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Russia invaded a sovereign nation without provocation... And now they reap what they sow. We are sowing discord in Russia's backyard. They are going to return the favor, like they tried to do in the 1980s. These are both from 2022. Venezuela... war games. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-wor...

This guy served in Vietnam in 1968. He volunteered to join the Ukrainian National Guard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDE6ciuygs

You Neo-Cons think that this is OK, huh? Might makes Right? A future Socialist Canada accepts Russian military aid. How many seconds of reaction time will we have now? washington.JPG Socialist Cuba accepts Russian military aid. They can reach out and touch a good bit of the US oil refining capacity....

Back in the early 1960s the US deployed Jupiter Missiles in Turkey. I read they were stationed at Izmir. Khrushchev complained about a "knife to our throat". He risked a nuclear war to get them off of his ass. izmir.JPG Here's a possible place for NATO to put nuclear weapons.... 560 Km.......

Russian winter victories came by being the defender. Only true superficially. The common themes for both the French and Nazis were long lines of support and lack of proper gear. Mud. Cold. 10,000 years ago, while I was in ROTC we took a break to review gear. One of the guys was former enlisted. We ...

I’m sure the Russians will be able to sustain their invasion through the oncoming winter. Winter invasions in the steppes are easy, right Napoleon? Hitler? Hitler and Napoleon were outsiders who dressed their people for Western Europe. The Russians live there. Let's consult the experts.... Napoleon...

Pretty amazing week for Ukrainians. The Nazi invasion looked pretty good in the fall of 1941. The winter got to them. The winter will get to the EU too. Be nice if NATO would work on peace instead of punishment... but it's easy to punish when your own people in the US and UK aren't suffering.

I’ll say that it happens more often than you would think wise all over the government. During the Arms for Hostages thing in Lebanon it came out that the Israeli Mossad had an presence in Beirut. The Mossad knew where the US hostages were kept. Even CIA manager Bill Buckley. He was being tortured f...

Maybe we can finally get rid of civil forfeiture, the war on drugs and other trash This stuff was instituted to keep minorities down. I don't think there's evidence the Republican base is interested in giving up on that quite yet. The first Civil Forfeiture rules were part of the RICO act. Joe Bide...

All kidding aside? Getting rid of Trump would be a blessing for the Republicans. The Bush family can join him in the scrap heap. Maybe we can finally get rid of civil forfeiture, the war on drugs and other trash. Institute a flat income tax with a poor person deduction. Get back to work in the US in...

Hillary turned over the server when subpoenaed, unlike Trump who lied and hid the documents. Hillary had Original Classification Authority just as Trump did, but didn't try the bullshit argument that any email on the server was automatically declassified, unlike Trump. None of the emails were marke...

Day-yum I’ve never seen docs like these outside of a SCIF. If I had them at home, I would be so f u c k e d. So very, very screwed. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/df4d688a7687ad6bfaf19aad5d933030912c801b/0_156_5055_3214/master/5055.jpg?width=700&quality=45&fit=max&dpr=2&s=9753b6b363...

Hillary later blamed Comey for her loss of the election. She should have been prosecuted as much as Trump will be prosecuted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/p ... comey.html

But... her... emails? FBI Director James's Comey's comments.... hosted on the FBI.gov server. "Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely ...

The best argument against opposing Russia is they're so inept we don't need to. Another argument, maybe as good, is that the west encourages Russians to be wary and worried. This makes them want a strong man like Putin. Russian voters see Putin as Russia's guardian. Guardian against the West's immo...

The richest under President Eisenhower paid a tax rate of 91 percent. Now, they gripe about paying about a third as much. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/nov/15/bernie-sanders/income-tax-rates-were-90-percent-under-eisenhower-/ Well.... that rate only applied to income over a certain amo...

I agree. You've got to find a way of applying mind and body toward some form of entropy fighting. My family on my mom's side is riddled with deep depression and anxiety. Many of them are borderline agoraphobic due to their general terror of existence. The problem with the abyss is that it doesn't j...

Also pessimistic about the climate and CO2. The double whammy of rising and changing temps and ocean acidification. Will cause upheaval. I work on the periphery of nuclear power. I am seeing a much wider interest in nuclear power in 2022 than in many years. Almost as much as before Fukushima. Thank...

I’m pretty pessimistic at the moment. Due to structural elements of how we elect people along with some sketchy efforts to suppress votes, we are going to have a minority rule nation it looks like. The minority is going to use its power to divorce itself from having to get a majority of people to s...

Search and Seizure An interesting point, it’s not a seizure when you are getting your own stuff back, and all classified information is government property. He refused to return it, for whatever Trumpian reason, and they retrieved it after trying to be nice for 18 months. Don’t overcomplicate it. U...

SCI is a kind of clearance, where it is compartmented, and you need to be “read in” to that compartment. What is that process like? Trump is a very manipulative person. World class So why do you take this Search and Seizure at face value? Thanks to decades of Progressive politics Trump had dictator...

I follow a wide range of people online, from brass-tacks entrepreneurs to full-blown metaphysical spiritualists. Across the whole spectrum, they're worried or uncertain in the least about the general "vibe" and direction we're headed. Do you think your outlook has changed dramatically sin...

Wondering what you are thinking about this. Preliminary thoughts: 1. Weird that all the surrogates went to "maybe the FBI planted evidence" in immediate unison. 2. Other western nations have had ex-heads of state convicted of crimes. 3. GOP is really rallying around Trump without knowing ...

Nafod wants to make all gun owners responsible for the bad behavior of a small number of people, who ought to be held to account for their own lapses. No, I just want the mass murders to stop. Halting sales will not be sufficient. You'll have to confiscate all firearms capable of firing more than f...

You don't have Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist, etc. pro-life partisans. This is a very specific group of people imposing religious beliefs. You'd be correct about the US, but how much influence do those groups you mention have in the US? Are there any open Atheists in the US Congress? Congress h...