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What do you think the chances are that Trump ends this and/or the Israel/Palestine conflict behind the scenes before Inauguration Day and Democrats try to claim that win for their own?

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Russia has been at war with Ukraine since Feb 20, 2014 and the Palestinians have been at war with Israel since May 14, 1948, so the chance that either war ends before Jan 21, 2025 is zero.

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Hence why I never used the word "war".





Damn, dude. Even when you're trying to catch me up on some rhetorical bullshit you fail.

This is because you are a very stupid person, and you still haven't learned that you are way out of your league here.





To everybody else that reads this...

What Second was just trying to do there is the "We Didn't Start The Fire" gaslighting.

"You see... This Russia/Ukraine thing has been going on since 2014 and the Isreal thing has been going on since before 90% of the people on the planet were born, so Joe Biden* and Democrats didn't have anything to do with either of these problems."

Not working on anybody today, idiot.

This type of gaslighting only works when everyone is walking around with a fat wallet, and you guys fucked that one up too.


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Trump is fine.
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For one fact, Trump is NOT currently President. Another fact: Trump is full of shit, as are his Trumptards. Do you Trumptards ever self-censor? Because the ones I know never stop running their mouths about how great they are and how bad their enemies are, whether its their ex-wives, or whoever isn't favorably impressed by the Trumptard.

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I know you consider me your enemy, but I don't consider you my enemy.

Most days I don't consider you at all.



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Trump is fine.
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Try to enjoy your day buddy. I know I will.

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Because the ones I know never stop running their mouths about how great they are and how bad their enemies are, whether its their ex-wives, or whoever isn't favorably impressed by the Trumptard.

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Trumptards are the human equivalent of fatbergs clogging up the system, slowing the flow. (video)

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6ix, as a fatberg Trumptard, you will be wedged in your sewer pipe watching Trump and his turds go downstream while I am outside in the wild world drilling for the natural gas that keeps the flow going past you and Trump.

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Because the ones I know never stop running their mouths about how great they are and how bad their enemies are, whether its their ex-wives, or whoever isn't favorably impressed by the Trumptard.

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6ix, as a fatberg Trumptard, you will be wedged in your sewer pipe watching Trump and his turds go downstream while I am outside in the wild world drilling for the natural gas that keeps the flow going past you and Trump.

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Do you Trumptards ever self-censor?

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Since the start of the invasion, 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed.

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Since the start of the invasion, 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed.

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Wow. He missed the mark by a factor of ten!


That alone should tell you what a big fat liar he is. Anyone who pops out with that kind of figure and expects to be taken seriously is mentally out to lunch.

And anyone who reposts such nonsense, expecting to be taken seriously, is equally deluded.

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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Moscow Threatens Retaliation After Ukraine Strikes Russia With 6 US-Made ATACMS Missiles

Wednesday, Dec 11, 2024 - 09:05 AM

Moscow has announced a very serious escalation out of Ukraine on Wednesday, with defense ministry officials saying that six US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles were launched against a Russian airfield inside the country's sovereign territory.

Taganrog is a Black Sea port city in southwestern Russia, and was targeted in the heavy attack. The military claimed that all six were able to be intercepted and downed before reaching their target, with two reported intercepts by a Pantsir air defense system, and the others destroyed after electronic warfare systems diverted them.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, via European Pressphoto Agency

"Missile fragments caused injuries among personnel. There was no destruction, but two buildings in the airfield's technical area and three military vehicles sustained minor shrapnel damage. Civilian vehicles in a nearby parking lot were also damaged," the Russian Defense Ministry statement said.

Apparently this damage occurred through "falling fragments of the missiles" according to the ministry, which also vowed that retaliation is coming for the strike.

"This attack by Western long-range weapons will not go unanswered, and appropriate measures will be taken," it added, but without specifying anything further.

It appears that at least other drones or missiles which were part of the broader assault made it through Russian aerial defenses:

In the early hours of Wednesday, Dec.11, multiple explosions shook the city of Taganrog in Russia’s Rostov region, regional governor Yuri Slyusar reported, describing the attack as a "missile strike."

The attack, reported around 4:20 a.m., triggered air defense systems and caused at least ten explosions, local residents told the Shot Telegram channel. Eyewitnesses suggested the target might have been a military airfield, according to CHEKA-OGPU Telegram channel.

It was only in September that President Vladimir Putin declared new 'red lines' for the conflict, asserting that any long-range attack on Russia with West-supplied missiles would be viewed as the as the "direct participation" of NATO countries in the war in Ukraine.

"It would substantially change the very essence, the nature of the conflict," he said at the time, shortly after Washington finally approved its change in policy to allow such attacks. "This will mean that Nato countries, the USA and European states, are fighting with Russia."

