever write that our presence deterred NK from developing Nukes - the answer would be no - so cross that comment right off your bucket list. Secondly, NK with it's nukes has gotten nowhere near to invading SK since their failed attempt in 1950 which you apparently seem stuck in that timetable. Russia can claim Ukraine (not much success there) and China still hasn't invaded Taiwan since it's first threat to do so in 1949 - History isn't on your side, so you might want to rethink who the idiot here is - notably you. Third, I have a Master's in Political Science, served my country for 20 years as an intelligence officer and Defense Attaché Europe and Asia, Seoul US Embassy and now am a Gastroenterologist.
No US Presence was placed in a foreign nation to deter nuclear advancement or even stall any forms of weapons technology - the presence is there to deter a military attack and to maintain a battlefield balance until reinforcements arrive or be supplanted by advanced weapons technology which the US, SK and it's allies certainly have. For NK to attack SK and even attempt to utilize it's limited nuclear capability is instant suicide.
With that said, you can control alt delete your 1950's Cold War BS and reroute your GPS to someone who's as naïve as you are for further discussions - I'm not the one you want to "toy" with on Poly SCI matters and certainly not DOD defense posturing. Now run along and converse with some "Foot soldier level" individual who's at your level and certainly not at mine. Reality tells me that our presence there isn't a "Speed bump" and I don't recall Taiwan, SK being invaded and well, Russia is having a "Great" time in the Ukraine..not. You're done here and don't be so quick to call someone a fool.....fool!
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The simple answer is that most Germans are tired of being placed as second class citizens in their own country. In 2015, Germany allowed 1.2 million documentd and undocumented immigrants (asylum seekers, foreign workers, political refugees) into it's borders. Unfortunately, the growing pains of integrating individuals of different cultures is going to have issues.
The German Government labeled all immigrants as either asylum seekers or refugees fleeing war - this was not the case as 81% of immigrants from 2015 to present date have been immigrants looking for a better life through employment - not refugees from war. Being labeled as asylum seekers, immigrants were placed as priority one in all areas of social care ranging from free rent, medical, utilities paid, free education, to a monthly stipend that exceeded those of German pensioners and Germans on welfare by far - given carte blanche over your own citizens is never going to proceed well.
For example - two Ukrainian neighbors arrived shortly after the start of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict.
These neighbors are from Lviv near the Slovak/Polish border - they have never in a war zone or were affected by the ongoing crisis. YET their rent in Germany is paid, their rent in their INTACT home in Lviv is paid for by the German Government, free medical/dental, the wives get two free hair appointments at the beautician a month, public transport - free. These two Ukrainian families have YET to see warfare or are refugees, despite the fact, the German Government recognizes them as such. In fact, as I write this, both families are back in Lviv visiting their relatives -- oh yes, transport cost is also paid for by the German Government. Let me try as a German to ask the Government to pay for my visits - then again, I'm not a "refugee." Also All things that a German on welfare receives for (rent/utlities) subsidized and other costs is highly "scrutinized" every 6 months down to to the last cent before monies are dispersed; immigrants don't need to justify a cent and their spending is not monitored. That is ridiculous and continues to this day. We have old German pensioners who have worked 30-40 years and can barely make ends meet - the German Government doesn't prioritze their needs whatsoever and they must do the best with what they have. This is direct result of low wages in Germany being the norm in most career areas with a good social care in return to balance the structure -- your balance tilts when that social care structure is being used by immigrants who cannot work due to lack of skills and their extended families, inflation, and costs associated with immigrant investment and low returns. Immigrants here have the best cellphones becaus they need to keep in touch with their families back home, good clothing, shoes, stipend for sustinence and housing while native Germans are scraping by. A perfect ripe pot for people to want the government to change = introduce the AFD.
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@chrissssa think again — this war has been going for 11 years and where has Macron and France been? It’s pathetic that the US has to come into European affairs and make an ultimatum. The US has spent a total of $120 billion dollars for the Ukraine with no outcome in sight from Europe. The EU sat on it‘s arse for 11 years condemning the war and trading with Russia under the table, the entire time. The US has told Europe ages ago, to invest in its military and security but no one listened — it was just easier to suck America‘s Teats while spending millions with immigrants while their own citizens have done without. Speaking of the EU, did you know that Von Der ’lying’ used to be the former Defense Secretary of Germany? Not once did she increase the budget for Germany‘s Military/Defense, yet here she is acting like a 4 star general declaring to protect the Ukraine — with what exactly? Words? Why is she involved in the first place? She is no president of a nation, no defense minister, no premier, no chancellor and certainly no prime minister. Instead, she is the President of the European Council — a shared position based on the economies and commerce integration of European Nations — in Short, in a country‘s structural apparatus, she is equivalent to a Secretary of Commerce and certainly no political leader. Nicely put, she needs to sit this one out and let the European Heads of State handle this issue. I can assure you that the President of the USA will talk directly to Putin, Zelensky and other heads of state and not her. The US Secretary of Commerce would engage her one on one, she needs to watch her step as Trump already showed the EU that he goes directly to the source and not some think tank sitting in Brussels. Besides, everyone with any sense knows the EU is nothing more than Germany being the economic master of Europe that holds the purse strings — if Germany were to disappear tomorrow, the EU would be finished in a month — that is not a healthy ’union’ now is it?
France? Independent? Ha? So let France deploy its troops to fight in the Ukraine — it’s had 11 years to do so! Why hasn’t France acted ’independent’ like you claim it is? You do realize that France isn’t the only nuclear country in Europe right? The UK is too and all European nations that have US troops on its soil have US Nuclear weapons in those countries. Germany for example, has more nuclear weapons on its soil than France has — yes Americans control those weapons but in a global conflict those weapons make Germany a country no one would want to invade — get the point?
France independent? No
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@Kati-cd3ys BS! Telling me that a color doesn't suit me is rude period! Did I ask for her opinion? The answer is no. So what gave her the right to tell me what she thought about my clothes to begin with?
Her culture? You might say? Well, what about respecting and understanding my culture before she ripped her mouth open? As she knows I'm not German, - did it ever occur to HER that my culture is not direct??? Apparently, she not no so cultured, as "cultured" persons know that if you don't have anything positive to say, then shut your mouth until asked - that too is "Culture," yet Germans only remember that rule when it is THEM getting "cultured" about their own quirks and appearances.
So tell me, why didn't she take kindly to me telling her to lose weight and get that mole looked into? I was just being "honest" and "direct" too, now wasn't I? Oh, she stopped because she saw that I was offended? So if we're being "honest" and "Direct" according to German culture, she shouldn't have gotten hurt or offended despite the fact she saw ME offended right? - Honesty and directness works in both directions or does it??? Amazing how she got "offended" after I calmly and politely told her she could lose a few pounds and get that mole looked after - nothing wrong with being "honest" and "direct" in return huh now is there?
The bottom line is when it comes to regulations, directives or law - one should be frank and direct -- when it comes to cultural differences, BOTH parties need to be understanding and respectful about the others regardless where they might be at any given time. -- It's one thing to be direct but it's quite another to be downright rude and in aggressive tones which the Germans have no problem doing as depicted to be, by the overwhelming comments written here. I don't see Germans being depicted as having a sense of humor, warm, kind-hearted and embrcing -- do you? Stereotypes are there for a reason.
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@michaeltan111 Greed didn’t bring the US to Europe in WW1, WW2, or the Cold War. Greed. didn’t establish the Marshall Plan for without Western Europe would have collapsed. Greed didn’t establish NATO with the US paying 75% of the cost and maintenance. Greed didn’t have the US carry Europe through the Balkan Crisis and greed certainly wasn’t a factor that the US contributed $125 billion dollars alone towards the Ukraine 🇺🇦 I can promise you that should the US pull out of NATO and close its bases, Europe will be in a bad situation. This is obvious as the major European nations are all interested in restoring relations with the US. All the US needs to do is form an alliance with Russia and Europe is toast . You are either a Millenial or don’t know history - I’m 60 years old and have served in the defense of NATO and it’s allies for 40 years, deploying to 8 location, 3 war zones and an attaché officer at NATO - trust me, Europe is not holding the stronger position and the EU is NOT the avenue to engage in State Department Level discussions as the EU is a union based on trade,commerce and economic handling of its member states, not defense and security. This is why the US rejected meeting with the EU over Ukraine and is working with Russia directly to solve an 11 year old crisis that should have been solved already. The EU President Van Der Leyden is traipsing around like she’s the General Secretary of NATO - she’s not and needs to relearn her place is at Brussels and not in defense meetings nor is she a head of any state or country ; why on Earth would any President, prime minister, premier or chancellor discuss security and defense matters with her? Her equivalent in the US, Russia and the UK is the Secretary of commerce or Minister of Economics and trade - she is no Secretary of State nor Secretary of Defense - she’s causing more trouble than good calling for an increase in military spending — something that the last 3 US Administrations told Europe to do in NATO, but to no avail. In fact, while Von der Leyen was the former German Defense Minister, she not once increased the defense budget during her tenure - not once; now here she is telling Europe to increase their military spending - where has she been since 2014? The US has been Europe’s most reliable ally since WW1 and as a reminder it was Europe that called on the US to help in both World Wars and subsequent actions hence while there are US troops in Europe now - greed? I don’t think so.
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@cyan_oxy6734 You cannot simply close down all US bases in nations that are dependent on those bases for economics. There are towns in Germany that if the US bases withdraw, they are done. Europe allowed itself to become wholly dependent on the US Defense Strategy visa vie NATO. The US by right after saving Europe's arse in WW1, WW2 and the Cold War has a right to be there as it was Europe that pleaded for the the US to become entangled in European Affairs and not the other way around. Up to the Balkan Conflict, it was the US that brokere that cease-fire by forcing Serbia into negotiations - again, where was Europe then?
Under the Bush and Obama Administrations, Europe was told to beef up their defenses, but to no avail. Now look where they are. The EU for example has NO BUSINESS involved in defense issues or wars. The EU was not designed to fill in for NATO or any defense posturing - the EU is an economic organization primarily based on intertwining the economies of EU members for trade - Why Ursula Von Der Leyden is trapsing around like a 4 star General at defense meetings is beyond me as she's no head of state, no president, premier, prime-minister or chancellor of ANY nation let alone an equivalent to a Secretary of State or Defense. She is however in the US equivalent to the Secretay of Commerce as well as in the UK for Secretary of Commerce and Trade; she is an ADVISOR to the heads of state for economic/trade issues - not for war and defense positioning. This was made clear to her when she visited Africa and was ignored by Uganda's PM, also in Turkey with President Erdogan and in China where the Chinese Premier basically sent her to his Finance Minister for further discussions - the Chinese Premier was 100% correct - if a head of state wants to discuss issues with his/her's equal, they talk directly and not to some EU President for Economic Affairs. What's really odd is that Von Der Leyden WAS the former Secretary of Defense for Germany and during her tenure there, she increased the defense budge by ZERO Percent - that's right...ZERO. She should be the last one screaming about a United Europe to militarily assist the Ukraine, one would think.
Turkey has been held back from joining the EU by Germany and France - they cite "Human Rights" violations as the cuase. What's rather hypocritical are the Human Rights Violations against the Roma in Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, who have seen and continue to see some of the worst human rights violations - yet all 3 nations were quickly allowed to join the EU - go figure. The real reason why Germany and France don't want Turkey in the EU is of Turkey's population (comparable to Germany 85 million) the Turkish GDP as the 6th largest in Europe and it's military being only 2nd to the USA in NATO; nicely armed and trained.
By the inclusion of Turkey, Germany and France would be forced to share power in the EU by voice and budget which neither nation wants and that's the REAL reason Turkey is not in the EU today. However, the EU and Germany in particular have no issue of the 400,000 Turkish immigrants in Berlin alone, and over 3 million i Germany mainly doing jobs that the average German won't do. Currently the majority of immigrants (not refugees), in Germany are from those countries (Bulgaria, Romania, North Macedonia, and countries of the former Yugoslavia) who's young skilled labor force leave to Germany thus depleting their own nation's workforce. In short, Germany is the financial and economic master of the EU - if Germany ever were to quit the the EU, the EU would cease to exist in a month.
Not much of a union now is it? Yet Germany, the World's 4th largest GDP spends less than 2% of its budget on defense but is angry along with the rest of EU and NATO countries that the US, who has repeatedly informed them to invest more in defense,is to blame??? The Ukraine is vulnerable, not by the fault of the USA, but by the fault of European nation's indecisive actions since 2014 when Russia invaded the Crimea. Where has Europe been since then? Oh yes, waiting for Uncle Sam to handle those affairs instead of their own.
Who lost? The Ukraine as it has to pay for peace. Russia too, although many don't want to see it, has also lost as it didn't achieve it's initial goal - the incorporation of the Ukraine back into Russia. Furthermore Russia lost two neighbors to NATO and is now flanked by NATO from Finland to the Baltics and Turkey to the south; not a good place to be if a conventional war ever broke out. I guess we'll have to wait and see what will happen next. It's all about business and the average citizen bears the brunt of the mighty.
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This is a direct result of the EU interfering into areas they are not responsible for. The EU or more precisely, Von Der Leyden needs to shut her mouth and return to Brussels to do her job and thats to advise the EU member states on the trade and commerce of the EU - she is NOT a head of state, nor the General Secretary of NATO or any other defense agency. She has NO business attending these meetings and making bold statements about the Ukraine Crisis.
This is EXACTLY the reason that the US ignored the EU and rightfully so -- the EU is not a country nor is it a head of state, president, premier, prime minister or chancellor. The EU's predecessor the EEC, would have NEVER gotten invovled in war issues or defense/security matters. All of a sudden the EU has forgotten it's charter and turned into Europe's "pentagon." Von der Leyen is running around like some 4-star general advocating to expand a war, telling the World that the EU goal is to turn the Ukraine into a "steel porcupine." Who is SHE to make those comments? Last time I checked she's no head of state or defense minister.
The other issue is Kaja Kallas the EU Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs. She recently had an interview at the Hudson Institute 5 days ago. Her comments were awful and basically berated both the USA and China - not a good move. Also, many comments were made about her dress - it was rather short - any shorter and the world could have easily been her gynecologist. I'm not being mean, but honesty is honesty and why wear such an ensemble? A business suit wouldn't have sufficed?
Her entire speech was wrong and she got called out a couple of times for it. Her past performance as the PM of Estonia didn't go exactly well either. However, she is in the right position to speak on Foreign Affairs for the EU, but then again, she is also no head of state or defense minister by any means.
Zelensky was given the false impression by Von Der Leyen who basically over-stroked his ego culminating into him forgetting that he's not in a position to battle anyone, and in particular, a nation's head of state that has been supporting you at the highest levels. In less than 48 hours, Zelensky went from Top Dog to house mouse after the US froze military aid to the Ukraine.
Meanwhile Von Der Leyen is still running around as some President of a country touting the war line claiming the same old rhetoric since 2014 when Russia took the Crimea. All talk and no action
I feel for Zelensky as he's trying to salvage his nation; unfortunately, he's put his eggs in the wrong basket -the EU. Had he addressed and strictly remained in dialogue with each European country's head of state (his equivalent), I believe he would have come out better and closer with the US.
We'll just have to see what happens from here
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None of what has been stated here to happen - has happened. In fact, Russia is not doing too well and no, it's military is not growing or it's military industrial complex gaining leverage. When Putin has to reach out to China for support and recently suffererd a stroke/heart attack, those are indicators that Russia isn't exactly in a good positon.
Things, change for day to day; however, this site is very one-sided presented, with Russia being the favored side. To date, there has been NO neutral nation that borders Russia or the former Soviet Union that enjoyed "neutrality" with Russia next door. Ukrainians going into Norway, Germany, Poland etc. are not just coming asking for "handouts" as stated by the narrator - utterly shameful to portray Ukrainian refugees of conflict to economic migrants - nice try. I live in Europe and have worked at the International Office of Strategic Studies in London prior to becoming a surgeon. Although the analysis given here of the Ukrainian/Russian War is plausible, it is skewered in many forms retorting to historical that have a somewhat narrow relation to actual current events. Suggest a more in-depth analysis from numerous perspectives not just comments based on military constructs based on beveled desires of a former military analyst.
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@Nicki-hy5qd Hi. First and foremost the word "transition" in terms of the sexes is one strictly based on mentality - there is simply no "biological" transition from man to woman or vice verse - the DNA structure you were born with, remains with you until death.
With that said, the mental transition of either sex is possible depending on the level of transition involved. There are women who mentally transition to being a man and men who mentally transition to women. The level of change is key which incorporates one of the largest factors which would be sexual orientation. Should a man mentally transition to being a woman, he will have to make a decision on the sexual orientation he desires when becoming a she - this holds true for women who mentally transition to becoming a a woman -- this is where difficulties tend to arise in the form of mental stability, sexual recognition and sexual orientation. There is no "one way" course for either female to male or male to female transition - the hurdles are the same in acceptance, roles in society, sexual orientation and gender affiliation. Based on the National Institute of Health the following is fact:
"Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth via intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors."
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/
I believe the largest issue from what I as a medical doctor have experienced are the legal issues/ramifications between the LGBTQ Community and Society in relations to acceptance and "acknowledgement" in the judicial, medical, HR and economical structures of the countries to which they reside. There is no clear answer as far as I know, but as in all things, change will come eventually.
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@frenzalrhomb6919 Who CARES where it comes from - especially when the Ukraine is getting is arse beat to the ground. Just as the US said, the US hasn't invested in it's defense since the end of WW2 and now look where they are?
The Ukraine lost Kursk on one WEEK.
Suggest Europe either get on track or lose Ukraine and deal with a NATO that no longer has the USA (75% of the NATO is US funded). and no US military presence, operations,logistics, training, intelligence, personnel and automated information systems. Let's see how Europe looks on 1 April with the US simply holding out.
I hear Zelensky has already stated he's willing to NOW sign the deal.
Where is Europe now???? So which country is sending troops? the UK?? Hahahhah - the UK has no troops to send! France? Macron used France's nuclear position - GREAT! He does realize that Russia has nukes too - so ipso facto, that cancels France out. Italy had the good sense to simply say no and the rest of the EU member states don't count as Germany is the Master in both finance and economic - so Berlin actually runs the EU and not Brussels. Should Germany disappear from the EU, that structure will crash down within two months guaranteed.
Like the Juicy Orange said -- the Ukraine would come out better by accepting a deal that promotes their economy, neutralizes the Russians as NATO would be off the table, Ukraine would join the EU and be a neutral nation.
Lastly, Russia is NOT interested in invading Europe - Putin knows his military couldn't defeat NATO, let alone the US on any scale. He has made it clear that he doesn't want the Ukraine in NATO. IF NATO is off the table, Russia is out of the running and would economically prefer an EU Ukraine as trade runs in both directions east and west. Putin knows this and so does Trump
IF Putin and Trump sign economic deals, Europe is in trouble so the EU better think of what their actual role is in Europe like the EEC used to be instead of trying to be Pentagon Version 3.0 which it cannot afford and will fail in the end.
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The EU is NOT A DEFENSE OR SECURITY AGENCY - it is a union that concerns itself with the economics and commerce of it's member states - it is not a COUNTRY and as such does not have a head of state - someone needs to put Hitler Von Der Lyingback in her place before she gets smacked down.
This is the EXACT reason why both the USA and Russia didn't invite the EU to the discussions, because the EU has no head of state nor can the EU speak for Zelinsky who hasn't realize this yet. For whatever reason, he has engaged the EU (monies understandly) but on the wrong scale. Zelinsky should not be talking to Von Der Leyen, but rather other heads of states directly. Again, an EU Commissioner has no business in defense and security. Most EU member states also belong to NATO and that is why you have a a Secretary General of NATO To begin with. He is the conduit between heads of states for defense/security - not Hitler Von Der Lying.
The predecessor to the EU was the EEC -- They never interfered with wars, defense strategy or security of their member states - that was left to each head of state and his/her defense ministers, not the EEC. The EU has become a totalitarian union which is promulgating a war it cannot afford. The EU itself is misleading as it's not a real union. Germany is the EU, not Brussels, both it's paymaster and economic giant; should Germany quit the EU, the whole structure would cease to exist in a matter of months. In short, the EU gave Germany control of mainland Europe's finances and economies except those neutral nations or non-member ones. Turkey isn't a member of the EU, due to "Human Rights" concerns, yet Bulgaria, Romania and Northern Macadeonia were admitted, who's "Human Rights" issues regarding the Roma Population is just as brutal as the Kurdish situation in Turkey if not worse. The real reason Turkey is not admitted is because it's population is practically the same a Germany's (85 million), it's GDP is the 6th largest in Europe and it's military is the largest in Europe and only 2nd in NATO behind the US; in short, Germany and France would have to "Share" the power with Turkey if admitted into the EU and Germany is having none of it - that's the real reason.
Zelensky is trying to reengage the USA regarding the "deal" proposed by the Trump Administration. Should he accept it, the Ukraine will get peace, see the removal of Russian troops, join the EU but not NATO which eliminates any further Russian claims to reattack and rebuild the economy between the EU and the USA. Of course the Ukraine has to give up 50-70% of it's mineral rights to the USA
I'd personally go with the Mineral Rights choice as in the long run, large US investments in the nation coupled with EU businesses and funding will only help the Ukraine. Also, if the Ukraine were to be a neutral country, it would be in an excellent position as a conduit of trade between Europe and Russia. Rejecting the deal, keeps the war going, uncerrtainly of funding, the EU not being fully committed and Russia gaining more over the long term as the Ukraine, without US support cannot sustain the tempo. Maybe, Hitler Von Der Leyen will be on the front lines charging ahead to meet the ongoing threat in the Ukraine? Maybe her children , all seven of them born between 1987 and 1999 (ages between 26 to 37) will be drafted to go to the Ukrainian Front - they are all the perfect age to fight for "Freedom." Yet, somehow, I think, they'll remain in their cushy jobs or at a prestigious university suffering from medical conditions that "exempt" them from military service -- you know, like Caviar itis or Steaktartar tooth disease. Amazing how those in power shield their own children but are eager to send others with no hesitation.
This month should be interesting
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@jurgenrudiger Genau das meine ich - wir in Deutschland wundern uns, warum so viele Zuwanderer es „schwierig“ finden, unsere Kultur zu akzeptieren, weigern uns aber anzuerkennen, dass unsere „kühle, distanzierte und ‚direkte‘ Art der Kommunikation ein wichtiger Grund dafür ist. Die Deutschen sind im Allgemeinen schnell dabei, Stereotypen in anderen Kulturen zu erkennen, weigern sich aber, unsere eigenen zu sehen oder flexibel zu sein und zu verstehen, dass das, was wir für normal halten, für andere schockierend sein kann. Das alte Sprichwort „Wenn du in Rom bist, mach es wie die Römer“ ist wahr - aber wir müssen auch daran denken, dass es Zeit braucht, sich anzupassen, und dass ein wenig Mitgefühl und Flexibilität unsererseits denjenigen, die versuchen, sich an unsere Kultur anzupassen, sehr helfen würde - ich sehe das nicht oft.
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@tfyoutalmbout First and foremost sorry but no - the poorest Americans aren't amongst the most richest on the planet - as not only is that doublespeak as poor is poor, but there are many countries who's poor are better off than America's poor - Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Luxemburg just to name a few.
Secondly, you need to stop assuming - that's a typical fault of Americans, who assume those that make comments about Americans are themselves not Americans - also I don't live in Canada and I'm not Canadian.
Third, The US has 291 million more people than Canada does, not 300 million as you stated. Your scolding a non-US citizen about basic math skills between the population of the US and Canada is rather equivalent of, of, of, wait for it.......oh yes! It's like a tee ball coach explaining baseball strategy to MLB Manager - for some reason, that sounds familiar.
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@briangallagher787 Who is we exactly? I'm 34 years old and don't recall forcing any woman into any acts; nor have I ever been subjected to an inquiry regarding the violation of a woman's rights. I will safely assume that you aren't 100 years old correct? - Our rapes? You do realize "history" is contingent on many factors, (religious, geographic, cultural and economical) therefore, your history isn't mine.
Secondly, gums are not flappable - they are affixed to your mandible and maxilla.
It appears rather ironic that you would tell me to learn some history when it's you who can't ascertain simple historical variances nor are able to establish the correct medical terminology for being loquacious
Not to worry, I'm sure it wasn't easy for you during school; I'm certain that by the time you reached the 4th grade, you were most likely older than your teachers.
Let me know when you've been awarded your associates, bachelors, masters, postdoctoral fellowship in-residency, and doctorates degree - then you'll be at my level.
Run along, you're done here
Sincerely,
Sebastian Nedelcut, PhD, Gastroenterology
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-nedelcut-md-phd-6668b7205/?originalSubdomain=de
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@nivek5031 Я обязательно это сделаю, мистер Маленький член.
Во-первых, группа Вагнера - это группа краткосрочных наемников, которая полагается на внешнее финансирование - внешнее финансирование, которое может быть прекращено в любой день. Во-вторых, у них нет долгосрочной структуры, финансирования или вооружения, чтобы справиться с долгосрочным кризисом против постоянной армии. Например, пусть группа Вагнера попытается вторгнуться в Россию и захватить Москву - неужели вы думаете, что им это удастся? Если да, то я могу подарить вам магниты, и вы все равно не сможете свести концы с концами - большая глупость думать иначе.
А теперь, с этими словами, беги и натирай свое голое тело Кашей, набивая свою задницу блинами и танцуя в ванне с борщом!
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America has become one giant laughing stock to even allow intellectually disabled indivdiduals in Congress and other bodies of government. For this site to even state "IF Trump wins in 2024," is ridiculous to say the least.
What is wrong with Americans? Really? On what planet did this nation think that an individual who is facing 61 criminal trials alone is FIT to be a President, let alone represent Americans? People like Marjorie Tayolor Greene, Gaetz, Gohmert, Santos, Bobert and others (some in the Democratic Party, I'm sure as well), have NO BUSINESS in Government and it's so blatent that even Stevie Wonder could see this. The USA is in BIG BIG BIG Trouble. This nation has been dumbed down so bad, that someone can run for Congress based on a fake sherrif's badge, no formal education, no cultural diversity, racist rhetorics and other unpleasant aspects to have NO ROOM in the economic, cultural, religious and moral fabric of the nation. The USA's Judicial System is beyond a joke and it's all based on political cherry-picking, pardons, exemptions and "written-in-powers behind the scenes that cripple the legal foundations. You get what you vote for.................good luck USA.
