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Saylick

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I wonder if the dumbass knows that the prize ain't his even if he physically is in possession of it. I'm sure the internet will have a field day photoshopping this image, however.

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K1052

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Yeah I can’t wait for national archives to confiscate all the crap he’s received. His whining will be epic!

He’s going to steal it all and take it to MAL. We’ll have to get it back from his kids since he’s probably not long for this world.
 
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DZero

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He’s going to steal it all and take it to MAL. We’ll have to get it back from his kids since he’s probably not long for this world.
Well.. MAL would be next. Unless Trump prepares his own country or flees to Russia, it won't end well
 
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You mean like when Russian's shootdown Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 or Iran Air Flight 655 by the US?

My best guess if it was a P-8 or similar aircraft, it wasn't in civil markings it was just minimal markings.
Of course visual aircraft identification is always difficult from a distance. That is why as a matter of policy, civilian airliners try to steer well clear of any combat zone.

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With respect to MH17 and the poor victims :
I saw a dutch documentary once that also interviewed people from the air traffic control of the United Kingdom , i think it was the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
The CAA stated clearly that they advised and strongly enforced redirected flight paths to prevent civil aircrafts flying over a known warzone where missiles were used to shoot down military airplanes.
This was the UK and many other countries and they abided to the enforced advise of the CAA.
But the Asian airlines kept flying over that warzone.
So, although Russia is held accountable for shooting down the MH17 with a buk rocket, it is also the fault of the Malaysian airlines for flying over a known warzone where rockets such as the BUK rockets were used.
 
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I can still remember seeing a documentary about how American economists warned the US government at the time to not let American investers who were working for Middle Eastern oil oligarchs, buy up real estate on US ground and buy up companies.
But it happened anyway.
Than the Chinese came in and it happened exactly the same way, American investors working with Chinese corporations and Chinese investors to buy up US real estate and US companies.
Then there is the danger of wall street : Creating money out of thin air by overvaluing companies and corporations.

It happens all over the world. It is the free capitalist world process of gaining foothold in other countries, by buying up stuff and taking control.
The USA always advocated this principle but now the Trump government is not too happy about this.

Luckily, although it is the government of a country that creates trade agreements, we see that in the EU and for example the mercosur agreement with countries in South America.
This kind of holds a control over unbridled behavior from the capitalist market that might ruin an economy or destroy the environment by polluting.
Governments where there are too many lobbyists for big corporations are present, tend to be a bit corrupt.
Especially if oligarchs have too much influence over a government.
And we come full circle to the Trump administration again.
 
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