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The thing is that if the Republicans dump Trump and put somebody else as a candidate Trump's supporters are not going to vote for that somebody else when as if Biden is persuaded to step down and somebody else becomes a candidate people who would have voted for Biden will vote for the new candidate. Biden's support is entirely about the other option being Trump. I doubt anybody supports Biden for his own sake.

Strange to have Spain included since Spain was one of the only European countries which didn't recognize Kosovo as Spain itself has its own problems with separatists in Catalonia and the Basque Country. As for Ireland, they have always been the most pro-Palestine country in Europe.

Unfortunately it seems that the biggest grief Russians have about the sanctions is that they are banned from playing hockey and other international sporting events. That really pisses them off big time. However, as the purpose of the sanctions was to destroy the economy of Russia and make them starve that hasn't happened. If it had nobody in that country would give a shit about something like sports.

It kind of makes one wonder are Americans brainwashed into believing that publicly funded health care is socialism and therefore something to be opposed. Or is it us Europeans who have been brainwashed into believing that only the government can cure us if we get sick.

In the 80s the Soviet Union was ridiculed for having senile zombies as their leaders but actually Breznev was 75 when he died, Adnropov 69 and Chernenko 77. All of them younger than Trump and Biden now. I was surprised to learn that. I thought all of them were at least 10 years older.

Churchill is not considered a hero in Australia. No surprise there either.

NZ is at the bottom of the world far away from everything. Unless aeroplanes become faster in the future, or some other forms of transport, the idea of living in NZ is just out of the question.

Singapore is really something which is to some people a paradise when as for others it is a repressive dystopia.

I thought your username is the month and the year of your birth but apparently not.

Some people say that if you call the capital of Ukraine in its English name as Kiev you're pro-Russian. Nowadays you must call it Kyiv. What a load of absolute bollocks! I am absolutely against Russia but names are names.

Putin is desperate to blame Ukraine for the concert-attack. That would give him the excuse to step up the war to the next level. Not everybody in Russia wants to live under the Russian rule. This attack is most probably somethiong to do with that.

Singapore is totally dependant on Malaysia regarding fresh water.

So if the 1995-referendum had gone just a bit the other way round there would be a totally alternative history?

Macron is the president of the surrender-monkeys. His word is worth nothing.

It seems to me that it tells something about the effect of the sanctions that Russians seem to be extremely pissed off for not being able play international hockey or they are banned from other international sports. I mean if the sanctions had their desired effect of ruining the economy of Russia and bringing down their society absolutely nobody would care about hockey or sports.

Ukraine is not a military superpower but yet Russians are struggling there. Even if the Russians manage to somehow get over the war by somehow claiming as their victory they have no resources to start another war somewhere else.

How exactly can you remove Biden without getting Kamala to replace him? After all Biden has no chance of lasting 5 more years, which he should if he gets re-elected. Looking at him you wonder if he lasts until next week.

It is a problem in the political culture that when the man of your own party is the President and he wants to get re-elected challenging him from within his own party is considered somehow traitorous behaviour. Hence an incumbent, however incompetent he may be, does not have to worry about primaries that his upcoming opponent in the general election does.

Those of you who know the Bible is there anything in it which supports the idea of establishing the institution of papacy?

Don't they have guided tours for tourists in the White House? Perhaps Trump will be allowed to go on one of such tours but that is the closest Trump is going to be allowed to have anything to do with the White House.

YouTube is nowadays full of clips how Canada is losing its appeal for immigration. Well, there will always be more immigration than emigration for Canada. However, when you look at the map you see that Canada is not on the way to somewhere. I mean you don't end up in Canada unless that is where you absolutely want to go to.

I'm glad Finland finally joined NATO but the reason we joined was a bit embarrassing since obviously Russia wasn't going to attack other countries after it thought the job was done in Ukraine.

I watched the interview. Very interesting. A very teacher/pupil-vibe about it though.

This kind of makes me think how we in Finland had this party-princess called Sanna Marin as our Prime Minister and she caught even international attention and many people here in Finland were amazed what a super PM we had. Then we had elections and her party lost and boring adults took charge again and nobody now knows outside of Finland who the Finnish PM is. It is very much the same with you in Canada. Justin Trudeau is well known across the world. His predecessors weren't and most likely his successors won't be either.

I'm glad that Finland joined NATO because I never understood why we didn't belong there earlier but when we joined it looked like as if we were running away from the Russian threat when as Ukraine was always the thorn on Putin's side but we were told that Putin was going to restore the pre-1917 borders of Russia and after Ukraine it was going to be Finland's turn to be returned to the cosy arms of mother Russia. There's propaganda on both sides of any conflict but it is a mistake to believe your own propaganda. That is directed at the enemy to make them believe it.