Zelensky - what possessed you?

[Harrisfan]

3 minutes ago, PomPolo said:

@Harrisfan where did you go? I want a MERN application for a Forum x-pat site that doesn't include AI's unless the advertising dries up! Can you help me?

I would like a balloon ride in Laos

[PomPolo]

6 minutes ago, theblether said:

 

You're out of your league. 

 

1945 - Marshall Plan - strategy to ensure that Germany would not repeat the disastrous consequences of the Versailles Treaty. 

 

1945 - non-punishment strategy of Japan, imposed a non-aggressive Constitution on the country. WE Deming headhunted to create the Japanese just-in-time inventory system.

 

End result - the USA created two of the greatest economies of the 20th Century. And peace. 

 

And you call that failure. You're an idiot. 

If I am an Idiot not sure what that makes you.
Marshall Plan 555
The U.S. nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, particularly the Castle Bravo test in 1954, caused severe environmental damage, including radioactive contamination of land and water. The local population suffered from health issues like radiation sickness and cancer, and many were displaced, with long-term effects on both the environment and the people of the islands.
Muppet!

[PomPolo]

2 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

I would like a balloon ride in Laos

I hear you but a lot of LB's there are you fussy about that? And which way do you swing?

[PomPolo]

4 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

I would like a balloon ride in Laos

Do you like A100's or do you have a different preference on NVIDIA GPU's? 🤣

[mogandave]

12 minutes ago, theblether said:

 

You're out of your league. 

 

1945 - Marshall Plan - strategy to ensure that Germany would not repeat the disastrous consequences of the Versailles Treaty. 

 

1945 - non-punishment strategy of Japan, imposed a non-aggressive Constitution on the country. WE Deming headhunted to create the Japanese just-in-time inventory system.

 

End result - the USA created two of the greatest economies of the 20th Century. And peace. 

 

And you call that failure. You're an idiot. 

Three of the greatest, and four if you count China…

[rough diamond]

1 hour ago, theblether said:

No sane Brit I know is prepared start a nuclear war to assist Ukraine. 

Which pub in the UK do you have this erudite conversation in?

[rough diamond]

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

I love when they say Putin wouldn't dare use nukes

Does that mean you want and expect him to use them?

[rough diamond]

1 hour ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Please tell me this is a joke? Please....

No but your post is.

[PomPolo]

@Harrisfan I refer you to one of the previous topics I started, please feel free to comment if you haven't already

 

[theblether]

16 minutes ago, PomPolo said:

If I am an Idiot not sure what that makes you.
Marshall Plan 555
The U.S. nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, particularly the Castle Bravo test in 1954, caused severe environmental damage, including radioactive contamination of land and water. The local population suffered from health issues like radiation sickness and cancer, and many were displaced, with long-term effects on both the environment and the people of the islands.
Muppet!

 

I'd like to say that you are trolling but I'll settle on you being just thick. 

 

Carry on. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z8jjjsg/revision/2

[Harrisfan]

16 minutes ago, rough diamond said:

Does that mean you want and expect him to use them?

If Nato attacked Russia for sure.

[PomPolo]

16 minutes ago, theblether said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z8jjjsg/revision/2

 

17 minutes ago, theblether said:

I'd like to say that you are trolling but I'll settle on you being just thick. 

You are fairly close to breaking AN rules @ the moderators calling me thick and personally insulting me, I have a point of view and nobody can take that away from me as long as I stay withing the guidelines you appear to want to break, how you have lasted 10k comments is a mystery 

The Marshall plan was offered to all European countries, but the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe rejected it. As a result, many countries in the East were left behind, and their economies lagged further behind the West, contributing to the division of Europe during the Cold War.
Call me thick again and I will respond harsher.

[NoDisplayName]

1 hour ago, PomPolo said:

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

 

That certainly wasn't spoken by the illegitimate leader of Ukraine, the one responsible for so many dead in the trenches, and the man who himself dodged conscription four times.

 

Willing to fight to the last other guy.

[PomPolo]

4 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

That certainly wasn't spoken by the illegitimate leader of Ukraine, the one responsible for so many dead in the trenches, and the man who himself dodged conscription four times.

