If a country falls to pieces just because it’s not ruled by an evil autocrat then maybe it’s deserved to be in pieces?
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We are probably going off topic but would you say that US has accomplished its mission successfully in the Middle East? Or is it became even worse? Epic success or fail?
You did not get the point, once Russian and US nukes are pointed at you, you don't get to decide anything. Cheap or premium is irrelevant.
The "historic mission of Russia" is revealed to the world every time new Russian torture chambers are exposed when Ukrainians retake Russian-occupied territories.
When you've only got only five nations left standing with you at the UN, and they're all dictatorships, then you know you've blown it on a Putinesque scale.
No kidding. As much as I like Apple I will never defend their censorship. I can't believe in 2022 we can't download an 18+ app properly.
I'll bite and point out the gross generalization.
You may not agree with their beliefs and how they run it but take a look at the UAE. In the fifty years since their independence they have been part of one war, The Gulf War, and they were supporting the US. They have built arguably the most modern city in the world. Last year they were the fifth country to launch a satellite to orbit Mars.
Not saying they handle everything perfectly by a long shot but it sure would be hard to call them "unstable."
Exclusion of morals, ethics, and personal beliefs.
Arguably a lot of the Middle East was “stable” until western powers create power vacuums
I believe that everybody understood on some level that paper fiat currency pyramid scheme is not going to last forever. Since 2008 money printing machine never stopped working. This process has been stretched in time for a while now.
There was some looting of the assets that helped to stretch it out: Panama offshore papers, now removing the excess fat from the EU.
I know. Even Stalin has paid US engineers generously when they helped Soviet Union with the industrial revolution. Some of them remember this as the best assignment of their lives.
Ronald did not play any role in the end of the Soviet Union, it was purely an internal decision made by a bunch of corrupt communists. The fun fact is that USSR's economy was in much better shape at that time than US economy right now. Corrupt communists engaged in de-funding the police, encouraging racial/nationalistic movements, sabotaging supplies and so on.
Cuban missiles crisis was solved by the US removing its missiles from Turkey, they just did not put it all over the front pages in order "to save face".
Unfortunately the precedent of using nukes on civilian cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a fact. There was no military need for it as the Japanese army was not there and remained intact and had to be fought by the Soviets. US tried to put a scare on Stalin and failed miserably.
There is a reason why ninethirty said that he is not afraid of Russia using nukes(attaboy). And as a matter of fact Putin never mentioned nukes, it was actually Biden who mentioned nuclear Armageddon which implies that he is hell bent on refusing to retreat like Kennedy did in Cuban missile crisis by removing missiles from Turkey. There is also an indirect implication that US citizens who don't want to die and go to Valhalla are obviously pro-Kremlin.
Elon Musk obviously understands how serious the situation is and figures that his 2028 presidential election campaign and high tech stuff might become irrelevant very fast once the nukes start flying.
And yet Biden talks about nuclear Armageddon! Coincidence? Or fascist?
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