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a good american video
It can perhaps be classified as "American". It's not good; it's a muddle, with a lot of fluff.
There's virtually no science there and some important bits of the narration are incorrect, such as the descriptions of friction and rotor size. There is information (useful facts) there, but in no way at all does it help anyone decide what brakes they need, because that's obscured by the rubbish; it's badly done marketing spiel.
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Someone tell me this isn't really happening......
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About half way through this thread he gets to how Putin now views anything anti-Russian as nazism
It's enormously worse than that - any disagreement with Putin is anti-Russian. Consider the consequences.
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I'm afraid that might be one of the main reasons they invaded - they just can't see democracies flourish right next to them, especially when they were on the same page not long ago.
Ex soviet countries doing well most probably is bigger threat to Putin's regime than anything else.
Possibly to most of this. These are not new ideas (there aren't many), and there may be elements of them in Putin's mind, but the "used to be on the same page" is almost certainly a potent factor. Much of Ukraine's post-USSR history is not pleasant; a familiar tale of a big chunk of the population being decent people hoping for and trying to reach a better future, thwarted by the extraordinary corruption of another chunk; that corruption aided by the Nelson's Eye of so many in other countries.
Absolutely every single player has been completely wrong-footed and that means chaos - indefinitely.
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Budapest memorandum......
You're misrepresenting it - it was explicitly not a mutual defence agreement. As for interference; fortunately, that has turned into a rather grey area; Zelenskyy has been using the competencies developed in his previous life rather successfully - unfortnately it's not at all clear whether that will be enough., and obviously cannot undo the catastrophe that has already occurred.
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You are naive. Putin is of unsound mind and so is Trump - it is that simple.
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Bear in mind that the USSR continued for nearly forty years after Stalin's death, and there are many admirers of him still, just as there are many admirers of Putin. The structure that sustained all that is still there; Putin controls it.
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It's an interesting idea, but I'm not convinced - there is already an excellent connection to a decent damper (the tire).
My money is on the change simply being the pads being pushed more forcefully against the rotor - that can, and sometimes does in my experience, eliminate the rotor vibration (squeal).
Yes please to these! Old fashioned real money on collection?
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