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shappy
Probably best to ignore Kerry and McCain. Just don't give them the attention they crave.
FlyersFan
OKAY .. IT'S MONDAY.
What are you going to do Mr. Kerry?
Keeping in mind that Crimea overwhelmingly voted to break with the Ukraine and join Russia ...
Are you going to try to stop the people of that foreign country from doing what they want??
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry agreed on Sunday to seek a solution to crisis in Ukraine by pushing for constitutional reforms there, the Russian foreign ministry said.
CJCrawley
It's a tiny area about the size of Wales, and it's been under Ukrainian administration since 1954. How can it be right? I suppose Mr Kerry will do what any reasonable politician can do in these situations - push for economic and trading sanctions. His whole approach has been antagonistic from the outset, but he's basically on the side of the angels.
As one other poster pointed out recently; if the Mexican army annexed Texas on the strength that there were a majority of Texans who were pro-Mexico - would that be okay too?
OpinionatedB
I suppose nothing happened today then? I didn't catch any news about this...
Danbones
in case you were not paying attention: when texas was considering seceding recently over homeland security cavity searching babies at airports washington threatened them with a no fly zone like the ones they put on Iraq
texas is a republic that can vote to do what ever they want
like crimea just did
go look
Reinmax
SIPRI Yearbook 2013 – World's top 15 military spenders[edit]
Firs number is defence spending, 2nd is of GDP
World total 1,753 2.5
1 United States United States 682.0 4.4
2 China People's Republic of Chinax 166.0 2.0
3 Russia Russiax 90.7 4.4 5.2 116.0
4 United Kingdom United Kingdom 60.8 2.5
5 Japan Japan 59.3 1.0
6 France France 58.9 2.3
7 Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabiay 56.7 8.9
8 India India 46.1 2.5
9 Germany Germanyx 45.8 1.4
10 Italy Italyx 34.0 1.7
11 Brazil Brazil 33.1 1.5
12 South Korea South Korea 31.7 2.7
13 Australia Australia 26.2 1.7
14 Canada Canadax 22.5 1.3
15 Turkey Turkeyxz 18.2 2.3
Things have moved around a little. I don't think Russia which have much more than stated. They are not exactly all running around in Suhoi T-50's and T-90s. What new equipment they do have is in small numbers.edit on 16-3-2014 by Reinmax because: Added reason for two numbers IE Amount and GDP
JustXeno
But when an american hammer can cost upto 500 dollars depending on who got the contract and a chinese or russian hammer can cost 5 dollars, it kind of puts things on a more equal footing.
www.wnd.com...
The Department of Justice under Barack Obama’s direction has threatened to make the state of Texas a “no-fly” zone if state lawmakers pursue legislation that would protect airline passengers from having their sex organs groped by Transportation Security Administration officials without probable cause.
The threat came yesterday from U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy, who warned state lawmakers, “Texas has no authority to regulate federal agents and employees in the performance of their federal duties or to pass a statute that conflicts with federal law.”
www.countysheriffproject.org...
Sheriff Mueller: Not Within Our Borders
In a letter addressed to Vice President Joe Biden, Linn County Oregon Sheriff Mueller wrote, “Any federal regulation enacted by Congress or by executive order of the president offending the constitutional rights of my citizens shall not be enforced by me or by my deputies,” adding, “Nor will I permit the enforcement of any unconstitutional regulations or orders by federal officers
METACOMET
JustXeno
But when an american hammer can cost upto 500 dollars depending on who got the contract and a chinese or russian hammer can cost 5 dollars, it kind of puts things on a more equal footing.
500 Chinese Type 99 Tanks
407 French Leclerc Tanks
400 Russian T90 Tanks
400 German Leopard Tanks
386 UK Challenger 2 Tanks
8,725 US Abrams Tanks
Equal footing? [QUOTE]
Point taken but I think you know what i was saying, things just cost a lot more in the west, because of corruption and bribes.
yes I know other countries are corrupt also before you feel you have to spell it out for me.
But I bet if you gave all the countries a 100 billion dollars the western ones would get about 50% of the results china or russia could for the same expenditure.
METACOMET
JustXeno
But when an american hammer can cost upto 500 dollars depending on who got the contract and a chinese or russian hammer can cost 5 dollars, it kind of puts things on a more equal footing.
500 Chinese Type 99 Tanks
407 French Leclerc Tanks
400 Russian T90 Tanks
400 German Leopard Tanks
386 UK Challenger 2 Tanks
8,725 US Abrams Tanks
Equal footing?
Point taken but I think you know what i was saying, things just cost a lot more in the west, because of corruption and bribes.
yes I know other countries are corrupt also before you feel you have to spell it out for me.
But I bet if you gave all the countries a 100 billion dollars the western ones would get about 50% of the results china or russia could for the same expenditure.