Lacessit

Says the master baiter. I post facts, when was the last time you did?

Australia contributes more per capita in foreign aid than the US does. $360 billion for secondhand nuclear submarines. US multinationals avoiding company tax in Australia with profit shifting and fake loans. Trump extorting Ukraine for strategic minerals. China thinks of us as an American base. It's America doing the stealing, think about that before opening your fat yap again.

IMO someone who slaps tariffs on their allies is going to put in question whether an alliance has any value. MAGA posters here are frothing at the mouth about transgender programs in Peru, whatever. The fact USAID also funds major public health initiatives in vulnerable countries escapes them. Polio is still endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They will find out soon enough bacteria and viruses don't give a damn about national borders. But hey, with an anti-vaxxer in charge of America's health, what could possibly go wrong?

The Russian land mass is 17 million square kilometres, the biggest country on the planet. Ukraine is a mere 600,000 square kilometres, but the soil in eastern Ukraine is the richest on the planet. Wars are about theft writ large, and Putin has a well-earned reputation as a kleptomaniac. IMO he is focused in the wrong direction. Eastern Siberia is a treasure house of all kinds of resources, and China needs them. What's the bet if Ukraine becomes all out war between the EU and Russia, China won't be stabbing Putin in the back?

I am not sure he is in Thailand, as he seems to spend a lot of time bagging it. My hypothesis - he is shivering in some miserable bedsit in Birmingham or Manchester, cranking out bitter posts as his sole entertainment.

Please go ahead. A holiday would probably do you the world of good.

I realize ascribing thinking to his brain farts is a bit of a stretch.

Nice touch, the arrow symbol on on your jockey shorts. Does it help you find your willy?

If the best you can do is call any poster whose view differs from you morons, IMO it is time for you to take a long walk off a short pier.

More will die if Putin gets what he wants. He will use the pause to rearm, then keep pushing westward. No deal signed with him is better than toilet paper. If you don't understand that, you're as dumb as a can of soup.

IMO bank interest rates of 21% and food inflation of 10% in Russia hardly indicates a failure of strategy. Nor does a reduction in the number of domestic passenger aircraft still operating, down from 700 to 400. You are kidding yourself if you think China is Russia's friend. I'll bet the Chinese military is doing some hard thinking about how much territory in eastern Siberia it can grab and hold.

So does America, apparently.

The Russian media is controlled by the Kremlin. IIRC the conflict is still referred to as a special military operation, and it is jail time for calling it a war in Russia.

You should read the book by Mary Trump " Too much and never enough". How low America has sunk, from the days it would pay any price, and bear any burden, to defend freedom. How many American lives have been lost in Ukraine?

The end game for Trump is giving Putin what he wants, and extorting Ukraine for strategic minerals. The end game for the EU should be to defeat Russia. If it doesn't, Putin will rearm and push westward. Any agreement with either Putin or Trump is worthless. Whether it has the cohesion of purpose to do that remains to be seen.

You don't think the US will be lifting sanctions, while the UK and EU while be imposing more? It's pretty clear who Trump is siding with.

Samoa, Hawaii, Alaska.... Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal on the shopping list.

As an Australian, I question whether being allied with America is worth anything. 1/ America is putting 25% tariffs on what we export there. 2/ We are purchasing 3 secondhand nuclear submarines. For the same money, we could have 24 conventional submarines. 3/ We have 3 bases in Australia which are sovereign US territory. Any intelligence shared with us is determined by American policy. 4/ Any intelligence that Australia shares with America could end up anywhere in the world, with the current administration there. 5/ America has repeatedly proved it cannot go the distance in any conflict. It will also sell out anyone Time to find new allies. America is no longer trustworthy.

Commie libs is an oxymoron. When 3 individuals have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans, isn't it time to question what use capitalism is to humanity?

No wonder Trump can only get the dregs of the legal profession to work for him. The venomous abuse coming from the Trump camp only serves to sell more copies, but they are too dumb to understand that.

Oh, your nom de plume is based on your sexual preferences? What a class act you are.

Yellowtail is a white wine produced by the Casella family in the Griffith irrigation area. Like you, it is cheap and nasty.

Ah, the Griffith cockroach speaks.

I am not a victim, and only have contempt for lying trolls like you.

If one person has been fired after supporting Trump, you can bet DOGE has fired others. If one MAGA person has had their medication costs hiked, you can bet there are others. You think it's only leftists who are a DOGE target, or on medication? What's next? Stand by for a torrent of recrimination and buyer remorse, it's only just beginning.