Ultimately, Europeans are much better positioned to know what is really going on.
I think that I would normally agree with you. In this case, however, I’ve come to the conclusion that just about everyone in Europe has a huge dog in this fight and that most of what you see and read has to be viewed in this light.
And yea, it is a shame that the Violations-O-Matic comes out too frequently on current event issues, but it is what it is. (I once posted that I thought a topic had been unnecessarily shut down only to have that post shut down for some violation that says you can not complain about violations....
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