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https://uk.investing.com/news/world-news/judges-say-russianmade-missile-brought-down-flight-mh17-over-ukraine-in-2014-2831219 Great news, the wheels of justice turn slowly but they turn

Monty remember the days before Putins War when we use to believe that Russia was going to save us from the insidious influence of Western Democracy and Capitalism Remember how young and naive we use to be

You right in the sense there is definitely a Trump " anti-vote" and this will manifest itself in 2024 if Trumps wins the GOP nomination. So the GOP should hope Trump doesnt win the nomination but its in the best interests of the Dems if he does

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-11-16/sweden-promises-287-million-military-aid-package-to-ukraine-including-air-defence Well done to Sweden for this new aid to Ukraine, I salute all countries who directly contribute like this to Ukraine to help end the tyranny of Russia under Putin @Pidesco and @Azdeus Another reason to be proud of your country 🥂

Nah, thats not the main reason for this response. For NATO\US to go to war with Russia there has to be a legitimate and proven infringement of NATO war rules which translates to a deliberate attack on a NATO member and then they would still discuss the response and how things would need to escalate This is not a deliberate and proven attack on a NATO member until the facts are clear. The US is making the right statement

That is interesting, first time I have heard of it. Im sure it was banned in Apartheid SA?

https://www.suninternational.com/sun-city/ Whats embarrassing about Sun City, its a very prestigious and popular resort

Maybe its the US because they want Sweden to become a right-wing, neo-Nazi state !!! You just never know

I was watching an interesting interview on Bloomberg about how Putins War has created a reality where China and Russia are now on opposite sides of certain traditional geopolitical objectives. The failures of the invasion and Western sanctions have led to Putin trying to destabilize the global economy through things like energy blackmail and grain blockages which he hopes will lead to the West reducing support for Ukraine and insisting on some kind of negotiations. Putin doesnt care about the global economy because he is concerned only about surviving the consequences of invading Ukraine China wants a stable world and global economy because its economy is dependant on that but China also has to consider its previous publicly stated ideological support for Russia. But the reality now is Russia and China have fundamental different objectives, China wants the war to end and Putin wants to survive it both politically and militarily

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-officials-speak-unprecedented-criticism-115245605.html Rare but becoming more common of Chinese criticism towards Russia, this time at the G20 But China mustn't think we stupid, they would have been fine with the invasion if things were going well for Russia so this is just a reality of the failures of Putin's War....its not like the CCP really care about the sovereignty of Ukraine or there right to decide their own future

I have seen NA traditional food on US cooking shows like Bizarre Foods America, it varies from tribe to tribe https://littlethings.com/lifestyle/native-american-recipes/2918156-8 No there was no elephant in SA Maybe in India, the wedding lasts several days and its very detailed with lots of events and music. We just attended 5-7 hours And yes in SA a traditional wedding is a black wedding based on the tribal culture and customs but the reality is many black people just have the white wedding because 2 weddings is expensive but it depends on the couple and their cultural connection

That is interesting and sounds very interactive What food did you eat, anything unusual?

Okay I see what you mean, you saying actions and not personal views. That makes more sense

That number of 100 doesnt sound very likely, Im sure its much, much higher than that? Where did you get that from and I wonder what they define as "Germans opposed to the Nazi " because we wouldn't know peoples real opinions because like Russia the Nazi controlled the state so people wouldnt have been honest about their views?

Here is some good news about the US midterms, we may not have seen a "red wave " but rather a " rainbow wave " https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2022/11/12/rainbow-wave-how-lgbtq-politicians-broke-barriers-in-midterm-election/

Sounds great, I love attending non-Western weddings. We call traditional weddings " White Weddings " in SA I have been to Hindu, traditional black weddings, Jewish and Polish weddings and they all very interesting and have unique parts to the ceremony What is "smudging " ?

3 years doesnt seem long enough and he has the audacity to suggest "The accused denied espionage, saying he had merely passed on publicly available information, in a role similar to that of a foreign correspondent " Yet he was paid €220,000 which he admitted. I doubt the Ruskies would pay for publicly available information?

D:OS2 is an excellent game, it has great strategic combat and interesting party companions with worthwhile side quests There are also good mods you can load on Nexus

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/29/undecided-voters-midterms-polls-2022-00063971 Its interesting how the polling data seems to have got it wrong in these midterms. But its always the undecided voters who generally dont participate in polls and they can really swing elections or upset things like we have witnessed in these midterms The polls are normally accurate but undecided voters make up 10-15% of all US registered voters and the polling data never includes them which explains why polling is wrong sometimes But end of the day I watched numerous polls on both left and right media platforms and it was more or less consistent, most people considered these the salient issues Economy inflation crime border control Yet its obvious that other issues like R vs W and the anti-Trump vote, and that includes election denialist candidates who didnt do well overall , were more significant than what many thought. And I would argue that undecided voters played a big part in this But the GOP needs to distance itself from Trump in 2024 as reasonably as possible because if we didnt see GOP taking Congress in this environment of real economic and societal issues I cant see Trump benefiting them in 2024. The anti-Trump vote shouldn't be ignored anymore. And as I mentioned in a previous post there are very credible GOP candidates like Kemp, DeSantis and Abbott who people can rally behind and so can undecided voters but Trump has now become a liability to the final voting outcomes

OMG, that has got to be the most hilarious, inaccurate, historically revisionist and utterly propaganda fueled garbage I have ever heard from Russia in this war.... " they have the cable Internet "

This is a good post and I like the lizard analogy But IMO and from engaging with Vatniks and people who support\supported Putins War is there are different reasons that they do this. And they really do vary from person to person For example I asked Vals and he basically said he considers the US to be as equally corrupt and autocratic as Russia so " why criticize Putin's leadership when the US is the same " He is entitled to his opinion but its a preposterous and utterly unconvincingly comparison, no country in the world that is a Constitutional Democracy can ever the same as an autocracy or one party state. You can find certain similarities but they not the same

https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/10/23450429/inflation-drops-lowest-rate-since-january-economy-recession-federal-reserve Really good news for our US friends, inflation is down to 7.7%. Hopefully this means good news for other countries but each country has it own inflation battles and monetary policies

Offcuts are absolutely delicious and its sad how few people will eat things like heart, tripe, liver, kidneys or sweetbreads . They deny themselves a unique taste and added versatility in meals I eat all offcuts except for brain which I will eat but Im more wary

Its true and thats the same in most autocracies and dictatorships. The judicial system is controlled by the state so there is no legal recourse to change leadership or to prosecute leadership But you can see changes when you see political or ideological changes in government, that happened in Zimbabwe when Mugabe croaked in 2019 . You literally saw immediate legal and political change like all the nationalization policies ending and money even was paid to the white farmers who had their farms stolen in the 1999-2002 time period But Russia needs new ideological leaderships to see real changes

Yes, the thing about sharing information on any forum is it can't be too much detail or most people lose interest. You have to reasonable, maybe one link or so and one or 2 paragraphs that are specific to the point. Thats what most people expect when they debate on forums It reminds me of the debate we had about CRT and you asked what is CRT in the US or something similar and Gromnir posted that 120 page .pdf as an explanation from 2011. As if anyone is going to read a 120 page .pdf