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@TrevorCrook-c1s Hi -- the original plan for Vietnam, had it gone the correct way, was for the country to be free as a sovereign nation once the French were gone; unfortunately, due to the Cold War being at it's height, both ideologies (Capitalist/Communists) both used Vietnam as a proxy between them. In the end, Vietnam became one nation (as it should have been to begin with) eventually became communist and now more capitalist with the USA as one of it's largest trading partners today.
Vietnam's history was jaded as a French colony after WW2, which the French refused to allow independence. After World War II and the collapse of Vietnam's monarchy, France attempted to re-establish its colonial rule but was ultimately defeated in the First Indo-China War. The Geneva Accords in 1954 partitioned the country temporarily in two with a promise of democratic elections in 1956 to reunite the country.Vietnam caught the interest as France warned that Communists were taking over and being propped up by China and the USSR.
With that in mind, the USA saw Vietnam as a "domino" to which if it turns communist, so will Laos, Thailand, and possibly Burma or even Indonesia. The South Vietnamese Government also fearing a communist takeover requested US military support to train the South Vietnamese Military - by 1973, the US had 500,000 troops in a civil-war conflict -- the Nixon Administration saw this and under the Tet Offensive (bombing from the previous US Administration under Johnson) bombed the North to the bargaining table in Paris 1973 - had this not occurred, the US would have eventually bombed Vietnam and most likely occupied it for no reason whatsoever -- cooler heads prevailed and both parties agreed to the accords in 1973. There is no way the communists would have been able to hold out from the eventual US military might which would have destroyed all of Vietnam - also at this time, China and the USSR were no longer allies and support from the USSR was cut to Vietnam as that support had to cross Chinese territory. So, no America didn't lose, it simply saw no reason to continue a civil war issue that it couldn't benefit from to begin with - the Johnson Administration failed to see that before.
Why would North Vietnam invite America? That makes no sense. The USA however, bombed North Vietnam in response to Viet Cong activities - that's common sense. North Vietnam never had a stronger bargaining chip at Paris - in fact, it was North Vietnam that pleaded for talks in Paris after "Operation Linebacker" commenced by destorying 95% of North Vietnam's infrastructure by the USA's military (primarily the US Air Force).
Iraq cannot be compared to Vietnam as Iraq invaded Kuwait which prompted the USA and it's allies to attack and restore Kuwait's sovereignty under President George Bush Senior. Iraq was again attacked due to the 911 incident under President Bush Jr. Personally, I didn't agree to that campaign as Iraq wasn't responsible for 911, however, it happened nevertheless. As far as Afghanistan is concerned, the US invaded it as Osama Bin Laden was operating out of Afghanistan but later found and killed in Pakistan. The USSR also invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and had no success in that nation either. The US left Afghanistan as the Obama Administration (followed by the Trump Administration) ddin't foresee any more time spent on a campaign that should have ceased years ago. Had the USA wanted to remain in Afghanistan, it could have easily done so.
Sorry for the long response
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@peterwilson7532 The UK BEGGED the USA to enter WW1 and WW2 and Russia BEGGED in WW2. I'm not American so you need to stop assuming. The British were fine in June 1941? The only reason Nazi Germany didn't wipe your arse of the map was that Hitler never cared for a large navy, didn't take Operation Sea Lion seriously and had his eyes set on the Soviet Union for land. In his own words when he was asked about fighting a war on two fronts " While I wrote in "Mein Kampf," that fighting a war on two fronts is not good, Britain, altought not beaten, is also no threat." As such, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. From 1941 until the arrival of the Americans, Britain lost most of northern Africa to Germany, Crete, El Alamein In Egypt and didn't retrieve Northern African UNTIL US Forces landed in Morroco and pushed the Germans out in their last stronghold Tunisia in a JOINT US British FORCE Campaign - the key word being "JOINT" as the British couldn't do it alone.
Let's talk Dunkirk. Do you honestly think that the British RAF could have held off the German Wehrmacht from anihilating the 338,000 British troops trapped at Dunkirk? The Germans were only 7 miles away when Hitler gave the orders to stop. He did this to give Churchill time to think about a peace negotiation - of course Churchill rightfully refused. However, had Hitler wanted to, those men would have been slaughtered and no amount of ships would have been able to move them in time. Also, the Battle of Britain was won by the RAF due to superior radar technology, strategy and intelligence morse code - however, had Hitler wanted to execute operation Sea Lion, the British would have struggled as the only fully equipped divison to protect the British coat between Margate and Southampton was CANADIAN. The British Army didn't even have rifles to train with at the time and most of the British materials had been lost trying to defend France. From 1939 to 1943 Germany conquered mainland Europe - where was Britain? Why didn't Britain attempt an amphibious landing WITHOUT the US who arrived in 1944 - Britain couldn't fight Germany on a one-to-one ratio in ground forces nor could the RAF controlt the skies over ANY of the conquered nations as it was having a helluva time keeping the German luftwaffe from obliterating London, and RAF sites.
Put the pride aside and face the reality, had it not been for the US, Britain would have starved and you know this too. By the way, I'm English, greetings from Mayfair.
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@LukeHolman-k3k I have been fortunate/unfortunate to have been raised in both socieities - American and European and there is no doubt in my mind that Americans who never set foot outside of their borders or don't possess a higher education than the 12th grade are void of anything outside of their immediate spheres. During the Iraq war, I had several people come up to me at the shopping Mall in San Antonio and tell me to make sure "I look out for possible SCUD missiles in cas Iraq attacks." Here's another one " does England have highways?" My senior year in school Virginia " Was it difficult to live in Germany with all those nazis and bombed out ruins?" That was 1985 by the way coming from a teacher!
18 years of age to vote and join the military, but 21 years old to drink. Just within the last two years confederate statues were taken down. They are part of history and should have always been placed in a museum or place of learning, not open as if that side was victorious - it wasn't. I couldn't imagine Germany erecting statues of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and other promient nazi leaders as "historical" - the outrage alone would prevent this, let alone other minorities that live in Germany that suffered from the hands of them. How is it that an American citizen who works for the Federal Government and possesses at Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) goes automatically to jail, $25,000 dollar fine and stripped of his/her job, never being able to serve in a state or federal position again - yet the Commanders in Chiefs have no problem keeping these documents at their homes or storing them in closets, not keeping them in federally approved Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFS) or never return the documents until forced to do so. A convicted felon can run for the highest office, but other convicted felons go to jail for tax evasion - go figure.
The USA is a wonderful nation for ingenuity, great ideas, advanced technologies, multi-tasking, the entertertainment capital of the World, excellent music YET still racially divided, violent, no universal healthcare because the majority of Americans cannot distinguish what it means for "Social Healthcare" and the word Socialsim - two separate identities altogether folks. This is a nation that is still struggling with issues like abortion, gun control, Woke Culture violent religious rightwingers to the left attempting to explain that there's 73 genders! Crazy!
America - you gotta love it!
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@ACryin_Shame Deported to America I believe you mean right? I agree as well IF he has been found guilty, but so far he has not. Prince Andrew's case is more complicated as his accuser Virginia Guiffre made several mistakes:
First, in 2009, she accused Prince Andrew of raping her in Gisselle Maxwell's flat in 2001 during her stay in London and went to a club together in London. After two weeks of investigations, British authorities found major discrepancies in her story ranging from erroneous dates, the Prince didn't frequent that club and the date of her alleged rape, the Prince was in Woking with his two daughters on an opening of a medical center. The case was closed. Also, the age of consent in the UK is 16; she was 17 at the time, which made her case even more difficult to prove. She agreed in 2009 not to sue anyone except Epstein - yet she broke her own word by bringing a civil suit against Prince Andrew for raping her in the US VIrgin Islands and NYC in 2001 as well. As you know that case is still ongoing and is not actually relatable to Sacoolas' case.
In Sacoolas' case, she killed a British citizen due to a traffic incident at RAF Croughton - in short, she was on the wrong side of the road. At the time of her accident, she was unemployed and married to a CIA employee at the installation. As her husband was not working directly for the US State Department or in a "diplomatic" position, he or his wife were NOT afforded diplomatic immunity at the time of the incident.
Mrs. Sacoolas was immediately flown out of the UK by a plane from a US military leased installation WITHOUT the notification to British Authorities by the US State Department -- why did they do this??? British Authorities were infuriated as this is not protocol when US citizens are involved in an accident involving a fatality of a UK Citizen. US Citizens have been working in the UK since 1948 so, both countries know the rules and procedures by now. AGAIN, as Sacoolas' husband nor she were working for the State Department, they were not afforded immunity. Since Sacoolas returned to the USA, her story has changed immensely. Now the US claims she was also a CIA employee, had diplomatic immunity and had authority to leave the UK in the manner that she did.....BULLSH*T. I worked for the Department of Defense in the UK from 1987-2008 at RAF Menwith Hill, Joint Intelligence Analysis Center, RAF Molesworth and other locations as a military, contractor and civil servant - I KNOW the protocol of the US Military Staff Judge, Advocate, US State Department protocols of US citizens in the UK, MODUK/US intelligence structures in the UK (I was an analyst myself, mind you), and the legal protocols of both nations regarding "Diplomatic Immunity." I can assure you that the handling of this case is so corrupt, dishonest, unscrupulous, deceitful, underhanded and shameful to say the least. IF Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity, there would have been absolutely NO REASON for her departure from the UK and in particular, the manner that she left in. Her husband's agency, worked a quick deal to get her out of the country before British Authorities went public with the case; once on US soil, all US parties involved received breathing space to come up with a good cover story to ensure she's not extradited. As this case received the attention of both Prime Minister Johnson and President Trump, the case was not going to be handled in "normal channels." The case will be resolved to the liking of both nation's government agencies and the family will be quietly compensated, I assure you.
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@Imperiouswreckz Who's been floating who for 3 years? The Ukraine-Russia war is 11 years old and started when Russia invaded the Crimea - 11 years ago.
The US has been funding this war since 2014 and now has a cost of $69.5 Billion dollars to a war thats on the European Continent with Europe doing nothing for 11 years to bring it to an end. Hell, it took Germany one year to decide whether it wanted to send arms to the Ukraine - one year! This is a direct result of European nations inside and outside NATO that haven't funded their defense since the end of WW2 and have committed next to 1/2% of the total GDP for security - that is a shame. Germany is the 4th largest GDP in the World and it's military is still being trained by the USA and the nation just increased it's military defense to 2% - that is a joke. The US warned Europe not to be reliant on Russian Gas - they didn't listen. The US warned Europe to increase it's defense budgets - they didn't listen. The US warned Europe to be more proactive in funding and supporting the Ukraine through military arms, finance and sanctions -- what happened?? They didn't listen.
Now, all of a sudden it's the USA that's the issue in a conflict thats 11 years old in the European Theatre with all members wanting to be the "boss," until the check comes around, then it's back to the old ways of letting Uncle Sam flick the cost for arms, intelligence, logistics and financial support to a war it wasn't invovled in, in the first place. Just like the Balkan Conflict in the 90s -- it took the USA to bomb Belgrade twice in order to stop the conflict and have Serbia retreat - whatever happened to the French, German, Italian and other NATO member's Air Forces? Were they not up to the task to handle such a small regional issue? No, of course not; it was just easier to let Big Brother take care of it. Which NATO or European country operations Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo today??? No one, except the USA and if closed, how long would it take for the Balkan BS to rise up again with no european nation wanting to get invovled - let's just call big brother back to fix it.
Had Europe immediately gotten invovled in the crisis with both logistics and funding like the US did, Russia would have been removed out of the Ukraine to include the Crimea and no, no one would have used nuclear weapons as it's self-defeating. Just recently, President Zelensky stated, "with the US Support, the Ukraie would lose the war." So with that said, which European Nation, and the EU under Ms. Big Mouth Van Der Lying, is going to full force commit to the Ukraine. Wasn't it Ms. Van Der Lying who was the former German Defense Minister - Yes, that be she and not once did she fund her own country's military, yet is the first to scream for Ukraine's defense now (so long as the US is funding it and taking the lead. By the way, why was she even involved in Munich Security Meeting? She's no president, premier, chancellor of any country and her main position as the EU President is an economical one, not a political or military one. Her equivalent in the US is the Secretary of Commerce and I didn't see him at the meeting in Munich. This is the same person who allowed 1.2 million documented and undocumented "refugees" (the vast majority of them were working immigrants), into Europe and that didnt' go too well did it? 55% increase in violent crimes, rapes, and murders - she never mentions that though. She also won't travel to China, Turkey or Africa again, as those nation's leaders not only didn't recognize her, but told her flat out that she needs to focus on the "economics" of Europe and not attempt to be some political leader which she is not. And what about the EU? This is a union which is nothing more than Germany being the economical master of Europe and the bank as well. Should Germany quit the EU, that organization would fold within a week, so my question is "how democratic is the EU really?" I find it rather odd that a German has been "voted" in to speak for the EU, Germany being the largest power and it's Germany that placed Greece into austerity measures to bring back it's economy. It's also Van Der Lying that has demanded that Poland and Hungary accept "illegal immigrants" under Human Rights, without any control - again, she just needs to look at her own nation on how that turned out and is having the EU punish them for enforcing "existing immigration laws" already on the books in both nations that would control illegal immigration - makes ZERO sense. Does anyone know why Turkey was not voted by France and Germany into the EU? Oh yes, officially because Turkey has violated Human Rights. But that's not the real reason. Bulgaria and Romania, Northern Macedonia have also very serious human rights (mainly in human trafficking), yet the EU had no issue making them member states. That's because those nations RELY financially on Germany, so the more loaned, the more controlled and gainged.
Turkey has 83 million people which is equivalent to Germany's population. Secondly, it's GDP is the 7th largest in Europe. As such, France and Germany would have to share representation power in the EU with Turkey as it's not a poor nation, has a huge military, is already in NATO and can sustain itself. It's also a bridge to the Middle East and can control the flow of immigrants from middle eastern regions coming into Europe - in short, Turkey is no slouch and Erdogan is no pushover and that is why Germany and France don't want Turkey in the EU -- Human Rights is just a cop out - Human Rights in Italy under the Comorra Crime Syndicate could make Turkey's human rights issues go pale in the face - yet no mention of that in the EU.
Last time I read the EU Charter, it stated nothing about "political" constructs, but rather economics - so again, why was Von Der Lying at Munich??? The meeting was for Defense Ministers and VPs to attend - if they had economical concerns, they'd reach out to their respective economics representatives to work those issues with the EU and not directly with Von Der lying. And just in case you think I'm against women in position, you'd be wrong - if Von Der Lying where a man, I'd say the same damn thing -- not his place to begin with.
The Ukraine's best bet is to accept the Rare Earth Mineral terms with the US as it would guarantee the Ukraine, a US presence in it's country thus neutralizing Russia (which would help Russia as it's finances and military are shot to pieces.) Secondly, it would allow the Ukraine into the EU for trade and boost it's economy. In fact, it would open the EU door to Russia as a conduit in which not only would the EU benefit, but both Ukraine and Russia as well. The lands taken by Russia could be buffered via the UN or controlled under special agreements which would actually help the Ukraine, but hinder Russia in the long run with maintenance and costs it barely can afford. Russia will be spending heavily to rebuild it's locations in Crimea and Sevastopol as it is now; then again, that's their own fault for invading the Ukraine in the first place. In the end Russia loses as it lost it's main goal and that was to incorporate the Ukraine into Russia - that failed. It also failed to have the Ukraine join the EU; it's a matter of time before that happens and Russia knows that.
The Ukraine will also build up it's military and as we both know will recieve arms from the west - Russia won't like it but again, there's not much they can do. Arms shipments under the table occur daily.
The Ukraine-Russia conflict should be a lesson to Europe - get your military together and start spending where you didn't before -- the US is not going to continue its role as it was before.
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@PropagandasaurusRex You don't frankly careless, yet you continue to write to me - what an idiot. Small dick? No little man, that would be you with that little Vienna sausage of yours. Seriously, you're so stupid that you'd state at a bottle of orange juice, simply because it's labeled
"concentrate." 😁😁😁😁 Have you earned your PhD yet? I have a while back; I served my country, worked as a civil servant in NATO and know more about Political Science than you ever will. I bet that by the time you reached the 7th grade, you were older than all of your teachers🤣🤣😂😂
Let me give you some advice: Sometimes its better to say nothing at all and let people think you're ignorant and uneducated, rather than open your mouth (like you did) and prove to everyone that you really are that ignorant and uneducated - great job, well done😋😋 Run along now, my little Mikhail,,,, you're done here.
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@mer8795 Thanks for your service - I served 25 years in the Air Force as an Intelligence Analyst/linguist and Acquisition's Officer who was at Fort Meade MD, when 911 occurred.
The USAF hasn't made ANY statement to this story - I find that rather odd considering the claims made by Sasse and Penney regarding orders for a possible "suicide/kamikazi misson." The USAF hasn't said one word, or had a Public Affairs officer sitting with them in the interivew to confirm their story. There is no person in their former chain of command that would also come forward to corroborate their story? No one finds this odd? You and I both know as former military members, stories like this are vetted and verified by the Department of Defense and through Public Affairs - no such vetting/verification has yet to occur - it's been 20 years.
Regulations/Procedures: Of course the Department of Defense has rules of engagement procedures in ALL shoot down scenarios, however, these procedures play ZERO relevance according to this story. Penney clearly stated they had ORDERS to ram their F-16s into the airliner and that they had no time to arm their F-16s.
It takes 8-12 minutes to arm an F-16; flight 093 would have taken far longer than 12 minutes to fly from Newark NJ to reach Pennsylvania Airspace. As the Twin Towers were already impacted at 08:43AM (earlier), our Department of Defense was already in Alert mode. So from 08:43 to 09:43, would have given ample time to arm two F-16s; even if their orders came at 09:30, they would have still ample time to arm their F-16s and engage Flight 093 which crashed at 10:03 - it doesn't take an F-16 30 minutes to fly from Joint Andrews Base to Pennsylvania Airspace (adjacent state). Then the question comes to mind that to believe this story, one has to assume that the entire USAF didn't have one single ARMED fighter in US Air Space that day? that's absurd as you and I both know that the AF has ARMED jets patrolling airspace 24hours -7 days a week; to claim otherwise is ludicrous. I don't believe it to be a standard of the Air Force to engage in Kamikazi protocol and in particular when our nation has a myriad of defense systems to rely on should the AF fail. With that said, why would the Department of Defense recommend to the President that sacrificing two pilots and two expensive unarmed F-16 (thus causing far more collateral damage from the air to the ground), be more feasible than a missile strike (surface to air, air to air and sea to air)? There is NO WAY the DoD would have submitted a kamikazi strike to the President knowing full well other options were available. The unit to which both Sasse and Penney were assigned to was the unit of the District of Columbia Air National Guard 113th Wing located at Joint Base Andrews, Camp Springs, Maryland. The 113th Wing is divided between Air Combat Command (ACC), and Air Mobility Command (AMC) - Penny and Sasse's positions were subordinate to the Air Combat Command headquartered at Langley AFB VA. ACC is the AF Combatant Command to US NORTHCOM headed by General VanHerck; he also commands NORAD. As NORTHCOM didn't come about until 2002 as a result of 911, Penney and Sasse's unit were subordinate to the Air Combat Command and NORAD simultaneously should NORAD have tasked the Air Force.
There are A LOT of questions that require answers. During 911, General Ralph Eberhart was the Commander, NORAD - he's retired, alive and well. - Why not interview him? What about the ACC Commander at the time retired Lt Gen Cook? He's also alive and well and would have been the main Air Force General to give the orders for a suicide mission to Sasse/Penney's chain of command. Unfortunately, the SECDEF at the time was Donald Rumsfeld (deceased), but staffers are still around - why not include them in this fascinating story of self-sacrifice?
This story is now 21 years old and not once has our Media shown any interest to delve further. Our Media did the same with Jessica Lynch - it was only when other soldiers who were actually in combat near Lynch, came forward to dispel that myth which showed how far our Media will go to protect a patriotic story that wasn't true.
I have serious doubts about the validity of this one.
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@Natsukashii-Records YES!!!! Finally someone else knows the behind-the-scenes story with Hitler Von Der Leyen. The entire Pfizer Vaccine Scandal, payoffs, intentionally destroyed voice and emails from her "government account phone," not her personal one to conglomorates and the kickbacks is amazing.
Her shaded time as the former Defense Secretary in Germany where she DECREASED the defense budget to almost it's lowest level - yet sits here and tells Europe to increase their military defense by cutting social care and welfare services - incredible that people actually believe this person is beyond me.
The entire EU needs to start over and return to it's original function like the EEC was - Commerce and Trade - NOT defense, military, war and security as each nation has to decide for itself what's the best approach for their particular need.
Secondly, the EU is an "economic organzation" and Von Der Lying seems to have forgotten this - she's parading around like the 4-star General of Europe (Self-appointed) and wonders why she wasn't invited to the Ukraine/Russia Peace Talks. Maybe because she's not a head of state??? She's not the defense minister of the two countries affected, in fact, she's not a leader of ANY country nor a defense minister nor a secretary of state. So why is she at the Defense meetings? Why does she think, she should meet Putin or Trump? Technically, she shouldn't be meeting Zelensky at all as the Ukraine is not an EU member yet. Therefore, her presence is a moot point altogether. She has now promised Zelensky that "Europe" not the "EU" mind you, but "Europe" will defend and ensure the Ukraine wins this conflict
We saw how quick with the stroke of the pen from the USA, how fast the front changed for the worse, regarding the Ukraine, without USA military support. Worse is that the USA still funds 75% of NATO at this time and have over 100,000 troops in Europe. Von Der Lying better start to realize that the USA will not tolerate her interference much longer. She's out of her lane; just last week Prime Minister Orban of Hungary again, called her out regarding under-the-table business transactions with Russia regarding gas lines by using a 3rd party for purchases - he was right. However, in her speech, she announced "we have to stop doing business with Russia...if we put our full support behind the Ukraine." So Orban was right all along when he accused her of doing exactly that, which of course she denied at the time.
She is a piece of work.
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@ostpreusse2322 Glad to hear you are Patriot loving the Earth you were born into, however, I'm not sure what the relevency is of your peace loving position with this topic - either way, it's a moot point.
Now, lets talk.
In order for the US to establish any type of mutual defense agreement with Poland either directly or through NATO, Poland as a soverign nation must agee to the terms or in other words "invite" the US presence on Polish soil or in another words accept or concur - it's all the same terminology.
As I'm not old, I clearly remember why the US wanted to station missiles in Poland and that was to protect against future missiles from Iran. According to US/Israeli Intellgence, Iran was planning to deploy it's Shahab (Meteor) 3 having an 800-930 mile range and the Shahab 4 with a 1,240 mile range to target NATO Forces. As a response the US proposed the European Interceptor Site (EIS), missile defense base but was never built. It was intended to contain 10 silo-based interceptors: two-stage versions of the existing three-stage Ground-Based Interceptors with Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicles that had a closing speed of about 7 km/s. The plan was shelved once new intelligence sources confirmed that Iran did not have at that time, the reach capability to threaten NATO assets. The EIS was cancelled in 2009, and replaced with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System positioned in Poland and Romania in 2018. Polandi is currently building its own missile defense within NATO, complementing the US deployment. Poland's tentative budget for the next decade is "$10 billion for the modernization of air defense, where half of this sum is dedicated to lower-tier missile defense.
So now with that explained, let's clarify some other items.
You cannot compare West Germany and Poland as West Germany was not considered a soverign state after WW2 and neither was Poland. Under the surrender terms of WW2, West Germany was created by the US, Britain and France with East Germany under Russian control - Germany remained an occupied country which some say still is today with over 40,000 US troops still in Germany. Poland on the other hand, didn't become Soverign until 1993 when the last Russian Troops left and Poland withdrew from the already debunked former Warsaw Pact.
Poland's economy is nowhere near that of Germanys and this remains so to date: Germany has the number one economy in Europe and fourth largest in the World; Poland has the sixth largest economy in Europe and 21st in the World - with those facts, one can say Germany remains in a "wiser" position than Poland - enough said.
Whether or not Germany or Poland will fight for it's own territory remains to be seen - again, that's your personal opinion - neither here or there.
What the relationship between the USA And Poland will evolve to, is anyone's guess; I don't know this nor do you - again, speculation and personal opinion.
Speaking of historical events, your call sign is Ostpreusse 2322 - technically you might to consider changing that to KalingradOblast 2322 as East Prussia no longer exists - that land now belongs to Russia.
Have a good day.
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@davidcolin6519 Ask yourself why Europe doesn't already have a combined European Army - they do, it's called NATO and it's been in existence since 1949 with the US paying 75% of the entire cost.
Now, let the US pull out of NATO, which European country is ready to take over and match the funding, manpower, personnel, technology and training that the US provides???
In the last two weeks the British proposed a defense plan of the Ukraine which France rejected based on not having enough "French" input - in short, nationalism. Which European nation is planning to increase it's defense budget from the measly 1.9% (which is currently the highest) to the 5% needed by each member to match the US's contribution's 75%? Good luck in that and who is going to LEAD this Euro Army? A French, British, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish (yes Turkey is still a NATO member and has the largest military aside the USA in NATO.).
I don't see Germany or France wanting a Turkish General in command do you? Heck, they don't even want Turkey in the EU citing "human rights issues" despite the fact that Bulgaria's Romania's and Northern Macedonia's "Human rights issues" regarding the Roma and other minorites can make Turkey's look like a fun house.
The real reason why Von Der Leyen doesn't want an EU Turkey is that it's population equals Germany, so votes will be shared, it's military is the largest in Europe and it's GDP would be the 5th largest in the EU - in short, Germany and France aren't playing nice in the schoolyard. They just recently rejected the free elections in Romania because they didn't like the candiate that won - citing Moscow's interference which they have yet to prove for the last month. Does the EU sound like some Democracy to you??? Did you know that Hungary's President Orban exposed that many EU nations have been doing business with Russia by 3rd party proxies? Oh yes, in terms of Gas, which Von Der Leyen had to admit to yet she chides Hungary for telling the truth. Now the second Banana Kootchi Kallis (EU Foreign Relations) has found herself in a huge mess angering not only the Russians, but Americans as well. This happens when you occupy a position based on your gender rather than experience and academics. Did you know that Ursula Von Der Leyen is also under investigation for insider trading and granting lucrative contracts to her husband's pharmaceutical firm during COVID -- google Von Der Leyen & Pfizer -- all there in black/white. Did you also know that as Germany's former Defense Minister in 2013, Von Der Leyen slashed the military budget by 2/3rds more than the last two previous German defense ministers before her?? Now she calls for cuts to social and welfare programs in EU member states to fund a war in a non-nato, non-EU country. Remember, Von Der Leyen was Germany's Defense Minister during the time the Russians took Crimea in 2014 = YET she slashed the defense budget? Another one who was comfortable de-arming her nation's military sucking of the US Teats, and now she's all about going to war - oh the hypocrisy.
