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Likeable qualities? None that I can discern. Your bookmaker may very well be correct, but I wouldn't bet the house. I thought Trump lost after the pussygate tapes, but to my ( and apparently his ) surprise he won. He may surprise us again.

but still better than her, IMO.

If the American Green party is anything like the NZ Green party that would be a massive mistake. To call ours a fringe party would make them seem better than the reality. PS, they might be called "Green" but they abandoned the environment long ago, IMO.

Unless the Ukrainians have been hiding an army somewhere, explain how they will be able to keep the area taken with such a small force.

Seeing Blinken on his latest "all the way with netanyahu" visit to israel I doubt the Palestinians give him the time of day as an unbiased envoy from his biased boss. As long as he is the best the US can send, IMO the ceasefire talks will be going nowhere. IMO he's just not to be trusted to put any pressure on netanyahu, no matter what he says.

I have no idea what that post is about.

IMO what you have posted is western propaganda. Familiar to anyone knows about WW1 and the "it'll all be over by Christmas " nonsense. IMO no one that actually knows anything about wars would seriously put a date or a time limit on any campaign, as plans rarely last beyond the first day. War is not an exact science by any means. As for the IMO nonsense about installing a puppet government, that might have worked in Stalin or Mao's time, but not so much now. As for the vanishing armoured column, another poster hypothesised that it was a feint designed to divert attention from the actual objective in the East, and I agree with that poster ( I don't remember who it was now ). I suspect that we will never be on the same page re this conflict so we can agree to disagree. Putin will increasingly be looking for scapegoats as the war drags on and eventually his close circle will feel threatened enough to move first and remove him ,most likely by assassination. He will ultimately reap what he has sown. Le Carre could use that for one of his spy novels. It's a fact that bad men rarely die deserved deaths, Idi Amin died 2003 ( in the Saudi hospital that I used to work at, but happily not when I was there ), after a long rest as a guest of the Saudis, Genghis Khan likely died of disease, not insurrection, Mao and Stalin died in bed. I suspect Putin will end the same way as Stalin.

As usual for those of her ilk, her plans include being generous with other people's money to IMO bribe her way into the WH.

All of which points to how unlikable she is. If she was as great as the Dem believers say she is, she should be well in the lead. Obviously she isn't that great at all if that flawed man is level with her.

As candidate for POTUS she needs to be judged on that basis, not as a woman. She won't be able to explain away mistakes because of her gender if she wins the W H. If she can't be a tough as a man she shouldn't be where she is today. Part of being able to be POTUS is to be able to navigate such a high-profile role with little time to settle in.

You reference the "joke" Mini. That new thing isn't even small, it's just BS marketing. In NZ they even put racing stripes on the joke Minis to convince the woke to buy them. Don't see many on the roads , which indicates that even the woke are not fooled.

Are you claiming that a fridge can be plugged into an EV? Do EVs work on 110 volts in the US?

So fully recovered from the ailments that excused him from a jail cell. It must be a miracle. Praise God! Anyway, how does a criminal get to wander around free as a bird when he should be in the slammer?

IMO the entire idea that Thailand needs a high speed rail network is the scam. Basically an unlimited pork barrel for the usual suspects, and Thailand just got the daughter of the IMO most corrupt man in the history of Thailand with her finger in the pie as PM. For less than the cost of a mere 800 or so km of hi speed track, the entire Thai rail network could be double tracked and faster trains put into use. I've seen no reason as why Thailand needs a high speed rail, other than China wants it to link Singapore to China.

Thailand is not third world. It has better facilities than some western nations. There is plenty of money. The problem is one of corruption. Every project, IMO, requires payoffs to the usual suspects. Having 14 different contracts is just insane, and inevitable that problems would arise, but too many want their cut. The Chinese must have known how the system works in LOS before committing, so they must have their reasons for doing so.

I don't get my info from either "side", as I don't trust "sides". I get my info from Al Jazeera which is about as neutral as is possible to be, and otherwise I'll google and look a various articles.

Document is just a piece of paper with words on it. It needs to be backed up by a reputable source, and IMO CNN is hardly reputable when it comes to Trump.

Then you should have properly indicated where the quote came from. Just writing that it is from another OP is not, IMO, sufficient. Which OP would be the minimum.

If Harris wins I can see the history books being changed to blame everything bad that ever happened in the history of the planet on Trump, even Krakatoa and the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs. For those with no sense of humour- you know who you are- that is satire. Anyway, Trump must have surpassed the record in the entire human existence for the most well know man on the planet and the one with the most words spoken and written about. There are more than one on here that just has to put Trump into every post they write, even if he isn't the topic. In the future, no doubt psychology students will study the Trump phenomenon, and historians will be busy for many years making sense of it.

Life isn't fair. I don't get where he has failed, unless one believes the propaganda that he wanted the entire country. I don't and never did. The direction of travel in the east is in the wrong direction for Zelensky, Crimea has not fallen. That doesn't look like losing from my perspective. Zelensky had a window to negotiate before it started, from a much stronger position than he has now.

Good for him, and if federal officers try to cut it put up more. Good for him sticking it to Biden, who caused the problem in the first place by cancelling Trump's policies. As long as the wire is inside Texas, can Biden even do anything about it? I hope not. In any event, Texas should ignore Biden bleating on about letting them all in. LOL. It'll be significant when it's ZERO illegals crossing and razor wire tends to achieve that. Excellent actions. Classic case of giving the people that cause the problem the result of that problem. Abbott should send them all to Washington, as it's where the politicians come up with their IMO insane policies.

On that we must disagree. There was a US president that had a sign on his desk that said "The buck stops here" in the past. Seems the sign now says "it's all Trump's fault".

The Russians will still be bringing up reinforcements and weaponry, but once they are in situ I'm pickin' they will cut the supply lines, and then it's all over. Unlikely that the Russians will be easily able to encircle the Ukrainians on account of said rivers. They don't need to encircle them, just cut the supply lines by drones and artillery. Soldiers need lots of ammunition, and ammunition needs trucks. Can't bring enough ammunition in on bicycles- this isn't Vietnam. I've been against this war since before it started and IMO continuing it will only lead to more widows and fatherless children. Reality say that Ukraine can't win, so the longer it continues the more death. IMO it's just a matter of time till Zelensky has to negotiate an end, and IMO he will only do that if defeated militarily, so I want Zelensky to be forced to do so, to end the war and the needless deaths. gain everything it has set out to take by force. In the real world there is only suffering, so IMO Russia will get everything it set out to gain anyway. The only question is how many widows and fatherless children there will be at the end.

I suppose you lot rant about Trump so much because there is nothing worth saying about Harris as she is so reticent about speaking in public, and she only has anti Trump rhetoric when she does. If you were only allowed to say positive things about Harris it'd be a very short thread.

He doesn't need to use a teleprompter, unlike the other lot. Biden didn't know what to say without one - debate proved that.