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Great. There isn't a single thing on earth I care less about than what you think. Anyway, some goof expressing false bravado with a stupid picture included, which completely disregards what created his confidence in the first place, is what publicity hounds do. And by the way, as far as "trust," as you recall and did not respond to, when you questioned my background and I offered to donate any sum of money to a charity of your choice if you I couldn't prove it, you didn't take the challenge. Your view of my "trustworthiness" is not something I will ever be concerned with.

The decision to use the atomic bomb was made because the US didn't want a land invasion of the Japanese homeland, especially after Okinawa. Such an invasion would have been much larger than D day. Millions would have been killed, especially since the US was in possession of Japan's plan to use every single human in defense. The Japanese wanted the Emperor to remain seated, and the US relented, because occupation and recovery was made much easier by doing so, but in meetings with MacArthur, the rules of engagement were laid out. "Fly Boys," and "The Fall of Japan," are great books that go into good detail on this.

Just to be clear, the attempt of the previous administration to pry bar other NATO allies to live up to their agreements, which they were woefully and now fully exposed as negligent in not doing, had nothing to do with abandoning our agreements or ending our participation. Both NATO and the UN need to live up to promises and stop relying on the US to fund and back up systems that are not supported by signatories. The UN is fatally flawed, and an exposed fraud. NATO might be put to the test.

If we were to renege on our NATO commitments, that would be the starting gun to challenge everything and every agreement, de facto, making them worthless. Dishonoring commitments is not a reasonable choice, and would be catastrophic, especially in this case, where you have the underpinning agreement that resulted from Soviet expansion attempts post WWII. The new Russia has no ability to threaten NATO conventionally. None.

As members of NATO, we don't have the option to avoid a response if Poland's sovereignty is threatened by some stupid Russian adventure, which they have no conventional warfare ability to successfully conclude.

Oh. I think crazy pilot with well planned out scheme.

If you're speaking of this drone incident, in my view it's Russians being Russians. Their entire military is completely controlled from the ground, so I'd bet the regime wanted to get rid of the drone without expending a weapon, which would have been obvious. Not a bad idea to dump fuel on it, but it didn't work. Instead, the need to get really close resulted in contact, which I'm sure was not intended. They do really stupid crap all the time.

No, I have not seen it, nor will I. I read a "peer review" of it and it was non complimentary. Anyway, I think it is highly unlikely, (read ridiculous), that there were AWACS around Malaysia 370.

Insanity. See how much he wants to do this without AWACS, US tanker capability, US electronic counter measures support and a host of other things that truly determine success. But, I see his call sign is "Two Dogs." That is a call sign with historic significance, and is funny.

Well, this was bound to happen. A US MQ-9 drone was downed by a Russian airplane in international waters over the Black Sea. Per US claims, the Russians attempted to dump fuel on it, then eventually struck it, causing the Reaper to crash. Let's hope this doesn't escalate to more common confrontations between UA and Russian aircraft, but this is not good Reaper Downed

Really? You have misstated what I said, even though you quoted it. I never, ever said anyone celebrated abortion. I said "celebrate the issue because it leads to favorable election results." What do you 'spose thee quotes from that individual imply? Nov 10: Abortion will still be a hot topic in 2024. Dems can work referendums into several key battleground states to pump up the margins " Sep 13: "sounds good to me, hopefully this will be the GOP's big ticket promise for the midterms! You can do it!!!" Sep 13: "Good! let's hope the GOP really doubles down hard on this" NOV 13: You anti-abortion people really screwed the GOP over. Keep up the good work! " Feb 14: "Any GOP nominee for presidency will have to get down on their knees and promise the anti-Abortion people they are true believers. Heavy cross to bear in a general election. Good" Feb 14: "Pro-choice, a good look A winner on election day Sep 1: "Well...I'm pretty sure you guys just handed Democrats a winning issue

I'm not sure how or why you are making this analogy, but it is silly, not at all related, and inappropriate.

People need to calm down and stop the blame thing. Thankfully, it seems rational heads have prevailed. The system is highly leveraged and depends on confidence. When the confidence is challenged, it is best for all to calm down and stop the unnecessary, and extremely dangerous political warfare.

I'm not sure. I saw a lengthy, live segment with Speaker McCarthy last Monday on CNBC's Squawk Box, and it was quite impressive and stressed the intent of bipartisan cooperation in getting at our most troubling issues.. Pelosi was simply incapable of anything resembling frank, honest, cogent responses to live questions.

Thank goodness we are keeping Air Force One with it's classic look. Trump's garish tastes should never be part of our national "look." On the other hand, as as for being a good president, a lot of what determines that is who you appoint to certain positions. These appointments are far more important that what the media reports. Biden's idiotic recommendation of Gigi Sohn as head of FCC has finally, and thankfully, ended. His FAA appointee recommendation, Phillip Washington, should also be rejected. He is simply nowhere near qualified for a position that federal law mandates experience. He has none. This is what troubles me about Biden. It' like nobody every looks at these very important positions, actually, it's like no rational person is running the shop. They are simply run up the flagpole for political patronage.

They, the Fed, is not trying to "cool the economy." They are trying to slow down inflation, which is part of the Fed's dual mandate.

I get what you and All Pro Bills are saying, and the point is valid. But, in my view, it takes a bit more than what we did re the mujahedeen to constitute a proxy war. Simply supplying arms doesn't puncture that threshold if you ask me. If it did, the Six Day War, Yom Kippur and the scores of South/Central America actions, would, and they do not approach what went on in Korea and Vietnam. Just a judgement re definition I suppose, but..........this thing in the Ukraine is getting really, really close to a definition of war, and if China arms Putin, we are in for interesting times.

Come on. In no way does the US support for Muslim rebels against the unprovoked Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan reach the level of a proxy war.

Not a mission for US military. The US military is not constructed to handle this type of thing. There are other options, but most wouldn't be possible without Mexican gov approval and leadership/participation.

With complete objectivity, if Biden was an airline pilot and walked like he walks, talks like he talks responds to to people the way he does and seems to be constantly suffering from some kind of disorientation, there isn't a captain or first officer who would agree to fly with him, or a passenger who would watch him and get on a plane. I don't know if he has dementia or is simply infirm, but there is clearly something wrong with him.

I think there's a high probability it won't be him the opposition will have to beat.

Here is Congressional testimony affirming what I pointed out above. Simple youtube, fast forward to the 45 second mark. This is what they spend money and time on. Idiotic waste of resources.

Biden's FAA Administrator nominee, one Phil Washington, isn't doing too well either. Confirmation hearings are embarrassing. Th man has no background understanding. At some point administrations need to stop appointing folks to important positions based on political patronage, and lean towards competence. Didn't used to be that way.

I'm not sure I understand he question, but demand is demand. There is a great deal of misunderstanding about military expenditures, but we are way beyond committing existing, paid for munitions, and what we are providing the Ukraine is going to be replaced at higher cost, thus increasing demand. Given that the US operates at a huge deficit, this money is borrowed, increasing the demand for capital, and directly inflationary.

The human story behind the headline of a Ukrainian pilot losing his life trying to avoid crashing into a village. Four minute youtube.with actual footage.