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I think some Trump supporters identify as Communist.

The aircraft carrier known as the United Kingdom made it possible.

The Soviet deaths include 1 million shot by their own side, and 1 million perishing in the GULAG. And remember, Soviet deaths, not Russian deaths.

He was stupid. Stalin wondered in 1940-41 why Germany wasn't delivering on its side of the trade deal, little realising that Germany was using Soviet raw material to equip an army to invade his country.

I'd say thanks for a heads up on an account block, based on the cut of your jib.

I guess the feeling would be similar to when Stalin saw the light. It doesn't mean Churchill became an ardent Stalinist. And he lacks the gumption to take such a decision himself. It will be down to some men in green laying down the facts to a startled old and obese man that Putin is not his friend.

Stalin's mob never gives credit to the British hardware that kept the USSR in the fight after Stalin had killed most of his generals. Your statement deliberately ignores our allies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and elsewhere, in order to give a pro-Soviet Russia spin to the war. Stalin enabled Germany's invasion of Poland, France and other countries, and enabled Nazi bombing of Britain. In 1939, the USSR and Germany signed a trade agreement that resulted in the USSR exporting massive amounts of raw material that Germany turned into tanks, planes, guns and bombs that were used to kill Londoners. And supplied the oil to power the tanks that Blitzkrieged into France. Stalin enabled Hitler to start WW2. The Soviet exports to Germany became supercharged once the UK declared war. Stalin even allowed the Germans to build a U-boat base near Murmansk that enabled Germany to evade any blockade the British might have tried in repetition of WW1. It was America and Britain that essentially stopped Germany taking Moscow, and Stalin becoming but a footnote. Russia takes credit. Less than half of Soviet losses were from the Russian SSR. A large number of the military losses were down to military incompetance thanks to the purges in the 1930s. I don't give them a pat on the back for being idiots.

Maybe he meant Putin organising a mass macarama, thereby disturbing all the old boys. Or Putin and Kim Jong Un having a snog, with tongues.

Given the average income of a Greenlander is higheer than the income of the average American, I guess the price for an American to become, say, Chinese, is even lower. $1 million really isn't that much in 2025. I know it seems like a lot when you are subsisting on 2 bottles of Chang, half a bottle of Hong Thong and a bowl of rice a day, but its not really. And you are suggesting the US should spend $24 billion in bribes, plus mining costs, to secure a supply of not rare rare earths, where the total global demand will be $8bn tops. Essentially, you are suggesting theft. Most Americans are not, by instinct, thieves and murderers. The valuation of Greenland is more like $2.7 trillion. Excluding the oil and gas. https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/pricing-greenland-the-essence-of-the-deal/ In order to offer 66% of Greenlanders a fair price for their land (the % necessary for you to steal a referendum), American taxpayers will need to come up with $32 million per bribed Eskimo. And that's a bargain, because you are getting the oil and gas for free.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cfpb-gavin-kliger-doge-conflict-of-interest-consumer-financial-protection-bureau A Department of Government Efficiency aide at the nation’s consumer watchdog agency was told by ethics attorneys that he held $715,000 in stock in companies that employees are forbidden from owning — and was advised not to participate in any actions that could benefit him personally, according to a person familiar with the warning. But days later, court records show, Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old software engineer who has been detailed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since early March, went ahead and participated in mass layoffs at the agency anyway, including the firings of the ethics lawyers who had warned him.

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Would you sell your mother?

Someone going to tell JAG? I think you meant 57 million baht or HK $.

$1m is about what it took for the British to get Benedict Arnold to become a traitor. Ames took $2.5m to become a traitor. By the sounds of it, most Americans, at least those living in Thailand, would quite happily become a Mao suit wearing, little red booking waving member of the Red Army for price of an apartment in London. They must need the money it seems. How much do they want to perform in a donkey show? $20 should cover it. They won't be the donkey. Greenland since 2009 has Home Rule. They voted to have legislation where they retain full voting rights in the Danish Parliament. For independance, they need to hold a referendum, securing 66% of the vote, AND secure the support of the Danish Parliament. The Referendum will not be a Yes/No question, because the choices are 4-fold; stay with Denmark with voting rights, become an independent state with full voting rights, become a vassal state of the US with no voting rights (aka unincorporated territory) or become a state with full voting rights. Not only that, you have the issue of overcoming the 1917 Treaty between the US and Denmark, where it was agreed to give the United Kingdom the right of first refusal if the question of sovereignty ever came up. So you have to come up with a number for 66% of Greenlanders to go to the grave as traitors. Everyone has a price. For Americans, the price to become a raging member of the Red Hoard is $1m. Plus you have to bribe the Danish Parliamnet. then bribe the UK. Someone in the forum thinks $1000,000x56,000= $56,000,000. Not really. $56 billion not $56 million. And thats not including getting anything out of the ground. And then you find out the consultants bigged up the numbers. The global market for rare earths is about $4 billion. Its going to rise to about $8 billion in 10 years time. This is what Amazon spends on its Cloud computing services. The 2035 Rare Earths market in 10 years time will be worth about the same as the combined angle grinder and door bell market. Rare earth metals are not rare. This illustrates the sheer financial idiocy of those suggesting paying Greenlanders $1million. They are so much smitten with American Lebensraum, they forget America is a capitalist nation with corporations. They forget that Greenland sells mining licences. They forget that its public British and American mining companies who hold these licences. They forget that companies acquire other companies all the time.

Or Canadian ports to do rather well offloading those Chinese built container ships, then for the load to be trucked to railheads into the US. Won't avoid tariffs, but certainly avoids the barmy ship fees. Seattle will lose out, and it might finish off Tacoma as a viable port.