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More likely he's just a retired officer who's discovered that if he makes outrageous claims, he adds a significant sum to his service pension.

I know this other fella thinks this is all part of a strategy to get war-loving officers into power (I thought he sas a cmedy account, but it seems he is serious), but one of the (many) reasons why the Russian Armed Forces have been so shambolic, pretty much from the first day, is how Putin has promoted officers based on sycophancy, not ability. Ukraine is doing the same, but there is a difference. Ukraine is promoting more and more younger officers who have had significant experience obviously during the conflict, but who have attended, over the years, training events with Western militaries, but have also served in combat zones with Western troops. That's bringing in a change in mindset. One of the complaints from British instructors is the Ukrainian troops are too wasteful. NATO troops have access to precision, but expensive weapons. Soviet troops; not so accurate weapons, but they are cheap. The complaints included using Javelins like they were RPGs, and consequently the Russians have been finding a lot of tossed aside launchers. That seems to be changing. The difference in mentality enabled a US-British-French force, with scarcely any recent relevant combat experience to tear apart a numerically superior, battle hardened Soviet-trained enemy with minimal casualties (Desert Storm, 1991). Superior equipment, superior training. The Iraqis stuck rigidly to Soviet tactics. Russian kit was at a high point 3 years ago. Its now been degraded significantly in quality. They've lost experience, having switched from an army with a significnt professional element to one that is dependant upon convicts and those who were pressganged, The Chinese equipped Chechen "TikTok" warriors seem to have all scarpered; they were the Russian troops swanning around in all the Gucci kit (and yes, they were buying Chinese equipment, such as MRAPs, in preference to Russian). I would want to see the situation not in Orthodox cemetaries, but in the Muslim cemetaries in the Causcus region. Its in that area where there has been most resistance to the call up, with locals burning down recruitment offices. https://united24media.com/latest-news/russia-intensifies-raids-to-recruit-more-chechens-for-the-frontlines-following-attack-on-military-convoy-3520 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/officer-killed-assault-police-station-russias-chechnya-along-with-attacker-2025-04-08/ While some of this might be extremists taking advantage of a weakened central government (arguably though, Kadyrov is an extremist who receives Dane Geld tribute from Moscow), there is undoubtedly disquiet among the general population of places like Dagestan and Chechenya.

Potato production is up?

25,000 Belgians joined up in the German army..... And it was Ukrainian and Belarusan soldiers who did most of the dying for the Soviet Union. I expect the Ukrainians will also be marking VE day. For that reason, I doubt they will interfere in Russian parades. Using language such as "Bandaras" is as offensive as reminding little Belgium of the VNV, the Wallonien Legion, Leon Degrelle. Russia, like most of Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, has seen an explosion of hard right political movements, often built around a football hooligan element. There are all kinds of reasons. Putin openly courts some of these.

Would you have said the same if the Germans were men. The women were young enough to be your Great Granddaughters.

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Harrisfan is one of those who believes Germany only lost because of one Austrian too many. Delusional.

Comparing the Mango Mussolini to Mussolini is unfair to Mussolini. Mussolini was a journalist and an actual intellectual. Some comparisons have been made to Idi Amin Dada. They communicate is similar ways

Apparently (according to her statements) she had planned to give cash as gifts because her "entire family" was in town. The family Easter treat was at a place called Capital Burgerm where you can buy a Cheese burger for $20. This is her entire family from that weekend. $3000 on Easter gifts for 4 adults and 2 toddlers. Hate to think what the Noem Christmas bill is lile. I'm sure its something ordinary voters can relate to. One wonders where the family dog is? Oh, thats right, she shot it. Most normal people in the 21st Century might spend rather less on dinner, or at least pay using a card. There will be some who insist on cash everywhere. In some cases, its because they don't want their actions to be traced. Possible indication of corruption.

Have the good grace to actually read my post. That answers your question. As I stated, I am not going to debate this.