Also, who is she exactly? Oh yes, the President of the European Commission.
Her job is the "manage, facilitate and liaise commerce and associated trade efforts amongst EU Member states. Nowhere in HER job description does it state, President, Head of State, Premier, Prime Minister of Chancellor - she is no head of state nor a defense minister or secretary of state equivalent. Her equivalent in the USA is the Secretary of Commerce - point blank. Here she is running around acting as if she's been promoted as the President of the United States of Europe, or some 4-star general overseeing Europe's defense - that is NOT HER JOB. It's like the USA sending it's Secretary of Commerce to discuss nuclear weapons issues with China's defense minister - ridiculous. Each EU country has a head of state, defense minister and economics minister - she should be dealing with those economic ministers, not the heads of state or defense ministers - this is exactly why both the US "Heads of State" excluded her from any military/defense Peace Talks as she is not relevent nor holds any position to acclaim it. For her to be at the Munich Security Meetings was a laugh to put it mildly - she found out real fast that she played on role as far as Russia and the USA were concerned - they are 100% correct. Zelensky found out rather badly where he stood as well. As the Ukraine's head of state, he should talked directly to Trump and not have placed Von Der Leyen alongside in the discussions. Zelensky learned rather quickly that at one switch of the American finger, his country would lose the war - where was Von Der Leyen then? She returned to Brussels and laid low until the anger from the US subsided.
The Russian Secretary of State Lvrov coined her as "Ursula der Furhrer" along with her sidekick Kallis - who again has found herself in a bad spot recently as well.
How long do you think the Ukraine can sustain this war without US aid that it's receiving again? The EU lacks the military industrial complex, associated logistics and cost for a long-term conflict; throwing monies at the crisis is only one aspect, arms is quite another and boots on the grounds is yet another avenue. Where is the EU on this? Has it started building it's EU Military indpendent of NATO yet? Time's wasting and the Ukraine (without the US aid) is on a short lifeline.
You get the picture.
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@davidcolin6519 No I replied rightfully to the uneducated and inexperienced person that you are. You have NEVER served your country, NEVER worked in NATO never been in a war and certainly never been in the USA or living abroad now have you? Any academic credentials you can toss this direction? Time served in NATO or as an Defense Attache in Brussels? No? Now why doesn't that surprise me? I could give you two magnets and you still couldn't make ends meet - you see, you're not the only one who can throw insults, so let's try this again shall we?
The US has always funded the majority of NATO and you know it too; let's cut the crap and move on from this as you know perfectly well no NATO nation has gone beyond the 1.9% funding - end of that story and no amount of armaments financial worth is going to change that fact.
No, Germany and France aren't at any core point of the EU - in fact, without Germany, the EU would cease to exist as it controls the EU, not Brussels; don't even attempt to get that twisted. With that said, why isn't Turkey in the EU - you tell me. Cherry Picking is your answer? Really? Nice try and no amount of "hypocritical" personal opinions can ascertain why Turkey is not in the EU due to "human rights" record - the same alleged record didn't stop it from being in NATO now did it? - you were saying something about "hypocritical?" As the EU member representation votes are set by a nation's population, GDP and financial status - Turkey would force both France and Germany to share that seat - either you find a source that states otherwise or be quiet - I don't want to hear your personal opinion about "cherry picking." it's irrelevent.
The US is not a democracy? Well then, neither is the EU but don't ask me - let's ask Romania which the EU interfered with it's recent elections, Germany's elections regarding the AfD; the EU interfered with both Poland and Hungary's right to refuse illegal immigrants, interfered with Italy's refusal to take on more African immigrants, and interfered with the Gibralter Referendum which it failed to achieve. Strange too, how the richest nations outside of Germany's GDP in Europe, are not in the EU (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein) - wonder why that is? As far as the UK is concerned, the UK stepped out due to immigration fears and the fear of the EU being the next Union of the European Socialist Republics and it certainly has turned out this way with President and 4-star General Hitler Von Der Leyen as it's head of state😂😂 London is not going to be controlled from Berlin (Brussels is just the cover).
Can you tell me why the EU doesn't have it's own military force since 1993 when it was created? 32 YEARS later and still no military of it's own? why is that? Could it be the reliance on the USA and sucking those supple juicy US military Teats for so long? Or, maybe those measly 1.5% defense budgets that haven't amounted to anything? Or is it the lack of a consolidated military industrial complex?; a lack of technological weaponry that can match the US? You're not going to tell me that the big bad US wolf forced Europe to remain "naked" in it's defense and military arms productions are you? The same evil wolf that since 1990 has repeatedly told NATO and European Nations to increase their military and defense spending? Again, let's ask the nations of Poland, Hungary and Romania how "Democratic" the EU is - get back to me on that one.
Expertise on the subject matter at hand: Now we delve into a the relam of academics, knowlege and first-hand experience - shall we begin? I have served my country for 25 years as an Officer in Intelligence, Acquisitions and Operations - how about you? I retired as a Colonel and GG-15 equivalent from NATO - strange I don't recall seeing you at NATO, SHAPE, HQ USEUCOM, AFCENT, nor Interpol when worked there from 2018-2022. I also don't recall us crossing paths in military missons in Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Ghana (AFRICOM missions). If you like, you can also respond to me in German, French, Spanish and Russian - those languages also come in handy when you have worked for the National Intelligence Community worldwide; again, I don't recall seeing you at Cheltenham, Fort Meade, Alice Springs Australia, Japan or various locations in Europe. Please let me know of your credentials as I look forward to "comparing" our times in the same places and backgrounds - I'm sure you agree.
I am now a medical doctor but keep in touch with my former colleagues, so you are more than welcome to join us in these discussions; we would enjoy your presence immensely. 25 years is a long military tour; again when did you serve and how long?
Back to the EU: When do you think the EU will finally have it's own joint military (Army, Navy, Air Force?) In time to assist the Ukraine or is that too short of a timeframe? Has the EU decided when to deploy their troops to the Ukraine? I last heard that Britain and France thought of it, but then that initative seemed to have disappeared. How about Germany? As the World's 3rd largest GDP and a Bundeswehr strength of 260,000, it should be able to deploy rather quickly right behind France and the UK. I haven't heard Poland, Hungary or Italy coming forward in support of a unified military have you? By the way, Portugal has just announced it needs funds (economy isn't doing so well); shame really as I enjoyed my tour at Allied Joint Forces Lisbon before it closed in 2012.
Do you know how fast the EU can spin up it's "joint" military industrial complex to match the USA? How about the European Space Agency? How solid are they without the US NASA partnership? Funding? You might want to look that up while you believe the USA will "Suffer" without the EU
Now let me get one thing clear with you. Watch your sarcastic mouth junior. You need control alt delete your smug attitude, lack of experience in both military, political science and overall academic credentials and reroute your GPS to someone who gives a damn about you because I don't. I'm also not the one you want to challenge based from a platform of weakness and personal opinions - I delve in FACTS and history shows those facts and don't you forget it.
Should you choose to continue with a fat mouth, I can guarantee you I'll riff and run your millennial arse up and down this site faster than you can slide down a stripper pole while trying to make an honest wage for yourself - if you want to hurl insults then you found the right one - let's go.
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@davidcolin6519 I wrote you a reply and for whatever reason YouTube deleted it most likely global village did.
First, lose your attitude and smart mouth - you don't have the academic accolades, experience in either military/civil service and absolutely no knowledge of political science - I, on the hand have all of it and facts to back it up - you don't.
Your entire last rant was exactly that - a personal rant with zero facts.
NATO has always been funded by the USA at 75% - meaning no other NATO member comes close and never has. Germany is at 2% currently, despite the fact the US Administration has been telling NATO to increase their military budgets since 1990 but to no avail. Your attempt to paint the imbalance of funding as "spurious," is a moot point - the fact remains, NATO is majority funded by the USA and remains so to this day.
France and Germany doesn't control the EU; Germany does and don't make no mistake about it in both terms of finance and voting power. If Turkey were in the EU, Germany would be forced to share it's presence and you know that too as representation in the EU is based on GDP, population and financial holdings - Turkey matches Germany on all levels except for GDP, which most current EU members don't. Don't even try to claim otherwise - unless you can provide source documentation as to why Turkey isn't in the EU besides the alleged "human rights" issue drummed up by Germany and France. Again, sources please.
USA vs EU as a Democracy? Last time I checked, the EU isn't a country, the USA however is. Has that escaped you? The EU is an ECONOMIC institution like it's predecessor the EEC was - it's charter does NOT contain any wording abou the EU being involved in security, defense or military affairs of EU member states - yet here we are. The EU's role is to foster trade,finance and economic growth between member states - again, there is NO CLAUSE which allows the EU to interfere with member state's defense apparatuses, security and military structures - none.
This is exactly why Ursula Von Der Leyen is continuously rejected/not invited in peace talks betweee "heads of state," as she isn't one and isn't going to be. Zelensky found this out real fast that he should not and has not continued to run to the EU for the Ukraine's issues - he now discusses the matter directly with the USA and Russia as he always should have as the Ukrainian head of state. Von der Leyen is equivalent to the US Secretary of Commerce - she has no business attempting to wage a war in the Ukraine with European countries - she doesn't speak for them and neither does the EU Foreign Relations Minister Kallas - who has also recently found herself in hot water -- stay tuned on both Von Der Leyen and Kallas as things aren't looking good for either one of them -- just google it for yourself.
The EU has recently interfered with the elections in Romania, accused of Russian interference with no proof to date, Germany regarding it's AfD Party, interference with Hungarian and Polish Immigration Laws - Hungary won yesterday, but shutting out the EU and reinstating it's Immigration Laws, interfereing with member states contributions to war efforts by attempting to cut social and welfare programs of member states to which many rely on, to fund a war in a NON-EU, NON-NATO country. Speaking of minimal funding to NATO, you do know that during her tenure as Germany's Defense Minister, Von Der Leyen slashed the German Defense Budget by 2/3rds higher than the two previous German Defense Minister's before her?? That was in 2014 when Russia invaded the Crimea - yet she slashed the defense budget - now that's hypocritical considering she is the same person now telling member states to increase their budges and not rely on the USA like SHE did from 2014-2019 - just google that too.
You also know that Von Der Leyen is under investigation for money laundering, destruction of documentation and illegal awarding of contracts during COVID to her husband's pharmaceutical company? Just google " PFIZER Von der Leyen - she's going to have to face the music sooner or later as that investigation is not going away. You call the EU a democracy - let's ask the nations of Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and the Baltic States regarding how "Democratic" the EU has been.
So when exactly is Europe going to create it's military and how will that differ from NATO again outside of non-US funding? That means 27 EU member will have to fund a "unilateral military) 3.5% each in order to have 100% coverage - without US participation - currently Germany is at 2% the highest in NATO outside of the USA.
Good luck in having poorer nations like the Baltics, Romania and Bulgaria to contribute 3.5%. Despite Germany being the richest GDP, I don't believe it will want to continue to fund 500 billion in order to build a military it would have to share with others who are paying far less, do you? This comes back to the question - who is going to LEAD this EU Military and based on what criteria exactly? Will it be rotational or have a "Secretary of Defense" sitting at Brussels working UNDER the EU which again is an ECONOMIC union and not a military one? Let me know when this "military" is created and let's hope it's soon as without continuous US aid in not only logistics, intelligence, finance, operationas and automated information systems, the Ukraine will certainly face defeat. Let's not attempt to portray the EU as having bette weapons technologies as it doesn't. Simply put and no, it cannot "ramp" it's war footing fast enough to covert it's industries to one either - you know this too. Should the EU just go on without the US and maintain NATO, Turkey will certainly have something to say not only about it's direction and funding, but weaponry and manpower as well - hence my earlier comment about Turkey leading the military "coalition." It's the only NATO member outside of the USA that can attack Russia and give it a run for it's money; in fact Turkey is a stronger regional powr than Russia is at the moment.
Credentials to discuss: You mentioned my possible credentials as a reference point so, let me clarify to you my credentials:
First, I'm not American - don't assume.
Secondly, I have spent 35 years in the National Intelligence Community and served 20 years in the military for my country - honorably retired as a Lieutenant Colonel and retired as a GG-15 Colonel equivalent in Cryptologist, Intelligence Analyst, Acquisitions Officer and Embassy Staff in and outside of NATO. My degrees are in Political Science and my PhD is medical - Bariatric Surgeon.
I have deployed to Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. My last position was at Interpol in Lyon France. I speak Romanian, English, Germany and Russian
Now let's check your credentials shall we?
How long did you serve your country, what capacity (rank/position)? Honorable discharged? What war campaigns did you partake in? Where you staff at NATO and when as we might have met and simply not know it. Masters in Political Science? Unversity of Maryland Overseas Munich Germany 1987 for me, and you? Languages outside of English spoken as required to be stationed in NATO or SHAPE Belgium as I was in 2008. Please provide your credentials as we might have crossed paths in NATO, Australia, the USA, Asia or Europe - all places were I served.
I look forward to your next response.
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@davidcolin6519 NATO has always vastly funded by the USA since it's inception in 1949. That's a fact and no attempt of "acquisitions costs of military hardware" changes that fact. Also, Europe has yet to form a military industrial complex since it's inception in 1993 and the US is not to blame so don't even try that angle.
3 years after being told to increase their defense budgets (NATO members), the EU was created - to this date, (35 years later), the EU doesn't have:
a. A shared industrial complex
b. A unified military.
c. An independent Intelligence platform.
d. Arms Production: The USA holds that title with a whopping 43% of the World's Arms I think it's going to be quite some time for the EU to "challenge" the USA regarding the capability to manage it's own arms resources
e. Miltary Forces: Here are the following 5 strongest militaries in the World:
1. USA, 2. China, 3. Russia, 4. India and 5. Japan. Notice how no nation in Europe is in the top 5? In short, you first have to build a joint EU Military and then fund it to include all those other nations in the EU that cannot afford it.
f. Currency holding: The U.S. dollar is predominantly the standard currency unit in which goods are quoted and traded, and with which payments are settled, in the global commodity markets.The USA is also the only nation afforded the special drawing rights of the International Monetary Fund. The United States exercises oversight over the SWIFT financial transfers network and consequently has a huge sway on the global financial transactions systems, with the ability to impose sanctions on foreign entities at will.
On a personal note: First, I'm not American I have however, served my country for 35 years, honorably discharged and deployed in the following campaigns: Operation El Dorado Canyon 1986, Search and Rescue Congressman Leland (joint US/UK), 1989, Operation Desert Storm, 1990, Operation Provide Comfort 1991, Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003 and Operation Enduring Freedom. I retired and returned as a civil servant and worked at NATO from 2008-2016 and Interpol from 2018-2020; I am a Gastroenterologist Baritric Surgery PhD. My Masters is Political Science and the military paid for my medical school.
How about you? Would you be so kind to share your credentials? Military Service, Ties to NATO? Academic background for this discussion? I believe, I have spent more than "a tour" in our political world - how about you?
Current events: Today, the Dutch rejected the EU-Ukraine Treaty; Hungary reimposed it's former immigration laws along with Poland thus, rejecting new EU immigration policies. Thousands of Romanians protested the EU interference and non-acceptance of their nation's presidential election. Germany's AfD agrees saying that the EU interfered with the recent German elections as well trying to ban it's party altogether.
When Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the €800-billion project on 4 March to "Rearm Europe,” many EU members questioned where this money will come from giving the fact that not ONE nation outside of Germany had met the 2-5% defense budget. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated that NATO Members should simply increase their budgets in NATO to 2-5% She continued to state that if Europe has 800 million Euros to "rearm" Europe, NATO members certainly have enough to meet the NATO quota. Her Spanish counterpart, Pedro Sánchez, asked who will fund the US led cybersecurity, anti-terrorism, quantum computing, artificial intelligence and satellite connections that Europe freely receives from the USA? We also need to be reminded that the EU is NOT a NATION but rather a union based on economic matters and commerce – it is not the Pentagon 2.0. Defense, security and military matters are under the control of EACH country's internal structure and needs to remain there." Both Von Der Leyen and the EU's Foreign Advisor are acting like heads of states or defense ministers to which they are not said the NATO General Secretary. The Greek Minister of Defense Nikos Dendias said “she and Von Der Leyen need to refocus their duties as neither one of them rest or sit in military, defense or security matters." The US Ambassador to Germany along with the Russian Secretary of State both reminded Europe that Heads of State and their defense ministers should be setting the pace for their own nation's defense policies and not an EU foreign advisor.
So, please tell me again, how the EU plans to successfully migrate itself as a collective union of countries under one defense when it's own commissioner is not a head of state, secretary of state or defense minister? As the EU is not a nation, how is it recognized in the United Nations? So in essence you've got an economic union with two women who have certainly seem to be suffering from a Napoleon Complex causing current deep riffs in the EU.
Let me know how that "unified military" is coming along and don't forget to include your academic/military credentials – thanks.
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@lecrabesavant4435 Britian, as an Island was geographically at a disadvantage as it's land forces would have lost against any invasion directly into Germany. It therefore relied heavily on it's Navy and Air Force (both were larger and better trained than the German Air Force/Navy), to block, bomb and fracture Germany's raw materials - France could have done this too, but failed in that department as the German Military defeated France in 6 weeks.
The population of either country (France 43 million in 1939 and Germany 72 million) is irrelevant when it comes to the Armed Forces. For you to even equate that is entirely absurd.
In September 1939, France, was superior in industrial resources, and military manpower, but the German military, or Wehrmacht, because of its training, doctrine, discipline, and fighting spirit, was the most efficient and effective fighting
France ignored what Napoleon said " The side that stays within it's fortifications is beaten." No truer words could have been said as the Maginot Line ironically protected Germany than it did France.
The only TRUE victor in Europe after WW2 were the Americans and without them, Russia would have fallen had a second front not opened - even Stalin admitted to this prior to his death in 1953.
Today, it's the American Armed Forces and NATO that control the defense of Europe - spoiler: It's not France🤣🤣
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@merullesr HAHAAH! Really? So how did the Germans fail to take the Maginot Line in WW2? The Maginot Line's Linchpin, Fort Eben Emael was breached and destroyed by the Germans on 10 May 1940 - the same day that Germany invaded the Netherlands and Belgium.
Secondly, since the French spurrned the offensive to attack Germany (Phony War), the Maginot Line protected Germany better than it did France becaue the Germans simply went around it.
Third, Operation Dynamo was not successful due to French Forces whatsoever. After being severely beaten at Arras, the British Forces started evacuating to Dunkirk without the knowledge of the French High Command. At this time, the French High Command under General Weygand, pulled back French Forces to protect the capital region which only widened the German spearhead which split in two preventing the British or French to reach Belgium and the Netherlands - the Dutch surrendered on 15 May 1940 and Belgum on 18 May 1940
Now let's talk about why Dunkirk was "allowed" to happen.
Hitler's decision has been attributed to his generals' worries over a possible Allied counterattack as well as Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering's insistence that his air forces could prevent any evacuation attempt at Dunkirk.
Secondly, General Hans Jeschonnek stated that his halt before Dunkirk gave time to spare the British a humiliating defeat, but to give Britain time for possible negotiations as a naval invasion was not feasible when comparing the Royal Navy to the much smaller and weaker German Navy which an invasion of Britain would be dependent on. Lastly, Hitler felt that the humiliating annihilation of the British Expeditionary Force would impede negotiations and thus ordered the Panzers to stop so that the British forces could be evacuated.
Hitler did not rescind the Halt Order until the evening of 26 May. The three days gave a vital breathing space to the Royal Navy to arrange the evacuation of the British and Allied troops. About 338,000 men were rescued in about 11 days.
Had Hitler given the orders, the "Miracle of Dunkirk" would have never happened as the might of the Germany military was only about 2 miles (3.2 km) on 3 June, from Dunkirk. The night of 3 June was the last night of evacuations. In the words of Lord Mountbatten - Had Hitler wanted to slaughter our men at Dunkirk, he could have easily done so."
France surrendered to Germany on 22 June 1940 Paul Reynaud resigned as prime minister and was replaced by Marshal Philippe Pétain - effectively that day, France surrended and that included the FRENCH ARMY - END OF STORY.
Nice try.
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@squirepraggerstope3591 The British in WW1 were mainly instrumental in what geographic region that aided to the USA? In the Pacific Region? No - In fact, Japan entered the conflict to support Great Britain as both nations aimed to defend against the threat of Russian expansion in Asia in light of Britain's decreasing control of the seas in the Pacific Theatre. The ending of WW1 in the Pacific Theater saw European Nations (British, French, Dutch and to some lesser extent Portugal /Germany) keep their colonies intact - the USA at this time, was only concerned about the Phillipines and outlying islands (Marshall/Wake) for it's defense. At this time also, , the USA's GDP was already greater than the UK and matched the Commonwealth's combined. As Japan's Emperor Emperor Taishō stated in 1921, the USA is a sleeping Giant, it just doesn't know it yet."
Europe Theatre: During WW1 Britain was the leading power in Europe -there was no question there; however by 1935, the GDP of the USA had long surpassed the UK's and quadrupled by 1939 when WW2 broke out. At this time also, the UK could no longer effectively control it's possessions in the Pacific (Japan new this) and under military control planned to invade those areas under European colonial rule.
We both know that without the US involvement in the Pacific Theatre in WW2, the UK's possessions would have never been regained and Japan would have remained the premier power in that region. In WW1 the UK secured it's position in the Pacific by treaty - in WW2, the USA reestablished the European presence in Asia until Vietnam.
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@squirepraggerstope3591 Britain's status as a colonial power ensured it's position to be seen as a global power - it was not. Unlike the USA, Britain had neither the land nor resources to become a global power within it's own borders - hence it's colonial position and linkage to creation of the Commonwealth.
Britain's external position in Europe was hemmed in as nations near it, were also colonial powers in their own right and could challenge Britain's limited position in Europe; in short Britain had to expand by colonialism.
The USA on the other hand didn't require an expansion across the World as it was self contained and faced weaker nations to the north and south of it. By 1918 the USA was self contained - even the stockmarket crash of 1925 only temporarily slowed the GDP.
There were two reasons why the USA even entered WW1 in Europe: First, Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917 was the primary motivation behind Wilson's decision to lead the United States into World War I and two: Wilson and Asquith knew that without an established lifeline to the USA, Britain, as in WW2 as well, would starve as 70% of Britain's raw resources came from it's overseas territories. As the US protected the shipping lanes and supplying the UK with materials, Germany sunk the ships and the USA declared war on Germany as the UK wanted it to do.
The First US troops arrived in Nancy France to fight in the already stalemated trench warfare in eastern France in October 1917. The war had already been going on since 1914 involving French, British troops fighting German troops in France. Russia was not a key player on the western front nor was Germany's allies Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire a key factor in France as well. Germany had stalled and corralled the British and French Forces badly resulting in Italy sending nearly 41 000 men and thousands of military auxiliary company workers to France to assist - it did nothing of the sort. It wasn't until the American Forces began to arrive which forced the Germans to acknowledge that they couldn't hold on a long-term battle so long as the US could resupply both Great Britain, France and to some extent Italy via in the Mediterranean Sea. Germany could not rely on it's Allies (Ottoman Empire/Bulgaria) for the continued replenishment of supplies/materials to the western front.Russia entered WW1 in July 1914. It was allied with Britain and France and fought against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Russia's economy was not prepared for a major war and thus Russia was being defeated by Germany - it really played a minor to no role against Germany on the eastern front leaving Germany to deal with Britain and France quite successfully until the Americans arrived.
Again, despite Britain's empire - she was severely limited and could not alone, defeat the Germans in Europe without the backing of the USA; France as well.
This was evident again with the same events in WW2 which led the USA intervening in WW2 on both fronts and the only nation to emerge victorious with minor lossess, the highest GDP in the World and the only true Superpower in the Cold World above both the USSR and China and remains so to this day.
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@merullesr No wrong again. France's contribution to NATO and the 4 Powers Agreement saw it's bases in Trier, Kaiserslautern and joint French-Canadian bases of Lar and Baden straddling along the French-German Border. These forces were there to protect France as a barrier should the Warsaw Pact attack. Secondly, the symbolic French Forces were in Berlin and not in their "Zone" that was granted to them. It was assumed that France would remain a major force in world politics but it did not. After decolonization, France experienced a significant decline in cultural, political, and economic influence.
and by 1957, its zone all but disappeared when the Saarland voted to return to Germany with a 95% approval rate. Had France "occupied" Germany, this would have never been allowed to happen - France had no choice due to the USA being the preeminent power in Europe and headed NATO. It was then that Charles DeGaulle restructured France;s role in NATO to become more independant and still play a role in Europe's defense. The UN Security Council is constantly being asked to revamp it's current position as both the UK and France no longer are the colonial powers they once were and neither could handle thier limited roles without the support and aid of the USA. In fact, Germany now controls the economic apparatus of Europe while Japan is the powerhouse in Asia outside of China, who already sits on the Security Council. It would make more sense to replace bot the UK and France with Japan and Germany.
Japan and Germany are the third and fourth largest economies in the world after the USA and the China (by nominal GDP).
Germany and Japan are also (in that order) the third and fourth largest exporters.
Collectively, Japan and Germany are the headquarters for 91 of the Fortune Global 500 companies.Germany dominates Europe politically and economically. Japan's influence in Asia is second only to China's.
So in reality, these two should have the permanent seats on the UN Security Council, not two nations who have long not been previous colonial global powers they once were. Let me know if you need any additional information. Germany and Japan are the most powerful nations in the World after the USA and China.
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@merullesr And France plundered the economies of the following nations who they once occupied including human resources, were forcibly sent to their factories.
Guinea, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, and Gabon; Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Upper Volta (renamed Burkina Faso in 1984), Niger, and Mali; and the Malagasy Republic French Somaliland, Algeria, Morrocco. Let not forget French Indochina and Cambodia.
I think France should be the LAST nation to talk about plundering economies of other nations....don't you??
Let me know if you need any more information - I'm always glad to set the FRENCH record straight.
