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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: UpNorthJoe ✭☼🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: The cost of friends in high places
Date: 06/22/25 8:57 PM
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About 3 months ago ( the Signal chat leak fiasco ) the VP Vance castigated the EU for the bill the US ran up bombing the Houthi's. Amongst the insults Vance hurled toward what were once our Allies,
they demanded that the EU foot the bill for the attack.

Vance and Kegseth are now certainly demanding that Israel foot the bill for this sticky
situation trump has walked us into, aren't they ?? But somehow, for some reason, I'm not hearing Vance take the bully pulpit and demand this payment. Odd, very odd. /sarcasm

What a huge macroeconomic mess this could lead us into.

But trump had a feeling...............................
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