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Who would pay for the oil? Not America that's for sure.

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Didn't stop Trump though, did it?

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Putin doesn't even need to militarily attack us, we're doing a fine job of weakening Europe from within.

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So too are the Democratic Socialists of America, the current flavour of the month backing Mamdani and El Sayed. www.dsausa.org/blog/the-ukr...

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There's been so many examples of this happening that any Ukr soldiers still choosing surrender are quite frankly idiots.

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Suddenly that F-35 kill switch seems very real. Britain should probably do some unannounced and secret testing of its American-made Trident missiles too.

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I don't think anyone in Europe was particularly "stunned" by America's betrayal tbh. They have form in this anyway.

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Economic growth continues to be the best form of family planning.

Also a good visualisation of the massive population growth in sub-Saharan Africa.

Oriel @oriel449.bsky.social · 10h

In socialist Europe* they have equivalent tax-deductible personal pension plans to 401k's. They're legitimately the greatest wealth generating programs available to ordinary working people. *Not actually as socialist as many Americans believe.

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Oriel @oriel449.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder do people understand how private pensions work. Or life insurance.

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Oriel @oriel449.bsky.social · 11h

And yet Finland and Sweden joining was not an issue for Russia. Weird how all these "realists" just ignore that fact.

Probably only a matter of when, not if, Trump resumes bombing of Iran. Will it be now or after the mid-terms.....

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It's the lie he tells his base. "Yeah I'm rich, and so are the people at my resorts. But you peasants can be rich like them too. You just have to vote for me...."

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Man, you really weren't around or remembered Clinton's war in drugs or his landmark Crime Bill eh? Preeeety draconian stuff in the 90s.

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"Where's the bouf?" doesn't have the same ring to it.

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And this right here explains why Trump supports Putin's demands on Ukraine. Ukraine is Russia's colony and Canada is America's. That's how he sees the world. Everyone needs to start understanding this is the world we live in today and why every nation needs to arm itself to the teeth.

I think if the public understood how govt run welfare actually worked they'd be very shocked.

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You don't "pay into" social security. There is no account with your name on it and the money parked just for you. The money you paid into at 14 was immediately paid out to retirees when you were that age. No govt social welfare program anywhere in the world works like that.

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The "West" isn't one homogeneous blob. 😑 Try being more specific.

Doing Putin's work with this crap.

East Germany, Eastern Europe. An easy mistake to make by the geographically challenged Tankie Corps. 🥴

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Back to mourning the high price of "gasoline" for their sodding pickups.

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The Americans have left Iraq, ISIS is no longer the threat to the country it once was. So why do these Iraqi "militias" continue to exist? Just like with Lebanon everything the Iranians touch turns to shit.

Yanks will have forgotten about it by next week.

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If Dunblane happened in America it'd be forgotten about after a few weeks. In the UK, decades later, it's still remembered.

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Hegseth broke the cardinal rule in Trumpland, never make the Boss look bad with negative publicity. It's definitely a black mark on his record now.

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I see Trump fully embracing the already discredited and false story of Talarico.

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Lol, what?! This is not a graph showing Biden bringing down immigration levels. It literally shows the refugee claimants US ports of entries going from zero on Trump's last day to 40k on Biden's last day in office. 😂 Whatever, believe what you like.

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Thank god they're so fucking stupid.

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The irony here being if Putin had been smart he'd have simply waited for Ukraine to be much worse off demographically and then take the country. Hell, just doing nothing in 2014 would have been the clever move. Let their internal divisions weaken them further.

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I'll admit not being up to speed on German electoral law but how is it even legal for someone who's main residence is outside the EU to hold a seat in the Bundestag? Like, wtf is the German govt even doing here?

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Perhaps. But I worry a sizable chunk of the population will look past this craziness and vote for them anyway due to current immigration policies. Merkel inviting in 3 million Syrians (most of whom have remained despite the civil war ending) had a massively destabilising effect on politics there.

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Unfortunately Ukraine's demographic situation is in an horrendous situation. Their birthrates were already among the lowest in the world pre 2022. I'm hoping after the war the country experiences a post-WWII style baby boom. The alternative will be the death of Ukraine.

He did not have the same immigration policy as Trump I. Jesus Christ! Immigration under Biden exploded during his term. www.cato.org/blog/trump-c...

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I mean, they're literally the only party pushing for severe immigration controls while every other party is ignoring the problem. This is how MAGA took over America. I'd rather have strict immigration controls if it means keeping fascists out of power.

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I'm banging my head against a wall listening to all this because the AfD are tapping in to a clear public desire to control immigration. Our mainstream parties DO need to start getting on top of this because the alternative of actual neo-Nazis gaining power is too horrific to ignore.

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But this Nazi c**t has no problem with Russians remaining in Germany. It's a sick joke at this stage how Germany hasn't banned this party of seditious traitors.

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He's been doing this weird shit for years and you Americans reelected him anyway. 🫪

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We've been far too lenient towards these seditious fifth-columnists.

Someone needs to slap her across the head and forcefully make her understand Russia alone unilaterally stopped gas shipments to Germany in 2021, nearly a year before the full scale invasion. The gas was never cheap and Russia was never a reliable energy partner.

Consequences? What, is he gonna bomb Kyiv now? 🙄 There's literally nothing else, short of nukes, he can threaten Ukraine with.