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I don't think you understand. Laws about human trafficking and such don't apply to what Mr.Derek calls "real men".

Sarcasm only works if it's actually based on the comments it's directed against. In this instance, it clearly wasn't the case.

Apparently, in the northern part of Korea Koreans haven't suffered enough. At least that seems to be the opinion of the ruling Kim family: How Did the North Korean Famine Happen? "The North Korean government continues to maintain that 225,000 to 235,000 people died during the famine. Natsios, however, estimated that a figure between 2.5 million and 3.5 million deaths is reasonably accurate. He said that recorded death rates in towns, cities, and regions whose records were accessible show that somewhere between 10 and 19 percent of their populations perished in the famine. Tellingly, only 55 percent of people voted in North Korea's 1998 national elections—in a country in which not voting is a crime. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/how-did-the-north-korean-famine-happen Considering how small the population of North Korea is, on a per capita basis I think that makes Stalin, Hitler, and Mao look like pikers compared to whatever Kim was in charge at the time. And that's not the only time famine plagued North Korea in the last 50 years.

Your comments are becoming unhinged. You are the one that suggested helping North Korea with democracy. Not BruceH. So you should take up that issue with yourself.

Obsessed with Clinton much?

"The release of 5,000 prisoners was a condition, agreed between the US and the Taliban after their peace talks last year, to begin these negotiations. The Afghan government was not involved in making the agreement, and had concerns about releasing thousands of militants. Last month, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani warned that the prisoners' release was a "danger" to the world, AFP news agency reported at the time." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54155768

What makes you think you'll only be charged with illegal possession of firearms? Let me give you a hint: why was his apartment searched in the first place?

If the poor can afford to jet off to a seaside tourist town for a vacation, then I guess that means the problem of global poverty has been solved. Hooray?

What don't you understand about the fact that it was the North that invaded the South in 1950?

"Banderites"? Really? And Putin is still trying to claim the Ukraine government is somehow neo-nazi. The sad thing is that defenders of the Russian invaders actually purport to believe this nonsense.

Adani is very closely tied to Modi, the PM of India. Adani's fortune is based on coal. Which probably explains why India keeps building coal plants despite the fact that solar is much cheaper given India's geographic location. Report: New solar is cheaper to build than to run existing coal plants in China, India and most of Europe Similarly in India, new solar can achieve a levelized cost of $25/MWh, compared to an average cost of running existing coal-fired power plants at $26/MWh. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/report-its-now-cheaper-to-build-new-solar-than-to-run-existing-coal-plants-in-china-india-and-most-of-europe/#gref

Not to worry about him. He can always get a job with the police.

If you mean the collapse of the Mozart group that was reported on by the New York Times, what's that got to do with this?

Another mind-reader. Aseannow has more than enough to launch a psychic hotline.

There still are plenty of opposition politicians in Ukraine. Ones who used to be friendly to the Russians. But the invasion has changed that. Like most politicians, they want to be elected. And given the populace's change in attitude towards Russia, adopting Medvedchuk's line would be a political dead end. What Next for Ukraine’s Formerly Pro-Russian Regions? "In recent years, despite growing tensions with Russia and the threat of war, this part of Ukraine had retained generally positive attitudes toward its neighbor to the east: 53 percent in Ukraine’s east and 45 percent in the south viewed Russia favorably... Russia’s invasion largely put an end to this pro-Russian sentiment: by May 2022, only 4 percent in Ukraine’s east and 1 percent in the south still had a positive view of Russia. Support for Ukraine joining NATO, on the other hand, had surged to record highs: 69 percent in the east and 81 percent in the south, up from 36 percent in the east and 48 percent in the south, according to a poll taken on February 16 and 17 of this year. https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88542

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Beaten only by Russia, actually. But at least in Ukraine, and unlike in Russia, when journalists expose govt. corruption they don't wind up beaten or dead.

What makes it even worse is that coverage in the US isn't even universal, unlike the nations it's being compared to, and still it costs nearly twice as much as the average cost

You don't seem to recognize that's if there's a difference between something being overvalued and having no value. If you buy a house for a million dollars and can only sell it for $800,000, does that mean your house was worth nothing? Of course, if he was using his shares as collateral for loans, and his debt now exceeds the value of his collateral, then he may be worth nothing or less than nothing. But that doesn't mean that the shares are worth nothing.

NATO was an alliance against the Soviet Union Keep in mind that when NATO was created, some of central europe, and all of Eastern Europe was under Soviet control. Russia is the successor state to the Soviet Union. So NATO continues as an alliance against Russian attempts to yoke those liberated states once again.

What I most enjoyed about your comments was the absolute lack of links to back up what you are claiming.

No room for, say, Myanmar, in your rankings

Arabs are not allowed to live where they want to. Israel refuses to give them land to accommodate their growing communities.

It's clear that you haven't actually read the Bible. I don't know how much credence to give it but according to that bizarre document, God led Moses to the Promised Land, namely Israel. Moses himself never entered it.

And Native Americans murdered European settlers and their descendants. This kind of thing is inevitable when you treat one group of people badly. Starting in 1967 the Israelis tried their best to make the Palestinians miserable. And I wasn't just referring to land on the West Bank. Israelis confiscated territory where Arabs lived inside of Israel.