They may not have been firecrackers, they were very fierce and it looked
like marine flares to me.

Hi mhaze,
"Yeah like that time I said Israel had been frightened away from Iran AND at the same time said Israel had bombed Iran. Yep really got that wrong </sarc>

Or that time I said Russian minister Lavrov wouldn't possibly lie about the Russian language being banned in Ukraine AND then had it conclusively proven that he indeed lied. Yep another cock-up </sarc>"

You were right about the first one, kind of.
- And I accepted your argument after I looked at some maps.
But Israel did call off second and third waves, because their F-35's were lit up by some 'unknown' air defense system.
- That's the story I got, and I'm willing to accept it.

And I still contend you were wrong about the second.

Plenty of times I said you were right about things associated with Trump when others disagreed.
It's not like I disagree with you for the sake of it.

AC

Yes I'm sure what I wrote was injurious to your self-esteem. But when you write something like... "I find it kind of amusing when you willfully seek out piles of crap to step in, time and time again" ... I will always reply with both barrels, especially when you make the assertion without the slightest efforts to provide examples of this alleged stepping in crap.

And especially when I know that you can't provide examples but merely go the ad hom to try to bolster an already weak argument.

Common sense & academic experts in the same sentence is fairytale stuff !

Hi mhaze,
Yes ok, but you hold the opinion that everything America does is all above board, fine and dandy, America never lies and on the other hand anything Americas adversaries do is their own fault, that they are always wrong, and liars 100% of the time.
What am I supposed to do with that other than expect your rebuttal.
But it's ok I suppose, I know I'm my own person and everyone here is too and we all hold different views on all the topics.

Meanwhile...

Hi ttbn,
'An enormous favour': What Hunter Biden's pardon could mean for Trump's second term
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/presidential-pardon-joe-biden/bcooa9eqd

Joe Biden: "No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son," Biden said in a statement."

- Then there's this:

http://x.com/DrLoupis/status/1863457869984629037

In spite of a 630-page report on the Hunter Biden Laptop From Hell documenting 191 sex crimes, 128 drug crimes, and 140 business crimes.
Hunter Biden has been PARDONED by Joe Biden.
America is the most corrupt place in the world.

The Georgian president has called on the EU to help the protestors as they fight back against the Russian attempts to overthrow the will of the people. http://tiny.cc/d5wyzz

But what would she know? In the fertile imagination of AC that simple proves that she is a dupe of some fictitious US operation, that she's incapable of thinking for herself and is merely a pawn in the hands of those nefarious Amercians... or something.

The thing is this could have all been avoided if the Russians and Russophile Georgians had simply allowed a free and fair electoral process. But to the Russians, allowing the people to decide their own fate is a bridge too far because they might make the wrong decisions - ie decisions the Kremlin disapproves of.

So they overthrow the will of the people and then rely on useful idiots in the West (of which AC is an exemplar) to muddy the waters. Its been the same play book since the times of the Comintern.