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Well, its not exactly new. Like the F16, its basically a 1980s airframe. Probably good enough.

And you are a fool for believing the Putin cares one iota for the Russian people. So when are you volunteering?

Communist Apologist.

Its the very opposite of "think". What comes to mind is impulsiveness, reactionary. "Thinking out of the Box" is frequently something panic'd companies do when they turn in desperation to consultants to no avail. Thinking out of the box, creative thinking, lateral thinking is much more than spit balling. Take Greenland. Trump wants Greenland. He doesn't want China to have Greenland (even supposing that is actually possible). His thinking "out of the box" is either bombing the hell out of Denmark (it will cost money), or sanctions (a trade war with an EU member state, sparking a trade war with the EU; even Trump acknowledges a small trade war withn a country of less than 50 million (Canada) will hit Americans in the pocket). Neither approach smacks of "thinking out of the box". They seem straight out of the Expansionist Dictator/Imperialist playbook. So he's following utter convention, albeit with a stupid idea. So he selectively thinks out of the box?

Not crazy. Someone needs to start an indice or tracker for policy backtracking/reversal (not following an election), for any country. Its a good measure of political stupidity. Putin invades Ukraine, Putin pulls out of Ukraine, proof the invasion was stupid. Chagos Islands to Mauritius; UK (likely) policy reversal; proof the policy was stupid. Tariffs on Canada/Mexico (and questioning who was the idiot who signed USMCA....), reversal, proof the policy was stupid. Blindly firing civil servants, then scrambling to bring them back when the bits of government that need people stop working. Stupid policy. Rzenaming the Gulf Mexico. Stupid. Firing 5000 FBI agents for doing their jobs. Stupid when it blindsides you to the next 911. Giving the logins for every US employee, past and present, to someone 12 months out of high school. Stupid when they find out [a] He hits delete by mistake [b] he flogs the details. Allowing a Billionaire who wants to be a Trillionaire, largely because of sucking off the teat of government, by further sucking off the teat of government. Stupid. etc etc But after 4 years, nothing will actually get done that is truely constructive. Sure, there will be smoking ruins of institutions of government (education, healthcare, social security, foreign service, crime prevention, immigration, defence), and some people might cheer that. But Trump is a lazy barsteward. He was lazy last time, and second time around, he will be even lazier, because with age, comes the need for that afternoon siesta.

Its always interesting looking at the map of signatures (these petitions never get anywhere; the petition against VAT on school fees went well past 100,000, to elicit just a standard government reply about no money, tax breaks for schools, breakfsst clubs, 1 more teacher per school etc. This one will likely get more of the same; £22 billion (allegedly) black hole, Tories, no money, broken public services etc. Looks like most of Northern Ireland doesn't really care. Not surprisingly, again, Northern Ireland didn't really care. 3 million plus signatures obviously did not elicit a General Election.

I believe the walkback has been walked back. I suspect Rubio will be the first to leave the cabinet. First with the tarrifs, he was saying it was just a business tactic, nothing to worry about. Then Trump looked bad by appearing to cave in to mighty Canada and Mexico. Trump doubled down today on Gaza, after Rubio appeared to back off on claims. As one commentator noted, when Trump announced this lunatic plan, he was reading from a prepared speech. Some other lunatic, or room of lunatics, cooked up this idea. The next issue for Rubio will be US development aid. USAID hasn't exactly been shut down; its moved under the Department of State. Rubio believes in international aid, to further the aims of the American government, which is not the same as "no aid". Therein is the conflict. When will he flounce, given he might be eyeing up 2028. A Gaza evacuation won't actually happen. The IDF can't make it happen. What are they going to do? Burn the Gazans out? There is nothing left to burn. There will be a lot of churn in the next few years. Chaos. Plenty of things will get undone, because its easy to undo. Gettng constructive things done? Nah. Trump 1.0 never commissioned a single construction project, not a single road, bridge. Allies, either current, former, soon to former, erstwhile, will be looking at this, and think, he'll be dead any day, and none of this will count. But its an opportunity to take advantage of America. If you are going to take advantage of America, counter intuitively, now is the time, with the kids running it. Stupidity will be a running theme

His goose is cooked in Thailand. Elsewhere, its made clear he had "retired" 2 years ago. But 12 months ago, the BBC World Service doorstepped him leaving work. Thailand revoked his visa, he then failed to file an appeal.

Some background in a documentary The combination of no identification and that the body had been moved changed it from unexplained death to suspicious death.

Communist Apologist, It was his apparent concern for the hostages that made him authorise the recent transfer of arms to Israel, using someone else's money.

Why not Good Hearted Americans?

Well, what is notable is there are still hostages missing, live and dead. Trump is already talking about redevelopment of the land. Wonder why that is. He doesn't care about the hostages.

Why not New York?

What you state is demonstrably a fib. It only exists in your head. As a Briton, I think about the London Blitz. But I still feel sorry for the people that perished in the Hamberg Firestorm and others.

