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It certainly complicated by what breed of 'state' S. Vietnam was, but we certainly came to their aid in the context of the North trying to conquer them (or France's depending on how you take the history) MB notes Kuwait. We took a long time getting to it, but we did enter WWI without being attacked directly - Lusitania not withstanding. WWII would not count as we sat until we were attacked ourselves. There were a lot of Americans flying in SE Asia before Pearl Harbor, but it wasn't official.

but that is also part of the complexity, because 'Turkey' also didn't exist when the genocide occurred.

Ding DIng!

Yellow shirt guy maybe familiar - almost Burton Cummings but he should have a 'stache, and I don't pics of the Guess Who with 6 guys.

So where was this biodome hidden that held Putin, the US GOP, and who knows who else in isolation from the real world for the last 80 yrs?

right - we'll just get bad teams in the playoffs, which given the large random input factors in a baseball game will ensure that bad teams will end up winning the World Series. But that happens now anyway - it will just be a difference in degree more than kind.

which depend on the Ukrainians maintaining some kind of corridor or protected airfields for resupply. That's what could be hardest. It's not like they'll have the jungle of the Ho Chi Minh trail to hide in. The other criticality is if they stay together long enough to receive Stingers. The Russian helo air superiority goes down the drain if the west can(will) supply man held ground to air in numbers.

yeah - there is a certain threshold where suddenly they can't match up at all despite looking decent against some midlevel teams on occasion.

I'd have guessed Mountain but I don't think they were ever 6.

That story sounds like USDOD all over. Should be true even if it isn’t. ( which I’m not arguing)

The Germans are, as always, the key. It seems like in the last hundred years they can’t find the Goldilocks stance toward the rest of the world between being crazy bellicose and gazing at their navels while their house is being ransacked. Scholz just last week said Germany’s past still precludes it increasing its defense posture. Well maybe its future demands it. and the thing is, it’s not like their position doesn’t echo through the rest of the EU. Nobody wants to put themselves at an economic disadvantage by committing more to defense than Germany will.

It's true. And it is also only barely relevant to his job performance. Americans spend so much time watching actors that they have forgotten that what you do is more important than your elocution. In my book, only Clinton and Obama have been particularly gifted at a podium going all the way back to JFK. Even Reagan really wasn't all that great either when speaking off the cuff. The other thing is that it's time for a President to demand adulthood from the press. No shouting, one question - stated in 15 second or less with no attached essay. Make those the rules and stick to them.

personally, I don't care if Soto's income potential is effectively capped closer to $30M/yr than $40M/yr. If more salary money has to go into the pot, it does at least needs to go the young players like Soto who are producing, not the Cabreras and Pujols

plus they'd be completely derelict if they didn't have his phones tapped.

yup. In for a dime, in for a dollar. Where do the R's have left to go?

truth is the 1st casualty in war, but that would be a whopper of a lie to tell!

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger today!

less the 'gotcha' aspect than the silliness we have gotten to in the US about speaking inconvenient truths out loud.

Mitt didn't lose because of his foreign policy views. It was Americans he had trouble with - at least 47% of them.......

I wonder how the outrage over Biden calling Putin a "killer" last June is aging?

Where is Dr. Strange when you could use him?

what's the old line? "No battle plan survives 1st contact with the enemy"

oddly enough, recently my sister and I came across some material my father had brought home at the end of WWII. There were a bunch of single sheet 'flimsies' (what the Brits used to call them, I don't know what we used to call them here, but they are copies made on something that is almost tissue paper) of some kind of news digest that the guys aboard the ships in the Pacific must have gotten - apparently daily or weekly. In any case he had saved a bunch and one was from about a week after the surrender and according to the story the Allies were right PO'd about the post surrender speech Hirohito gave. Really interesting to read a direct contemporaneous news story when it was still today's news and not history.

The guys is becoming a nut case to boot. Valenti's crew was having quite the laugh about this yesterday: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-sports/aaron-rodgers-did-12-day-cleanse-that-typically-involves-vomiting-laxatives

FCNTX!! As they say, past performance is no guarantee of future results, but CONTRA is a very old fund with history of cool headed management. IIRC Contra was supposed to be based on similar principles to those the legendary Peter Lynch used to build Magellan. I'm not familiar with it current manager but I'd see what I could find on his history and try to read between the lines of his management statements - which should be in the fund prospectus, should give you some feel for whether he is any kind of cowboy.