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Tom,

You mean don't support Ukraine, Jack?

You are correct. Typo. If China sees Ukraine get routed with no international support, it will embolden them on Taiwan. Perhaps that's irrelevant, because they are going to do it anyway.

Thanks

Jack

I found this video interesting, Garry Kasparov (former chess grandmaster) talking about Putin, Ukraine and strategy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYhsloRid_c&ab_channel=AmanpourandCompany He makes a lot of points that have been mentioned in this forum: -Putin doesn't care what the people think, h...

John posted "Over There" Great Post! Amazing the think 100 years ago, that was popular enough song that we still know about it. So contrary to how people feel now, being largely anti-war for any reason. My grandmother was born in 1900, she wrote an autobiography, and in it, talked about going to the...

jmparret said: Oh no, my words did not show up. It will only take 7 or 8 nuclear bomb e[plosions to kill the world. Everyone will not die immediately, it could take a while but the cooling will finish everyone off. Navigator has the web site or file for these predictions You may be referring to vari...

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John said: This accusation, and the implication that the travel bans were driven by "hysteria, xenophobia, and hysterical xenophobia," and racism, are going to become important issues in the following days. -- Covid: South Africa 'punished' for detecting new Omicron variant An organizational princip...

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