Ukraine wasn't a sovereign nation. It gave up that in 2014.
I'm against all violence in the world. Its not for me to decide what was the best course of action as I don't have all the intel available to make that judgement. However I understand why it was taken. Most people don't because they only hear propaganda and not the truth. There was already a war ongoing in Donbass. Russia intervened, it didn't invade a peaceful country.
You remind me a bit of this one particular guy in my class when I was studying in Prague. It was a programme for foreigners but besides a few one off nationalities like Koreans, it was mostly stacked with Russians. As a "westerner" I was absolutely a minority. We had one particular guy in the class who was a real sponge for this Putin stuff, singing the chorus louder than the rest combined. This German lesbian chick against her years of wisdom was getting unnerved by the nonsense after we sort of took it for a whole semester. Then once there is some topic about school, careers back home (it was a language class) and in a QA, someone asks him if he does compulsory military service. It had already come up because the Koreans do as well. He responds no and says he has a doctor's note for his leg. Never saw the bloke walk with a limp or anything. It was quite a reveal that such a coward ended up being such a coward in the end, not prepared to swallow a single ounce of his own bullshit. This was about 3 years after Crimea was invaded, so before the general mobilisation that would eventually see his friends and family sent to the meat grinder.
During his presidential campaign, Kennedy developed a national profile for his criticism of the Covid vaccines and childhood immunizations.
www.nbcnews.com
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, is known for his misleading and false claims on vaccines, including repeated assertions that vaccines are linked to autism, even though for decades numerous studies across several countries have debunked the association. He also founded Children’s Health Defense, a leading anti-vaccine group.
During his presidential campaign, Kennedy developed a national profile for his criticism of the Covid vaccines and childhood immunizations.
www.nbcnews.com
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, is known for his misleading and false claims on vaccines, including repeated assertions that vaccines are linked to autism, even though for decades numerous studies across several countries have debunked the association. He also founded Children’s Health Defense, a leading anti-vaccine group.
Your reference point for saying that is: when the Pharma industry and Mainstream Media say a drug is "safe and effective", Muz 100% agrees it must be true.
"One-Third Of New Drugs Had Safety Problems After FDA Approval"
"... researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found that nearly a third of those approved from 2001 through 2010 had major safety issues years after the medications were made widely available to patients."
With so many FDA government officials, after leaving government, going to big paying jobs in Big Pharma, it said they go easy on drug approvals to gain favour with Big Pharm to get rewarded with jobs later on.
And people like Muz reap the benefit of 1/3rd of drugs being damaging, due to sloppy approvals.
Trump is picking a team of outsiders who are not beholden to the culture of Washington D.C. Hence, you are going to hear either "knives out" from the establishment -- or cheers of joy from the common people.
Your reference point for saying that is: when the Pharma industry and Mainstream Media say a drug is "safe and effective", Muz 100% agrees it must be true.
"One-Third Of New Drugs Had Safety Problems After FDA Approval"
"... researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found that nearly a third of those approved from 2001 through 2010 had major safety issues years after the medications were made widely available to patients."
With so many FDA government officials, after leaving government, going to big paying jobs in Big Pharma, it said they go easy on drug approvals to gain favour with Big Pharm to get rewarded with jobs later on.
And people like Muz reap the benefit of 1/3rd of drugs being damaging, due to sloppy approvals.
Proves you read nothing and have no critical thinking skills. Thanks for proving my point yet again.
Did you read this titbit?
"While the administration pushes for less regulation and faster approvals, those decisions have consequences," Ross says. The Yale researchers' previous studies concluded that the FDA approves drugs faster than its counterpart agency in Europe does and that the majority of pivotal trials in drug approvals involved fewer than 1,000 patients and lasted six months or less.
There's only one party promising to slash regulations and bureaucracy you knob.
You remind me a bit of this one particular guy in my class when I was studying in Prague. It was a programme for foreigners but besides a few one off nationalities like Koreans, it was mostly stacked with Russians. As a "westerner" I was absolutely a minority. We had one particular guy in the class who was a real sponge for this Putin stuff, singing the chorus louder than the rest combined. This German lesbian chick against her years of wisdom was getting unnerved by the nonsense after we sort of took it for a whole semester. Then once there is some topic about school, careers back home (it was a language class) and in a QA, someone asks him if he does compulsory military service. It had already come up because the Koreans do as well. He responds no and says he has a doctor's note for his leg. Never saw the bloke walk with a limp or anything. It was quite a reveal that such a coward ended up being such a coward in the end, not prepared to swallow a single ounce of his own bullshit. This was about 3 years after Crimea was invaded, so before the general mobilisation that would eventually see his friends and family sent to the meat grinder.
Whether you chose to acknowledge the rights or even the existence of ethnically Russian people in these areas or not, they ARE a reality... Ukraine and Zelensky are clearly patsys in a mach broader conflict ... I am NOT choosing one side over the other, I feel sorry for both ... carry on .