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@anthonydelcoure1264 Thanks for reading my posts - sadly it's rather apparent you have a reading comprehension problem based on your limited and irrelevant responses.
First, after the Armistice was signed, there were still German troops in both France and Belgium; there were NO Allied troops on German soil when WW1 ended - that tells you that both the French and British could not advance into Germany proper as the defense was too strong by German ground forces. The farthest German advance was Marne France, not far from Paris. There was NEVER A time when French or British forces pushed the Germans near their own border - either you need to lay off the medication or your history teachers failed you miserably.
Even with the entrance of US Forces, German Forces were again, never pushed back to their border as trench warfare ensued causing all sides to stalemate on FRENCH and BELGIAN soil -- again, I'm not sure where you are getting your history from, but I highly suggest you go elsewhere to research
Last, the Ruhr along with the Rhineland were occupied by FRANCE not Belgium as King Leopold of Belgium opted for Neutrality during this time. Also, this land was under a demilitarized zone in the Treaty of Versailles - it was never invaded to begin with until 1944 when the AMERICAN FORCES invaded this part of Germany after the Germans lost the Battle of the Bulge in 1944-45. Again, that was WW2 not WW1.
Please show me or cite your source a map which shows the French, British and American Forces push the Germans back in WW 1 to their own borders - I'd love to see it.
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I simply don't understand what is so difficult for women to be rejected? Us men have been rejected and we simply move on. With that said, why are women having such difficulty with rejection? Ladies, could it be that you're so used to getting everything what you want and have been raised to believe you are the PRIZE (which BTW isn't true), that you cannot take "no" for an answer, yet have no problem telling a man "no" without hesitation.
Rejected twice a year - oh dear, I'm surprised this woman hasn't decided to jump off a bridge or commit herself into any asylum. The other woman who claimed she has been in a six year relationship is delusional -- sleeping with someone doesn't make a relationship and it's rather clear she could end her dilema by crossing her legs and not see the guy any longer - amazing how easy that is right? Apparently, he's getting the kitty nibbles elsewhere too which means again, you are not the prize.
Guys, just use your hand, establish a working relationship with an escort, pay, be safe and be sane. The drama, and constant BS isn't worth the cherry at the Econo Lodge or at the Ritz Carlton.
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I have worked in both countries and can tell you that I'd choose the UK for a "human" approach and Germany for a "mechanical" approach.
The UK functions less efficiently, but takes a personal position on how to get things done. In doing so, one can acclimate to the culture quickly in a friendly environment which is every important for a foreigner.
Germany functions more efficiently, but on a sterile level, making the foreigner feel isolated and somewhat distant.
If you are an introvert, Germany would suit you better; if an extrovert, the UK is more your lane.
I will return to the UK upon retirement as I enjoy going to the pub, chatting with the locals and enjoying the human interaction. Retiring in Germany, I would imagine staying at home, having a select group of friends who will only meet on a planned precise schedule and afterwards not interfacing again until a new schedule is proposed - way too formal, cold and unfeeling for me - by hey, each person has to determine their own course....
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@jorgenpersson662 I'm a Bariatric Surgeon who has served my country in the fields of Intelligence and separated honorably. I was assigned to the United Nation's UNODA which handles the disarmament of weapons of mass destruction. I am also active with the Internation Strategic Studies Institute here in London, where I live. Your credentials are?
Russia is no longer the superlative military might it once was when it was the USSR which ceased in December 1991. It is however, a regional power that can wage a limited war within it's periphery. Russia's war with the Ukraine has become stalled and in recent days has seen Russia lose not only materials required for a long-term conflict, but also faces troop shortages, and technology that can match for what is being placed agains it - those are facts that you cannot get around.
The US is the only remaining superpower that can wage war on all continents simultaneously and has allies on all continents. NATO alone can match Russia in technology, logistics and advanced armaments. In fact, not one NATO country has troops in the Ukraine - if NATO deployed, Russian Forces within the region could not withstand the brunt of such a force for no more than 2-3 weeks. Should the USA join it's NATO allies, Russia would either capitulate or resort to Nuclear threats, which would basically mean self-destruct and Putin knows this too.
China has NOT Sided with Russia and has (outside of small armaments) not supplied Russia with support - China, rather has utilized it's position to negotiate in it's favor, material deals with Russia in the far east for it's own gains. Putin and Xi Jinping are not on the same level - Xi Jinping is above Putin and he knows that. China does not need Russia, but Russia does need China. As far as North Korea is concerned, it's troops are no match for a European Theater conflict and it's numbers alone, won't make up for the technological and logistical superiority of NATO and the USA - in short, it's a waste of time for North Korea outside of getting material possessions (food, oil, gas, ) from Russia's adjacent region to it's country. Iran's missiles, although of good quality, is still no long-term match for what NATO can already bring into the crisis - it's a short-term fix and should Iran become involved, the USA will attack it in the Middle East with Iran not being able to do much in return - even Iran doesn't want to take this route.
Putin made a mistake and is looking for a way out - he should simply withdraw Russian Forces and regroup his position -- the old days of the USSR cannot be revived and Putin is finding this out the hard way.
I gather you are a Political Science major? PhD? Member of the UN or Strategic Studies? No? Now why doesn't that surprise me.
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@har8397 The issue here is that the US owns NATO and has a huge economic interest in keeping Europe under it's protection in a twofold stance: one, Europe acts as a shield to keep hostility off US soil and two NATO keeps the US Military Industrial Complex to include the DoD good funded, fat and happy. The US has continuously kept it's bases in Europe open despite the fact every Congress since 1985 has voted to "drawdown" which the DoD won't do. In fact, some bases like Stuttgart and Baumholder Germany (which serve zero purposes), have just been allocated millions of dollars to aid not only the US but the German economy as well. Great Britain have over 10 US bases alone, Italy 4, Greece two, Turkey two Spain 3 Germany 10 and all former Warsaw Pact Nations (mainly central/eastern Europe) are building US bases under NATO -- do not think for one moment the US Economy isn't profiting from this - the same goes for Japan, Australia, Taiwan, the Phillipines and joint military ventures in Thailand, Diego Garcia and Pakistan. In short, the US has 800 overseas locations for military purposes - do you know how much money that pumps back into the US banks?
The US doesn't have a global health care or pensions because the US CHOOSES to not have it and people vote against it because they believe it's either socialism or a form of communism when in fact it's neither. Americans cannot distinguish between what is Social Programs (such as universial healthcare, pensions etc). and socialism - which has died in almost every country except North Korea and Cuba which we both know are slowly rotting away. Again, the term Social Care and Socialism are two complete separate entities and not related; however most Americans hear "Social" and run to the woods getting it confused with communism/socialism. In fact, where I live (UK) we have pensions and Social programs such as Universial Health Care - I pay a lot of taxes (40% of my salary), but in return, I get National Health Coverage, roads and infrastructure is maintained, we have a generous unemployment program and a pension when I turn 65 - it's not the greatest, but it's better than nothing. I paid US $15.00 for a tooth filling while my cousin who lives in L.A. paid US $185.00 for a tooth filling. Yet, Americans vote down Universal Health Care every time.
As far as defense is concerned, the US Military presence here is a benefit to both the US military and it's economy as well as our own for being able to not spend as much on our ground defenses but more defense based on technology versus the physical military
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@somethinglikethat2176 FINALLY someone else researches!!!! Thank you for that comment - I have been constantly stating that Dresden was a legitimate military target that contained, troops, ammunition factories, excellent train connections, an airport and 80,000 troops in the city vicinity and metro area -- amazing how "propaganda" paints the city as some residential city of 500,000 to have no military value or targets - unbelievable.
What's worse is how many claim Dresden as a war crime, yet say nothing about all those concentration camps in Dresden's vicinity stuffed to max capacity, the ruthless boming of Rotterdam killing 2,000 instantly and leaving 80,000 homeless and won't even start in on Warsaw, Minsk, the London Blitz and Coventry - where is the sympathy for those "war crimes?"
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Or it simply could be a rude culture which has been allowed to permeate because of history. I have lived as a foreigner in Germany for 30 years and I speak the language fluently and write it as well.
Germany is racial, it's citizens are rude and ignorant in World Cultures to which they do not care to even learn about. The "Brit in Germany" guy looks German, speaks it and is employed in the Banking System which is predominantly what race/ethnicity?
I highly doubt he has encountered 1/4th of the German institutionalized racism and bigotry that others have that don't look German for starters. I work in Human Resources and cannot begin to tell you how bigoted/racist the German system is in HR. Did you know that legally, resumes should not contain pictures here in Germany? YET most conglomorates still want resumes with a picture of the candidate. German Law doesn't even attempt to stop this practice which is always used to identify race, ethnicity in order to see if the person "fits" in and we both know what I mean.
We just recently hired an engineer who had a bachelors degree when the position called for a masters. 5 candidates with masters and far more qualified, were passed by because they didn't "look" the part; also, the person hired, was the son of a former employee who previously worked there 20 years ago. In Edeka last month, I bought a product called "Shoko Kusse" or roughly translated "Chocolate Kiss." My friend who accompanied me put the box in the cart and said I love N****r Kisses too! I told him if he EVER used that word again, he'd end up in a bad place very fast -- he honestly couldn't understand why his usage of that word angered me yet had no problem saying it less than 4 feet away from an African American shopping with his wife. Thank God teh American didn't understand that term in German. Sadly, however, I've heard this term being used to describe African, Black American candidates on NUMEROUS occasions and twice by the Police when describing a person invovled in a car accident and another for an ticket problem at the train station. And no, in both cases, the Germans were young around age 25-35 - they know better.
As far as German directness? They are only direct (Rude) when it pertains to correcting others and certainly not themselves. Try to be "direct" with them and see how that goes. They'll dodge responsibility and never acknowledge to making the mistake - it's always someone elses fault or they weren't "aware" of what they were saying - right. I had a German friend tell me in front of many, that "Blue wasn't my color," regarding the sweater I had worn. Not only was it rude, but I didn't recall asking her for her opinion. Also, if she wanted to tell me this, than tell me in private - that is called good manners - anything else is being RUDE. I retorted by telling her in front of all, that she needed to lose weight and look into getting a mole above the right side of her lip removed - I was only being direct right? Let's just say from that point on, she never tried that with me again. There is a big difference being direct and being direct to be rude and Germans have mastered this concpet along with the Dutch - they know what they're doing and it's mainly to place a "pecking order" in order to ascertain their importance over you - or that your opinion doesn't matter as much versus theirs.
I will be returning to the UK once my time is done here. The UK is a big mess, BUT we are not rude nor do we consciously force our opinions on others as being "direct." We have racial problems in the UK too, but it's not based out of stubborness or condoned in an underhanded institutionalized way as it is in Germany - pretend not to be, but condone it nevertheless. I miss going to the pub and talk with people or share discussions at work - not here in Germany, you are a robot and will adhere to outdated, outlandish concepts that the majority of the business world has long left behind - this country acts as if it has never heared of email to get things done and at the same time wonders why their bureaucracy is amongs the worst in Europe.
Germany may have a better economy than the UK, but at least in the UK, we are human and take in those human factors when dealing with people - Germany doesn't see human but rather a number which should not ask questions or attempt to review a process and wonders why their workforce has the highest depression rate in western Europe, highest number of sick leave, highest number of exhaustion and job unsatisfaction of upward mobility due to ageism, high nepotism and infrastructures not keeping up with current global employment trends.
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@henningbartels6245 I've been here for 35 years, what about you. I never stated that I had only 7 incidences - can you read? Secondly, I have lived here for 35 YEARS and working daily, which places me directly in DAILY conversations meeting with hundreds of people both friendly and RUDE.
You trying to justify Germans being direct versus rude isn't going to fly with me nor based on a weak "incident count" you attempted to use.
Germans will bully you at the workcenter if you let them and they use their language to intimidate others ESPECIALLY foreigners or those that don't "look" German.
I have a friend who is a Bariatric Surgeon from Singapore - Amazing how she's always mistaken by the Germans to be the secretary in HER office while her secretary ( German male) is taken for the doctor - maybe, she's a little too "Schwarz oder Braun?" what do you think?
While you're reading this, please ask yourself why the Germans are:
a. Known to have ZERO sense of humor
b. Lack the emotions to carry on any relationship and lack compassion only to marry for money, material items, land and finances. I don't recall seeing many romantic comedies getting movie awards originating from Germany, do you?
c. Why are Germans known to be so punctual, anal-retentivie and robotic in their behavior
d. Why are Germans labeled so efficient that they don't even have the time to enjoy what they work for
e. Why is the German Workforce one of the HIGHEST in Europe suffering from "ALLTAG" Syndrome, depression, high sick leave rates and burnout??? Watch it here because I AM an HR Chief in my current capacity at a major German Global Firm.
And, for the record, I've met many nice and rude Germans; the rude ones got put in their place quite quickly by me and I don't regret it because one thing is for sure, I am respected at my workcenter. I have chosen to have a cadre of international friends versus mainly German ones as despite my fluency in German and writing and years of being here, I will always be seen as "der Ausländer aus England"
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She should have NEVER been placed in her current position - the EU (formerly the EEC) was NEVER invovled in politics, but rather the economics and financial aspects of Europe's countries as a whole. The EU started that way, and was allowed to go "political" giving people like Von Leyden a seat at the table with the Prime Ministers and Chancellors of nations - that is not her place to begin with.
She found out the hard way in Turkey, China and Russia were those Heads of States didn't acknowledge her as a leader, but had her hold discussions with their Financial/Economic Head of States to where she belongs. She is not a LEADER of any sort and certainly not of any nation - yet she's 100% immersed in barking orders to nations which only causes issues outside of economical ones.
Each nation's leader has to decide what is best for that particular nation - Von der Leyden has NO business to tell the leader of these nations on how to deal with their internal issues. The EU is nothing more than Germany as the "Bank" of Europe to which you have to concede, apply and be subordinate to in order to procure funds for your nation. IF applied to trade and finances, that is perfectly fine, but not politics which override those factors and in particular with internal matters that affect that nation's citizen's daily lives. Germany is the EU and without it, the EU would cease to exist - that does not make for a harmonious "organization" by any means when one country dominates it.
Just ask Greece who they had to deal with regarding austerity measurses - the EU? Yes, in the public's eye, but secretly Germany held those purse strings and personally dicated to Greece how the show was going to run - that does not make for a "union" by any means.
The EU needs to go back to being The EEC and stop trying to become a "nation" within itself. Brussels is not the capital or Italy, Netherlands , Spain or France - and the average citizen of these nations don't give a rat's knackers about what some fiancial big wigs in Brussels have to say, especially when it directly affects those nation's citizens - just ask Poland and Hungary. Can you imagine being a leader of nation to get a phone call from a political economics analyst in Brussels forcing you on how to deal with illegal immigrants in your country; she doesn't have the slightest idea on how such a hard topic is affecting that nation, yet threatens that nation's leader who has to directly deal with issues at home, with crippling sanctions if refusal to comply with an issue that is negatively affecting other nations as well. Notice how she didn't say much when the idea of busing these thousands of illegal immigrants directly to Brussels? Oh no, that idea doesn't fancy her when it's directly placed on HER doorsteps, yet she has no problem trying to force the same issue down leader's throats which whom she's not on even par with to begin.
Voted in? HA! What a laugh. One just needs to follow her career path from Germany to the EU to see she was "placed" there politically. The EU President should be a one-year term with EACH nation having it's appointee take on that task. Let us guess - next year, she'll be voted in again most likely and eventually stay there until she dies, get's caught up in a scandal, or resigns from age. There should be NO party in the EU that can gain such a momentum which allows it's candidate to be "voted" in over and over again. That is not a "Union" by any means.
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@andershegre8338 I'm not American - assume much dummy?
BIG LEAGUES? Hahahahahaha - the EU can't even keep the Ukraine stay afloat without the USA.
Oh did you hear? Zelensky just agreed to a 30 day cease-fire; just like the US told him to do so in the beginning, while both the US, Ukraine and Russia sort out the details.
So where is Hitler Von Der Lying now? Oh I forgot, she wasn't invited nor was Kootchie Kallas, who's job is pretty much useless as ALL nations in and outside the EU have their own FOREIGN MINISTERS to engage other nations with. Good news: the USA, not EU has resumed with intelligence operations for the Ukraine
Tell me, why didn't the EU take over those operations? Oh that's right, the EU's intelligence apparatuses aren't technologically advanced as the US and cannot support the Ukraine - I guess the circus tent in Brussels forgot about that too.
You don't send an EU Commissioner of Commerce to Defense and Security Meetings hence why the EU wasn't invited to the talks -- it's not a country nor is Hitler Von Der Lying a "President" of ANY country - she's an EU technocrat who's own CHARTER states that her job is "to foster and liaise commerce, trade and financial aspects of EU member states." Nowhere in her job description does she engage in Defense, Security or war efforts - we have Defense Ministers for that.
Sounds like the clowns are sitting in the EU rather than the US - oh yes, I almost forgot, who funds 75% of NATO? Hint: Not the EU.
Run along dummy, you're done here.
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And here we see what men cannot do. She LOST in court - Yet, she will get the Me Too Movement and other feminists to rally behind her UNTIL she is acquitted and pays nothing back or claims bankruptcy, which according to her, she claimed during her testimony of not being able to "pledge" to a charity which she never had any intention of doing. Let a MAN try this mess and see how far he gets. She won her court case in the UK against Depp DESPITE the fact that the judge's son worked for the same magazine that slandered Depp to begin with. She provided ZERO proof in that case as well, but as a woman, the judge ruled in her favor. It was so obvious in the last case, that Heard not only lied, but she slandered, libeled and berated Depp - fully proven, yet here she is AGAIN getting sponsors to fund her appeal - again let a man try that.
The worst case of gender inequality came to Sir Paul McCartney; A British court ordered former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney to pay his estranged wife Heather Mills 24.3 million pounds ($48.7 million) WHY? They were married only for 4 years! Heather's supposed shady past and their public divorce were hard on the entire family. Child support for Beatrice, their daughter, was 35,000 pounds a year - $41,000 and that wasn't enough including the $48.7 million for her. Let a man try that who's married to a multi-millionaire woman only married for 4 years -- with one child -- he'd get laughed out of court faster than mice through cheese. I guarantee you Heard will keep trying until she get's out of paying anything - just watch and see.
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@stopcensorship7705 Ha! The US doesn't need to "meddle" in Germany's politics as it OWNS Germany to begin with. The US has most likely made it perfectly clear visa vie the Consulates, that the US will not tolerate ANY radical groups/parties that challenge it's presence in Germany - period. The US reserves that right as it had to intervene twice in Europe, (WW1, WW2), protected Germany under NATO throughout the Cold War and still contributes more to Germany's military defense, than Germany itself does currently. Secondly, the US military's presence was intertwined with Germany through the Marshall Plan after WW2, cancelling West Germany's massive war debts that in turn, created the Wirtschaftswunder to begin with. Lastly, you have towns in Germany, where if NATO or the US Military should leave, the economy of those locations would falter to high unemployment and in some cases (Baumholder Germany), the entire town would collapse - those are the faults of the local German constituents who failed to diversify those towns/regions since the end of WW2. Also, whatever happened to the grand idea of the EU forming it's own military so that NATO could be dissolved? Fell flat because European nations didn't want to increase defense spending nor allocate resources -- simply better to let the US Sugar Daddy continue to pay for the defense right?
Frankly, the US has every right to "meddle" in the poltical affairs of Germany and in particular, if it poses a threat to the US/NATO presence in Germany and any other nations that shares a defense pact or has American troops stationed on it's soil. One only needs to look back on History to understand the current status of a country and how it got to be in the position it currently finds itself in.
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@Jet-h7q Or unlike the US, muslim militants get more social benefits in Europe than their own citizens do, no housing, delayed and overburdened "free healthcare" in Europe, low wages, runaway inflation and no securities -- you gotta love Europe.
Why again are US troops in Europe. Oh yes, because Europe couldn't get it shit together in WW1, WW1, Cold War, Balkan Conflict and now Ukraine. Run along, you're done here.
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@Ryooken Actually no. The BBC reported that he was stripped of SOME of his royal titles, however, he retains certain military titles of having "retired" from military service - these titles cannot be taken away. He is also not a private citizen - he still is part of the Royal Family but exercises no HRH status -- he is by no means a normal British citizen. His finances are from the Crown as the monies he inherited as the Queen's son, are his to control - he retains rights to those monies and they are in the millions. In actuality, should he decide to take on the court, his attorneys could stretch out the entire process until Ms. Guiffre exhausted her funding or they simply could settle with an NDA and undisclosed financial sum. The Royal Family didn't strip him of his titles because they believe he is guilty, but rather because of their image - it tarnishes it; therefore he's been relegated to the back seat until this civil court is over. Should they settle, he will be restored I'm certain of it as the onus remains on Virginia Guiffre to prove he raped her. I too, believe the Queen should have waited until it was proven to strip any title, however, the image of the family is first - therefore she didn't have much choice, I believe
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@Ryooken Hi, Yes, however, based on Royal Repatriation Act of 1773, "any member of HRM Family stripped voluntary or involuntary of titles and duties given to Her Royal Majesty or redistributed to other functionaries will be restored upon favorable determination of position which prompted aforementioned actions of said titles and duties."
This basically means that IF he's found not guilty or settles, he will be reinstated of all prior positions and bestowed upon him HRH Duty title. So in essence, he's in a "holding pattern."
Personally, I think the case will settle as it would benefit Mrs. Guiffre-Roberts more than it would him. The Duke's own funding line is in the millions not to mention property. His recent sale of the Swiss Chalet sold at $9.5 million which could fund this case for years to come - Ms Guiffre would go broke and risk paying her attorney's should she or settle out of court as any payment made will basically be gobbled up by her attorney's fees and legal actions. For him a quick settlement is to get his name out of the lights and return to status quo - in short, he can battle a lot longer than she can.
I hope more information from her side comes forward as so far there has been nothing. I've heard rumors about testimonies, but that too is sketchy unless these persons actually saw the rape occur. Also, as two nations are involved, both British and American Laws have to play together in order to ahead. We'll just have to see how it pans out.
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@niloccoling Do you have Dementia? You sent NO link whatsoever only your comments. I don't need to brag about anything - unlike you, computer boy, my credentials and profile brag for me. I see Mr. Dictionary has failed you twice now and you have no investments nor do you earn because you don't qualify for the Canadian GIC interest rate as a computer geek - as a doctor, I fortunately do; which reminds me: I do need to check on the SL for RBC Canada - strange, you're not a member? You're so poor, I bet the ducks throw breadcrumbs at you when you're at the park; Nigerian Princes wire YOU money- nice try Cleetus.😂😂
My patients must like me as I'm the youngest Bariatric Surgeon on the Consulting staff in Malmo Sweden at the moment - that title holds more weight than your title of Chief, Trekkie Wizard, master of Teabaggers (Seeing you're so fond of my balls). Why don't you tell my patients? Oh I' forgot - you don't speak, Swedish, Romanian, German, French - hell you can barely master English, let alone the grammar obviously. Liberal? No, but it's better than being an uneducated, ignorant, culturally inept silly, sorry, saggy-assed, simpleton like you.
Oh I'm a real doctor - where's your LinkedIn Profile? Don't have one or are you still busy trying to get an appointment with the dentist after inserting your toy in the wrong hole?
Run along now and go back to doing what you do the best: sucking applesauce through a straw....😃😃
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Germany is simply seeing the fallout of international immigration, low wages that cannot keep up with inflation in a nation that refuses to change and keep up with global changes. Germany took on 1 million "immigrants" in 2015 - "wir schaffen das," really meant, we need low wage workers to do the jobs our people don't want to do. The EU been the linchpin for Germany to attract Turks, Bulgarians, Poles, Czech, Hungarians and Romanians for Germany's undesired jobs, while keeping their own nations poor and economically impoverished. In short, the EU has given Germany control over Europe's economy These nation's cultural norms are easily absorbed into Germany's structured and "one way einbahnstrasse" mentality; other cultures, not so much and it shows. Outside of eased travel restrictions and alleged expansion of cross-euro employment (haven't seen many Germans going to other Euro nations for jobs), the EU hasn't done much except morph from an economical government like it's predecessor the EEC, into a political one, making threats on it's members if they do not comply with "open borders" and "human rights issues." Yet those same nations that have advocated for these open borders, are the same nations seeing a spike of violent crimes, at a rate never seen before and yes, usually, it's from the same "war refugee asylum seekers" that are usually the perpetrators. Strange though from the EU is that nations like Poland and Hungary who enforce existing immigration laws, already on the books, are threatened with sanctions and non-voting actions; yet their nations have not seen an increase in violence from asylum seekers -- just yesterday, Austria was faced with another stabbing incident or was it earlier today?
And we wonder why things are changing in Germany's political structure..we wonder why.
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@donnamauer3215 Exactly -- so how on Earth did they get orders according to Penney for a possible Kamikazi mission? Flight 093 veered off its intended course minutes after it departed Boston Logan Airport - it arrived over Pennsylvania airspace and crashed at 10:03AM. The Twin Towers were already impacted at 08:43AM - when our Department of Defense went on alert - that leaves plenty of time to "arm" two F-16s anytime after 08:43hours. It takes 8-12 minutes to arm an F-16 so that's NO EXCUSE not to be armed almost two hours after the initial attack in NYC.
Secondly, are you going to seriously tell me that our entire Air Force didn't have one single ARMED plane over US Airspace? If you think that's true, then please give me the pin number to your bank accounts as I have a Nigerian Prince who would like to deposit monies in your account. Our Air Force is the largest and most technolgically advanced Air Force in the World and along with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, we have ARMED aircraft patrolling our skies, 24-7, 7days a week, I assure you.
Third, do you honestly think that senior decision makers are going to sacrifice two pilots and two expensive F-16s in lieu of simply firing a surface, air, or sea based missle? In doing so, it would save the lives of the pilots, save the planes and minimize the falling debris of an airliner to the ground in costrast to losing two pilots, two planesa nd maximizing the fallout debris raising the possibilities of collateral damage and lives on the ground? Again, please give me your bank pin number as if you believe their story, I've got land to sell you at the bottom of the Pacific ocean.
Lastly, I don't think yo understood what I meant about a missile in your comment:
"Also, a SAM can't attempt to communicate with the crew of an aircraft and decide to call off its own attack."
Who said anything about a crew having interface with a programmed missile? It's clear you don't know military hardware or systems.
