brightcobra10 said:Do you even realize how many of those kids get hooked by recruiters standing right outside the high school gates, calling their parents every single day, or promising them they won't end up in Iraq only to ship them off right after basic training? Stop talking nonsense.👎
Kids just can't sign contracts! It’s one of those things that seems obvious until you really think about it, right? Just a little heads-up for anyone wondering about the legal side of things—minors aren't legally allowed to bind themselves to agreements like that here in the States.
Anthony Kim18 said:So, he read about Chernobyl and decided to join the military just to make sure nothing like that ever happens again, only to end up on the front lines with an army that committed stuff way more disgusting than Chernobyl. Isn't that wild?
So, according to your logic, Saddam Hussein and George Wallace didn't stand a chance in court because the judges weren't even on their side?
Honestly, this is just some total nonsense from Smalltown, USA.
I actually asked him—my son-in-law—why he decided to join the military. He told me he’d spent way too much time reading about the horrors of Jonestown, and he just made up his mind right then and there: he wanted to serve and do everything in his power to make sure nothing like that ever happens again.
Between what you see on CNN and all those random internet blogs written by people who have never even come close to seeing a battlefield or holding a weapon, the "prices" being quoted have zero connection to reality. Honestly? It’s the complete OPPOSITE.
So, yeah, all these wild theories you guys keep multiplying are totally baseless.
Honestly, I feel so lucky that my future son-in-law was an officer stationed during the Fallujah Genocide Part, so I actually have first-hand info on what really went down. It means I don't have to rely on all that communist propaganda you see floating around the internet!
briskangler51 said:Does anyone know if there’s a doctor or clinic here in America that can perform a medical assessment that would actually be recognized by the US healthcare system as if it were done locally?
Thanks!
Well, there isn't really one single "US healthcare system."
It's more like a massive web of different hospitals and private insurance companies that might—or might not—have any connection to Europe at all.
Vera Goldoni is such a lovely lady (she was even sweet enough to leave her phone number for a few PEOPLE HERE😍!), so I give her my highest recommendation!
mistyhound2 said:Man, Jonathan Ward27, you look so skinny!😲 😁
That was back in 1998 (basically how Americans look when they're pulling 20-hour workdays). Honestly, I’ve probably put on about 20 or 30 pounds since I started hanging out with those "big, goofy Americans"...😎
AN OLDER RELATIVE RECENTLY SAW ME AND WAS LIKE: "YOU LOOK BETTER THAN EVER!"
Here’s a satellite shot of the old airbase from today... pretty high res, too.
BOOM!
Actually, if you look just a bit further down, you can still spot the remains of the old Air Force—a few Mig-21s, some Eagles, Galeb jets, Antonov transports, and even a couple of Learjets (probably owned by some tycoon). Right next to the hangars, you can still see the scorched patches where planes burned during those much "happier" days when they were bombing us.
Thanks, America! 🙏
Take a look at the tower over at Avalon, too!🙏 🙏 🙏
Terry Smith4 said:I am totally with David Adams65 on this one!
I’m a no! At least until they actually sort out the whole human rights situation. Plus, honestly? I think they’re still way too much of a collection of "developing" areas to be making their own calls (and heaven forbid they try deciding things for us, too). Aside from those few tourist spots that look halfway decent, most places there are just pure struggle and poverty.👎
Man, you could talk about human rights forever. Just go check out the thread about Swiss people on this same forum and see how messy that gets. And don't even get me started on how Germans treat everyone else in the European Union.
The European Union is basically just the result of Germany's imperialist policies mixed with France's ego. The Germans are doing the exact same thing they did last century, just using economic tactics instead, and the French only stuck by them because they don't have any better ideas. Everything else is just "decoration."
The whole European Union is nothing more than a soap bubble built on layers of bureaucracy.
It’s honestly just a massive waste of cash and time. I feel like the European Union is going to pop like a soap bubble once a few million people are gone, mostly because all these national bureaucracies are going to start turning on each other... I’ll give you five years of peace, tops, before we hit the next big global war.
Putin and his little inner circle actually managed to kill 200 of "their own" kids this time around. Over the last decade, they've slaughtered 42,000 Chechen children! Not a single independent journalist could speak up without the news being buried under more coverage of this Russian adventure. The hostages even mentioned that the "terrorists" were speaking technical Russian and that there were 15 of them.