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Did I give a number? If I did please quote me. If I didn't please shut up. My above post: "Complete and utter BS. What's going to happen is the deadwood are going to get the boot. I'd imagine this will start at the bloated top not the bottom." I guess you don't need to quote me.

Complete and utter BS. What's going to happen is the deadwood are going to get the boot. I'd imagine this will start at the bloated top not the bottom.

I've never eaten McDonald's but if President Elect Trump said "here you go get your chops around this" I'd certainly not say no.

Big food makes the customers for big pharma.

Have you considered that people are wary of vaccines now more than ever before?

Trump? Maybe you meant to type Fauci?

Just another legacy media article being posted. All the same. Bring on January. I'm sick of the left biased nonsense narratives. We will see how "The foundational principle of medicine, "First, do no harm," stacks up when a full investigation into the pandemic and the vaccine mRNA gene therapy gets underway. Big pharma has absolutely no interest in this principle. Their number one principle is profit and lots of it.

Not the 1st time Putin has used this threat.

I don't think so. There's nothing in it for Putin. If he uses a small tactical nuke in Ukraine, let's say Dnonesk, the US, it's allies and NATO can respond with a massive conventional weapons retaliation much in excess of the damage a small tactical nuke would cause. Crimea could be flattened in a day. Of course we have got here because the lame duck Biden has decided escalation not negotiation is the way to go. I wonder what would happen if Putin uses a tactical nuke within Russia? Kursk for example.

Agree the the 1st part (territory taken) but not the 2nd. There is absolutely zero indication that Ukraine can win the war. The only possible road to a military victory for Ukraine would be a total involvement of the US and NATO and everyone knows this and it's not going to happen.

For the first time, more than half of Ukrainians want a quick, negotiated end to war with Russia: poll For the first time in the 1,000 days of bloodshed since the Russia-Ukraine war began, more than half of Ukrainians want to see a swift, brokered resolution to the conflict — and even support making territorial concessions to reach peace. Most Ukrainians — 52% — said the country should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible, while 38% want to see Ukraine continue fighting until it defeats Russia, according to the latest Gallup survey on the conflict. This is an appreciable shift from the early days of the war that began in February 2022, when 73% wanted to fight until Ukraine reached a victory. Support for that position slipped to 63% last year, but this is the first time support for negotiated peace eclipsed a majority among Ukrainians https://nypost.com/2024/11/19/world-news/most-ukrainians-want-a-quick-negotiated-end-to-war-with-russia-gallup-poll/

The use of British Storm Shadows was given by the UK government only after the US gave the UK the go ahead to allow their deployment into Russia.

ICBM has been launched into Dnipro. Seems to have evaded air defense. No details on warhead if it actually had one but obviously not a nuke.

This is an interesting point you make. Why would Zelnzky be requesting this so close to Trump coming in? Is there a tactical reason? Why only Kursk? Possibly it's to help pull the troops out of there before the onset of winter and the possibility of their supply lines being cut off or more likely help to secure Kursk for negotiations? Who knows but lobbing some ATACMS and Storm Shadows into the area sure ain't going lead to any victory.

Agree and the fact is he will not deploy a nuke. I have, however, said he will retaliate for missiles coming into Russia and yes, I am well aware as is everyone that Putin has been doing this from day one. Doesn't detract from the fact that Kiev and other regions are preparing for a massive (not nuclear) hit from Putin. Biden's actions are reckless to say the least. Winter is coming and the fighting would have slowed down as it has previously. Biden has escalated the situation.

You seem to be off on a tangent. What I've been talking about is the current situation. No point saying "if Putin had decided NOT to invade a sovereign country?" because he has. More to the point is why was he able to. Putin is fkd but so are those that let this happen. The US knew well in advance what was going on. In fact the whole world could see what was going to happen with the massive build up of troops. I've posted previously that 100,000s of lives could have been spared if this was stopped before it started. Seems you've missed this bit of my posts or have chosen to ignore it.

You're right about Russia's weapon stock not being infinite but it's a lot more than what Ukraine have. The drip feeding of weapons to Ukraine has not helped. As for the ATACMS and Storm Shadow's what Ukraine really needs is more air defence systems. News is coming through that Russia has launched an ICBM possibly an RS-26 which is nuclear capable into Dnipro. Someone posted earlier either on this thread or another that's there's no escalation. You can make your own mind up about that. I said Putin will retaliate big and that's going to happen. If an ICBM was launched this is Putin chest beating but it is concerning.

Doesn't matter who they run, if they maintain the progressive woke left agenda they will lose.

Doesn't surprise me at all. It certainly seemed as though she remembered her lines very well indeed. She was also exceptional at changing her accent to suit the situation.

Of course it's not ok. What a stupid thing to say. My post was in relation to the escalating situation. I actually said that the deployment of these weapons will end up with more Ukrainians dying. Do you honestly think I think this is OK and that somehow my post is supporting this inevitable retaliation from Putin? 100,000s of thousands of lives lost for something that could have and should have been stopped before it started. I find what you accuse me of as totally despicable.

It is an escalation. Putin will react to this no doubt about it. How he'll react is not with nukes but IMO massive missile and drone attacks on military, dual use and civilian targets. The guys a madman but not mad enough to deploy a tactical nuke.

Yes he won the Electoral College. He also won the Popular Vote along with the Senate and the House. I'm not sure what you mean by MAJORITY. Without a majority vote in any of these he would not have won them. He got the majority Electoral College votes. He has the majority in the Senate. He has the majority in the house albeit slim and the only way he could have won the Popular Vote which he did was to get a majority of the votes.

You forgot China. Xi is the biggest threat. Putin is also a threat. Nth Korea alone isn't. The Democrats track record on a peaceful world is there for all to see and they've just upped the ante. Trump. Peace through power not peace through war.

Wow! 49.9% opposed to 48.5% isn't a majority. My bad. I thought it's the highest number that wins. Seems I'm mistaken.