What are Biden, & Trump besides being the opposite sides of a fake coin?

They are dictators.

They are #stupid.

They are not working in the best interests of the american people let alone the other 97% of the world's population.

@FrayedBear their obligation is to Americans not the world. Our leaders are elected unlike in North Korea

@Tejas do try & understand Professor Cipolla's 5 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity. When you do you will then understand why I state that the well being of the American people is dependant on the welfare of the other 97% of the world's population.

The pain of not selling to you is far exceeded by the pain inflicted by your bullying hegemonic & frequently genocidal behaviours.
Isn't it time that you realised you had your ass kicked in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and before long Ukraine, Israel, China & Iran.

@FrayedBear Actually we kicked ass in Korea, the N. Koreans had almost occupied all of S. Korea before we entered the conflict. They were diven back rather quickly.

In Viet Nam we never lost a major battle and could have easily defeated the North, however our horrible President (LBJ) would not allow it. The more unfortunate reality was we should have never entered the conflict because it really was a Civil war we had no reason enter.

The Afganistan conflict was also unnecessary. We should have hunted & killed Bin Laden and then left.

We never had a war with Ukraine, Israel, China or Iran so throwing them in merely illustrates your confused mind.

@Alienbeing "We never had a war with Ukraine, Israel, China or Iran so throwing them in merely illustrates your confused mind." - no you are using proxies in the first2 to carry out you genocidal ambitions. In the latter 2 I'm foretelling what will happen.

@FrayedBear No proxy involved, we merely financially and logstically support them, and many others. It is called Foreign Policy and your approval is not required, or even solicited.

While we may attack Iran (I hope we do), China and the U.S. are highly unlikely to go to war with each other.

Get a new crystal ball.

@Alienbeing Nice of you to neglect to mention Iraq. Or Somalia. Or Libya, Syria etc etc.
Why do you want to attack Iran? They also employ Foreign Policy, which is also none of the US's business. But perhaps wise to understand Iran has a defense agreement with Russia so if the US attacks Iran, they attack Russia.
US forces can't even defeat the Houthi's and even with unquestioned support for the IDF, they can't hold any of Lebanon. Need I mention Gaza?
Why did the US just reaffirm the sanctioning of Cuba against UN opinion.....................again? Feel threatened do we? Or more accurately, want US companies to exploit Cuban resources to the detriment of the populace? Need another excuse besides "freedom" for invading/ sanctioning sovereign nations now. That excuse don't cut it after Gaza, never really did really.

@puff I never said we should attack Iran, I said we might. Saying that does not even infer I think we should.

I see no reason for us to continue to sanction Cuba, but i wonder what resources you think we want to exploit there.

Russia will not go to war with us over Iran. Their military is soft at best and even Putin is smart enough to know that nuclear war is a loser for everyone.

In closing we can defeat anyone we care to defeat. The only reason we might not prevail in any conflict is our Politicians, not our military capability.

@Alienbeing Russia will not sit back and watch Persia destroyed, neither will China. These 3 civilizations have a lot of historic ties with a far longer history than the USA. These ties have been reconfirmed very recently.

"In closing we can defeat anyone we care to defeat.". I would like to know what you base that assumption on. Perhaps Libya? Because didn't happen Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and most recently Yemen. You can bomb the shit out of somewhere eg Gaza, but unless you have boots on the ground, it ain't yours.
Places like Russia's strength is it's land forces, it's army. They have a war economy to support conflict for a long time now because of Ukraine. US power has always been air and naval rather than land forces with the power to project anywhere in the world. This was enabled by huge technological advances, especially missiles and drones.
That advantage has now vanished.

@puff Russia may supply aid to Iran if we hit Iran but I seriously doubt they would do anything else. Perhaps you haven't noticed, Russia does not have a strong military, its "land forces" are not very effective. If they had a strong land force Ukraine would have been overrun in a month or so. Additionally no land force can be effective without air cover. As I previously said, even Russia knows nuclear war is a loser for all sides. The same applies to China albiet they have a stronger military.

If we hit Iran we won't do so with the intent of occupation.

