Tanada wrote:Interesting little knowledge nugget, during the last 4 years the media was so obsessed with domestic politics it appears the concept of Nuclear War was not worthy of mentioning in mainstream media.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:
I'd rather go back to when media was required to provide news as a SERVICE to earn their right to the bandwidth and resources that let them operate, re the FCC enforcing the rules. But in the modern era where corporations seem to have more and more say in how things run, returning to that idea of balance and responsibility and objectivity seems like a pipe dream.
Public Expresses Mixed Views of U.S. Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
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The new Pew Research Center survey, conducted March 7-13, 2022, among 10,441 U.S. adults on the Center’s American Trends Panel, finds wide partisan differences in views of the administration’s handling of the crisis and the level of support the U.S. has provided to Ukraine.
However, virtually identical shares in both parties – 51% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents and 50% of Democrats and Democratic leaners – regard the Russian invasion as a “major threat” to U.S. interests...
However, most Americans (62%) say they would oppose the U.S. “taking military action even if it risks a nuclear conflict with Russia.” About a third (35%) of Americans say they would favor military action in this scenario. Comparable shares in both parties (36% of Republicans, 35% of Democrats) say they would favor military action even if it risks nuclear conflict with Russia...
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Pops wrote:On the bright side, that's the most agreement between the parties in a long time aside . I told my grandaughter a while back that what America need is a good war.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Newfie wrote: China makes a point of presenting a helpful presence. .
vtsnowedin wrote:Newfie wrote: China makes a point of presenting a helpful presence. .
Not following you on that one. Please elaborate.
Newfie wrote:What I am describing well predates the Road and Belt and is nowhere on the route. Its the Caribbean.
vtsnowedin wrote:Newfie wrote: China makes a point of presenting a helpful presence. .
Not following you on that one. Please elaborate.
jedrider wrote:vtsnowedin wrote:Newfie wrote: China makes a point of presenting a helpful presence. .
Not following you on that one. Please elaborate.
Don't need to look any further than home:
China builds railroads and the U.S. neglects it's own infrastructure.
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