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OK, fair enough so far but you didn't reveal much, just that you listen and decide. I think most will say something similar including that the other 'side' is misinformed. Also agree most politicians and journalists have other priorities. But my question is where do you get your information from, where does it originate? Another poster gave a great account of his sources of views on Russia. This is a critical because of Russia's historic weaponization of disinformation on a scale that most Westerners can't comprehend, as in it doesn't compute.

So, you just listen to the 'true' side? I'm still waiting for you to reveal your special sources on Russia. Odd that you accuse others, whom you don't know, of listening to propaganda yet you won't reveal your own sources. They say the make of a man is in how he views others.

Why does it "have to be"? You thinking is out of date. That's not how modern industrial manufacturing works. Aside from British aerospace industry being no. 2 in the world, BAE makes a significant part of America's F35's fuselage along with two US companies [ref]. So even the US does not build everything. Also, performance matters. Today's top video shows Russians going berserk in an open field as their S400 missile system fails to shoot down multiple British Storm Shadows whizzing directly overhead. Lol. But Putin said it would work...

What do you really know about Russia? Putin? How did you learn it? From where? Can you break down "Russia" in to its various constituent parts? That's not a challenge, it's a sincere question. I would like to know.

Oil? Difficult driving? Some may remember the LNG truck that sped off a highway exit onto New Phetchaburi Road, turned over blocking all lanes of evening rush-hour traffic, cracked, and poured LNG down the road under 100+ cars and seeped in to buildings for 10 minutes before it detonated. Explosions and fires burned for 24 hrs through 51 shop-houses destroying 67 cars and killing 88 people making it one of Thailand's deadliest man-made disasters (except the dynamite truck). Why? The gas tank was not secured to the truck. The next morning my girlfriend, reading That Rat with a huge front page picture of a torso shaped black cinder on a white sheet, said "Lets go to the hospital and look at the dead burnt bodies!" That's when it really sank in that Thai do not think about death as we do, if at all. Thailand Dynamite Truck Explosion. LA Times. Warning read first: Authorities said some police officers were believed among the dead and that other victims may have been passengers on a bus that was in the area at the time of the blast. (but they would never know for sure).

You figure? Hebrew belongs to the Canaanite group of languages. Canaanite languages are a branch of the Northwest Semitic family of languages. Hebrew flourished as a spoken language in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah during the period from about 1200 to 586 BCE. [ref] How did an Afroasiatic language come from Europe???

Once upon a time, in an alternate universe, Britain made it's own aircraft that were excellent, but does it make anything now? sources: Not RT [wiki] The aerospace industry of the United Kingdom is the second-largest national aerospace industry in the world (after the United States) and the largest in Europe by turnover, with a global market share of 17% in 2019. In 2020, the industry employed 116,000 people. Long article, see Current Main projects (about 66+) under these sections. - Crewed civil fixed-wing aircraft - Crewed military fixed-wing aircraft - Civil and military UAVs and UCAVs - Helicopters - Engines - Missiles (Hi, Storm Shadow) - Radars - Satellites - Spaceplanes

Agree, that's why I said ordinary jewelry. I too would test a gold bar.

I would be more worried about someone in Thailand making fake 23K gold jewelery out of spent Uranium, which is easier to work with, and, radioactive.

Use a steel nail or file, won't touch tungsten. (Mohs harness) gold 24K 2.5 gold 14K 3.5-3.8 iron nail ~4-4 steel nail 5-7 steel file ~7.5 tungsten 8-9 Though I doubt anyone would make ordinary jewelry from tungsten. It melts at 3422 °C (6,191.6 °F) and is so hard it will dent a steel hammer used to shape it.

Russia has one, it has been in repair since 2017. [ref] In July, Russian state media reported that Russia's sole aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, could return to active service by the end of 2024. Kuznetsov has been undergoing repairs since 2017, and its return to duty has been delayed repeatedly by mishaps and malfunctions. (Other sources add corruption.) More: WIKI Ship repairmen warned the military that the condition of Admiral Kuznetsov does not allow it to be deployed due to the high probability that it would sink or capsize. ... the metal structures below the third deck were significantly corroded. The holds are filled with muddy water, which makes it impossible to examine the ship in detail from the inside.

Cold hard claim: "IPAC is probably the most powerful lobby group in the world bar none. From your reference "AIPAC spent $3.5 million on lobbying in 2018". Can you find for me AIPAC's position in the graph of relative US lobby spending? If not, how do they control the US? [source]

Ahh, a quick sound byte quip versus reams of linked factual information.

