Even a broken clock is right twice a day. And his stance on the Ukrainian war was right in my eyes.

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The same people whose pentagon failed multiple audits?

I just have come to accept that's just how things are in the U.S..

>Scott Greytak, the advocacy director for the U.S. office of Transparency International, cited a broader “decay” in U.S. political institutions as a major contributor to the country’s declining rating. Gretyak noted that public confidence in U.S. elections has been undercut by disinformation and record-setting amounts of untraceable money in elections—especially in 2020, when twice as much was spent compared with 2016.
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>“Second, and increasingly important, are these series of really bombshell exposés by media outlets that are demonstrating how much dirty money is flowing into the United States’ financial system,” he said, referencing a joint investigation published by BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists last year that revealed how major banks had knowingly allowed trillions of dollars of suspect financial transactions to go ahead, enabling drug kingpins, kleptocrats, and terrorists to move corrupt cash around the world.

All across the country, lobbyists and interest groups are rife, and our political system is crap. Both parties accuse the other of corruption, and both are right because both parties are infested with corruption. People like to bang on corruption of other countries, but arguably the U.S. is just as bad as a lot of them. We're not Russia levels of bad yet, but looking at the news, I feel that future is always looming in sight.

People say we shouldn't spend more money on foreign aid and spend it here. I'm not convinced that they are saying that because they are righteous, but more because they want the money here to steal themselves.

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I don't think the world is ought to lecture NK on the dangers of nuclear testing, the west has done so much damage in the past by doing these tests.. I recommend you watch 'the coming war on china' on Netflix, it is ofcourse a bit single sided leaning towards the Chinese, but it still presents important facts.

You absolutely can

On the subject of corruption: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine

Chinas economy is hanging in the balance. They know the strings are very short. If they cant play with other civilized countries, theyre screwed.

Best bet is that they both did, frankly.

From what I've seen, Tuck is more about the "why should you be forced to pay for this?" bullshit. It's a good line to get the libertarian/tea party/magat morons all upset.

Russia is pushing this particular narrative. That is, Ukraine is being armed by the west to destroy Russia. China seems to be flirting with picking that up. I think that is what Biden is speaking to imho. It is currently being painted as western aggression.

Kind of irrelevant to the article, but does anyone have a high res of the picture used at the start of it?

Can any scenario emerge where another family is exposed to infected wildlife then the two clusters have contact and eventually this leads to Human-to-Human?

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I was going to suggest sending Ukraine some cool weapons, but the fucking Aussies are ahead of me on this one, and I'm damn proud to hear it.
They just announced a new round of equipment for Ukraine, including drones and more howitzers.
That is a properly measured fuck you.

Thank you.

Words are only worth the paper they are printed on. Just as only laws enforced are actual laws.

I totally agree.

It really is time to return the favor.

Everyone: Awwww

Australians: Ahhhhh

I found r/H5N1_AvianFlu

The UK is incredibly unlikely to ever get into another major land war so they’ve been hyper focused on naval power.

Same reasons why murderers get fair lawyers sponsored by the Government in trials, internet usage is Human Right and this won't help but reinforce the idea of the existental threat that Russia is making up for average Russians.

The US military is almost a shadow government. Not in the sense that they’re clandestinely manipulating events or whatever but they have a bigger budget(gdp) than many countries and very little oversight(compared to the civilian budget).

People keep panicking, saying this thing has death rate of 50-60%. One thing you need to understand is that only cases where people die are being reported, and from there on other cases are being established. Chances are that in absolute majority of cases people get infected, get better and cases are never reported, especially in countries like Cambodia.

Similar thing was happening with COVID, where at first only cases where people needed hospitalization were being reported (and without hospitalization they would have died), but once it became a pandemic, we started mass testing and death rate dropped.

Also this is pandemic we were preparing for, for decades. Chances are this is not going to be as bad as COVID, it's probably more like swine flu pandemic of 2010ish, and those that lived through it probably never knew there was a pandemic going on.

Downvote me if you want.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Ukraine is public about their ongoing battles with corruption and it's silly to think that there isn't some profiteering going on during any war.