Now thankfully there were no "serious" injuriessustainedd. The two people suffered minor injuries and were able to walk away. But the fact that they got knocked down by horses and that the police just led their horses right over the top of them is a pretty bad act if you want my humble opinion. You can see clearly that one of the two gets stepped on by the last horse on that side, but we have no idea what happened prior. The official word from the Police department was that they could not stop at that time, because someone was attacking them with a bike. Obviously we can all watch the video and see that is not true.Ottawa Police Horses Trample Protestors Increasing Tensions Between Protestors and Police
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But at the end of the day this is a tense situation and obviously some of these police are a little more aggressive than they otherwise might be. Could be that they are also a little scared. But this is not behavior that should be justified by anyone. Certainly not justified with a lie.
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Nell Fenwick hangs her head in shame
Why do liberals suddenly want to cheer Government oppression of protests?
Leftists ideas have always been ideas so fucking good they had to be made mandatory. Failure to comply mandates a government beat-down.
I'm old enough to remember when the left mourned and railed against events like the Kent State shootings. Now they cheer that shit and can't get enough of it.
Got my free Covid tests yesterday, when I went to gather the mail this morning.
of course it was below freezing last night, which means they’re fucking worthless.
At the end of the day, Rat...
Liberals cheer when law enforcement beats and attacks otherwise law abiding citizens for questioning the Government.
Liberals protest if during a law enforcement encounter that the criminal gets injured or killed.
They don't stand up for the average person who is just upset with the Government. They only love their black criminals for some reason. Just love em to death and will go to the mat to protect them!
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
Got my free Covid tests yesterday, when I went to gather the mail this morning.
of course it was below freezing last night, which means they’re fucking worthless.
The perfect metaphor for the Slow Joe regime.
Liberals cheer when law enforcement beats and attacks otherwise law abiding citizens for questioning the Government.
Government is their God and Holy Savior, and DC is their Cathedral.
Liberals protest if during a law enforcement encounter that the criminal gets injured or killed.
Speaking of which, I hear that Potter only got 2 years for permanently removing a piece of shit from America's streets. Good for her. While she should've been acquitted, the sentence is light enough to hopefully not ruin her.
Home / Fox News staffer made up story about Canadian protester getting trampled — and duped Ted Cruz: report
Fox News staffer made up story about Canadian protester getting trampled — and duped Ted Cruz: report
Sen. Ted Cruz
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Raw Story
February 20, 2022
Fox News contributor Sara Carter has retracted an "entirely fictitious" story about a Canadian "freedom convoy" protester getting trampled by a police horse, the Daily Beast reported Saturday.
“Reports are the woman trampled by a Canadian horse patrol just died at the hospital ... #Trudeau #FreedomConvoyCanada,” Carter tweeted on Friday.
Carter has 1.3 million Twitter followers, and her post was amplified by conservatives including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Fox Nation hosts Diamond and Silk. But on Saturday morning, Carter — who claims to be an "award-winning correspondent" and is frequently called upon by host Sean Hannity — admitted the story was false.
“The Reports I was given earlier yesterday from sources on the ground that someone may have died at a hospital during the trampling was wrong,” Carter tweeted, adding that “someone was taken to a hospital with a heart condition - not due to trampling. I want to clarify this again and apologize for any confusion.”
Carter subsequently deleted her original tweet — but only after being contacted by the Daily Beast on Saturday evening. And not until after Cruz deleted his retweet – in which he had written above Carter's original post, "This...is...horrific."
"I deleted my retweet about a Canadian protestor being trampled to death because the journalist who first reported it now says it was in error," Cruz wrote on Saturday afternoon. "I remain deeply concerned about the abuse—seizing money & employing violence against peaceful protesters—that we’re seeing in Canada."
You have been gaslighted again!
What's also curious as it relates to this thread is how the right is always accused of being Hitler, while the leftists are the ones actually and quite literally emulating Hitler through their thoughts and deeds every fucking minute of every fucking day.
Gestapo beat-downs in Canada, concentration camps in Australia...
...and my, how those Jacobin's wept when the Berlin Wall came down.
So Canada has decided to make their totalitarian dictatorship PERMANENT.
This is EVIL.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1494852056145969155
The left cheers.
Carter subsequently deleted her original tweet — but only after being contacted by the Daily Beast on Saturday evening. And not until after Cruz deleted his retweet – in which he had written above Carter's original post, "This...is...horrific."
Looney bin alky troll squad asshole -
What's horrific is that an elderly woman was trampled by an RCMP horse TO BEGIN WITH.
Thankfully she's not dead. "Only" a dislocated shoulder and bruising. But look at the minor part of the story that YOU'RE focused on.
God DAMN you're a piece of shit.
Unfortunately this is a symptom of a possible rising risk of our Republic from the far right movements world wide, including Vladimir Putin who is not a Communist president ....
The Giddy, Terrifying Siege of Ottawa
Feb. 17, 2022
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By Michelle Goldberg
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OTTAWA — When I asked Matthew Wall, a 36-year-old electrician from Manitoba, what brought him to this city, which has been overwhelmed by a giant protest encampment, he answered with one word: “Mushrooms.” Searching for his purpose in life, he said, he went on a psychedelic spiritual journey and had an image of the Freedom Convoy, a demonstration against Covid rules that has converged on the Canadian capital with trucks and other large vehicles.
“I’m here for the rights of our kids, for parents’ rights, for everyone’s rights,” said Wall. “So kids can live in a future where they don’t have to have something covering their face, lose emotion. You don’t have the human connection, don’t see them smile anymore. It’s dehumanizing.” His daughters, he told me, were seeing a school therapist weekly because of the emotional fallout of the pandemic. “You’re taking away the love!” he said.
Wall was sitting in the passenger seat of a black truck owned by a friend he’d made in Ottawa. It was covered in painted slogans, some with imperfect punctuation: “Dad’s On a Mission,” “Bless You in Advance Boys in Blue,” “Superhero’s Never Die.” Notes of thanks were taped to the truck, as were tickets that had been issued to protesters, including one to Wall for “bass noise (or unusual noise or noise that disturbs inhabitant(s) of the city),” which came with a fine of 1,000 Canadian dollars.
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Matthew Wall, right, with a fellow protester, Matthew Bujold, in Ottawa on Wednesday.Credit...Dave Chan for The New York Times
In the back seat was Jenna Wozney, a 24-year-old actress from Vancouver who’d flown to Ottawa on her own a few days earlier. She said some of her family and friends considered the protests “hateful,” but she’d been determined to see them for herself. Wozney deeply distrusted the vaccines, though she’d given in and gotten the shots in order to be able to work: “I’m so poor, I didn’t have any money, I had to get it,” she said, adding an expletive.
The demonstrations felt, to her, transformative. She saw them, somehow, as the next step after Black Lives Matters movement
Roger has what I see as an advanced stage of liberalism illness. This strawman red herring concept that if you can find one part of larger story (generally peripheral) and debunk it, that you have actually debunked the entire story as a whole.
Was there a rumor that the women had died? Certainly. Did that rumor get tweeted out by a journalist? Obviously it did.
Does that mean that police horses did NOT trample a women?
Of course not. They tampled that women, just "not to death".
But Roger will stick to his guns on this, believing that there was no actually trampling done (even as he can watch it himself) because someone wrote about how someone claimed she "died" and apparently that debunks the entire thing.
I mean... you can't make up this shit.
I mean... you can't make up this shit.
Which is why I'm convinced he's mentally ill, is in his facility via court order, and will never be allowed to leave until dead.
Get a load of this shit -
Blogger The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
Unfortunately this is a symptom of a possible rising risk of our Republic from the far right movements world wide, including Vladimir Putin who is not a Communist president ....
The mentally ill fuck actually sees what's happening in Ottawa as "right wing'' when all the right seeks is 'freedom' and all the totalitarian violence being imposed is exclusively LEFT-WING. And he throws Putin in for some fucktarded reason.
Michelle Goldberg is a clown lacking the capacity to accurately interpret what she "witnessed" if she was even there to begin with.
The Giddy, Terrifying Siege of Ottawa
The Barbecue's were giddy.
The Bouncy Houses terrifying.
And that's all it takes to trigger the left into full-on authoritarian, totalitarian violent martial law rule.
Oh, that, and the word "FREEDOM."
The word "freedom" is evil. Unless it's being used in a lie to make up a story told by a ten dollar whore and it's spelled FWEEDOM.
Ted Cruz and Senator Rand Paul support a It’s a coordinated attack on the American economy and democracy.
Tow trucks are on the move in Ottawa. Local and federal police, empowered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent declaration of national emergency, are finally dismantling the truck blockades that have paralyzed Canada’s capital city for over three weeks.
A crisis that local police declared unsolvable under existing law is being methodically dismantled thanks to the temporary powers invoked under the Emergencies Act. The act puts teeth in enforcement without suspending the constitutional rights of the truckers.
Conservative members of Parliament and convoy organizers objected to the state of emergency using suspiciously similar talking points.
The MPs and their trucker pals claim this isn’t a big enough emergency to justify its use. If the siege of Canada’s capital city isn’t big enough, what could possibly qualify? Conservatives claim to want the trucks removed from downtown but they know that’s impossible without emergency powers. The local police admit they were powerless to remove them without federal help, in part because local towing companies had been harassed and intimidated by the truckers.
The “freedom convoy” is more serious than the protracted siege of Ottawa. It’s a coordinated attack on Canada’s economy and democracy.
The truckers’ stated aim is to bring down the Trudeau government by strangling the cross-border trade underpinnning the Canadian economy. At the peak of the border blockades, the convoy was costing the Canadian economy nearly half a billion dollars a day.
The biggest blockades were cleared with federal help before the state of emergency went into effect, but the fight to keep the border open continues. Convoy supporters tried to re-block the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor to Detroit but were rebuffed by police.
The “freedom convoy” is more serious than the protracted siege of Ottawa. It’s a coordinated attack on Canada’s economy and democracy.
The truckers’ stated aim is to bring down the Trudeau government by strangling the cross-border trade underpinnning the Canadian economy. At the peak of the border blockades, the convoy was costing the Canadian economy nearly half a billion dollars a day.