What I said was that it was more logical and feasible that a "MISSILE"" whether ground to air, air to air or even sea to air (last one being the least chosen option), would have mostly likely been used by our Missile Defense Agency tasking the Military Commands (most likely Army) to shoot down the aircraft - this scenario has ZERO to do with a surface to air missile communicating with these two pilots or trying to recall a missile for that fact - a completely illogical argument as one has nothing to do with the other.
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@PrimericanIdol No it doesn't - the French gained nothing in the long run by having the Americans leave it's nation after WW2 - it always has been, is presently and most likely, will remain in NATO, which automatically places it against any adversary that NATO sees fit.
The French economy couldn't have survived without the US Marshall Plan that President DeGaulle had to accept - so exactly how independent was France after WW2 after all? Let us not forget, the beating France took in WW2, only to be liberated by American Troops with the British in support; neither the Free french nor the French underground could have accomplished the extrication on their own.
During the Cold War France withdrew and rejoined NATO giving it "special status." Exactly what was that special status again? Oh yes, it's nuclear capabilities were to remain exclusively in French hands - great, the same goes for the UK as well, so not so special after all it would seem. Under current NATO Defense posturing, Germany can exercise the right to use Nuclear weapons (Americans based on Germany Soil), should it be attacked - in essence, what's the difference? The Netherlands too, holds that right to exercise the same options with American nuclear weapons on it's soil - in reality, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, UK and Turkey can all be considered "nuclear capable nations" should it be required under the NATO Nuclear Sharing Structure - again, France isn't special by any means and whether it had allowed American Forces to remain on it's soils doesn't appear to have made much difference in the long run.
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Unfortunately, Germany is so "efficient" that it's culture has lost almost all forms of human interactions/emotions. You are a robot at work and confined to a routine after-hours with occasional punctuations of liesure to pursue your interests. The stress factor, high burnout rate and levels of sick leave in the German Employment Sector is high and getting worse as "human elements, (however hard we chose to ignore them), remain and must be factored into the daily grind. The US, UK, Canada and most European nations handle this nicely - Germany and the Netherlands are the worst - exports are high, but upward career mobility and work/life balance is dismal to say the least. I work in HR in Germany and I can tell you that "Credentials" is not what lands you the job here -- first it's connections in the firm (Family members, friends of family or owners, former parents who worked there etc.), next it's race, next it's looks and then credentials are seen. I can't tell you the number of times, we hired a person with a bachelors degree (job called for a masters), simply because someone knew him or her. In any other country, this would be considered a court case for liability, but Germany no - it's handled "internally" and we all know what that means.
Try that in the UK and report it to the authorities - see how quick that gets exposed.
Even on vacations, Germans cannot relax. Regional differences are deep roooted and not changing anytime soon. I worked in 10 out of 17 Bundeslander and was at home in Hesse (Frankfurt) and Bavaria (Nuremberg) the most - Again, these two cities are large and had an international presence - other places I worked were simply backwards, inbred (putting it politely) and scarce of skilled employees. I will look forward to returning to Britain where after hours, I can go down to the pub and see my mates or office friends for a pint and game of darts -- everyone speaks to you in the UK; here you'll be lucky to get a nod.
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@chalke007 Don't care if we had a shift in paradigms regarding wealth or population, Brics has been ongoing since it's inception in 2009. According to a Gallup International poll conducted between October and December 2023, almost a third of people around the world had never heard of BRICS and those aware of the Brics movement were much more negative towards the alliance than elsewhere. The most negative attitudes were found in Sweden (45%), Spain (30%), the USA (30%), Portugal (29%), and Ukraine (29%) while the most positive net attitudes were in Russia (38%), Iran (37%), Nigeria (36%), Saudi Arabia (33%) and Malaysia (32%). In India, 3ne6% had a positive view of BRICS while 29% had a negative view.
Brics will not challenge the dollar nor has it been able to since 2009 as it's members lack consenus or have the In 2014, India along with China, raised the limitations of the BRICS as a political and economic "locomotive of the South" because it follows neoliberal policies. Brics has neither established new counter-balancing institutions nor come up with an alternative ideology. Furthermore, the BRICS project, cannot challenge the primacy of the United States and not even an institution such as NATO for example.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS/limitations-39x/P33GGigN
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No one exploited Britney except her family and most of all herself. The family aided to the overall decline of her fame coupled with the fact that she didn't know how to handle it.
Justin Timberlake had zero to do with it - she used him and cheated on him as well according to JT - so the one-sided "he did her wrong," doesn't apply here whatsoever. She went crazy, shaving her head, on drugs, running around acting like a lunatic was all on HER. Her own children were given to Kevin Federline who raised those children - not Britney. No one gives Federline credit there as if he doesn't even exist. She then comes out with a "tell-all" book which is only what women do when they want attention. Notice that men never come out with a "tell-all," because we don't care and we don't try to cash in on controversy by creating drama and continued messes. How would Britney feel if the men in her life, depicted her character in a "tell-all" book? She'd be pissed. But for her to call men out, is perfectly ok. Again, it's a woman's way of creating drama and trying to profit from it based on unresolved "emotions," they themselves create and fester under. Britney now want to retire and focus on being a mother? To whom? Two young men aged 18 and 19 now? Where was she when those diapers needed changing, formula to be fed, up with the nanny and Kevin late at night? She was working to provide yes, but now to be a mother? A little late. Can you imagine the outcry if a man were to concentrate on his two daughters who are now 18 and 19 years old? Every woman here would be yapping about "where was he all this time? = Same applies to Britney.
Women better start realizing that these "Tell all" books are simply childish and are only done to "backpay" someone or themselves in a situation, they placed themselves in. The best of for Britney to do is charity work, guest appearances or live her life quietly with what's left of her family. The more attention she calls on others is the more drama and attention she'll draw on herself.
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Your entire comment made no sense and doesn't even attempt to address the real issue here and that is "Assimilation." The Netherlands is not an Islamic country and never was.
We are talking about a religion (Islam) that is NOT congruent with the Dutch relgious structure of 20 percent Catholic Church, 14 percent were Protestant, 5 percent Muslim and the remainder 55 percent splintered (Mormon, Jehovah Witness, aethiest). In short the Muslim religion, tied to the Muslim Culture is 5 percent in a nation that has seen a sharp increase in Jihadism which continues to pose the biggest terrorist threat to the Netherlands. That means that the Muslim Culture has created the highest spike in crime rates of the Netherlands, yet, only accounts for 5% of the nation's religious presence. A minority religious group does not dictate religious rights in a nation that isn't of the Islamic faith - period.
Secondly, culture is not religion and complaining about Dutch Culture has ZERO to do with the intolerance of the Muslim Community having "difficulties" adhering to the nation's culture that they (Muslim) emigrated to in the first place. If Muslims do not want to abide by a nation's laws and culture, then don't emigrate here OR emigrate to another country that holds the same belief as the nation one departed from - rather simple. How many Dutch people do you see emigrating to Muslim nations and refusing to integrate into their society???? ZERO that's how many because no Islamic nation would tolerate what western nations have been tolerating and you know that too.
A country doesn't change it's religion or culture based on a MINORITY culture or religion and if those persons of a certain culture or religious group cannot adhere or adapt, to a country THEY CHOSE TO EMIGRATE to, then they should be immediately deporated.
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Matt - I agree with you. Also, what I would like to know is why MEN have ZERO choices when it comes to either pro-life / pro-choice simply because the woman carries the child. Roe VS Wade gave women the complete control of life and men zero. Outside of rape or minors becoming pregnant due to limited or no knowledge of the reproductive system, there should never be a "surprise" or unplanned pregnancy. Men have the condom; women have the Pill, Morning after Pill, IUD, and least effective but better than a condom, a diaphragm. I have worked in hospitals for over 15 years now and the cases of men being duped, forced or lied to about a pregnancy is unbelievable. There should be a mandatory Paternity Test for every child born in the USA so a man should never be forced to support a child he didn't father. We have thousands of cases in states like VA and FL where men are forced to pay child support to children belonging to another man - ridiculous. The most common case we find is when a woman decides she wants to "keep" the man she's dating, she'll purposely discontinue to usage of protection after dating exclusively for a period of time (usually around 6-12 months). At this stage, the man, usually, isn't wearing a condom any longer based on the wishes of BOTH partners being in an "exclusive and trusted" relationship. Before you know it: Surprise, I'm pregnant!, even though no surprises took place during the first 6 months of the relationship. It's not a surprise as it was planned by the woman due to maternal instincts and wanting to start a family with "Prince Charming" BTW: Prince Charming wasn't consulted about her desires to start a family - he just has to play along now. Roe VS Wade has shut the man completely out of the decision-making process. He has ZERO choices of either being in the child's, life, paying support for 18 years, having to possibly marry (mainly religious/cultural reasons), or have an say if the pregnancy will be aborted or carried out - again, he has ZERO input. So now, Roe VS Wade is overturned and women are screaming about rights to THEIR bodies? What about men having rights in the decision-making process of wanting or not wanting to be a father? Women are quick to mandate a man's role when it comes to alimony, child support and financial obligations, but any other input is not only unwelcome, but legally blocked for a man. Yes, women will read this and say "it's because the women carry the child." True, however, it's also a woman who controls the entrance to her vagina and if she doesn't want a child, don't let a man enter without having a condom on, AND she should also be protected by her contraceptive. Again, outside of rape, the woman has to AGREE to let a man enter her vagina - if he's not wearing a condom, he doesn't get the key - simple as that. The man too, has to be responsible and wear protection; however as I stated before, once in an exclusive relationship, both parties tend to leave the condom on the shelf as it's understood that the women's protection is far better than a piece of rubber. Roe VS Wade had good provisions regarding cases of bodily harm, rape or medical issues, but it forgot to address men's rights as well. It takes two to create a child, yet only one to make the choice whether it lives or not - doesn't sound correct to me.
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@MdVaDc Seriously you cannot be this dumb to actually tell others that Trump didn't "do anything" and while we're on the subject -- WHAT sources are YOU getting your information from? What makes you think that YOU haven't been manipulated? Here's what we do know:
Trump was impeached TWICE
Trump is being held responsible for the insurrection that happened under his watch in which he incited
Trump would not defy racism nor denounce racial tensions in the US - in fact, anarchist organizations support him (I'm certain you're part of that set as well).
Trump claims to have increased trade but he didn't - his daughter, however received licensing rights in China for her companies, yet Trump claimed he got "tough" on China.
North Korea - disaster - nothing new and let's not even get started about his Putin praises over his own intelligence agencies - of course, you'll say our agencies are brainwashed too right?
Unhinged? During Trump's tenure, we had more changes (hiring/firings) of administrations than the last 4 presidents combined with zero outcome - weekly press briefings canceled, sex scandals (yes, you know who), Ukraine Scandal - everyone is still waiting for Hunter Biden's computer to surface -yeah right and please, no reference to Clinton's emails - dead subject for years now, yet you'd get unhinged every time someone says trump waited too late on Covid - which he did. Again, where do you get YOUR news sources from? OANN, FOX, Alex Jones - all getting SUED for false news and "alternative facts." Let me know when ABC, CBS, CNN, BBC, Deutsche Welle all get sued. Oh I' almost forgot - Trump tried to sue CNN and LOST right along with 61 court cases regarding election fraud along with Giuliani who's also getting prosecuted.
You have the audacity to rage on about Democrats as if Republicans are pure - idiot. Just take a look at Herschel Walker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Gohmert, Bobbitt, Gaetz and your all time favorite George Santos - or is his name really George?
Again, what are your news sources? Oh yes, I'm not a democrat, so you can control alt delete that Bullsh*t right now and reroute your GPS to someone who gives a damn about you because I don't. What you need to do is get an education, stop wearing that white hood so you can see clearly and get with 2023 - I know the period of 2009-2017 under Barack Obama was a ""dark-period" for you - so ignorant, that I could give you two magnets and you still couldn't make ends meet. Trump was the WORST president this nation has had causing or being involved in one scandal and upheaval after another during his 4 year tenure. I bet it takes you two hours to watch a segment of "60 Minutes."
Run along, you're done here.
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@MdVaDc Screw ups? Are you retarded or do you prefer being labeled intellectually challenged. You know damn well that the 4 years under Drumpf was the worst in this nation - constant scandals, impeachments, firings, staff replacements, too much "golf course" time, international relations disasters and NO, the economy was not better under than Trump - He inherited a ZERO balance structure from Obama which already saw improvements in the nation's economy - don't even try it. Secondly, do you REALLY want to talk about sexual orientation when the Republican Party is riddled with sexual allegations ranging from Walker to Gaetz, Trump himself and others? Seriously? Didn't Trump hire Betsy Devos for Secretary of Education - please show up her BACKGROUND which made her a candidate outside of her financial contribution - what about Dr. Carson? HUD Secretary - damn, he's a neurosurgeon with zero experience in Housing; Boy, you've lost your damn mind, not to worry, we can help you find it. Trump appointed his own kids in positions they neither have an academic background in OR expertise - so you can control alt delete that BS right now Get your facts together fool.
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It's simple: Trump won because:
America as a whole is TIRED of Woke Culture with corporations and academic institutions going too far - most are punished or discriminated against (i.e. Me Too Movement) which is strange considering that 90% of high labor, blue collar, mortality dangerous positions in transport, construction, defense, sanitation, finance and medical are performed by MEN.
Harris was "rushed" onto the Public and didn't distinguish well what HER platform would be aside from a continuation of Biden's despite the fact that the Biden Administration made very good progress in the overall economy. This was largely unknown as the Democrat Party barely toots it's own horn, thus leaving many Americans leaning towards the more "vocal" party which is Republican.
Social Media gave Trump 24-7 coverage on every aspect of his life. This allowed MAGA groups to establish a stronger base and increase their presence in those states already leaning towards Trump.
The Democrats failed to identify and capitalize the real issues facing America and spent more time "reacting" to MAGA antics leaving Americans to wonder what the Democratic Platform really was.
News: Journalists didn't directly call out lying political figures when they should have. If necessary, you "cut their mics" and broadcast the FACTS to the American Public, not let politicans go on lying and convincing many Americans (who have no education or knowledge in Politics), to continue to believe those lies. News agencies in the US are sponsored by or have stakeholders who lean left or right, so the news is jaded to begin with.
Americans: Americans as a whole, are largely ignorant of politics both internal and external to their nation. We actually have Americans that have voted for persons who's backgrounds have been riddled with controversy ranging from sexual abuse charges, illegal financial handlings to economic corruption and the lack of BASIC experience or academic education to the position they were given. All of this remains immaterial to 90% of Americans who vote on looks, charisma and whoever can toss the most mud. Academic standings mean nothing in the USA; having experience or an education is a non-player when voting people in office - a very dangerous practice.
Lastly, America isn't ready for a female president. It was barely ready for a minority president and it's highly unlikely even another minority president will not happen again anytime soon.
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@cnccarving No we wouldn't as US Radar Technology is FAR more advanced than what Russia had then and has now. Secondly, KAL 007 did fly into Russian Air Space over Sakhalin Island but Russian radar couldn't distingush KAL 007 from a US KC-135 Spy Plane that was flying in international waters near the Japanese Island of Hokkaido (Misawa AB) - that's how bad their radars were then. The USSR Pilot shot down the KAL 007 for two reasons - one the radar clutter of the Russian defense system couldn't distinguish between the two planes many distance apart and that months before, Mathias Rust (German Pilot) landed his Cessna in Red Square which not only showed that the Soviet Air Force wasn't well advanced, but it's ABM missile systems covering Moscow had serious setbacks as well. The USSR's old Command couldn't afford another "intrusion" of it's airspace giving the World a real glimpse of it's defensive drawbacks in technology and ordered the "plane" to be shot down. KAL 007 was a political victim based on weak Soviet Technology and cold war tactics used by the USA and it's allies.
We are now seeing the Ukraine War playing out in bad ways in which political figures on both sides are maneuvering around at the expense of both average Ukraine/Russian citizens alike.
To this date, both countries (USA/Russia) fly on the peripheral international waters off each other's coast as long as I have been born - that will not change nor it is an "alarm code red." I can however, assure you that the US Defense Systems are far more advanced that Russia's and have always been. Since the disintegration of the USSR in 1989, Putin has been trying to "upgrade" Russia to it's previous position - that's not going to happen as China has surpassed Russia in all areas of Defense - in short, Russia is a regional power but no longer the superlative power she once was. Outside of Nuclear War - which is a paper tiger as it's self-destruction and in particular with an opponent who is on "nuclear-equality" with a nation that is threatening nuclear war (in this case Russia), it's simply suicide - Putin knows this - he's not dumb. Unfortunately, Putin has placed himself into a corner when he attacked the Ukraine, by trying to establish the former USSR's geographical boundaries that no longer exist. The nation's that used to be satellite countries of the former USSR are all in NATO now - that was THEIR choice - plain and simple. Putin's provocations has done nothing but cause upheaval in the border areas and made Sweden/Finland join NATO - not what he was expecting. It would be nice if a peaceful solution could be found, but as long as Putin threatens and cries Wolf, he will bury himself deeper into a hole as NATO can match Russia and overwhelm it by both military, financial and economical means for a LONG time bleeding Russia's military dry and drying up it's financial means to wage a regional conflict. China has already told Putin there will be no involvement from them as their focus is more worth in economical trade with the USA their largest partner - even the warmongering with Taiwan has ceased as China knows, it will bring about nothing in the end. Personally, war is profit and it has always been --- it's always the poor average person of each country that suffers.
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@cadetrenew We have always had ample ground to air missiles ranging from hand held to vehicle mounted systems. the US Starstreak is the fastest surface to air missile in the World. We also have the PATRIOT Missile System MM-104 “Patriot”), Terminal High Altitude Air Defense, and the Avenger Air Defense system which fires the FIM-92 Stinger missile.
RIM-7 Sea Sparrow, RIM-66 Standard, FIM-92 Stinger, RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile IRIM-156A Standard, RIM-161 Standard Missile 3, RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow RIM-174 Standard ERAM and NASAMS (Used to protect high-value targets and Washington, D.C.) and U.S.
Our air to air missiles AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-120 AMRAAM
Submarine launched: UGM-133 Trident II, UGM-109 Tomahawk, UGM-84 Harpoon
So lin lieu of on the most advanced and best Air defenses over US Air Space, our Air Force alone in combination with the MDA has enough firepower to liquidate any flying target over US Airspace. Our airspace is not only watched by pilots of the Air Force, but we have assets at the national-level that monitor 24-7, 7-days a week.
With that said, you mean to tell me that ALL these systems failed and our USAF didn't have one single armed plane on that particular day that could have intercepted flight 93? Even you don't believe that, I'm sure.
The story of these two require further scrutiny and I would like to see an expanded interview entailing their commanding officers who gave those orders and the chain of command that authorized this "kamikaze" effort. According to these two, this gathering of information should be no problem to collect as it would solidify their stories and identify the alleged weakness of the US Air Defense system on that day right? It's only been over 20 years that primarily Penney has been touting this story primarily in the DC Beltway area, with absolutely NO proof of the authenticity of the story thus so far. The only thing that's missing from their story is the smoking man from the X Files, Jeff Goldblum as the scientific advisor at the Command Post at Joint Andrews Base and Penney & Sasseville playing Volleyball with Goose and Maverick 😁😁🤣🤣
air to air and sea to air missiles totalling over
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@julez8053 Hi and thanks for that excellent comment - She is allowed to repeat this "inflated" story as it serves two purposes for the American public: 1. The story creates a "feel-good" response to a tragic event such as 911 and 2, the story lends to the feminist movement cementing the equality of men and women defending our country. This has happend before: Our Media (with the assistance of the White House and Department of Defense) created a similar "feel good" story regarding Private Jessica Lynch; the "story" turned out to be disaster ONCE seasoned Journalists starting dissecting the details told by the Pentagon. This story too is similar in nature, but has far more questionable characteristics to which our Media doesn't give the slightest hint to further investigate. Have you noticed that not one of Lt. Heather Penney's superiors or key personnel that would have issued the so called "suicide mission" has come forward, been interviewed or corroborated her story to this date? Although the SECDEF at the time is deceased, the HQ ACC Commander at the time to include the JCS is still living. Why hasn't our Media interviewed them? For her to imply that there were ZERO armed aircraft over US Skies on that date, is ludicrous, let alone an insult to our Missile Defense Agency (called BMDO) at the time who's mission it most likely would have been to shoot down the Flight 93 instead of a Kamikazee strike, destroying 2 F-16s ($60.million a piece), two trained pilots thus causing massive debris falling from the skies into the populated areas below. It does not take an F-16 15 minutes to arm but rather 8; any crew chief will tell you that. Flight 093 left Newark at 08:43AM and crashed aroun 10:50AM over Pennsylvania with the nearest urban area of Pittsburgh. Flight 093 was tracked immediately from Boston and watched as the Twin Towers were impacted at 08:46AM and 09:05AM - So Flight 093 was already off course and being monitored at that time. I believe that would have given more than ample time to have the US skies defended without resorting to Kamikazze tactics. Also at 09:37, the Pentagon was struck by Flight 77 which had the DoD on full alert, in particular the Air Force. So with a 1/12 hour gap of collision and flight 93 still flying over PA, no plane was armed or could have been as again, it takes 8 minutes to arm an F-16, far shorter timespan than 1 1/2 hours. The entire story is riddled with holes that it resembles Swiss Cheese with a door. What compels me the most is the lack of Media attention that this story certainly warrants an "in-depth" investigation. This story also appears on every 9th of September with zero follow-ups, new people to interview or key personnel that were involved in that Kamikazee decision-making-process. Ms. Penny (now a civilian) has made quite a profit from her lecture fees in/around the DC Beltway. In 2006, Penney joined Lockheed Martin while still serving part-time with the Air National Guard. During her time at Lockheed Martin, she spent a great deal of time working on the F-35 project. On September 7, 2017, Penney and her father, Col. John Penney, gave a lecture, titled, “9/11 Perspectives” at National Air and Space Museum, as part of the GE Aviation Lecture Series. After leaving Lockheed in 2018, Penney joined the think tank, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies as a "defense policy expert." Since her degree is in Literature from Purdue University, I wonder what enabled her to become a "Defense Policy Expert," which requires a PhD/MD in Political Sciences, Defense, or Strategic Studies. I'm certain that her Literature Degree didn't get her that job and like her father, (also a pilot), would be better suited as a civilian pilot but certainly not a Defense Expert. Penney also appeared as an air power analyst on the television documentary series Bullet Points - yet our Media doesn't show the slightest interest in the most blatant discrepancies and inconsistencies in her story.
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@julez8053 Hi and thanks for your comment - I wrote you back earlier with a detailed chain of events that I know as a former Intelligence Director who worked the 911 incident as well. This woman's story is not true and I don't believe one ounce of it. My previous response to you was deleted as it went into detail about Penney's story which is like Swiss Cheese with a door to put it mildly. Ranging from no armed aircraft on that day to not having time to arm her aircraft (any crew chief will tell you it takes between 8-12 minutes) and getting "Kamikaze" orders when flight 93 crashed at 10:50 nowhere near DC, but closer to Pittsburgh. Also, Penney's chain of command in a wartime situation would have been directed by the DoD and not a civilian agency -in fact, HQ ACC would have been directed by the JCS visa-vie the SECDEF and the VP to expedite any response. In short, her unit was and remained a non-player in the 911 timeframe. Flight 93 would have been taken down by a missile from our Ballistice Defense Missile Office, now known as Missile Defense Agency, over sacrificing two pilots, $120million dollars (2 F16 costs), and double debris coming down below - give me a break. Also, an intelligence specialist under attack conditions, would not be looking at data in "open-source" avenues by any means - I should know having been one for 30 years. I could go on in detail, but my response will probably get deleted again. This is a "feel good story" for the American Public and a good story for the feminist presence in the DoD. Ask yourself this question: Why hasn't ANYONE in her former chain of command that would have been invovled in such a "heroic" situation, come forward and verify her story? The former SECDEF is deceased, but the then, HQ ACC Commander is still alive along with the former JCS and VP - so why is she the only one getting paid to lecture on a story our Media has not even investigated nor shows any interest in doing so? Her story is similar to the Jessica Lynch story which fell apart once journalists started digging. I don't doubt for one moment that retired Lt Col Penney served her country honorably, just like I have, but this story needs A LOT of further investigation as it is simply too unbelievable that our entire air defense was dependent on two ANG pilots to "save the USA." All that is missing is Jeff Goldblum and an alien aircraft.
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@ВикВик-н8я Я скажу вам, что я говорю, поскольку у вас, похоже, проблемы с пониманием прочитанного.
Во-первых, я сказал, что операция "Барбаросса" началась в июне 41-го, что это было вторжение Германии в Советский Союз; я никогда не говорил, что Сталинградская битва началась в 41-м. Во-вторых, я утверждал, что немцы находились в Советском Союзе с 1941 по 1944 год после высадки союзников на Западе в день Д в Нормандии. Ваши войска не в одиночку сломали хребет немцам - о нет. Погодные условия, второй фронт в Западной Европе и материальная поддержка союзников Советского Союза (в первую очередь США и Великобритании) помогли Советскому Союзу справиться с немцами. Если бы не открылся второй фронт, или немцы посадили бы свои войска на мель до "генеральского мороза", а СССР не снабжался бы союзниками, я очень сомневаюсь, что они одни победили бы немцев, которые были в вашей стране с 1941 по конец 1944 года - этому тоже учат российских школьников? Я также прекрасно знаю о Сталинградской битве - город был разрушен и отстроен заново, чтобы впоследствии называться Вологоградом после того, как Сталин был осужден Никитой Хрущевым в 1956 году. Я не сомневаюсь, что советские военные доблестно сражались и делали все возможное для борьбы с немецким вермахтом; их нужно чествовать и по праву. Однако утверждать, что СССР победил Германию в одиночку, неточно, и это было моей изначальной позицией с самого начала.
