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This is a 2-minute point-of-view video by a British pundit. He starts with:
"A lot of people who like to start wars are suddenly angry with one guy who wants to stop this war."
Other points:
-We are seeing changing geopolitics
-Americans are tired of wars
-Americans are tired of Europe not paying for its own defense
-US has other defense needs to worry about, example China
-Europe needs to pay to defend itself
"A lot of people who like to start wars are suddenly angry with one guy who wants to stop this war."
Other points:
-We are seeing changing geopolitics
-Americans are tired of wars
-Americans are tired of Europe not paying for its own defense
-US has other defense needs to worry about, example China
-Europe needs to pay to defend itself
Putin likes to start angrily, and Z responds, yea Z wants to stop the war... kill Putin
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UK / EU healthcare is paid for by taxes. Just take a look at the difference. We have 20% sales tax on everything but food and clothing. Our "Gas" (Petrol / Diesel) is far more expensive than yours because of taxation....and it continues. You could have free healthcare if many of your providers didn't charge so much and you were taxed to pay for it.
eg. Tax on a vehicle up to £2745 for the 1st year, then an additional £410 a year for the next 4 years after that (5 years total) if the vehicles worth more than £40k plus £190 a year as standard rate forever which goes up by inflation every year. Low emmission vehicles pay a much lower initial amount, but a typical large engined US vehicle will be at the upper end.
A gallon of diesel is on average $8.37.
Income Tax is 20% or 40% if you earn over £5k, and 45% if you earn more than £125k.
Council Tax runs at around $200 a month.
Heating lighting even for what would be a very compact US home around $250 a month+.
Thats just the tip of the iceberg. There are hundreds of taxes. You want to know where our free healthcare comes from? We pay for it, not the US!
..and don't think it's that great either. Expect a 12-24hr wait in A&E to get seen unless immediately life threatening. Up to 5yrs wait for a non urgent operation. You'll be on a shared ward with shared toilets and only a curtain between beds. Many hospitals are no longer cleaned properly because of cuts and areas go months without cleaning which means infection is rife.
This is a tyical UK hosital ward (labeit this is an empty brand new one so ultra clean and without the clutter - 6 people looking at each other in shared rooms:
I didn't mean to suggest that the US paid for European healthcare. What I mean is not having a large defense budget meant that what was spent for defense in the US was available to spend on other things in European countries. Right now, social programs are the biggest US budget item, but for a whole lot of years after WW II, defense spending was the largest budget item by a wide margin. We're on the path to full socialism too, unless Trump can turn that around. We have our own huge list of taxes , and in some of the democrat run states the combination of federal, state, and city income tax plus social security tax runs above 50%. I finished our state income tax form today and the blasted thing totaled 13 pages, most of which are for about 100 additions and subtractions for liberal social engineering. It's spiraling out of control!
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Things not looking great for the Ukranian forces in Kursk
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'We Can't Stop Them' - Thousands Of Ukraine Troops Suddenly Face Encirclement In Russia's Kursk | ZeroHedge
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Well I thought the Poles were smarter than this. To be fair I think the Leftists won the Presidency and not sure all of Poland is behind this.
Though the ridiculous hype of protecting Europe from a Russian invasion, just might bring on a Russian invasion! which is what the Euro's want. They only way to get us involved and turn on the $$$ spigot
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Though the ridiculous hype of protecting Europe from a Russian invasion, just might bring on a Russian invasion! which is what the Euro's want. They only way to get us involved and turn on the $$$ spigot
Poland & Baltic Nations Welcome Macron's Words Of Nuclear Escalation Aimed At Russia | ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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