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Enough experts have made the point that you cant hand over advanced US

military weapons to an 'ally' and expect them to 'rapidly' learn how to use them...

Thus, any F-16 given to Ukraine and active against Russian forces in Ukraine will

most definitely be manned by US pilots....

And any missiles, fired by an advanced US missile battery, that damages or

destroys a Russian Federation Nuclear Early-Warning system would have been

manned by US military personnel...

These US participants are NOT "proxy forces"... The USA is directly involved in the

missile attacks on Russian targets, and the Russians know it...

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Exactly so. (I tried to 'like' but the button is frozen). The US is there on the ground and Israel too, selecting targets and upping the ante.

Meanwhile almost no country in Europe want WW3 nor any further intervention or payments to Ukraine. And at least half have no axe to grind with Russia. Even the Poles are 75% against it while their new president Duda (ex EU Commission president) and FM Sikorsky (married to arch neocon Anne Applebaum) pushes for it.

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good to see you pulling that louvin bros. classic out of the silo

thought of this one - from slightly later in that decade and more folky than c&w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUfUAnqRJTQ

louvin bros were before my time but i did get to see charlie in what was probably his last nyc appearance, 2006 - by that time he was more cornpone comedian than singer but it was still a bucket list show

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"What nature doesn't do to us, will be done by our fellowman."

;-(

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I think it could have been an influence behind some of

Bob Dylan's earlier songs. Dylan was a big fan of Americana

songs. He's made mention of the Atomic Bomb drill practiced

while at school - 'Diving Under The Desk' for protection.

(These days they probable practice their Nuclear Bomb drills

by donning face masks ?)

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Duck and Cover, Bert the Turtle (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

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And if you need Medical Assistance after The Bomb has dropped

there'll be a skeleton crew in attendance at your local hospital...

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I know it’s a meme but why is air conditioning bad for the planet but ev’s are good?

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I suspect "they" needed a lot of battery technology development and production for "their" DUMBs, but that is purely speculative on my part.

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I'll pass on the nuclear chicken, prefer mine on the rotisserie.

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Can't the 99.5% goyim majority play 'nuclear chicken' with the Zionist State of Israel? AND the Zionist banker billionaires????

Why should it be goyim that die in a Jewish bankers' war????

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Congratulations on the tomato yield in what is still May!

re Electric cars, I'm terrified of them since narrow, broken Athenian pavements mean that the road is normally the safest place to walk in crowded neighbourhoods. Dead cats , dead pidgeons, wounded dogs - I've lost my balance once or twice as they roll silently up behind you and then beep. Luckily they are driven by older, usually foreign drivers - kids drive motorbikes or granny's 20 year old car if they are so lucky: plenty of warning there ;-))

Concerning nuclear armaggedon, the entire 1970s into the early 80s in Europe were taken up by anti-nuclear protests and encampments as the US moved its nukes here. There was 100% perfect awareness that US was happy to sacrifice Europe into nuclear rubble in its war with Russia and serious anti-Americanism, now airbrushed and memory-holed by 'the narrative'. Then the 80s rolled on and with it came Shopping and a 40 year belated Boomer phenomenon in a new generation, Millenials in the US parlance.

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It looks like Europe bears a very high risk of "tactical" nuclear war this summer. ;-(

Rumor is that the EU financial crisis is about to hit.

Greece is already there, so whither now?

Canning, canning, canning salsa... Christmas presents.

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Funny, and not, how the likes of The Monroe Doctrine apply only to the U.S. Shortly before William Blum died, I exchanged e-mails with him and got permission to make an audiobook version of 'Killing Hope', proceeds to go to surviving victims of America's corporate nation-deep-state (fascist) covert foreign policy. Alas, now those victims would include most of the planet. Big Pharma has become the equivalence of Dole's role in making banana republics, only now ... the world has gone fruit loops.

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Strong words from "Count Chocula": "only now ... the world has gone fruit loops."

:-)

Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1CBftRW0F8

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The fruit loops is about accepting the genocidal psychopathy of the Zionist billionaires and their evil creed.

When 99.5% refuse to bow to 0.5% and go to war, the 0.5% will almost certainly be wiped out.

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LOL.

Maybe it's just me, after one too many cups of coffee.

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Good coffee in the morning and Sencha the rest of the day.

:-)

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Or ume shu! 😂

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Thanks Steve, but I gave up all alcohol in February 1994. (Plum wine, you suggested.)

It's easier that way.

:-)

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🤗

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