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Did Trump bring shame upon the US with his Zelensky lecture?
Correct me if I'm wrong - that was a Bill Clinton deal, who was it that broke it? W Bush, Obama, Trump or Biden? I'm certain it was neither Trump or Biden - so who was it? -
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Did Trump bring shame upon the US with his Zelensky lecture?
By behave are you suggesting that he should have taken a knee, and kissed the ring, not talked back and been completely compliant? Just like Trump the bully insists? Behave, or else! Don't you know who I am, don't you know where you are? As my sycophantic assistant mentioned, you are in sacred territory, you are in the Oval Office, don't you get it? We are the two most powerful men in the world, behave like it! -
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Zelensky - what possessed you?
The medical devices supply chain is quite complex. I'm working with the FDA to identify risks in the US supply chain; COVID revealed that they don't really know where stuff comes from (the EU is also doing the same kind of study). About 5% of US branded products, from US companies are made wholly in the US, and thats really in quite niche, specialist areas. A lot is assembled in the US, but that's not the same as made in the US. For instance, an American compay sells a test system for respiratory viruses. They do some manufacturing in the US, some work in their Chinese factory. Some electronics they have outsourced to a US contract manufacturer who has an electronics design capabilirty in Singapore, but who then has the electronics part assembled in Malaysia. Critical to the whole test is viral antigen; this company can't make the right antigen (killed lethal virus), and you need that antigen to prove the test works. They outsource it to a tiny Dutch company who has a class 4 biosafety lab and the knowhow not only to know how to inactivate the virus, but also inactivate it in such a way it can be used in the test. Onshoring all of that is not straightforward. Electronics manufacture could be onshored, but they don't own the IP, so there is a cost there. Maybe they can build their own class 4 lab in the US, but getting those things built these days is really hard; who wants an anthrax lab next door. And if they do all that, can they sell the system anymore for $10,000 for the hardware, $50 per test. Probably not. More like $200 per test, which translated into a $400 bill to the payer. There are about a million and a half different medical device products on sale in the US. Putin tried to see if his boffins could onshore Russian medical supplies. Remember, this is a nuclear power, with lots of clever, able and well trained people, with access to lots of raw materials. They couldn't do it. One, they lacked the know how. Two, the doctors were telling them there was no way they would treat their patients with something shonky just because it was Russian made. The same in the US. It will take years for the US to decouple from the ROTW. When it comes to CDMOs influencing the US, most of them are EU; that means contract manufacturers with know how (ie you can't make what you want to make without their IP and know how). In the meantime, doctors will be guided by medical liability legislation, and certainly not risking their patients, and their liberty, on half baked nationalist-driven products. This was the failure of the ventilator projects during COVID; the doctors wanted more ventilators of the type they were already using , not something dreamt of by a vacuum salesman or a carmaker. Of course it cuts both ways, and there is interdependance between economies. Though trade deficits show Americans want European goods more than Europeans want American goods. Partly you could say thats because American goods are more expensive in Europe. But for cars, that is literally not true; things like Mustangs and Corvettes are actually pretty cheap. But they are crap. They don't handle that well, they are thirsty, they are not all that comfortable, and the quality is a bit crude. Dealer support ain't great. American companies like Ford, build Rangers for Europe in Thailand. The profits don't go back to Thailand. They go back to Dearborn, and back into American pockets. -
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Marco Rubio Demands Apology from Zelensky After Heated Oval Office Clash
If that is your idea of diplomacy then you are even more deranged than that orange idiot that is in the White House. -
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Marco Rubio Demands Apology from Zelensky After Heated Oval Office Clash
graham also said "count me out" on jan 7 day after the coup attempt....graham will say whatever he thinks will get him more power and change it faster than a fart disappears in the wind. He is the ultimate hypocrite in congress which is saying a LOT in a congress full of sniveling cowards.- 1
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