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Maybe someone should tell this ignorant buffoon that there is no "champagne business" in the US.

It’s the French who won’t allow anyone else to call it champagne and so it’s sparkling wine. A violet by any other name is still a violet.

If only sandwiches from Sandwich could be called a sandwich, that doesn’t mean the world has no sandwiches.

Denny Kemp is not a good writer. Too emotional and frothing at the mouth.

In other words, we're going to keep dropping bombs and missiles on Ukraine's towns, cities, people, hospitals, apartment buildings, schools, churches, etc.

Thats what many want to fight on. Trump is peace.

Ukraine’s territory - especially in the eastern part - comes from Russia anyway. It was given. Nothing is permanent. You either get along with your neighbors and treat their people with respect or deal with the consequences.

And learn the important lesson of not being a lackey of Europe, the US or NATO if your geography requires you to be neutral.

Well said by the unfiltered Trump. The Ukrainian government brought this on themselves.

If everyone could go through breakup 10 times before age 25, it might numb and remedy the problem of harassing, stalking, and killing ex’s.

Poor Japan. Pay up and pay more. China is not interested to attacking Japan. Japan is a client.

Muto continued, I don't get it. I mean... I got down and licked his shoes when told to. I literally got down on all fours and spit-shined his shoes with my tongue. And then I continued to beg and beg and beg -- I even cried! We are an ally!! Sure, Canada is too, and they aren't exempt, but we are JAPAN!*

Japan,

It’s shameful to ask and beg like that. You need to be like China. Raise tariffs back. Build your own military. Be self reliant. 独立自尊。The 自尊 part is lacking when you do that. It’s pathetic.

The U.S. went after Russia and it has not gone well. Underestimated the Russian army and thought they could win without committing troops. 

What are you talking about? Russia invaded Ukraine. Nothing to do with the US.

Underworld

It’s more complicated than that. Even though the former Soviet Union collapsed, Russia is not an ally of the U.S. who was and is heavily involved with Ukraine. They could have committed troops at some point in the first year is the 20/20 hindsight but the US leader decided to wait and see.

Keir Starmer

“The only response to Putin is force. We will deploy our forces in Ukraine provided we receive American guarantees. We were 3 years late in responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

I take the stance of Trump and Starmer. Either negotiate for peace or be commuted to fighting Russia and not leave your Ukrainian brothers of democracy hanging.

The worst is just sitting watching and cheering.

This is so outrageous! We should be thanking Ukraine for their sacrifice. They’re the ones dying by the tens of thousands at the hands of a cruel invader. We should be the ones bending over backwards to help Ukraine.

I actually agree with this. And instead the country that is the beacon of democracy just sits and watch. They’re your fellow democratic brothers. Why won’t you help Ukraine fight?

Don’t you think you should help Zelenskyy defeat Russia? If you’re not going to fight, then end the war. The POSTUS is doing the right thing.

The freedom fighters from the home of the brave cheer on Zelenskyy like spectators at a pit bull dog fight.

Russian is the world's new play maker. 

The U.S. went after Russia and it has not gone well. Underestimated the Russian army and thought they could win without committing troops.

This one just a few years. At least they had more resolve in Afghanistan and Iraq. Even more in Vietnam.

Civilian victims of the U.S. firebombings received nothing.

They should be compensated. Just because the bombs weren’t atomic they’ve been forgotten.

Chinese, American, British and European women are adults. Many Koreans (Oppa!) and Taiwanese (Ni hao fan oh!) are like adolescents prancing around as long as they can until marriage or until they turn 45.

The job of women in Japan is to be feminine, look pretty, nod supportively to statements made by their bosses (male) and to tilt their heads and say they’re not sure when they strongly disagree. 

If you happen to be cute with a high voice, you can become the sakura of the office and do more idol gestures and smiles.

Point, look surprised, pretend you’re offended, say “Hidoi” often, purse your lips, puff out your cheeks and tilt your head some more to show more endearing expressions that’s all a part of a common repertoire catered to perverts. Dont forget to make sure your bangs are straight.

It’s not all about outward appearances though. What’s inside also matters: your underwear needs to be white, the color preferred by Japanese men still locked in on their first love back in their nostalgic days of navy sailor junior high school uniforms and skirts lifted by gusts of strong wind scattering cherry blossoms in spring .

Consumer prices in China fell last month for the first time in a year

The Chinese love good prices. Inflation is hurting Americans. Real estate prices falling are good for poverty alleviation as the poor in the country move towards the cities and can afford a home.

Consumer spending in China has been mired in a slump since the end of the pandemic, fueling fears of a deflationary spiral.