The KEY part of what I said was "we can defeat anyone we care to defeat." Then the next sentence clearly defines why I said that. While I don't think we should have ever been in Viet Nam I served as an Air Force officer and air crew member in Viet Nam. We could have wiped out N. Viet Nam anytime. Only LBJ stopped us from doing that. The same applies to the other examples you gave. Unfortunatey, many of our Presidents believe in "proportionate" response". They should have realized we do not go to war to make friends or play patty cake, we go to war to win and we could have EASILY won every conflict you mentioned.

@Alienbeing Should've, could've, didn't.
What was the Russian aim of invading Ukraine? To de-militarise and de-Nazify. Seems to me that aim is being accomplished. Russia never wanted to take over Ukraine nor continue into Europe and Europe knows this (why they allowed ammo stocks to deplete to aid Ukraine eg if afraid of a Russian invasion, they would not deplete their own stocks), and the propaganda coming from the West contradicts itself eg Russia is so weak they can't take Ukraine.....................yet are a threat to Europe.
I remind you that US forces obliterated Nth Korea, running out of targets to bomb, yet that war never ended. 20 years to rid Afghanistan of the Taliban worked well.
I remember from my army days that you may bomb the crap out of somewhere but unless you have boots on the ground, it ain't yours. A prime example being the IDF and Gaza eg the IDF control none of Gaza and are constantly getting ambushed/ sniper bait.
Wars are always easier when you are not an occupying force and have the local population on side.

@puff Your "Should've, could've, didn't" comment is childish and does not even attempt to disprove any remark I made. Second, you comment regarding Russia's reasons for invading Ukraine are a joke. Ukraine is many things, but being Nazis or Nazi like is not one of them. Russia's invasion of Ukraine was because Putin really yearns for the old Soviet Union, and Ukraine was Russia's bread basket.

You remember your Army days correctly, however with today's incredible precise weapons and delivery systems all we need to know is where someone or something is and we can kill it.

Last, I am unaware of our intent to occupy anyplace on other than a very temporary basis.

@Alienbeing "Last, I am unaware of our intent to occupy anyplace on other than a very temporary basis.".
What do you call Ramstein and the bases in Sth Korea and Japan? Look up US military infrastructure being built in Australia atm in Darwin. Does not seem "temporary" to me.

Why did the US Congress ban aiding Ukraine's Azov Battalion prior to 2022? [edition.cnn.com]

The #1 terrorists in this world are Israel and allies. These sicko's celebrate terrorising civilians.

@puff I guess I must be ultra specific when posting to you. I meant no new conflict I can see will cause us to occupy any new territory. Additionally the bases we have in Germany, S. Korea and Japan are NOT occupation forces and are there by treaty with the former and current governments of the applicable countries.

Are you suggesting any base we may build in Australia constitutes occupation or is not with the argeement of the Austrailian government? Try not to be disingenuous..

If any of the above ever want us to leave, we will, but you can bet they want our bases there as insurance against either Russia, China or N. Korea. You should know that.

I have no clue why our Congress does many things. Not aiding Ukraine prior to 2022 was a mistake.

Since becomeing a soverign country Israel has never engaged in terriorism and NO ONE celebrates civilain deaths.

@Alienbeing What world do you live in claiming Israel does not engage in terrorist acts? Targeting refugee camps, hospitals, schools and blocking emergency relief is not terrorising a civilian population? How about exploding pagers where the victim is not assured to be the targeted one? Heard of the USS Liberty?
Your Congress was all for arming Ukraine 2014 to 2022 eg I posted a link where funding was questioned.
Iraq's government has told US forces to piss off but they won't. Lots of protests Korea and Japan against the US presence. After the cold war, no reason for Ramstein either.
Do you know the story of Brazil ridding themselves of US forces? In short, US forces need to be forced out.
Australian politicians are the biggest dickheads in the world. They surrender our sovereign soil to a foreign military in peace time, to protect us from a foreign military establishing bases on our sovereign soil. F'n brilliant strategy that! All a US presence in Australia does is make us a target. As an Australian it is not anti-American as I don't want any foreign militaries on our soil full stop. If running things here, I would hold a referendum "Should Australia allow foreign militaries to establish permanent military bases here?" If the response was "yes", which I doubt, then I would invite Russia/ China and Iran to establish bases right next to the US ones. I would prefer none but if we must have, all are welcome. if Australia changed it's mind and requested us forces leave, they wouldn't. Just like Iraq and Korea (you know the sticking point for finally ending the Korean conflict? US bases in Sth Korea ie they refuse to leave.) That was the sticking point.
As for celebrating civilian deaths, plenty of tictoc evidence posted by IDF personnel full of celebration of death. When the pagers blew up, lots of celebration in the US over that terrorist act too, as well as Nord Stream.

