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Oh my, now all of a sudden, Bebe is supposed to stop and rollover when he has Hamas on the verge of defeat. Avoid the dirty work and criticism - pull out and wait until the next terrorist attack that kills thousands of Israelis. The only thing terrorists and their brainwashed backers understand is strength - and they are witnessing it in spades. Could have all been avoided if braindead Palestinians released all hostages (yeah Americans too) and turned over the Hamas planners. But no, they rather suffer with the consequences of their actions and blame Netanyahu.

One perspective is that Bebe is incredibly pissed at Biden, which most Americans are. What kind of a President takes an aid bill passed by Congress, and then selectively stops the legislation for the Israeli portion because he is getting heat in an election year? The man is a coward and should be impeached. He's got no moral compass at all.

Great stuff @ValueArb -- at this point, what mostly matters is health and strength in general. I have gone through the exact journey. After being extremely unhealthy for many years due to work - no sleep, too much alcohol, smoking, eating like shit, stress - everything has changed. Just turned 70, and I'm way healthier (and happier) than in my late 40's. Never been stronger. Know that you can turn all of this around with the right program and some discipline. The human body has amazing regeneration capabilities.

^^^ The majority of Americans support your view. They detest antisemitism. On college campuses, we are seeing a sizable minority of lunatic faculty and students alike showing hatred for Jews. Students I can almost understand - but faculty, that has never grown up or held a real job - is a travesty. Such is the cesspool of many of our universities in America.

Spoken like a true pacifist. Welcome to the real world where you fight to save your country. The terrorists in Gaza will suffer utter defeat & humiliation, as they should. And if they continue to elect terrorist's governments - they are destined for a lifetime of misery.

There is no serious "offer" when you do not release hostages. That is a clear non-starter. Even you understand that.

What - no safe passage to Egypt for their Palestinian brothers?? Kudos to the brave IDF "conscripts" that will destroy Hamas and free any hostages not already murdered by terrorist leader Sinwar.

What a bozo Bernie is - that clip is idiotic. Not a peep about hostages, nothing. Not a word about thousands of missiles being fired into Israel, nothing. Not a word about Hamas using their own citizens as human shields. Not a word about the Egyptians blocking the Palestinians from entering Egypt.

Hey, the Israelis want a couple things - simple enough. - Return all hostages, including all Americans - Turn over the Hamas terrorists that planned the attack Until it's done, Hamas and supporters are doomed. Let the news rags print whatever they like.

Wonderful

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^^^ Yup, in regards to understanding the excess cash and the insurance funding of stockholdings - GFP always has great commentary. We're lucky to have him.

^^^ Agree - and these widening income gaps certainly impact social unrest as well. Destruction of the American dream.

^^ The Ukrainians put up an amazing defense. Unfortunately, with hindsight - their vaunted offensive was ill advised and a disaster given their resources. They'd have been far better served just digging in for a defensive campaign.

^^^ Totally agree. The price of Europe fully understanding deterrence just may be the loss of Ukraine. Obama & Biden certainly never learned a thing.

Yes, he certainly is indeed. It started when Obama ask Russian President Dmitry Medvedev - tell Putin to give me some space before the 2012 election and Obama would have "more flexibility on missile defense". Putin did exactly that - so once Obama was elected - he cancelled the US plans for missile defense for Eastern Europe. Putin played Obama like a fiddle and figured he had his green light to take Crimea in 2014 - with only a tongue lashing from Barrack.

@John Hjorth Wonderful to see John. @Xerxes Mentioned the gut check citizens & countries will have to make in committing their sons to the conflict. Looking ahead, I think Ukraine really needs to think through the possibility that they could lose a million or so of their sons to this conflict - and whether, as a nation, they can recover from that. That is - if it means ejecting the Russians for good. Xerxes would know, as I believe the Iran/Iraq stalemate, cost Iran 1M young men from Saddam's ill-fated miscalculation.

Isn't it the truth!!

Damn - that sounds bad. I didn't realize it was that dangerous.

Oh my gosh. I had no idea. God bless you and your family!

That's a good video. He lays out the arms needs nicely and the desperation for help. He does however, completely avoid the topic of the manpower catastrophe that Ukraine faces. I believe you can assume the population of Ukraine is down to 25-30 million and the fighting age population significantly less. Your opponent has 144M and is dug in. You're not going to reclaim those lost territories - and you're fortunate to stop any advance. You listen to the sophisticated weapons that are promised or needed - and you see the second problem - difficult & time-consuming training. In order to advance, are you going to involve Europeans?? The Russians can crank out munitions all day long, and one leader has a mountain of men to throw at the offensive or stalemate.

This is the typical Marxist response. Everything is the framed in the lens of "oppressor vs oppressed". Every social problem in the world is viewed as a problem with "oppressive US Capitalism". The powerful US, with its capitalist system is corrupt and US business is nothing but oppression. Once you buy that nonsense, then it easy to paint the picture of how the "plan" of the West is to keep the whole world down. Utter nonsense. You should be more careful with your sources.

@Luca Stop insulting our intelligence. Your very long post from the Economist Professor Michael Hanson, who is an avowed Marxist is replete with ridiculous buzzwords (which should annoy you). I commented only after I read your passage from Professor Hanson completely. His whole thesis is how the USA, since WWII, has had the goal of siphoning off all the world's income wealth for themselves. How utterly ridiculous. No mention of the dramatic rise in living standards for those under the influence of the West. Most of us understand that socialism/communism is antithetical to capitalism. Does capitalism need to be regulated? Of course Does capitalism need to be destroyed? Clearly not The crux of his argument is how oppressive capitalism is to those that follow the US lead. So much for avoiding the Neoliberal American disease - his words not mine.

^^^ Well, that is just your opinion of course. Your's is an equally naive view of history. You decapitate the leadership and attempt to win the hearts and minds of the fools that put them in power. Unfortunately, you must obliterate the leaders, and humiliate the populace - so they have little choice. Witness NAZI Germany, Fascist Italy, and the militaristic Imperial Empire of Japan. All leadership was decapitated. The population was humiliated. Then they realized the enormous mistake they had made with these leaders. Only then could those countries be remade into neighbors that others could live with. This victory requires unconditional surrender. IF Hamas is not obliterated - then this war will go on forever. Israel is not going to let that happen this time around.

I'm familiar with Prof. Michael Hudson - he's a declared Marxist. That's all I need to know. You can keep your socialism, it's wrecking Europe, and it's on it's way here.