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pyrrhus's avatar

It appears now that the entire US national debt is due to fraud...Medicare/Medicaid pays 2.7 trillion to foreigners, the Pentagon is missing 23 trillion..or is that 35 trillion?..And the US military is weaker than Russia's...where Putin has been jailing the corrupt generals...Treasury pays more than 100 billion/yr to people with no ID or SS number...It's almost unbelievable....

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Lugh's avatar

America is an atm for the Elite.

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

American Taxpayers...FIFY

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maurice h crumbly's avatar

We SHOULD NOT!!!!! Be required to pay any debt caused by fraud, along with the pensions and benefits of the fraudsters.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Agreed, BUT most fraudsters have already absconded with their loot.

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elysianfield's avatar

John,

There is a term for the remedy. "Clawback".

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Ben's avatar

Something about ropes and light posts comes to mind.

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rd3's avatar

There could be a run on lamp posts. I'd invest now.

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Ben's avatar

One could hope or at least a run on primers for knot tying.

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rd3's avatar

Set out to find it.

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JohnAZ's avatar

I wonder how many of the will have to ex-pat to escape justice?

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rd3's avatar

Many of them don't have to "ex-pat," they were never actually real citizens of this country, if the heat gets too intense, they'll just go back to their sunny homeland in Israel.

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Ben's avatar

Weaker?

How do you figure our weapons systems are punching huge holes in Russia's kids while Ukies are wielding them and those are NOT out latest or greatest weapons systems.

Estimates say there are at least a million dead on each side talk about GENOCIDE!

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pyrrhus's avatar

Delusional...Where are our hypersonic missiles? Ukraine KIA is 10-15 times Russia's, unless you are reading regime propaganda...

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OTOH/IMHO's avatar

You just have to look at the Youtube videos of hapless Ruskies (and now North Koreans) being chewed up by cheap remotely-operated drones to realize what an overrated military they turned out to have(how they persuade anyone to climb into a T-72 tank is beyond me) -and more than one generation behind when it comes to electronics, too- yes, they have succeeded in wiping out half of Ukraine's infrastructure, but that is about it, and their hold on Crimea (even as their navy heads for safer waters as fast as possible) remains tenuous.(Oh, yeah and they were kicked out of their Syrian warm-water port too.) But this is not to encourage NATO to try, as someone else said a long time ago,"to kick in the rotten door and the barn collapses too"- I hope for once the world's people will actually rise and demand cuts in wasteful military spending.

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pyrrhus's avatar

That's why the Ukrainian soldiers are complaining that Russia is now well ahead of them in drone technology, and Russia's been taking city after city by pure luck.....And if the Crimea is threatened, neither army has noticed, and there are no Ukrainian soldiers even near the border...Ahh, the delusions of the brainwashed...

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Ben's avatar
Feb 14Edited

ROTFLOL You must be reading MSN.

Where?

There are several version that actually work made by Raytheon and Lockheed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_2vr9fNYA

You do know a hypersonic missile is nothing more than a ballistic missile but much smaller.

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Lugh's avatar

And much faster. The new Russian ones can carry nuclear warheads and can hit our missiles in North Dakota in about a half hour.

Russian death toll is less than a hundred thousand.

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William Wallace's avatar

Genocide is great cover for money laundering, the victims usually donтАЩt complain!

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Ruth Gordon's avatar

A million dead on each side? LOL Good Lord. How can you even be reading JHK and post such a thing?

Weaker? Yes, for three reasons: The ability to manufacture at scale (US and NATO have very little manufacturing capability), proximity to conflict (soldiers) and hypersonic weapons that can easily eliminate any US/NATO transport at any time if it attempts to ship or transport heavy equipment quickly. Having a few whizz-bang systems but no stockpile of them is meaningless. Also, if the US had any system that could turn the tide of a war without using tanks - the Abrams was decimated on the battlefield btw - don't you think Blinken and Sullivan and Mrs. Milley would have used them? And if you think they didn't use them because they need to train soldiers or ship soldiers in who can actually operate them then start reading this paragraph over again with that in mind.

