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Smerel,
So I get this clear, according to you, Russia is allowed and is fully justified in invading any NATO country and any country that is part of the NATO’s enhanced opportunity partner interoperability program.
Russia was never attacked. It is not the victim. It never was the victim It is the oppressor. It has always been the oppressor.
Russia is killing thousands of people. It has already caused tremendous pain to the Jewish communities in Ukraine. There is no justification.Smerel,
“When Putin and the Russians say “we disbanded the Warsaw Pact why does the West continue the militaristic buildup of NATO?” there is legitimacy behind what they are saying.”
After taking over crimea, donbas and invading Ukraine , they have ZERO LEGITIMACY.
Putin simply lied in order to weaken his enemies and make them easier to take over
BY1212,
I detect so much hatred for America in what you write.
Does American really bomb others to oblivion whenever it FEELS like it? I am not sure what you are referring to.
Do you seriously believe that if Canada made a pact with Iran or the Taliban for mutual defense that America would invade Canada, kill millions of people and take it over?
The comparison between NATO and the Taliban is ridiculous.AAQ,
You are correct about the CNN interview.
I also could have originally responded about Robert Gates that what he says in his book is simply one person’s opinion. Even Mordechai Hatzaddik was only “Ratzui L’rov Echav” and not “Lchol Echav”Bored,
That is not fair. You quoted Robert Gates to criticize Biden and now you are saying that you don’t care about what he says.The mods are very benevolent. You can start any thread you want. But first do research. Real research. And be ready to defend what you write. Because I will probably disagree with you.
Dr Pepper,
“My issue was that not a single one of the Democratic Senators had an issue with him lying under oath and voted against removing him from office.”
The issue was that he was lying under oath about a personal relationship. They did not feel that deserved impeachment.“By one of them, yes- the same one your party is fighting so hard to force conservatives to recognize, the Torah calls it an abomination. How anyone calling themselves a G-d fearing Yid can stand behind a party like that is beyond me.”
I will answer you like I have answered others before. Neither party is the Torah party and we are not disagreeing on the Torah. The argument is about America. America is a democratic country. (If you want to live where they punish for this kind of relationship, you can move to SA.)We are disagreeing on what a democratic country should/could do about a person in a relationship that the Torah condemns. There is also a commandment against Idol Worship. It is one of the big Three. But America was founded on freedom of religion so you would never expect either party to take a stand to make worshipping of idols illegal. Although I would be fully supportive of it.“The Torah that I hold so dearly is also very against stealing, yet the policies (and consequences) in place in Democratic run cities seems to encourage stealing and other lawlessness kinds of behavior.”
Sorry, Democrats don’t encourage stealing or lawlessness.
FYI – Americans that vote republican are very good at stealing and lawlessness also. The jails are full of them.“You also mentioned that Hashem tells you to care for the underprivileged. The majority of Republicans would have no issues helping out in a productive way. The system in place now just continues the cycle of poverty. The poor people- how about instead of just giving them money for an infinite amount of time- how about spending a fraction of the money for a limited amount of time and getting them the training that they need to be on their own feet?”
That is a good idea. Bring up to the next republican candidate that you vote for.“Yes, there will be times that widows or others with physical or mental handicaps will needs to receive government assistance on a permanent basis but that should be the extreme minority.”
Agreed. But in our capitalistic society, if the government doesn’t take care of them, then nobody will.You did not answer on how you support a party that does not care for the widows , poor, orphans, immigrants etc ..? All the social programs have been done by the democratic party.
Bored,
Why do you think less of them because they had one report that doesn’t interest you?
As I pointed out, every newspaper has sections for different people. News, Sports, Comics, Sudoku, Crossword Puzzles , Letters to the Editor, Opinions , Celebrities etc ….We do not discount what affects someone of a different race or religion until we walk ten miles in their moccasins.
Would you say that if there was an emoji of jewish people with long noses and money bags and Hamodia would do an article on it that would be insulting to the Jewish people that we can’t handle it?
If you don’t like NPR , don’t listen to them.
ujm,
Thank you. That is the point. Beforehand NATO could say that it is just a threat from Russia and you don’t really need for security purposes to be part of NATO.