The biggest blockades were cleared with federal help before the state of emergency went into effect, but the fight to keep the border open continues. Convoy supporters tried to re-block the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor to Detroit but were rebuffed by police.
There’s good reason to suspect some truckers are heavily armed. Four members of the Freedom Convoy were arrested in Alberta for allegedly plotting to murder police officers. The raid that took these suspects into custody also uncovered a large cache of illegal weapons.
The alleged plotters are affiliated with the far-right Dialogon movement which, for the uninitiated, could be called the Boogs of Canada. Like the Boogaloo Boys, the Dialogons geminated online with an ironic aesthetic and then transitioned to real-life violence.
Many media accounts have portrayed extremists as a small faction within a much larger and less radical movement. This overlooks the glaringly obvious fact that everything they do is radical. Illegally occupying a G7 capital and blocking billions in trade is radical.
One of the hallmarks of terrorism is an organized attempt to intimidate or coerce a civilian population to achieve political goals.
The trucker siege checks those boxes.
Hopped up on anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and racism, insurgents vented their rage on health care workers and residents of Ottawa’s downtown core. The police set up a special hotline for residents to report hate crimes by occupiers, which as of two weeks ago had received over 400 calls, resulting in 50 investigations and 11 hate crimes charges. The siege also included a critical infrastructure attack on the city’s 911 system. Ambulances were pelted with rocks. Suspected convoyers tried to set an apartment building on fire after residents clashed with occupiers over late-night fireworks.
Earlier this week, Trudeau rose in the House of Commons to rebuke the Conservative Party members of parliament who support the truckers and oppose the declaration of national emergency.
"Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas. They can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag," the prime minister said. “We will choose to stand with Canadians who deserve to be able to get to their jobs, to be able to get their lives back. These illegal protests need to stop, and they will."
Since this is incontrovertibly true, the Conservatives spent days pretending to be offended by Trudeau’s gall to mention the iconography of hate we all saw on television, which groups like AntiHate.ca have been meticulously documenting for weeks.
Trudeau has finally acted decisively to end the fascist takeover of his nation’s capital. The only question is why it took him so long.
Terrorism is an organized attempt to intimidate a civilian population .
https://www.rawstory.com/terrorism-is-an-organized-attempt-to-intimidate-a-civilian-population-and-the-trucker-siege-checks-those-boxes/
The bigger issue is right wing terroristism.
Terrorism is an organized attempt to intimidate a civilian population .
https://www.rawstory.com/terrorism-is-an-organized-attempt-to-intimidate-a-civilian-population-and-the-trucker-siege-checks-those-boxes/
If they do the same thing across the country it would cause a great Depression
It's tough to discern what's more absurd on "RAW STORY!!!11!"
The articles or the reader comments.
Have fun here today by yourself alky.
You see, the rest of us get to LEAVE where we live.
LOL.
The same thing is happening in your neighboring state Idaho.
My brother lives there
Newsmax guest defends anti-vax truckers, threatens armed revolt
Newsmax host Eric Bolling on Friday hosted a guest who was sympathetic to the "Freedom Convoy" of right-wing truckers that have clogged the streets of Ottowa, Canada in protest of COVID-19 vaccine mandates for drivers coming in from the United States. But what began as a simple airing of petty grievances by Bolling and "Cowboy Libertarian" Patrick Dorinson quickly devolved into an all-out threat of armed violence.
Like many on the right, Dorinson is upset at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's invocation of executive powers to break up the disruptions to commerce that the anti-vaxxers have triggered. And he wanted everyone to know that he and his ilk are armed and ready to fight back if the United States government ever imposes martial law on lawless vigilantes.
The irony is that many right-wingers demanded that former President Donald Trump declare martial law to overturn the 2020 election, but that was lost on the two men.
Dorinson:
I think they're going to get a lot more than they bargained for, and I think there's a lot of folks in blue, who are wonderful law enforcement officials in this country, who don't like what's going on because they're getting shoved around, too. You know something? This is more than just mandates. The mandates was the match that lit this fire that's going to sweep across the world that's going to tell people we've had enough of the elitists telling us what to do. Guess what? Our kids are going to have no masks in school. You're not going to teach CRT. You're not going to do all this other stuff. We've about had it with you. And remember something else, Eric. There's an old cowboy saying that says, when you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learned the lesson. Well, the people of this country – and Canada and all the other places in the Western world – we finally learned our lesson and we're standing up and we're coming out and we're coming for them.
Scott the red scare is dead because of the cold war and again NATO allies
You should take a look at both sides like I do every single day...
The wild wide west
OF COURSE, CH ALWAYS WANTS TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE THINGS THAT ARE MOST IMPORTANT:
U.S. Says Putin Has Given Orders to Attack Ukraine
February 20, 2022 at 12:59 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 182 Comments
U.S. intelligence has information indicating that Russian military commanders have been given orders to proceed with an invasion of Ukraine,
CBS News reports.
Meanwhile, CNN reports Russia now has “close to 75% of its conventional forces postured against Ukraine. The concentration of forces within striking distance of Ukraine is highly unusual and part of the reason the US believes Russia is ready to attack.”
Ukraine’s President Accuses the West of Appeasement
February 20, 2022 at 12:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 52 Comments
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed the West’s response to Russian meddling in Ukraine over the last two decades.
Said Zelenskyy:
“It was here 15 years ago that Russia announced its intention to challenge global security. What did the world say? Appeasement. Result? At least: the annexation of Crimea and aggression against my state.”
He added:
"We will defend our land with or without the support of partners. Whether they give us hundreds of modern weapons or 5,000 helmets. We appreciate any help, but everyone should understand that these are not charitable contributions … These are not noble gestures for which Ukraine should bow low. This is your contribution to the security of Europe and the world.”
Boris Johnson Braces for Biggest War In Europe Since 1945
February 20, 2022 at 12:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC that evidence suggests Russia is planning “the biggest war in Europe since 1945.”
He added:
“All the signs are that the plan has already in some senses begun.”
Is Today the Day Russia Attacks Ukraine?
February 20, 2022 at 11:17 am EST By Taegan Goddard 97 Comments
Washington Post:
“Analysts looking at Russia’s menacing buildup of troops on Ukraine’s borders have long circled Feb. 20 as a day to watch for potential action.
Sunday marks the confluence of several events and milestones that some think could — amid the feverish guessing game surrounding the standoff — hold deeper meaning.”
Wall Street Journal:
Russia extends drills in Belarus as violence escalates.
Hitler convinced the German people his aggressions were necessary for the sake of Germany.
Putin is trying to convince the Russian people his aggressions are necessary for the sake of Russia.
Too Mock Alky is too easy.
"Blogger The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
This could lead to a 2nd World War One European war.
"a 2nd World War One European war."
Never go full alky, alky.
The same rules apply to "full alky" as apply to "full retard."
Because they're basically the same.
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rrbFebruary 20, 2022 at 11:22 AM
Said Truss: “It could be Ukraine next week, but then which country will it be next?”
Caliphate4vrFebruary 20, 2022 at 11:30 AM
Blogger The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
This could lead to a 2nd World War One European war.
whaaa??
Just a few minutes ago he might be stepping back...
KYIV, Ukraine—Russia will extend its military drills with Belarus because of rising violence in Ukraine’s Donbas region, the government in Minsk said, as Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted a new round of talks with Kyiv amid warnings of an imminent Russian invasion.
Mr. Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron said after speaking Sunday that they agreed to continue seeking a diplomatic solution. Russia has amassed as many as 190,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, including some 30,000 for exercises in its ally Belarus that were slated to end Sunday. Moscow demands that Kyiv abandon its aspirations to join NATO—the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—and give Russian proxies a major say in Ukraine’s future.
Sunday’s developments on the diplomatic front indicated that Mr. Putin could be willing to step back from the brink of war, at least in the immediate future, as he sought a face-saving end to the crisis. “Putin just started a new chapter,” said Oleksandr Danylyuk, a former Ukraine national-security adviser. “It’s a break that allows Putin to refocus, rethink and regroup before taking his next steps. The full war is unpredictable for him—you never know. It’s easy to start a war but you never know how it will end.”
Shelling across the cease-fire line in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region intensified in recent days, with Russian-installed authorities in areas controlled by Moscow since 2014 ordering the mobilization of fighting-age men and urging the evacuation of women and children. Kyiv and its Western partners say these moves are part of a Russian propaganda campaign to justify a full-fledged military invasion of Ukraine, which President Biden has said he expects to happen within days.
A non nuclear trench warfare
What Roger just posted absolutely belies all your carping attempts to ridicule him.
Shut up your stupid personal attacks.
We are now living in moments too serious for that.
Get with the real news, as Roger and I do.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-extends-belarus-drills-for-thousands-of-troops-as-ukraine-violence-escalates-11645364792?reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
Kputz is supposed to be a rancher .
But they have to work harder than he does because he's always here being stupid
"...he [Putin] might be stepping back..."
If so, it's probably only because he knows he might not survive an attack on Ukraine. He might not politically survive at home with the Russian people.
Russians still remember the body bags that came home from Afghanistan.
Russians still remember the body bags that came home from Afghanistan.
So Putin has a lot in common with Dementia Joe
Oh Canada.
PM Brenda is seizing accounts of the Protestors.
Just stop
The Daytona 500 is one of the few sporting event the has an invocation with a minister/Priest/Rabbi performing it.
James, tell us, when do you see Putin actually attacking?
No backing out as you and fellow butt plug Alky cheerlead for Biden's war.
If so, it's probably only because he knows he might not survive an attack on Ukraine. He might not politically survive at home with the Russian people.
1. This is not Afghanistan, there a large ethnic Russian population in Ukraine.
2. Putin doesn't lead a democracy. He's an authoritarian. Russians have only rebelled against the czar.
Russians still remember the body bags that came home from Afghanistan
See above.
Racers are on the parade lap.
Green flag is up.
They are racing at Daytona.
Lots of Mustangs in the race.
This is not Afghanistan, there a large ethnic Russian population in Ukraine.
If he’s not copying and pasting, he’s completely lost
There really isn’t much up top
Roger why do you your predictions always fail.
