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Nice, BG3 is looking amazing. I cant wait to play it I laughed in the video at the " look another barbarian, all brawn and no brain " comment

Can you give one example where the governments of USA and UK are "pro- war " and want a war with Russia? Just one? And as usual please include a link so I can confirm the veracity of your point As I mentioned in the past their was never a direct war between the West and Russia even during the Cold War because of the reality of mutually assured destruction due to nuclear weapons so I find it strange that I hear this argument that in the year 2022 suddenly the West wants war with Russia ?

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/virginia-giuffre-would-refuse-out-of-court-settlement-with-prince-andrew-report-articleshow.html Yet originally her lawyer said its unlikely she would accept a financial settlement because she wanted it to go public and she wanted to be vindicated I wonder what changed? Maybe the size of the cheque ? Their are many examples since the MeToo movement started where women have refused settlements and bravely gone to court. I am disappointed she didnt stand by her original principles

Gorth please dont be unfair to Trump, she is a porn star ...who wouldnt say yes

Yes its more spin and propaganda from Russia, nothing usual about that

Unfortunately I have only visited 5 US states and NY is one of them but its also one of the main incoming international entry points from SA when we fly to the US we land in NY or Atlanta. Its an amazing city and full of energy and you going to have a great time ....remember GD " its the city that never sleeps " I remember the first time I went to the US was on holiday in the 1980's near the end of Apartheid and we stayed in this hotel near Central Park and their was this incredible breakfast buffet that we had never really seen before because of sanctions. The grandeur and choices of all the food was mind boggling at the time They had this huge fruit display which was probably 1.5 meters high and one of my brothers took a piece of pawpaw from the bottom of the display and caused the ENTIRE fruit display to come crashing down on the buffet table He learnt an important lesson ..." never take fruit from the bottom of the display "

Elerond whats your overall opinion on this Ukrainian development, do you think Russia is justified to demand Ukraine isnt allowed to joining NATO and deploying troops to the border because of the history or do you think Putin is going too far ?

Okay, I see what you mean. Yes it could complicate the situation

I am not sure you can classify the NATO bombing campaign as an invasion?

Why would this increase the likelihood of an invasion...Im confused by your point ?

I tend to agree, the Democrats arent doing very well on several fronts but I think Biden has handled this Ukraine crisis well by making everything so public and embellishing the panic and getting the likes of CNN involved If you have been watching CNN you would have assumed Russia had already invaded (but I like CNN, they cover many things well but they tend to gravitate towards SJWism too much )

Is it even confirmed they withdrawing and dont you think if this whole " exercise " was just theater why make such a big deal with the demands like Ukraine musnt join NATO? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? No what happened is Putin miscalculated the Western and global pushback and if he is withdrawing its because he realizes he doesnt have appetite or resources to be able to invade Ukraine and face the consequence of the economic sanctions Sorry Dark but you should align with the winning team always and thats the West, we the good guys in the story

Kanie how would you compare it NWN or BG and I mean around the combat strategies, spell usage and monsters you encounter because for me those Bioware games are brilliant and utilize the D&D ruleset nicely

Thats a great story about the trust or lack of trust in government But Gorth why you being so cynical about our American friends, Im sure @Guard Dog will tell you thats exactly what he feels when the US government tells US citizens whats best for them

Zora you sound cynical? Next thing you going to say you question the sincerity of politicians kissing babies? @Gorth Talking about Denmark, I was watching on CNN how they have dropped all pandemic regulations and they asking " how has Denmark been able to do this " Do you know 90% of Danish citizens trust their government and this is similar to other Nordic countries So this tells us that one of the secrets to a happy and prosperous country is to trust your government So you see why I generally say " we all should trust our governments or at least give them benefit of doubt " unless they clearly involved in wrong doing And then I have another question for you, why dont you live in Denmark because it seems like a very well run country with an effective government? What made you such a wanderer and why did you decide to settle in Oz ? ( and I like Oz but Denmark seems overall better ? )

Their is no valid reason that any religious person should be homophobic and discriminate against LGBT based on their interpretation of scripture You can absolutely be Christian and be proud of that without practicing this type of bigotry

You know I only trust anything based on factors like the historical precedent, the observed reality of things and then empirical evidence of what people or organizations say So for me I do still believe vaccines are the the most effective way to reduce deaths and hospitalizations and its based on data that we know from every country that provides information about its pandemic response. Its constant and irrefutable that 85%-95% of people in hospitals are the unvaccinated so why not take your vaccine just to reduce this reality when it comes to dangerous variants? But I do agree with @Keyrock that goalposts have been changing and so have many governments responses when it comes to overall virus preventative measures. But this is not a generalization and we need to look at each case and country separately

True but I think one thing that has jaded people when it comes to the virus and lockdowns is the harm to livelihoods when the variants are less deadly but many governments continued with the same lockdowns And what makes the economic damage more unpalatable is everyone in the public sector didn't have to go through retrenchments or salary cuts because its the public sector and tax payers money fund this In SA its the private sector that ensures we have a sustainable economy because the public sector is just bleeding money and effectively runs at a loss when our SOE require constant bailouts So when citizens hear stores of " another variant and continued lockdowns " they question this because we not all in the same boat when it comes to the direct impact continued lockdowns have

Gorthfuscious what would you do if scientists acknowledged that all these vaccines were not necessary and they only recommended them to make money for large international, greedy, Capitalist pharmaceutical companies? I am feeling very rough and hangover after my Valentines drinking celebration last night, we had a great time and all the various single people were in a festive mood. I really think I found love....I just dont know how much I paid for it

Thanks, I see this link has a comprehensive list to other links at the end which is a collaboration of the Afghan Files developments. So its a very informative link and in fact so detailed it made me create a new folder in Chrome in Bookmark Manager called " Australian&NZ Politics " which I will add these links and Zora's links to store and reference later.....its not often I create new folders in my Bookmark manager but I do when their is loads of data Im pleasantly surprised you were thinking of me while you were in bed...what was I wearing ?

Thats interesting around what women in Japan do on Valentines, I wonder how that would go down in our cultures

King Crab !!! Lovely

Thanks, these types of stories fascinate me so I will go through this in detail after work today And I know you know that their is a difference between someone who is a guilty of spousal abuse, which is a cowardly criminal act, and a war criminal. He could be both but I just like to separate the two because they not the same type of criminality For example someone could be guilty of war crimes but treats his family very well

Interesting story. I am very reluctant to ever accuse someone of war crimes, especially in a theater of war, unless I know the facts and context of what that person did What military intervention was he involved in and what is he accused of doing? Also in future when you make interesting posts like this please use a link so those of us who want to follow the story can do our own assessment