Politics

[Kevin Peacocke]

Formula for world peace:
The Ukraine war has brought a lot into focus vis a vis the world and its peaceful future. Here are my takes for a recipe that may work:
1. Abandon and close down the UN. With the Security Council it is absolutely ineffective since the two main miscreants are on th SC and cannot be regulated. With that structure it has become a tacit approval mechanism for what they get up to. In any event the UN is little more than a liberal charity organisation and can be re-constituted as such if the liberals are willing to donate their own money.
2. Expand and strengthen NATO, and entrench in NATO'S constitution that it can never be used as a first-hit mechanism. In effect it then becomes the world's policeman that the UN was supposed to be.
3. Expand NATO's mandate to act against genocide, anywhere.
4. Expand NATO's mandate to act against territorial expansion of one nation against another.
5. Strengthen the ICC to actually prosecute rogue leaders and mandate that it does so.
6. Use the ICC as a dispute arbiter with real punitive teeth to not only try a problematic leader but to apply national sanctions.

 

[Red Leg]

I liked Top Gun: Maverick, but here's the thing. We're going to fly down a narrow canyon, we're going to rely on instinct instead of instruments, and to make this work we need to shoot at a target that's less than two meters wide. I think I saw that movie in 1977.

i know. And in a galaxy far far away.

 

[mark-hunter]

@Kevin Peacocke
hmmmm,

or the reason for next world war?

The UN was conceived with signature of 4 world powers, with intention to prevent any major conflicts in the future.
Those 4 powers at the time were: US, UK, USSR and China.

Removing the legacy of UN and giving peace keeping mandate to Nato could make Russia and China a bit nervous, wouldn't you think?

 

[Brent in Az]

In a real world scenario, I would take out the SAM sites at the same time as the airstrip.

 

[mdwest]

@Kevin Peacocke
hmmmm,

or the reason for next world war?

The UN was conceived with signature of 4 world powers, with intention to prevent any major conflicts in the future.
Those 4 powers at the time were: US, UK, USSR and China.

Removing the legacy of UN and giving peace keeping mandate to Nato could make Russia and China a bit nervous, wouldn't you think?

The UNs predecessor, the League of Nations, failed in this regard…and I’d maintain the UN has failed here as well… it hasn’t prevented formal or informal wars among its member nations… its failed to provide security to numerous member nations, etc…

What it has been wildly successful at is growing itself year over year, increasing its annual budget, increasing its personnel (it now has more than 40,000 employees) and sucking up billions upon billions of dollars each year to support globalist agendas and failed programs (the US alone paid more than $11b to the UN in 2021)…

FWIW I used to work for another of the Breton Woods agencies.. and worked closely with the UN for a few years… it is in my opinion nothing more than a self licking ice cream cone that is woefully inefficient and ineffective… it is even more poorly run and managed than most federal governments

 

[Jfet]

Enjoy!

 

[Red Leg]

In a real world scenario, I would take out the SAM sites at the same time as the airstrip.

Absolutely. And those SAMs would likely be active radar rather than heat seeking making the flares useless. I also have no idea who the chubby warrant is who follows him from assignment to assignment directing test flights and carrier recovery operations. Never said it was realistic - just a lot of fun.

 

[mark-hunter]

and I’d maintain the UN has failed here as well… it hasn’t prevented formal or informal wars among its member nations… its failed to provide security to numerous member nations, etc…

On this one we agree.

 

[Newboomer]

There you go:

Kamala gives migrants the cold shoulder as dozens dumped at VP's home

Vice President Kamala Harris gave dozens of migrants the cold shoulder after busloads were dumped outside her DC residence on Christmas Eve - one of the coldest nights on record.

www.dailymail.co.uk

God Bless Texas!...

Sounds just like the hypocrites in Martha's Vineyard. So typical of commucrats. They blat and whine about human rights but when it comes to doing something, well, that's a different story.

