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NATO expansion since the 1990s and on was an error. There was no serious benefit to the US to expand the US guarantee of protecting additional countries. All it did was antagonize Russia.
If Russia needs to return Crimea to Ukraine, Kosovo needs to be returned to Serbia and Eastern Jerusalem and Emmanuel, Israel needs to be returned to the Arabs.
Crimea has historically been part of Russia for hundreds of years. It was *never* part of Ukraine until Soviet Dictator Nikita Khrushchev, who is Ukrainian, unilaterally transferred it from Russia to the Ukraine in 1954. It was, at the time, merely a paperwork transfer with little effect since both were part of the Soviet dictatorship.
And Russia is absolutely correct that Ukraine was never in history an independent country, other than for a few weeks during a self-declaration by certain war lords during the Russian Revolution in 1917. Never before or since until the Soviet disintegration.
Also note that the US has a credibility problem in opposing recognizing a declaration of sovereignty by a unit of another country’s territory. The US recognized the declaration of independence of Serbia’s Kosovo province. So it looks insincere for it to now oppose Russia’s recognition of independence of parts of the Ukraine.
Note that Putin felt comfortable invading Ukraine under Obama in 2014 and now again under Biden in 2022. During the Trump Administration, Putin didn’t dare invade.
Ghadora, are you sure you aren’t the old sammygol?
What’s the difference between a lawyer and a jellyfish? One is a spineless, poisonous blob. The other is a form of sea life.
Avira, I think TrueBT used the wrong source but his underlying point is otherwise correct. A better source is the Halacha that a wife is obligated to “honor her husband to an extreme degree and the fear of him should be on her and she should do all her deeds according to what he says and he should be in her eyes as a ruler or king. She should orient her activities according to that which he desires…” Rambam (Hilchos Ishus 15:20)
CNN is full of falsehoods.
In the alte heim many Goyim knew enough Yiddish to speak to us with.
rw: smallpox was far deadlier and its vaccine was far more a lifesaver than the Covid vaccines.
Inheriting wealth is a very old phenomenon. Nothing new about that at all.
America is a rich country.
RW: The smallpox vaccine literally saved tens of millions of people.
Reb Eliezer, how long ago was that? How does she know the drug was the cause? And did you mean to say non-brand name?
Smallpox vaccine was one of the best.
Apparently Charlie is getting impatient with Elizabeth hanging around so long. So he gets Covid and quickly infects his mother, in a not so apparently attempt to bring about his elevation to King and his wife’s coronation as Queen Camilla.
All this shortly after Lizzie announced she wants Camilla to utilize the title of Queen Consort rather than deferring to use merely Princess Consort, as previously announced upon her marriage (when sensitivities to the immoral Diana were still raw enough not to want to offend the British press with the idea that Camilla will be Queen, something Diana was [rightfully] denied.)
Chaplain and Rebbetzin, vus macht ah Yid?
Can you explain what concern you have with learning in Kollel with mostly Eretz Yisroel’dika Yidden?
Makes sense. Goyishe languages use far worse terms. By Yidden animals are not considered to be human’s friends, like they Goyim treat certain animals.
Television was one of the worst inventions until the Internet came out and outranked it as worse.
Covid is transmitted through bowling shoes?
Why do you ask?
She should have been awarded a medal for eliminating a criminal.
CA: “It’s like the same with religion, every religion is taught to believe their’s is true and the others are false”
Do you have even the slightest of doubts that Torah Judaism is absolutely and completely true whereas every other religion is totally and irredeemably false? If not, why did you make that comparison?
I’m much closer to the Democrat Party’s position on gun control than the Republican position.
Chanania: The OP was posted in 2008, not 2022. (That’s an almost 14 year old CR post.)
The their “mainstream” left-wing media complex, from (and especially) the New York Times (1619 Project, etc), Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc have ALL been obsessed with race. They ALL racialize EVERY issue and story that has nothing to do with race.
Why would a woman be traveling alone??
SDD, health and life and death emergencies, such as the spread of viral diseases can override constitutional rights.
The Republican Party is doing quite fine, thank you. They will soon be celebrating a great midterm victory.
On the other hand, the Democrat Party would be appropriately renamed to the Communist Party.
Yseribus, I said evidence. I understand your or your loved ones dabbling in their business side ended in failure. 4 out of 5 new businesses fail. A failed restaurant doesn’t mean the restaurant business is bad. A failed retail outlet doesn’t mean the retail business is bad. Your experience isn’t necessarily indicative of others. They’ve been in business for many decades and certainly some are successful. Personally, I would never become a salesman of their products. But I’d never open a restaurant, either.
If you have evidence otherwise submit your evidence rather than theories or experiences. So far none has been offered.
In any event, all I’m asking about is the quality of Melaleuca’s consumer products. Nothing to do with doing business with them. If anyone has insight into the quality of Melaleuca’s products, please do share it.
Yseribus: There’s no evidence they do any such thing.
Back to the question, are Melaleuca’s consumer products good quality?
SDD, Participant is your spouse?
AAQ: Thank you for the fact check. You can’t really fully blame Luna. She isn’t the only one who buys lock, stock and barrel everything the media feeds her. It’s a very common affliction.
Forget about the business aspect, are Melaleuca items good consumer products?
NPR and PBS should not receive a penny in government funds.
NPR is a far-left opinion rag.
Participant, how is it legally different for the government to regulate a requirement to cover ones legs, stomach or other body parts than to regulate covering ones mouth and nose?
Note that the issues being discussed are regulations not laws.
YungermanS: What’s the answer to your question?
Nothing wrong with airing dirty laundry.
How do you think they handled the laundry before washers/dryers? Aired on the outside clothesline.
And there’s no heter to videotape the women dancing. Knowing full and well it WILL be viewed by men.
OP/SDD: How is mandating masks to board a plane any different than mandating wearing pants? Where do you see a legal distinction, based on your constitutional arguments, between requiring persons to cover their mouth and nose compared to the longstanding requirement that persons cover their legs and stomach in order to board a flight?
Additionally, the airlines aren’t required to recognize people’s constitutional rights. Only the government is so required.
” I’m not sure how often the paid-leave option can be taken for those contemplating big families.”
It would be illegal discrimination to deny it to larger families what’s offered to smaller families.
A parent should be able to take off the full 6 months of paid leave for each of their 10 childbirths.
There’s the obvious issue of the choson being lifted over the mechitza and viewing the women’s section (before even getting into the issue of the women dressed to kill.)
Anyways, until 15-20 years ago I don’t remember chasanim being lifted on a table. It was always and only on a chair that they lifted the choson. The table seems to be a bit modernish.
In fact, the idea of lifting the choson and the kallah at the same time to wave to each other is also nisht oisgehalten. It wasn’t done in ehrliche weddings until not too long ago. And it’s lacking in the tznius department, especially since the chosen and kallah aren’t the only ones who gain visibility across the mechitza when that happens.
Kuvult: That’s because of tznius.
Fathers shouldn’t put their children on their shoulder since the child might fall?
Where is the halacha to lift the choson on a chair?
Where is the halacha to walk the choson after dancing to his tish?