The Telegraph are a bit slow. The Guardian was pointing this out 4 years ago https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/28/good-anti-sinking-capacity-lifejacket-optional-journey-of-a-refugee-boat Or Turkey https://news.sky.com/story/a-people-smuggler-who-sends-migrants-across-the-channel-reveals-how-the-small-boats-trade-works-12806865 https://news.sky.com/story/people-smugglers-how-the-police-exposed-the-dark-world-of-small-boat-channel-crossings-12805980 Or Blighty https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/people-smuggling-gang-tried-to-use-rundown-boats-for-cross-channel-migrant-journeys https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6q6wz765eo Note the footage from the BBC. Mercury Marine is an American make. SO are we now saying American outboard manufacturers are part of the people smuggling gig? Its organised crime. Most of the boats are stolen (because, criminals), or from the black maket (cash only, no questions asked).

A lot of you sozzled old soaks in Thailand probably follow the various youtubers still left online. Kev in thailand is dead. Another one with brain cancer is on his way out. Younger ones might follow that estate agent who set up and sold forums, or mymatenate, or Mark Wiens.

More likely Bessent will be picking up his P45 soon. Sure, ultimately China does need that 15% of GDP that is the value of Chinese exports to the US. But behind all those sales is an Amazon store, a small high street business (strip mall store), a department store, a distributor, all of which are American businesses, who pay taxes, employ staff. All of these, whether they import directly, or get from a distributor, buy for $x, the sell in price, sell for $y, the sell out price, or the retail price. If China is selling $400bn in goods in the US, then the marked up price of those goods could well be $1200-1600bn, and profit $500-800bn. The likes of Walmart, Target, you'd hope would have been talking to their Chinese suppliers a while back, getting that sell-in price reduced. They are already aggressive on pricing, because their warehousing/inventory costs are considerable. You don't want to go to Walmart and see that pair of Chinese hiking boots in your size out of stock until the next container arrives in 3 months time,. Your alternative will be the Target store selling the cheap Indian made boots. But you don't really want to go to that high end outdoors store and pay 5-6x as much for the US made Danners, Because that's why you were looking at the Chinese boots in the first place. Danner meanwhile have positioned themselves as a high end boot maker; you pay top money for a boot that comes with that famous 20 year warranty. But honestly, who keeps walking boots that long (some so). Which is why Danner have their Chinese made range; a lot cheaper, but more money than Walmart's Brahma boots, because Danner (in reality, Danner are making a ton of money importing boots from pretty much the same factory where Walmart get their stuff from). The big chains will be ok. Prices will go up a bit, shareholder dividend cut, but gross revenues maintained. The small stores though can't often ask their suppliers to cut prices. They have to pay the duty on everything they are getting through Alibaba. A whole business was built on the model, that they will sell pretty much the same boot at Walmart, but maybe for a little more, and their customers appreciate the personal service. But they sell $50 boots, and their regular customers are not in the market for $400 boots, so right now, switching to Danner would kill their business. There are about 30 million businesses in the US, out of which 1 million are bricks and morter retail stores. Most of these are not chains; the chains dominate in terms of volumes of goods sold. There are 10,000 Walmarts, 2000 Targets, 600 Costcos. Easily, there are 950,000 independent "Mom and Pop" retail stores, selling goods at non-premium prices. Sure, they could switch suppliers. Maybe one day there will be that US boot factory who can make a pair of boots for $10, that can retail for $40-50. But not this year, and probably not next. There are about 4 million online retailers in the US. I suspect most of those have little to no stock, and are effect drop shipping businesses. Which means they can be a lot cheaper than physical stores, who need to buy and sell stock. They are screwed. So, the tariff war is unsustainable. Ultimately, China has $400bn at stake, which it might make by dumping in other markets (great time for bargains in Europe). But there is a lot more at stake to US businesses. The idea of a small business might be blown away. The big chains will employ big lobbyists, to defend their businesses, but they have the benefit of much more buying power, and more diverse product ranges, with loss leaders.. Small businesses; they can appeal to their local Chamber of Commerces, who will get nowhere. Walmart won't be helping them.

Aren't all these memos written by the Deep State seeking to undermine constitutionally elected governments. Or is it only Democrat governments who can actually get anything done. Someone will probably know when they startled shackling tourists. It might have been done going back years. But something has changed to cause the UK Foreign Office to make significant changes to their advice to visitors to the US. Border Patrol has better kit than they had in Iraq

This post tells me more about you, than them. This is low.