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@kindface You can beg all you want - you're certainly entitled to your opinion, however wrong it might be. Macron's visit to China with EU Commissioner Von Der Leyden and most recently the Foreign Minister for Germany brought ZERO results on Beijing's position in relations to the Ukraine War and trade agreements. China didn't accept Macron's position about representing Europe as a whole while Paris is burning and riots abound in all of France - simply put, if Xi Jinping wanted to know Spain's position on any matters, he'd speak directly to Spain's current leader Pedro Sanchez directly, not the French President or Germany's Foreign Minister. As EU Commissioner Von Der Leyen's job is to promote, foster and regulate executive powers in policies such as competition and external trade - NOT military positions of EU Nations nor lecture China on it's strategic position of foreign affairs - in short, she was out of her element as well. She is, at most, equivalent to China's Financial Minister Liu Kun who deals directly with other nation's financial ministers; Von Der Leyen's position is advisor at best - she cannot speak for any nation's foreign minister; only as the EU Advisor and certainly is not at the same level of a nation's president or premier and that includes Germany's Foreign Minister Barebock as well - her Chinese counterpart is Quin Gang - get the picture? As I said earlier, China didn't change it's stance regarding the visits whatsoever...I wonder why? In short, China will not be "lectured to" by an EU Advisor, a German Foreign Minister who has ZERO knowledge of Foreign Affairs (Please google her) and EU Advisor (Formerly failed Defense Minster of Germany, please google her as well),and a French President who doesn't represent any other nation except his own and barely was elected in the last election of his nation - please google French riots and you'll see exactly how popular he is in his own country at the moment - he has the nerve to tell China about it's position in Global affairs while his own country is rioting over HIS early retirement reforms?? Talk about hypocrisy at it's finest - as of today, China has not supported Russia in the Ukraine with either financial or military aid nor has it renounced Russia's position
Lastly, you assume my country of residence or origin is "Liberal." Tell me kind Sir, what country do I reside in or am of origin? Be careful what you assume - you just might make yourself look foolish....again.
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@mentlinc Very nicely written and logical. I agree there is a segment of truth to this story, but a very, very, small segment. What I don't understand is that there is no other person that has been interviewed on this "incredible" story that placed these two on a suicide mission from the Top Brass according to Penney - It would have been nice to have members of their former Chain of Command interviewed and all others who were participants invovled in this patriotic undertaking that would have sacrificed two lives, two expensive F-16s and increased the plane's debris to the ground causing more destruction versus hmmm, a missile strike thus saving the pilot's, lives, saving the planes and minimizing the debris? I guess that would have made too much sense for our Top Brass to figure out in time - after all, we had ZERO armed aircraft that day, NORAD took a vaction, our Missile Defense Agency was on strike so it came down to two ANG pilots, who didn't have time to arm their F-16s (takes 8-12 minutes to do) because Flight 093 left Newark at 08:43 just minutes after the Twin Towers were hit.Flight 093 crashed at Stonycreek PA - the closest airport is Pittsburgh - it takes 1 hour and 35 minutes to fly nonstop from Newark to Pittsburgh. It takes 1 hour and 5 minutes to fly nonstop from Pittsburgh to Washington DC - thus giving plenty of time to have 2 F-16s armed and ready to intercept the plane heading towards the nation's capital - the story simply doesn't make sense and hasn't for 20 years. I believe you are correct regarding the "Saving face" comment as our Media and journalists have yet to ask these simple logical questions to either one of these two NOR is there anyone else coming forward to corroborate their heroic story, that many are so eager to believe without any evidence. Not only will this story be hailed and written in the books, I wouldn't be surprised if in the next few years, a movie will appear too with a special appearance from Goose and Maverick.
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@biziluxgames8924 Don't bother -- I live in Europe too and Americans voted for a convicted felon, ex-president twice impeached, awaiting civil trials to no end and some federal ones in relations to classified holdings, 5 bankruptcies and personal issues beyond belief. We have changed 3 Prime Ministers in 5 years and are about to change this one if he doesn't shape things up - a criminal record would eliminate any contender for PM here in the UK - period - no question, no debates and all this garbage of "fake news," "alternative facts" and other silly word soup that only excuses the facts from being separated from fiction - lie enough and the masses will believe it - unfortunately. I had the great opportunity to stay in the USA and enjoyed it very well - however, the education level and questionable "common sense" level is distinctively different from the urban areas I frequented from those in the middle of the nation to the deep south where I experienced some of the oddest quirks ever. I have found that Americans don't vote for the important issues but rather vote for the most flamboyant, the most mudslinging characters, the most loud, audacious and controversial - that's who Americans vote for and then in the same breath - regret it through the same Social Media that promoted it in the first place. Crazy. I'm going to get 100 or more of hate responses but I don't care. Like you, I'd like to know what 5 things did Trump do in his 4 year term that made things better and the following he DID NOT DO:
Border control - worsened during his tenure - the wall was NOT paid for by Mexico, families separated, violence and confrontation and mayhem between federal and state resources resolving into nothing.
International Affairs - This one was one big disaster from begining to end; Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas all insulted, angered and confused to this man's actions which resulted in no breakthrough on any front (China, North Korea, Taiwan, NATO, ASEAN and South America - ZERO results)
Economy: The US economy was in good shape when Trump assumed the presidency. Despite the outcry from MAGA, Barack O'Bama (yes he is a US Citizen, born in Hawaii), increased the economy by 48.3% - more than George Bush Jr's rate of 27%. That rate has been lost by a decrease of 28.5% under Trumps Tenure. I just love his comment about the jobs created when in fact they were not created under his time, but rather decreased. China gave his daughter all the Production Rights to have her products manufactured in China - a win win for the family, but a loss for workers here.
Defense: A decrease, uncertainly and fracture at the Pentagon. A creation of the "Space Force" was created to date, has no real mission outside of what already had existed under the US Space Command and Air Force Space Command at Peterson AFB CO, - the commander is the same person for both - hmmmm, wonder why that was? Now we have a Space Force, another level of bureacracy (not needed) and to this date - 90% of Space Command's funding, assets and manpower are a direct deduction from the existing US And AF Space Command - in short - redundancy at it's finest.
Administration: The Trump Administration saw more hiring/firing of key personnel than the last 5 presidencies - that's ridiculous but common when hiring individuals who have ZERO education or expertise in the areas they were nominated and pushed through Congress for - it's happening again. A Secretary of Defense nomination who has scandals, adultery charges, SA charges, alcohol issues and a bad grade from his own Mother - yes, that's who should be the SECDEF. Under Trump's time, the USA experienced the nation's first insurrection from people who's IQ could go vertigo in a sewer - these same radicalist are now being free giving them the green light to believe such behavior is acceptable in a Democracy.
Again, here in Europe, that individual wouldn't even be considered to be a short order cook at a restaurant.
Oh we have our issues here in England/UK/Europe, but at least we don't have the USA type problems not by a long shot.
Good Luck USA, you're going to need it.
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And our five finger discount gives us pleasure you can’t even amount to without all the emotional dribble😂😂😂😂 it’s about time u heifers realize you’re not the prize after all😂😂😂😂 the only difference between a prostitute and a girlfriend is that a man pays the prostitute once; with you all, we pay for a lifetime — your box ain’t worth 1/4th the childish drama u bring and now it’s getting more attention😂😂 women all crying on the internet finding no man, buying cats or better yet, go find that bear in the woods😂😂😂😂
You dummies don’t even realize that so long us men compromise 90% of the World‘s hard labor, high intensive employment that created all the amenities u women depend on, you’ll never be the more powerful gender. And no, your juice box isn’t going to turn the tide as without our milk, those eggs shrivel and die by 40 — we can shoot our sugar daddy our milk until we‘re 80 just ask Robert Deniro and his much YOUNGER wife who played her cards right instead of touting the radical feminist position I am woman hear me roar!!!! More like meow when the car beaks, roof needs repair, tire change, heavy lifting, construction, oh oh a spider! Oh wait, when are u ladies going to ne mandated to sign up for the draft😂😂😂😂😂. It’s about time that you Wonder Women realize that your invisible plane was built by a man😂😂😂😂😂 PS Us guys can fake orgasms too😂😂😂😂
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No one cares -- Brics has been preaching an overtake of the dollar for over 15 years now and nothing has happened. Internal fighting amongst it's own members, weak currencies like the Ruble and the fact that out of the World's 193 nations, the US Dollar is universal with the excepction of 10 countries; out of those 10 countries, here are strongest currencies in Brics:
1. France - largest trading partner: Germany - 1 Euro equals 1.5 Dollars
2. UAE - largest trading partner: China and US on an equivalent level - 1 Dollar equals 3.67 UAE Dirhams
3. Brazil - largest trading partner: China - 1 Dollar equals 6.00 Brazilian Reals.
4. China - largest trading partner: USA - 1 Dollar equals 7.00 Juans
5. South Africa - largest trading partner: China - 1 Dollar equals 18.6 South African Rands
6. Iran - largest trading partner: China - 1 Dollar equals 42.8 Iranian Rials
7. Egypt - largest trading partner: China and US on an equivalent level - 1 Dollar equals 50.00 Egyptian Pounds
8. India - largest trading partner: China - 1 Dollar equals 84.68 Indian Rupees
9. Russia - largest trading partner: China - 1 Dollar equals 110 Russian Rubles
10. Ethiopia - largest trading partner: China - Dollar equals 121.7 Ethiopian Barrs.
The strongest currency against the US Dollar is the Euro by France which is straddling along the border as it's currency is the Euro which is on par with the US Dollar. Unfortunately for Brics, the remaining members's currency are no match for the US Dollar currently Iran, Ethiopia and Russia's internal conflicts have deflated their currencies to being non-players in the World's financial markets. China, the largest Brics economy has the USA for it's largest trading partner - in short, China is extremeley limited on flexing it's Brics position as any move against the Dollar, hurts it's economy as well. France too is extremely limited on going "brics" as it's trading partners are all on the Euro or Dollar playing field thus making France a "moot" player in challenging the Dollar.
Brics' future is limited and becoming more so as political events take shape. So long as the World's Bank is US driven and the Dollar is the currency most traded of 183 nations, Brics will stumble along, but be limited in overtaking the US Dollar as the World's most traded currency.
This is most obvious as the World's second largest economy (China) is dependent on the US Dollar; no one is checking for the Yuan and the US Dollar is projected to be the World's reserve currency to 2050 due to quantity and demand.
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@mph650 It was more than that -- the Biden Administration accepted Woke Culture to a point where the Majority of people felt threatened to some extent. Keep in mind that America is still very much conservative with liberal pockets in larger urban areas or those states like Orgeon for example, known for it's liberal paths, BUT still vote conservative as a whole.
Most men tend to vote conservative along with 43% of women in the USA. Although painful to admit, most men in America have felt undervalued in areas such as Judical (Courts), and equality due to radical feminism attacking them. Just recent for example, the TV Show the "View" actually had an entire show based on the topic "Do we really need men?" Now think about that for a moment. Men make up 90% of not only the USA's blue collar, high intensive labor, high mortality rate and mobile employment in Transport, Freight, Construction, Engineering, Medical (Surgical) and Sanitation - all those areas that make your daily life rotate but also in the entire World - again, men make up 90% of this workforce. The audacity of a woman's show to make such a topic was so sad and delusional. What made matters worse is that the View's staff regarding lighting, construction, cameraperson and sound are all MEN. Had these men gotten angry and walked off the set, the View would have gone to "commercial" immediately. Enough said.
Now think about men seeing examples like this with words of mansplaining, manspreading, male hate, in short, the last thing a man wanted to see was a woman campaigning saying "girl I got this!" Men said no and voted for the Unholy Orange. Conservative women too, were angry with some instances such as men claiming to be women, beating out real biological women out of sports and other categories to demaning to use women's restrooms despite the fact these "women" have male genitalia. Abortion was another issue and again, conservative women leaned towards the Unholy Orange despite the fact his administration overturned Roe VS. Wade - go figure right?
In short, America was afraid of a female president who was going to "extend" Biden's policies which in themselves were not bad - however, the Democratic Party failed to highlight all the good things Biden's Administration did. Instead, the Democratic Party was more preoccupied with challenging and quelching the GOP's crazy antics and scandals that seemed to change on a daily basis.
Even the aftermath of the Unholy Orange being elected, women came out with the 4 B movement which was and remains a DISASTER as it doesn't focus on the REAL reasons, the Unholy Orange was elected. What is the point of shaving your head, separating yourself from men that voted for the Unholy Oranage due to fear or not really understanding the Harris Platform as it was never really explained to what that specific platform will or will not bring forward. In the end those in the 4B Movement will be bald, unhappy and alone with nothing gained except their personal loss. For the feminists: Men aren't supposed to vote for your candidate simply because you want them to - that's not equality; that's entitlement. It would be no different had men gotten angry with their women had Harris won - they only thing gained is anger and men have no right to tell women how to vote with vice verse being accurate as well.
In the end, the nation gets what it voted for - that's a democracy which the US is. Frankly, I think the Unholy Orange won't last for his entire 4 years as he's no longer juicy as before. From a medical perspective, it appears he's forgetting things, slurs his speech, stumbles frequently and has medical issues - that's ageing and possible signs of Alzheimers or even Dementia. Only time will tell. In the meantime, be thankful for what you've got and strive ahead to be the best that you are and can be.
We are the players, and Life is the game.
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@artnull13 Sanctions and Russian Energy are fluid factors when comparing "EXISTING" Russian Overseas Assets in both Vienna and London. Sanctions only result in assets being rebranded, and allocated to other funding lines in order to hide the original owner As a reminder, the onus is on YOU to prove me wrong as I challenged your initial comment - you have yet to do so.
Instead of providing what you claimed, you resorted to attempted triggered shaming, insults and bullying tactics
Again, to date, (no not 10 years ago), London currently holds over $20 Billion Russian assets - Vienna doesn't even come close. Vienna, however, can claim that it has become the new "espionage city" in Europe for Russian Intelligence - it's called Google, you might want to try using it sometime.
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@ashdav9980 You bet they will which is what most Europeans don't even realize. This is exactly why the EU Commissioner Von Der Leyen made the announcement that Europe has to cut back on it's welfare programs in order to fund a war budget. Notice how SHE, an Eu Commissioner, not a president, premier, prime-minister or chancellor of ANY nation made the announcement? This is so the average citizens don't get angry and start riots heraing this news from their elected heads of state.
The US funds 75% of NATO and now that the military funding for Ukraine has stopped from the USA, NATO is the only thing left that hasn't been cut. If the US cuts their spending in NATO to 50%, European nations are going to have to scramble even more to make up that deficit as well. What's worse is that the average German who is on welfare, for example, has already suffered enough, as Germany made it priority 1 to give both legal and illegal immigrants/refugees on 100% welfare benefits over their own citizens. Now it's going to get even worse, but not for those immigrants, but rather again, the German citizen on welfare.
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@pricklypear7516 Her brain stopped developing from the moment that she "believed" a story based on NOTHING MORE than comments made by Penny, who again, HAS YET to have her story verified by either those that worked with her, her then chain of command or the US Air Force, or those crew chiefs that were responsible for servicing her plane, or the timing of her story, or the fact that we had agencies in place that could shoot down an airliners without the expense of losing two pilots and $160 million dollars (2 X F-16s cost), or the fact that we didn't have ONE SINGLE ARMED aircraft on the US Eastern Front at the time, or the fact that NOT ONE MAJOR US NEWS STATION has carried her story with OTHERS present to verify what happend despite the fact that the then Air Combat Commander is still alive and well, who could easily corroborrate her story as her top superior, or the request for the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on all documentating exactly SHOWING her "Kamikazee" orders in writing as they would no longer be classified - --- so why don't you attempt to answer those questions or are you just as brain dead as some others here who blindly believe ANYTHING someone spews out without ANY fact checks or validiation? Sit down, you're done here
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Another UN attorney who turned her back on Human Rights in her own country of Italy by allowing African immigrants to drown in the Mediterranean, turned her back by allowing the Mafia Comorra to continue executing violent human rights in Naples and southern Italy. Where was her human rights concern when she traveled to Australia first class paid for by Hamas — also a terrorist organization that currently used Gaza and Palestinians to launch a terrorist attack on Israel, Oct 2023 — she hasn’t voiced any concerns about the violations committed during that event — that event that resulted in Gaza‘s destruction and suffering as a consequence — strange, she never mentions that ’tiny’ aspect of the crisis.
Where has she been in the last 4 years regarding human right violations regarding the Ukraine Russia conflict or worse yet, Sudan? She’s a UN Attorney on Human Rights — one would think she’d have spearheaded at least the Sudanese dilemma as it’s been going on longer and more horrific than the Ukraine Russia conflict — maybe, the Sudanese crisis is a little to ’dark’ for her to be concerned with? Even the Female Prime Minister of Barbados questioned why Ms. ALBANESE is so concerned about Israel, yet hasn’t made one effort to record and report on Sudan, Haitior the Ukraine Russia conflict — again 3,105 immigrants drowned or missing in Italian waters since 2015 — where has she been there? Isn’t that genocide too when a nation refuses war refugees resulting in the loss of life?
This hypocrite is doing nothing more than grandstanding on a situation to get that peace prize — many of us aren’t blind Ms. Albanese. Also, does she realize that Israeli children were kidnapped, and killed in the middle of the night the opening attack on Israel from Hamas? There she sits silently. She has been funded by Hamas and cannot hide it. As such, she neutralized and jaded he position — blaming Germany and every ’German’ is so ridiculous to state, that one must wonder where she earned her law degree. Does she condemn Egypt, Iran, Syria, Yemen and Oman for supporting Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis? I think Germany is no match in supporting terrorism/genocide as these nations have shown. Please have Ms. Albanese explain why over 185,000 Syrians arrived in Germany requesting asylum which saw a 55% increase in violent crimes culminating mainly from Syrian and Afghani immigrants. I don’t recall 185,000 Israeli immigrants moving to Germany and causing a 55% spike in violent crimes — I wonder which culture has been more prone to violence and Genocide? Human Rights? Please have Ms. Albanese explain Human Rights abuses in Germany versus those nations in the Middle East — does Ms. Albanese realize that in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and Iran, she couldn’t even drive a car or vote as a woman! She has the audacity to talk about international law while Afghani girls are forced out of schools and higher levels of education and killed if objecting the law; where are her international law concerns in those areas? Yet she focuses on Germany. Italy‘s largest human rights are prison abuses of minorities, gender abuse of women in marriages and mafia crime syndicates in human trafficking links from Eastern Europe to African nations; I gather he own nations human rights violations aren’t ’hot’ enough for her to get enough attention for that peace prize — better to jump on a more visible bandwagon — who heard of this woman before the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023? Exactly — no one. Germany? What is Germany supposed to do in a war between Israel and Palestinians visa vie Hamas? It would like be blaming Mongolia for the crisis in Haiti — preposterous!
As of today, the crisis in the Middle East is being sorted and none of Ms. Albanese‘s wants or wishes has been successful because leaders and political figures of those nations affected know what her real posture is and have shut her down. No nations leader is going to get arrested by the ICC nor is Interpol acting on such a ludicrous actions — you simply cannot pick and choose a genocide for your personal political position and ALL nations are responsible to comply with international law Ms. Albanese, not just those YOU personally don’t like —will Hamas be funding for your travels again?
You’re nothing more than trying to make a name for yourself at the expense of others suffrage; when have you last visited Gaza? Oh I forgot Ms. Albanese, you’ve never been to Gaza!! Why doesn’t that surprise me? Run along Ms. Albanese, you’re done.
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@mho... Nothing happened to me - unlike you, I live in reality and you don't. Hamburg is NOT a major tourist attraction in Germany and it isn't known for anything except it's town hall, two lakes in the city, harbor quarter, a new symphony Hall and the Reeperbahn - that's it and it does not get MANY MANY tourists.
Note: The majority of tourists visiting Germany do not come here to see Miniatur Land, so you can stop that lie before you even start.
The number 10 top tourist attractions for Germany are as follows:
1. Castles palaces and churches - Hamburg has none; despite the fact Hamburg has churches, it doesn't contain a church that is world reknown like the Dom in Cologne.
2. Outstanding areas of Beauty: Rhine/Mosel River Valley; Black Forest, Bavarian Alps Harz; remind me again what is Hamburg's natural beauty? the industrial Elbe at Harburg?
3. Romantic Medieval Cites, towns and routes: Trier, Regensburg, Heidelberg, Tubingen, Marburg, Bamberg, Eisenach, just to name a few - last time I checked, not many tourists associate Hamburg with medieval, or romantic destinations like the Romantic Road, German Fairy Tale Road or the Wine Road -- I recall the most famous road in Hamburg is the Reeperbahn - yes? Me so horney, me love you long time.
4. Large Cities visited according to Berlitz, and Travel Advisor 2024:
1. Berlin (capital Brandenburg Gate, former wall sites, Charlottenburg, Tiergarten KaDeWe)
2. Munich (Oktoberfest-Hofbrauhaus, Schloss Nymphenburg Palace; city center)
3. Cologne (Dom /altstadt)
4. Nuremberg (altstadt, World's famous Christmas Market), Toy Museum, Germanisches Museum, Kaiserburg)
5. Dresden (Zwinger)
6 HAMBURG: Binnen/Aussenalster, Harbor Quarter, Symphony building, Town Hall, Miniaturland and Villas along the Elbe)
7. Bremen: Altstadt, Schnoorviertel Bottchesrstrasse)
8. Liepzig/Hannover - Messe
9. Stuttgart (Mercedes/Porsche Museum), Fernsehturm
10. Frankfurt - Romerplatz, Sachenshausen.
11. Dusseldorf: Mode, Konigstrasse, Rhein Center.
AGAIN, Hamburg is not KNOWN for it's romantic, medieval city core or areas of natural beauty as most tourists associate German with. Yes it gets tourists, but not in the sam magnitude as other large German cities are concerned. Yes Hamburg has more bridges than any other European City, but that fact is irrelevent when you look at the tourist statistics of the top 3 European cities with most bridges -
1. Hamburg: 7.3 million tourists per year
2. Amsterdam: 8.8 million tourists per year
3. London: 20 million tourists per year
NOTE: This means, Hamburg placed 3rd in tourism in the TOP 3 cities containing the most bridges of cities in Europe - which confirms what I said initially: bridges are NOT a top tourist draw regardless of any city - you cannot even start to compare Hamburg to London or Amsterdam on the same scale in regards to tourism
You know that too - and if you don't know.......now you know! baby baby!
(reference to the song Juicy, by the Notorious Big)😂😂
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@artirm1979 You are wrong Serbia was bombed but not invaded and the former Yugoslavia was divided (Bosnia Herzog., Kosovo, Croatia, Slovenia, etc), Serbia was NOT divided. Libyan Air Force was attacked in 1986 by NATO, not invaded, Yemen was bombed by Saudi Arabia - not NATO and US troops in Syria fall under the United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) and were invited to guard the northern borders. Get your facts straight, learn the Global language which is English
и я буду говорить о тебе и твоем национальном происхождении все, что захочу, пока ты будешь продолжать разглагольствовать о русской пропаганде на этом сайте.... присядь и выпей пельменей
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@angryhusky2467 Sorry, but no. The World's GDP does not rely on BITCOIN as one might think. The World Bank is controlled by the West (US in particular) and the state of California alone has a bigger GDP than Russia -- that tells you all you need to know of the might of the US economy which accounts for 25% of the World's GDP and China coming in at 2nd with 14.8% - Russia isn't on that mark and falls behind Canada at number 11 - BITCOIN isn't going to make a dent in those figures.
You are correct, Russia has a great base for research/technology. However, they lag behind the US, China, Japan, Germany, South Korea, UK and France -- all allies to the USA with the exception of China who relies on the US for it's GDP status. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia is no longer the superlative power that it once was. It's military, although highly trained, has shrunk, it's manufacturing base centralized and it's economy more reliant on outside nations than before. Russia is having difficulty in Syria keeping it's 13,000 troops fed and housed and is trying to extricate itself from the Syrain civil war which is still ongoing while the US Central Command has over 80,000 troops in the following countries combined: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, Doha, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Egypt. In short, Russia is no longer a global power. In short, Russian military conflict in the Ukraine better be a short one as a prolonged war will see Russia to it's knees in a matter of a year -- the technological and military advantages of NATO, allied members and the US is far too great of a defense for Russia to wage a prolonged war in the Ukraine. China and Russia's mutual economical pact is based on tricky logic. China has overtaken Russia as the 2nd military power while Russia will not share it's technology with it's so called mutual partner such as the S-400 system which China wants badly. These two share a rocky border relationship and have both lost cooperation pacts with Mongolia who has chosen to get support from the West.
China is loved by no one in the World - it knows this and has to overtake on an economical level which it enjoys - a military battle with the US is not to China's liking and strategically its a loss to China. Russia is trying to restore it's old position with little to no success as Putin doesn't have the resources to reestablish a "soviet union."
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Chongquing is a municipality when counting 36 million inhabitants, not the city itself.
The biggest city in Asia, taking into account the population of its metropolitan area, would be Tokyo, for example, with 37 million inhabitants; if, however, one were to take into account the city population alone, then the MUNICIPALITY of Chongqing, in China, would rank first, with over 32 million inhabitants.30 May 2024
The Northeast megalopolis, also known as the Northeast Corridor, Acela MUNICIPALITY Boston–Washington corridor, is the most populous megalopolis exclusively within the United States, with slightly over 50 million residents as of 2022.
It is the world's largest megalopolis / Municipality by population, size and economic output.
Wiki
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@junxu3110 Wrong again - Check Wiki on Tokyo and get back to me
Chongquing has the following municipalities EACH with their own mayor and district councils:
Rongchang, Dazu, Yongchuan, Tongliang, Jinajin, Beibei, Fuling, Changshou, Nanchuan, QiJiang, Wulong, Fengdu, Shizhu, Tujia, Miao and Pengshui.
The entire MUNICIPALITY of Chongqing was incorporated which is no different than the entire NYC Metro Area being incorporated to include all of Long Island, parts of CN, NJ and PA which would still be larger than Chongqing in both land and population. Do you actually know a city/town/municipality is juristically delineated in the US, Japan or china? Oh yes, according to your smart ass comment, maybe we should let a Chinese person tell us about Chongquing seeing that you believe it takes a Japanese person to know about Tokyo - to be fair, we'll also need to contact an American to talk about NYC and the NE Municipality since neither you or I are Chinese or American for that matter of fact.
And speaking of "smart-ass comments," you better control alt delete your sarcasm and reroute your GPS to someone who's afraid of you, because I'm not the one. I will riff/run your arse down this blog faster than you can say Kon'nichiwa. And for the record, I was in Okinawa, Osaka and spent 12 months between Tokyo and Misawa - again, watch your mouth.
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@moif_velocita and you need to grow up and realize that there is not a United States of Europe!
The EEC worked well until the EU became politicized. What a Union! Germany can quit and the whole damn structure collapses - you call that a union?