"$3.00 gas"
Actually Current Avg.$3.53
January 21,2021 Trump handed of $2.24 gas.
CS , Roger predicted
"This could lead to a 2nd World War One European war."
What a fucking retard.
Just thinking, electric cars can't race.
So will Juwan Howard be fired?
Affirmative action VP is warning that Biden's War will cause higher energy prices.
Tell me she is actually not that fucking clueless a c*nt.
I have been to a Nascar race. And a Formula One in California.
If it's BLM "protestors," Fox News and Chtroothers are yelling, "The police should go in there and be rough."
If it's Canadian "protestors," Fox news and Chtroothers are yelling, "The police have no right to go in there and be rough."
All across America, Republicans and Democrats are coming together to put Russia back in its place. Everyone except for Tucker Carlson and kputz.
As Russia prepares to invade Ukraine and make a major power grab to expand its influence and values of authoritarianism and communism, Americans are joining together to stop them in a massive bipartisan effort.
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The US Senate is close to passing "the mother of all sanctions" against Russia. The sanctions are led by Republican, James Risch of Wisconsin, and Democrat, Bob Menendez of New York. The sanctions will be passed with sweeping bipartisan support in the United States Senate.
Risch also noted that “we side, always, with countries that are democracies,” in particular nations like Ukraine that want to align more closely with the west.
These massive economic sanctions will undercut the economic interests of the most significant Russian banks, crippling the Russian economy, and attack Russia sovereign debt. They will even include sanctions directly against Putin himself. These are sanctions beyond any that we have ever levied before.
President Biden has also authorized 3,000 US troops to go to Ukraine and neighboring countries in case Russia takes aggressive action.
A majority of American citizens also support defending Ukraine from Russian invasion. We are coming together to take action to protect our shared values of democracy and freedom.
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a brief interview. “Russia is the aggressor. … Ukraine has every right, as a sovereign nation, to have their borders respected. Russia’s not doing that.”
Everyone except for Tucker Carlson, who has taken to defending Russia, calling them "reasonable." Most Republicans, including his listeners, are paying Carlson no mind. Others are saying he is severely mistaken.
This is one issue on which Americans can agree. Americans will not appease Russia–and Putin's agenda to spread fear, dictatorship, and communism will not be tolerated.
President Biden met with the National Security Council Sunday to discuss the threat of war in Ukraine, as officials warn that Moscow is stepping up its disinformation campaign in a bid to create a pretext for a military attack that the president has warned could come “in the coming days.”
The NSC meeting lasted a little over two hours, with Vice President Harris calling in from Air Force Two on her way back to Washington from Munich, an administration official said.
Meanwhile, Belarus’s defense minister extended military exercises with Russian forces that were otherwise set to end Sunday, and announced a joint task force to “fight back if necessary.”
The announcement that Russian forces would not return to base as planned contradicted the country’s previous assertion that not a single Russian troop or piece of equipment would remain after the drill. Before the exercise began 10 days ago, Western military analysts warned that it could be cover for an attack force to invade Ukraine from the north and potentially encircle the capital Kyiv.
Here’s what to know
French President Emmanuel Macron and Putin held a call Sunday that the European leader’s office said yielded a potential development toward diplomacy. The two agreed to work on facilitating a contact group meeting in the next few hours to work toward a cease-fire agreement, Macron’s office said. But the Kremlin’s readout of their discussion didn’t mention a possible meeting.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC Sunday that the United Kingdom and the United States could take steps to prevent Russian companies from trading in British pounds and U.S. dollars if Putin invades Ukraine. Zelensky earlier said that possible Western sanctions against Russia should be made public now to deter Moscow.Russian and Belarusian leaders said they will “continue checking” joint force readiness as military exercises are extended. Belarus Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin cited the “increase in military activity” near the border and “the aggravation of the situation” in eastern Ukraine.
Five minutes ago
Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
If it's BLM "protestors," Fox News and Chtroothers are yelling, "The police should go in there and be rough."
If it's Canadian "protestors," Fox news and Chtroothers are yelling, "The police have no right to go in there and be rough
Well Reverend BLM protesters were violent rioters.
Canadian protester were peaceful.
The only Canadians that were violent are the federal and provincial police.
They did it on orders from a fascist Prime Minister.
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
If it's BLM "protestors," Fox News and Chtroothers are yelling, "The police should go in there and be rough."
If it's Canadian "protestors," Fox news and Chtroothers are yelling, "The police have no right to go in there and be rou
Why must you constantly LIE??
Great Britain and France are working together...
Boris Johnson says Putin must step back from threats and withdraw troops in Macron call
UK prime minister Boris Johnson and French president Emmanuel Macron agreed during a phone call on Sunday that the next week will be “crucial for diplomacy” as the west looks to avert war between Russia and Ukraine.
“The prime minister spoke to French president Macron tonight about the situation in Ukraine. They updated one another on their respective diplomatic efforts, including president Macron’s call with president Putin today,” a Downing Street spokeswoman said, according to PA.
“The prime minister noted that president Putin’s commitments to president Macron were a welcome sign that he might still be willing to engage in finding a diplomatic solution. The prime minister stressed that Ukraine’s voice must be central in any discussions.
Johnson’s speech at Saturday’s Munich Security Conference warned an invasion of Ukraine would “echo around the world” but said he still held out hope for a diplomatic resolution, marking a departure from recent US rhetoric which appears convinced Putin has decided to invade.
“The leaders agreed on the need for both Russia and Ukraine to meet their commitments under the Minsk Agreements in full. They also underscored the need for President Putin to step back from his current threats and withdraw troops from Ukraine’s border.
“The prime minister and president Macron agreed next week would be crucial for diplomacy and resolved to stay in close contact.”
15 minutes ago
French President Emmanuel Macron and Putin held a call Sunday that the European leader’s office said yielded a potential development toward diplomacy
If the French is dealing with critical NATO matters then you know they lost confidence in BIden.
They were blocking a highway bridge illegally and the police officers had the right to arrest them.
If they were black people you would be cheering from more violence against neg••••••s
I have been to a Nascar race
There's NASCAR and then there's the Daytona 500.
Sort of like there is Championship Car Racing and the Indy 500.
No because President Biden has been uniting NATO allies since Trump undercut them...
They were blocking a highway bridge illegally and the police officers had the right to hit them over the head with a billy club..
That what you mean Roger?
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Russian president reiterated the need for NATO to take Moscow’s demands for security guarantees seriously to avoid conflict.
European Council President Charles Michel said: 'The big question remains: does the Kremlin want dialogue?' [Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Kremlin via Reuters]
Published On 20 Feb 202220 Feb 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin said diplomatic efforts need to intensify to find a resolution to the Ukraine crisis, a signal Moscow may be ready to discuss ways to walk back the threat of war in Europe.
After a call with President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, Putin blamed NATO for “pumping modern weapons and ammunition” into Ukraine.
The phone conversation came two weeks after Macron went to Moscow to persuade Putin to refrain from sending troops massed on the border into Ukraine.
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A Kremlin statement said Putin and Macron discussed the supply of weapons and ammunition by NATO countries to Ukraine, which the Kremlin said was pushing Kyiv towards a “military solution” against separatists in the country’s east.
Blogger The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
No because President Biden has been uniting NATO allies since Trump undercut them...
You mean like bugging out of Afghanistan?
It united the NATO alliance alright. United in fear of Biden's incompetence maybe.
If Antifa demonstrators were blocking the bridge you would be telling the cops to beat the shit on them.
Two totally different situations
Antifa rioters were blocking highways and bridges. They also murder people and burn buildings.
Any Canadian protesters murder people or burn buildings Roger?
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Blogger The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
Two totally different situations
Yeah BLM looted, burn buildings, and murder police officers.
Canadian protesters were peaceful and were arrested on orders from Trudeau.
I said if they did the same thing at the same time you would want the police officers to beat the shit out of them because they are not white.
You know any US government officials who confiscated savings accounts Roger?
If they were non violent Antifa demonstrators you could love to see them beaten and killed
Canada has different laws
Blogger The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
No because President Biden has been uniting NATO allies since Trump undercut them...
An egregious LIE by the lying liar alky.
Trump pressed the NATO members to live up to the terms of the charter, asking them to stop being parasites and to...
...wait for it...
...pay their FAIR SHARE.
Sound familiar?
You're a hack and an imbecile alky.
NATO is simultaneously pissed at Biden and afraid of him because they know he's got severe dementia.
Even Macron dressed him down publicly a few months back.
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Blogger The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
I said if they did the same thing at the same time you would want the police officers to beat the shit out of them because they are not white
You mean the Canadians? No, violence is violence. You're the only one fixated on race. In fact you are saying the Truckers don't deserve freedom of speech because they are white.
We know this because for last year every BLM riot that occurred you were silent.
I’m old enough to remember when folks who stole
classified documents were called spies.
I SAID:
[IF Putin really is stepping back] it's probably only because he knows he might not survive an attack on Ukraine. He might not politically survive at home with the Russian people.
COMMONSENSE SAID (STUPIDLY)
1. This is not Afghanistan, there a large ethnic Russian population in Ukraine.
2. Putin doesn't lead a democracy. He's an authoritarian. Russians have only rebelled against the czar.
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First, Afghanistan was a foreign country where Russian invasion became intensely unpopular with the Russian people as more and more body bags came home and Russia eventually was forced to withdraw.
Second, to say that "Russians have only rebelled against the Czar" plays down what happened in Russia during Breznev's, Yeltsin's, and Gorbachev's times, resulting in such strong dissatisfaction with the USSR that the outcome was the breakup of the USSR and the downfall of Gorbachev.
We know this because for last year every BLM riot that occurred you were silent.
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THAT is and out and out LIE.
I condemned all actual violence and destruction of property and supported only what really were a MAJORITY of peaceful protests all across America.
Any violence and destruction was played up BIG. The peaceful protesters were not given the attention they deserved.
But a plethora of videos showed all the world what happend at the Capitol on the sixth.
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Blogger The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
If they were non violent Antifa demonstrators you could love to see them beaten and killed
This is getting tiresome. Anyone can protest as long as they are peaceful.
