Auburn1968

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It's Huang, and he was born in Taiwan. Taiwanese people hate the CCP usually

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Taiwan is a mixture of the old Kuomintang anti-communist army and a mixed culture including original head hunters, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese and later Japanese.

When Castro first came to power he made electric power, living space, and medicine free.

Fool me once...

On December 5, 1994, Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, trading the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal (inherited from the collapsed Soviet Union) for commitments from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The signatories pledged to respect Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity and to refrain from the threat or use of force against its sovereignty.

However, the agreement provided only "security assurances" rather than binding military security guarantees. Crucially, the U.S. and U.K. did not commit to automatic military defense, meaning the document was not equivalent to NATO’s Article 5. The memorandum also did not constitute a legally binding treaty, a distinction explicitly made by U.S. lawyers to avoid requiring Senate ratification.

The assurances were widely viewed as betrayed when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and launched a full-scale invasion in 2022. Following these violations, Ukrainian officials and experts have frequently cited the failed memorandum as a reason for seeking NATO membership or other robust, legally binding security guarantees to prevent future aggression.

I'm sure Putin's diesel is of the highest quality. :lol:

Had a discussion with our cab driver in Barcelona last week. He complained that Spain's medical services had declined a lot over the last couple of decades. The current socialist head made it free for all including illegal aliens. Many of their best doctors moved on to greener pastures.

Free is very expensive when you have to wait for months to see a specialist or have surgery that you need now.

He's exhibiting a total lack of spine, when spine and solid principal are what American needs.

Been on a cruise in the Mediterranean for the last 10 days.

Mostly, I blame the terrible, mostly missing ad campaign. Watching football, I saw maybe 20 to 1 dem ads and only a few mushy GOP ads. Football is about the only live on-air TV I watch. Anything else with commercials in it is a kill switch. Trump has many accomplishments, but the MSM does its best to hide them and paint a negative picture over trivial things. A good ad campaign could have hit hard, but it didn't exist.

Trump's personality played a role.

The GOP not passing the Save Act was spineless impotency.

The GOP not deep sixing Obamacare is pathetic.

The war in Iran is was necessary, but it created divides in the GOP ranks.

Waffling on Russia's invasion of Ukraine with Trump being weakly soft on Putin is another divide.

Tried to look up what Auburn and affiliates spent on the O-line for 2026, but evidently it is not public information. Whatever it was, it wasn't enough.

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Europeans know that if Ukraine falls…. Russia is at their doorstep and Putin’s ambitions won’t stop there.

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Putin's ambitions know no bounds, but the Russian Army has had some very hard times with his Special Operation and isn't in any shape to take on anything.

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And the Central Park 5 were innocent also according to Netflix

Well, they were and is why they were all exonerated

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It was demprog political pandering that "exonerated" them not their "innocence."