But now that Russia went to war and tried to destroy the country, they clearly have a military need to protect themselves from Russian aggression and a lunatic Rasha named Putin.BY1212,
Do you feel that America should apologize to Russia and that we are to blame for the bloodshed that Putin has unleashed?
If Putin decided to drop an atomic weapon should we apologize ?If I was a Russian I would be asking myself the following.
What are we to do now that Putin, with his aggressive attacks and taking over of neighboring countries, including the Ukraine, has given NATO a very compelling reason to strengthen itself, increase its military’s presence in our region and add more members to it’s club?
Putin has scared all of our neighbors into being very worried that he is ready to attack them.
Now our neighbor’s ONLY defense is to join NATO.
We just gave NATO the GREEN LIGHT to grow even larger and stronger.It was very clear that the Ukraine was not a threat to Russia. They never threatened Russia and would be idiots if they did. They just wanted to be left alone.
The only aggressor in the region has been Russia.Bored teen,
Gates just said today that he thinks that Biden is handling the situation with Putin and Ukraine very well .
GadolHadofi,
He did exactly what an American President is supposed to do.
He talked to Putin and tried to prevent his attack. Although Putin tried to put up numerous smokescreens to make the world believe that he was being attacked first, Biden made it clear that Putin had no logical reason to invade Ukraine.
He spoke to Zelensky and assured him that America is on his side. No threats. No hints at quid pro quo. (NONE OF THE BALONEY THAT TRUMP DID).
He talked to the EU and NATO and other allies and formed a world wide coalition against Putin and Russia.
He is supporting the country under attack and sending assistance. The Ukrainians are not going to give up the fight. They will fight to death.
The russian stock market will be close to zero tomorrow and russian money useless. Russian people will suffer tremendously for the actions of their Autocratic leader.
Russian banks won’t be able to keep afloat without access to SWIFT.
Russian oligarachs won’t be able to use their billions in foreign bank accounts.
Russia lost it’s gas pipeline to Germany.
This is all just a start.
Russian and Putin are going to lose even more in the coming days. There already are casualties on the russian side.Your hatred of Biden is blinding you to his excellent leadership . He is a great uniter and it is clear to see.
I will ask once more. Please tell us all what Trump would have done to prevent Putin from attacking Ukraine.
My prediction is Putin is going to be on trial for war crimes before Yanukovych steps a foot back into Ukraine.
ujm,
And if you are proven wrong?
Yanukovych is accused of mass killings of civilians. He is the same evil person as Putin.
Lost Spark,
Going to college does not make a person into a liberal. Eight of the nine current Supreme Court justices went to Harvard or Yale for their JD. Barrett went to Rhodes College and Notre Dame.
Every republican senator and almost all republican congressman went to college.
Everyone that spoke at CPAC yesterday probably went to college.“When someone openly supports Biden it’s either they want a government handout, or are blinded by what the colleges have indoctrinated them with. I feel sorry for both parties.”
Or they looked into the Torah and see that Hashem tells you to care for the sick, poor, hungry, widows and oppressed. My Torah doesn’t say , “Make sure the rich get tax breaks.”Gadol Hadofi,
As I said before, I was wrong about him pulling back. It happens. I rely on News reports.
You know who wasn’t wrong ? US Intelligence and the Biden administration. They knew that Putin was going to war and had not pulled back.bored teen,
Just want to point out that when I quote Gates saying that Mr. Biden was a man of genuine integrity and character , you seem to dismiss that as not a defense of my guy. Why ?
The statement about Biden and the last 40 years is superficial, generic and it is ridiculously funny that you think I actually need to defend my guy against it. As Biden would say , C’mon man.
Do I have to defend against people calling him sleepy Joe ?
Maybe report back on how Biden was wrong on every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades, then we can discus it.
Ben Shapiro has totally biased political opinions . They are not facts. I don’t need to defend my guy against him. (Robert Gates , actually was a leader in multiple administrations. )RM
“So for the last decade Putin Invaded Crimea during Obama Nothing during Trump Now Ukraine during Biden .”