Antifa and BLM are not peaceful. They commit violence, they deserve to go to jail. And you deserved to go to jail as an accomplice.
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Blogger The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
I’m old enough to remember when folks who stole
classified documents were called spies
Now they are called the FBI.
Blogger The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
I’m old enough to remember when folks who stole
classified documents were called spies.
Except for Sandy Berger who stole docs directly FROM the National Archives.
Thievery you celebrated at the time.
Compared to Trump who simply brought some doc s home and promptly sent them to the National Archives.
So it's the DEMOCRAT in this scenario who is the spy, alky. And like BLACK Rioters, Looters, and Murderers, you defend them because their motives were pure.
COMMONSENSE SAID (STUPIDLY)
1. This is not Afghanistan, there a large ethnic Russian population in Ukraine.
Well Reverend what exactly is stupid about that statement?
Antifa and BLM are not peaceful. They commit violence, they deserve to go to jail.
Jail, until they're released on zero bail and don't even get probation.
Fuck that.
SHOOT THEM.
Declare open season on them and eradicate them, "by any means necessary" to borrow a favorite phrase of the left.
"Russia back in its place." Roger
Where exactly is that?
Be descriptive and use your own words.
Biden has given his blessings to the Force Used by PM Truddy' s Storm Troopers to Crush Freedom.
This is far more important than before I saw this m.m
OPINION REVIEW & OUTLOOK
Russia’s Mercenary Power PlayPutin’s aspirations extend far beyond the former Soviet Union.
By
The Editorial Board
Feb. 20, 2022 9:55 am ET
French Barkhane force soldiers who wrapped up a four-month tour of duty in the Sahel leave their base in Gao, Mali, June 9, 2021.
PHOTO: /ASSOCIATED PRESS
France said last week that it will withdraw military forces from Mali, where Paris has led a counterterrorism campaign for nearly a decade. This is a setback for the fight against Islamic extremism, but it is also a victory for a Russian power play in Africa.
“We cannot remain militarily engaged with de facto authorities whose strategy and hidden objectives we do not share,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday of the Malian government. He added that the pullout of some 2,400 French troops could take as long as six months as France considers where in the region to re-station forces fighting Islamic State and al Qaeda.
Mr. Macron acknowledged that Mali is free to choose its security partners but warned that Russian mercenaries with “predatory intentions” were arriving in the country. “The junta which is in power after two coups d’etats considers them to be the best partners they can find to protect their power, not to fight against terrorism,” he said.
Mr. Macron is referring to Russia’s guns-for-hire Wagner Group. U.S. Africa Command recently confirmed the presence of the Russians and American officials have suggested they would be paid $10 million a month, though Mali denies it. The mercenaries’ numbers and influence are likely to grow as France pulls out.
Vladimir Putin told Mr. Macron in Moscow last week that the Wagner Group is a private outfit, not an extension of the Russian state. Sure. The group has extensive ties to Russia’s military and intelligence services, and Washington says it is owned by Putin associate Yevgeny Prigozhin. András Rácz of the German Council on Foreign Relations called Wagner “a classic proxy organization” used by the Kremlin “to extend its influence overseas without the visibility and intrusiveness of state military forces.”
PHOTO: WSJ
Wagner supported Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine eight years ago, but it has a global reach. Its mercenaries have propped up dictators from Venezuela to Syria. The group has deployed to more than a dozen African countries, boosting Russian influence in the Central African Republic and allegedly committing war crimes in Libya.
2.Putin doesn't lead a democracy. He's an authoritarian. Russians have only rebelled against the czar.
What exactly is stupid about that statement Reverend?
First, Afghanistan was a foreign country where Russian invasion became intensely unpopular with the Russian people as more and more body bags came home and Russia eventually was forced to withdraw.
Second, to say that "Russians have only rebelled against the Czar" plays down what happened in Russia during Breznev's, Yeltsin's, and Gorbachev's times, resulting in such strong dissatisfaction with the USSR that the outcome was the breakup of the USSR and the downfall of Gorbachev.
At the time the Soviet Union was In Afghanistan, it was a communist dictatorship. The fall of the Soviet Union had nothing to do with Afghanistan and everything to do with economic problems the Soviets were having. The fall of the Soviet Union had to do with internal Communist politics rather than an external rebellion.
See Revolution, Russian.
The Wagner Group has recruited, trained and sent private military operatives to conflict zones around the world to fuel violence, loot natural resources and intimidate civilians,” the European Union said when announcing sanctions in December. Brussels accused eight people tied to the group of involvement in “serious human rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings.” The U.S. sanctioned Wagner in 2017 and has since added more restrictions.
Expanding the Kremlin’s influence across resource-rich Africa can do more than empower and enrich Russian elites. Belarus, now a Russian satellite state, weaponized migration last year to disrupt Europe from the east. As Mr. Putin gains more sway over governments across Africa’s many conflict zones, he could try to pressure the EU with refugees from the south. This would be especially threatening given that Europe could soon be struggling with an influx of Ukrainian migrants.
Mr. Putin’s chief foreign policy goal is the return of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries to Russia’s sphere of influence, but his ambitions are broader. He wants to blow up the post-Cold War global order. As the West retrenches, American adversaries are taking advantage.
The Reverend forgets that BLM protests were responsible for more than two billion dollars in damages and destruction, mostly of private property. Hundreds of police officers were injured and dozens of people were killing throughout these riots. They often times had armed rioters with helmets and shields.
The Trucker convoy was a bunch of people renting bouncy houses and water slides. There were old ladies on scooters being trampled by horses and young children running around laughing.
But he doesn't understand why one might require a higher degree of police response than the other? Which is 100% about politics, and 0% about the actual police situation.
Well it’s getting late on a Sunday and as always the geriatrics here who have No LIFE, lie as always
At the time the Soviet Union was In Afghanistan, it was a communist dictatorship. The fall of the Soviet Union had nothing to do with Afghanistan and everything to do with economic problems the Soviets were having. The fall of the Soviet Union had to do with internal Communist politics rather than an external rebellion.
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If you are not aware that the forced resignation of Gorbachev came exactly because what you said never happened, DID happen:
You said, "Russians have only rebelled against the czar."
No, Russians rebelled against Gorbachev and brught abut his downfall. And yes, that rebellion was fueled by dissatisfaction with the economy as well, but it was also a rebellion aainst the man himself:
Once popular, he had become unpopular.
Ch cannot understand that, while I DID strongly criticize all acts of unjustified violence and destruction of valuable property in the summer riots, I also praised the fact that the vast majority of BLM demonstrations across our nation were peaceful. There is video evidence of that.
As for what happened at the Capitol, there is video as well as other evidence that it was an attempt at insurrection aided, abetted, and encouraged by a sitting president (now former president) of the United States of America.
Never before have we had a president who attempted to overthrow a legitimte election, and still continues to attempt to overthrow it without the least scintilla of verifiable evidence for its illigitimacy.
Even some of Trump's own supporters are begging him to cease and desist with his totally unjustified attempts at subversion.
Biden Abruptly Cancels Trip to Delaware
February 20, 2022 at 5:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 84 Comments
“President Joe Biden abruptly canceled plans on Sunday to go to his home in Delaware for the holiday following a four-hour meeting of his national security team to discuss the Russian threat to Ukraine,” CNBC reports.
“It’s unusual for a U.S. president’s travel plans to change this quickly, especially plans that involve leaving Washington.”
That last might be more significant than we hope.
Hey Reverend...
You went from comparing Antifa and their 2 billion in damages to the Canadian Truckers... back to Trump and Jan 6th. It's like "everything" goes back to Trump in your head.
I think you should seek help.
Pedo the Soviets invade the Stan during Carter’s regime 1979, it’s why we boycotted their Olympics, you stupid fucking old man.
Gorbachev wasn’t premier for damn near another decade
Cali sure does throw that word stupid around while lambasting me with the f word just because I am old.
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Cali says:
"... the Soviets invade[d Afghanistan] during Carter’s regime 1979...
Gorbachev wasn’t premier for damn near another decade.
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The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan lasted a "damn" near decade (1979-1989) before they withdrew in defeat.
Of course it was a factor in the Russian people's disillusonment with several of their leaders, including Gobachev.
So they solely laid the blame on Gorbachev the premier 1 year and got them out
You’re stupid
You’re, FUCKING VERY STUPID
Pedo just copy & paste
You’re incapable of a legit thought of your own
Reverend James, Ch used the same rhetoric used by opponents to MLK in the late 60s before he was assassinated by a white supremacist
Property damage and graffiti protesting racial discrimination is a crime.
But the motivation is valid.
It gets uneducated people to vote against Democrats.
Hey Reverend...
You went from comparing Antifa and their 2 billion in damages to the Canadian Truckers... back to Trump and Jan 6th. It's like "everything" goes back to Trump in your head.
I think you should seek help.
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Ch, you think civil disobedience, destruction, and criminality in the public is to be condemned as much as, or even far more than, civil disobedience, destruction, and criminality that is abetted, encouraged, and even enjoyed by a sitting president of the United States in a failed attempt to get his followers -- in his own words -- "to overthrow" an election.
You REALLY need help.
So they solely laid the blame on Gorbachev the premier 1 year and got them out
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I didn't say that.
Opposition to being in Afghanistan had been building and building as victory continued to ellude their troops and the war dragged on.
As for Gorbachev, economics and a failed glasnost were also factors in his downfall and the dissolution of the USSR.
You know, Roger, every now and then it becomes quite clear what we are dealing with here, doesn't it?
Pedo it was no food and lines to get bread that were the Soviets downfall not the Stan..
And I have shoved your “original thought” that you’ve touted numerous times today and yesterday, up your geriatric arse.
Just c & p
You aren’t smart enough to have an original thought
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
You know, Roger, every now and then it becomes quite clear what we are dealing with here, doesn't it?
People far brighter than either of you?
I agree
Even far more dangerous is that The American Thinker believes it's time to rise up and use any means.
