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muriel_volestrangler

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5. The USA is still the 900lb gorilla in world affairs - the biggest country in NATO, the biggest defense budget,

Reply to rainy (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 23, 2025, 07:30 AM

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American companies dominate the world economy. The US has a veto in the UN Security Council. The possible tools, such as sanctions against him, would initiate a global depression thanks to his reaction, and do things like cut off US military aid to Ukraine.

The US voters will have a chance to not let him get away with it in 2026, without starting a depression. And they were responsible for installing him in the first place.

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Even if they did have drugs on board, which they have yet to prove, drug smuggling, not a capital crime Walleye Thursday #1

How does the international community let him get away with this!!! rainy Thursday #2

Somehow he gets away with everything Mossfern Thursday #3

No one wants to bell the cat. Shipwack Thursday #4

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habeas corpus schmabeas schmorpus. Javaman Thursday #7

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