You don’t know if it would be “Now Ukraine during Trump’s second term.”
You don’t even know why Putin decided to sacrifice the lives of millions of people now to attack Ukraine. It is not rational.
Whatever the reason is , nothing an American President could have done to stop him.
How would Trump have stopped him?Hadofi,
You mean like boneheaded decisions to try to make peace with NK’s dictator ?
Or Biden’s decisions to continue to sell to Israel all the Military weapons it needs?Teen,
Robert Gates also said the following in the WSJ. ” While it is certainly fair to quote my criticisms of Joe Biden’s record on national security, fairness requires me to note for the record that those comments written in 2014 also noted that Mr. Biden was a man of genuine integrity and character. It is also worth noting that I wrote in these very pages that Donald Trump “is stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead our country and government, and temperamentally unsuited to lead our men and women in uniform. He is unqualified and unfit to be commander-in-chief”
I think Robert Gates would better left out of the conversation. “Lo m’duvshach v’lo m’uktzach.”Lost spark,
Who is going into a new war? What does a college degree have to do with support for Biden?
Are you a prophet who knows what the future would have looked like ?Chugibugi,
“He was the only one in Obama’s cabinet who voted AGAINST killing that monster Bin Laden.”
He wasn’t the only one and the choice wasn’t between killing or not killing him. It was also Robert Gates originally (later changed his mind) and the choice was whether to wait on more intel to go into Pakistan or to stage a raid based on the current intel.RM,
81,283,098 American voted for Biden. He has the decades of international experience and constitution to make the important decisions during this crisis.
All of the Trump supporters don’t know, and will never know, what Trump would be doing in the current situation. There is no rhyme or reason why Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump is president. And there is no rhyme or reason why Trump wouldn’t be doing the exact same thing as Biden.
Syag,
Is everything I post about me?
Do you always completely ignore content to attack the writer?This is beneath you.
I will not spend another post discussion about myself.
I don’t even listen to radio.
Putin knows he has the republicans on his side.
He can do anything he wants and they will blame it on Biden.
He can invade another country, kill tens of thousands of people, cause millions of innocent civilians into poverty and into becoming refugees, – and republicans will not say a word about how big a RASHA MERUSHA he is and that he is the cause of all this.
Republicans are not on America’s side.Syag,
If you were asking me after I already told you my opinion on the document, then you were not looking for an unbiased opinion.
I really took the time to answer your questions and delve into the document which was the source of Trump claiming that he was spied upon.If you don’t care about the people who took part in an attempt to overthrow an election then why do you care about a matter involving one person lying to the FBI that occurred 6 years ago ?
AAQ ,
You got your ‘news’ on the issues of the day from Trump’s tweets ? He did not use his tweets to inform on issues.
Number of current Trump twitter followers = 0. What a feat! He went from 90 million to 0. Loser.When I need a prime example of Fox news lying , I never have to look far.
Sara Carter, a Fox new contributor , admitted today to an entirely fictitious tweet about a woman dying after being trampled by a Canadian authority on horseback amid ongoing trucker-led protests.
Fox Nation hosts Diamond and Silk and Republican Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) both amplified her fictitious tweet.Syag,
Just wait for all the texts and information that will come out from the January 6th committee showing Fox news hosts were speaking with Trump before and during the attack on the capitol. They played a major part in the disinformation and are responsible for all the people that have gone and will go to jail because of January 6th.
Let Trump and his family plead the 5th a million times. Innocent people don’t plead the 5th. (Although they might under advice of counsel.)
Syag,
I never admitted I didn’t read it. Where did I admit to that?
How did I know that is publicly available? Because I read parts of it.There is a big difference between what everyone said was in the Court document — that Hillary spied on Trump and infiltrated his campaign and while he was in office – and what was actually in the document.
Anybody going to apologize for relying on fake fox news ? Will Hannity and Tucker et all spend 10 seconds to tell the truth ?
Syag , I am baffled that I wrote a detailed analysis of the document and even followed up with comments from the writer of the document saying that he is not responsible for all the fake news and all I got from you is ” You admit you never read the document.”
This is not a discussion.