The growing tyranny in the West has not happened overnight. It did not suddenly arrive at our doorsteps with the Chinese Flu. It has been a nightmare decades in the making. The difference today is that previously slumbering citizens once sublimely content in the normal humdrum of their lives are waking up to realize that the enemies from our past have returned with a vengeance. Free speech is treated as dangerous. Western governments, corporations, and social media platforms engage in rampant censorship. Race and sexual identity are used as the defining attributes of a person to the exclusion of talent, character, and achievement. Teachers' unions openly demand the right to indoctrinate children according to the interests of the State. Parents are threatened for believing that their children belong to them. The criminal justice system is used as a place to punish political opponents and to protect political friends. Religious expression is outlawed. Leftists' "secularized religion" is imposed. Freedom is disparaged as "right-wing." Coercion has replaced consent. Victimhood has replaced virtue. Conformity has replaced individuality. "Correct" thinking has replaced freethinking. "Social justice" has replaced real justice. And the protection of government has become more important than the protection of human rights.
For the newly awakened, there is a tendency to see all this carnage for the first time with fresh eyes and become overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the rot. The corruption, criminality, and chaos have infiltrated everything once held dear, and the future seems hopelessly lost. That hopelessness, however, is not based in reality but rather the "Us/Them" self-delusion that tyranny could not happen here. It's not easy to accept that the great sacrifices of the past made in the struggle for human freedom have once again been squandered by a new generation of despots. It is a necessary first step, though, before the righteous can throw themselves into the fight and get back to work. And once people come to terms with the fact that tyranny not only could happen here but that it is happening here, then they will realize that the struggle has only really begun in earnest.
Does anyone think the perverse and heavy-handed responses by the American government to the January 6 election protesters is a sign of strength? Does anyone believe that the Canadian government's decision to enact emergency powers and martial law to manhandle peaceful demonstrators protesting medical mandates showcases institutional confidence? Do the U.K. government's attempts to paint Brexit as a "Russian operation" project healthy trust in elections? When French president Emmanuel Macron feels compelled to go politicking with tear gas and heavily armored vehicles near his side, does he strike yellow-vest–wearing Europeans as fully in control? Does the Department of Justice's habitual harassment of conservatives across the United States for their beliefs or its repeated attempts to put President Trump in criminal jeopardy really seem like the actions of a federal system secure in its future? Of course not!
Western governments are terrified of their people today. They are terrified of what their people believe, or else they wouldn't feel compelled to criminalize thoughts as "hateful." They are scared to death of what their people might say to each other, or else they wouldn't engage in mass surveillance and blatant censorship. They are fearful of free and fair elections, or else they wouldn't work so hard to manipulate and undermine them. And they are absolutely petrified of a future where cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies free their citizens from the consolidated control imposed by central banks and spendthrift treasuries. If discouraged and demoralized Westerners doubt that they have more power right now than their governments could ever possess, then take a hard look at the obscene lengths to which those governments have gone in order to maintain and preserve their jurisdiction. Embracing tyranny under the sickening pretense of "preserving democracy" betrays just how weak these governments have become!
Václav Havel — dissident, political prisoner, and eventual president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic — wrote a sledgehammer of an essay in the late '70s entitled "The Power of the Powerless." In that indictment against the oppressive nature of communist regimes, he demystified totalitarianism as a system that forces citizens to "live within a lie." What each citizen secretly believes does not matter. Whether a citizen privately contests in his mind the State's constructed truths is irrelevant. What is crucial for totalitarianism, however, is that each citizen repeats the State's lies, lives within the system based on those lies, and perpetuates that system of lies in everyday life. He uses the example of a grocer displaying a Workers of the World, Unite! sign because failure to do so could be seen as a sign of disloyalty to the State. By displaying it, the grocer isn't expressing truth or personal enthusiasm for a cause, but rather proving his humiliating submission to a system of control.
Now consider all of the slogans we daily encounter from government and corporate mouthpieces alike: Black Lives Matter!; Build Back Better!; Trans Rights Are Human Rights!; The Science Is Settled!; Save the Earth!; Stop Global Warming!; The War on Women Is Real!; We're All in This Together!; Abortion Is Health Care!; My Body, My Choice! It doesn't matter how vapid, factually incorrect, or contradictory the political slogan. What matters is that all of us repeat them obediently to prove our allegiance to and faith in the system. And therein lies the key to our salvation.
Question the lies, and you question the system. Push back against the State's monopoly over truth, and you cripple the State's legitimacy. Celebrate individuality, and you fracture the mental prison of groupthink. Live "in truth," and you erode the control of State dogma. When people realize that they individually strengthen the State by submitting to its lies, people then understand that the whole artifice of the system survives purely through their individual consent. At that point, it becomes obvious that the small number of people at the top of the system is not really in control at all. It is the large population — psychologically abused and tormented by their government — that wields power when it chooses. Once the powerless have this epiphany, they alone control their destiny.
Identify tyranny. Question lies. Resist oppression. Assert truth. Empower the powerless. Destroy the system's illusion of control. Be not afraid. It's that simple.
Historically speaking this is how dangerous the conservative majority leaders have taken over the institutions like the FBI and even declare martial law.
January 6th was just the first step of the slow motion coup against the government. The peaceful transfer of power.
We have lost freedom, lost our ability to make a living in many cases, and lost our money to rampant inflation that has been caused by bad policy. Oil and commodity prices are going to keep rising. Will wages follow?
We watch as the government of Canada, once a freedom-loving neighbor, turns on its own. We watch Trudeau form a police state, taking over without effective government opposition. In the name of saving people from a virus that kills almost nobody who is healthy, we now have a great swath of humanity deprived of the right to make a living and, soon, deprived of their assets, their property, even their children and pets. Could that happen here?
January 6th is proof it could. Hyped as a major crisis, we who watched know the participants’ intent. It was mostly a peaceful demonstration of our citizens’ right to be heard. They were manipulated, ushered in, and even riled up by planted provocateurs trying to make violence happen. Our concerned citizens walked into the People’s house, through opened doors, and wandered around. Hardly more alarming than a bunch of tourists taking in the sights. Until Ashli Babbitt was murdered and some planted provocateurs started riling up people to get the desired result.
We who watch, who try to keep sane by writing about what we see in hope that more people will notice, we who try to live our lives and love our families, are being torn to pieces by how divided we are from one another, friends from friends, family from family. History will look back and see clearly. Yet what we need is clarity right now.
The Canadian demonstrators have inspired their allies in the United States.
If Putin succeeds in Ukraine and African countries and the allies who used the cold war fail to act, democracies will crumble..
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/americas_cognitive_dissonance_continues_to_deepen.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/02/the_power_of_the_powerless_is_real.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/americas_cognitive_dissonance_continues_to_deepen.html
But good news
President Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed "in principle" to a summit, the White House confirmed on Sunday.
Driving the news: President Biden said the meeting can only take place if Russia does not invade Ukraine, according to statements from the White House and French President Emmanuel Macron's office, which first announced the news.
The agreement was reached following two separate conversations that Macron had with the leaders, according to a statement from the Élysée Palace.
What they're saying: "As the President has repeatedly made clear, we are committed to pursuing diplomacy until the moment an invasion begins. Secretary Blinken and Foreign Minister Lavrov are scheduled to meet later this week in Europe, provided Russia does not proceed with military action," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in an emailed statement.
"President Biden accepted in principle a meeting with President Putin following that engagement, again, if an invasion hasn't happened," she added."We are always ready for diplomacy. We are also ready to impose swift and severe consequences should Russia instead choose war. And currently, Russia appears to be continuing preparations for a full-scale assault on Ukraine very soon."
Worth noting The announcement came as President Biden convened a meeting of the National Security Council on Sunday as U.S. officials warn that Putin is stoking disinformation in order to blame Ukraine if Russian troops invade the country.
Alky, it’s been days now since I originally asked, “What’s the code for you to be able to leave your facility?”
You’re not there voluntarily, my mom knew hers today, because she can freely come and go. And she’s a generation older than you.
LOL
Of course she doesn’t have a restraining order, for beating down Negroe’s like you.
Is Ottawa a Foreshadowing?
The truckers’ fight for freedom is our fight for freedom. Their enemy and our enemy are one and the same. The distortion of their fight by the media matches what is happening here. The consequences they are steeped in mirror what happened to peaceful protestors here. We know this. We also know that as long as we have our Second Amendment, we won’t endure our bank accounts being monitored, our freedom of speech being regulated beyond prevention of yelling fire in a crowded theater, etc. We know that our private phone calls are private. Or do we? Can we know these truths to be self-evident – that all law-abiding phone callers are created equally? What if Canada is a foreshadowing for what is on the agenda for the United States? What if our unbreakable firewall for guarding God-given liberty is seen differently by self-determined “more equals”? And what if to these more equals, what is God-given to us is just an academic chess game? What if words are their pawns and with enough maneuvering, can be weaponized, just so to break the unbreakable? Is breaking our way of life merely a win in an academic debate or a chess tournament? Most of all, where is our fight now?
Why is the Reverend still talking about Jan 6th?
I compared Antifa to the Canada Trucker demonstrations, not Jan 6th.
He needs help.
I sometimes think about the report from last year when Trump threw a Starburst candy at German chancellor Angela Merkel and said, “Don’t say I never give you anything.” On the one hand, the image itself is irresistibly and guiltily funny. If you consider it on its own, there is a part of your spleen, something about being an American human, that obliges you to revel in that moment. An occasional self-conscious lapse from decorum among the powerful is charming. A well-chosen one can be almost sublime.
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But a total insensibility to the dignity of one’s high office is perverse. It’s important to remember that if Barack Obama had done something like that Starburst trick, Republican blatherers would have put it into the great roll-call of unpresidential behavior that includes Bill Clinton’s sexual harassment of an intern, his staffers’ impish removal of the “W” keys on White House computers, Sandy Berger’s alleged “documents in his socks” moment, and Barack Obama’s khaki-suit fiasco. That last one still doesn’t make sense to me.
There’s still a week to go in this normally slow news month, but I’m tapping out. Donald Trump’s August 2019 has had so much sound and fury, it must signify something.
