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You mean the bone-spurred alpha male? 😆

Did he really have a choice? Was the U.S. public opinion ready to support an extension of the war in Afghanistan? Wouldn't have Biden called a war-mongerer for that?

No

Germany?

The yellow/green elite is far from having the same power as before. For both an upward reason (no comment) and a downward reason (they don't have much popular support any more). They still control appointed bodies such as government agencies, the judiciary, or the army. However, like PT, they are 'subjects'.

Obviously, instructions have been well received! 😀

Ridiculous comment. The Mueller investigation was not predicated by the Steele dossier.

The key problem is political divisions reflected in conflicting positions about foreign policy. After January 6, Putin assessed that the U.S. was too divided to oppose a united political front to him. He was only partly wrong about it.

No. My position is that it is unlikely to be trialed for just that. If Trump had given the documents back as requested, the NARA would likely have let it go.

You've been told many times and you still go on like a broken record. Trump hid documents and lied about it it. If he had just given them all back, when he was asked to do it, there would be no trial.

As you perfectly know, Trump's staff had to take plea deal, because they helped hiding documents and/ or lied to the FBI about the hidden document! Stop trolling!

Ok, I thought you were referring to the BRICS organisation itself. Right, some BRICS countries cooperate, but it's not directly related to the BRICS organisation itself. And BRICS countries may not be "friends". Ex. India is part of a strategic alliance with the U.S., which is clearly targeting China.

Multilateral agreement on what? (BRICS)

Thank you for this thorough analysis of the current geo-political situation.

It's also not an economic alliance. I certainly don't deny these countries potential. I just outline that their strategic interests are not particularly aligned, apart from the will to be more influent.

And Russia's share of the world's GDP is less than 3%! BTW, the BRICS is not a strategic alliance.

About China, I agree on is potential. However, Russia is an economic dwarf. It's GDP is comparable to Italy's GDP. (and I would prefer to live in Italy)

Ah, OK. Actually UK and Germany experienced a very similar fate in 2023. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn02784/

How about an attempt at derailing the topic?

I am truely in a fact-backed field... https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-longstanding-history-calling-elections-rigged-doesnt-results/story?id=74126926 "In October 2016, just weeks before the general election, Trump wanted to cast doubt on the results by tweeting, "The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD," 😀 "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," said Trump. 😀

Ooops! I did not see this one before replying. Biden arrived at the Senate in 1973, hence my previous reply. From when do the documents date? Anyway, the Republican special counsel has assessed he should not be indicted.

From when do these documents date? The rules have changed over time.

There's a similar trend among hard right parties in other countries, for example in France. While her father had holocaust negationism tendencies, Marine Le Pen is now rather supportive of Jews.

Actually, it's Trump who claimed the 2016 election was rigged! Twice! 😀 Before the 2016 election, he started to claim it would be rigged, because he initially expected to lose it. After the 2016 election, he also claimed the election was rigged, because he was furious that Hillary got more votes than him! 😀

Most of all, there is no Senatorial Record Act. Unlike Presidential documents, documents given to -or created by- Senators are not considered property of the country and don't need to be given back to NARA.