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I think China is an important player in the war. China’s support of Russia is already accelerating the West’s move away from China. I am not sure China wants the West to accelerate its pivot even furt

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The incredibly high living standard the US enjoys today is largely the result of the global world order it imposed/built/lead after world war II (with, of course, lots of help along the way from other

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In 1946, United States reigned supreme militarily and economically, relative to the rest of the world.    today in absolute sense, United States is far better place economically that it was in

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This country is being run by drug addicts, reality TV stars and talking heads from fox news.

 

Stuff management says:

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/internships/selection-process/

 

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section7301&num=0&edition=prelim

 

vs stuff management does:

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/30/elon-musk-drugs-trump-.html

 

In other news Jessie Watters is a shoe in for a cabinet position, and you know there'll be some openings coming up.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jesse-watters-uses-musks-rampant-drug-use-to-talk-about-hunter-biden/

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4 minutes ago, LC said:

Good posts @DooDiligence

 

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I avoided reading and posting in the politics thread(s) for a very long time. Things are quickly coming to a head. My hope is that many who are on the fence still retain the critical thinking skills that will bring them back from the abyss.

 

FWIW, I'm nothing more than a copy and paste artist with very little to add other than awareness.

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7 minutes ago, LC said:

Good posts @DooDiligence

 

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The shame of it is that the concept of DOGE and narrowing govt spending is a great one and must be done. Yet it will fail because of how it was executed.  It needs to have programs highlighted for reduction/cancelation and do it as part of the budgeting process so it has congressional buy in.  Again, good ideas badly executed.  

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Trump's legacy will be that of incompetence. The man was presented with a golden opportunity to make up for being a gigantic douchebag grifter his entire life and he chose to centuple down on being a fuckstick instead.

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24 minutes ago, DooDiligence said:

Trump's legacy will be that of incompetence. The man was presented with a golden opportunity to make up for being a gigantic douchebag grifter his entire life and he chose to centuple down on being a fuckstick instead.

 

+1

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2 hours ago, DooDiligence said:

The man was presented with a golden opportunity to make up for being a gigantic douchebag grifter his entire life and he chose to centuple down on being a fuckstick instead.

In my opinion, he created the opportunity to do at a grander scale what he did earlier. And boy, did he learn from his first rodeo 😆

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This man spews a firehose of lies (day after day) and here he eventually gets to the part where he displays an absolutely breathtaking level of stupidity, AGAIN.

 

“$8 million for making mice transgender. So they spent $8 million on making mice transgender, and those are better than many of the others. I could sit here all day and read things just like that. We have other things to do,” Trump said, wrapping up the by-the-numbers part of his remarks.

 

The mice were transGENIC. Their genome was modified for research purposes.

 

We are doomed and the nation just goes on chewing their cud and mooing their approval.

 

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-praises-musks-doge-for-ending-studies-on-making-mice-transgender-which-were-actually-asthma-and-cancer-research/

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Sahil Lavingia — an engineer, tech startup founder and CEO of Gumroad, an e-commerce platform for content creators — wrote in a recent personal blog that he “got the boot” from DOGE without warning the day after Fast Company published an interview in which he spoke about finding less inefficiencies than he expected in the government during his DOGE assignment as senior advisor to the chief of staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

 

https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/05/va-based-doge-associate-gets-boot-after-publicly-discussing-his-work/405641/

 

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Nero fiddled while Rome burnt. What's this asshole gonna do? Golf more than likely.

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51 minutes ago, Spekulatius said:

40 aircraft destroyed in a single day . Drones were started from within Russia. Nice special operations. these trains are needed by Russia to launch the glide bombs that Ukraine has much difficulty with:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-sumy-region-18966d4b286ffb6f4e764b94a6afaf61

 

The tires on the wings helped immensely 😂

Happy June 1st Pooty.

 

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How to tighten up a leaky faucet.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5327835-trump-ukraine-attack-russia/

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45 minutes ago, Spekulatius said:

40 aircraft destroyed in a single day . Drones were started from within Russia. Nice special operations. these trains are needed by Russia to launch the glide bombs that Ukraine has much difficulty with:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-sumy-region-18966d4b286ffb6f4e764b94a6afaf61

 

34 minutes ago, DooDiligence said:

The tires on the wings helped immensely 😂

Happy June 1st Pooty.

 

Pretty much guirilla warfare by the use of drones at the cost of a few hundred bucks per drone, taking out Russian planes for likely billions of dollars, and irreplaceable, because they aren't produced any more, in a sting operation.

 

A bit similar to what has happened with the Russian Black Sea fleet.