Where to begin? There was the frightening and incongruous grinning and thumbs up over an infant recently orphaned by a mass shooter. He actually took the occasion to remind people his rally in El Paso was more successful than Beto O’Rourke’s. Not long after that, there were the president’s suggestions that his predecessor might have been involved in murdering Jeffrey Epstein. Soon there commenced the weeks-long reality-TV-quality spat with former spokesman Anthony Scaramucci. Each one of these would normally, on its own, be a scandal large enough to be recalled in the first paragraphs summing up a president’s mixed legacy. For Trump it’s just a few days.
There was the leak of Trump’s interest in purchasing Greenland from Denmark. For those who know a little history, acquiring this extension of North America makes some strategic sense and has interested several presidents. For those with a sense of humor, there should be an ability to appreciate Trump’s acquisitiveness leading him to the truth on the matter. But then the big galoot couldn’t take a hint that Denmark isn’t interested in such a sale, and he caused a needlessly embarrassing diplomatic fight over it.
More recently, Trump is promoting claims that Israelis “love him like he’s the King of Israel” and “love him like he’s the second coming of God.” A few days later he is tweeting about the chairman of the Federal Reserve: “My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?” And then absurdly proclaiming, “The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China . . .”
I know what you’re thinking: Judges! But the judges!
Sure. They’re great. Fine. Whatever. Let’s get back to the subject at hand.
I remember sort of rolling my eyes when, 20 years ago, George W. Bush kept repeating that he would “restore honor and dignity” to the White House, a big applause line. He would even raise his hand, like he was taking an oath. But Trump is wearing out not just my patience but my cynicism and giving me a deeper appreciation for decorum.
It is supremely doubtful that Trump’s successors could sustain his new anti-norms; Trump’s combination of shamelessness and stamina is blessedly rare. Most normal people still know better than to just be themselves, warts and all, when entrusted with responsibility.
We need decorum because human beings are almost too malleable. We habituate ourselves to anything. Even this presidency. The constant break from the norm doesn’t just make the president perverse; it does something to us too.
Not long before he died, William F. Buckley was commenting on the state of conservatism. He longed for the repristination of its ideas. His word, of course. We have to be honest with ourselves. We’re not going to get to return to anything pristine, we’re not going to have the time for serious reflection or thought at all, if we let this jackanapes in the Oval Office have all the attention he covets. “Jackanapes” is another Buckley word in need of recovery.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/donald-trump-slow-news-month-we-need-decorum/?gclid=CjwKCAiA6seQBhAfEiwAvPqu18hscvVEsJNpacrLzV0_MAyILS_3YKBNhlvKpVabGMtRdCEwERgKRxoCCikQAvD_BwE
If Putin succeeds in Ukraine and African countries and the allies who used the cold war fail to act, democracies will crumble..
What did I tell you about going 'full alky' alky?
LOL.
Fucking moron.*
*h/t: Indy Voter
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Why is the Reverend still talking about Jan 6th?
Same reason as the alky -
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
What I find the most amusing about their little Jan. 6 rants/tirades is the tacit admission that their team simply cannot beat Trump at the ballot box, therefore it's imperative that they disqualify him from running at all.
The pederast and the alky are genuinely terrified of the man. And man, is it obvious.
If the ideas proffered were palatable, or at least debatable, they could stand on their own and be argued and defended in good faith.
When your ideas suck to the point that rational, freedom-loving people immediately reject them out of hand, then the ideas must be IMPOSED by force, and all opposition SILENCED.
This is where the left, including the pederast and the alky, finds themselves these days.
Diplomatic kabuki; French President Macron has arranged a meeting between Biden and Putin. Providing Russia hasn't invade Ukraine.
Most analysts think Putin is waiting for the ground to freeze before invading.
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Why is the Reverend still talking about Jan 6th?
He's trying to distract people away from Biden.
Most analysts think Putin is waiting for the ground to freeze before invading.
If the ground has not frozen by now, I doubt it will.
Lordie, look at the excuses being made for Biden and Affirmative action Harris.
No invasion.
Sap is already running in VT at Yoders ......funny how there is no site for the analyst and freeze......
Putin is center stage.
His country is just not this important.
All American presidents have lied – the question is why and when
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Honorable lies?
These ideas might be used in defense of some presidential lies.
During the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was convinced that Hitler’s expansionism in Europe was a threat to the liberal democratic project itself, but he faced an electorate without any will to intervene in a European war. Roosevelt chose to insist publicly that he was opposed to any intervention – while doing everything he could to prepare for war and to covertly help the British cause.
As early as 1948, historian Thomas Bailey noted that Roosevelt had made a calculated choice to both prepare for war and insist he was doing no such thing. To be open about his view of Hitler would have likely led to his defeat in the 1940 election.
Before Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln made similar calculations. Lincoln’s lies regarding his negotiations with the Confederacy – described by Meg Mott, a professor of political theory, as being “devious” – may have been instrumental in preserving the United States as a single country.
Lincoln was willing to open peace negotiations with the Confederacy, knowing that much of his own party thought that only unconditional surrender by the South would settle the question of slavery. At one point, Lincoln wrote a note to his own party asserting – falsely – that there were “no peace commissioners” being sent to a conference with the Confederacy.
A member of the Congress later noted that, in the absence of that note, the 13th Amendment – which ended the practice of chattel slavery – would not have been passed.
Good lies and bad lies
The problem, of course, is that a great many presidential lies cannot be so easily linked to important purposes.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton addresses the nation to apologize for misleading the country about his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
President Bill Clinton’s lies about his sexual activities were either simply self-serving or told to preserve his presidency.
Similarly, President Richard Nixon’s insistence that he knew nothing about the Watergate break-in was most likely a lie. John Dean, Nixon’s legal counsel, confirmed years later that the president knew about, and approved of, the plan to rob the Democratic National Committee headquarters. This scandal eventually ended Nixon’s presidency.
In both cases, these presidents faced a significant threat to their presidencies – and chose deception to save not the nation, but their own power.
President Biden, President Trump and truth
It is likely that President Trump lied more than most presidents. What is striking about his lies, however, is that they have tended to be told to defend his own self-image or political viability rather than in service of some central political good.
Indeed, some of President Trump’s more implausible lies seemed best understood as tests of loyalty; those in his circle who repeated his most obvious lies demonstrated their loyalty to President Trump in doing so. Most recently, he has attacked as disloyal those members of the Republican Party who have not repeated his false claims about electoral fraud.
Recent studies indicate that President Biden, thus far, has not shown himself equal to President Trump in his deceptiveness. He has, however, made deceptive and misleading claims on a number of topics, ranging from the costs of particular policies to his own history and early life. These lies seem somewhat unlike those told by Lincoln and by Roosevelt; they seem generally told in the interests of making a rhetorical point more powerful rather than as necessary means to an otherwise unobtainable political goal. They seem, in that respect, less morally justifiable than these earlier falsehoods.
A justification for these lies might be found with reference to practices which – like warfare or politics – necessarily involve conflict and gamesmanship. No one would expect honesty from the enemy side during warfare, and perhaps one should not from opponents in politics either. Some political philosophers have thought that, when politics becomes an adversarial game, politicians might be forgiven when they seek to deceive the other party. President Biden might rely upon this idea, and could note that the Republican Party is less open to bipartisan negotiation than at any time in its history.
Even this last justification, however, may not be enough. Lying to one’s political opponents might be permitted in an adversarial context. The lies told by presidents are often addressed to constituents, and such deception seems harder to justify.
And finally, even the most important of lies must be believed for it to be justifiable; a lie that is immediately recognized as such is unlikely to achieve the goal justifying that lie. This is an increasingly difficult burden. Modern presidents find it more challenging to lie without having their lies recognized as untrue than presidents serving before the advent of social media and dedicated fact-checking.
If presidents must sometimes lie to defend important political values, then, it seems as though the good president must be both able to lie and able to lie well.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-mercenary-power-play-emmanuel-macron-vladimir-putin-wagner-group-mali-11645211128
The Wagner Group has recruited, trained and sent private military operatives to conflict zones around the world to fuel violence, loot natural resources and intimidate civilians,” the European Union said when announcing sanctions in December. Brussels accused eight people tied to the group of involvement in “serious human rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings.” The U.S. sanctioned Wagner in 2017 and has since added more restrictions.
Expanding the Kremlin’s influence across resource-rich Africa can do more than empower and enrich Russian elites. Belarus, now a Russian satellite state, weaponized migration last year to disrupt Europe from the east. As Mr. Putin gains more sway over governments across Africa’s many conflict zones, he could try to pressure the EU with refugees from the south. This would be especially threatening given that Europe could soon be struggling with an influx of Ukrainian migrants.
Mr. Putin’s chief foreign policy goal is the return of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries to Russia’s sphere of influence, but his ambitions are broader. He wants to blow up the post-Cold War global order. As the West retrenches, American adversaries are taking advantage.
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Go ahead and claim that the Wall Street Journal editorial board is a bunch of fucking morons.
You are dumber than kputz.
If he invades Ukraine, the economic impact will weaken the Russian economy, and could mired them into another Afghanistan disaster, that was a major factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
President Biden and our allies have been doing well, so far.
A great read from Donnies' home town paper detailing his travails and potential troubles.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-donalds-time-in-the-dock-20220220-hqxeugkie5fidgzuxx2zagxbqy-story.html
Really sad how much his hometown thinks what a lying cheating crook he has always been!!!!!
In his 30s, Trump beat four federal grand juries. Caught cheating on sales taxes at Bulgari jewelers, Trump ratted out others, never serving the 15 days in jail that Mayor Ed Koch said he richly deserved. His casinos plied 13- and 14-year-old children with liquor, limousines, hotel suites and credit lines to feed their underage gambling habits but he kept his owner’s license, a story told in my 1992 book ”Temples of Chance.”
'Looks Like Jimmy Carter': ABC Panel Torches Joey Sprinkles Over Inflation, Economy
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2022/02/20/looks-jimmy-carter-abc-panel-torches-biden-over-inflation-economy
History shows that what Putin is planning, has not worked out well.
David Leonhardt: “A Russian invasion of Ukraine seems likely to involve one of the world’s largest militaries launching an unprovoked ground invasion of a neighboring country. The apparent goal would be an expansion of regional dominance, either through annexation or the establishment of a puppet government.”