 

[CoElkHunter]

The UNs predecessor, the League of Nations, failed in this regard…and I’d maintain the UN has failed here as well… it hasn’t prevented formal or informal wars among its member nations… its failed to provide security to numerous member nations, etc…

What it has been wildly successful at is growing itself year over year, increasing its annual budget, increasing its personnel (it now has more than 40,000 employees) and sucking up billions upon billions of dollars each year to support globalist agendas and failed programs (the US alone paid more than $11b to the UN in 2021)…

FWIW I used to work for another of the Breton Woods agencies.. and worked closely with the UN for a few years… it is in my opinion nothing more than a self licking ice cream cone that is woefully inefficient and ineffective… it is even more poorly run and managed than most federal governments

When you have the now rogue nation of Russia still on the UN Security Council, that undermines any credibility the UN might have once had. Russia's military has committed THOUSANDS of documented intentional WAR CRIMES in Syria and now Ukraine and yet they're still calling the shots (blocking everything) on the Security Council. A complete UN failure and proof the UN is absolutely useless for what its primary reason for existing is.

 

[mdwest]

 

[spike.t]

The u turn gets even bigger...

BBC News - China to end Covid quarantine for foreign arrivals

China ends Covid quarantine for travellers in January

Chinese citizens will also be able to travel overseas, the immigration authority said on Tuesday.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[spike.t]

The UNs predecessor, the League of Nations, failed in this regard…and I’d maintain the UN has failed here as well… it hasn’t prevented formal or informal wars among its member nations… its failed to provide security to numerous member nations, etc…

What it has been wildly successful at is growing itself year over year, increasing its annual budget, increasing its personnel (it now has more than 40,000 employees) and sucking up billions upon billions of dollars each year to support globalist agendas and failed programs (the US alone paid more than $11b to the UN in 2021)…

FWIW I used to work for another of the Breton Woods agencies.. and worked closely with the UN for a few years… it is in my opinion nothing more than a self licking ice cream cone that is woefully inefficient and ineffective… it is even more poorly run and managed than most federal governments

Fkn waste of space....in middle of nowhere have seen 3 un 4x4...two lancruiser gx and a Landrover discovery in convoy with different un agency logos....each with a driver and one passenger....all could have fitted in one vehicle....apart from that...the range rover sport on un plates I see driving around and shit loads of sparkling vx and gx landcruiser suvs...prados etc etc also hammering around pisses me off big time.....also they go past queues at police road checks ....don't get stopped at speed traps...fk em....one of my pet hates

 

[fourfive8]

Absolutely. And those SAMs would likely be active radar rather than heat seeking making the flares useless. I also have no idea who the chubby warrant is who follows him from assignment to assignment directing test flights and carrier recovery operations. Never said it was realistic - just a lot of fun.

Don't get me wrong, Top Gun 2 was very entertaining but, among other things in the script and direction, I too never figured out what the big warrant officer's job was. Seemed contrived and forced. Was it possibly woke contrived ?? Also, surely, in a movie this big, they hired military technical advisers to oversee the major details of reality. Much of the deviation could have been a case of them being overridden by the director or his assistants taking theatrical liberty or maybe even being told to do so by the producer ??

Also on a lighter note- IMO, the hairstylist assigned to Cruise overdid the black hair dye/thickener a little

 

[WAB]

Fkn waste of space....in middle of nowhere have seen 3 un 4x4...two lancruiser gx and a Landrover discovery in convoy with different un agency logos....each with a driver and one passenger....all could have fitted in one vehicle....apart from that...the range rover sport on un plates I see driving around and shit loads of sparkling vx and gx landcruiser suvs...prados etc etc also hammering around pisses me off big time.....also they go past queues at police road checks ....don't get stopped at speed traps...fk em....one of my pet hates

Saw the same thing in Haiti. Oxygen is wasted on that lot.

 

[Rob404]

 

[Just Gina]

I figured it was Joe's leash.

I was going to reply the same thing!! Glad I read further first!

 

[mark-hunter]

When you have the now rogue nation of Russia still on the UN Security Council, that undermines any credibility the UN might have once had.

Basically 5 permanent UN security council members are UK, US, France, China, and Russia.

The UN founder countries were UK, US, Russia and China. Practically the same. (see - Moscow declaration, four power declaration on general security, 1943)

Kick the Russia out, UN falls apart.
The military alliances then can kick in.
It is very dangerous situation, and the last time when military's alliances were running the global show, there was world war 2.

So this situation must be resolved as soon as possible by negotiations.

 

[mark-hunter]

Peace talks, and negotiations in February, in UN, announced.

Ukraine peace summit by February says Kuleba - potentially with Russia

Ukraine is aiming to hold a peace summit by the end of February, the Ukrainian foreign minister said.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

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