48: Russia does not have enough land to feed its own people staples. It relies on exporting natural gas and importing food. An expensive process. Of course we in this country import tons of food every day, but our economy is infinitely more diverse and can absorb it. If we had to, we could produce enough food to feed ourselves without importing ... it would mean going without some exotic folks but so be it. That's not true in Russia. Whether you believe it or not, Russia is a poor country. Their navy is basically rusted to the piers where they are moored beside they can't afford to repair and maintain them. Their military as you can see from the shellacking they are getting by Ukrainian grandmas, isn't much better than their navy. Taking Ukraine and accessing their vast farmland means their natural Gas can be sold at surplus not to be turned into food importation.

Accessing the Black Sea? Fine that has some value, but they have plenty of deep water access. The Black Sea May mage deployment easier, and distribution of their has easier, but they already have the infrastructure they need. This is a resurgence war

31: everything you just said is so absurd, so totally stupid, it's hard to know where to begin. This never had anything to do with NATO or "expansion." Even of it were, countries go what's best for themselves and their own internal politics is no excuse for Putin to invade ... or provide a way for you to rationalize away his invasion and murderous actions.

2: Putin has never invaded Estonia. A border country That is an actual member of NATO. Not flirted with it. Actually a member. Why do you suppose that Is? I'll give you a hint. It's because it has nothing to do with NATO, Ava editing to do with natural resources. Ukraine is one of the most fertile lands in Europe. He needs it to feed his people cheaper than he can right now by having to trade for food.

The sad thing is you've swallowed so much right wing propaganda you Skip the truth and only see the left wing propaganda.

How do you explain a 33 foot statue of Stepan Bandera. Erected in Kiev in 2019. We are tearing down statues of white supremicists. They are building monuments to Holocaust enabling murderers and collaborators. How does That fit your narrative of no Nazis in the Ukraine?

Why do they tolerate an openly Nazi unit in the military?

Their influence is far greater than the numbers you banter about. Numbers you can't prove anyway.

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Epically stupid takes on line 1. Epically stupid takes, line 1.

Seriously. How you picked out Nazi Collaborator which was a tiny fraction of his background, and ignored that the only reason he did it was to fight against the Russians ... .. and that he later was arrested by the Germans because he refused to go along with their plans is comical.

I mean being able to pick out 1% of their background, totally misconstrue what happened, then crow loudly about your wrongness is seriously an art form.

The man was named a "Hero of Ukraine" because of ... . Get this ... . Because of what he did FOR UKRAINE. Weird, I know.

Try actually reading about the man and absorbing the information instead of skimming over it, taking a small sentence and running with it in the wrong direction.

The idea of a minimum wage, is stupid. Equally, the idea of a maximum wage, is stupid. The right answer, is a proportional wage. The ceo should be able to earn as much as he absolutely wants. Where government should step in is to tell them that's fine, but no one can earn any more than 200 times the lowest paid worker in the company. Want the janitor to only make 30,000 a year? No problem. But that will mean the ceo can't earn more than 6 million in total compensation including the value of all stock given and other perks. CEO really wants to make 15 million this year so he can but a new mega yacht? No problem, but the janitor is going to need to earn 75k for the year.

Also, the government should tax every dollar earned, regardless of source, at the same rate.

Those two things would solve a LOT of problems.

Whatever happened to Tosser/Rigel? I miss their blatant lies about the glory of Pakistan.

I fail to see what the big deal is. The Secret Service and our military members must be housed close to the President to accomplish their mission. If he is staying in a hotel, regardless of who owns it, the Secret service Ava the dod will purchase rooms in that facility to be close to him. It is both common sense and accepted Practice.

The Secret Service pays to use a portion of every former President home so they can be staged close to their protectee. How is this different than say the Secret Service stroking a check directly to The Obamas, the Bush's, the Clinton's, etc ... to take over a room or party or their garage? Trump OWNS the hotel and the Secret Service and the dod are paying for fair use of his property. Why should it matter where he stays? Is it really somehow better if he stays at a hotel someone else owns? The service and the dod will all stroke the same check, it just happens to go into a different pocket. In this case the rooms the service takes up, if they didn't pay for them, would be taking cash flow away from that Property which isn't fair to the property, the owner, or the employees of that business.

Authenticated. Does this mean we can all talk about it now? Or is it still time to stick our fingers in our ears, close our eyes and stamp our feet loudly?

Obviously, the Browns knew they were dangerously close to winning a playoff game and needed to take immediate and drastic steps to rectify that problem. They were on the cusp of something great so they asked Wile E. Coyote to swing by and drop on anvil in the whole thing.

I mean the guy may still end up in jail or at best sit out the season.

The golden God of human perfection returns to the field. And there was much rejoicing.

We need to make it permanent right now. This is the best time. Darker in the morning, but light still after work and school when the kids are trying to be outside playing and you're trying to do things. Light mornings and dark afternoons are friggin stupid

The poor Jets. I mean, they are terrible, and the butt fumble was really embarrassing, but they shouldn't be sent to Ukraine. The Ukrainians have done NOTHING to have that inflicted upon them.

22. In war, conditions are rarely ideal. There is an old army saying "no plan survives first contact with the enemy." Fighters that can fly launch a middle abs then have to land due to fuel concerns or other mission crucial issues. Are better than not having them at all.