“Few other conflicts since World War II fit this description. Some of the closest analogies are the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and Hungary in the 1950s — as well as Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. The U.S., for its part, invaded Panama in the 1980s and used the C.I.A. to overthrow an elected government in Guatemala in the 1950s. Of course, it also launched several faraway wars, in Iraq, Vietnam and elsewhere.”
Go ahead and claim that the Wall Street Journal editorial board is a bunch of fucking morons.
Why?
Just because you plagiarized them, alky?
I don't need the editorial board of the WSJ or any other journalistic medium to develop an opinion. You, oh the other hand, are completely dependent upon them, obvious as it is that you cannot muster a single independent thought, and are totally reliant upon the thoughts of others to communicate.
Ironically, you steal from so MANY sources, all over the ideological map, it's impossible for any one of us to understand what you position is on ANY topic.
You wobble around here like a Venice Beach homeless person - muttering incoherently to yourself, a prime target for someone with a large butterfly net.
Wow.....Rat whose whole claim to fame is supporting the opinion of the GOP and claiming them as his own is most amusing!!!!!! His inane stance on science and the vax was put into his mind due to lack of education and his inability to understand basic ideas....Independent thought is not your forte as you spew the propaganda and lies without regard to reality!!!!! BWAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Joe Biden and the Democrats will center their midterm campaign message on the vulnerability of average working Americans to big corporations and Wall Street, which continue to siphon off most economic gains while the typical American is barely holding on. Biden and other Democrats will show that the GOP is still the party of trickle-down economics, corporate welfare, and crony capitalism – a party that’s been blocking a slew of common-sense Democratic measures to help working Americans — which, they’ll argue, is why we need more Democrats in the House and Senate.
Presto. A huge turnout in favor of Democrats this November, which results in Democrats retaining or even increasing their margins in the House and Senate.
He's as dumb as kputz.
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
Alky, it’s been days now since I originally asked, “What’s the code for you to be able to leave your facility?”
LMAO.
Poor alky.
Involuntarily 'hospitalized.'
Summit with Putin Would Be Big Gamble for Biden
February 21, 2022 at 8:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
Stephen Collinson: “Even if the apparent agreement for a summit holds — and there was no immediate comment from the Kremlin on Sunday night — Biden will be taking a significant gamble.
“Hawkish Republicans are sure to accuse him of appeasing the Russian strongman and of rewarding his aggression in holding Ukraine hostage. If a meeting with Putin fails and an invasion follows regardless, Biden will open himself up to charges of weakness.
“Any summit that is not comprehensively choreographed for success beforehand is a political high-wire act. And Biden can ill-afford blows to his prestige, with his approval rankings sliding and after his claims to statesmanship were dented by the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.”
Trump’s Endorsement Not Enough to Clear Primary Fields
February 21, 2022 at 8:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments
“Republican candidates across the country are vying for former President Donald Trump’s endorsement to help shore up campaign funds and excite the GOP base,” CNN reports.
“But Trump’s support hasn’t been enough to clear all Republican fields — something that is on display in two primary races pitting incumbent GOP House members against each other.”
Why Ukraine Is Different
February 21, 2022 at 7:59 am EST By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments
David Leonhardt: “A Russian invasion of Ukraine seems likely to involve one of the world’s largest militaries launching an unprovoked ground invasion of a neighboring country. The apparent goal would be an expansion of regional dominance, either through annexation or the establishment of a puppet government.”
“Few other conflicts since World War II fit this description. Some of the closest analogies are the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and Hungary in the 1950s — as well as Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. The U.S., for its part, invaded Panama in the 1980s and used the C.I.A. to overthrow an elected government in Guatemala in the 1950s. Of course, it also launched several faraway wars, in Iraq, Vietnam and elsewhere.”
“But the world’s most powerful countries have rarely used force to expand their boundaries or set up client states in their region.”
week.”
So who is on the bench for democrats for president in 2024? Honest question. Who?
Belarus Captured by Russia Without Firing a Shot
February 21, 2022 at 7:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
“Belarus announced Sunday that Russian forces would remain in the country after massive military drills ended, in a move that opposition figures said surrendered the country’s independence to Moscow without a shot being fired,” the Washington Post reports.
Credit Suisse Leak Unmasks Corrupt Politicians
February 21, 2022 at 7:36 am EST By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments
“A massive leak from one of the world’s biggest private banks, Credit Suisse, has exposed the hidden wealth of clients involved in torture, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and other serious crimes,” The Guardian reports.
“Details of accounts linked to 30,000 Credit Suisse clients all over the world are contained in the leak, which unmasks the beneficiaries of more than 100bn Swiss francs held in one of Switzerland’s best-known financial institutions.”
Putin Gathers His Security Council
February 21, 2022 at 7:11 am EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold an unscheduled meeting of his Security Council on Monday, declaring that “tensions are rising” as the warnings from the United States that his nation stands poised to attack Ukraine, swiftly and without provocation, grow more dire by the day, the New York Times reports.
Putin Warned the West 15 Years Ago
February 21, 2022 at 6:29 am EST By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments
David Ignatius: “Putin makes a perfect villain in this war. He’s brutal, arrogant and contemptuous of the rules of order that America and its allies celebrate. He told us what he was going to do, and he’s doing it. He is moving to take Ukraine hostage this week, which will leave three unpalatable choices. Either the West negotiates with the hostage-taker, which would be repugnant; the West frees the hostage by force; or we wait for the hostage-taker to become impoverished and fatigued, and quit the fight. This last outcome, which would be the best for the West, might also be the most likely — if the United States and its allies can be patient.”
“Still, there won’t be any good choices in the weeks and months ahead, only the consequences of bad ones that allowed Russia and the West to talk past each other, ducking the hard questions, for more than a decade.”
How Will Putin Attack Ukraine?
February 20, 2022 at 10:31 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 99 Comments
“When President Biden declared he was convinced President Vladimir Putin of Russia had decided to attack Ukraine ‘in the coming week, in the coming days,’ the skeptics among American allies suddenly fell quiet. Hours before, Mr. Biden had informed them that American intelligence agencies had just learned that the Kremlin had given the order for Russian military units to proceed with an invasion,” the New York Times reports.
“Now the debate has shifted to how Mr. Putin will do it: in one massive nationwide attack; a series of bites that dismantle the country, piece by piece; or a pythonlike squeeze.”
U.S. Says Russia Has List of Ukrainians to Be Killed
February 20, 2022 at 10:28 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 45 Comments
“The United States has informed the United Nations it has credible information showing that Moscow is compiling lists of Ukrainians ‘to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation,’” the Washington Post reports.
“The letter alleges that Moscow’s post-invasion planning would involve torture, forced disappearances and ‘widespread human suffering.’ It does not describe the nature of the intelligence that undergirds its assessment.”
Biden Agreed ‘In Principle’ to Meet with Putin
February 20, 2022 at 9:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 157 Comments
“A day of last-minute diplomacy by French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday appeared to give some new hope for a peaceful resolution over Ukraine as White House officials said President Biden would be willing to consider direct talks with his Russian counterpart as long as Russia does not invade,” the New York Times reports.
“White House officials said a possible summit between Mr. Biden and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia would only be held after meetings between the foreign ministers of the two countries, which are tentatively scheduled for later this year.
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Blogger rrb said...
Most analysts think Putin is waiting for the ground to freeze before invading.
If the ground has not frozen by now, I doubt it will.
Ironic that Putin may have to cancel his invasion because he can't move his tanks in the mud.`
Ironic that Putin may have to cancel his invasion because he can't move his tanks in the mud
Yep...that GW thingy is a hoax.....right cramps??????
MyballsFebruary 21, 2022 at 7:34 AM
So who is on the bench for democrats for president in 2024? Honest question. Who?
The unknown comic.
To understand why there has been so much escalating rhetoric about Russia going to invade Ukraine at any moment, you must realize the intent. The motives of the crisis narrative are crystal clear.
Everything about the Russia invasion of Ukraine has to be increasingly imminent, horrible and loomingly catastrophic for the planet, so that when it doesn’t happen the glorious victory for Dear Leader Biden can be proclaimed and amplified from the mountaintops.
Russia has absolutely no plan to invade Ukraine and doesn’t even have a role in this theatrical production from the White House.
The way the game is played; and believe me, everything about this is a game; they must take the manufactured crisis to the brink of thermonuclear war, so that Joe Biden can save the world and be seen as this legendary diplomat.
In the annals of U.S. history there has never been such an important summit. The nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize that Ron Klain wants in this mid-term election year is dependent on magnanimous and strategic Biden overcoming all geopolitical odds to save the world.
Everything is carefully planned and scripted with a ‘this’, then ‘that‘ approach toward sequencing. Earlier today, the Sunday news talk shows were filled with pending invasion rhetoric. Putin was mere moments away from a massive army entering Ukraine.
The smells of heavy diesel loomed in the valleys as the thundering sound of tank tracks approached ever closer. Dark men with black weapons were beating drums and carrying the flag of Mother Russia, as millions were seen marching by U.S. spy satellites in the region. The birds all fled as the sounds of the battle groups began converging on the Ukraine border. “The Russians are coming; The Russians are coming” one lad shouted to the CNN crew as he whizzed by on his bicycle, trying to pedal fast while carrying a bag of sausages for his sullen and sickly grandparents in eastern Ukraine.
CBS David Martin and Margaret Brennan reported {link} the Russian generals were informing their troop commanders of the invasion plans. CNN then broke into the news cycle quoting three sources {link} “saying that the US has intelligence indicating that orders have been sent to Russian commanders to proceed with an attack on Ukraine.” Things looked really bad just before noon…
Everything within the game must be looming on the precipice of crisis in order for it to have maximum impact when it doesn’t happen.
However, it was always never going to happen, because it’s pretended. It’s all a big performance, a ruse, built on a completely manufactured scenario they know will never happen… because the White House is making it up.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/20/ron-klain-organizes-a-stunning-massive-and-magnificent-biden-putin-peace-summit-certain-to-bring-nobel-peace-nomination/
Putin’s list of useful idiots is familiar. It ranging from Tucker Carlson and Josh Hawley to Candace Owens, MTG,rrb and Maria Bartiromo.
