jamesd23x

[jamesd23x @jamesd23x]

What mother is going to take her own child through a hole in a thirty foot high wall with barbed wire on top and and armed men on the other side? Chances are those children that got tear gassed were abducted for the cameras and for anchor babies.

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@freddyatton @realDonaldTrump Since "request for asylum" is PC language for breaking through a wall and hurling rocks, I think something a little more forceful than tear gas is appropriate.

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@AndrewTadpole98 @Eire_QC @ELINTNews If you are crimean, and you see a Ukrainian warship a short distance from the road, it is going to look like European imperialism and aggression, and Russia stopping that warship is going to look like Russia coming to your defense, because Crimeans object to the coup regime.

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@AndrewTadpole98 @Eire_QC @ELINTNews The Euromaiden government took power illegally and unconstitutionally - which was a coup backed by the US State Department. Crimea, and the overwhelming majority of people in Crimea, objected to and declined to obey the new illegal government.

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@Satakranak @ristevski_J @margotwallstrom The 1857 agreement explicitly allows warships to freely travel through the Great Belt between the Baltic and the Atlantic. The agreement on the Strait of Kerch allows the Ukraine "partnerly use". Big difference.

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@Satakranak @margotwallstrom The agreement between Russia and Ukraine allows the Ukraine "partnerly use" of the Strait of Kersh. Unannounced warships showing up within shouting distance of a Russian road are not very partnerly.

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@Satakranak @ristevski_J @margotwallstrom In 1857, Russia demanded, and got, the right to send warships through the Great Belt - which you will notice is called "the Great Belt", not "the strait".

There is no equivalent arrangement covering the Kerch Strait - which is also far smaller.

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@Satakranak @ristevski_J @margotwallstrom I conjecture that the agreement contains the words "peaceful navigation" and that the Russians did not think it all that peaceful when a warship shows up unannounced within shouting distance.

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@Satakranak @margotwallstrom Really? Putin signed an agreement letting Ukrainian warships within shouting distance of a Russian road and under a Russian bridge?

Show me that agreement and Putin's signature on it.

[jamesd23x @jamesd23x]

@ROMANPANKIW @Satakranak @margotwallstrom There is a Russian bridge over the strait. What Ukrainian warships doing sailing under a Russian bridge without permission? Since when is water under a bridge international?

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@breaking9111 @Steve_Sailer No wall can stand, unless there are men willing to defend it behind that wall.

Trump has talked deadly force. The time for deadly force approaches.

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@GOTOHELLUSA420 @thespandrell It is even better than that. These raids are sponsored by Chinese billionaires while the Chinese government looks the other way: They are not the Chinese government in action, they are "socialism with Chinese characteristics" (aka Hong Kong characteristics) in action.

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@krassenstein @realDonaldTrump I seem to recollect that the Russian attack on the Ukraine was provoked by a coup in the Ukraine sponsored by Obama and the US state department that would have denied Russian warships sea access.

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Well run states trying to maximize revenue to deal with a short term crisis like existential war frequently tax at confiscatory levels, but well run states seeking to maximize long term revenue, secure monarchies like Dubai, generally tax at very low levels.

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It has been a year and Trump's tax cuts have not increased the deficit nor reduced tax revenues, indicating that taxes are near the top of the short term Laffer maximum.

Hence probably a good deal higher than the long term Laffer maximum.