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    Scary that someone like that can get elected. Someone who basically is welcoming jihadis ad part of the fabric of canadian society.

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    The priorities in the UK are all ****ed right now. The detainment of Brittnay Pettibone is a travesty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krgrecw View Post
    Do you throw the guy an ounce of respect for that? He was widely criticized for how he handled North Korea and Trumps policy of cut the bull**** seems to have worked unlike the American policy of previous decades

    From what I have seen from the media they act like Kim is going to make completely unreasonable demands then when no deal is reached somehow come out of thT winning. I don't understand the logic. I think they are scared they will be deprived of a war to cover.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunrevenge View Post
    From what I have seen from the media they act like Kim is going to make completely unreasonable demands then when no deal is reached somehow come out of thT winning. I don't understand the logic. I think they are scared they will be deprived of a war to cover.


    Trump won’t come out and be embarrassed by Rocket Man. Hell im sure they’re talking behind the scenes of nabbing Kim and not letting him go home.

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    With Trump offering NK a carrot, SK reminds them of the stick:

    https://www.defensenews.com/global/a...ting-missiles/

    South Korea quietly orders 90 more Taurus bunker-busting missiles


    The missile is a core asset of South Korea’s “Kill Chain” pre-emptive strike systems against North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs upon imminent threat.

    The precision-guided missile has a range of 500 kilometers and is said to be able to destroy North Korea’s major underground facilities, including Kim’s hideouts, with pinpoint accuracy.

    Last September, the South Korean Air Force staged a live-fire drill of the Taurus for the first time following North Korea’s sixth nuclear test Sept 3. During the drill, the air-to-surface cruise missile fired from a F-15K flew some 400 kilometers before hitting a designated target in the coastal waters off Gunsan, 200 kilometers southwest of Seoul.
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    Another tragic slip and fall, I'm sure.

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    I do wonder what could actually be done against Russia to stop them from killing off people in other countries? Obviously a war won't happen but I suppose severe sanctions? What other penalties could be imposed that would have any real impact?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CK86 View Post
    I do wonder what could actually be done against Russia to stop them from killing off people in other countries? Obviously a war won't happen but I suppose severe sanctions? What other penalties could be imposed that would have any real impact?
    We going to apply those same penalize to every country including the USA? I get being disgusted by Putin. He's a bad man. But lets not act wholier than thou and pretend the doesn't happen throughout the world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CK86 View Post
    I do wonder what could actually be done against Russia to stop them from killing off people in other countries? Obviously a war won't happen but I suppose severe sanctions? What other penalties could be imposed that would have any real impact?
    Look at what we did to the USSR during the cold war.

    Foster disruption in autonomous regions. Trade alliances. Sell arms to border states.

    Squeeze.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    We going to apply those same penalize to every country including the USA? I get being disgusted by Putin. He's a bad man. But lets not act wholier than thou and pretend the doesn't happen throughout the world.
    I'm not denying it doesn't happen elsewhere. It's just that these are pretty brazen, out in the open killings. 20+ people were injured as a result of the nerve agent.

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    **** blowing up in Austin. 3 package bombs so far. Media salivating for a hate crime since no white people have been hurt yet.
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    http://www.newsobserver.com/news/bus...205286144.html

    NATO's chief says European members and Canada spent a total of almost 5 percent more on defense last year compared to 2016, amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to boost military budgets.
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    If Liberals have taught me anything it's that quality is based upon how much money we throw at something. So we should be 5% safer now, right?
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    Don't know if this has been discussed up thread -- heard earlier this week North Korea has been mumm on the meeting



    North Korea has yet to confirm or deny the South Korean account of the meeting...

    https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order...tm_campaign=fp



    And when these two leaders come together, armed with false assumptions about the other side’s intentions, and combined with their respective desire for quick results, reluctance to back down when confronted, and personal ownership of the issue, we could very well face a combustible situation that would be difficult to fix.
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    The left is hoping this becomes a combustible situation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaw View Post
    This one is my favorite example

    Yeah he's a tool for sure, he reminds me of a US news anchor, pretty and well spoken but m/l an empty suit otherwise. I can actually hear Obama giving a similar set of responses to such questions, but let's be totally honest here, what would the current president say if he was "pushed and even badgered" by that many political opponents when he couldn't just give one of those usual "trust me on this" type responses?

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    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018....co/8OGCQeHAGT

    I wonder what could have contributed to this increase....any ideas?

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    https://breakingdefense.com/2018/03/...fts-espionage/

    In particular, Beijing has set out on a path to diminish the Pentagon’s traditional technological advantages “by targeting and acquiring the very technologies that are critical to our military success,” the Pentagon’s head of manufacturing and industrial base policy Eric Chewning, told a House panel on Thursday.
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    In particular, when it comes to China, he’s worried about the “purchase of large tracts of land near our training and electronic ranges,” which are ripe for espionage.
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    China’s industrial policy has long emphasized importing machinery and weapons and then building their own version without bothering to acknowledge that the ideas were stolen. The idea has been to “extract technology from foreign companies, and then put up walls” in order to then protect what they have built, Chewning said.

    One of the areas that American officials are most concerned about is artificial intelligence, an area where Beijing has already become a global leader.
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    Beijing’s three-year AI plan, unveiled last year, “is basically a Chinese translation of the U.S. AI plan, which I worked on,” said Dr. Jason Matheny, director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity — known as the intel community’s DARPA — at a breakfast meeting with reporters on Wednesday. “There were a lot of familiar passages,” Matheny laughed.
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