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^^^ Your unfounded opinion. Get your head out of the sand. We have been using the DIME (capital "I") elements, D & E against Russia, E against Iran, E against China. It wakes a while to undo 30 or more years of indecision by prior admins. Being in the field, I can't comment in"I" or "M".
But that is not what you said. January is a month with 31 days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
How has the US used DIME against Russia? By expelling some Russian diplomats and imposing selective sanctions on the country and its citizens? Is that it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Paladin
Has Russia reversed its annexation of the Crimea? No. Has it withdrawn its troops and puppet 'governments' from the bogus Republics created from the invasion of the Ukraine? No. Has DIME srengthened the reform movement in Iran or the Ayatollahs in the Guardian Council? The Ayatollahs. Has trade between China and the US been subject to rational argument and reform? Or has it just been one confrontation after another, at a cost of billions of $$$ to the US?
So far, DIME has been notable by its absence, while the USA now stumbles from one crisis to another, splashing the cash with no concern for the day when the bills must be paid. What has Putin's objective been? To do what can be done to make the USA divided at home, and weak abroad. All that money and influence that flowed from Russia with Love in 2016 has been repaid, and as long as Putin's Apprentice keeps delivering for Russia, Putin won't point the finger to his boy and say in sombre tones, 'You're Fired!'.
Well, yeah they changed their tune when it all blew up in their face, but earlier Jan the did say what I stated. They initially maintained there eas NO indication...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
INF. You need to pay attention.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Busy catching up with your downvoting as well. I counted 15, which must be just about every post I made in this thread. Judging by this and you last childish comment you are still in the sandbox.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paladin
Here's some hard facts for you. In the latest year Australia had 9 million overseas visitors, compared to a population of 25 million. The US had about 80 million overseas visitors, compared to a population of 330 million. So relative to the population we have more visitors than the US. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL
When social distancing restrictions commenced on 15 March Australia had 300 Covid-19 cases and 5 deaths. At that time the US had 3137 cases and 62 deaths. Hence, the starting point compared to population was pretty similar in both countries, so your argument that Australia was more protected by isolation is bogus. https://virusncov.com/
Incidentally, this was more than 7 weeks after human-to-human transmission of Covid-19 was confirmed by China on January 20, so your argument that the rest of the world had no time to react is also dishonest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...ID-19_pandemic
NIH stopping critical study that may have told us from where and how Covid -19 came to be.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...es-critics-say
Wrong sandbox, dufus.
First let me point out that if I do not link aticles from UK newspapers like The Times and the Telegraph, it is because most of their articles are hidden behind a paywall.
Two articles: one is survey of Covid 19 in the US which focuses on differences of race, wealthy and location, on a day when the offical deaths have passed 100,000 and without any comment on it from the President.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ity-inequality
The other is an article on Boris Johnson. A lot of the sympathy for Johnson that was expressed when he was rushed to intensive care, has depleted owing to his defence of his special adviser, Dominic Cummings. It is clear that just as Johnson has never shown an interest in details, he needs Cummings to 'fill in the blank spaces', but what is even more important than Covid 19 is the role Cummings is playing to 'deliver Brexit'. The UK will begin a phased relaxation of commercial life next month as a testing and tracking regime is introduced, but will people remain cautius about moving around in public, or decide that if Special Advisers to the Government can flout the rules, it means the rules are there to be broken?
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...minic-cummings
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Two articles: one is survey of Covid 19 in the US which focuses on differences of race, wealthy and location, on a day when the offical deaths have passed 100,000 and without any comment on it from the President.
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The President has now made a statement, which is reported here-
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/coro...ry?id=70925268