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Pretty interesting 3/4 minutes regarding funding a new business in Europe by an entrepreneur. It's at the 17 minute mark: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-real-eisman-playbook/id1818671690?i=1000738823969

Not to worry @Cigarbutt -- no chance of Canada becoming the 51st state. In regards to being treated as filth and vermin - yes - us MAGA types have long memories. Especially of President Biden giving national addresses telling the country that the most dangerous threat in America is the "growth of white supremacy - the MAGA movement". And of course, many of our citizens listened and decided to take matters into their own hands - and tried to assassinate our new President 2X - and followed up with the killing of the most famous political activist in decades - Charlie Kirk. Not that they were trying to divide the country by embracing political assassination as a "moral virtue". Thank you President Biden for ridding the USA of vermin and filth that you @Cigarbutt worries about.

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is nothing but Davos in the USA. Chairman is from the Crown Family, a wonderful organization - my sister worked for them for 15 years - great people. Hard-core democrats and globalists. All you need to know is their Man of the Year in 2025 is Justin Trudeau. Good luck with that survey.

You should take a few million more immigrants off the hands of Germany, France and the UK - and perhaps the US can send the 600K criminal aliens that are scheduled to be deported. In your book - more is better.

I have no idea what your point is - but that's ok.

Yeah, let's hear it for the people that are killing thousands of Americans every year. Those poor drug lords.

I'm actually trying to keep it to the facts. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-1-11/ALDE_00013473/#:~:text=Under the Constitution%2C the President,of United States foreign relations. "Under the Constitution, the President, in addition to being Chief Executive, is Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy. He holds the prime responsibility for the conduct of United States foreign relations."

You love your Factcheck BS. The Fact is - Milley violated the UCMJ - but gets away with it - which is no surprise. He is a disgrace to the Armed Forces. Then he made a total fool of himself with his "I really want to understand white rage" testimony. He reincarnated himself as Professor Kendi with his Critical Race Theory crap. His crowning legacy will always be the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. Good luck hiding that shit.

2 Huge egos in the room - Mattis seemed to forget who his commander was. Too bad for him. Mattis was no POS like that fat blowhard Mark Milley.

General Milley is truly a disgrace to the Armed Forces. He's a chicken shit coward that climbed his way to the top by kissing ass. He never figured Trump would get re-elected. There is no way in the world he can defend violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The guy is basically Eric Swalwell in a uniform.

No problem Jay. Admire your passion for Ukraine. Wish the situation was not what it is for all. @changegonnacome has the best take on what led us here. Sad for Ukraine as a pawn.

@Jay Rent The thing you continue to dodge is there is NO widespread support for USA entering the Ukrainian war. It was settled on Election Day - and popular support is even lower at this time. You name a bunch of RINO's that have little to no support, except among the defense industry. It's possible that could change if Europe put together a massive army and sent it off to fight the Russians. But we already know that is not happening.

Russia is clearly winning this war and has been for a few years. All the delays are doing is putting Ukraine in a very bad bargaining position. You can play optimist all day long - but all the Europeans did was extend the war needlessly and give the Ukrainians false hope that France, Britain and Germany would be coming to the rescue real soon. A terrible joke they played on Ukraine.

Yeah, true - but Putin doesn't care. The Europeans understand that, and that's why they won't fight.

Russia has been winning this war for years. They have 6-8x the population of Ukraine. Alaska achieved nothing for peace since both Ukraine and Europe threw up on the proposal that came out. Now Ukraine is even worse position than the Alaska meeting - so the deal gets worse for Ukraine. You think Putin is stupid? He knows he is winning and dealing from a position of strength. Zelensky's position is incredibly weak after the poor showing of Europe not backing him.

Best reality check I've heard for not being involved.

Israel did the world, especially Europe, a huge favor by wiping out Iran's terrorist regime/proxies. They all know it, but won't say it publicly. Radical Islam has destroyed the Middle East, and has changed Europe forever. Europe can do the world a favor and take care of the Russians or maybe you want the Israelis to do your dirty work.

Trump has been moving heaven and earth to try and end this conflict. It takes 2 to really settle this conflict. Hopefully, Trump will just walk on this effort. 20 years in Ukraine, like Iraq/Afghanistan/Vietnam is a big no.

If that were the case, it would not be such a big deal. I think we will eventually find out these casualty numbers are dramatically suppressed. Can't prove it - but with a corrupt government like Ukraine - I do not at all believe their casualty numbers. I would really be surprised if death toll is less than 1M. One of these days we will know the truth.

Good enough. We just disagree on the price to be paid. At this point, the only ones that will pay the full price is Ukrainian young men - and I don't think the outlook is very good. To me, it looks like Ukraine will lose plenty of territory and more men - so they should sue for peace now. Zelensky will end up with a nice penthouse in Paris along with some of his other buddies that have been looting the country.

Two questions for you @Sweet on what I see as a stalemate like Verdun: 1 - What has really been accomplished in the last 3 years of this war, other than massive deaths? 2- How will that change in the next 3 years - and who will force that change? Try and be specific on #2 if you don't mind.

I think that's spot on - my relatives in France talk about the Islamization of France and what a disaster it has been for the French. They can see their country slipping away.

Bringing an end to this meat grinder is the humane thing to do. Not much has been accomplished in the last 3 years of this war except an increase in the horrible death toll.

Trump cleaned up Obama's mess - no more Iranian nuclear program that Obama funded.

Nice family Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Chicago last night. Not the South Side, Not the West Side - but the heart of downtown. 1 dead, 8 shot, 300 teens rioting. Bring the family for the fun, just make sure you're armed. https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shooting-7-teens-man-injured-person-killed-loop-shootings-state-street-dearborn-monroe-police-say/18191436/ I hope NYC survives their "defund the police" mayor - Chicago may not!