Lastly, if you believe that the US government has been incompetent and corrupt at massive scale for a long time but somehow has stayed at the top of its game militarily - especially as they embraced deviant sexual and mental illness as the fast track to leadership (hmm why? maybe to tear down the US military?) then you should probably step back and figure out how to resolve those two contradictory conditions.

The public has to stop believing the US military propaganda. That propaganda is there as much to make people such as yourself charge headlong into wars where it actually cannot win as it is to frighten their enemies. The US has never won a war past the war of 1812 - it only nobly assisted in one win, WW2, where the Russians kicked Germany's ass in the end. Those defeated Germans have been trying to kick start a rematch for 80 years, unsatisfied with the obvious defeat they already imposed peacefully (more or less) through economic dominance. Typical Germans, opening wars on multiple fronts and getting their butts kicked.

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Ben's avatar

Who do you believe?

Estimates of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine range from 149,000 to 430,790, depending on the source and time period.

Estimates

BBC: 149,000тАУ208,700 Russian soldiers killed by mid-January 2025

Ukraine's Ministry of Defence: Over 850,000 Russian dead and wounded as of February 2025

Mediazona: At least 31,481 Russian soldiers died between January 1, 2024, and December 17, 2024

After almost three years of the largest war in Europe since 1945, the precise scale of the death toll in Ukraine depends on who you listen to.

President Trump said last month that one million Russian soldiers and 700,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed. That figure is far higher, however, than any other estimates by either Russia or Ukraine or by western intelligence agencies.

Ukraine has been reluctant to provide casualty figures over fears that they could demoralise society. However, President Zelensky said in December that 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers had died. His comments came after Trump claimed in separate remarks that month that 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers had lost their lives. Up to 30 British citizens have died while fighting for Ukraine, according to reports.

Both sides are lying the tell is that Noth Korea is now sending troops and they lasted less than a month.

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Occam's avatar

Dude, you need to do some research. Lots of good sources out there, if you look. But your uninformed diatribe just makes you look silly.

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Ben's avatar

And here is the crux one guy says uninformed yet who is informing him?

You can bet they are not telling the truth.

Yet this one says he is informed.

Yeah, that's it.

No denying hundreds of thousands of people have died.

The funniest part I am neither for or against Ukraine or Russia.

Ukraine was fucking around with Russians and has found out what happens.

Now it's time for Russia to ease off their point has been made.

Set them side by side I doubt most people could tell them apart certainly not by language.

Who started all this mess why Democrats wanting to get their finger in the Ukrainian cherry pie of course.

They fucked with elections and overthrew the government in Ukraine.

Thanks Democrats have you made enough off the misery of two white Christian nations murdering each other?

Occum does it really matter if it was 200,000 - 400,000 or a million?

a generation of Ukrainians are gone and a fair number of Russians are as well.

Ukraine has 37 million people and Russia has 144 million or so the numbers being tossed around are an actual measurable percentage of both populations.

FAFO might be the acronym of this decade.

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Ben's avatar

Russia is begging Iran and north Korea for weapons and in North Koreas case people.

The first round of Norks are toes up...next round incoming.

Someone is not paying attention to truthiness in news.

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astera's avatar

Ruth sez:

"A million dead on each side? LOL Good Lord. How can you even be reading JHK and post such a thing?"

I think the fact that USA has its own hands dirty from allowing its own weapons to be used to kill ANYBODY is the point, here.

We should not be involved in that conflict AT ALL, point blank.

(We also should not be supplying Israel with weapons and money, but that's a topic for another day. [And one which our host studiously avoids.])

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Ruth Gordon's avatar

When someone posts an obvious statistical lie, that is the point. To mislead. Russia has not placed two million soldiers onto the battlefield, the minimum necessary to get a million killed. I could go on and easily debunk any claim of Trump or otherwise - I mean, if Ukraine lost fewer soldiers then why did they lose so decisively? - but it would be lost on people whoтАЩve already determined that they know тАЬthe truthтАЭ, a тАЬtruthтАЭ that lines up perfectly with every media source that JHK and others call out for their state-controlled narrative (like CBS).

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Mike Ware's avatar

ЁЯСН

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