Rune (09-20-2018)
The United States of the World?"Doooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeettttt! "
The U.S. federal debt exceeds $20 $Trillion $Dollars.
The U.S. military budget dwarfs that of any other nation on Earth, friend or foe.
$Fiscal $Conservatives understand we're spending too much.
So!
What are we going to $cut to balance our federal budget? Increasing by $billions, the U.S. military budget isn't going to achieve this primary conservative objective.
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
Rune (09-20-2018)
Personal Ignore Policy PIP: I like civil discourse. I will give you all the respect in the world if you respect me. Mouth off to me, or express overt racism, you will be PERMANENTLY Ignore Listed. Zero tolerance. No exceptions. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. ... Ignore the shallow. Cherish the thoughtful. Long Live Civil Discourse, Mutual Respect, and Good Debate! ps: Feel free to adopt my PIP. It works well.
cancel2 2022 (09-20-2018)
Ain't gonna' happen!
Donnie boy gets his marching orders from Putin- not the Pollocks.
There is no way in hell, Putin is going to allow a US Air Force Base in Poland without a retaliation from Putin.
we already have a rotating presence in Poland ( Atlantic Resolve). this would be a permanent armor base
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operat...lantic_ResolveOperation Atlantic Resolve are ongoing efforts in response to Russia's actions in Ukraine, mainly the War in Donbass. It is funded under the European Reassurance Initiative
The Poles have little reason to like Russians, not least the fact that they were forced to learn Russian in school. Stalin also built this effing monstrosity in Warsawa, which was supposed to be a gift but the Poles ended up paying for it. I went inside it once, it is really shoddily built they ought to just knock it down!
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anatta (09-20-2018)
I know, and thank you for the pic. There was some controversy about WWII monuments if I recall
Russia warns Poland not to touch Soviet WW2 memorials
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40775355
Poland updated its "de-communisation" legislation, banning "totalitarian" symbols, which would include Soviet propaganda monuments.
Now Russian foreign ministry officials have warned of "asymmetric measures" if Poland removes Soviet war monuments.
Poland’s WWII museum under political bombardment
https://www.politico.eu/article/pola...l-bombardment/
Poland’s communist rulers used the war to justify the alliance with the USSR, stressing that Poland had been betrayed by its Western allies and needed to be friends with Moscow. In more recent times, some Poles feel that the flood of EU structural funds to modernize the country is overdue compensation for the war. Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the Law and Justice party, suggested in 2007 that Poland should be given more voting weight in the EU to account for the citizens it would have had had they not been murdered by the Germans.
For more liberal historians, the problem with the narrative that Poland was unique in its suffering is that lots of other parts of Europe also had an awful war. Belarus lost a higher percentage of its population than Poland, almost all of the Continent’s Jews were killed, other countries also had brave resistance movements, while some Poles (as well as people in other countries) collaborated with the occupiers.
Machcewicz tried to tell that story by not just focusing on Poland, but making Polish history part of a much broader tale.
At the Gdańsk museum, Machcewicz and three Polish colleagues — backed by well-known historians of eastern Europe such as Timothy Snyder and Norman Davies in the museum’s advisory body — created an exhibition that presents the Second World War by comparing how different peoples experienced the Holocaust and Nazi occupation, collaboration and resistance. Poles feature prominently, but not exclusively.
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