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Powell included a quote allegedly from a constituent that spoke of one day soon "the black man will have the whip hand over the white man." Whether it actually was a quote or Powell's invention, including it in his speech was a clear appeal to racist sentiments.

If I were you, I wouldn't call an IRA member an anglo-saxon to their face.

Here's a link to the video If you don't have much patience for blithering patriotic piety, you can skip to about 1:50 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX95kTloZBU

It's one hallmark mark of a dubious position that support for it can only be found in videos.

unless you're referring to nuclear weapons, we've already seen "the real force of russian"... military power.

So what stopped them? Or are you claiming that their western campaign which cost Russia so many lives and so much materiel fulfilled its mission?

The reason the Russian ruble is strong right now is that Russians can't buy vital goods from the west. So western money is flowing into Russia for gas and oil but rubles aren't flowing out. As storoge runs low production crates. For example, automobiles: .Russia’s Car Manufacturing Collapses by 97% in May Auto production in Russia has slowed to a crawl after major automakers exited and Western governments imposed debilitating sanctions on Moscow in response to its invasion of Ukraine. Russia manufactured 3,700 cars in May, 97% fewer than the same month last year, the country’s statistics agency Rosstat said late Wednesday. Output fluctuated at the start of the year, with 95,000 cars in January and 108,000 in February, before plummeting to 40,800 in March — the first full month after President Vladimir Putin ordered troops to attack Ukraine. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/06/30/russias-car-manufacturing-collapses-by-97-in-may-a78151

Well, if that were true, then just imagine how ineffectual the Russian armed forces must be to be blocked and now pushed back by forces so poorly equipped.

Here's a quote from someone commenting on an article "Before the invasion, Russia was considered by many to have the second best army in the world. As it turns out, Russia has the second best army in Ukraine." https://news.yahoo.com/volodymyr-zelenskyy-confirmed-dismissal-city-184006066.html

Yet, as I understand it, the government expects to gain about 5 billion in revenue per year but expend about 116 billion to keep prices lower for consumers.

And wait for Putin to lay claim to the rest of the "Russian World" which seems to mean any territory that Russia or the Soviet Union once controlled.

Or, in this case quickly and unexpectedly surrender territory Russia announces troop pullback from Ukraine's Kharkiv area Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Saturday that it's pulling back troops from two areas in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region where a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made significant advances in the past week... Konashenkov said the Russian move is being made “in order to achieve the stated goals of the special military operation to liberate Donbas,’” one of the eastern Ukraine regions that Russia has declared sovereign. The claim of pullback to concentrate on Donetsk is similiar to the justification Russia gave for pulling back its forces from the Kyiv region earlier this year when they failed to take the Ukrainian capital. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ukraine-breaks-front-line-east-nearing-key-town-89636777 Given that Kupiansk was a crucial logistics center for rail transport in that region and Izium is an even more important rail hub where Russia funneled their troops bound for Donbas, I'd guess neutral obsservers wouldn't be calling this anything but a major defeat for the Russians.

The problem is, that even if I were to google it, most of these evaluations took place before the Ukraine war. Now that the world has seen how the Russian soldiers and Russian materiel actually perform, the unanimous verdict, apart from a few besotted Russophiles, is that Russian military capability is greatly overrated.

Because Russia has such an advanced economy? Because their chip technology is the equal of any other country in the world. In the wreckage of some of their fighter jets they found GPS devices meant for civilian use taped to their control panels. There is no way an economy as small as Russia's and so much of which depends on raw materials, can be as advanced as the western economies and the advanced asian economies are..

Actually prices have been declining and natural gas storage has gone far better than expected. And most of the weaponry is coming from the USA.

This is of course Russian propaganda. Not even the Russians claim that their weaponry is superior to what the Ukrainians are getting from the West. In fact all this is just opposite to the facts. Tell us, what would be your criteris for conceding that the Russians are in retreat and losing control of territory?

It's pretty likely that Russia will be the last to know. And the last to acknowledge their reversals. Time is definitely not on their side.

This is truly bizarre. You mean they subjected their troops to months of misery (not to mention the Ukrainians) when they could have completed this in a few days? They lost lots of men and material in the early day of the war when they were advancing on Kiev and just decided not to go farther because that was part of their plan?

No rush? As the USA pours increasingly advanced weapons systems into Ukraine, and Ukrainian troops keep on getting trained to a higher standard it looks to me like time is running out for the Russians. Unless they resort to nukes, which I wouldn't put past them. Keep in mind that the Ukrainians are fighting for cultural survival. The Russians have made very clear that they want not just to conquer Ukraine, but make its culture disappear.

Back and forth? 2 major military locations have just been taken from the Russians. Eyewitness reports said Russian troops fled. Their supply lines are gravely imperiled. I'm sure from a Russian point of view it has always made sense to take Odesa. So what's been standing in their way? What stood in their way that kept them from taking Kiev?

You mean Russia hasn't wanted to take Odesa? Just like it didn't want to take Kiev? And are you claiming that Ukrainian troops haven't captured Kupiansk and Izyum?

It's reported that Russian troops have now fled Izyum, which was their major staging point for taking Donbas. Ukrainian troops enter Izium, Kharkiv Oblast A video emerged of Ukrainian social media showing the Ukrainian troops securing the checkpoint at the entrance to the city of Izium, Kharkiv Oblast. The narrator in the video says that the Ukrainian troops are already in the city: Ukrainian officials haven’t yet confirmed the liberation of the key city of Izium, which has been the second major goal of the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast. Earlier today Russian Telegram channels linked to the Russian military claimed that the Russian forces have already abandoned Izium https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/09/10/ukrainian-troops-enter-izium-kharkiv-oblast-video/

Well, it is significant that the President can only serve 2 terms. And that is due to an amendment that I think was passed in the 1950s (maybe 40's?) Still you make a good point. Specifically in regard to the Supreme Court.. People can live a lot longer nowadays than when the Constitution was created.

I don't think I've ever used a meme before but just this once... https://twitter.com/uamemesforces/status/1568509843421499395/photo/1

Well, the President actually is limited to 2 terms in office.