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Al Jazeera has shown some of them and they are truly vile. IMO the only way anyone could take pleasure from destroying other people's homes and businesses and humiliating people under their total control is if they are barbarians. The scenes shown were not carried out by civilized people, IMO.

IMO there are no solutions that will make everyone happy. What is clear though, is that if the Palestinians are not given a homeland that israel has zero control over, the situation will continue till either all the israelis or all the Palestinians are removed from Palestine.

It's like some kindy bully getting a bunch of his mates to beat up a kid that refused to take his bullying and hit back.

I agree with the rest of your post but I disagree that Russia will do a first strike. I can't imagine any leader willing to see their own country reduced to ash, except perhaps some nutters in the Middle East and one Asian country near Japan.

Thank you for the unexpected compliment. I'm more used to getting insults on here. It's also good to see so many posters that are not paid up members of the "West good, other side bad" opinion. I was against this war from the very start and suffered much abuse of the infantile sort, being accused of being a Putin supporter etc. I haven't seen much in the way of the "orc" posts recently either. I guess two years for nothing gained isn't very encouraging for the Ukraine propagandists.

Agree with all of that.

Self description IMO.

You assume that Russia is going to advance on Kiev. IMO they will not and will simply dig in where they are till Ukraine negotiates. There is no strategic advantage that I can see in taking Kiev, and it would take massive losses to achieve. Having removed the salient into Russian held territory, and straightened the front line they will be a hard task to remove if Ukraine is considering it. Meanwhile, Russian troops will be cheered that they captured a formidable objective and Ukrainians face the humiliation of losing, not least losing so many of their comrades. Bad for morale, when they are already long past time for a rest and short of equipment and munitions. Unless something amazing happens, IMO this is the beginning of the end of the war, and Ukraine will not retake it, despite it having cost so many Ukrainian lives to keep.

Truly amazing reply. What is the point of blathering on about how the situation came to be if no solutions are forthcoming? I assume you have none then. I used to think you were mildly amusing, despite thinking you knew more than the rest of us, but I have to wonder if you are even worth my time if that is what we can expect from you. Bye.

I see the grammar police has arrived.

LOL. If you think having a stumblin' bumblin' old man that talks to dead people as POTUS is an improvement over Trump, I think that is rather sad.

Nah. He's entertaining, because he attracts so many that have lost their minds to TDS and spend hours on line ranting about him. Reading their posts has provided me with many hours of entertainment.

Something strange happened there. The link on the post I quoted changed when I quoted it. It as something about victimhood and then it changed to the Eagles pop group.

Whether I am a victim or not is irrelevant to what I was saying.

Depends on what "salvation" may be. I have no idea of what it may be on a spiritual level.

There is no moral of the story. People are, and some attempt to understand why they are, and most don't. Humans stand on the edge of extinction likely caused by themselves. After we are gone, another species will rise to prominence and all that we are will be as nothing. Perhaps like the walls in Sth America some trace will remain that the next dominant species will wonder about, or perhaps not. What will history say about us? Will we be a barbaric species that gloried in killing each other, or a species that strove for the stars and fell short. IMO the jury is out on that.

Excellent response which attacks me by implication and completely avoids answering the question by deflection. Next.

The Democrat members of the committee have a problem. Normally they'd give the person being interviewed a pass with easy questions, but in this case Hur didn't just give Biden an out from prosecution, but he also called Biden's mental fitness into question. It's going to be a very interesting session.

and you guys are willfully overlooking the many reasons why Biden is not a good choice for 4 more years. You must be so terrified of Trump winning that you support Biden. Isn't there any better Democrat politician to support instead?

Having a bad memory is not the same as senility, else a lot of us would be in residential care. Anything to say about Biden's apparent mental deterioration, other than "he's not Trump"?

It's childlike to run around claiming that the world is warming without having a solution to it. What solution do 97% of scientists support to solve the problem? So far it's all Chicken Little, but no effective suggestions as how to stop the sky falling. I haven't read that any of them suggested the best way to make a difference which is less people on the planet.

I agree, but perhaps you can inform us of what you would do to change it back to what it used to be. You seem to be somewhat short of solutions.

IMO the biggest scam ever perpetrated on a gullible population is that we can actually modify climate change, but only if we make Elon Musk very rich and pay more taxes. Does anyone actually believe that windmills and electric cars will make ANY difference at all? Sod all else being done. No restrictions on the aviation or cruise liner industry, is there? No push to lower birth rates, no attempts to stop the destruction of rainforests worth the paper they are written on, no attempts to clean up ocean pollution that make a difference, no attempt to have climate conferences by VDO. All BS and hypocrisy IMO If humanity perishes it will be because government didn't do anything to actually make a difference, IMO.

If it gets to that stage I can't see the USA continuing as a united country. IMO it will be the states not affected by immigration madness refusing to accept illegals being forced on them by Washington.

Any interest rate above the less than 1% interest I got on my money would be a higher rate. I suppose I was lucky that they didn't make me pay to not give me much benefit at all.