No Oppo Supporters The TAN 83 - yank politics and brand names with a dash of groupthink

[Cam Payner]

 

[beema limapep]

I'm even too scared to ask what the **** is this

 

[beema limapep]

DK's

 

[Rayzorwire]

How very dare you...I'm not that fat.....

Aha!

But...you are that slow?

Welcome, Lachie.

 

[Rayzorwire]

 

[Nostradumbass]

 

[Rayzorwire]

I'm certain it's a random coincidence that the map of countries which refuse to recognise Palestine as a nation almost coincides exactly with the map of countries sanctioning Russia and about to send sanctions China's way...





Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a chorus of government officials, academics, commentators, and retired bureaucrats and diplomats has dismissed any link between the crisis and NATO’s decades-long expansion. Moscow’s aggression, we are told, is all about Vladimir Putin’s imperial impulse—his desire to recreate the Russian empire. Yet three decades ago we had some warning of Russia’s strategic sensibilities about NATO expansion. During the 1990s campaign to bring Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic under the U.S. nuclear umbrella, many leading military and foreign-policy thinkers argued that the enlargement of NATO would lead to trouble with Russia. Expansion would create the very danger it was supposed to prevent: Russian aggression in reaction to what the Kremlin would deem a provocative and threatening Western policy.



The list of opponents of NATO enlargement from three decades ago reads like a who’s who of that generation’s wise men. It included the architects of the Cold War containment doctrine George Kennan and Paul Nitze; the former senior Reagan defense officials Fred Iklé and Admiral James Watkins; president Jimmy Carter’s CIA director Stansfield Turner; the Nixon-era diplomats Robert Bowie and Robert Ellsworth; the Reagan-era ambassadors to Moscow Arthur Hartman and Jack Matlock; the intellectuals Ronald Steel, Edward Luttwak, and the Cato Institute’s Ted Galen Carpenter; the magazine editors Owen Harries (the National Interest) and Charles Maynes (Foreign Policy); and, not least, the distinguished historians Robert Conquest, Richard Pipes, John Lewis Gaddis, and Britain’s foremost military historian, Sir Michael Howard.

Officials in the State and Defense departments also opposed NATO plans to expand eastward, including the Polish-born chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili and Defense Secretary Les Aspin, as well as his successor William Perry, who considered resignation in late 1994 when the policy proposal moved forward. Former defense secretaries Robert McNamara and James Schlesinger also aired their concerns that NATO enlargement would decrease allied security and unsettle European stability.

In the lead-up to the Senate’s ratification of expansion in 1998, the New York Times editorial board said that it was “the most important foreign policy decision America has faced since the end of the Cold War” and could “prove to be a mistake of historic proportions. . . . It is delusional to believe that NATO expansion is not at its core an act that Russia will regard as hostile.”

NATO’s Prophetic Critics

Expanding the alliance has led to a war many experts predicted.

modernagejournal.com

MSN

We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis… and Lost - Antiwar.com

Why does it seem the Pentagon is far better at spending money than actually putting together a successful operation? The failed “Operation Prosperity - Ron Paul for Antiwar.com

original.antiwar.com

Biden's Weird Saudi Obsession

Now the president is so desperate to get any foreign policy “win” that he is proposing locking the U.S. into a formal alliance with one of the world’s worst governments.

daniellarison.substack.com

 

[SunshineBoy]

What do you blame?

Lactose

 

[Triggering Tiger]

When you're about 70 years old and you've been doing the same routine for 50 plus years I think it's time let it go.

 

[Groupie_]

we will win the flag next year in the traditional yellow

 

[SunshineBoy]

The Dead Kennedys?

 

[kozi]

Rooter buttermilk wings so good

they're thick crumb old school canteen style could eat 50

 

[Groupie_]

Rooter buttermilk wings so good

they're thick crumb old school canteen style could eat 50

I could eat there everynight and not be disappointed

 

[SouthernStripes]

Rooter buttermilk wings so good

they're thick crumb old school canteen style could eat 50

Everyone i get rooter it is terrible, you’re making it sound worth another go though

 

[Drunken Wookie]

 

[The Mighty]

This jingle still rolls around in my head from time to time

Was bingeing on Yogos back then and Snack Packs

 

[The Mighty]

 

[Sir_Loin]

NaturalDisaster when next considering your tirade of bullshit against dairy, maybe consider .
The dairy industry was worth roughly $13 billion in Australia for 2023-2024 financial year . Of that $13 billion 50% is paid to the farmer the remainder is split amongst processors and supermarkets predominately owned internationally .
In the last few years and for the first time, in known history , Australia became a gross importer of dairy products .
Based on contract pricing now being offered for 2024-2025 . The average dairy farmers income for the 12 month period is going to drop by roughly $330k . They still have growing cost of production cost such as electricity , fuel , interest rates etc etc alongside the cost of living that everyone has .
Interestingly it’s suspected the end product cost to consumer will rise , so the balance swings roughly from 50/50 , farmer paid to end user cost , To more like 35/65 .
Keeping in mind the 15% swing is predominately to internationally owned businesses .

Can not only you , but also 5,000 people in a similar position/ industry to you drop $330k per year ?

Haha nice melt have a sook cry baby

 

[beema limapep]

This is the longest full moon I've ever lived through.

 

[Downtown06]

Ohhhhh the Mighty Boosch, great show!!!!!!

 

[The_Kraken]

Lactose

I blame gluten and big wheat.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Success after all those years of chasing.

https://fb.watch/sQqH3P-wBy/

 

[Groupie_]

bye week is shite as

hopefully we smash carltoon next week and big sexy kicks 8

 

[DickieKnee]

I blame gluten and big wheat.

Big Weetbix have a lot to answer. All those years of telling us it's a healthy breakfast!

 

[Downtown06]

Chappelle was untouchable back in the early 2000's