If the EU is so good, why hasn’t Switzerland and Norway joined? They’re the richest countries in Europe, yet made sure they didn’t go to Brussels? Monaco? No EU, Lichtenstein? No.
Why not let Turkey join? Human Rights? Ha! The Balkans also have bad Human Rights track records - the real reason is that both Germany and France don’t want to share the power - both in population and purchasing GDP Power Turkey has. That’s the real reason. How’s Greece coming along with those austerity measures? Their young workforce is still leaving and heading to central and Northern Europe along with Bulgarians, Romanians, Albanians and Moldavians. This wasn’t an issue under the old EEC as it specifically addressed the trade and economic partnerships, not political. Van Der Leyden is NOT a premier, President or chancellor of ANY nation - she’s nothing more than a president of a European Union (run by Germany what a coincidence how she got there), based on economical matters - she seems to forget that. She found out in Russia, China, the Middle East and Turkey, that she’s not on a nation’s leadership level - she got put in her place real fast as should be. Her position as e ample, is equivalent to the Director of Commerce in the US - she is certainly not on a Presidential level. Lastly, besides easy travel and employment mobility among the EU nations, what has the EU achieved? The EU GDP if far behind the US and China; most EU states are near bankrupt or breaking even, illegal migration still uncontrolled, spiked crime waves, inflation reaching above that in the USA, low pay and wages causing an unbalanced economic migration within the EU and certainly ill prepared for helping each other in man made or natural disasters - Covid being the biggest by receiving outside help. Whatever happened to the idea of an EU joint Military? Guess NATO under the US remains the better oh sorry I mean the cheaper option😂 - I have lived through both and the EEC knew it’s place and functioned - the EU, no.
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@StickOfTruth 30 years? I don't think the immigration was such a rock 30 years ago in Sweden or any other European country. You are correct, however that the immigration issue has nothing to do with the EU as each country determines it's own measures on how to cope with the issue - including yours - Denmark.
Speaking of Denmark, I don't believe the immigration issues are solved there either - far from it.
In fact, Denmark was oncence a liberal and open country; today it has some of the most restrictive immigration policies in Europe, like the country's deterrence-centred asylum policies have been heavily criticised in recent years. Immigration has become a deeply politicised issue as in many other countries.
So, in a sense, one can say the same about Denmark, "sitting on it's hands, ignored all the warnings," while going out of it's way to show Europe that their system, was a possible way to immigration reform. It sounds to me, that you might have an issue with Swedish people and not necessarily the immigrant issues.
Dont reflect on other nations, when you're own nation is made out of glass as well.
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@trawlins396 I don't recall writing that she "went on national television telling lie after lie just to push a hypothetical "Jessica Lynch narrative??" In fact, I never wrote that exact statement. However, let me tell you what I wrote, so we are perfectly clear.
I wrote that her story merits much examination along with that of her immediate supervisor. In her lectures and interviews since the ending of her military career, she claimed she was ordered on a suicide mission to ram down Flight UA93 before it reached Washington DC.
So let's check this incentive out shall we? Are we we assume that the US has ZERO missile defense capabilities? Ground to air, air to air or sea to air? Seriously? No, our Air Combat Command would rather make the decision to ram two F-16s at the cost between $ 24 to 160 million (12.7 to $80 million each), costing the lives of two pilots instead of simply shooting the plane down with an unarmed missile.
Now does that make any sense???? Come back to me with facts and figures before shooting your mouth off again and yes, I'm a former Intelligence Analyst retiring with the rank of GS-14, former DOD contractor, former military and former civil servant.
What are your qualifications again? Ah yes, and now I hear the crickets coming into tune.
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@trawlins396 Thanks for the updated info - not sure what difference it makes but while we're on the subject here's some more for you:
In 2006, Penney joined Lockheed Martin as director of USAF Air Superiority Programs, Aviation Systems, Lockheed Martin Washington Operations, while still serving part-time with the Air National Guard. At Lockheed Martin, she was working for Lockheed Martin on the F-35 project. On September 7, 2017, Penney and her father, John Penney, gave a lecture, titled 9/11 Perspectives at National Air and Space Museum, as part of the GE Aviation Lecture Series. After leaving Lockheed in 2018, Penney joined the think tank Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies as a defense policy expert.
While you wrote me a ridiculed comment, Riddle me this? Why is it that during 911 both General John Jumper (outgoing Air Combat Commander (ACC)) and Lt. General Cook, Acting ACC Commander both DENY ever having knowledge or given an order to a subordinate organization of the Air National Guard regarding a possible "suicide" mission? Please don't tell me it was so classified that Heather Penney wasted no time with her numerous interviews and paid lectures about an action she herself to date, cannot verify. Also, why hasn't her supervisor (now Lt. Gen Sasseville Air National Guard), Captain Brandon Rasmussen, and Major Daniel Caine been on the Social Media/Lecture circuit describing their "suicide mission" as Penney has???
Here's what her supervisor had to say about the incident:
"The mission was to find United Airlines Flight 93 and destroy it, however they could by ramming the aircraft, if all else failed." - According to our then Missile Defense Agency and all four of our military commands,
"no absence of the ability to bring down UA 93 by missile strikes were noted on this date - so in short, a missile would have been the logical way to liquidate the intended target."
Lt Gen Ronald T Kadish, Director Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.
Not a peep outside of being a Boeing Pilot now, did we hear from former Capt Rasmussen in Social Media and his "heroic" efforts on this "suicide mission." How about former Major John Cane who is now Lieutenant General Dan Caine sworn in as the Associate Director for Military Affairs on Nov. 3, 2021. There is not one single Social Media or lecture given from him, Lt Gen Sasseville, or now Boeing Pilot Mr. Rassmussen about this heroic mission of four unarmed pilots that were going to save the USA from the depths of 911 because our nation had no missile defenses to consider nor did the Air Combat Commanders under the guidance of the US Air Force, which maintains the strongest Air Force in the world by an impressive margin; composed of 5217 active aircraft; the largest, the most technologically advanced, and the most powerful air fleet in the world. However, according to Ms. Penney, the entire USAF was banking on a suicide mission of four unarmed Air National Guard Pilots to save the day on 911. Have you ever wondered why there are no public lectures given by her former peers who now serve as either a civilian pilot or occupy general positions have lectured or been featured in the media as Penney has? Strange, our Social Media doesn't display an ounce of curiosity to hear THEIR version of this heroic tale? The likelihood of an embellished story to promote female equality/feminism as was the attempt to do with Jessica Lynch, could not be greater had this whole story been conveniently arranged by our Media.
Come back to me with facts - thanks.
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When European nations only spend 2-2.5% of the GDP on defense, what do they expect the US to do? It’s always the same — criticize the US, then cry for support! Where are the European troops in the Ukraine? Why is it that NATO is fat funded by the US, yet Germany has the 5th largest GDP in the World and still can’t get it‘s military up to speed? If the US presence were to leave Europe, the continent would be at war with each other in a year‘s time — guaranteed. How’s that EU Military Alliance coming along that was proposed in 1993 to replace NATO? Dead in the water before it even grew legs — what happened EU? Oh yes, easier to continue letting Uncle Sugar take care of your defense, yet criticize the US regarding the Ukraine? What a laugh! Then again, the EU isn’t really a union when Germany runs it both economically and financially — Von Der Lying is the President; what a coincidence! Where would that German economy be without all that cheap eastern and southern European labor coming to Germany, as their own nation‘s young skilled workers leave, stagnating their home nation’s economies — just like Germany wants it. Why isn’t Turkey in the EU? Oh that’s right — Germany and France voted to disapprove their application based on Human Rights YET, approved Balkan nations entry in the EU, whose Human Rights violations record was as worse as Turkey‘s. The REAL reason was Turkey‘s population and economical clout which is higher than most EU members. That would have meant the sharing of power and representation in the EU apparatus and more voting power among the top economics in the EU — Germany wasn’t going to have none of that, yet has over 500,000 Turkish citizens in Berlin alone and over 1 million in Germany, mainly employed in jobs that the average German won’t do. The UK saw this and was concerned about being a member in such a tilted ’union;’should Germany leave the EU, the union would fall apart faster than shi* through a goose and everyone knows it — not much of a real union, now is it? Crime is on the rise mainly due to cultural clashes of illegal immigrants, yet Poland and Hungary, who have chosen to reinforce EXISTING immigration laws, are punished and threatened by the EU despite the fact that these two nations have not seen a crime spike or violence as in Germany, France,Sweden, and the Netherlands — why is that? That issue cannot be addressed but rather downplayed by ’alleged human rights violations.‘ I didn’t see Italy get censored for allowing African refugees to drown in the Mediterranean or incur any penalties — I guess those illegal immigrants weren’t 'light’ enough to be too concerned with. Since when did an economic institution that was born from the EEC, morph into a political organization that could easily be labeled the Union of the European Socialist Republics (UESR), being ruled from Berlin, as Brussels or Strasbourg is certainly not calling the shots.
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@Weerknuffelbeer WRONG! The US provide the most aid and arms to the Ukraine totalling over $120 billion dollars - don't you even try it with that lie. Let the US pull out of Europe RIGHT NOW and you'll be speaking Russian by the end of next month.
How does Humanitarian Aid help a military defeat it's enemy again??? Exactly, it doesn't nor does "limited" economic aid hence why the EU is scrambling now to "continue to support the Ukraine." I don't see Zelensky begging Starmer, Macron or Scholz for money, but rather on the US Doorsteps in which Zelensky openly stated "without the US, we will lose the war." End of story
Speaking of aid, when are European nations going to deploy their troops to the Ukraine? If the Ukraine was so well funded and militarily armed by Europe alone, why would the Ukraine EVEN be talking to the USA about ending the war? Why is Zelensky in the USA right now? He's not a tourist I assure you.
In short, the USA holds the card for Ukraine's survivial and future, not Europe and no amount of European meetings is going to change that. Europe was told by the Bush, Obama and now Trump Administration to beef up their defense spending and invest more in their militaries - they didn't listen and now have no equal power to counter a Russian military - wow! now there's a newsflash!
Ursula Von Der leyen WAS Germany's former Defense Minister and during her tenure there, she raised the defense budget ZERO times, that's right ZERO. Now here she is rallying like a 4 start general wannabe to guarantee Ukraine's freedom - that was easy to do when someone else is writing you a check and taking care of the problem for you. Now let's see the EU handle the Ukraine on it's own.
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@Weerknuffelbeer Nice try but useless statistics over an irrelevent timespan is not a comparison of how much the US paid, sacrificed and STILL pays the lion share of conflicts that have occurred since WW2 up to the Ukraine Conflcit equalling WW1, WW2, Cold War Vietnam, Balkan Conflict, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Denmark and Canada fall out automatically as they were NOT involved in Vietnam, Balkan Conflict or Cold War skirmishes.
The UK (with the Falklands) can claim the highest next in line to the USA as it has been involved in ALL US conflicts except Vietnam - it remains 2. France can fall into the third position but fails on a true count as it's main losses remain in it's formal colonial position in Africa and South America where no conflict has taken place. The French losses in Vietnam were minimal compared to the US there, but as they were two separate conflicts albeit preceding in the timeframe, the US, nevertheless lost more in Vietnam.
What other EU/NATO country has lost more troops, spent more money, financed more 3rd/4th party political actors as sponsors to engage conflicts and paid for the training, supplies, logistics, and military hardware to sustain NATO's operations, and is present on ALL continents - NOT ONE as the US is the only remaining Superpower in the World today. Had the US engaged Russia directly in the Ukraine on a conventional warfare level, it would have taken the US no more than 3-6 months to not only eliminate the russian military fromt the Ukraine, but to neutralize those areas occupied and reestablish the Ukraine's sovereignty -- tell me any other NATO/EU nation that can do that alone - Exactly - the sound of silence feels so sweet. The US outside of the former Soviet Union (lost over 20 million in WW2 alone), is the next nation with the highest loss of life in warfare and no amount of population comparision, or a nation's girth, growth or geographical statistic changes that.
Move along, you're done here.
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@ the only goalpost that you constructed was that feeble attempt to portray European nations on an equivalent level of defense responsibilities and costs to that of the U.S. - you not only failed but clearly don’t have the knowledge or experience to merit your position . When you serve your nation for 35 years in NATO for 35 years as a defense attache, deploy 18 months in Iraq, 12 months in Kabul, 1 year in the middle of Australia 15 years in the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, fluent in 4 languages, Masters in Political Science and a former Cryptologic Linguist Intelligence Chief retired Colonel, then you come talk to me about Geopolitics - Until the , take several seats and be quiet
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@wasidanatsali6374 I live in the UK and that's a crock of crap you wrote. Typical brainwashed American thinking his nation is number one in all things tried and true. The US is not number one in healthcare and lets not start about the crime rate, racism, low education in most primary schools, crazy laws that should have been updated or revoked as they no longer apply. Canadians do not wait weeks for a medical appointment the NHS is overburdened in the UK, but unlike the USA, payments are minimal. In fact, I just performed a Gastric Bypass last week - total cost to the patient 83 pounds. See how much it is in the USA with covered insurance: "You must be approved for weight loss surgery. You must be without insurance or have been denied either full or partial coverage for obesity surgery. You must be willing to raise 10% of the funds you request for bariatric surgery by donating time and resources to the WLFSA. Total cost to the patient/USA: 15,000 and $23,000"
https://www.CDC.com/services/weight-loss/resources/understanding-the-costs-of-obesity-and-bariatric-surgery/insured/USA=EAZKGrsst
We pay 40% tax on our income - our infrastructure, health care system, schools and welfare system is NOT falling apart - unlike the USA - your country cannot even get pro choice/life under control, let alone the horrific crime and political disasters between the Democrat and Republican parties -- You had an insurrection on 6 January 2021; our last insurrection was in 1606 Guy Fawkes Day - a Gunpowder Plot conspiracy to assassinate King James VI and I and members of the Houses of Parliament
The land of the free - yes, if you're wealthy.
At your service, Dr. Sebastian Nedelcut, PhD, Gastroenterologist, Cromwell Hospital, London UK.
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Germany's biggest mistake was in 2015 when migrants were allowed without ANY control or reinforcement of the already existing immigration laws already on the books. Secondly, the Ukraine conflict has seen employment "refugees" who aren't fleeing war, but rather fleeing for better job opportunities - YET the German Government is treating them as refugees. A German on welfare must verify and account for every cent allocated while Ukranian immigrants (they are not refugees as portrayed by German politicians) and REAL war-torn refugees are given the silver spoon treatment at the expense of Germany's own welfare citizens; and people wonder why the AFD has grown.
Germany's answer to an ageing population? Increase the retirement age from 65 to 70 which will solve absolutely nothing 60,000 refugees are currently receiving 100% social benefits and they are mainly aged 18-30 years old - simply unacepptable. My neighbor is a "refugee" - She left her husband and her JOB when Russia attacked; she recevies full benefits and has her bus pass paid for, two Euro 15.00 coupons to have her hair done twice in a month, rent paid, utilities paid and medical benefits. She is planning to visit her old home (which Germany also pays her rent for her apartment in her home country), which I don't undersrtand - how does one take vacation back to the same "war torn country" to which she held a job, has a home and a husband who works. How on Earth does the Germany Governement explain this when we have German pensioners collecting plastic bottles from trash cans to make some extra monies. Again, Germans who are social welfare recipients must account for 100% of their holdings and only receive the minimal to make ends meet. Again, we wonder why radical groups are on the rise.
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ABOUT DAMN TIME -- the only thing this law will discourage is these so called "regret rapes" that always seem to have the same steps as usual -- party, she gets drunk, goes wild, ends up in bed at a frat house and so on......Why is it that men have to be held accountable for women's drunk behaviors??
Then, to add injury to insult, the woman's name is concealed, protected while the man's is spread all around the media, he is destroyed, pushed out of school or an institution etc. his life will never be the same. Yet to date, the woman can recant, and not a damn thing will happen to her --
This girl was his squeeze and that's the real story - she claimed stalking and all this BS knowing full damn well that he didn't do anything of the sort.
The Media just ignores it now since the woman was found to have lied.
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So, Zelensky has agreed to a 30 day ceasefire as the USA initially told him to do while details are being sorted over the final agreements.
So, where is the EU on this exactly? Oh yes, the EU wasn't invited! Why? Because the EU isn't a head of state or a country - it's an organization who's predecessor the EEC NEVER got involved in security or defense but rather trade and commerce - like the EU is supposed to be.
In fact, the Von Der Leyen's exact duty description is " The EU Commissioner is to foster and liaise the economic, financial and commerical aspects of EU Member states for cohesion."
Nowhere does it state she is a "head of state" or "Defense Minister," so why is calling on Europe to increase it's military budget, when during her time as the former German Defense Minister, she LOWERED the Military budget - how ironic and hypocritical.
The EU needs to return to it's original charter and stay out of the areas of defense and security as EACH nation's head of state and Defense Ministers see to that. Also, so long as the US doesn't pull it's contribution out of NATO which is currently at 75% of NATO's entire budget, the Secretary General of NATO is responsible for advising and coordinating EU Member/NATO States on defense, not Von der Leyen. The only thing this woman is missing is a black cropped moustache on her upper lip and a brown uniform.
Not to worry, Big Brother USA will see to it that she return to her proper position behind the scenes...guaranteed.
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@Kevin-rf4bj I have always found it odd when "victims" come forward 10,20,30,40 years later to the Media VS going to the Police when the incident actually occurred. We are talking about a black man during the 1950s-1970s, who allegedly drugged and assaulted 63 women while, being married, having children, a public, figure and a top celebrity. This was a time when a black man would have been lynched in certain areas of the country for even attempting to have intimacy with a person of Caucasian or other descent. Out of the 63, only one story stuck - Andrea Constad, who's first court case failed due to "lack of evidence/proof" only to turn around, get her PA DA Friend involved and the Me Too Movement and voila!!! A guilty verdict.
Do I think Cosby used his position in the Entertainment Industry to get sexual favors? Yes, I do. However, I believe many of these women used THEIR positions to advance their careers in the same industry or wanted to be in the spotlight in one way or the other. When one looks at the dates/times/places (2AM in Cosby's apartment, drunk for example), this tells me something isn't correct. At age 16 I knew better than to go to someone's apartment at 2AM and start drinking, c'mon. I also don't believe in the "damsel in distress" reason for not going to the authorities when it happened. How can authorities work with zero evidence ages later and expect a fair outcome? There are simply too many unanswered questions regarding the stories behind Cosby that need answering, besides him abusing his position for sexual favors.
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@gregkeener9812 Ah yes, the typical uneducated ignorant, abusive name calling and ignorant individuals that we refer to as Trumpsters......you represent yourselves so well. Let me as you. Do you still believe th elections was stolen? Do you still believe Trump's inaugural crowd was the largest ever? Do you still believe that Trump's attorney Giuliani has authority as a private attorney to meddle in US State Department Affairs in the Ukraine? Can you tell me when, oh when is Hunter Biden's computer going to be brought forward? Isn't that the same computer that was investigated and cleared in 2014 along with his employment agreement in the Ukraine. Can you tell me when Ivanka trump will remove her productions rights in China to have that nation produce her products? She was granted those rights during her daddy's tenure, yet no Trumpster seems to mention that. Can you tell me if the term "grabbing them by the Pu**Y" is something a President should be saying? When is the USA going to see Trump's IRS tax returns which all Presidents have brought forward? Let me guess, they're still be audited? I recall Trump indicating that he wouldn't have time to play Golf during his term, yet he took the most holidays of ANY US President to date and hosted government events at Mar-a-Largo which is why he's also being investigated today. Can you explain why the major US Cities and most highly educated states didn't vote for Trump? No, I'm sorry, but the Arizona audit didn't prove Trump won, but rather showed he lost by a larger margin, than before. Of course, of course, you blame all the Media organizations like CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, CNBC, for spouting fake news but not ONE of them are getting sued for slander and libel as is FOX, OANN, and other radical right media outlets,,, wonder why that is? Oh yes, you're now going to tell me that I'm lost, crazy, am blinded by the media , yeah, yeah, yeah, always the same ammo with Trumpsters. The Commission on the January 6th Insurrection has already uncovered these juicy trumpster supporters (636 now facing jail sentences), and those politicians who supported this treasonous and seditious act shaking in their boots. Let me guess, you're going to tell me that its all part of a larger conspiracy to turn American communist/socialist etc. etc. etc.....pure simple stupidity at it's best.
Here's the point: Why don't you get out of your trailer, put down that old raggedy confederate flag as the South is NOT going to rise again, go back to school and get your GED as I'm sure you're older than most of your teachers by now, stop marrying within your family, stop sucking applesauce through a straw long enough to educate yourself on the simplest forms of government. It's Americans like you, (ignorant, uneducated, poor, racists,) that keep the USA from going forward. Run along, you're done here.
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@buggyapp Welcome back - I hope all went well with your family matters.
In relations to France and NATO, NATO left Paris, but France never left NATO.
In 1966, President Charles de Gaulle withdrew France from NATO’s integrated military command structure (a decision that was reversed in 2009). While France remained a NATO member and fully participated in the political instances of the Organization, it was no longer represented on certain committees like the Nuclear Planning Group and the Defense Planning Committee and NATO’s political headquarters and SHAPE moved to neighboring country Belgium.
France continued to participate in the following NATO areas:
Joint procurement projects such as NADGE. (NATO Air Defense Ground Environment) high-performing radar system against the intrusion of enemy aircraft into the NATO European airspace. France also continued to host NATO meetings and staff the civilian structures of the Organization
France participated in all REFORGER exercises with it's French Forces-Republic of Germany stationed at Lahr, Baden-Baden and Kehl in the former West Germany - mainly in procurement and administrative functions for NATO contingency operations.
France also operated Trier Euren Airbase until 1977 for NATO's forward defense of Ramstein Air Base and NATO Ground Forces advancing east to meet a Warsaw Pact attack.
Under NATO, France obligated 500,000 ground troops to be activated in support of a NATO response to an attack from the USSR/Warsaw Pact. These troops would be forwarded between Hamburg and the Ruhr while another 250,000 would be forwarded to supplement NATO Forces in the Fulda Gap and Hof Corridor. Following another reorganization in 1999, the designation of the forces changed again and became known as the "French Forces and Civilian Elements stationed in Germany" (FFECSA).
French fully reintegrated into NATO in 2009. France's position throughout the Cold War illustrated the flexibility of NATO membership: while the country maintained full nuclear autonomy, it continued to act in full solidarity with the other Allies and play a major political and military role within the Alliance.
Hope this clarifies the French role in NATO.
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@buggyapp First and foremost, you forgot to identify your rank as the "head of the Logistics Section, 59th Ordinance Brigade" in Pirmasens. Your rank and position have a direct impact at what level of command you interfaced with and in this particular case , NATO Forces with the exception of one country - France.
As the 59th was responsible for the maintenance of Nuclear and Chemical Control Orders, and WMDs for US/NATO Forces, France maintained under NATO, it's own oversight and control of it's ordinances to include all WMDs, Nuclear and Chemical weaponry which I referenced in my earlier response to you, noteworthy, their nuclear arsenal. Therefore, I must ask the question as to what "interface" were you expecting with the French Forces, when your organization's role was not under any NATO operational plan to support France or their unilateral ordinance governance? From 1951 to 1967, the French had already removed the majority of their ordinances from Miesau, Rhine Ordinance Barracks, and Zweibrucken AB prior to the arrival of the US Air Forces, Europe and the Royal Canadian Air Force Detachment. France's primary role to NATO was manpower and administrative in nature and clearly outlined in the following link for you to familiarize yourself with
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/security-disarmament-and-non-proliferation/our-alliances-and-cooperations/france-and-nato/#:~:text=France%20is%20one%20of%20the%2012%20founding%20members%20of%20NATO.&text=That%20decision%20in%20no%20way,Alliance%20without%20changing%20its%20substance.
Have a good afternoon and regards from Frankfurt - Will
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@akkarinderweise1617 Propaganda ensured that the appropriate funding ensured NATO‘s manpower, technological and financial advantage over the SU and it’s Warsaw Pact Alliance, which was not always trustworthy to begin with wanting their own freedom from the USSR. In 1987, 2.3M Russian troops with another 3.0M Warsaw Pact troops faced 8.5M NATO/US troops in Europe. The old Fulda Gap/Hof Corridor scenario were not plausible places to strike for the USSR/WP Forces as the terrain is rugged and highly urbanized from Hanover to Fulda; the Hof Corridor was and remains narrow, not allowing for flanking movements with narrow mountainous terrain. USSR Reserves were along the Urals, poorly trained (35% could not understand the Russian Language) and were not geared for Europe but rather, the borders of Iran, Afghanistan and Mongolia. The only NATO/US Forces that were to put it mildly, “sacrificial,” were the West Berlin Forces, who were primarily there to uphold the 4-Powers Agreement of 1945.
There was never a time when USSR/WP Forces in Europe had an advantage over NATO/US Forces in terms on manpower, technology, financial or overall economical matters.
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What the Woke Culture advocates don't realize is that ramming ideologies, not shared by the majority of the population, cannot be "forced." There is no such thing as "trans" for starters. Trans defined is "change" -- you cannot change your age, DNA, and race - those are physical constructs of biology.
Therefore any "trans/change," is a mental construct in which one gender identifies with the other - simply put - a MENTAL construct.
When mental constructs are forced, no consideration is being made regarding the physical constructs that are automatically affiliated regardless of any beliefs held - in short, no matter what medical procedures are undertaken, ones genetics remain intact as they were at birth, so in essence, "trans" is again, a mental construct.
Legalities: The Woke Community wants legal rights to acknowledged and to be treated equally. That statement alone, is not an issue and rather straightforward, however, does this posture take in account of the judicial rights of those NOT in the Woke Culture? Example: Should it be legal or illegal for a transgender woman ( I use that term in support of the argument), to not disclose or have t disclose their biological status to a person prior to sexual intimacy? Some will say that it's a private matter, so the answer is no; however, a man who finds out that he has had sexual intercourse with a biological man who identifies as a woman, also has rights and will surely disagree - so which one ist it? It's issues like this that the Woke Culture seems not to want to address, but rather, simply force their agenda on non-woke persons to basically accept without questioning. I believe this "push" was the catalyst that made many hetero men and women vote for Trump as the last 4 years have seen disastrous consequences of Woke actions such as men winning medals for women's sports - the idea of having to address this case alone is nothing short of madness. There are no 72 genders and those wanting to "change" should be mandated to wait until 18 years of age free of any "teachings" in either public or private institutions - no school should be invovled in "Gender assignments or Gender Acceptance" during an adolescent's puberty stage or younger - no excuses.
