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We need to break the back of the academy. Harvard and the rest of the elite schools need to be sued into oblivion.

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By all means.

Can’t wait to sue’’em with lawyers who graduated from Tennessee Tech.

BTW, is Yale exempt because Vance went there?

It is agreed across the American political landscape that China is our biggest political rival. That isn't the issue.

The issue is what to do about them.

What to do about a possible dangerous but dying adversary that may find the need to lash out in either a last-ditch attempt at power or perhaps just a way to distract its own citizenry from their problems.

What to do about a country that large parts of your economy are attached to, even if we aren't dependent on them as a whole. No, we don't need China, but when you have a company like Apple who has stupidly bet the house on their supply chain and still has almost endless amounts of cash lying around, then there's going to be political issues when dealing with China.

What to do with China's frenemy, Russia, who's invasion into the Ukraine not only plays into China's plans as a way to disrupt an American led-world order but also as a way to better understand the bet they make when the go for Taiwan.

What to do about with our allies when there's currently a massive disagreement over priorities with some of them openly talking to China because of the change in direction with the new administration.

So only a few outliers believe that China is not our primary geopolitical rival. We just need to come up with an overall strategy on how to deal with them.

No fool would agree to the terms Putin has demanded, which go far beyond territorial.

Russia’s insistence on 80k man military, no peacekeeping troops, and other ways to neuter Ukraine’:are clear signs that Russia plans to continue their war against Ukraine long term, so that makes their terms non-starters.

We need to put more pressure on Putin, that is the only way to bring this to a close . Ukraine has offered to buy weapons from us, we should be selling them everything they want and dumping old weapons on them for not only our own strategic interest but financial gain as well.

That is the fastest way to bring this war to a close.

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Really? US General NATO Commander says different

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Yeah, saw that. Cavoli's great, isn't he?

But building up and replacing trained, military-age soldiers with older, untrained conscripts they are just going to run at machine guns at 1200+ per day isn't going to adequately replace soldiers, even half as many, who know their job and are capable of working across branches and job assignments, or provide competent on-the-ground managers that you can build an actual team around.

Replacing Soviet artillery rounds with North Korean, or tanks built in the past 30 years with tanks build 50 or 60 (or 70) years ago, or Russian-built missiles with Iranian built missiles, isn't going to make things any better.

I think Cavoli would agree with me on this. Of course, Cavoli's job is to worry about things like this, and it's clear that he's thinking about it, so it's not like it's a small thing that the Russians continue to expand when they are already in a major war, but any thoughts that things are going to get better for the Russians any time soon is wrong - I'd bet a full paycheck on that.

Of course, if you disagree, we an put a wager on it. It will probably take a few years to get an answer, but such is life.....


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What the hell are we doing here people?

Several years into this war that everyone knows Russia will win if left to die on the vine. We want peace, for Russia to stop the invasion and to maybe even give back some land - but here we are calling the Russian leader short and scared, while cheering on the Ukraine leader calling the Russian leader scared.

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No. The Ukrainians know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Russians are coming to take their land, shoot their men, rape their women, and kidnap and 're-educated' their own children. The horror stories coming out of Ukraine, even coming from the Russians themselves, confirm this. So, there is no way the Ukrainians are going to give up.

Combine this with the overwhelming incompetence and stupidity of the Russian military and this means this war is going on for years to come. The Russians can't do combined arms, have no NCO corps, have lost the technical and material edge the once had, have fallen behind in drone technology and tactics, and their own leadership is being taken to the woodshed by the Ukrainians. Their morale sucks, their economy sucks, their leadership sucks, and this is all just the beginning of the criticism.

So, even if every country on the planet turned their back on the Ukrainians this war is going to continue and become ever bloodier. Honestly, I'll bet anyone here an avatar bet that Russia falls out before the Ukraine, either because of a coup against Putin, or a popular uprising, or the Russian economy completely falling apart, or whatever. But Ukraine is going to outlast them.

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You don’t have to pick sides here to see that Zelensky’s behavior does not align with what he says he wants

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Zelensky's, and the whole of the Ukranian people, behavior is 100% in synch with what say they want - they want the Russians out. They don't use abstract ideas and statement about 'peace,' they want the invading, raping, killing, kidnapping army that Russia is, gone.

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"If you stay on this trajectory, you're going to have less qualified people who are willing to make the extreme sacrifice to run for Congress," Johnson warned

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Sacrifice?

Less Qualified?!

You're the most powerful governing body on the planet you lying frick! You're literally immune from most laws, get your name written into history, and already notorious for the abuse of power while achieving nothing. A few hundred thousand dollars, even millions, doesn't replace what you people get in return.

And have you seen the qualifications of our governing body, and their relationship to legitimate Subject Matter Experts?

You have people who have no military experience, and some with no appropriate management experience, starting, running, and losing wars.

You bring in people who have absolutely no credentials in the fields they are to oversee and who refuse to listen to individuals who have spent their lives in service of not only others but to the fields that are vital for the advancement of civilizations, thus making it ripe for corruption, incompetence, and mismanagement. Then, when the problems come, you use your pulpits to destroy the reputations of the very people who warned against your actions, all to feather your own nests.

You follow whatever flavor-of-the-month fallacy that will bump you up a couple of points no matter what the cost based ENTIRELY on what it brings you monetarily and power-wise.

Every ONE of you is replaceable, and right now I'd give all four limbs to restart Congress.

JESUS HELP ME

It’s true.

Z has owned him so far.

It's worth nine figures.

Any politician accepting this thing would be questioned, if not flayed alive for accepting it.

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Ford is who you would get if Pelosi and Schumer picked the president.

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No, Ford is who you would get if Nixon picked the president because it was NIXON WHO PICKED HIM.

And Nixon came in as an outsider but became the ultimate institution a generation later. He and Kennedy were both outsiders, lying, cheating, and scheming their way into power.

Gotta admit, I've got my concerns....