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IMHO, if the problem is high drug use levels in the USA, a serious approach to solving the problem would be one that addressed the causes - why are so many people getting addicted to painkillers? Bombing poppy fields in far-off lands does not fix the real problem. It just reduces the supply...

Or both?

How about no?

Stalin got nukes because he had spies and double-agents in the West, including people working on the Manhattan Project.

Marduk, would the Russians be "coming" at all if NATO had not been provoking them, taking itself to their borders, and poking the bear until the bear hits back. Poland is on the other side of Beloruss and Ukraine from Russia. From the Russian POV, having those two states as friendly or neutral...

Nah. They are going more and more extreme among their own echo-chamber, but this is increasingly alienating most normal people. There is a big cultural divide forming. And some people can detect the smell of a fuse burning...

What exactly are they winning?

Same here. And I suspect I'm happier that way.

I read an article once that gave the 20th century ideology with the highest bodycount as the Greens. Not the Reds, not the Browns... the Greens. Think how many people died as a result of them banning DDT.

Well it's not to The Duck, since he does not post here. So maybe it's to Mar Duck?

LOL. Does he not realize that one way to never have to pay off your debts is for the people might try to collect on them to be dead?

But why do that when you can fly over them?

In an age of aircraft and missiles, land obstacles like mountains and seas matter a bit less.

And yet, we see that some people are in fact very impolite. Because not only the threat of getting punched in the face for being rude is absent, but so are all the other things you believe make people polite. While it may please you to preen yourself as being morally superior to people are...