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There's a reason why every single neighbor of Russia will be in the NATO or devoured or fully controlled by it. When your neighbor is a brutal psycho you want the police on your property 24/7. Anybody with a grain of intelligence understands that. Can one have a meaningful intelligent and peaceful conversation with a psycho? Well, the answer is right before our eyes.

There was a paper awhile back on high probability of the animals source that was widely criticized if not retracted. Speculations on probabilities would not add much confidence at this point, short of new and convincing evidence. And again, any serious intelligence evidence or factors short of convincing evidence would not necessarily be open to the general research community. We will have to wait a while longer to see if a common determination will be produced by the investigating agencies and presented to the public and the Congress. In that case it would be clear that there are some additional factors and/or evidence on top of random probabilities. And if it doesn't happen, the question will remain open, possibly indefinitely. But one conclusion is quite clear already: whatever the outcome of the investigation, China was not and is not cooperating in good faith and nowhere near the extent needed. Given the magnitude of the impact on the global scale, that in itself can be the most important conclusion for the foreseeable perspective.

And one more time, there's nothing wrong with seeking protection and security from a brutal murderous psycho. Especially, psycho shouldn't and couldn't have a say in that or tomorrow they'll tell you to walk backwards looking down only from 10.29 to 10.31. That's in any normal reality, no comments on private universes.

Thank you, that's honest and clear enough. These are only meaningless words, mumbo jumbo. Ukraine had no active process to join NATO when she was invaded in 2014. You are a) surfing in your personal universe (OK, no further arguments); or b) if conscious and deliberately, lying.

No sorry, facts of this reality cannot be wrong in the reality. In your little personal (alternative) universe, it's all different of course. Deny and rebuilt at will, it's all yours.

So you don't think that Canada should be in the NATO? Or you'd be OK fighting Ivan and the other guy in Montenegro and Croatia, but not giving arms to Ukraine to defend herself against a brutal, unprecedented since WWII aggression?

I didn't write that, not the God these are the facts, the reality. Can you tell the difference, anymore?

I don't know the final answer but I look at it this way: all the evidence that is known to the "it has to be natural" professor is known to US DoE and FBI. The opposite isn't necessarily true. The professor has been wrong before and had to retract and comment. So their assessment of possibilites, short of convincing evidence can be taken with a grain of salt. That's the status quo. Further it'll be an interesting problem to analyze what is more likely: to find finally the mysterious chain animal? or to obtain factual evidence from a top secret China government lab.

Lie, lie. Norway, three Baltic states, Poland, Turkey were all members of NATO long before Ukraine. Ukraine began to increasingly lean toward NATO only after Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014, an unprecedented act of armed aggression in post WWII Europe. In any civilized or even minimally sane society, a citizen has the right to protect themselves against a mad armed bandit by associating with other citizens. Only brutal totalitarian states question or deny that right. Russia's brutal invasion leaves all of her neighbors the only choice: joining NATO or becoming Russia's forever puppet. Finland and Sweden are joining NATO, Ukraine is sure to follow. Even Russia' stooges like Hungary never going to leave NATO because they know what Russia is, felt it live for decades. Really, there's nothing to discuss with Russia's propaganda machine. It's goal is not the truth but the opposite, continuation of brutality and oppression by spreading blatant, blustering lies.

And here we go again. Which one of the two is it: A. US is fighting a war in Russia B. Russia broke into an independent European country (and a few more) and committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity Is it really so hard to have eyes and connected brain, to take in and understand the visible reality? Why should it be?

I don't think the binary FPTP story can have a good long term conclusion. Everybody loses.

Why would anything that's going on in their country be a big deal? In I mean, China North?

The result is the same but it's a bit more complicated. See to beat Liberals in this game one has to become just like them, or even more Liberal. An identical twin from pretty much all sides and perspectives, excluding insignificant. Game over. Of course you could stand up and say, nope. Not playing your game anymore, and here's a real meaningful alternative. But nah, the chain to the trough is too heavy and the fear of the future, too strong. Nah, let's just try same tired and boring thing again. Let's see if it'll make any difference!

Also masters of their own fate. The could have chosen to be different. They could have opened new options and opportunities, for the country, the people and themselves... but.. nah. The trough is right here and the turn is assured, sooner or later. Why bother?

You can be so convincingly clueless when it works in your favor. Great job, there!

Because democracy is no Santa Claus? Because they have to care? Because they have ot bother to think, build, make and remake their governments working for the citizens, not for themselves? ens not for itself? Because democracy isn't a cake that is given from the grace, but a result proportional to intelligent effort? Just because.

And that's just too bad. The other head will have it's way with the archaic and outdated system hopelessly unfit to reflect and accommodate interests of a modern society. The former one would sit out a term or two, perhaps with a few belches. And back to the trough, to the bright eternity and beyond... or to the hard stop. Big trouble or death by extreme boredom, only two possible futures for us. I honestly don't know in what dumb universe (that was a personal opinion) it could make sense and to who. You let a pig to the bottomless trough, set no limits, no real checks or controls just nothing, no questions answered, eat, sh*t do what you like until you can't anymore, like no room left, physically. Then you roll it away to lie it out and belch and put another one its place. What kind of intelligence it can produce? What problems can it solve (no need to reflect here, just look)? How's that for a democratic system of governance in the 21st century? Truly fascinating and peculiar species!

US Department of Energy came to the same conclusion, though with lower confidence. That's two. The next milestone is if / when the agencies would harmonize their findings and present the common position to the Senate and the world. This is a lot better, to me and I want to think, many reasonable intelligent citizens than a mouth with no brain connected to the Central Committee table barking out the truth of the day.

Does it sound like (or at which point it will): "we have no clue; we'll say anything to get on the bandwagon; and we'll punish you merrily for our oversights, cluelessness and incompetence, for your own good?" If not this time, at which next terrible pandemic we will understand it for what it is? Because it won't change. Because it can't. That much we know for certain, assured and guaranteed.

Today on BBC News: FBI director Wray acknowledges the lab leak as the "most likely" cause of the Coronavirus pandemic. "The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident," he told Fox News. In this anniversary period of the beginning of the first serious wave of infections in the country, maybe it's worthwhile to return and evaluate the statements, actions, preparedness and the results. Even because in the rapidly changing word of today, future epidemics and pandemics are all but assured.

There's a bad, nasty trend developing in that age group. If confirmed, there will be another scandal and possibly another outrageously expensive and absolutely useless "inquiry" because see, in plain sight already: they don't change anything. They don't need to. "Because they can". Others though, try to use their brains to avoid dumb, unnecessary decisions and dangerous consequences in the first place. To each, their own.

Note this. Not everybody jumped on the happily mindless bandwagon. No "vaccine" recommendation for healthy children under 12. In Canada at 6 months of age, you're good to go. Why? What association ever demonstrated that it's supported by evidence, or even compatible with medical ethics standard? "This recommendation includes children from the age of 12 and those children from the age of 5 that are extra vulnerable to upper respiratory tract infections."

Nothing about Putin wasn't known in the early 2000. It would have cost a fraction, a nothing to stop him right there. If only we could see and learn (Grozny).

Of course you stop it. And there're exactly two ways to stop it: beat the bully back to his stinky lair; or you lick his boot and wait patiently where he kicks you next, thanking for the attention. What isn't known in this picture, forgot it already? Need another lesson to freshen up?

Like Hitler's was "provocated" can research too, research it away! Russia grabbed other people's land for ever, and already in the new times on multiple occasions, Baltics, Moldova, Georgia no less than once per decade. Do research it, right at your fingertips, obvious, documented facts.