“No free speech, no deal. It is as simple as that,”

So he’s going to push this condition onto everyone that they deal with right? Saudi Arabia and Israel for example.

They’re currently getting the help to look under sofa cushions to raise the money.

Not only that rule. Also the specific rule that they agreed to which was to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty if they gave up their nukes.

In fairness, they are also betraying the poor people in the rich countries too. And everyone else who has kids and grand kids to inherit the mess.

If Trump is a Russian asset as we all believe then Putin will have irrefutable proof that would be able to put Trump in prison.

He’s also likely to have evidence of other crimes that everyone is pretty sure that he has done and is doing.

A lot of the publicly available stuff has a lack of evidence, a lack of motivation to get the evidence or a lack of will to impeach and prosecute a sitting president. It’s possible that Putin could release enough information to overcome those barriers.

That’s what I was thinking except I was thinking about the military. Why are the numbers for health so much lower than for war. It’s not a little lower it’s multiple zeroes lower and that’s not just the US. The UK is paying $22m to the WHO but has a military budget more than 3,000 times larger!

What Hamas did is very excusable.

They killed and kidnapped civilians which isn’t excusable. It would have been excusable to attack the military, not civilians.

Also various places want their stolen objects back from our museums.

Finders keepers shut up!

The West can’t trust America anymore when they used to be the most reliable partner which shows that everyone needs to reduce their reliance on external states as much as possible.

We relied on Russia for energy when they weren’t a friendly country. We still rely on China for tech and manufacturing and they can’t be described as friendly. And then we find out that we’re too reliant on USA who also turned out to be unfriendly.

I don’t think that those are mutually exclusive options.

It definitely shouldn’t have been decided with a 52% majority on a 72% turnout.

Yeah. The absolute best that they can hope for is a Belarus like puppet state.

And they don’t even try to make the lies sound plausible anymore.

“Just remove all of your ways of defending yourself and we’ll not attack you”. Which is the exact same agreement that they had before they stole Crimea but I guess that they really mean it this time?

I think that a lot of the west said that Israel has their support provided that they respect international law even though it was obvious that they weren’t obeying the law and never intended to.

I think that means that he achieved at least one mission objective then.

The options are many and not just “breed yourself into poverty” and “everyone die childless until the human race goes extinct”.

It works ok for me.

The fuck? It’s illegal to burn these cars too, smart person.

I guess that you didn’t finish reading my comment as I pointed out that those that are willing to reclaim them illegally are extremely unlikely to do anything altruistic with the money.

It’s not because we value the wrong thing. It’s because of basic laws that protect us all.

How could they be reclaimed? They are owned by somebody who legally owns them. Unless the owner is found guilty of something that entitles the government to take possession then there’s no legal way to do that.

If someone is going to reclaim it illegally they’re also not going to use that money to help people. You don’t get many Robin Hoods so the criminals that do it are most likely to keep the proceeds for themselves.

It does have standards and they aren’t even double standards.

Make money for those involved in running FIFA seems to be the single standard that they are going for.

If this involves following the double standards that allows governments to condemn Russia but support Israel then they’re ok with that.