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RE: The impeachment of Trump suddenly looks like much more than just a theory
January 9, 2020 at 8:37 am
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It's an amusing relationship. Their muckety mucks wish they had an oligarchy like ours, while our muckety mucks wish they were as free to engage in openly sanctioned corruption as theirs.
At least the american dream is still alive and while, even if it's in putins russia.
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RE: The impeachment of Trump suddenly looks like much more than just a theory
January 9, 2020 at 10:39 am
(January 9, 2020 at 8:37 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: It's an amusing relationship. Their muckety mucks wish they had an oligarchy like ours, while our muckety mucks wish they were as free to engage in openly sanctioned corruption as theirs.
At least the american dream is still alive and while, even if it's in putins russia.
The thing about "the american dream" - you have to be asleep to believe in it.
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RE: The impeachment of Trump suddenly looks like much more than just a theory
January 10, 2020 at 6:17 am
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(January 9, 2020 at 7:32 am)Deesse23 Wrote: (January 9, 2020 at 5:58 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Those arms won't stay in U.S bases: but they will be periodically used or sold to the highest bidder: even nuclear bombs.
Trump is backed by strong wings -especially the Oligarch wing-, that wing already has Putin and China in its pocket. The US does not sell weapons from its bases, particularly not nuclear weapons. You are mistaking the US for a banana republic, which it is not (yet).
The armament producing companies however do sell all kinda shit, and the gvernment is quite lenient with the rules of law (not to deliver to crisis regions, etc), because ....pecunia non olet.
Oligarchs dont control Putin, Putin controls Oligarchs, as evidenced by Putin taking away their money or imprisoning them after showcase trials.
The US doesn't sell nuclear weapons systems? So who did the UK buy it's Polaris and Trident systems from then?
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RE: The impeachment of Trump suddenly looks like much more than just a theory
January 10, 2020 at 9:50 am
(January 10, 2020 at 6:17 am)Mr Greene Wrote: (January 9, 2020 at 7:32 am)Deesse23 Wrote: The US does not sell weapons from its bases, particularly not nuclear weapons. You are mistaking the US for a banana republic, which it is not (yet).
The armament producing companies however do sell all kinda shit, and the gvernment is quite lenient with the rules of law (not to deliver to crisis regions, etc), because ....pecunia non olet.
Oligarchs dont control Putin, Putin controls Oligarchs, as evidenced by Putin taking away their money or imprisoning them after showcase trials.
The US doesn't sell nuclear weapons systems? So who did the UK buy it's Polaris and Trident systems from then? I didnt claim the US doesnt sell nuclear weapons. It doesnt sell them"to the highest bidder". UK is a NATO ally, of course the US delivers armament to its allies. Its what countries do, and are allowed to. Atlass however claimed the US ARMED FORCES are selling weapons off their bases, which is nonsense and something COMPLETELY different from the US GOVERNMENT giving its allies weapony.
(January 9, 2020 at 5:58 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Those arms won't stay in U.S bases: but they will be periodically used or sold to the highest bidder:
(January 9, 2020 at 7:32 am)Deesse23 Wrote: The US does not sell weapons from its bases,
The armament producing companies however do sell all kinda shit, and the gvernment is quite lenient with the rules of law (not to deliver to crisis regions, etc), because ....pecunia non olet.
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RE: The impeachment of Trump suddenly looks like much more than just a theory
January 10, 2020 at 1:47 pm
At the Soviet Mission to West Germany an American Major serving with the NATO garrison offered to sell a nuclear artillery shell to the GRU for "a substantial sum". The actual exchange took place a week after in a woodland.
The shell was then transferred to Moscow where the head of the GRU took it into his office. He then phoned the Central Committee to proudly announce he had possession.
The Central Committee almost sacked him on the spot as he hadn't thought to check whether there was a timer on the shell which was effectively next door to the Soviet government, He was ultimately given a 'Service Incompetence Note'.
The shell was then taken to Zemlya to be dismantled and studied.
It turned out to be a 'Standard Weight Equivalent' training shell repainted to pass as the real thing and stuffed with radioactive waste to convince the GRU officer with a geiger counter.
The head of the GRU was denied permission to send an assassin after the American Major.
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RE: The impeachment of Trump suddenly looks like much more than just a theory
January 10, 2020 at 1:57 pm
(January 10, 2020 at 1:47 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: At the Soviet Mission to West Germany an American Major serving with the NATO garrison offered to sell a nuclear artillery shell to the GRU for "a substantial sum". The actual exchange took place a week after in a woodland.
The shell was then transferred to Moscow where the head of the GRU took it into his office. He then phoned the Central Committee to proudly announce he had possession.
The Central Committee almost sacked him on the spot as he hadn't thought to check whether there was a timer on the shell which was effectively next door to the Soviet government, He was ultimately given a 'Service Incompetence Note'.
The shell was then taken to Zemlya to be dismantled and studied.
It turned out to be a 'Standard Weight Equivalent' training shell repainted to pass as the real thing and stuffed with radioactive waste to convince the GRU officer with a geiger counter.
The head of the GRU was denied permission to send an assassin after the American Major.
Kinda like slapping a mafioso's mother........
Not the best of ideas.
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