Wouldn’t tire abrasion be rubber?

4 lost fighter jets now. What a shishow.

I want USA to go back to the optimism and respect for human rights they had in the 70’s.

This is the context of the topic you responded to. So it has EVERYTHING to do with the topic.

As I very clearly wrote, progress was fast in the 70’s, and ideals about peace, democracy and human rights were on the rise.
Progress being fast, clearly means things were better late 70’s than early 70’s.
I also never claimed things were only sunshine and rainbows, only that things got better.
You write like someone who did not experience the 70’s, and is completely ignorant about the mentality of the 70’s compared to the pragmatism that was before and came back very quickly after.
I absolutely agree that after WW2 USA took a new role upon themselves, to act as global police, and they clearly got drunk on their own power.
But there’s a huge difference between the progress of the 70’s, and the insane armament and undermining of workers unions, the poor and even democracy that Reagan began in the 80’s. And the normalization in the White house of illegal practices with the Iran Contra, that had zero consequences for the administration.

Banking?

EU has helped a lot boat migrants, and it’s not a human right to enter EU.

The Vietnam war started in 1955 and ENDED in the 70’s.
There were also massive protests against that war in the 70’s, and the peace-movement was way more active in the 70’s than any other decade. Humanitarian values were clearly on the rise, and Carter was elected in 1976, the most humanitarian president USA ever had.

It’s the ones that he won that count.

It absolutely is, I want USA to go back to the optimism and respect for human rights they had in the 70’s.
Cooperation is generally a good thing, but it’s impossible to cooperate with USA now. Their values are simply too different from ours.
We (EU) support democracy and human rights, USA support authoritarians and corruption, and work against what used to be shared values.

As Trump said about Starmer:

I guess our relationship isn’t what it used to be.

You are goddam right it isn’t you malignant sociopath. And it’s all 100% your fault, and the Americans that voted for you twice!

That’s a possibility too.

Starmer had issued his strongest rebuke yet of Trump’s action in Iran, saying the UK did not believe in “regime change from the skies”

Fuck yes. I had a bad feeling when USA was allowed to use UK bases in the region for “defense”.
But it turns out he was actually serious. Hurray for that, let USA fix their own mess for once.

We all remember the mistakes of Iraq, and we have learned those lessons. Any UK actions must always have a lawful basis,

Absolutely fucking YES! to this too. We don’t need to repeat of the illegal invasion of Iraq based on false US intelligence.
Apart from that Trump didn’t even try to make a case for plausible deniability.

I’m not from UK, when I say we, I mean Europe and NATO. The British can be proud of their PM today. 👍 😀

Yep, attacking Iran immediately caused oil prices to increase dramatically.
A much needed aid to the Russian economy. Putin is 100% sure OK with Trump doing this. One phone call and Putin could probably have stopped it.

The Steele Dossier Pee tapes, were probably not about pee but pedophilia.
I bet Russia has those tapes from Epstein, and they can get Trump in prison.

be sure not to choose any copyright protected content, as torrenting that would be illegal in most places.

🤣🤣🤣

Good. Amazon is a threat to democracy. Together with Facebook and Xai, they are among the biggest threats to democracy.

Sometimes problems just solve themselves.

I agree Russia is out of resources, and can’t afford to “waste” any.
Still if Iran was still an important supplier as you claimed earlier, taking down a few Israeli missiles would go a long way to make Trump reconsider, and possibly to create more opposition in USA against the war.
I maintain that Putin actually wants this to help the struggling Russian economy. And if Putin didn’t want it, he could have stopped Trump with a phone call.

Absolutely Mossad is also without conscience, one does not exclude the other.

I think he was, I still think the Steel dossier was correct, that Putin has something on Trump, that he cannot allow to be revealed.
Since we know Epstein worked for Russia, the most obvious suspicion is that Putin has tapes with Trump being “together” with minors.
Trump has most certainly been acting that way for many years now. Including his entire first term presidency, and also the past year withdrawing all aid from Ukraine. Clearly against traditional American interests, and interests of many USA allies.

Iran asked Russia for help,using the Russian S400 systems they have stationed in Syria, to help defend against Israeli missiles.
The response from Russia, was to shut down the S400 systems, to prevent them from being a target.

So very clearly no aid is coming from Russia, and I think part of the reason is that this is what Putin want.