Now, where was I not on point ? I do not retract a single thing I wrote. It has all been proven true by the writer of the document himself.Aaq,
I am sure you know that POTUS and the Whitehouse both have very active twitter accounts.Syag,
1) For the sake of discussion, which point that I wrote was not on point? If I am wrong, I will admit it and agree with you.
2) The court filing is a total of 13 pages. Most of it is made up with legalese.
It’s purpose is solely in the case of US vs Sussman to inquire into a potential conflict of interest arising from the representation of the defendant by his current counsel , Latham and Watkins LLP.This is not an indictment. The indictment of Sussman was only for lying to the FBI .
3) The other people mentioned in the document – IE. Tech-Executive-1 (AKA former Neustar Senior Vice President Rodney Joffe ) have not been indicted.
(A spokesperson for Joffe said in a statement, “Contrary to the allegations in this recent filing, Mr. Joffe is an apolitical internet security expert with decades of service to the U.S. Government who has never worked for a political party, and who legally provided access to DNS data obtained from a private client that separately was providing DNS services to the Executive Office of the President (EOP).)4) Since Fox news simply lies constantly , I do not know where they see in this document anything about Hillary Clinton spying and infiltrating.
I am assuming that Fox news is referring to the following few paragraphs which are referring to the non indicted tech executive-1 and not to Sussman.
.5) “The Government’s evidence at trial will also establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system (“DNS”) Internet traffic pertaining to (i) a particular healthcare provider, (ii) Trump Tower, (iii) Donald Trump’s Central Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States (“EOP”). (Tech Executive-1’s employer, Internet Company-1, had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP. Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.)
The Indictment further details that on February 9, 2017, the defendant provided an updated set of allegations – including the [Alfa Bank] data and additional allegations relating to Trump – to a second agency of the U.S. government (“Agency-2”). The Government’s evidence at trial will establish that these additional allegations relied, in part, on the purported DNS traffic that Tech Executive-1 and others had assembled pertaining to Trump Tower, Donald Trump’s New York City apartment building, the EOP, and the aforementioned healthcare provider. In his meeting with Agency-2, the defendant provided data which he claimed reflected purportedly suspicious DNS lookups by these entities of internet protocol (“IP”) addresses affiliated with a Russian mobile phone provider (“Russian Phone Provider-1”). The defendant further claimed that these lookups demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations. The Special Counsel’s Office has identified no support for these allegations. Indeed, more complete DNS data that the Special Counsel’s Office obtained from a company that assisted Tech Executive-1 in assembling these allegations reflects that such DNS lookups were far from rare in the United States. For example, the more complete data that Tech Executive-1 and his associates gathered – but did not provide to Agency-2 – reflected that between approximately 2014 and 2017, there were a total of more than 3 million lookups of Russian Phone-Provider-1 IP addresses that originated with U.S.-based IP addresses. Fewer than 1,000 of these lookups originated with IP addresses affiliated with Trump Tower. In addition, the more complete data assembled by Tech Executive-1 and his associates reflected that DNS lookups involving the EOP and Russian Phone Provider-1 began at least as early 2014 (i.e., during the Obama administration and years before Trump took office) – another fact which the allegations omitted.”
6) I will let fox news explain what DNS lookups are because they obviously have no idea and they assume all their listeners also have no idea.
7) I will let fox news explain who the EOP is 2016 was.8) Durham’s filed a document last week. It says, “[D]efense counsel has presumed the Government’s bad faith and asserts that the Special Counsel’s Office intentionally sought to politicize this case, inflame media coverage, and taint the jury pool,” But He added “[i]f third parties or members of the media have overstated, understated, or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the Government’s Motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the Government’s inclusion of this information.”
Englishman,
It is an opportunity.(Berachos 58A)
אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן: לְעוֹלָם יִשְׁתַּדֵּל אָדָם לָרוּץ לִקְרַאת מַלְכֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל. וְלֹא לִקְרַאת מַלְכֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בִּלְבַד, אֶלָּא אֲפִילּוּ לִקְרַאת מַלְכֵי אוּמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, שֶׁאִם יִזְכֶּה — יַבְחִין בֵּין מַלְכֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לְמַלְכֵי אוּמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם.
