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As far as a much fairer peace deal, sadly Ukraine might need to do give up lands permanently to Russia but for that to happen they need something very big in return -- EU and NATO membership.

Moronic straw man argument not worth seriously responding to. Russia started the war in 2014.

How is that happening?!?

I will add something that should be obvious but probably isn't to many. WANTING Ukraine to win isn't the same thing as saying Ukraine WILL win. The west has bought into Putin's nuclear threat fear mongering and has placed way too many restraints on what they will allow Ukraine to actually do. So the west has wanted to Ukraine to win but not made it possible out of fear of Ukraine actually winning. As more and more of Russian's so called red lines are crosssed, it has become more clear that Putin's threats are all bluff. For Ukraine to actually win, they will need much more aid from the west and also the end of unreasonable restraints. Iran's recent missile aid to Russia is turning the tide. But the US election is paramount.

What kind of US president can't answer YES to that question? A US president who is Putin's poodle. A US president who still feels butt hurt that Zelinsky wouldn't agree to assert dirt against Biden to win the last election (and was later impeached for that). For sleaze ball arguably traitorous Trump, everything is transactional, and everything is about his personal grievances. It's shocking that he still has a decent chance to take power again. The future of this war, the future of Ukraine continuing as a sovereign nation, possibly the future of the world depends on the upcoming US election.

The thoroughly unlikeable JD Vance recently gave away Trump's so called peace plan. It's a total surrender! Allow Russia to keep all occupied lands. Have Ukraine withdraw from Russian land. Have a so called demilitarized zone. Have Ukraine pledge to not seek NATO or EU membership. If anyone sees that as a fair peace compromise, you're totally deluded. Putin could paint that as a massive victory and he'd be right.

No, it's a war topic.

The similarities are many is why. You really don't see that?!?

You would say that to Hitler? You're deluded if you think Putin wants peace and can be fairly negotiated with. He wants to win. He only wants surrender. It's a binary choice. You support his goals or the goals of Ukraine and their western supporters.

Wait for the election results before you jump to that conclusion.

The title says it all. Either you want Ukraine to win, or you want Russia to win. Yet the disgraced former US president Trump refused to say yes. I appreciate his honesty. For anyone that didn't know where he stands before, they should by now.

So not a communist Comrade Kamala as stinking liar Donald J Trump asserts?

In that tragic event of Trump coming back to power, I think we will never hear about this empty and impractical promise ever again.

What gets me is that credible people are correctly saying that the tax situation will be an individual thing and it will be impossible to announce full conclusions that will be correct for everyone's specific financial situation. Then they say to pay for personal advice. But the final rules are not even set and we have no understanding of how any of this will actually be enforced, or not once they are set. So let's say you pay for personal advice now. It's my impression that given how ambiguous this all still is, that if you paid for such personalized advice from five given "experts" now that you would most likely get five different "expert" opinions. I'm sure this is a going to be a bonanza for such "experts" but at least at this stage, this is a completely ridiculous situation. I will be willing to pay for such advice from a well referred "expert" at a later time when the odds are higher that they actually know how things actually are going to be. Now seems wildly premature. I reckon I will probably end up paying more for advice than tax though which is kind of absurd. RANT OVER.

Well he has expressed interest in Venezuela He loves dictators period. Doesn't matter if from the left or right. He could probably build a beachside Margarine Lardo 2.0 there.

I want to see Trump fleeing to Budapest.

New York Post opinion piece from a pro Trump rag.

I haven't had "gears" since that one summer back in Provincetown when the coconut oil incident happened. I'm on automatic. The only grinding I do involves coffee beans.

Something to watch for now. He probably realizes there is a good chance he will lose now and not be able to illegally overturn the election as he tried to do before. So if that happens, he would want sympathy from President Harris for pardons. Going forward watch if he starts to personally insult Harris less than before. He can't call her dumb anymore for example.

Interesting. It sounds to me this is all about you being open as an expat. I still have a U.S. credit report based on U.S. residency which I do not have. Address, phone number, credit card with U.S. address. etc. That's what they like. Not saying its fair. I guess the good news is that it usually becomes less important for older people to have good credit scores but of course if you're moving back and hope to rent an apartment, etc. it's a big problem.

Because he knows he'd get creamed again. Another debate may be his best chance to win, but he knows he just can't compete with VP Harris in debates. I have mixed feelings about this. If there was another debate perhaps he might have a good night and have a typical more even performance. Given his greatly lowered expectations now, that could be spinned as a big win. On the other hand, it's quite likely he'll change his mind if he sees his polling drop dramatically.

Anyone that claims Trump won this debate has no credibility the same as anyone who claimed Biden won the last debate. As far as another debate which Harris has proposed Trump will avoid that like the plague.

Who won? As the former RNC chairman said -- she spanked that ass. Iconic historic moments. The handshake. Cats and dogs.

I saw a show that mentioned that Spielberg had done one comedy in his career. 1941, about hysteria in California about a Japanese invasion there after Pearl Harbor. Featuring actors from SNL's 1970's golden age. Sure many of the situations were comedic in concept, but after watching the entire movie I realized I hadn't laughed or even chuckled even once. I missed it back than and I guess I'm saying you can miss it now.

Estimates of Russians (many highly skilled working age ones) who have fled Russia thanks to Putin are between one and three miliion. Estimates of westerners moving to Russia to seek what they perceive as a white Christian nationalist extremely anti LGBT ideology society esimated at about 5,000.