The Chinese and the Japanese love to save. Our economies are not based on debt or credit. Credit-ism will get you in trouble when the birds come home to roost. Why do you think Elon is cutting everything?

The US operation is simple: print dollars, export inflation, import real goods. Chin/ta's holdings have dropped about 25%. Japan is also selling US debt and buying Chinese debt.

Don't believe the CCP paid-for videos claiming that everything in China is better. Saw a video this week where a woman had dropped her phone into a "drop toilet" and someone else with a long "retriever" stick had gotten the phone and was washing it off. Must happen very often if they have a specialized "retriever stick" available.

This is not the standard way of evaluating economic growth.

Always check the sky in every video. China is often/mostly smog filled with extremely unhealthy air quality across the country near every city. Here's a map. https://aqicn.org/map/china/ Mostly orange and purple.

You should go and see for yourself. There are plenty of videos made by Westerners living in China.

So many homeless people in China. Hard to shop when you are struggling to eat, much less have a cardboard box for shelter.

Americans can corroborate. There are so many homeless in U.S cities and hardly see them in China. Look at downtown San Francisco and the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia. It's an open air drug market. You can't walk through those places but in China it is clean with people eating good food late at night. You are safe.

There are a lot of videos of captured Ukrainian soldiers on the Internet.

But Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing we are told.

China in an economic and demographic doom loop, so they'll be doing a 'grand bargain' with DJT sooner rather than later!

You must have missed it. China's economy collapsed long ago.

@theFu

Almost everything the opposite of what you're saying.

Trump is stabbing Ukraine in the back by denying them critical intelligence and helping Russia.

The honorable US stabs its proxy in the back and throws it under the bus. You can’t rely on the US.

The job of women in Japan is to look pretty and pleasant, nod supportively to statements made by their bosses (male) and to tilt their head and say they’re not sure when they disagree.

If you happen to be cute with a high voice, you can become the sakura of the office and do more gestures with smiles. Point, look surprised, pretend you’re offended, purse your lips, puff out your cheeks and tilt your head some more to show more endearing expressions that’s all a part of a common repertoire. Then you might have some influence with the Kacho and Bucho.

Make sure your bangs are straight.

Ukraine is the buffer zone between the West and Russia. The Ukraine Russia conflict, as referred to by the POTUS is indeed a Battle Chess of superpowers amidst the transition from unipolar to a multipolar world.

The U.S. and Russia can settle it by themselves as it is between the US and Russia themselves. No need to invite the Europeans or Ukraine for efficiency and an end to the conflict.

In future Ms Ito should follow the rules or be asked to leave the train immediately. Ridiculous why people like her insist on making a scene.

Offering a seat us probably not a scene. This is a scene. A guy was just going home at the end of the day when a “stickler” had to tell him not to drink in the train.

https://youtube.com/shorts/syVVkP-1hEI?si=_1ejJke7pwAhrjBs

Here is a video of the evil woman and the bridge.

https://youtu.be/WG6LXwHLp6s?si=H0COwyJ6PXg1YESc

Just sit in your seat and mind your own business Ms. Ito.

She should be executed or be made to jump off the bridge.

"a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty."

Don’t kill people’s parents with a baseball bat and you won’t get the death penalty.

The guy should die by the method he caused his victims to die. He should be beaten to death with a baseball bat. Reciprocity is the fair way to go.

Cruelty? Yes what he did and brought to himself was indeed cruel.

Killing him changed nothing.

Of course it changed things. He’s no longer living. That’s the change that was necessary and desired.

South Carolina is doing the right thing. The burden needs to be shared and all should see and take heed.

“based on the fact that Russia is absolutely 'pounding' Ukraine on the battlefield right now.”

Tell it like it is and get them to settle soon.

Trump is loving the media attention.

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan is not possible. 

They should sit back and take lessons on how to solve conflicts using threats but without actual war.

Japan should ask for the US to pay for the $1.1 trillion US debt it holds.

Both Japan and China are getting rid of US debt.

Japan was doing so to prop up the weakening yen.

China is doing so in order to sanction-proof its dollar assets.

Japan has started buying Chinese debt.

What the headlines say is different from the available data. The articles chosen show a lot of shaking hands with VIPs of allies, but data shows Japan is working with China.

U.S. Treasury Department's Monthly Treasury International Capital (TIC) Data reports provide detailed breakdowns of foreign holdings of U.S. securities.

Need to evaluate trade war 1.0. in the first term.

What has the US gained from the tariff war and trade war in recent years?

Has the trade deficit expanded or contracted?

Has the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry increased or decreased?

Has inflation improved or worsened?

Has the quality of life of consumers improved or worsened?

It is a consensus that the US has lost the trade war.