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    Quote Originally Posted by Eirambler View Post
    I am, because I think too many people are too keen to fall for his shtick. When I see people posting things like "I can't see anything other than the US annexing Greenland right now" I think, you're doing exactly what he wants by thinking that. But the reality is that he has no track record of annexing anywhere.
    Much and all as I don't agree with Bungle's certainly he will invade, I don't agree with your certainly he won't either. As Kingdom has said, he had the President of a sovereign nation kidnapped last month, and has said he's running the place now. I think the only certain thing here is his unpredictability

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    Quote Originally Posted by pineapple stu View Post
    Much and all as I don't agree with Bungle's certainly he will invade, I don't agree with your certainly he won't either. As Kingdom has said, he had the President of a sovereign nation kidnapped last month, and has said he's running the place now. I think the only certain thing here is his unpredictability
    So it's the end of the news day and we now already know that, not only is he not actually planning to take Greenland by force, he's not going through with the tariffs threat either. But an outline of a deal has been agreed, funnily enough, that will no doubt cover whatever it is that he has actually been looking for from all this. The news cycle will move on to something else and we'll find ourselves in the same situation in the near future about some other issue. Rinse and repeat.

    The World Cup will go ahead as planned, the people who go to it will enjoy themselves. And they'll get absolutely fleeced in the process. Far from being unpredictable, it's actually all very boringly predictable. But, as long as people keep falling for his shtick, it will keep happening.

    The Venezuela thing is ******** too, incidentally. By global geopolitical standards that was nothing more than a quick surgical strike against a provincial dickhe@d. Followed by another nonsense press conference full of claims that are never actually going to be followed through. All Trump wants from there is the oil. Just get someone more negotiable in to replace the last guy and knock a favourable deal out of them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kingdom View Post
    Your post could easily be seen as positive towards him, his approach and how he's affecting the globe. Is it?
    God, no. The man's a pr!ck. I do have to begrudgingly give him some credit though for how often he gets away with this kind of nonsense.

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    Yeah we all, all Europeans need to stop falling for the same tactics and just start ignoring him. He is playing us all for fools and literally said in his speech that he goes in with a maximalist position in all negotiations, when it's not actually his goal. All our leaders need to take a leaf out of Mark Carneys book who's also eligible to play for Ireland so...sign him up Trap!

    Now back to the soccer and the real international challenges

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    Is anyone planning on trying for tickets in the Czech side?
    "Now jump up there and stuff that son of a bitch in the basket, chief"

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    That's our back up plan

    I've been told that the only place not to buy tickets is behind the goal as that's where their ultras are. The main stands should be fine

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    My thinking as well.
    Even better to go for the more expensive tickets in the lower middle main stands.

    Relatively to the cost of the trip it’s not going to be a huge difference.

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    Obviously need to beat the Czechs, but Dorgu has been ruled out for the Danes and Damsgard went off injured for Brentford against Forest.

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