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ATACM's can be used to hit Putin's sources of cash, i.e. oil pipelines and processing facilities. IIRC John McCain said Russia was not a country, just a very large gas station. Destruction of the Kerch Strait bridge would cut off Crimea. Russia has been striking at Ukraine's energy, agriculture and civilian infrastructure freely since the start of the war, while Ukraine has had one hand tied behind its' back. Saying 50,000 North Korean troops is a deflection no doubt has the Kremlin approving. Fact is, it's a major escalation.

No more insane than Putin using North Korean troops to fight a war that has nothing to do with that country.

Yes, any public hospital is free in Australia. You would understand my comment better if you were waiting for a hip or knee replacement, or any other surgery deemed to be elective. With my private health insurance, I was having surgery for an inguinal hernia within 3 weeks of landing in Australia. When I asked my GP how long I would be waiting in the public system, his guess was 6-9 months.

Do as we say, don't do as we do. Irrespective of origin, that tan on RFK is a poster child for melanoma.

This week's prize for understatement goes to.....

Libel is written. Slander is spoken. If Gaetz is innocent, I would have thought a report saying so could not get made public fast enough. Who made you the arbiter of what can be posted?

Police law enforcement is not lax, it's non-existent. The police function seems to be collecting fines on expired registrations and helmetless Thais at checkpoints, or on the occasionally functioning speed cameras. In 12 years of driving here, I have yet to see a police car or motorcycle actively pulling over a motorist. Getting off their @rses would be a good start.

IMO sitting on a report is as good as saying he's guilty.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the expression "Where there's smoke, there's fire" .

Russia has 21% interest rates, 8.5% inflation. The ruble has lost about 17% against the dollar. India and China will only trade with it in their currencies. On paper, Russia's GDP looks great. Wartime economies do that, but also starve the consumer sector. The flight of Western capital and technology means Russia only has its home-grown scientists and engineers to keep the oil fields running. They are all retiring, without replacement, as the Russian education system collapsed in the mid-80's. After seeing how easily Russian armaments are getting obliterated in Ukraine, purchasers of their military equipment presumably have significant buyer's remorse. Russia also has a demographic crisis. The population is collapsing, and the meat grinder in Ukraine is not helping. Neither is the drain of able-bodied men leaving, to avoid being drafted. It's pretty obvious the sanctions and market losses are hurting Russia, irrespective of what bluster comes out of the Kremlin that it is not.

IMO 65,000 km is high mileage. I would be checking if the spark plug was oiling up, due to piston/cylinder wear. Changing the oil and spark plug won't fix it, if that is the case. A compression check might be worth doing.

Stand on your weaker leg only for 30 seconds without losing your balance. That will tell you if you are old or not.

MAGA's understand better when they have pictures drawn for them. Just trying to help.

Aluminium forms a passive layer of aluminium oxide on exposure to air. That passive layer is inert to everything except strong alkali or acids. It melts at 660C, I guess that would be bad. I understand. Everything is out to get you. Don't wash your dishes in nonionic surfactants, they are endocrine disruptors. Don't cook with stainless steel, chromium and nickel are poisonous. Cast iron cookware contains manganese. Glass cookware has boron, Teflon is fluoride. About 99% of canola oil is GMO. There's a risk of silicosis if you are in desert areas. The terpenes will get you if you are in a pine forest. Asthma in a wheat field. Funny thing, I have survived 81 years being exposed to all these toxic perils. You take care out there.

Do you really think the USA is so omniscient it can establish cause from across the Pacific Ocean?

Dictatorships by their very nature are not open and transparent, secrecy is de rigeur. Xi is not the kind of leader one gives bad news to. It's quite possible the Chinese don't know either, but are terrified of the ramifications arising from the truth being found, if that truth sees them as a pariah, much as Russia is. Trump is putting tariffs up to 60% on Chinese imports. " Get it done" under those circumstances has to be one of the most fatuous comments I have read on ASEAN for quite a while.

You are proceeding on the assumption the virus was circulating in the meat market permanently, when it may have been a transient. What time elapsed between the appearance of COVID in humans, and testing of animals? Where was Patient Zero working? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/health/covid-wuhan-market-lab-leak.html Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Well, that's an interesting collection of non sequiturs. Yes, America is obese. Australia is not far behind you. You may be right, RFK jr. may address those issues. The main concern is whether he throws out the baby with the bathwater. Fluoridation is one of the most successful public health measures ever, stopping it would be going back 50-60 years. I'm retired, don't have a job. See, you can do it if you try. Not a single error in your post.

I could argue the same about the USA, in terms of tinpot dictatorships and being a nation.

I am not spelling police, it just hurts my eyes to see ignorance compounded. The authoritarian Covidiocy measures in Australia resulted in that country having one of the lowest death rates from the pandemic. America had one of the highest. I don't know where you sit in terms of logic, but that's pretty convincing evidence to me.

He's also as far away from the war as it is possible to get, without going to Antarctica.

Armchair genocide advocate.

If the OP is concerned about a link between aluminium and Alzheimer's, it's an urban myth. The misconception arose when brain schists from dementia sufferers were analyzed post-mortem, and found to contain traces of aluminium. On further investigation, it was found an aluminium microtome had been used to prepare the brain schists. Cross-contamination.