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Nah. You find a way to support Trump every time.
Yes, I do. I'm not sure how you can't understand that.you don't give a about the deficit.
Nah. You find a way to support Trump every time.
You're stupid enough to want to foot the bill for Trump's tariffs.
No, the national debt and deficit are important. These issues have brought down Great Powers before.
So why do you support Trump?
If you can explain how Trump is reining in the debt and the deficit I'd like to hear it. Both so far are running ahead of 2024 levels.
The trade deficit has also been going up...
The Big Beautiful Bill made debt and deficit worse. You're looking at the wrong spending areas if you're really concerned about these things.
Ukraine!
https://archive.is/20250925223650/ht...2327.0-2379.39European diplomats warned the Kremlin this week that NATO is ready to respond to further violations of its airspace with full force, including by shooting down Russian planes, according to officials familiar with the exchange.
At a tense meeting in Moscow, British, French and German envoys addressed their concerns about an incursion by three MiG-31 fighter jets over Estonia last week, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the talks took place behind closed doors. Following the conversation, they concluded that the violation had been a deliberate tactic ordered by Russian commanders.
A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet over the Baltic Sea, in a photo released on Sept. 19.Source: Swedish Air Force
Russian officials have denied their planes crossed into Estonian airspace and insisted that they are not trying to test NATO. They said that a separate incident when drones crossed into Poland was the result of an error. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov this week said Russian military flights are guided by international rules.
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Ukraine! Russia!
Let the other side of the world kill themselves off for all I care. them all!
lol Joey pretending he's not pro-Putin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-drone-denmarkFrench military boards Russia-linked oil tanker suspected of launching drones
French military personnel have boarded an oil tanker named on a list of Russia’s “shadow fleet” vessels and suspected of being a launchpad for mystery drone flights that forced the closure of airports in Denmark last week.
Photos showed navy personnel on the deck of the tanker, known as the Boracay, which has used numerous iden ies and was one of four Russia-linked vessels in the seas near Denmark at the time of the drone sightings on 22 and 24 September, which so far have not been fully explained.
The tanker was sailing from the Russian oil terminal in Primorsk near St Petersburg, carrying 750,000 barrels of crude oil, to Vadinar in India, but was intercepted by a French naval vessel on Sunday and diverted towards Saint-Nazaire in western France while inquiries continue.
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this would be a pivot
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...russia-reportsThe US will provide Ukraine with intelligence on long-range energy infrastructure targets deep inside Russia, according to overnight reports, a move that would signal a significant shift in White House support for Kyiv.
The decision would be the first example of a change in policy by Donald Trump since his comments on social media towards the end of September that Ukraine could win back all of the territories occupied by Russia.
Reports in the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, citing unnamed US sources, said the policy had quietly changed ahead of that statement and that the White House wanted Nato allies to follow suit.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ls-2025-10-09/Russia's industrial ans furlough workers as its war economy stalls
MOSCOW, Oct 9 (Reuters) - From railways and automobiles to metals, coal, diamonds and cement, some of Russia's biggest industrial companies are putting employees on furlough or cutting staff as the war economy slows, domestic demand stalls and exports dry up.
The efforts to reduce labour costs show the strain on Russia's economy as President Vladimir Putin and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance square off in Ukraine, Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two.
Reuters identified six companies in Russia's mining and transport sectors, many of them industrial ans, that have cut their working week in an attempt to reduce wage bills without raising unemployment, according to industry sources.
Cemros, Russia's biggest cement maker, has moved to a 4-day week until the end of the year to preserve staff amid a sharp downturn in the construction industry and a rise in cement imports.
"This is a necessary anti-crisis measure," said Cemros spokesman Sergei Koshkin. "The goal is to keep all our staff." The company has 13,000 employees and 18 plants across Russia.
Koshkin said increased imports from countries including China, Iran and Belarus, combined with a drop in new houses being built, had curbed demand for cement. Cemros expects Russia to consume less than 60 million tonnes of cement this year, a figure last seen during the COVID pandemic.
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In previous downturns, Russia has bailed out major employers to stem discontent in many of the industrial towns and cities that often rely on one major enterprise.
Russian Railways and the country's car manufacturers received state support during the 2008-2009 global crisis to avoid mass lay offs. In 2022, Russia told car factories to furlough, not fire, staff.
The current economic strains have already forced the government to intervene across the economy, from shoe manufacturers to coal and metals, offering discounts on rail transport, deferral of taxes and targeted state support.
The coal sector, which employs about 150,000 people, has been badly hit as exports decline, according to Russian officials.
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told Putin in April the sector's financial health was deteriorating, with 30 enterprises - employing roughly 15,000 people and producing around 30 million metric tons annually - at risk of bankruptcy.
In Siberia's Kuznetsk Basin, or Kuzbass, which holds some of the world's biggest coal deposits, local officials said in September that 18 out of 151 enterprises had been shuttered.
Alexander Kotov, a partner at Russian consulting agency NEFT Research, told Reuters that 19,000 coal workers were laid off in the first half of 2025.
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