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La Gata Politica's avatar

As a Cuban, I agree with your assessment of Gaetz comments about Cuba, he obviously wasn't thinking about the repercussions. What I haven't seen mentioned in our media but Cubans on the island have noticed and are discussing amongst themselves, is that Russians have been purchasing land in the province of Oriente (where the Castros stole my family's land). I might write about it in the near future, after I get more info from my contacts.

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Stephen McIntyre's avatar

Durham deserves confrontation, but the issue on which Gaetz confronted Durham (Mifsud) was as totally ignorant as Gaetz' Cuba proposal, tho less dangerous.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I agree that Gaetz's confrontation lacked analytic focus, which I believe the concept of "predication" provides. Trying to get that across in 5 minutes requires concentration and preparation.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Another reminder that no solutions to our problems will come from DC.

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Antipodes's avatar

Back in the days of the Cold War, the usual public announcement was something polite, like:

"So sorry, it looks like your team met with some sort of accident, we offer any and all help if you need it"

This is the complete opposite, more like a street gang banger trying to start a turf war over a Ho who started banging another banger.

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Dave's avatar

Won't the Chinese be terrified at the sight of our troops parachuting into action flying the LGBTQ colors....

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Bruce-PNW's avatar

Wowie-zowie - what is it with playing military man from a seat in Congress?

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StClair Tweedie's avatar

Now he should know how Putin felt as the US Neocon idiots pushed nato to its doorstep. How about some kind of actual authorization to stop the actual assault on our southern border

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Tamsin's avatar

That was my first take, given the wording.

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Tamsin's avatar

Months ago, as I tried to explain to my mother why Russia would not like to have NATO in Ukraine... how would we feel if Russia was arming Mexico to the teeth? Would we let that stand?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Thanks for the background. It's easy to forget about the labs with all the more conventional military stuff in the foreground.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

I'm sure it's all politics, I just don't know what is driving Gaetz's actions.

My guess is he went soft on Durham due to uniparty pressure, even if it was more than most other people on the committee.

And the Military Authorization I am sure makes the local older Cuban American happy. As well as Neocons.

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Lyon's avatar

Gaetz wants to run for Senate so he's appealing to the Cuban "Americans"

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SMH's avatar

Just kinda reinforces my sense that NONE of the people in DC can be trusted any farther than you can throw them. As you said, disappointing after the Durham outburst.

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Anne Sherman's avatar

Showboaters gotta showboat.

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Melinda Romanoff's avatar

More importantly, BRTA has labs in Taiwan, too.

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Melinda Romanoff's avatar

BTRA, oops.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Wait ... British Truck Racing Association?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

The very end, without attribution, appears to sum things up. Beyond the obvious confusion there doesn't seem to be any verifiable evidence of actual fighting.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

It seems largely level headed analysis, although I doubt Wagner ever reaches Moscow. Mercouris is right, however, that this comes very much at the wrong time for Russia.

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dissonant1's avatar

I think you said the secret word.

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Brother Ass's avatar

I was just about to say the same thing! This RT link appears to be frequently updated:

https://www.rt.com/russia/578553-prigozhin-armed-insurrection-updates/

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

I have a feeling this type of stuff is very wide spread.

As well as all the pressure from donors. Blackrock has it's tentacles in so many companies.

And Big Pharma is a big donor and advertiser.

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