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One thing is certain, the USA "acquiring" them would nullify all such accusations against Russia.
Trump is different. That's why I said 'by Trump' and not 'by the USA'. Trump is keen on destroying everything not just Biden's legacy like the CHIPS act or IRA but also USAID, consumer and climate protection, FEMA, education, scientific and medical research, now postal service and FAA. UN and UN institutions like WHO, Unesco, Unicef will be next. I doubt that the republicans would understand why he's doing all that.

Like the old League of Nations pre WW2, they have no useful future. All they've ever achieved is to help the USA make endless trouble for the rest of us.
I am surpised you don't see a future for the UN.
Who run the biggest charitable programs in the wolrd? WFP, WHO, Unicef, Unesco, peace keeping, etc to cite a few. Who else can replace the UN?

BTW, Trump has already u-turned on tariffs.
 

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do you know that what Musk does is illegal? DOGE is a cowboyish outfit at the moment, it needs proper setting up by Congress. There are currently more than 100 lawsuits filed against what he has done and his side hasn't won once? They even denied that he was head of DOGE or employed by DOGE. His status is special advisor to Trump. His underlings are not secuity checked. It's just a matter of time when the courts will haul Musk in to testify, and punish Musk for contempt of court.
As for the EU, they are busy setting up funding for a European Army that will outspend Russia by a factor of 2 or more. Their first task is to replace Starlink and boost drone/antidrone production.
 

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the bindo government was a giant fraud machine doge is draining the swamp.

As of July 1, 2024, the British Army had 109,086 personnel, including: 74,296 regular full-time personnel, 4,244 Gurkhas, 25,934 volunteer reserve personnel, and 4,612 "other personnel

As of December 2024, Russia's military had a total of 2,389,130 personnel, including 1,500,000 active-duty troops. This is the third time Russia has increased its military size since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

From 1973 until he was elected president in 2016, Donald Trump and his businesses were involved in over 4,000 legal cases in United States federal and state courts, including battles with casino patrons, million-dollar real estate lawsuits, personal defamation lawsuits, and over 100 business tax disputes.

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be funny if there was a sudden jump in unemployment buy 109,086 ;)

According to the latest review of military aircraft figures from 2016 to 2023, there has been a significant decrease in the total number of fixed-wing platforms. The fleet has reduced from 724 aircraft in service in 2016 to 564 in 2023, which represents a reduction of approximately 22%.

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has around 31,710 regular personnel and 36,110 total personnel.

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The UK's new Challenger 3 Main Battle Tank (MBT), an upgrade of the Challenger 2, is designed to be able to fire and move simultaneously, featuring a new turret, improved armor, and a more capable smoothbore gun
As of July 2023, the UK military had 213 Challenger 2 tanks. However, the number of tanks available for operations is much lower due to maintenance issue

148 Challenger

The Initial Operating Capability is forecasted to be in 2027. All 148 Challenger 3's are planned to be in service by the end of 2030.

there all going to die 2 weeks max!
 
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the bindo government was a giant fraud machine doge is draining the swamp.
if you think Biden's administration was corrupt, just check out what's going on around the Crypto Strategic Reserve. Who has made 50x leveraged purchases of the top 5 coins on the list before the list is announced? The amounts run into hundreds of millions.
 

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printed money and crypto are Ponzi scams why im putting 30k in gold coins fkn have to pay CGT on bars.

so lets crack open fort knox :p and turn off the electric and all money gone ;)
 

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'Trump turns off Ukraine missiles' and 'serial spiking rapist'

The European Union (EU) member states have a combined active military force of approximately 1.47 million personnel, but this lacks a unified command, and the combat power of these forces is less than the equivalent number of US troops
 

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I am surpised you don't see a future for the UN.
Who run the biggest charitable programs in the wolrd? WFP, WHO, Unicef, Unesco, peace keeping, etc to cite a few. Who else can replace the UN?
I was only speaking of the UN central chamber and its powers, not the charitable organisations which are often harmed by the centre, such as the USA not paying UNESCO dues for decades, though some paid back now. Trump for example was very anti UNESCO and could well stop that funding again.

