Alex comments

How horrible.. Wth is wrong with the US, it's worse than a third-world country

He is making a bad mistake, he sees NATO as a threat which it simply does not have the resources or political or cultural will to be

Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libia would certainly second that!

Normally the who nation would have to be in agreement wouldn't they?

Sure. And then there's Kosovo.

A lesson for other countries: don’t rely on any agreement and never give up your nuclear program.

So you support Iran and N Korea?

Were the Chechen people allowed to break away from Russia

By this token, though, are Texas and California allowed to break away from the US?

Indeed, watching reruns of Top Gun leads to a distorted view of reality...

I still say the US should deploy mass air power to Poland and Romania.

A missile strike away that would turn this mass air power into a mass pile of you know what.

Just send John Rambo already!

China is in the process of building something close to 250 new missile silos at three sites in northwest China. Each of those silos will hold an ICBM with potentially 8 or 10 separate warheads.

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2021/11/a-closer-look-at-chinas-missile-silo-construction/

Great, another reference to a blog as a supposedly legitimate source. And even in this blog article, this is what they say "In this article we use words like suspected, apparent, and probable to remind the reader of that fact." In the meantime, the US already has more than 3,000.

The US and Canadian armies have been training Ukrainian ground forces in far western Ukraine for several years now

Oh boy.. Ukraine will fall for sure then

One is safer living in El Salvador than in many places in the US. American dream, anyone?

Yep, everything in China revolves around the red envelope. Refuse and you get inspected, fined and maybe run completely out of business. China is as bad as any third world basket case for corruption.

This is not something that foreign business has to worry about, don't mislead people.

Good to see a president finally showing leadership.

He is a messenger for Putin in this setting, not much leadership here

What a blow to the "boycott China" crowd

Just me but I think over the course of January 2022 the US and NATO should increase air power on Ukraine's borders with Poland, Romania and Moldava and conduct joint exercises with NATO air forces and Ukrainian air and ground forces to improve their mutual coordination.

That's warmongering

Time for the US to start having military units rotate through Taiwan openly to conduct joint training, and invite their Air Force to Red Flag exercises.

Time to call John Rambo to save the world!

The only hope is for the Russian people to decide to put in term limits and throw Putin out, take back all the money he stole while they are at it. 

It seems that Putin has the majority support in Russia. Do you know something that those Russian people don't know? Like about how much money he stole, could you share the details?

@Desert

So who would be responsible for something like this, is it the "young new engineers learning the ropes" or "older engineers who are their mentors and team leads."?

US Hypersonic Missile Fails Anew in Third Trial

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/12/20/us-hypersonic-missile-fails-trial/amp/

The government is spending 628 bill, yet can't provide decent housing for veterans..

Arnold Schwarzenegger donates $250,000 to buy 25 new tiny homes for veterans

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10344437/amp/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-donates-250k-25-new-tiny-homes-homeless-veterans.html

Let Russia go back to the dark ages.

Dark ages? In your world Google and Meta must be the only sources of information on the web... Sad, really.

@hazycake

He does his part. It's always easy just to judge, though.

Japanese fashion tycoon makes huge 2 bil. yen 'hometown tax' donation to east Japan city

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191226/p2a/00m/0na/019000c

I'd rather row the boat and enjoy the fishing.

That's pretty much all you can do if you don't have that kind of money. Just don't complain about how other people spend their dough.

I think space tourism is dumb and doesn’t contribute anything to science.

Should it? It's "tourism" after all. Do you know of any tourism that does contribute to science?

The fact that Ukraine didn't close its airspace over the war zone at that time is a crime in itself, someone should be held responsible for that.

They bombed Serbia. Liberated Kosovo (it is free and independent now) and bombed parts of Libya which remains a sovereign state and in dispute between domestic forces.

Indeed, it must be Wikipedia...

Your version of truth is astonishingly far fetched like many Russian narratives.

So are you saying that your version of truth is the right one? Based on what, Wikipedia?

Monroe Doctrine from the 1820s

Yes, exactly, the Monroe doctrine. So if the Russians have a similar principle in place (as I am sure most countries do), then it's easy to understand why they want NATO to stay as far from its borders as possible.

Russia has no right to try and dictate who can and cannot join NATO.

Let's say Venezuela decided to join SCO and host a Chinese or Russian military base, would the US be ok with that? If no, why not?

While U.S. intelligence has determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made plans for a potential further invasion of Ukraine

After the Afghanistan disaster, who can trust this so-called intelligence?

Other targets included Cloudwalk Technology, which was developed to recognize faces of Uyghurs and Tibetans and has since been deployed to Zimbabwe to help improve the technology

Are there Uyghurs and Tibetans in Zimbabwe as well?

Their partnership is based purely on greed, power and conquest of the weak

Hmm, this sounds more like NATO..