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Why exactly was Sharon Osburne fired? I know she quit and then got fired or something of that nature but exactly why again? The fact that she agreed with Piers Morgan shouldn't have been a racial issue, but an issue of questioning the validity of the information. I'm just unclear as to why Sharon Osburne who simply had a difference of opinion from the cast was seen as racist?
In fact, Piers Morgan has verbally attacked Meghan Markle for everything BUT her race, so why was Osbourne even cited? In the Piers Morgan morning show, he was labeled as racist simply because he asked the validity of Meghan's statements SHE MADE in an Oprah interview about being racially profiled/attacked by members of the Royal Family and her mental health status. Piers has every right not to believe her as others have a right to believe her. So again, what did Sharon Osbourne do to get pushed out? She simply agreed with Piers that she believes Meghan is not telling the truth and has YET to prove her comments - where is the racism? Pier abruptly left the show as a coworker tried painting him as "racist" after he questioned Meghan's claims on Oprah - questioning a person's claims is not being racist. He stormed off the show as he saw what was being done to him.
Speaking of Meghan, was she ever able to prove she was racially provoked? Has she proven her "mental health" status of wanting to commit suicide as she stated in the Oprah interview? It seems to me that her mental illness has dissipated as she's opened a lifestyle brand (which has now tanked); claimed Nigerian Ancestry this year, despite the the fact that she claimed Maltese Ancestry in 2014; rather ood as her parents are American born, American Citizens and have themselves, no ties to either Malta or Nigeria. Meghan seems to have no problem with large gatherings, staying in the spotlight and meeting/greeting celerbities all without the children who seem to have disappeared (Archie & Lilibet), since the couples relocation to Montecito. One would think that someone who claims to be afflicted with such mental illnesses would be rather busy getting support or mental health cosulations versus traveling and claiming sporadic heritage affiliation.
Again, if anyone can explain the reason Osbourne was vilified as being racial, by simply agreeing with Morgan's statement, educate me - I might just be overseeing some things - thanks.
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No country on Russia's border can claim to be neutral without Russia continously flexing it's might on it's neighbors which brought about the former "Iron Curtain" to begin with. This site is nothing more than a hidden MAGA agenda which cites that NATO's expansion into Eastern Europe is the cause of Russian aggression. Let's ask all those nations (Baltics, Poland, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and to a certain extent the Balkans-former Yugoslavia) to see how "safe" they feel in a netural position with their shared borders with Russia or Belarus (Soviet State). The trigger date was not 2008, but when Russia decided to invade the US based on ethnic Russian rights not NATO EXPANSION. Russia is also aware of the economic addage the Ukraine can provide (raw materials, port access etc.). The former Nazi Intelligence Chief, Gehlen, has little to no influence in what happened in the Ukraine from 1945-present date as the Ukraine was a Soviet state the duration of this time. It would be no different than claiming The Cipher Team at Bletchley Park UK was responsible for breaking the German Enigma Codes when in fact, it was Poland that is credited for that feat - Poland too, fell behind the Iron Curtain and from 1945 to present date, Poland's efforts regarding morse code (albeit excellent work), had zero results on the current structure of the National Security Agency or the British Ground Communications Headquarters at Cheltenham. The point in both Gehlen and Polish Cryptography is a moot point for comparision purposes to the Ukraine or a nation's morse code's activities. Ukraine, as a sovereign nation, favored to join the EU and to some extent NATO, not because Ukraine was bored, but rather that it knew there would be continuous issues with Russia regarding borders - the Crimea was a perfect example of this. Insofar Russian minorities in the Ukraine, there are issues on BOTH sides of this coin - Russian minorities being treated unfairly and Russian Insurgents ensuring to stir up these minorities in order to influence Moscow's desire to control Kiev like it does Minsk. The Ukrainians have every right to form it's own military and apparently it was needed as we see the current situation today. Had the Ukrainians "settled" with Russia, Ukraine would be nothing more than Belarus which today, has the worst record of human rights in Europe and is a vassal of Russia - Ukraine was having none of it and rightfully so.
Putin's basic goal is to reestablish Russia as the former Soviet Union controlling all nations it borders - that's not going to happen as we saw with both Finland and Sweden joining NATO. I haven't seen the USA invade Mexico or Canada simply based on a shared border issue. As of today, Putin has had a heart attack, the Russian conscripts are deserting nor do they want to fight in the Ukraine, the Crimea is being attacked and taken over, and both the Russian war machine and it's economy is at a grinding halt with Putin even reaching out to China for help - which never came. Ukraine will join the EU and eventually NATO and if not joining NATO, Ukraine will be armed by the West to which Russia will think twice before attempting to invade again.
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Buildings can still be built with style and beauty but they are not - they are built in brutal ugly fashion where people have to live which causes nothing but depression. Why are all these new "buildings" so aggressive in nature or look bland like something out of a SCI-FI movie? Take a look at all the old European cities who's old cores are visted by millions of people while mondern bland cities are ignored except for those few that enjoy modernism.
I lived in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and can tell you that my time in Amsterdam was hectic but enjoyed the old coffee shops, alleyways, nice churches (I'm not religious though), and the architecture in general.
While living in Rotterdam, I was busy as well, but I was more aggressive in nature with mood swings that I simply didn't have in Amsterdam. Walking along a great harbor with a modern bridge (the Swan), I suddenly found myself alone at the pier with the tallest building in the city behind me - completely alone. I never felt so meloncholy as I did. A city of 600,000 people and far more counting the metro and I'm standing at a lonely pier overlooking a river with nothing but concrete blocks behind me. I wondered how those people living in those blocks must feel sometimes. There was nothing at ground level - no shops, no coffee houses, no fast food places - nothing except entrance ways to large offices and some benches to sit on.
I love skylines and find those of London, Paris, Frankfurt really nice - however, they all signify the banking sectors of those cities so I don't except much there to do - however, all three of these cities have a tourist draw because of their OLD sectors and not their mondern areas of finance/trade.
I honestly believe that people would be much happier to live in apartments that have style and quick access to trendy shops, eateries and transport.
A friend of mine lives in Canary Wharf - London - he has a beautiful aparment whereas I live in an old apartment in Mayfair London. When I looked out at his balcony, I just saw bland skyscrapers at every direction and below a cold sterile street with minimal people. Whereas when I look out of my window (my apt. has no balconey), I see people everywhere frequenting stores, eateries and going to the nearby parks and objects to see. Even my friend comes to my place more than I go to his as he likes my "quirky old neighborhood." As he's a banker, he chose transport and proximity to his work center, but gave up an established neighborhood for a sleek modern one.
Just my opinion.
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@ani-rf4my When a language incorporates “I will receive” versus “I would like,” to ask for something, is not being direct, but rather authoritative in nature and rude. Secondly, what do you mean “hiding behind platitudes?” I can assure you, should you talk out of tone or too directly to and English speaker (an American, in particular), and there will be no “hiding” behind anything except for the wall you better run behind, and rather fast. I would also prefer “small talk” any day over a direct conversation that entails nothing but criticism that when the originator him/herself receives in return, becomes upset and doesn't “understand the same “directness” when it's bestowed upon them. Also, I don't recall many stereotypes of the English or Americans being rude, cold, arrogant, directive and without humor do you? And no, Hollywood or the American/English cinemas have ZERO to do with those stereotypes as they still persist today and were there PRIOR to any propaganda (i.e. Nazism) bestowed on a certain culture during that time and post 1945. As I am German and American, I have lived in both cultures and have mastered both languages from birth. I think I know what I'm talking about and certainly don't have a “foreigner”s spin on the subject – I am German too.
I'm happy to hear you have assembled into an international family – this is fantastic as I too have many relatives on both sides of the pond. Being stuck in prejudices is when prejudices themselves are acknowledged and worked upon instead of being ignored or making excuses instead of understanding that regardless of nationality, one must learn to adjust and be flexible in other cultures instead of demanding conformity in one's own nation or abroad – that's just decency and common sense. Speaking of the French, I wonder which stereotype is applied to them: Stubborn, arrogant, rude, non-flexible, refusing to help Tourists who cannot speak their language? Or do you think those are the stereotypes associated with the British, Americans, Mexicans or Asians? Get my point? And, that has nothing to do with Hollywood or propaganda. As I said before, certain stereotypes are there for a reason.
I hope you adjusted to Aschaffenburg ok – it's a jump from Hamburg, but I like Aschaffenburg – if you get a chance go to Miltenberg just south of Aschaffenburg – it's a beautiful town. Enjoy..............
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@ani-rf4my Keine sagt Ich bekomme bitte - quatsch es ist immer"Ich bekomme oder Ich kriege."
Komisch, dass Sie plötzlich auf Deutsch geantwortet haben, obwohl alle Ihre anderen Kommentare hier auf Englisch verfasst waren? Die Worte „Ich bekomme“ oder „kriege“ sind eine Forderung und keine Bitte - das wissen Sie auch - versuchen Sie es gar nicht erst und es ist nur in Deutschland akzeptabel, weil die Sprache die Kultur und den Charakter der Deutschen widerspiegelt - kalt, unhöflich, direkt bis zum Fehler und ohne Mitgefühl oder Humor - glauben Sie mir nicht - schlagen Sie einfach deutsche Stereotypen nach - sie sind aus einem bestimmten Grund da und Lügen gehört nicht dazu.
Erstaunlich, wie Sie kein Problem damit haben, andere Kulturen wie die Amerikaner zu stereotypisieren, aber sich in die Hose machen, wenn IHRE Kultur stereotypisiert wird, und versuchen, die Kommentare zu entkräften - erbärmlich. Wie ich bereits geschrieben habe, sind die Deutschen nur dann direkt, wenn sie es sind, die es austeilen - sie werden wütend, wenn es SIE sind, die es bekommen. Ich habe gerade gestern das Lied 10 kleine Negerlein im Radio gehört - wow! 2024 und immer noch ein rassistisches Lied. Ich schätze, Sie verwenden den Begriff Negerküsse auch für diesen Leckerbissen, oder? Da haben Sie KEIN Problem, aber in jedem anderen Land wäre es verboten.
Sie haben eine ganze Bibel auf Deutsch geschrieben, denn wenn Sie sie auf Englisch geschrieben hätten, wären die Antworten wie Bienenstiche gewesen - denken Sie nicht, dass Sie der Einzige sind, der Deutsch kann und es auch schreiben kann - Sie haben vergessen, dass ich auch Deutscher bin. Die universelle Sprache auf der YouTube-Plattform ist Englisch - Sie wissen das, da alle Ihre anfänglichen Kommentare auf Englisch waren; aber wir können genauso gut auf Deutsch weitermachen. Sie sind jetzt wieder dran.
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@Michael-G11 First and foremost I never said Germany must adapt to to a foreigner - show me where I wrote that. Secondly, the German Language is what I referred to as being harsh and direct and cold....hmmmm I wonder where WE ALL have heard that from or is the overwhelmingly stereotype of the German Language incorrect??? Just type in German Language stereotype on either Google or YouTube and SEE the majority of responses - I can PROMISE you that German when compared to Italian, is certainly NOT The language preferred to be used when being kind, romantic or calming - and you know that too - don't even try denying it. Third, the grammatics of the language is DIRECT and saying "Ich bekomme, or Ich kriege" is NOT asking - it's a demand or an order no different than "I will get or have" in English. However, try using that direct language, (outside of a fast-food establishment in an English speaking country) and see how far you get - the correct way to speak to a salesperson or at the bakery is Can I have or Ich mochte gerne and BTW - I am German - you seem to have forgotten that point.
Lastly, all cultures aren't helpful if you attempt to speak their language; some nations are known to be more kind and open than others - I wonder where Germany stands on that scale - research that one for yourself.
Where did I write that only speaking English should be expected while living or visiting in a foreign country? Again, you have no idea as I live in Germany, am a German Citizen, was raised here and YET, I find MY language to be cold, direct and not helpful in many situations when it comes to foreigners trying to speak German, - are you German? Born and raised here? Have German as your first language? No? - why does that not surprise me.
The French? So you tell me - what are the French Stereotypes when it comes to trying to "fit" in their culture? How about those vastly known stereotypes of French people being rude, arrogant, argumentative, cold, distant and NEVER wanting to speak English despite the fact that ENGLISH is the international language to go to, when both parties are trying to communicate??? Yes, that's right, English is the recognized international language as to why French and Germans are mandated to learn it in school - that jus slipped your mind right? I lived in Paris and Lyon for two years - don't tell me about the French unless you lived there too??? Many (not all), are arrogant, rude and will not speak English EVEN after you try to speak French - they look at you with disdain because you're in their country or is that just a "minor" stereotype in your view? Google says otherwise along with the majority of persons who were surveyed or asked - hence why those stereotypes exist in the first place.
While we are on the subject, I haven't seen many French OR Germans complain about the English speaking countries being cold, arrogant, rude, unfeeling or with no humor - have you? Rather what their complaint against the English speaking countries are however is being loud, not being "direct" (wow, what a surprise there), making useless conversations and boisterous - I don't see much in the way of being rude, mean, cold, unfeeling or staring , do you?
You might want to reconsider your next comment carefully as you're dealing with native German here - I'm not some "expat" who's lived here a couple of years and now thinks they are "experts" in all things German. Also, it would be interesting to get your spin if you had been a person of color; I think you'd find your experiences in Germany and France to be somewhat different as living in the UK, USA, Australia or Canada. In your spare time, you can research that topic regarding that avenue - I'm sure you'll be enlightgened to what you find.
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@TheBlackfall234 Wrong. It's all about respecting one's culture as well as the language. If a German resides in the USA, he/she will have to learn English - eventually; however, any person can tell you that integrating into the American Culture is FAR MORE EASIER than an American integrating into the German Culture; and why is that?
Last time I checked, it wasn't the Americans that were known globally to be standoff-ish, cold, rude to the point of starting quarrels (here we masquerade that with the word "Direct"), and never acknowledging a foreigner truly as being a German, despite that person having been born in Germany, speaks the language fluently, was educated in Germany, BUT his/her parents migrated from Hungary - that person will always be known as Hungarian first, and German second. Strange that doesn't happen in the USA or Britain, now does it?
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I agree - I live in Malmö and am a General Surgeon, Bariatric Surgery,Skånes universitetssjukhus (Skåne University Hospital), Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden - I'm no tourist. I was visiting in Stockholm, and throughout the country last week to see medical colleagues of mine. The following is the current demographics for Sweden:
Ethnicity: Swedish 80.%, Finnish 5%, Norwegian 3.0%, Syrian 1.0%, Iraqi 1.0%, , other 11%
(2023 est.).
Languages: Swedish (official), English as second
Religions: Church of Sweden (Lutheran) 57.6%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 8.9%, none or unspecified 33.5% (2023 est.)
As I said, this post is still clickbait as Sweden has not turned into "Syria" under no circumstances.
@Србомбоница86
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It is dangerous for men and women as sexual assault can happen to either gender. The differentiation between sexual assault between men and women is that men, when assaulted, are normally assaulted by groups of men associated under criminal activities or association whereas sexual assaults on women focus on control, culture and association of said woman's familiarity of the attacker. However, what can be measured is the statistics of various crimes to include those more prevalent towards women. In fact, the number of homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in Sweden currently stands at 1.11% Drug related crimes: after having increased steadily from 2016 to 2020, the number of reported drug-related crimes fell by over 10,000 from 2020 to 2023. Also the number of reported sexual assaults/misconduct from 2020 to 2023 by 6.7%.
Theft crimes was the most reported type of crime in Sweden in 2022 and remained as such in 2023.
So based on Sweden's government statistics, sexual assaults have fallen since 2020, making it less dangerous than previous years. Regardless of statistics, it's always wise to take precautions in ANY areas you travel and that goes for men as well.
https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/sweden/sexual-crimes/percentage=MA48L3PAF.44lt1
@Србомбоница86
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@Mell-h1f bullshi* stop blaming men for women’s self constructed pitfalls and bad decisions. Typical feminist delusion - just easier to blame men for women not taking accountability. Men make up 90% of the WORLD’S high mortality rate, labor intensive, high mobility employment in freight, construction, medical, transport, automated information systems, engineering and sanitation - in short, MEN have built the infrastructure that women are the benefactors of! Yet, we have had women leaders since the medieval times to now - so much for an effective patriarchy huh?
It’s always amazing how you “wonder women” herald equality and equal parity with men, but revert into the damsels in distress when it comes to wars or situations that women don’t want to participate in - nice try
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What is MOST INFURIATING is the fact that MANY women will vote for this IDIOT in the coming weeks knowing regardless of what he has already been proven to be. Time and again, this man has made such inappropriate sexist comments and action that any woman should run a mile from him. Yet, we still see women supporting this convicted felon over and over again.
The race should have had:
a. a convicted felon run for ANY party
b. an individual who's term as President was voted the WORST in any administration and had more personnel turnovers than the last 6 presidencies combined. This ex-President, twice impeached, also took more holiday time than the last 3 ex-Presidents combined.
c. an individual riddled with one scandal after another - ranging from sex payments to the nation's first insurrection that attempted to OVERTHROW a legitimate, sworn in administration.
d. a disasterous effect on global affairs (NATO, North Korea, Europe, China) yet, praising dictators time and again - the same methods he would like to accomplish in Project 2025 - ABSURD.
e. Took the previous Administration's financial zero balance and rose the debt by $7.8 trillion dollars while blaming the previous administration's debt ceiling - false.
I am a Republican and have always been. However, this does not excuse me nor my party from having nominated a convicted felon with a track record worse than several crime families combined. The fallout from his presidency is still reverberating today with news on a daily basis that he, or members of his group are being convicted, fined, jailed, fired, or further investigated - a shame.
I do not want to get comments regarding I believe in "fake news," "libtard, commie, simp, snowflake etc." - we didn't have none of these terms prior to this man's time in the oval office nor an insurrection and racial/violent turbulance. BTW: What exactly is an "alternative fact?" A fact is a fact - period, just to note an example.
America, we can do better than this
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@JJONNYREPP The destruction of Warsaw by the German Military just 10 days to Poland's surrender, the killing of thousands in the Warsaw Uprising by the Nazis, when Poland was being liberated, the destruction of Belgrade after Yugosloavia signed a mutal pact with the Russians, by the Germans, the brutal boming of Rotterdam when the Netherlands had already gave up days before, the liquidation and massacre of of the French Town of Oradauer Sur Glane in 1944 when France already has surrendered and lets not forget those concentration camps set up in nations that had long surrendered - here's a list for you just in case you forgot that small detail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazi_concentration_camps
The audacity for anyone to attempt to justify the bombing of Dresden need only to look at the World at War given the time of what was going on - sorry, but no.
Dresden was a military target, just like Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, London, Minsk, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Belgrade was too - "nuanced arguments don't make any of these bombed, starved and burn cities to include concentration camps in already conquered nations correct either, now does it?
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@motosnape Junior, you couldn't see clear if your were transparent.
You do realize that a 14N Intelligence Officer does deploy; in fact, I deployed in Operation Desert Storm 1991 to Saudi Arabia and Iraq; I deployed again after having received my PhD in Gastroenterology, again to Iraq and afterwards Kuwait, and on to Afghanistan as a medical officer. I didn't "retrain" as a surgeon; my education above my Bachelors was paid for by the military for me serving - I hope that isn't too hard for you to comprehend.
I retired as a Colonel and assumed a GG-15 Civil Service Role as Acquisitions for NATO at Brussels; afterwards, I started my private medical practice in London and Sweden in 2008.
Now with that explained, WHAT ARE YOUR CREDENTIALS in relations to US/NATO Force posturing in relations to the Ukraine and overall, Political Science? Any degrees in those areas?
I highly suggest you think before responding to me again, as I am more than CERTAIN, I can engage you on ANY political level should you choose to be foolish enough to try your smart-azz antics with me.
Young people like you, have no formal education, experience or never having served your country or it's allies, no mindset outside of what you see on Social Media to place yourself in ANY position to challenge someone who has.
Again, I highly suggest you contol alt delete your attitude and reroute your GPS to someone as uneudcated as yourself before commenting again; OR, you can try it again unwisely, so I can hand you your azz back to you on a silver platter. (and Azz was spelled this way on purpose) to bypass YouTube's writing criteria.
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@bradduke56 Gun violence out of control, infrastructure crumbling, COVID not under any control due to "personal rights" being violated, insurrection that occurred on 6 Jan despite the fact that the election was certified by all 50 states and yes, Arizona, no healthcare coverage for the richest country in the world, racist issues resulting in violence, riots and police investigations, disaster in Afghanistan as 20 years were simply too long to stay with no exit plan from either Trump or Biden, gender issues out of control, illiteracy rate at a staggering 21% or 43 million Americans and growing (yes it shows here nicely), ranks as the 2nd worst world polluter after China of any 1st world country, and two parties who refuse to work with each other to even keep the Federal Government running for the next several days (shutdown).
Now please tell me what I wrote above is a LIE and makes my position "repugnant?" I simply googled every one of my comments above and I encourage you to do the same.
Maybe you need to learn a thing or two about being humble right after learning how to be honest with yourself.
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@blackgoth7545 Cuba didn't have mineral wealth and the Ukraine didn't have a dictator at helm when Russa attacked - does Fidel Castro Ring a bell? Are you comparing Zelensky to him?
Secondly, Cuba was not "borne" out of US lands like the Ukraine was out of the former Soviet Union nor did the Ukraine go through a revolution on it's decision to be socialist or capitalist.
Third, NATO had existed almost 20 years prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the US missiles in Turkey were there under NATO's umbrella to counter the Warsaw Pact. Cuba had no military alliance to the USSR nor was a member of the Warsaw Pact - therefore, placing nuclear missiles by the USSR was a direct threat as Cuba was not under a mutual defense treaty with the USSR.
Fourth, Cuba was under economic sanctions from the US; I don't think the Ukraine is under any sanctions but Russia certainly is -- why is that again? I'll let you answer that one.
Fifth, Russia is already bordered by NATO via Finland, Baltic States and Turkey; so why doesn't Russia attack them?
Sixth, Russia was quick to sign a business deal with the US which prevents them from further waging war in the Ukraine. Russia will get what in return - a neutral Ukraine ok, a Ukraine not in NATO, ok and what else? Nothing. So in short, Russia lost what it's main objective was and that was to integrate the Ukraine back into Russia therefore having 100 control over the Ukraine's vast mineral resources, ports and land - that didn't happen - why? Hint: 1.5 million Russian soldiers have died, North Korean troops dispersed and the war is bleeding Russia's economy dry. Even Russia's ally China, didn't come to the aid of Russia, because China is too busy carving up the Siberian natural resources at bargain prices while Russia tries to bring the unfortunate war to a close. The US is in the best position as it wins in either direction. It doesn't have to concern itself with the Ukraine after the Mineral Rights deal, forced the EU to beef up it's military or go it alone which we both know won't happen as NATO will stay intact (a cash cow for the European and American Military Industrial Complex), and the Ukraine will become a rebuilt conduit to both EU and Russian Markets
So in the end it was all for nothing except business -- it's always the regular citizen that suffers the brunt and the Ukraine is no exception.
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@pbluma I don't recall ever telling you about a Russian Mindset - you appear to be retarded or have an issue of comprehending what someone has written versus what you seem to intepret.
Unless you have a Masters Degree in Political Science, served your country in the Armed Services, know 4 languages, worked in the National Intelligence Community for 20 years, then come talk to me.
As far as Moldova is concerned, it is aligned between Romania traditionally with it's breakaway neighbor Transnistria that favors the former USSR - to be honest, no one cares about it. It's not recognized and only exists because Russia has placed some military bases there.
I spent 3 months in Chișinău working with the Forțele Armate ale Republicii Moldova and the Trupele de Carabinieri with Lt Col Mikhail Daniel Baderca who still keeps in touch with me (now retired).
I fully understand the difference between Moldova, Romania and the Ukraine
I don't recall seeing you at the George C. Marshall European Center For Security Studies in Garmisch - I taught there, did you? I also don't recall seeing or talking to you at military proving ground in Bulboaca, Anenii Noi; when were you a soldier there or a civil servant?
Let me make this clear to you little girl, watch your mouth and learn to speak with respect to those that have served or are advisors in Political Affairs.
I can promise you that whatever smart-ass insults you try to bring, I can match it.
Keep that mind the next time you post a comment to me.
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@Toastmaster_5000 No it doesn't --- again there is BOSTON the city, and BOSTON Metropolitan Area which expands into several counties and cities (i.e. Cambridge, Quincy, Melford etc). The entire BOSTON metropolitan area lies WITHIN Massachusetts
THEN, there is the BOSTON CONSOLIDATED METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA (CMSA) which not only incorporates cities/counties in Massachusetts but also in the following areas/states:
Lawrence, MA--NH; Lowell, MA--NH; Manchester, NH; Nashua, NH; New Bedford, MA; Portsmouth--Rochester, NH--ME; and Worcester, MA--CT
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I'm always amazed at all the channels screaming that CA is a disaster YET YET YET it's population increased by 166,000 in the year 2023 and is BY FAR the largest GDP of any state. In fact, if California was a country, it would have the 6th largest GDP in the World. What state DOESN'T have poor, homeless, high prices and social problems? You think LA's homeless is different than NYC's?
Homeless on the streets - have you seen Chicago, Philly, Miami, Atlanta and DC? Cost of living? Let's see if you can find a "reasonable" home in Manhattan, Miami-South Beach, Philly's Historic District, Boston's Back Bay or Hawaii Waikiki - all overpriced and unattainable unless you're very very wealthy - the same applies for LA, SF, and San Diego - however, rural areas of CA, just like all rural areas of the aforementioned states are still affordable - so in short, ALL MAJOR US CITIES are overpriced if you plan to live in their best areas.
San Fran for example, saw an increase in it's population to include San Diego and yes, LA, despite all these YouTube videos claiming the city is destroyed and that CA is on the brink of collapse - utter rubbish. If you think the nation's second richest state (Texas), is faring any better in it's large cities - think again. They have huge homeless populations, high property taxes and social issues - Austin for example is overdone, people are moving out as it's been allegedly "californisized) yet the majority of it's new citizens are from the East Coast. This is what happens what a city incurs a spike in employment, new industries/businesses move in and the property was once cheap - all that changes and eventually, "that" city becomes overdone as well.
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