Some Republicans are traitors.
Rather than even in history.
rrb is a part of Russia's "playbook.
Publications like he used are probably Pravda under Putin.
Putin wants to split up Ukraine
President Vladimir V. Putin kept an anxious world guessing about whether he plans to invade Ukraine, announcing on Monday that he would decide by the end of the day whether to recognize the independence of two breakaway regions of Ukraine.
With Russian state media issuing an ominous drumbeat of unsubstantiated reports about aggression by Ukraine — which U.S. officials have warned Moscow would use as a pretext for a military intervention — Mr. Putin used a televised meeting of his Security Council to declare that a peace agreement for the Russia-backed separatist territories was in effect dead.
His subordinates, all of whom favored recognition, used the meeting to blame the United States for the escalation in tensions. Still, Russia’s foreign minister said he was willing to meet his American counterpart for talks this week in Geneva.
America’s goal in its foreign policy, including in Ukraine, is “the collapse of the Russian Federation,” Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Mr. Putin’s Security Council said. “The people of Ukraine are against this,” Mr. Patrushev said of the country’s pro-Western path. “They’re being scared, they’re being forced to take this path.”
The United States and its allies have worried that if Moscow recognizes the two enclaves, in the region known as the Donbas, it could open the door for Russia to move more forces into Ukraine. U.S. officials estimate that Russia has amassed 190,000 troops in and around Ukraine, including in the Donbas, where a long-running trench war between Ukrainian forces and the Russia-backed rebels has reignited in recent days.
Underscoring the possibility that he might recognize the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic as independent states, Mr. Putin chided his foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin when he appeared to be equivocating on the issue, prompting Mr. Naryshkin to stutter and then say he was in favor of annexing the territories.
Edging toward the twilight of his political career, Mr. Putin, 69, is determined to burnish his legacy and to correct what he has long viewed as one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century: The disintegration of the former Soviet Union. Asserting Moscow’s power over Ukraine, a country of 44 million people that was previously part of the bloc and shares a 1,200-mile border with Russia, is part of his aim of restoring what he views as Russia’s rightful place among the world’s great powers, the United States and China.
By signaling that he might recognize the two breakaway regions, Mr. Putin continued to build pressure on Russia’s smaller neighbor. His efforts were helped on Monday when Belarus suggested that Russian forces deployed there for military exercises might remain indefinitely.
The announcement that he was open to consider discussing a possible recognition of the two areas came after the United States said such a move would be a violation of a peace settlement with the self-declared territories.
Mr. Putin, speaking at the beginning of a meeting of his Security Council, said it was “clear to all that this range of measures is not going to be implemented in any way,” he said, referring to the peace settlement, known as the Minsk agreements. But he said Russia had been trying “to resolve all the complexities.”
Mr. Putin said the Security Council would also consider further steps related to his demands for “security guarantees” from the United States and its allies, such as a rollback of the NATO presence in Eastern Europe and a legally binding pledge barring Ukraine from ever joining the alliance.
The United States has described Russia’s main demands as nonstarters, but expressed a willingness to discuss other security issues, such as missile placements.
Russia has sought to portray itself as a protector of ethnic Russians living in both the separatist territories, but the United States and its allies has accused Moscow of searching for a pretext for a possible invasion of Ukraine.
No member of the council spoke against the independence recognition.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/21/world/ukraine-russia-putin-biden
Rather than even in history.
Psycho gibberish word salad.
It's what's for dinner...
...At the nursing home.
President Biden is having a meeting with our nation security council right now.
Not my word.
Putin is under pressure from his allies in Moscow!
Amid fears Russia was trying to manufacture a reason to invade Ukraine on Monday, President Vladimir Putin held an extraordinary televised meeting in which he and his top officials discussed Kyiv's future.
Some of Russia's most influential officials urged Putin to recognize as independent states two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, where Moscow has been supporting separatists fighting Kyiv since 2014. Ensuing violence has killed some 14,000 people.
Such a move would be seen as a huge provocation by Ukraine, the United States and its European allies, effectively torpedoing any hopes of reviving a ceasefire agreement and could be a trigger for further violence.
Before the meeting, the leaders of the two breakaway regions, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic, requested Putin recognize their independence. That came after Russia’s lower house of Parliament voted last Tuesday to ask Putin to do the same.
Busy news day.
Roger, when does your "world War 2" start?
The Canadian Government is going all in on oppression
Let's Go Brandon
First gas, then heating and now rents. Runaway inflation is driving rents skywards across Joe Biden’s America, delivering an average of a 20 percent increase in the U.S.’s biggest 50 cities over the past 12 months, a study details.
At the same time, U.S. Census Bureau statistics show rental vacancy rates during the fourth quarter of 2021 fell to 5.6 percent, the lowest since 1984 in the the world’s largest economy."
John Lewis knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time. His life was a lesson in the fierce urgency of now. On his birthday, let’s honor his legacy by taking action and creating the change we hope to see in our own communities.
President Barack Obama.
I'm old enough to remember when he was brutally beaten by police officers at the Selma Bridge peaceful demonstrations.
John Lewis knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time. His life was a lesson in the fierce urgency of now. On his birthday, let’s honor his legacy by taking action and creating the change we hope to see in our own communities.
My fondest memory of Lewis was him sitting on the floor - the actual floor - of the House chamber like a petulant child, brining PJ O'Rourke's definition of a liberal to life.
Democratic recession worldwide
Political scientists have been warning for several years that democracy is in decline around the world. Larry Diamond of Stanford University has described the trend as a “democratic recession.”
Freedom House, which tracks every country in the world, reports that global political freedom has declined every year since 2006. Last year, Freedom House concluded, “the countries experiencing deterioration outnumbered those with improvements by the largest margin recorded since the negative trend began.”
A Russian takeover of Ukraine would contribute to this democratic recession in a new way: An autocracy would be taking over a democracy by force.
Ukraine is a largely democratic nation of more than 40 million people, with a pro-Western president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who in 2019 won 73 percent of the vote in the election’s final round. That victory and recent polls both indicate that most Ukrainians want to live in a country that resembles the European nations to its west — and the U.S. — more than it resembles Russia.
But Putin and his inner circle believe that liberal democracies are in decline, a view that Xi Jinping and other top Chinese officials share.
They know that the U.S. and Europe are now struggling to lift living standards for much of their populations. Putin and Xi also know that many Western countries are polarized, rived by cultural conflicts between metropolitan areas and more rural ones. Major political parties are weak (as in the case of the old center-left parties in Britain, France and elsewhere) or themselves behaving in anti-democratic ways (as with the Republican Party in the U.S.).
These problems have given Putin and his top aides confidence to act aggressively, believing that “the American-led order is in deep crisis,” Alexander Gabuev of the Carnegie Moscow Center wrote in The Economist this weekend.
In the view of Putin’s regime, Gabuev explained: “A new multipolar order is taking shape that reflects an unstoppable shift in power to authoritarian regimes that support traditional values. A feisty, resurgent Russia is a pioneering force behind the arrival of this new order, along with a rising China.”
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I have been saying this since he was elected by a minority popular vote margin.
It's not conservative vs liberal.
It's freedom vs a dictatorship.
James and I have been the same way because we care for even people like you know who.
Some three dozen House Democrats, led by Congressman John Lewis, Asshat Extraordinaire, disrupted the chamber's proceedings, staging a sit-down protest and refusing to leave the area near the podium. (June 22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwm5ZbaRNqc
Whaaa!!!
Whaa!!!
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2016_25/1591051/ss-160622-house-dems-sit-in-mbe-1118p-4.jpg
Cracks in Western Resolve on Russia https://www.wsj.com/articles/cracks-western-resolve-russia-italy-draghi-macron-biden-putin-ukraine-energy-import-lng-export-sanctions-swift-11645461531
Italy is blinking at the wrong time.
It's freedom us a dictatorship.
Trump never threatened us with dictatorship, alky.
Joey Sprinkles otoh, couldn't sit thru his installation without 25,000 troops and the Capitol ensconced in razor wire.
Then he demanded unconstitutional mandates for vaccines.
He has repeatedly come at me with rhetoric regarding my AR. The moron thinks 'AR' stands for assault rifle. Trump never threatened my gun(s).
Our neighbors to the north have imposed martial law.
Australia has reverted back to it's origins as a penal colony.
Trump would've told China to go fuck themselves regarding the Olympics. Joey Sprinkles dutifully made sure the US attended.
So once again alky, as it comes to Trump, you post lies, lies fed to you by places like "RAW STORY!!!11!" and other assorted fucksticks from the left who prey upon idiots like you.
No one Wants Biden's War.
He got used and Abused by Putin.
Italy is blinking at the wrong time.
LOL.
Italy and all the rest of Western Europe wish to not fucking freeze to death.
NATO camaraderie goes out the fucking window when self-interest bubbles to the top of the priority list.
Ironically, it's the same reason socialism fails everywhere it's tried.
Self-interest. The most powerful of all of the motivators that relate directly to the human condition.
James and Roger blaring "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
No one Wants Biden's War.
At this point the mission is to figure out a way to wriggle out of this without Joey Sprinkles looking like a complete fucking FOOL.
Klod Klain over-shot his wad.
It would've been more productive if he had aimed for the back of Cum-Allah's throat.
Joey Sprinkles is in Neville Chamberlain territory right now.
And every time Cum-Allah opens her cock hole, all she reveals is that she didn't do the required reading and preparation.
The adults are in charge now.
LOL.
Trump Warned them.
"Italy and all the rest of Western Europe wish to not fucking freeze to death."
Russian oil to the USA .
Trump last full month in office 12,898,000 a month.
Today = 19,679,000 a month.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Russian oil to the USA .
Trump last full month in office 12,898,000 a month.
Today = 19,679,000 a month.
Tells you all you need to know about the Russia/Ukraine crisis.
Desperate to be the next FDR, Joey Sprinkles rushes head-long into being the next Jimmy Carter.
Maybe he can get the next No-Bell Peas Prize for doing absolutely nothing like 0linsky.
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