When the Soviet Union CCCP disbanded, and Ukraine became independent, it had a massive nuclear arsenal. The U.S. persuaded Ukraine to get rid of all their nuclear weapons in exchange for U.S. assurance that they would protect Ukraine against Russia. Here's an article on that:
A review of Mariana Budjeryn, “Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).
www.lawfaremedia.org
In the article, it quotes Clinton, "Even President Bill Clinton in a recent interview expressed regret for having pressured Ukraine to disarm: “I feel a personal stake because I got them to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons.”"
Hence, MSC, no matter what reasons you think Russia was warranted to attack Ukraine, no way would they have done it if: 1) Ukraine had kept their nukes, and 2) the U.S. had used their nukes to defend Ukraine.
A lesson seems to be ... (for Australia) ... prepare to defend yourself as if there were no allies coming to help. Sure, the U.S. has helped, but the Biden administration has stopped Ukraine from firing long-range missiles that can target Moscow. So Russia can pulverise Kyiv, but Kyiv is not allowed to pulverise Moscow - that is why the war, on that basis, is not winnable.
Australia ought to gear up for nuclear weapons, get ready the tech, get ready the materials, so if it is ever needed we can swing into action fast.
Australia should do what Iran are doing - set up a civilian nuclear facilities, and pretend they've got nothing to do with weapons. Hey, the whole world (except US and IL) believes Iran when they say that.
Whether you chose to acknowledge the rights or even the existence of ethnically Russian people in these areas or not, they ARE a reality... Ukraine and Zelensky are clearly patsys in a mach broader conflict ... I am NOT choosing one side over the other, I feel sorry for both ... carry on .
MSC, have you travelled to most of the former Warsaw Pact countries? In those countries, the Russians created massive populations of Russians, so that they would have the same excuse to attack for each country, i.e. protect the Russian-speakers.
If you, MSC, think that the existence of massive Russian populations is a good excuse for Russia to take over -- as they have in Ukraine -- then the same reason would apply for all the Baltic states.
When the Soviet Union CCCP disbanded, and Ukraine became independent, it had a massive nuclear arsenal. The U.S. persuaded Ukraine to get rid of all their nuclear weapons in exchange for U.S. assurance that they would protect Ukraine against Russia. Here's an article on that:
A review of Mariana Budjeryn, “Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).
www.lawfaremedia.org
In the article, it quotes Clinton, "Even President Bill Clinton in a recent interview expressed regret for having pressured Ukraine to disarm: “I feel a personal stake because I got them to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons.”"
Hence, MSC, no matter what reasons you think Russia was warranted to attack Ukraine, no way would they have done it if: 1) Ukraine had kept their nukes, and 2) the U.S. had used their nukes to defend Ukraine.
A lesson seems to be ... (for Australia) ... prepare to defend yourself as if there were no allies coming to help. Sure, the U.S. has helped, but the Biden administration has stopped Ukraine from firing long-range missiles that can target Moscow. So Russia can pulverise Kyiv, but Kyiv is not allowed to pulverise Moscow - that is why the war, on that basis, is not winnable.
Australia ought to gear up for nuclear weapons, get ready the tech, get ready the materials, so if it is ever needed we can swing into action fast.
Australia should do what Iran are doing - set up a civilian nuclear facilities, and pretend they've got nothing to do with weapons. Hey, the whole world (except US and IL) believes Iran when they say that.
Yeah no worries champ. I am the direct descendant of the repercussions of the right wing conservative "selective war on the left" ... Villages in Northern Greece still bear the Napalm burns as trophies for their support against the evils of German and Bulgarian fascism.
MSC, have you travelled to most of the former Warsaw Pact countries? In those countries, the Russians created massive populations of Russians, so that they would have the same excuse to attack for each country, i.e. protect the Russian-speakers.
If you, MSC, think that the existence of massive Russian populations is a good excuse for Russia to take over -- as they have in Ukraine -- then the same reason would apply for all the Baltic states.
You remind me a bit of this one particular guy in my class when I was studying in Prague. It was a programme for foreigners but besides a few one off nationalities like Koreans, it was mostly stacked with Russians. As a "westerner" I was absolutely a minority. We had one particular guy in the class who was a real sponge for this Putin stuff, singing the chorus louder than the rest combined. This German lesbian chick against her years of wisdom was getting unnerved by the nonsense after we sort of took it for a whole semester. Then once there is some topic about school, careers back home (it was a language class) and in a QA, someone asks him if he does compulsory military service. It had already come up because the Koreans do as well. He responds no and says he has a doctor's note for his leg. Never saw the bloke walk with a limp or anything. It was quite a reveal that such a coward ended up being such a coward in the end, not prepared to swallow a single ounce of his own bullshit. This was about 3 years after Crimea was invaded, so before the general mobilisation that would eventually see his friends and family sent to the meat grinder.
Whether you chose to acknowledge the rights or even the existence of ethnically Russian people in these areas or not, they ARE a reality... Ukraine and Zelensky are clearly patsys in a mach broader conflict ... I am NOT choosing one side over the other, I feel sorry for both ... carry on .
Hitler did annexe the Sudetenland on the pretext of Germans living there so there are parallels. That didn't make it right then and it didn't make it right now.