With the ATACMS and other Western systems, NATO personnel actually have to assist directly with satellite and targeting data, which includes being able to "input flight missions into these missile systems" - as Putin described earlier.

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the surety with which it claimed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,

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Russia failed to defend [Armenia] from Azerbaijani aggression because it’s bogged down in Ukraine.

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its economy at home is increasingly weak

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In the military, the starkest sign is that the Russian army has had to invite North Korea to send in troops to help it out.

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the problem with getting a ceasefire or peace deal is Russia, not Ukraine.

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the chief challenge he will face once back in the White House is getting “Vladimir” to abandon his dream of reconstructing Russia’s czarist empire.

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I can't believe how much shit Fareed packed into one article. I'm only going to address a few points.
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Signym, you picked apart line by line an editorial you disagree with. That marks you as crazy, Signym, not insightful. It doesn't show that you have knowledge Fareed doesn't have.

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South Korea - National Assembly Impeaches President Over Failed Putsch Attempt

On December 3 the President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol launched a coup against the opposition ruled National Assembly. He declared martial law and ordered military special forces and police units to block law makers from assembling.

But the assembly members did win the race:

Just 150 minutes after the presidential announcement 191 of the 300 members of the National Assembly voted to immediately end the martial law status. Troops and police entered the parliament but the vote against martial law had already taken place.

A lot has happened since. President Yoon's defense minister and high school buddy Kim Yong-hyun has been arrested for initiating and taking part in the martial law scheme:

Kim has been accused of recommending martial law to Yoon and sending troops to the National Assembly to block lawmakers from voting on it. Enough lawmakers eventually managed to enter a parliament chamber and unanimously rejected Yoon’s decree, forcing the Cabinet to lift it before daybreak on Dec. 4.

Kim has since tried to commit suicide.

Some of the military commanders who were ordered to implement the martial law have since talked to investigators. They revealed that the martial law scheme had been part of a larger, even more crazy plan which could have led to war with North Korea:

The Defense Minister's original plan was to provoke an attack from North Korea, then use that as an excuse to declare martial law. To that end, South Korean military flew several drones over the Pyongyang sky, spraying propaganda fliers. North Korea did not attack, however.
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Initial preparation for the coup began as far back as July 2023, as the military compiled the reference materials for operations under a martial law situation and produced a manual around that time.

Last Saturday President Yoon's People Power Party had blocked an attempt by the National Assembly to impeach President Yoon. But as more details of the attempted coup came out over the week the pressure from the general public on the party increased. Today another vote on impeachment was held. It received the necessary two third majority:

South Korea’s parliament voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday in an extraordinary rebuke that came about after his own ruling party turned on him following his refusal to resign over his short-lived martial law attempt.

It is the second time in less than a decade that a South Korean leader has faced impeachment proceedings in office and means Yoon is suspended from exercising his powers until the decision is finally adjudicated by the country’s Constitutional Court.

Following the vote, which sparked jubilation among protesters outside parliament, Yoon conceded that he will “stop temporarily for now, but the journey to the future that I’ve walked with the people for the past two years should not stop.”

“I will not give up,” he said in a statement shared by the country’s presidential office.

Yoon will try to convince the Constitutional Court that he is not guilty of insurrection and should not be impeached.

The court has a number of vacancies. Currently only six judges are available and to impeach Yoon all six would have to agree.

Yoon will however have difficulties to claim that he is innocent:

Senior government officials have testified at various government hearings over the last week revealing some extraordinary details about the night of the martial law order.

Special Warfare Command Commander Kwak Jong-geun testified that he received a direct order from President Yoon to break the doors of the National Assembly and drag out the lawmakers, but he did not comply.

Kwak Jong-geun did not comply with Yoon's order because it was evidently illegal. Martial law does not include the power to prevent the national assembly from fulfilling its constitutional duty. It is something that Yoon, as a former prosecutor, will surely have known.

Any constitutional court ruling in favor of Yoon would thus be purely political and in contradiction to the law.

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Readout of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Meeting with Director of National Security Shin Wonsik of the Republic of Korea

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with Director of National Security Shin Wonsik of the Republic of Korea (ROK) on October 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C., to discuss bilateral cooperation and global and regional security issues, particularly regarding the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and its deployment of troops to Russia.

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South to north, Russia is advancing in all of these areas ...

Selidova Novasilka, a town with seven roads interconnecting, is half encircled by Russians

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So while it's possible that there really are NK soldiers there, since the effort involved in folding a foreign army (different language, different weapons, different battle philosopy, different organization and command structure) is almost insurmountable, it doesn't look plausible.

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