May 24, 20214 yr On 5/20/2021 at 11:09 AM, ilross2003 said: I see that Trump is not the most liked person here. I certainly do not have enough knowledge about his presidency, except about his Israeli Policies. I haven't read enough about it to form my own opinion. I'd be very interested to learn about his presidency from the perspective of the US citizens. What were his most glaring issues? Which positives did he have? Moronic game show host who was not only outrageously unqualified to be president, his only interest was abusing the office of the presidency to enrich himself and gain more power (along with being a pawn of the Soviets). His style was to make grandiose but mostly only symbolic gestures to placate his base while giving the rest of us the finger. He wouldn't urinate on your country if it were on fire. He couldn't possibly care less about Israel. A large portion of his base are religious fanatics so his outward attitude toward Israel was one of unquestioned support. He would have abandoned your country in a fraction of a second if it would have allowed him to profit, gain more power, or if Putin wanted him to.
May 24, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, toolg said: Belarus hijacked an airplane to arrest a journalist onboard: To me international civilian passenger flights are on the same plane as international shipping: there needs to be absolute freedom in it. For Belarus to do that is unconscionable and they need to be severely held accountable for it.
May 24, 20214 yr 8 hours ago, Bill said: To me international civilian passenger flights are on the same plane as international shipping: there needs to be absolute freedom in it. For Belarus to do that is unconscionable and they need to be severely held accountable for it. Totally. It is obvious Belarus went too far. Lukashenko got the guy he wanted off the plane. But it will cost him sanctions and scrutiny from the rest of the world:
May 24, 20214 yr That Belarus story is insane. Belarus needs a revolution. That said, if you're a dissident journalist and you know Belarus wants you, why pick a flight that enters Belarusian airspace? That'd be like Snowdon taking a flight to Cuba that crosses US airspace.
May 24, 20214 yr 48 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: racist, Islamic terrorist, arrested! Someone dis some things again?
May 24, 20214 yr 43 minutes ago, Dave Moss said: Oh nooooo the horror especially when is zero backstory provided.
May 25, 20214 yr Quote Hamas’s forever war against Israel has a glitch, and it isn’t Iron Dome Why Hamas promises another war soon, and another and another. And why it won’t work By HAVIV RETTIG GUR 22 May 2021, 5:38 pm https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamass-forever-war-against-israel-has-a-glitch-and-it-isnt-iron-dome/ ...In the mid-1990s, two IDF major generals were coming to the end of their long and storied military careers. Meir Dagan had led everything from commando squads to armored brigades and would later go on to serve as director of the Mossad. Yossi Ben Hanan, after serving as one of Israel’s most successful tank commanders in the 1973 war, would go on to lead the armored corps and the IDF’s R&D arm — though he is most famous for the 1967 Life magazine cover photo of his 22-year-old self standing in the waters of the Suez Canal, a symbol of Israeli vitality and military success. By the mid-1990s, the two grizzled veterans, newly released from their military duties, planned to travel together to Vietnam. Both were avid students of military history, including of the Vietnam conflict. They applied for visas and made a special request to the Vietnamese authorities: to meet General Vo Nguyen Giap. Giap was one of the great strategic minds of the twentieth century, a former schoolteacher who played a central role in developing the strategic thinking and organizational capabilities that transformed ragtag rural provincials into a military force that would rout the most powerful nations in the world, from the Japanese occupation to the French and the Americans over three long decades of conflict culminating in the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Giap was also a ruthless and often tyrannical leader, murdering opponents of Vietnam’s communist movement and overseeing a guerrilla war that sacrificed hundreds of thousands of his own fighters to the cause. He was no hero to the Israelis, but he nevertheless cut a fascinating figure in the annals of modern warfare. Unexpectedly, the request was approved. Giap agreed to meet them. When the Israelis arrived in Vietnam, they sat down with the man who by then had spent decades as his country’s defense minister. It was a long meeting, as Ben Hanan would later recall to Eran Lerman, a former top-ranked IDF intelligence officer and later deputy national security adviser. Lerman, now at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, told the story to this writer. When the Israelis rose to leave, Giap suddenly turned to the Palestinian issue. "Listen,” he said, "the Palestinians are always coming here and saying to me, ‘You expelled the French and the Americans. How do we expel the Jews?’” The generals w...ere intrigued. "And what do you tell them?” "I tell them,” Giap replied, "that the French went back to France and the Americans to America. But the Jews have nowhere to go. You will not expel them.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamass-forever-war-against-israel-has-a-glitch-and-it-isnt-iron-dome/
May 25, 20214 yr Of Course Putin knew. https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-only-country-support-belarus-141420299.html Russia is the only country to support Belarus after it intercepted a plane and detained a dissident. Experts have questioned whether Putin was involved. 7 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Why did Trump's trade war with China fail? Tariff's don't work. And the Republican Socialism of subsidizing farmers failed to help.
May 25, 20214 yr Of course Putin was in on it. Belarus is a Soviet satellite state. Ukraine will be the next one if we don't do something.
May 25, 20214 yr 6 minutes ago, Boogyman said: Why do you hate capitalism so much? Yeah, cowardly capitulating to communists is capitalism.
May 25, 20214 yr 6 minutes ago, The_Omega said: Yeah, cowardly capitulating to communists is capitalism. Didn't think you were sharp enough to understand what I'm getting at. Oh well I tried.
May 25, 20214 yr 10 minutes ago, Boogyman said: Didn't think you were sharp enough to understand what I'm getting at. Oh well I tried. You only need to be sharp as a bowling ball to understand your inane trolling attempts.
May 25, 20214 yr Just now, The_Omega said: You only need to be sharp as a bowling ball to understand your inane trolling attempts. Sure, write it off as trolling. A lot of people who can't understand simple concepts would do the same thing. That's probably a good play in your case.
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