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  1. 36 minutes ago, eyeball said:

    Anyone else remember when these chucklfuks would get all indignant when the left used the term empire to describe America's designs for the world? Whatever happened to 'America...fu ck yeah'?

    Heck they're even woke to big corporate hegemony these days.

    Go back to sleep, you don't have a clue.

     

    Hey, you’re starting to sound a lot like me.  Wake me up before you go-go…

  2. 1 hour ago, myata said:

    You pick and choose your reality? We were talking about aggressive states and regimes that are bent on invasion, suppression and occupation of other countries. What country has the U.S. occupied after Germany in WWII? Putin and his dictator buddies, scores. Who is the aggressor?

    Okay, how many nations has the US either bombed, drone striked, removed the president or leveled crippling economic sanctions on since WWII?  
     

    Start with Germany, Italy, France, etc., Japan.  Then move onto Korea, Vietnam, half of South America with deposed leaders through the CIA.

    Then there’s Lebanon, Granada, Honduras, Chad, Iran, Iraq, Panama, Columbia Bolivia, Peru.

    Here, read this list(leave off the operations before 1940):

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations

     

     

  3. 2 hours ago, Rebound said:

    We get that you’re an America-hating Russian stooge. 
     

    Nearly all the countries which the U.S. intervened in were equipped with Russian weapons to begin with. But the U.S. military fought for freedom around the world.  We failed in Vietnam, but we were trying to protect those people and the rest of Asia from brutal communist dictatorships.  I’m proud to be an American.  I love my nation and what we’ve done. 

    I have a very low opinion of Putin.  My wife’s old college roomie is married to a Russian in his early 50’s.  He was at risk of being drafted and fled Russia through Norway.  Both sides are drafting older men, and women too, that’s disgusting as far as I’m concerned.

    The bigger question for me is, why are both sides grinding their people into dust?  WHY?  Because the official reasons do not add up.

  4. 10 hours ago, myata said:

    Couldn't you just smell the liar? How many countries has the U.S. invaded, without any just cause, unilaterally and in a blatant violation of international law, to subjugate and/or annex?

    The three Baltic states

    Finland

    Poland

    Romania

    Czech Republic

    Hungary

    Afghanistan

    Lithuania (after declaring independence)

    Moldova

    Georgia

    Chechnya (after declaring independence)

    Georgia again (2008)

    Ukraine (2014-2022)

    Ukraine again (2022 - )

    Are you counting, still? Is this USA? Check your glasses.

    There's a cause! Ai-ai so threatened! Pathetic, worthless excuses of a brutal, murderous psycho bent on capturing, controlling and complete subjugation of his victims. This is who and what you're trying to excuse and explain: nothing less.

     

    Is this the last 50 years?  No.  

    10 hours ago, Aristides said:

    The US hasn’t taken any territory and claimed it as its own since the Mexican  War in 1848.

    I wasn’t referring to taking territory.  Can anybody read?

  5. 2 hours ago, Hodad said:

    What would do you live in? Lol

    That's truly absurd. The USA has not expanded it's territory a bit, despite having smoke opportunity and power.

    And YES, the Russian forces were stopped. Do you not have access to international media? Russia has a GDP just north of Spain's, and the rust bucket military apparatus to match. 

    You said something so batshit, flat-earth crazy there's only so much one can do right it, Mr. Coyote.

    It's quite simple, really.  Take as much time as you need.

    How.  Many.  Countries.  Has the US bombed, hit with military strikes or drone attacks in the last 50 years.  Now count up the number of countries Russia has done the same with.  The US has been far more aggressive than Russia. 

  6. 16 minutes ago, godzilla said:

    whatever! Russia is an oligarchy! there is no valid elections. Putin jails/kills anyone who threatens his power.

    the wealth gap in Russia is off the map! Russian soldiers are astonished to find that Ukrainians have indoor toilets!

    so yeah, when a free thinking people decide whether they want to be part of the Russian empire or the Western empire... they pick the Western empire! and then the economy of the Western empire grows in stead of the wealth of a few Russian oligarchs.

    so screw Putin! this is a land grab. he wanted the whole thing! his first assault was an attempt on Kiev.

    soon Putin apologists will be making excuses for the Taliban! Kim Jong Un!

    That’s all irrelevant propaganda.  At least come up with some relevant propaganda.  

  7. The title of this thread is inadvertently more accurate than you realize.  Putin’s war.  On freedom.  He’s doing more for freedom than anyone else in the world.

    And if you can’t see that yet, surely you can see that the US has attacked more nations than Russia has in the last 50 years. Why is that?

  8. I don’t follow Twitter.  I never signed up with them unlike you. Most members of BRICS are hoarding gold.  Putin was or is the BRICS president.  BRICS has started doing oil trades outside of the US dollar, and they have 47% of the world’s oil reserves.  

    Whether you can read these tea leaves or not is irrelevant.  In 2006, people warning about an economic collapse was met with derision.  Then when it happened actual banks were going under.  
     

    Believe whatever makes you happy. 

  9. My goodness.  Are you that obtuse?  Let me give you an analogy.  The sports media questioning the general manager about the underperforming coach’s performance.  “His job is safe, the players need to start playing the system, and you can quote me!”.  

    Then 2 weeks later, the coach is gone.  You don’t know what China or India or anyone else is doing and they are not going to tell.  However, when they are both buying gold bullion at record setting levels, then only the obtuse don’t get it.