 

Willing to fight to the last other guy.

Roll on and we will welcome another pearl harbor then Trump will wake up - I am sorry for saying that but the head in the sand approach by some of you guys can't be ignored.

[NoDisplayName]

10 minutes ago, PomPolo said:

Roll on and we will welcome another pearl harbor then Trump will wake up - I am sorry for saying that but the head in the sand approach by some of you guys can't be ignored.

 

That does not attest to the bravery of Zelensky, man of four draft dodgings, willing to send entire generations of Ukranians to their deaths, all for a bag of cookies and a promise.

[Patong2021]

6 hours ago, MicroB said:

 

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.

 

 

Allow me to dumb it down for the MAGA collective: A majority of the USA's critical drug active pharmaceutical ingredients are sourced from China, India and the EU. Tens of millions of Trump supporters would be devastated if they could not get their Ozempic and Wegovy (API is sourced from Denmark). Cancer treatments would slow down. Anti virals, antibiotics and critical vaccines would disappear. Now amount of warp speed projects in the USA could replace those products in less than 2-5 year, and the cost would be in the tens of billions of $.

 

There was a time when USA products meant quality and longevity. Those days are long gone. No one really wants USA made products, not even  US citizens.

 

[Patong2021]

14 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

I dress better going to a cafe

 

 

 

How do you dress when you go to the town dump?

[Patong2021]

1 hour ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

That does not attest to the bravery of Zelensky, man of four draft dodgings, willing to send entire generations of Ukranians to their deaths, all for a bag of cookies and a promise.

 

President Zelenskyy has been targeted for death ever since he was elected President. The Russians have tried multiple times. You live with constant death threats in a war zone and see how tolerant you are of a  bully who dismisses the sacrifice of  Ukraine.

[NoDisplayName]

20 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

 

President Zelenskyy has been targeted for death ever since he was elected President. The Russians have tried multiple times. You live with constant death threats in a war zone and see how tolerant you are of a  bully who dismisses the sacrifice of  Ukraine.

 

Oh, nonononono!

 

Before he was El (p)Residente, he received four draft summonses, in 2014 and 2015 I believe, for which he failed to appear.  Couldn't be bothered.  Ukraine wasn't worth fighting for.  War zones are dangerous y'know!  He had more important things to do than fight for democracy.

 

Important things like this in 2014

 

But now that he's large 'n in charge, and he's safe from the burdensome burden of serving his country, he can send others to die for his lost cause.  No biggie, if they run out, the Poles or the Lithuanians will send more meat.

 

What's that?  The Russians are coming?  Now!!!!

Lemme get dressed........

[bannork]

'Trump and Vance were so rude': Ukrainians react to disastrous White House meeting

Before the full-scale invasion in 2022, President Zelensky's trust rating was 37%. Afterwards, it rocketed to 90%.

Before Donald Trump returned to office at the start of 2025, it was 52%. After he blamed Ukraine for starting the war, it hit 65%.

Ukrainians back Zelensky after disastrous Oval Office encounter - BBC News

[Nick Carter icp]

8 minutes ago, bannork said:

'Trump and Vance were so rude': Ukrainians react to disastrous White House meeting

Before the full-scale invasion in 2022, President Zelensky's trust rating was 37%. Afterwards, it rocketed to 90%.

Before Donald Trump returned to office at the start of 2025, it was 52%. After he blamed Ukraine for starting the war, it hit 65%.

Ukrainians back Zelensky after disastrous Oval Office encounter - BBC News

 

   What point are you trying to make ?

[thaibeachlovers]

8 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Post a link to explain your reasoning. On my numbers its going to be 0.02 to 0.06c of warming.

He is probably implying that because Trump has got off the MMCC gravy train and is giving the greenies the finger salute, we are all going to die in a massive cloud of exhaust fumes, LOL.

 

Actually it's a bit strange that Trump jumped off, as it's a recipe for minting a fortune out of the sheeple for windmills and such like silliness. Nuclear power doesn't stop when the wind doesn't blow.