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8 minutes ago, heybruce said:

Ukraine will be admitted when all other NATO countries agree that it has met the required conditions. 

One of the conditions being that they are not actively at war ?

33 minutes ago, candide said:

Was this person, whose pedigree was not known at this occasion, a member of the Ukrainian government? Who are the Nazis allegedly governing Ukraine? Zelinski?

They introduced him as heroically fighting against Russia in WWII

 I don't believe he is in the Ukrainian government at the time of ovations.

Zelensky was in the parliament to witness it  if I remember correctly he clapped too !

Trudeau had apparently met him beforehand and invited him to the after parliament dinner.

After the debacle Trudeau's party sought to have the whole incident stricken from the parliamentary record  but it was rejected by the opposition parties who  wisely stated that it should serve as a reminder to never forget the past less we repeat the same mistakes.

When do you think Ukraine will join NATO ?

1 hour ago, heybruce said:

these neighboring countries to lobby very hard to join NATO.

When are they going to let Ukraine join NATO  I wonder.

3 hours ago, candide said:

You forgot to mention the Nazi Ukrainians! 😄

Not much mention of them since the Canadian parliament debacle

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66943005

16 minutes ago, candide said:

Is invading a country in order to annex it (or part of it) the same as the examples you give?

I mean the "leaders" of countries are all about the same  they also invade or wage economic war on other countries but seem to get a free reign to do so  whilst others are demonised  I'm saying that it's hypocritical to criticise Putin but not all the others who do (have done) exactly the same thing.

1 hour ago, rabas said:

Putin took a perfectly failed state, the USSR, and ruined it

perfectly failed ?  seems to me it couldn't get worse..so how come the economy is doing better than expected ?

1 hour ago, rabas said:

the US far exceeds Russia in oil production, now 13M to 9.5M bbl/day. Natural gas by even more

So how come the price in USA is higher than in Russia

1 hour ago, rabas said:

He locks up scientists because he doesn't trust them.

Really ? I haven't read anything about that

1 hour ago, rabas said:

Russia's hallowed space program?

US was dependent on Russian launches for a long time after the shuttle disasters.

1 hour ago, rabas said:

I too would love to see a strong, free Russia. Best thing for the world. Would you join me in calling for a Putin free Russia so that it can happen?  

The Russian people should and will decide that of their own accord  not by the meddling of uncle sam's CIA

3 hours ago, candide said:

How does it exonerate Putin?

It doesn't  "they"  are all about the same.

2 minutes ago, candide said:

coercing another country by invading it and bombing its population.

Iraq,Afghanistan,Libya,Syria,

Palestine, to name a few.

12 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

whether the US will be governed on the basis of crazy conspiracy theories or reality.

Governed on the basis of crazy conspiracy theories since at least

Tuesday, September 11, 2001 most likely before that too.

16 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Its easy for you to dismiss reality as the "MSM".

It's easy for you to confuse reality with "MSM"  not that they don't sometimes tell it as it is..there has to be some truth or everyone would see through it. (which more and more people are by the way)

7 minutes ago, candide said:

"Illegal sanctions"? What about the illegal war started by Putin?

What about the illegal wars started by Bush,O-bomber and Brandon ?

The sanctions are illegal because the USA just arbitrarily impose them on any one or country they deem fit, coerce other countries to follow

and threaten those who don't

2 minutes ago, heybruce said:

make Russia into a prosperous first world economy, and instead made it into a commodities dependent kleptocracy. 

It can become a prosperous economy using its commodities which are in demand worldwide.

IMHO  first world economies reliant on  fractional reserve banking, ponzi scheme stock markets and a vote that means virtually nothing as there is no difference between the candidates are no better than a kleptocracy anyway.

2 hours ago, heybruce said:

Name a centrist labeled as far right.

How about a leftist  labeled as far right  RFK junior

1 hour ago, Berkshire said:

"MSM narrative?"  As opposed to the made-up right wing nonsense that you read? 

Are you saying you only read Main Steam Media  or only left wing Main Steam Media ?

1 hour ago, heybruce said:

It's too easy to spot the BS.

As you can (not) see I've given you a confused emoji 

I quoted a snippet for brevity and didn't add a period.

The Russian economy is doing better than expected despite the illegal USA sanctions  where is the BS in that statement.

Even the person I was replying to says.

1 hour ago, candide said:

Right, it has been quite resilient so far.

They say Thailand has 3 seasons  

Hot with no rain, hotter with rain  and bloody hot !

3 minutes ago, charleskerins said:

the 319,000 people that would have survived Covid if they had taken the vaccine

There is no proof that they would have survived, it's impossible to say they would or would not have had a better outcome from the shot.

+ they can't be interviewed 

+

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9613797/

The IFRs had a median of 0.034% (interquartile range (IQR) 0.013–0.056%) for the 0–59 years old population, and 0.095% (IQR 0.036–0.119%) for the 0–69 years old. The median IFR was 0.0003% at 0–19 years, 0.002% at 20–29 years, 0.011% at 30–39 years, 0.035% at 40–49 years, 0.123% at 50–59 years, and 0.506% at 60–69 years. IFR increases approximately 4 times every 10 years. Including data from another 9 countries with imputed age distribution of COVID-19 deaths yielded median IFR of 0.025–0.032% for 0–59 years and 0.063–0.082% for 0–69 years. Meta-regression analyses also suggested global IFR of 0.03% and 0.07%, respectively in these age groups. The current analysis suggests a much lower pre-vaccination IFR in non-elderly populations than previously suggested.

5 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Is there some boiler room that pays you guys by the post to promote Trump?

 

Is there some boiler room that pays you guys to oppose trump and promote the MSM narrative on every subject ?

2 minutes ago, candide said:

Putin failed to develop the Russian economy.

But strangely its doing better than predicted even after the illegal sanctions imposed by the good ole USA

On 2/21/2024 at 8:57 AM, RuamRudy said:

from behind his 30ft long table.

The Tucker Carlson "interview" was from a very short table.