The evidence that NATO said they wouldn't expand towards Russia is literally publicly-available in British government archives.

It's literally documented history, much of which has even been published in Western Dinosaur Media.

But, you know, Russians under the bed and all.

Iraq invaded Kuwait and was forced out of Kuwait a decade before America invaded Iraq. Everyone knew that the WMDs the West provided to Iraq had either been used, destroyed or rotted away in storage, and even people on the ground in Iraq looking for the supposed WMDs said there weren't any. Bush invaded because he wanted to, not because there was any sane reason to.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were Afghans. I don't believe Bin Laden had Afghan citizenship either, but I may be wrong. Bush could have justified using the military to capture Bin Laden and friends, but they were quickly forgotten because the real goal was to take over Afghanistan.

Trump's problem is that because of Democracy he needs Graham and the other Neocons to not impeach him. And they want war with Russia.

He could have ended the war on day one by cutting off US aid and intelligence information to Ukraine, but then the Republicans in Congress would have blocked everything he wanted to do and impeached him.

Your problem is that you appear to believe that politics is about telling the truth, when it's one of the most corrupt endeavours in human history. Only Boomers think "OMG The President LIED!" is somehow noteworthy after decades of politicians lying to us all the time.

The smart people look at what Trump does rather than what he says.

If I remember correctly, Donbass asked the Russians to send in peacekeepers because Kiev was shelling them again. Putin decided that wasn't enough and sent troops to Kiev to force the Ukainian government to make an agreement to not be dicks. Boris Johnson told Zelensky that NATO would support him if he fought Russia instead of making an agreement to not be a dick, so now we're on the verge of WWIII.

But in this particular case, everyone with a brain knows Ukraine has been deliberately attacking a nuclear power plant because the Russians would have to be literally insane to be attacking a nuclear power plant that they control. And there's decent evidence that the goal of their Kursk attack was to capture the Kursk nuclear power plant and threaten to Chernobyl it if Putin didn't end the war.

The problem for that in much of the West is that people don't want to have to interact with The Public or have to live near them.

Yes, it's probably a tax scam. A few years ago I looked at the new plug-in hybrid version of my current car and the battery range wasn't enough for me to drive to work and back... but it's classed as a hybrid and probably results in subsidies or tax cuts for the manufacturer.

30 miles would be enough that I could run on electricity most of the year and only need gas for trips outside the city or for the depths of winter when it would lose a lot of electric range.

Yes. Microsoft basically want to turn PCs into dumb terminals while they loot all your data and hold it hostage on their servers.

The words were probably written by CoPilot. That definitely sounds like the kind of thing an LLM would say.

True. Everyone could have their own soundproof pod to work in.

Clearly everyone wants to sit in an office where a dozen people are all talking to their PCs to write Word documents. It just makes sense.

Hey, Canada is telling us we have to switch to electric cars while banning cheap ones from China. We're far more retarded than the US.

We have to compete with China because in the 90s the 'elite' decided to ship all the West's productive wealth to China, then move to China and take over. Telling us that we'd get cheap plastic crap if we just shipped all our factories to China was an easy way to loot the West without having to actually fight to steal our wealth by force.

But after they'd shipped all the wealth to China, Xi told them he wasn't going to let them take over after all.

So now most of the things that used to be produced in the West are produced in China and we can't even make them ourselves without materials from China. So we can't even cut ourselves off from them. At best we can follow Trump's policy of imposing tariffs to encourage companies to move back while trying to minimize the short-term harm.

Yeah, you just have to convince the rich people who buy the governments and want to own absolutely everything on Earth to give free money to people who provide absolutely nothing of value to them.

That'll work.

Dude, they can all become Youtube Influencers influencing each other for money.

Oh, heck. AI just took over that job too.

Maybe gladiators?