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Thanks for the correction.

Anyway, as pointed out above, it's not true. There was no promise made.

There was no agreement not to expand to the Russian borders: Did NATO Promise Not to Enlarge? Gorbachev Says “No” Western leaders never pledged not to enlarge NATO, a point that several analysts have demonstrated. Mark Kramer explored the question in detail in a 2009 article in The Washington Quarterly. He drew on declassified American, German and Soviet records to make his case and noted that, in discussions on German reunification in the two-plus-four format (the two Germanys plus the United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France), the Soviets never raised the question of NATO enlargement other than how it might apply in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/

Most chips are made on a substrate of polysilicon https://www.statista.com/statistics/1334952/solar-polysilicon-manufacturing-capacity-share-by-country-or-region/#:~:text=In 2021%2C China accounted for,worldwide%2C at around 79.4 percent.

Apparently, according to your way of thinking, since nobody knows everything, then nothing can be ruled out. And therefore, all claims, no matter how unsupported, are equally valid. That looks like nonsense to me.

You might try emulating his respect for evidence and his willingness to provide it.

I'm going to go out in a limb here and say instant creation of a polysilicon manufacturing plant can't be done. I'll even go out in a further then and say it can't be done in a few months. And the reason I say that is I provided strong evidence to back me. Whereas in this case, you've got nothing.

How about "They who lose least, lose best."

And if I asked you to look up the meaning of narcissism, I suspect the result will be just another instance that further establishes that law's validity. I do think it's likelya valid case of narcissism could be laid against someone who prefers not only not to know, but engages in abusive language against those sources. You'll note that RayC, whose comments on these pages are clearly rational, engages in no such abuse of sources that he disagrees with. And he can disagree with them on an intelligent basis since he actually reads them.

Because what you claim goes against the judgments of creddible sources I have found. Now if you could produce some credible sources that back up what you claim that would be a different matter. So please share with us links to these sources so we can know that you are not,after all, bloviating. Perhaps you have failed to recall the the rule in this form about providing links to credible sources to back up your claims? If you can't provide those links, then it's always open to you to say nothing at all.

What's more, given RayC's general political stance, would you expect him to mostly agree with what conservative media say? And you will note that Ray c wrote "almost invariably," not invariably.

As you apparently failed to appreciate, this statement was made in response to someone who posted denigratory comments about certain news sources and stated quite openly that he didn't look at them at all. Yet you seem to have no problem at all with their statement which was far more extreme and gratuitously nasty.

And I don't understand why you included that explanation from the BBC about the limitation on the committee's powers. Do you believe that the committee investigating Hunter Biden has prosecutorial powers? I've got news for you: no house or senate committee has the power to indict anyone or sentence anyone on criminal charges.

As You follow the link to the January 6 reports homepage, you would note that there are several links to evidence.

Actually, I'm doing now what I ought to have done before I asked, I'm looking it up.

Have Poland and Hungary met the requirements? What are the requirements?

His approach exemplifies what I call the Law of the Conservation of Ignorance.

And your uninformed opinion is just as good as an informed one? Ridiculous.

Absolutely. Which is why the Euro was a mistake. I don't understand why the most recent entrants have adopted it Unless the rules were changed and now they have no choice.

Both legislative houses are controlled by Republicans. Despite which, the benefits of the Medicaid portion of Obamacare are huge, particularly for rural hospitals which have closing at an alarming rate. That leaves only 10 states that haven't adopted the Medicaid portion of Obamacare. States that have adopted it include several Republican controlled states that adopted it through referendums overriding the will of the republican controlled legislatures and governors.

Anyway, I'm not going to believe it until I watch Murdaugh 2 on Netflix.

They should definitely have fronted that headline with MURDAUGH SPOILER ALERT!

What chance have I got when all I have is mere facts to wield against your bloviation.

A "whistleblower" who takes the Fifth. It is to laugh.

Maybe I don't. But there are those who do: It takes around 24 months to build a polysilicon factory, however, and with the rapid surge in demand, manufacturers have so far been unable to respond, providing a hard cap on the amount of solar PV that can be installed worldwide – but only until mid-2023 when new factories will be operating in full swing.Feb 8, 2565 BE https://www.powerengineeringint.com/solar/polysilicon-shortages-in-solar-pv-markets-to-end-within-18-months/#:~:text=It takes around 24 months,be operating in full swing.