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“The internationally recognized successor state to the Soviet Union is Russia...”

Well, one little problem with that is that the UN never actually held a vote to ratify that Russia is the recognized successor to the Soviet Union. The application was submitted but actually voting on it seems to have fallen through the cracks somewhere along the way. Certainly everyone has been behaving as if what you said is the case so it could be said to be “de facto” the truth, but perhaps not “de jure”.

“Iran (its terrorists) could launch massive attacks against the Gulf States, or Israel, or the US or against any infidel.”

Well, Israel and the US at least have already developed defensive systems that can handle the cheap Iranian drones quite well. In fact, Israel has transferred some of those systems to Ukraine already, but obviously not enough. Israel is much smaller than Ukraine so they probably do not have a large enough supply to hand over that could protect that whole country. And they must keep enough of their stock for their own protection.

“I am sure that Ukrainian military and political leaders feel that had they not given up their nuclear weapons, Russia would never have attacked.”

Well, they had the weapons, but Russia still had operational control (launch codes, etc) of the weapons. So they were essentially useless to Ukraine for any defensive purpose. Thus Ukraine thought they were trading something useless for something useful (security guarantees from both Russia and the West). Unfortunately for them security guarantees are only as reliable a deterrent as the resolve of the parties making the guarantees are reliable.

That would be high on my list of priorities if I were in charge of Ukraine.

“How about Russia’s massive energy reserves?”

I don’t see how “energy reserves” are at all relevant to the question I asked.

“There is no “contrary evidence”. “

Of course there is contrary evidence. Nearly every geologist who has examined the features disagrees with Hancock and Schock. They don’t disagree simply because they don’t like those guys. They cite plenty of evidence for their disagreements, but of course, it’s not really what you are interested in, so I guess you will just pretend it doesn’t exist.

“Runoff water only causes erosion at the bases of the structures...”

Blatantly false. Runoff erosion mainly erodes preexisting weak faults in the bedrock, especially in very easily eroded rock like the Giza limestone. Those faults tend to be vertical, and thus flood runoff is the prime candidate to explain the most prominent erosion features we see around the Sphinx enclosure wall.

“BTW..I “am” a scientist. Retired PhD chemist”

Obviously not a geologist, and you should probably read more about geology instead of just taking one guy’s theories at face value because he is doing you a disservice since he’s clearly either incompetent or dishonest.

“Why should he not have ignored it...”

Because it displays either incompetence or intellectual dishonesty to ignore the obvious cause of the vast majority of the erosion. That might be irrelevant to you, but it’s not irrelevant to me.

“That erosion is ONLY caused by long-term exposure to heavy rainfall.”

Says one guy who seems to only be talking about evidence that fits his preferred hypothesis and ignoring other contrary evidence.

Perhaps, but we don’t judge the competence of the army based on the incompetence of their civilian leadership.

“4th Amendment does not apply to CPS.”

Plenty of amendments “did not apply” to certain branches of the government, until people successfully convinced the courts that they should though.

Yep, they were siblings, hence “Linus and Lucy”...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zypc_LhnM

“...claiming that an anonymous source called the state’s child abuse tipline and reported the family.”

So there is no grounds for reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Sue them for 4th amendment violations as well.

My post #21 is just answering a question with undeniable facts. There’s no “strong argument” against undeniable facts.

” they then transferred him, without incident, to the state’s maximum security prison at Angola. “

Aaron Neville - Angola Bound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUo440SMVUY

Well, they can lose the entire company when the profits and stock price continue to plummet...

Remember when Trump talked about “coyotes” smuggling children and all the braindead libs on twitter thought he was talking about wild dogs?

So again, the counterargument boils down to: “Russia couldn’t possibly be greedy for more resources since it already has resources”. Not a very strong argument in my opinion.

I’m not referring to pits, I’m referring to the deep vertical channels which are a hallmark of flood erosion constrained in hard bedrock channels. He ignored that fact completely.

Yes, volume is the key with dumb artillery.

“the US Government shouldn’t have done any of that...”

If it’s wrong when we do it, then it is also wrong when another country does it as well.

It may indeed be different, but will that fine distinction matter to the media when they want to browbeat McCarthy into submission? I don’t think so.