While the land might be uninhabitable, there are Gazans who have legal title to the land, evidenced through Deeds. That ownership should be recognised, and land owners compensated o No redevelopment of the land until ownership issuen an individual basis. Given that the likely buyers would be Israeli property developers, I would suggest valuation based on utility as farm land, based on Israeli land prices. Much of thancien régimee Gazan strip was used for horticulture. The Nazis might have run Germany, and indeed might have had significant support when balloted, but that did not entitle the Occupying Forces to arbitrarily seize property. Certainly the Bonn government was obliged to provide restitution in the cases of property that was seized during WW2 by the ancien regime. Israel ratified the Geneva Conventions on July 6, 1951. Israel claims the Geneva Convention does not apply to operations in Gaza, as it is not sovereign territory. Others beg to differ. Mr Trumpf might agreewith Israel, until he realises what that means. Protocol V describes the Protocol on the Explosive Remnants of War. Basically it discusses what do you do with the battlefield afterwards. Who is responsible for demining territory they control. https://geneva-s3.unoda.org/static-unoda-site/pages/templates/the-convention-on-certain-conventional-weapons/Protocol%2Bon%2BExplosive%2BRemnants%2Bof%2BWar.pdf If Israel claims its a bit of Israel, then it has no obligation to demine it. It can leave it as wasteland, left to the dogs. If Trumpf pushes Article V, he can force Israel to pick up the tab for deminng rather than expecting the American taxpayer to pay for it. Israel has droped about 90-95,000 tons of munitions over a 360 square km area of land, give or take, about 260 tons per square km. Trumpf thought it would take a 2-5 years to demine the area. This is where is lack of experience in uniform becomes apparent. He is apparently unaware of the scale fo Allied bombing sorties over Germany during WW2. Berlin, a city of about 900 suare kms, received about 67,000 tons of British and American bombs. And these weren't the smart or precision bombs supposedly used on Gaza. About 15% of bombs never exploded, and that's probably still the case. 80 years on, they are still finding live bombs in the city. I'm not sure the Israelis and Trumpf have thought this through. They have salted the earth for 3 generations, and now they own the farm. I would suggest US taxpayers forcefully remind their representatives that the US budget is in deficit, and while 30% of US civil servants are set to lose their jobs, it would be an unwise act to send taxpayer money to a foreign state to decontaminate land that they contaminated. Its a cost that sould be picked up by Israeli government, and by extension, the Israeli taxpayer. 80 years, Germany spends abotu $10m per year on bomb disposal.

Mr Trumpf stated "other places. You could have more than two......I think we need another location. I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy,,,,, If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently" So he's volunteering to resettle Gazans in the United States of America if they want to come? There is precedent. FDR convened the Evian Conference in 1938 to discuss resettlement of Jews from Germany. I'm sure he will agree that America is a beautiful country with lots of spare space. Even more so as he is deporting so many.

Didn't the Mexican President do this not long ago, but no tariff nonsense. https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/04/12/mexico-has-10000-troops-in-south-to-stem-migration-white-house-says And the Canadian plans were largely what had already been agreed in November. I thought in 2017 Trumpf put his top man in solving the US opiod risis, Jared Kushner. I kind of assumed Trumf had succeeded in fixing it in short order, followng his election promises. So I am puzzled why he's still talking about it.

You were asked are you aware of attacks. You replied implying they are all lies. Is that the same response when asked about victims of rape "I am aware of them lying about it"? Scumbag reply when there are murders like this: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/20/brianna-ghey-found-guilty-murder Whole collection of events you consider to be nothing but lies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_killed_for_being_transgender

Good singer, cracking songs. I like singers who sing with their natural, unabashed voice. As for Wizard books written by a one hit wonder on the Dole; never read them, never will. Asked my teenage nephew what he thought of Harry Potter; zero interest in them and the films, as do all his mates, demonstrating she is no Charles Dickens (irony).n I don't care at all about the opinions of kids book writers, pop singers and comedians. Why should you? Maybe they should run for office.

Lamduan had 5 sisters. So I doubt she will be on her own.

The UK police issued an Interpol Bue Notice. Quite clever. No need for an extradition. Armitage would have had no choice, as n o country would want his with that hanging around.

Bloody hell, an actual sexpat.

So why did they bother packing victory parade uniforms? Russia had a 10 day plan to seize Kyiv, and then complete the full annexation of Ukraine by August 2022. What's your evidence that Russia was not trying to annex all of Ukraine. Putin's speech on 24 February 2022 is not evidence.

As to whether Twitter/X is now free. Only selected features are free. Other bits you have to pay for. Should someone tell the committe about that Pedo business? If he is offered it, it should be a joint award with Bill Gates, to show what two men with billions to hand can do with that money. https://x.com/i/premium_sign_up

I've concluded this account is some sort of AI-generated comedy account.Its not a particularly original approach. You see this dead pan approach elsewhere, so hackneyed. Do you perform sand dances as well? Cha cha.