@puff I live on Earth. I know Israel tries to avoid civilian death, however when Hamas makes their military strategy hiding in civilain areas, storing munitions in their religious institutions and other civilian areas, it is impossible to avoid civilian casualties.

If you don't like the way your government acts vis-a-vis other military on their soil, complain to your government, I really don't care a bit whether you agree with your government or not. Unlike you, I keep my political thoughts to my own country and let your country and all others act as their sovereign status allows. Your country does not need my advice on internal political matters nor do we need your advice on such matters

Your take on Gaza deaths is so bias won't even discuss it with you. When Gazans stop voting for Hamas I might, just might have a little sympathy.

@Alienbeing It is lucky foreign forces were invited here. If not, I would be throwing stones too.
I will stop commenting when US foreign policy no longer directs my country.

We have a situation of apartheid. We have a situation of occupation. The occupiers are refusing to let in aid after destroying all civilian infrastructure like hospital, schools, education facilities, government facilities, historic and cultural places. And people which is well over 100,000 now, most likely closer to 200,000. Mostly civilians, women and children (hard to get accurate figures).

So we have a choice of supporting the occupier or supporting the occupied.
I defer to international law which states all have the right to resist an uninvited, foreign military occupation BY ANY MEANS AVAILABLE.

You know whom I support.
All Israeli's who chose to settle on seized land not theirs are occupiers and settled knowing there was an armed resistance. No tears for these arseholes. Maybe a tad sad the fools chose to put their children in danger, used them as human shields to defend their settlement occupation. But I don't mourn their deaths one bit because they were legitimate targets for a resistance to a brutal and long term occupation..

@puff Israel will cease military operations when Hamas is totally destroyed, and the civilian casualties that happen are in large part the fault of the Palestinians who voted them into office time and time again.

No sympathy here.

Sanctions is an euphemism for outright theft. Theft of assets, trade and reputation. These imposers of"sanctions' should be in the same place the proven thieves are housed..Jail.
The EU using stolen money and assets to fund a war that is is cutting off trade with their major supplier/ trading partner.. Smart !

@vocaloldfart just like Australia wanting to buy useless submarines than only be used against China?

Thanks re post but I thought I'd also made some others that have now disappeared.
IMO the thought that BRICS will end up using Bitcoin for its main source of exchange backing if not currency is merely exchanging one Ponzi type scheme (the Petro Dollar) for another.
How long it will last I don't know but I've been making a number of significant posts as replies to other posts. It can only work if people start following each other to get notification of entries made.

If your assassin's actually managed to murder the real Putin it would still make little difference as his successor has long been ready to take over.

The joy has gone

That is now very debatable when it never used to be. Wouldn't be so sure about your military eg no defense against hypersonic missiles and no "stealth" F-35's. In drone and electronic warfare assets the technology has passed you by. Been picking on weaker opponents for too long and don't even instill fear in them eg the Taliban and Houthi's.
Financially, wouldn't be so sure either, especially after the next financial crash. Pretty sure there will be another debt ceiling raise required shortly, how US politicians balance the books ie increase debt. 120%+ of GDP now. So I wouldn't be too smug.

Just a quick check in the propaganda sheets and google, it seems now china either (a) already has the largest arsenal in the world or Is close to having the largest military in the world.
Do not forget the space race,
China has proven superior to America in that endeavour. Please note that no nation spends billions just for science. Ye who controls and can manipulate the most satellites wins. We, the world, are now so dependent on them now. Regardless of any media you subscribe too, the truth ( absent in any media nowadays) is much stranger that the fictitious media we are led to believe is fact.... We live in exiting times.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that, if it helps you sleep at night.

The slower the better?