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Eventually almost every nation in world will have nukes. We won't be able to bully everybody indefinitely.

Policy is no new nukes!!!! Iran had 2 months to determine their fate. They decided to go the same route as Hirohito. Bad idea. No new nukes!!!!

I will when he finally doesn't do his bidding. That may be never though.

Not a chance in hell. Try again.

The only other countries that are sufficiently strong and complex enough to make a foreigners time worthwhile would be Iran, Russia, and Japan. I don't think any of these countries have an end all be all team trial. Russia has the most straight forward process. They have a tournament called the Russian Nationals (it's a direct descendant of the Soviet National Championships) where citizens from the country compete under the flag of their province (multiple entrants per province are aloud). If you win that tournament you are either the world/olympic rep or if there is a highly decorated athlete in that weight class who did not win/participate, they'll have them wrestle off with the winner of the Russian Nationals. It's important to note that Russian wrestling is dominated by two ethnic minorities, an Iranic speaking people called Ossetians and the muslim ethnic groups that live around Dagestan (Dagestani is not an ethnicity). Flo would invite a Slavic Russian wrestler from St Petersburg to try to get inside scoops on the Russian scene and it ended up not working at all because he was as much of a stranger to these two communities as Christian Pyles was. He wasn't imbedded in either the Ossetian or Dagestan scenes, so he had no interesting information to give. Iran does not have a formal process. Whoever is in charge of the national team picks the team, and whatever process he does or does not want comes up on the fly. It will be something like they'll send 3 tough guys from 125 kg to this ranking series and its understood that if someone from Iran wins it they get the spot. They do have a domestic wrestling wrestling scene. From what I've seen it's like European in soccer in that there are clubs and they can buy and sell wrestlers for their club team. So Zara and Yazdanis have clubs that they represent. I don't know how often the top world teamer Iranians actually wrestle in this club system and it features a lot of lower level competitors. The club season exists independently from what happens in international wrestling. Oh and most of their wrestlers come from a province called Mazandaran. Japan's I know the least about. I think their wrestling is based around Universities (not that it's like American College wrestling, just that Unis are the entity which provides them the framework for training and being a team). They have a tournament called the Emperor's Cup which is involved with how they pick their team. I don't remember what their other tournaments are called but I think they have one or two other big ones. I also am not exactly sure how they chose the team. I remember reading something like if you win X and the Emperors cup you're guaranteed the spot. So for watching, the easiest place to start with is youtube. Typing in Russian Nationals in Cyrillic or trying to find the federations channels. If you can't find the whole, you might find clips. Twitter might be good to check out, both English speaking and local language. Wrestling is still very much niche in Russian and Japan, so even for native speakers it's not the easiest thing to get into.

These extra years and transfer leniency are getting out of control

We’ve been framed by the terrorists as anti Muslim for decades. Nobody is stopping you from moving back to Europe. I’ll help you pack.

i bet they would take even you

This is a really bad idea. All they're doing is just going to be framed as an anti Muslim war and it is going to get ugly. This is why I wish we were able to move back to Europe.

Hey Puffy, you’re back …….. again. Staying away is being here! Terrorism is Friendship! Fat is skinny!

I already had my right one done. And it was 20 years ago when I thought I was done wrestling ever again. It's never caused a problem since. The left one is a huge mess of everything. I'm scheduling it this coming week.

Isolationist

No new wars! No new wars! Now let's get to engineering the regime change, something that has never had negative results ever! War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is strength! #PresidentOfPeace

Donnie got fed up with the terrorists running Iran.

Nettanyahoos errand boy

US just dropped bombs on 3 sites in Iran.

3 nuclear sites hit.

I love the idea behind this.

Sounds like that old John McCain song: Bomb, bomb, bomb Bomb, bomb Iran

The AP and IAEA may not be reputable enough for left wangers.

you're the best on this, FC

we bombed them

Trump - first the spending - then the Iran interference Bad decisions! If Iran had nucs, they would not use them.

That is slightly higher than the 3 to 5 percent needed to make electricity. Maybe they are making a bomb or something.

just can't find it