 

Rumors are that Sergej Lavrov has talked by phone today with Marco Rubio.

 

I speculate that they have been discussing a leasing contract about the current Air Force One, when the Saudi plane has been delivered and made to fit it's new purpose, after which the current Air Force One by Russia will be retrofit to drop upleasant stuff in the heads of the Ukrainians.

 

The art of the deal, you know.💡 [j/k]

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I speculate that they have been discussing a leasing contract about the current Air Force One, when the Saudi plane has been delivered and made to fit it's new purpose, after which the current Air Force One by Russia will be retrofit to drop upleasant stuff in the heads of the Ukrainians.

 

The art of the deal, you know.💡 [j/k]

 

More like the art of the steal.

 

“This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship”

 

 

It good to see more of the press growing a pair.

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9 minutes ago, Blake Hampton said:

Our president is a joke:

Trump irritated that his team didn’t tell him about ‘TACO,’ sources say

 

I'll be the first here to admit, that I had to do a search the first time I met the TACO abbreviation here on CofB&F, all while I try to filter and proritize my attention and time spent on what POTUS is saying and doing gradually down to less and more less.

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On 5/30/2025 at 8:09 PM, Spekulatius said:

I have no clue what Israel could have done to prevent Gaza disaster. I think none Israel’s attempts to defuse the situation was rewarded. For example when Israel pulled back their settlers decades ago, Hamas used that vacuum to install rocket artillery. The list goes on. Also, Gaza issue was established prior to 1967 with Britain leaving the area in 1948. 
 

I don’t think Israel can solve this on their own. They probably need to work with their Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Saudis (money), UAE (money) and more or less kick the ball in their court.

 

Perhaps these counties should offer citizenship to the Gaza populace willing to relocate. There ought to be a few after all this mayhem. Note that Gaza was controlled by Egypt until 1967 (maybe longer) but the populace there never had Egypt citizenship or could acquire it. That tells you something. Egypt wants nothing to do with Gaza or their population, or so it seems. Thats not to see that Israel is. To making a. Ist sie here  bombing Gaza to smithereens. The solution can only be a diplomatic one because everything else ends up with terrorism. I don’t think anyone has ever figured out how to win a war against terrorists.

 

In any case, I think Israel’s relationship with many Arab nations is good enough to negotiate a solution with them. I guess that’s my answer, but it would not have been possible in 1967, I think.
 


thanks Spek 

 

for clarity I was referring to the entirety of Palestinian situation… West Bank and not just Gaza 

 

that is why I said 1967,

 

 

 

 

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On 5/30/2025 at 8:09 PM, Marco Van Basten said:

Are you aware of any solutions that have worked in the past? My imagination frankly fails me.  I am curious to hear what you think since you know the region very well.    


Thanks Marco

 

my imagination fails me as well. My primary interest in history is the “macro sweeping arc of history” stuff. Never had much interest in microhistory, on topics like how best govern over conquered people. 
 

I suppose however if Israel always wanted to have more land, that desire (whether it was formally stated or unspoken goal) came in direct conflict with the continuing existence of conquered population. And that friction manifested itself in an Israeli population that just dislikes the “Arabs” and treats them accordingly. and vice versa an Arab population that frankly does not have much to go on and cannot stand their overlords. 
 

Compound these mutual hatred on both sides for 6 decades at a fair CAGR and you have an “unbridgeable gap”. 

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That said that is not region specific. You can (and have) have this situation anywhere else in the world.
 

The key difference is that the old Saudi Arabia kept the unrealistic dream of throwing off the Israeli yoke “alive” by funnelling millions over the decades until Hamas became Hamas. Since the Kingdom does not like religious political movement. It took a different path. But it was too late. 


Israel won those lands fair and square. No doubt about that. That is why countries fight wars. However, it also owns the baggage that comes with the occupation and its real desires. 

 

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1 hour ago, Xerxes said:


thanks Spek 

 

for clarity I was referring to the entirety of Palestinian situation… West Bank and not just Gaza 

 

that is why I said 1967,

 

The West Bank is troubled but could still work out in terms of it becoming a peaceful territory next to Israel. Israel should do everything it can to prevent the West bank to become another Gaza but it also depends on what the current administration and population does or if Hamas can also gain a stronger foothold there.

 

Do you have an answer to your own question. Was there critical fork in the road where Israel took the wrong and lo the subsequent carnage could have been prevented in hindsight (potentially)?

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For those interested in where the Ukrainian military operations in Russia Sunday took place, here is a map I've found on Bloomberg [ Source ] :

 

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Olenya Air Base just East of Northern Finland, Belaya Air Base just North of Mongolia! -That's just ... wild!

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