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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Found another guy who wants Joe to save his campaign:
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    So he stated the obvious. Leftists are practically soviet people, the same as those who betrayed their countries for Soviets in the cold war. Citizenship is paper to them, they are loyal only to global proletariat or whatever their variation of leftism idolizes as most oppressed. Same as...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Next DNC ad - Biden, keeping families together!
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/us-iran-agree-for-prisoner-exchange-deal-know-the-americans-who-will-be-freed/articleshow/103591283.cms Nah, idiots who think its a good idea to go to Iran despite everyone knowing it practices hostage politics, seems like all or most...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    The cost overruns were R&D, not production. When you want to buy a hammer, you go to a store, pick a model you like, and pay the sticker price. It's well known what a hammer does, what you want from a hammer, and how to make a hammer, and as such, what is the typical cost to make a hammer. But...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Yeah, the domestic global political issues with nuclear power would be solved with that, however, it would need to get compact and reliable enough for that, and neither of these are close. Those aren't the ones that work. Same as Navy except even further away.
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Not by itself. There are perfectly good investment tools to get around the long return problem. It's the other issues that put a question mark on whether there will be much of a return at all that are the real problem. Energy market regulation, nuclear regulation, and all the green\esg stuff for...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Not really, at worst they can claim they were threatened into it by the government, implicitly or explicitly.
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    That's just a worse version of some cancel bullshit that's already being done, with good chances of turning out illegal on political persecution grounds. The bigger danger is that a whole new level of shenanigans will open up, that's physically impossible with normal money. Like this...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    "modernized" It was still a shitpoor country with an economy significantly reliant on tourism.
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    In what world? It has a GDP per capita similar to Egypt.
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    For the same reason any other country violates territorial claims it doesn't recognize (or sometimes, like Russia, even when they do but don't like it). Its a demonstration of confidence and that the claim was not forgotten or accepted or anything. Everyone involved knows it. As for the...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    >Kuril Islands That explains a lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute#Opinions_of_third_party_countries_and_organizations Officially neither Japan, USA nor even its European allies recognize Russian sovereignty over these islands, so its no surprise that they violate the claim...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Some states that were members and some that weren't. In Libya, Jordan, Qatar, Sweden and UAE also took part. Also blame UN for giving virtue signallers an excuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_to_protect In Iraq, Australia also took part. In Syria, in the end Russia should be more...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Seems like you are talking about actions of America and coalitions it formed for certain purposes which happened to include some NATO countries, rather than NATO itself. This: https://1997-2001.state.gov/regions/eur/fs_970815members.html Plus for practical purposes, not being in an active or...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    More likely, Ukraine won't be willing to do the things it would need to do in order to be allowed into NATO (like, say, dropping claims to Crimea). But if it does go such a long way, all bets are off. Its a lot of real estate and people, and some strategic significance, like more control over...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Its a bit more complicated. Ukraine is not in NATO and probably won't be. NATO and USA have no duty to protect it. What is the problem is that Russia is getting quite imperial ideas about doing business in Europe. The question is not whether Russia takes Ukraine, the question is if Russia pays...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    What people forget in the abortion debate is that contrary to the popular impression there aren't 2 sides to it. There are 3 factions in it, at very least. 1. People who want abortion heavily restricted, preferably from the point of conception, with their view based on deeply held religious...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    More accurately, it blows a massive hole in the default current PR strategy assumed by western governments, which for many hurts more than any terrorists created really. As for creating terrorists, that's more of an indirect implication with a lot of assumptions inside. For comparison, Assad...
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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Some wanted to keep making money on being middlemen in paying Afghanistan to protect itself. Some wanted to keep making money on pushing woke causes in Afghanistan and having US government pay for it. Some are just making preemptive argument to let all the Afghans move to the west while still...
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