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Regime change in Russia? Is that the end-game of America in this Ukraine war? And is China next? ===== Reagan defeated the Soviets - for the good of us all. Be happy, go home.

To me, a dollar earned through labour should be taxed in the same way as a dollar earned through savings. Why should a capital gain be taxed any differently from a work gain?

Intelligence? WDC? Gimme a break. Churchill would never have done that. In the midst of a war, Roosevelt - no use of his legs (plane crash, he's dead) - flew from Malta to Yalta, Cairo to Tehran. Stalin? He took the train to Potsdam.

One leader? This is not the late 1940s with a duopoly. Since the 1990s, America won. Like it or not, we are back in a multi-polar world.

Trudeau Snr - like Churchill in the 1940s - understood that they were a symbol of the State. On 11 September 2001, your President US George Bush Jnr did not return to Washington - he flew away. ==== IMHO, since 1991 or so, and I admire your Constiitution, you Americans have been screwing things up.

I was very curious about these questions. I went to these places where Roosevelt met Stalin. Yalta. Potsdam. Truman. I walked around. Looked ==== Like walking around an ancient city ruin, it gives a perspective.

Of course I do. ==== But I think that we in Canada - when we vote - should put our thumb in purple ink, and then hold it high. This shows the world that we vote in secret in a democracy. We live in an Internet world

As a Canadian, I vaguely know about Gallipoli. Do Australians know about Beaumont-Hamel? ==== Like today, this could have been avoided.

Fluffypants, I disagree. Ordinary Americans are good people.

Agreed. I suspect that there will always be a demand for room cleaners.

Truman/Kennedy/Nixon/Reagan correctly fought and defeated the Soviets. Communism. Reagan can take credit. ==== To me, Nixon and Kennedy had a better understanding of the world.

Eyeball, AG, After 1815, there was a structure of peace. Ordinary people lived well from 1815-1914. In 1914, this structure fell apart - the elite killed itself, and for ordinary people, the next thirty years were a disaster. ==== IMHO: We must avoid this catastrophe.

Sorta disagree. 1. Robots will never be able to clean a room. (We'll find a way to make a mess.) 2. AI will never be able to replace a writer. (AI is based on coorelation - not causation.)

Americans are sending money (paper) to China. China is sending stuff to America. America is sending paper to Ukraine. ==== Am I wrong?

Quick math. I always love such questions. Invariably it means that the poster/journalist is correct

Amazing. All 6 episodes still available, Google/Youtube - America - make this possible.

Gotta love you Americans Disagree.

Look on your money. Look carefully at the name of the Deputy Governor. ==== She didn't get the job. Trudeau Jnr chose a guy..

We have never had a francophone, nor a wonan. Trust: glass ceiling Our first federal financial minister Chretien.

In America, Churchill is perceived as a good man - the lone guy against evil. Putin is no Hitler. ====== Our current world situation has noting to do with the 1930s. We are in the 1910s.

I'm going to ignore all that: a dollar is a dollar is a dollar.

I disagree. But even if you are correct, we're back to 1815. We need a new order of peace - Kissinger, Nixon style

Maybe this explains his writings in the 1930s. But we are not in the 1930s. We are in the 1910s.

Winston Churchill was born in 1874 - about 60 years after the Napoleonic wars. Millenials, people born some 60 years after 1945, are like Churchill. Churchill was a war monger in spring/summer 1914. https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/did-churchill-want-world-war-i/ ===== Modern American politicians remember Churchill as a lone guy who, in the 1930s, stood against Hitler. In the middle of the disastrous three decades after 1914, Churchill was correct. This current world of the 2020s is not like the 1930s. We are not in the middle of a maelstrom. Rather, we are living in a world like the 1910s. We have had decades of peace, few remember what war is, and we are struggling to create a new structure.

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