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[Goat]

Wholly amazing take on council workers comrade

Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson arrested by police in bribery inquiry

The mayor of Liverpool has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation as part of a corruption investigation into proper

www.thetimes.co.uk

There is no corruption anywhere else, only Ukraine.

 

[Abertonian]

I thought they were in Ukraine to stop the Nazis, not “the gays”.

There need not be logic or truth waged in war. Hitler used to tell the Germans that Jews were communists whilst also claiming that they were obsessed with accumulating wealth

 

[Goat]

There need not be logic or truth waged in war. Hitler used to tell the Germans that Jews were communists whilst also claiming that they were obsessed with accumulating wealth

You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you,
You'll get the chance to put the knife in

 

[Goat]

 

[WA Toffee]

For all the threads armchair heroes who want to see Ukraine fight Russia back to its borders and see a free Ukraine here's your chance,no excuses now. On you go to glory.

https://fightforua.org/

Out of interest, do you think Russia was wrong to invade Ukraine?

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

Tbh soon as the winters over they're be all sorts of wholes where that was filled.

Funniest thing you ever see here is every may them filling wholes then the next year pretty much doing the same things again.

Corruption on building materials is rife. Plus never seen anywhere laying tarmac before whilst it was bucketinging it down raining...

Your pro-Putin rhetoric is offensive, but not nearly as offensive as your attempted spelling of the word "hole".

 

[WA Toffee]

Well this thread went from some interesting views and people sharing info in to a load of [Poor language removed] didn’t it.

Yeah, well one of them lives in Moscow so has to push the official line so he doesn't get the 3am knock on the door, one of them appears to be a davek multi and the other is just a general numpty.

Makes for interesting reading though as long as you don't take them too seriously

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[WA Toffee]

I admittedly have little idea about the strategic and logistical situation with Taiwan but presumably being a relatively small island will make it way harder for them to hold off an equivalent advance from China?

From my limited understanding, yes and no. It's relative small size makes it difficult to defend, but being an island it is not so easy for invading forces to get boots on the ground.

It is also complicated by the US commitment to defend Taiwan, so they can't / won't sit on the sidelines like they are doing with Ukraine.

Any Chinese invasion of Taiwan would get very ugly very quickly

 

[PeregrineT]

As for Elon Musk here, I personally dont think hes very dishonest(for a billionaire), I think its just few people understand his true motives and hes partially delusional in his actual motivates IMHO. His sudden involvement in sovereign affairs seems bizarre and foolhardy until you really think about it.

Musk doesnt care about money, which most people cant get past and assume he must be because hes a billionaire. Hes motivated by one main thing, making earth interplanetary to "save the species". He was obsessed with sci-fi as a kid, and that has heavily influenced his thinking, and his goal as he sees it is to buy time for earth, and start colonizing other planets. Whether hes crazy with that is a separate discussion. But Tesla is his bid to both extend the lifespan on earth and make enough money to fund Mars rockets. Its also why he talks about underpopulation and pushes those. Spacex is his bid to make humans interplanetary. However there arent enough rocket launches to make enough money to fund that. Starlink was then born to both get more launches and experience for the rockets but also make the money SpaceX cant make to fund the Mars venture.

And that brings us to Musk getting involved with bad advice when it comes to sovereignty. He feels hes making good progress on all fronts. But the one thing that keeps humans from going interplanetary is a nuclear war that destroys the planet and thats what hes terrified of right now. Its what he cant control, what he sees looming, and hes desperate to stop it. While he does have a sense of right and wrong Russians seem to strangely lack, as far as he sees it any peace at any terms is far preferably to the moment a nuke launches. Its too soon. He was supposed to make humans interplanetary BEFORE this happened to save the species. Thats why he proposed and desperately hopes for a terrible "peace".

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Hitting that German visa office sure got a response

 

[Lobster Johnson]

I always assumed ramacca was Kev the Rat as they started posting after Kev was banned from the thread but idk.

Lots of the same sources too

 

[bluestevon]

From my limited understanding, yes and no. It's relative small size makes it difficult to defend, but being an island it is not so easy for invading forces to get boots on the ground.

It is also complicated by the US commitment to defend Taiwan, so they can't / won't sit on the sidelines like they are doing with Ukraine.

Any Chinese invasion of Taiwan would get very ugly very quickly

Taiwan is a very very big mess in waiting, the best solution I can see would be one where they are part of China but are allowed a large degree of autonomy from the mainland (legally it is Chinese territory). Think the more forward thinking amongst the Chinese upper echelon have that mindset, now if that's acceptable to the current rulers in Taiwan or its external supporters is a whole other matter.

China are different to Russia in terms of they are a manufacturing export based economy reliant on import of raw commodities hugely, a full blown military conflict would devastate their own economy (wouldn't do the west's much good either tbf)


Personal hope, is that it maintains as it is rather than deteriorate until the White House has someone whose able to sit down and talk things over with the Chinese as current policy just is throwing fuel onto a fire.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Taiwan is a very very big mess in waiting, the best solution I can see would be one where they are part of China but are allowed a large degree of autonomy from the mainland (legally it is Chinese territory). Think the more forward thinking amongst the Chinese upper echelon have that mindset, now if that's acceptable to the current rulers in Taiwan or its external supporters is a whole other matter.

Doesnt that completely ignore the UN rules on self determination?