Rabbi Yoḥanan said: One should always strive to run toward kings of Israel to greet them. And not only should he run toward kings of Israel, but also toward kings of the nations of the world, so that if he will be privileged to witnesses the glory of the Messiah (Rashi) and the World-to-Come, he will distinguish between the kings of Israel and the kings of the nations of the world.Are you looking forward to the pomp and circumstance of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral first?
Aaq and Syag,
Can someone post and prove from the original Durham document that Trump was spied upon and infiltrated his network when he was President? After that, I can show how they are mistaken.
Everyone is saying these things without proof.
I don’t believe a single word from Fox news.
Fox listeners demand proof for everything that Trump is accused if, but will believe everything they accuse others of. Like , Hunter, Hillary, Democrats cheated on 2020 , etc…Couldn’t care less about emoji research. If I don’t care, I don’t listen.
Who reads everything written in the newspaper?
Aaq,
No opinion. I don’t know enough about their sources of revenue.
They collect enough donations to show that they have a lot of listeners willing to support them.
Just because NPR wrote one article about emoji’s doesn’t make it racist or a joke.
They have a million other articles.The article about emoji’s quoted a study by the University of Edinburgh, which is one of the top 50 universities. Are they also a joke because of one study?
Emoji’s are a topic for discussion. Why is that “funny”?
Put yourselves in a dark skinned person’s shoes for a second and understand that they see the world differently than you.
Cancel culture was blasted by Republican’s for removing Trump from twitter. But when it comes to info that Republican’s don’t like , then it is fine. It never was about cancel culture or freedom of speech.
If the republican party is doing fine, please tell us who do you want as the next nominee from the republican party for POTUS?
If your answer is Trump, then the republican party is not doing well at all.
So Johnny is a female name. Interesting.
And picklesauce is a Jewish name. Very Interesting.Syag,
I will give YWN credit for posting about Trump’s accountant today.I read the part of the filing where Fox news built it’s claim of spying from. Not the whole thing.
My opinion of Durham is my own.
Coffee Addict,
What a coincidence that he was trying to be funny at Biden’s expense and not Trump’s.
GH,
Fox/OAN/NewsMax are still trying to sell the “LOCK HER UP” and “BUT HER EMAILS” claims after almost 6 years.
It is very sad that there are still people who believe them.It is also ironic and hypocritical that Fox/OAN/NewsMax are not chanting “LOCK HIM UP” and “BUT HIS EMAILS” on DJT who took TOP SECURITY level documents out of the white house.
Syag,
It is not a what about.
It allows me to inform/discuss news in the CR that YWN refuses to acknowledge. What would you think is the reason his accountant has dropped him like a hot potato? Probably because he lied to them. Why did he lie to them?
The Durham court filing is publicly available and everyone can read it.
It is a little complicated to actually explain since it has to do with DNS and other esoteric IT acronyms.
It also about only one person – Mr. Sussman.
But it has nothing to do with spying or infiltration.All Durham has done in 2 years is indict 2 people for false statements to the FBI and both have pleaded not guilty.
He has nothing to show to prove anything.
So he basically is a nothing burger hired by Barr and still doing the work of Trump.
I bet that Dachenko and Sussman win at trial.Maybe YWN should stop printing fake fox news reports.
An example : The headline “Mainstream Media Hit with Brutal Reality Check After Clinton Spying Bombshell”
The Durham report does not say that the Clinton campaign spied on spied on Donald Trump, both as a candidate and as president.
The court filing also definitely does not say that the Clinton campaign hired tech executives to “infiltrate” Trump Tower and White House servers in an attempt to create a narrative linking Trump to Russia.
In fact the word infiltrate is not found in the report at all.Maybe YWN should report real news about the Trump Org’s longtime Accounting firm yesterday .
Former president Donald Trump’s longtime accounting firm informed his company last week that a decade’s worth of Trump’s financial statements “should no longer be relied upon” and suggested that any recipient of the documents be alerted, according to a copy of the letter filed in New York court filings.UJM
You removed the word “SUGGESTS” from the title.
