fluffy2560

Breaking News:Looks like Trump blinked on tariffs! He's pulled back (except on China).I'm hearing news reports on the radio where Trump's sycophants are trying to spin this as a win. They just look like fantasists and lunatics. Absolutely ... Read More

Anyway, It's a mega plane, 8 engines and a behemoth of firepower. I always thought it was an ungainly looking thing. But it's the equivalent of an 18-wheeler truck but with high altitude death cargo. Still a favourite if you can still see one. I ... Read More

From https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=601668&p=271#6039812"Anyway, It's a mega plane, 8 engines and a behemoth of firepower. I always thought it was an ungainly looking thing. But it's the equivalent of an 18-wheeler truck but with ... Read More

I found this speech on tariffs by Ronald Raygun is going around on mainstream media.President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987Hope it's not AI and it's real. Wasn't a fan of his but his analysis is spot on. Read More

They still use B 52s? Well, Rock Lobster!Seems very old school. My husband was a subcontractor for the aerospace industry in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Big industries like Boeing, McDonald Douglas, Pratt and Whitney, all of them really at one time or the ... Read More

Let's believe the newspapers.or we could use our brains instead. - @FredInternational Relations is now the place to go to for this stuff.  Post it here and it'll be ignored. Read More

See here - @fluffy2560 No thanks - @FredUp to you matey, no-one forced you to come to this forum and there are other things to do.And elsewhere:Times knocking on. I've got to get my dog walking today as it's sunny and heating up.   Be ... Read More

You spew a lot of hate based on propaganda. If you aren't questioned, you can get away with anything. Even when facts are presented from the horse's mouth, you believe your opinion is worth more than undisputed historical accounts. I'll make a deal. ... Read More

In Reply to Fred's post in the Absolutely Anything Else thread:"You spew a lot of hate based on propaganda.If you aren't questioned, you can get away with anything.Even when facts are presented from the horse's mouth, you believe your opinion is ... Read More

ad entitled International Relations - @fluffy2560I simply answered your point. Given that, perhaps you should have started the thread before making ill thought out accusations.Maybe you could call the new thread, "The false accusations based on ... Read More

ad entitled International Relations  - @fluffy2560I simply answered your point. Given that, perhaps you should have started the thread before making ill thought out accusations.Maybe you could call the new thread, "The false accusations based ... Read More

A thread for discourse and rationality in international relations and current affairs. Please no ranting and no insulting posts! - @fluffy2560I'm following the Iran and US nuclear weapons discussions supposedly taking place indirectly in Oman. It ... Read More

Sorry. I don't look at your links. Don't have time for that. I am not particularly convinced by any ranting. Like I said, while we can learn from the past, it's what is going on now that's important. Regardless of all that went before, where do you ... Read More

Reports today say that despite what Trump said earlier today or yesterday, Iran has denied direct nuclear talks. It's through an intermediary. So they aren't even at the table together.  - @fluffy2560Well, I'm shocked - Trump actually lied - ... Read More