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With Trump 'at the wheel', &krainians have all reasons to be scared! It will be open bar for Russia! 😆

If you had read the article, you would know that the reason evoked is that the team hired by the Kraken lawyer breached into an election office after the election, stole a copy of the software, and put it on a server. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-donald-trump-voting-92c0ace71d7bee6151dd33938688371e Warning: I don't support this conspiracy theory, but it's not dumber than the MAGA conspiracy theory about the 2020 election! 😆

GAG! DOGE targets agencies not flagged for fraud by the GAO, raising conflict of interest concerns https://discrepancyreport.com/doge-targets-agencies-not-flagged-for-fraud-by-the-gao-raising-conflict-of-interest-concerns/ The GAO’s 2024 report, “PAYMENT INTEGRITY: Significant Improvements Are Needed to Address Improper Payments and Fraud,” does not mention USAID, the CFPB, the Department of Education, or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—all of which have been primary targets of DOGE.

It's not new. It's been reported in MSM in April last year! Ex https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/16/government-fraud-gao/

A non-MAGA conspiracy theory. How refreshing!

Do you really believe what you write, or are you just on propaganda mode?

Come on, not wnd again!

It was not an helicopter but a jet flying over Turkish territory despite being warned 10 times. It was unfortunate but there had been several airspace violation by Russia previously. It was obvious that Putin would not have started a war for that.

And, of course, you have proof of it!

This new administration is chaotic! 🙂

That's obvious! There are more Dem recipients than Republican recipients, but there are still recipients. The problem for Republican politicians is that they are not evenly geographically distributed. They tend to be concentrated in some red rural areas which are playing a key role in the U.S. electoral system. The GOP politicians they elected, in particular, are not eager to shoot themselves in the foot! 🙂

Apparently, improper SSA payment are nothing new, and the rate is not higher than in Insurance companies. One reason for this long-lasting phenomenon is that Congress (whatever the majority party was) never allocated money to improve the computer system (which makes sense if they are still using Cobol). So the problem is known and remedies are also known. No reason for another clown show à la Musk! "Between fiscal years 2015 and 2022, which includes Trump’s first presidency, the Social Security Administration sent almost $71.8 billion in improper payments, according to a July 2024 agency inspector general report. The inspector general’s office called improper payments "a longstanding challenge." A November 2021 inspector general’s report found $298 million in payments after death to some 24,000 beneficiaries. (About $84 million was returned, the report said.) The Social Security Advisory Board, a group of outside experts, has regularly issued bipartisan recommendations to improve the agency’s accuracy record for payments, such as shifting death data collection to the Treasury Department." https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/feb/17/are-150-year-old-americans-receiving-social-securi/ A quite influent seem to be the budget rules, which are not inciting to solve this problem. 'To secure that first dollar to invest in technical fixes, the agency needs to lobby Congress, which is never easy and which could result in offsetting cuts to other parts of the agency. Then, if the agency does get that dollar and ends up saving $10 in payments, those proceeds would remain in the Social Security Trust Fund, which doesn’t help Congress’ own fiscal balance sheet, nor the agency’s own administrative budget."

Repeat after your master: fraud fraud! 😆

Wnd! 😆

From Musk's tweet! That says it all! 🤣

Why do they need $4 T just to finance a FY 2025 budget deficit of $1.4 T (already partly financed under the previous debt ceiling), if they don't intend to significantly increase the deficit in the 2026 FY budget? The next budget proposal will tell us.... 🙂

I know. My comment was about transferring nuclear weapon technology to another country, ex. Poland.

It makes sense and it's possible....in theory. However, it makes me laugh to read that Europeans are like this, or should do like that, etc.. As concerns defense matter, European countries are far from being homogenous: they are in different geographical, economic, and political situations, and don't necessarily have the same interests. As concerns the EU, it has no defense prerogative and can only support initiatives by member States. A good example is the weapon industry. There are excellent military airplanes, boats, tanks, helicopters, missile systems, etc... in Europe. The problem is that they tend to compete with each other rather to unite in order to reach a critical mass of production of standardised products. The French don't agree with the Swedes, the Italian don't agree with the French, etc... As concerns nuclear weapon, the only solution is nuclear proliferation in Europe. The idea that France or UK may be in charge of protecting other countries is a nonsense. Nuclear power can only be national. The country who bombs is the one which will be bombed in retaliation and vice versa. However, the know-how can be transferred. I am not sure UK can do it without the authorisation of the U.S., but at least the French have an independent technology. European countries together will never match the military power of the U.S. and have probably no interest in doing so. However, they can easily surpass the military power of Russia if they are united, as Russia's is an economic dwarf. Will they be able to unite and convergence on a common policy? That's another story....

It seems he's never been to Pattaya!

Complete false equivalence. U.S. missiles were not moved closer to the border before the invasion . And there was no ambiguity about the target of the U.S policy: China not Russia. On top of it, ICBMs don't need to be close to the border I particular as nuclear submarines are already hidden close to their targets. It's the same for both the U.S. and Russia. There are also Russian submarines close to the U.S., ready to nuke the U.S.

Nonsense! They were sent there after the Russian invasion!, not before. So ot a cause of the invasion.

False equivalence. As I posted before, U.S. missiles stayed where they already were at the end ofcthe cold war. They have not been moved closer to the Russian border.

It's you posting baseless nonsense. Even the GOP Senate committee found nothing Whatever

I get it but there was no NATO threat. As outlined recently, military budgets of European NATO countries had been decreasing and they were certainly no going to attack Russia. The U.S. military presence in Europe had also been significantly reduced.

There was no formal agreement, and the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991.