That is a big difference between “there needs to be further examination of this” and “this is definitively concluded.”
You jumped to a possibly false conclusion.Based on all benchmarks , the AP and Reuters are the least biased news sources and it has been that way for decades.
Trump created a new rule – any piece of news that I don’t like is fake news. Any news that I like – no matter how big a lie it is – is real news.
That is not the way it works.Coffee Addict,
You answered your own question. Just because they stopped mandating it doesn’t mean that they still don’t recommend that people wear masks on their own volition.
Furthermore, can the republicans who have been fighting a war against mask and vaccine mandates stop blaming the democrats when the mandates get lifted?
You do not get both ways.
While the mandate applies – let’s scream that it’s against science.
After it is lifted, let’s scream that it’s against science.UJM,
So everyone can be mekayam the holy mitzvah of “V”Nishmartem” 3 times a year ? Gevaldik. Thanks for the PSA.
It must be a daf yomi coincidence, since we are learning maseches chagiga where there are 3 other mitzvos (Rieyah, Chagiga and Simcha) that Hashem commands us to do specifically 3 times a year to become closer to Him.Syag,
First , I was not asking you on this issue , because I know what your opinion is.
1) My point is there are people (and based on the title of this thread maybe the OP and others on this thread are among them ) who mock people for wearing masks and getting vaccinated .
Why would you mock people trying to protect themselves and being Mikayem Vnishmarten Meod Lnafshosaichem?Why would you mock people who asked their Rabbanim what to do and have been told to get vaccinated and wear masks?
In fact, there are many famous Roshei Yeshivas who still are very compliant with all the policies to protect themselves.2) When did Republicans decide that Public Policy is a ” let’s make fun of all the rules ” issue?
When did they attribute public safety policy to power grabs and population control?
They never consider the side of the people who are still dying from Covid today.I am not discounting that there are downsides and terrible consequences of forcing kids in school to wear masks. Or any of the policies to protect people from Covid.
Hindsight is 20/20. It is not fair to say what the school should have been done based on the outcome.
The decision to mandate vaccines and masks is not a light and easy decision. As I wrote , they are still trying to save 3,000 people a day from dying.
If people will acknowledge the weightiness of the decision, I could understand both sides.
But that is not where we are it.3) The republicans and its subsidiary fox news, believe that the CDC, Dr Fauci , some members of the Medical Community and Governors that mandated masks and vaccines are all enemies. They are all evil enemies .
When did it become logical to call Dr Fauci a murderer because of ideas in a book written by a conspiracy theorist , anti-vaxxer and someone who said that Anne Frank had more freedom in hiding from the Nazis than people have today under U.S. vaccination policies ?
4) The OP would have hated and despised living in the midbar with the Shechina and Moshe rabbenu.
In the midbar there was no freedom at all. EVERYONE LISTENED TO HASHEM AND MOSHE RABBENU OR THEY GOT PUNISHED IMMEDIATELY.
You didn’t listen to Hashem , Moshe Rabbenu , The Sarei Alafim, Chamishim and Meos – there was an immediate punishment.
Either from Heaven – by your Manna being sent miles away from your door, getting Tzoraas etc … or by the Beis Din of Moshe Rabbenu and the Shotrim.
The same when we had a Melech. There was no longer “Ish hayashar Baynav”.
Dovid and Shlomo Hamelech demanded perfection from Klal Yisrael in following Hashem’s Torah. Nothing less. No freedom at all.Coffee Addict,
The mask mandate was struck down Jan. 24 by a NY state Supreme Court judge who said state officials didn’t have the authority to issue the mandate without legislative approval.
Did you not know this ?Coffee Addict,
I want to know what is your answer.
Can anyone explain the over 3,000 covid deaths in the US today?
Many of these people were healthy people until a few weeks ago. Now they are dead.
Does anybody care about them?
Shouldn’t the US Government care about them?How about the 3,000 health people today who will catch covid and die within a few weeks ?
If there would be a list of names everyday of the 3,000 people that died would people start realizing that covid is not over ?
Maybe they would finally realize that there should still be an effort made in protecting lives.