No one needs a crystal ball. If You can't see that western "civilisation" is rotten to the core, that's up to you. IMO it's all circuses for the mob now, just like Rome before it fell. -- thaibeachlovers in post I responded to.

Truth incoming... Ukraine corruption is a vestige of Russian influence. LINK The modern period of Ukrainian corruption can be traced back to the integration of individuals linked to Soviet organised crime into the nomenklatura (Soviet, including Ukrainian, ruling elite) in the 1980s. After achieving independence, Ukraine faced a period of rather violent corruption in the 1990s and early 2000s. United States diplomats described Ukraine under Presidents Kuchma (in office from 1994 to 2005) and Yushchenko (in office from 2005 to 2010) as a kleptocracy, ...

Back on subject. US taunts Iran by releasing high quality video showing B-1B long range bomber bases, pilots, pre-flight room, and how easily they can fly lots of bombers round trip from Texas. https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1754112382027059311 More bomber porn from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota showing lots more B-1B bombers at the ready. https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1754112401014767812 The US is clearly trying to deter.

OK, agree to agree. Not sure about bombing but there have been a couple of recent mysterious explosions in their centrifuge plants. Search this source for "damage". 2020 July 2 - A mysterious explosion extensively damaged Iran’s main nuclear enrichment site at Natanz. The blast damaged a factory producing advanced IR-4 and IR-6 centrifuges that enrich uranium faster than the IR-1 models allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal. [note: this is a factory making IR-6 centrifuges, whoever it is is targeting centrifuge manufacture.] 2021 April 11 - An explosion at Natanz hit the power supply for centrifuges and caused damage that could take up to nine months to fully repair, The New York Times reported. It was the second major attack to sabotage operations at Natanz in less than a year.

What negotiations? You mean before the agreement? They lied and no one new? As for the agreement, same outcome.

The time to make such a factory is not for the building, it's the time to design, make, manufacture highly specialized tooling and equipment, including special control software, all of which is required to make the high prescription parts for advanced centrifuges. It is not trivial. Anyway, it's a mute point. At least Iran claims it was not covered in the agreement. Whether they cheated or it was not covered is immaterial. Six of one, half dozen of the other.

The Reuters link and I discussed having built the factory to make centrifuges. Not a learning thing. (Reuters) - Iran has built a factory that can produce rotors for up to 60 centrifuges a day, the head of its atomic agency said on Wednesday [weeks after the deal was broken] The point you skip is the factory that defeats much of the agreement's purpose was built during the agreement.

If you are responding to my post, you need to discuss it with Gary Kasparov, the opinion's author. He's a strong advocate of Democracy, claims Russia has none under "Putin's dictatorship", and now lives in America after Putin drove him out. He sometimes works in a NY coffee shop and discusses politics with Americans. He continues to champion good causes within and outside America. What you believe comes from state propaganda. Q. Why would anyone believe you over a brilliant Russian who is deeply intimate with both sides?

How about giving Israel the north where they are now and give Gazans and Palestinians the south? Seems vastly more practical. The hardest part of such agreements is getting parties to agree.

While I understand the value of a minimal border, simply dividing Israel in half looks a bit like what's known as a spherical cow approximation, simple but not practical. Is your diagram a suggestion not meant to be taken literally, or do you mean to give the Palestinians everything the State of Israel has built from day one, Tel Aviv, buildings, airports, factories, universities,military installations, and likely nuclear weapons infrastructure? If so, it doesn't seem a legitimate attempt at peace.

A detailed description of exactly what and who the first retaliatory strike targeted from PBS. https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/175355681486659999

A technical aside on Iran Uranium enrichment. The only hard part about enrichment is having many extremely high precision centrifuges. The only difference between 4% reactor grade and 90% bomb grade uranium is a simple valve, i.e., more or fewer centrifuges in parallel. "Arman, turn the valve, now." Iran has long known how to build a bomb[ref]. Just weeks after the Iran deal was broken, Iran announced that it had already developed a factory capable of mass producing rotors (hard part) for 60 far more powerful centrifuges, per day. Each new IR-6 was equivalent to 6 of their current IR-1 centrifuges. IOW, Iran could produce the equivalent of 11,000 IR-1 centrifuges per month, every month, a staggering number. This capability was developed during the agreement.