Is there any way you can run your comments through some sort of Fatuousness filter? They seem to have meaningful two word dinosaur killers such as “power corrupts” and then degenerate back into drivel.
I am sure you have something to say in there some where .. how about just wait a while and think stuff through rather than trying to come out with fall flat zingers.
It contributes nothing to the discussion and does you no glory either.
JC, you haven’t addressed any salient points there. If Putin wanted him dead in 2020 why was he allowed to be medevac’d from a Russian hospital to Berlin following an apparent assassination attempt via poisoning?
DrBeauGan
February 18, 2024 11:40 pm
Since we’re in a G&S mood:
I often think it’s comical – Fal, lal, la!
How Nature always does contrive – Fal, lal, la!
That every boy and every gal
That’s born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!
Gabor
February 18, 2024 11:41 pm
What is the reason Serbia was thrown under the bus?
Many reasons, too complex to cover in a simple post.
Basically to teach a lesson to a largely insignificant entity that the US still has power.
Remember who was the secretary of state then, “I was shot at”
Yugoslavia as it was then, was breaking up and outside interests played a major role supporting certain ethnicities.
BTW, Yugoslavia was a creation of post war manipulation by the allies.
It should never have happened, the two major nationalities were never friends to say the least. To be blunt they hate each other.
Religion also came into it, like it or not and Islam was the emerging favored at the time.
Make no mistake, there were as many, if not more, atrocities committed by Muslims as others, except that they had been swept under the carpet..
Gosh havent the decades flown ! I remember when Gilbert and Sullivan fannery was considered so bourgeois and contemptible. Was it the 70s or the 80s ? I must have blinked. But to me G & S have always been as Punk as Nina Hagen …
Though to catch your drift I’m striving,
It is shady — it is shady;
I don’t see at what you’re driving,
Mystic lady — mystic lady.
Big 😉
John Brumble
February 18, 2024 11:52 pm
Dot-
“Explain how vouchers wouldn’t have worked.”
Vouchers weren’t on offer. And if you don’t understand how stopping someone building is not the same as acquiring land, or how easy it is to game that toothless tiger, you need to get a refund of your law degree.
As DB says, we can leave those involved to work it out … but any threat to Japans (or Koreas) energy supply lines coming through international waters will not be a matter for soft bullying and diplomatic discussion over time.
Those involved can work out the resource access issues, but under present international law, the Nine-Dash-Line does NOT provide China with enclosed territorial waters.
Boambee John
February 19, 2024 8:09 am
dover0beach
Feb 18, 2024 10:23 PM
Rights to which they have no entitlement while the area is disputed,
I wasn’t saying they were entitled to it now.
So what is the relevance of the “predate” comment?
It’s relevance is that the claim wasn’t conjured by the PRC, but was inherited from the previous regime, which is why Taiwan makes a similar claim.
Is there any evidence, at all, that China has offered to compromise?
I don’t know, I’m no detailed knowledge of any of the negotiations.
I’m not sure that this whole discussion has done much more to advance the sum of human knowledge in the world, other than to highlight China’s arrogance and intransigence.
@Dot
Feb 18, 2024 11:05 PM
Is there any way you can run your comments through some sort of Fatuousness filter? They seem to have meaningful two word dinosaur killers such as “power corrupts” and then degenerate back into drivel.
I am sure you have something to say in there some where .. how about just wait a while and think stuff through rather than trying to come out with fall flat zingers.
It contributes nothing to the discussion and does you no glory either.
Never mind the why and wherefore
Love can level ranks, and therefore …
JC, you haven’t addressed any salient points there. If Putin wanted him dead in 2020 why was he allowed to be medevac’d from a Russian hospital to Berlin following an apparent assassination attempt via poisoning?
Since we’re in a G&S mood:
Many reasons, too complex to cover in a simple post.
Basically to teach a lesson to a largely insignificant entity that the US still has power.
Remember who was the secretary of state then, “I was shot at”
Yugoslavia as it was then, was breaking up and outside interests played a major role supporting certain ethnicities.
BTW, Yugoslavia was a creation of post war manipulation by the allies.
It should never have happened, the two major nationalities were never friends to say the least. To be blunt they hate each other.
Religion also came into it, like it or not and Islam was the emerging favored at the time.
Make no mistake, there were as many, if not more, atrocities committed by Muslims as others, except that they had been swept under the carpet..
@MatrixTransform
Feb 18, 2024 11:24 PM
Gosh havent the decades flown ! I remember when Gilbert and Sullivan fannery was considered so bourgeois and contemptible. Was it the 70s or the 80s ? I must have blinked. But to me G & S have always been as Punk as Nina Hagen …
Though to catch your drift I’m striving,
It is shady — it is shady;
I don’t see at what you’re driving,
Mystic lady — mystic lady.
Big 😉
Dot-
“Explain how vouchers wouldn’t have worked.”
Vouchers weren’t on offer. And if you don’t understand how stopping someone building is not the same as acquiring land, or how easy it is to game that toothless tiger, you need to get a refund of your law degree.
@DrBeauGan
Feb 18, 2024 11:40 PM
Absolutely … !!
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!
Didn’t G&S nail and pilliory the whole Team Red VS Team Blue idiocy !!! But yet they didnt seem to have a wooden stake garlic and a cruicifix….
And Yet it Lives !!!!
righto … stop that
thinking for yrself is not allowed
Oh Dot ? You have a Law Degree?
Teats Shorten announces $80M robofraudbot…
Got to admit, the mole has some hide.
reminds me of a Ween song … dunno why
Voodoo Lady
New OT up.
@ MatrixTransform
Feb 18, 2024 11:55 PM
A little Eastern European RRolloing and a pig tail or two? I promise I wont think …
I have promised never to be either right or wrong… perhaps I was lead astray by the wickedness of others ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h9YDhUp58M
Alamak!
Those involved can work out the resource access issues, but under present international law, the Nine-Dash-Line does NOT provide China with enclosed territorial waters.
I’m not sure that this whole discussion has done much more to advance the sum of human knowledge in the world, other than to highlight China’s arrogance and intransigence.