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What differs is that the United States has a Federal Government and a Federal Legislature. Dismantle the former and emasculate the latter (as rather appears to be a work in progress) and you are left with a collection of separate States. If that becomes the case, what will for example New York and California have in common with Alabama and Wyoming - politically socially and economically nothing at all.

Not a question of revenge. If we give in to Putin's aggression the next crossroads to be mortared will be in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, or most probably in the Suwatki Corridor, the bit of Poland which separates Kaliningrad from Belloruss.

They're all utterly barking in their own ways...

I feel sorry for His Majesty, it's not all beer and skittles at the top is it!

I have little time for David Cameron, but didn't he say something very prescient about Twitter: "too many tweets make you a twit" or something along those lines?

The USA sat on the top of that tree because 1945 left it as the only major economic power. Europe was devastated, Russia and the UK worn out, and China was riven by civil war. By the 60s Europe and the UK were up and running again. China has emerged in this century. As @Patong2021 and @soalbundy have pointed out The US practice of short term profits and "vulture capitalism" (wonderful précis that!) has hindered investment to allow for effective competition, and combined with the failings of their educational system ensured that they will fall ever further behind. Their obsession with maintaining a massive military hasn't helped. For sure, their economy is big enough to sustain itself within any barriers it may erect or has already erected, but it will continue to fall behind the rest of the world. It will trundle along in isolation, and isolation will increasingly make it irrelevant to anyone else; perhaps a bit like the Republic of Ireland was until it opened up and joined the EU. Ireland had the vice like grip of the Church, the USA is falling under the vice like grip of the oligarchs. I am unlikely to be around to seethe word in 30 years, but I bet the red hats will have faded!

Eggs are cheaper.

https://images.app.goo.gl/WDUp5sdwf3W4AtF98 That picture is of slaughtered children, mortared at a crossroads whilst fleeing from the Russians. "Got to take the rough with the smooth" You are in a really dark place!

Indeed, although as he found out to his cost, one can lead to the other.

Absolutely, after all, what's a little ethnic cleansing, bombarding civilians and aggressive invasion when it means the invaded, bombarded and ethically cleansed country signs over it's minerals for The Don's pals to get rich on! Still, I suppose it will take the pressure off Canada and Greenland for a couple of years - all hail Putin and Trump, the wise Elder Statesmen of Peace! Don't pause to glance at this link, (https://images.app.goo.gl/WDUp5sdwf3W4AtF98), mere collateral damage in Putin's justifiable actions supported by Trump!

Well that's alright then. After all, a mistake anyone familiar with the way Gaza has been run for the last decades could make. Think no more of it, hey, "HoYo Films", how about a documentary on the effect of white hatred on the beleaguered Pakistani male teen friendly community of Rotherham? Money always available!

Oh yes!

The overwhelming coverage of this awful scandal has died back, so the "establishment" (whose policies and actions, or rather inactions allowed it to happen for so long) pushback has started. Soon it will be time for a BBC or Channel 4 documentary on the terrible affect of the white racist anger upon the Pakistani community.

It is remarkable: how Mr Trump veers spectacularly between wild nationalism (renaming international waters), territorial ambitions (Greenland and Canada) personal victimhood (his various legal entanglements leading to convictions, civil and criminal), and now national victimhood (The EU existing to harm the USA)!

We think highly of you as well!

And screwing the United States is most definitely his job, now he is President"😄

Mind you, so did George Washington! As for The Guardian, although it's left wing opinion stance can and does at times grate with me, it's factual reporting is fair and it is the one serious UK paper which is available internationally without a paywall, which is why I read it, and make a modest monthly subscription.

The savings being sought are unachievable without massive cuts to medical care, social security and other social provision. Many of the most vulnerable people are in Republican constituencies. The Republican party are going to have to wake up to the fact that they "own" these cuts.

Years ago I travelled from Bangkok to Heathrow sitting next to a monk (Eva Air I think). He was a member of the community at a Wat in the West Midlands. He was I would say a fairly "Hi So" young man, a very pleasant travelling companion. I am a Catholic so we had a very interesting conversation, not in the slightest bit antagonistic. We parted friends at Heathrow.

https://youtu.be/Q3B3qEPQA_M?si=Ag9-v-Yd_H65ubsH

Don't skip past these photographs, they show the actions of total utter <deleted> savages.

The signed photocopies are scanned into the PCs and laptops (colour of course, so they can discern the blue pen) before the papers are physically filed for "future reference". It is just another layer of pointlessness!

The Terminals are for show. They have the runways and refueling facilities etc. Siem Riep gives them a base which covers the Gulf of Thailand Gwadar will be handy for that side of the Indian Ocean and the sea approaches to the Persian Gulf.

You have rather confirmed the point I made. Thank you.