    Your hero Warren Buffet pulled over 140 billion out of the stock market.  Get a frickin’ clue.  He didn’t tell anyone he was doing it either so I guess it never happened…

  10. 1 hour ago, Moonbox said:

    Russia isn't welcoming anyone.  China runs the show for BRICS, and like everything else you post about, you don't even  understand what it is.  It's not an alliance.  It's not a multi-lateral trade pact.  It has no Charter, no ideological coherence and not only are most of its members not friends, many of them are straight-up enemies.  

    As for a BRICs currency, keep telling us how imminent it is...  🤣

    "Suggestions that the BRICS group of emerging market powers establish their own currency to reduce their reliance on the dollar aren’t under serious consideration and never have been, South Africa’s finance minister said."

    https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/brics-currency-was-never-on-table-south-african-finance-chief-says-1.1963130#:~:text=BRICS Currency Was Never On Table%2C South African Finance Chief Says,-Paul Vecchiatto%2C Bloomberg&text=(Bloomberg) -- Suggestions that the,South Africa's finance minister said.

    You say China is the big dog in this banded together group of nations, and then you use a quote from one of the lessers to make your point.  What does China have to say about it?  Why are China and Russia hoarding gold?  

    Who cares, South Africa’s finance minister is speaking!!

    🤣

  11. 39 minutes ago, robosmith said:

    You are iGNORANT of the HISTORY. Yanukovych AND Putin instigated the social unrest that led to HIS REMOVAL.

    Yanukovych had his Berkut police KILL HUNDREDS of peaceful protesters in Maidan.

    See:

    Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Full Feature | Netflix

     

    What is your gold standard for news that gives you ONLY the truth?

    Well it sure isn't CNN:  https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmedia%2F2024%2Ffeb%2F04%2Fcnn-staff-pro-israel-bias

    "According to accounts from six CNN staffers in multiple newsrooms, and more than a dozen internal memos and emails obtained by the Guardian, daily news decisions are shaped by a flow of directives from the CNN headquarters in Atlanta that have set strict guidelines on coverage.

    They include tight restrictions on quoting Hamas and reporting other Palestinian perspectives while Israel government statements are taken at face value. In addition, every story on the conflict must be cleared by the Jerusalem bureau before broadcast or publication.

    CNN journalists say the tone of coverage is set at the top by its new editor in chief and CEO, Mark Thompson, who took up his post two days after the 7 October Hamas attack. Some staff are concerned about Thompson’s willingness to withstand external attempts to influence coverage given that in a former role as the BBC’s director..."

    For those with the ability to think critically, the above proves that one of the major news outlets in the US has bias that is directed from the top.  And the point is, they all do.  They release news that has been approved according to their directed bias, not according to a search for truth and facts.

     

     

  12. 45 minutes ago, myata said:

    The answer is simple: if you won't give some money, a fraction of the defense budget to fight Putin and his likes elsewhere, they will come to your doorstep. Why wouldn't they: they always do when they smell weakness, fear and indecision.

    And what will it cost you then? Not in dollars, that other currency: thousands, tens, thousands? One only needs a working memory to know it. Such a precious asset in some groups, these days.

    And the answer for American aid is:  180 billion.  That they had to borrow to send, and the war is lost.  Stop reading your propaganda, it’s telling you complete lies.

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  13. This year is going to be huuuge.  Over 40 nations will be holding national elections and the unrest and change will be multiplied across all continents. To that add that the US can no longer bring to heel countries that resist its will.  All of its economic might has been brought to bear on Russia and it clearly hasn't worked.  In response, Russia has welcomed several more countries into the BRICS, which now holds 47% of the world's oil reserves.  When BRICS issues its own PM backed currency it will initiate a run away from the US dollar on the world stage.  What this will do to the value of the US buck I have no idea, but it can't be good.

    Keep on breathing hopium, moonbox, but the writing is on the wall. 

     

     

     

  14. 1 hour ago, Caswell Thomas said:

    What? And deprive you of the joy of finding it yourself in the internet archives?  Good heavens no, it does exist though. There, I've given you a head start . Run along. ( hint try 2023)

    Good decision Cassy.  Next time, don’t just blindly parrot what the propaganda people come up with.

  15. 59 minutes ago, robosmith said:

    Trump is telling Texas to defy the SCOTUS ruling to stop putting razor wire along the border and let the Border Patrol remove it and access the border.

    First step towards civil war was defying the supremacy clause of the Constitution.

    The first step in revolution is taking a presidential candidate’s name off a state ballot.

  16. 15 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

    I'm praying to God that doesn't happen.

    I'd rather give the Joker 100,000 lbs of TNT and a cloak of invisibility than see Biden lead the US in a war.

    We can never be sure what’s going on in Ukraine, but Biden has sent something like 180 billion over there so far.  And there have been American military operations there for much of that war.  Probably special forces, those pipelines and such aren’t going to blow up by themselves!

     

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  17. 10 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

    The vast majority of Dem voters are isolated enough from the truth that most of that doesn't matter.

    Are you trying to suggest that the Dems are planning to pull Biden off the ballot this year after the option of a legitimate nomination process is no longer available? 

    It's a time-honoured tradition. When the Iranians killed a single contractor who was protecting the embassy in Iraq Trump killed Suleimani and another Iranian general. 

    Biden has already let 165 attacks against US bases slide, if he lets this go unpunished he really will win the pillow-biting award for the 21st century. This is like watching a housecat stealing a gazelle carcass from a lion with a mopey look on his face and a burgeoning diaper. 

    I’m suggesting that it’s going to become an asset for Biden to use his military to manipulate voters, like Bill Clinton used to do.  

    Clinton would bomb Iraq to get Americans to rally around the flag and be more supportive of his administration.  Or to bomb during days of news that was damaging to his campaign or even just his administration.

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