Since the nations are far from united, the core trouble making political UN could be dispensed with and all the subordonate organisations placed under a World name organisation as WFP and WHO already are in name, losing the political element as far as possible.
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I was only speaking of the UN central chamber and its powers, not the charitable organisations which are often harmed by the centre, such as the USA not paying UNESCO dues for decades, though some paid back now. Trump for example was very anti UNESCO and could well stop that funding again.

Since the nations are far from united, the core trouble making political UN could be dispensed with and all the subordonate organisations placed under a World name organisation as WFP and WHO already are in name, losing the political element as far as possible.
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The core as you mentioned is essentially the USA and its closest allies, including the uk, doing the USA's bidding. We created and fund the UN ever since its creation. Trump isn't interested in the UN and its institutions. He sees them as woke and want them defunded. What would you replace them with after Trump gets rid of them all?
Who will stop trump to invade Canada and Greenland?
 
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If your savings were between £6,000 and £10,000 when you started claiming, tell the DWP if they go up to more than £10,000

there £2 coins but 3000 of those is 6k but the silver price is £150.000 :p

and no capital gains tax :p
I am not convinced that dwp will accept your silver coins valued at £2 each when the webpage says they sell them at £28 apiece.
 

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I am not convinced that dwp will accept your silver coins valued at £2 each when the webpage says they sell them at £28 apiece.
but i can spend them as they are 2 pound coins! same as us dollars as pre 1963 was made of silver.

in the 70s silver was 51p a oz :eek:

While exact figures are classified, informed sources suggest a Tomahawk cruise missile contains around 10-15 ounces of silver, primarily in solder and an ignition battery.

 

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why has he got a cross on his head pmsl
 

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The core as you mentioned is essentially the USA and its closest allies, including the uk, doing the USA's bidding. We created and fund the UN ever since its creation. Trump isn't interested in the UN and its institutions. He sees them as woke and want them defunded. What would you replace them with after Trump gets rid of them all?
Who will stop trump to invade Canada and Greenland?
Ironically, international markets. As it stopped truss, or Zuma in SA some years before. S&P500's tumbling, as fast as tesla shares (and sales). It's a new world order emerging. Australia's realising it cannot rely on US (who's not interested at all in Chinese warships conducting live fire drills off its coast as it's encircling it). In the long run (6 months) a good one in which US becomes obscure, a failure, Europe independent, under its own nuclear umbrella. Turkey's joined the coalition of the willing, with its massive army. Putin and trump's managed to unify a larger Europe.
 

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Europe independent, under its own nuclear umbrella.

only France has nukes and none have been tested in decades last 2 we tried went up and down and never went anywhere.

the usa can just turn them off oh no :eek: or the aliens can and what happened to all that!!??

 

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What would you replace them with after Trump gets rid of them all?
As previously said, reform it under the World name to perform all its other functions, minus the USA which doesn't want to pay anyway.

Who will stop trump to invade Canada and Greenland?
Europe and worldwide allies, essentially the original North Atlantic Treaty Organisation less the USA. Isolated as I've long proposed, they wouldn't dare attack either.

Overall, go back to when the UN was first proposed and the USA said it would refuse to join if it wasn't positioned there instead of traditionally neutral Switzerland where the rest of us wanted it. That is when the rest of us all should have said to them, "Good, now go away."
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Overall, go back to when the UN was first proposed and the USA said it would refuse to join if it wasn't positioned there instead of traditionally neutral Switzerland where the rest of us wanted it. That is when the rest of us all should have said to them, "Good, now go away."
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when one man can destroy world order, I am afraid that shouldn't be possible.
Putin controls the media in Russia. The answer may be for the EU to acquire FB and Twitter.
 

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