There are two accounts being given. So you can be arrested and put in chains for responding to an email from a client in Japan while sipping a coffee in the US. I expect content on Youtube to take a nose dive. You think Mark Wiens gets a work visa for all the places where he does his restaurant reviews. I bet he doesn't even have a journalist pass. I think I might dob in Kalani Smith, aka the Ghosthunter, and his dad, for all those Youtube videos of them eating Gregg's sausage rolls. Pretty sure they are not getting the correct visas. Obviously Brits on holiday livestreaming their rides in Florida can forget about that.

So I suppose don't respond to work related email on your phone while in the US? Don't stop off in the US for a cheeky holiday while returning from corporate management meetings in Toronto.

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Why did she have $3000 in her purse? Buying a used car?

He's making it up.

No its not, and yes I have.

To be fair he (isn't MTG a trannie?) is expressing a belief commonly held in the Deep South about Roman Catholics. Bob Jones was kind of revered around those parts, and he paled up with Ian Paisley to go to Rome and protest against the Anti-Christ, when the Archbishop of Canterbury met with the Pope.

I'm afraid there is no point debating with this lot. I've worked 20+ years in infectious disease, in BSL2 through BSL4 labs. The very first Chinese vaccine was Sinovac. This was a conventional inactivated virus that had been propagated through a chimpanzee sell line. As a result, the manufactured virus contained Chimp RNA, not Human RNA. Chimps, while closely related to Men, are not Men. So the vaccine didn't work. As vaccines go, that was one of the easiet to make. For any virus, if you can propoagate it in bulk, the rest is relatively a piece of cake and the risks well understood. I've said repeatedly, there are not 3 possibilities, but at least 4 possibilities, in order of decreasing likelihood 1. Zoonitic transmission on the local wet market, or some other place. 2. Accidental leakage from the institute reference lab. The Wuhan Lab wasn't just a research lab. Its a reference lab as well. That means it received hundreds of samples a week from hospital labs in the surrounding area. There is a major trade in bat guano; locals are digging holes to mine deposits themselves, for extra money. We are finding a ton of new coronaviruses as this activity increases. The reference labs are BSL-2. For those who know what that means, its significant. 3. Accidental leakages from the institute research lab. Coronavirus research was carried out in BSL-4 labs. Again, anyone familiar with BSL-4 will know the physical controls in place. 4. Deliberate release. Every city on the planet will have at least 1 hospital. And that hospital will have at least one pathology laboratory. And in those labs, lab techs will be deliberately growing, or attempting to grow, extremely infectious agents, some more virulant than other, but all of them disease causing in humans, Hence the diagnostic tests in a hospital. At the end of testing, waste is supposed to be autoclaved (steam sterilised) before entering general waste. But that doesn't always happen. Sometimes the plates get dropped straight into the black bags. Sometimes the autoclave breaks down. Sometimes the cycle doesn't complete, and there is no indicator tape, All this happens every day around the world. Outbreaks are not occuring. Hospital acquired infections tend to be infections one patient gets from another, and is not an infection acquired from the hospital per se. The last Foot and Mouth Virus outbreak in the UK, in 2007, was due to an accidental lab release. Pretty much the entire herd had to be culled. What confused scientists was that the strain found was identical to a 1968 strain, which ought not be possible. There were fears that carcasses from the 1968 outbreak, which had been buried, were now contaminating the water table. But the penny dropped. The source of the outbreak was the main veterinary research lab at Pirbright. The facility consists of the DEFRA labs, and lab accomodation rented to a range of companies manufacturing veterinary medicines.. One of the tenants manufacturers FMV vaccine for export. That means they propagated vast quantities of virus, to inactivate to become vaccine. So there was a lot of virus rich effluent, which was pumped via a pipe to an onsite treatment works, before the slurry was discharged into the municipal sewer. For months he tenant had been in argument with the landlord, DEFRA, over a cracked pipe, and who was going to pay for it. In the meantime, vets came and went from the lab carpark, and the virus was introduced onto the farms. Probably hundreds of contamination events occurred before the outbreak happened. Not surprising, when one considers that lab outbreaks are rare, because the infection itself is difficult.

That article appears to have been deleted. But indeed, the Tweet is still appearing on his account (I'm making assumptions about birth gender).

Pension funds own stocks.