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Old 09-19-2019, 12:46 PM   #21
Pete F.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT View Post
depends on how you define ‘winning’. if you define it as widespread peace and prosperity, there’s been an awful lot of winning. liberals and snowflakes use a different definition, as we all know.
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None of this matters, I got some money, the Dow and it's the illegal immigrants that are the real danger.

No, the Citrus Caligula did not start all the things listed below, but his clueless foreign policy and decimation of the State Department is enabling the bad guys to step up with things that are not in our best interest. Who knew it could be so complicated.

Before the election the Stable Genius will get us into a war, he thinks that is a viable method to get elected.

Vietnam has been screaming bloody murder as China has accelerated its revisionist policy in the South China Sea

Russia began mobilizing its troops in occupied Georgia

Iran and Israel’s warm conflict escalated horizontally into Iraq

North Korea resumed testing missiles

India and Pakistan resumed tensions over Kashmir, raising tensions for the second time in a year

Japan and South Korea are relitigating old disputes

Taliban increased its attacks in Afghanistan

Department of Defense warned that the Islamic State is making a comeback

It turns out that Iran might be cheating on the nuclear deal

Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread into Uganda

The international trade system, one of the important pillars of peace, became more unstable

And Brexit is, well, not going too well, leaving the potential of a UK-EU diplomatic conflict that will weaken both sides

Ukrainian civil war

Syrian civil war which generated a refugee crisis that led to the rise of populism in Europe

Yemeni civil war and the Saudi-Iranian proxy war there

China’s artificial island project

Venezuelan crisis

Libyan civil war

Hong Kong protests

Russia’s general disruption of Western politics and propping up far-right parties in Europe

Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!

Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?

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