As for the troops left on the border, it's possible that Russia has planned the attack in waves in an effort to exhaust the Ukrainians with the first wave and then demolish them with a second wave of fresh troops, according to two sources familiar with the intelligence. It's also possible, according to one of those sources, that Russia has simply moved cautiously after facing a tougher fight than expected.
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What I wrote yesterday:So this would fall in line with two different possible and competing concepts
- That Putin is getting desperate and now bringing in the last of his reserves because he has no other choice.
- That Putin was simply softening up Ukrainian resistance with a less than robust first wave of disposable under-equipped soldiers and that his real attack would come with better more elite reserve troops.
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Of course in the comment thread, I had one person suggest that what I was offering was simply "incorrect". No argument as to why. Just the general statement that it was incorrect to suggest that Russia would have a second line of attack. Another got stuck repeating the same argument from the same military expert over and over and over as if there was no other possible arguments out there. An argument that suggested the convoy on it's way was proof that Russia was failing?
But what a difference a day makes, huh? The idea that a second wave of Russians was proof positive that Putin was screwing up has given way to the reality that screw up or not, eventually the Ukrainians will run out of people and bullets and they will likely run out way sooner than the Russians. That regardless of the strategy involved, that a three mile long convoy of heavy artillery, more supplies, and more troops was not a good thing for Kyiv.
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I knew that you would never criticize her and the other Republicans.
Just when we thought Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene couldn’t get more embarrassing for the GOP, there she goes again. This weekend she and Rep. Paul Gosar addressed a rally organized by Nick Fuentes, a fringe internet figure who has a long record of praising a coming “tidal wave of white identity.”
Ms. Greene is now playing dumb, to choose a phrase. “I do not know Nick Fuentes,” she said. “I’ve never heard him speak. I’ve never seen a video. I don’t know what his views are, so I’m not aligned with anything that may be controversial.” But in the public mind she is aligned, since she accepted a laudatory introduction from Mr. Fuentes as his special “mystery speaker.”
Here’s what Mr. Fuentes said minutes before she took the stage. “Take a look at everything we’ve put together,” he said. “You want to know the secret? To borrow a phrase from a friend of mine, our secret sauce here, it’s these young, white men. That’s what we call the secret ingredient. America and the world has forgotten about them, but not us.”
He added: “They say about America, they say ‘diversity is our strength,’ you know. And I look at China, and I look at Russia. Can we give a round of applause for Russia?” The crowd cheered and chanted “Putin.” Yes, cheers for Vladimir Putin.
Later in the day Mr. Fuentes said: “The United States government has become the Great Satan that many have called it.” And: “They’re going on about Russia and ‘Vladimir Putin is Hitler’—and they say that’s not a good thing.” Was Ms. Greene not paying attention backstage? She should’ve sprinted for the exit. Mr. Gosar didn’t attend in person but sent a video message.
Associating with the likes of Mr. Fuentes is wrong as a moral matter, and it’s also political poison. A primary challenger to Ms. Greene or Mr. Gosar couldn’t have asked for better opposition research than they willingly served up. House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy can hope they lose their primaries. But if they don’t, he will have to make clear they don’t speak for the Republican Party.
You are using the usual tools by pointing what you want to hal to get rid of Sleepy Joe.
Other sources say different perspective
When you have an unwelcome army of 200,000 or even 300,000 or more invading a nation of 4,000,000 who do not WANT them there, you have a problem.
https://www.aol.com/news/photos-protests-against-russias-invasion-201330887.html
WATCH VIDEO:
Protests against Putin's invasion erupt around the world.
rrb will go along with it because they are not beaners and Mooslimbs.
A group of Democratic and Republican lawmakers asked President Biden on Monday to temporarily shield Ukrainians living in the U.S. from deportation, citing the dangerous conditions in Ukraine, which is under a large-scale Russian military attack.
Forty-two senators — 40 Democrats and two Republicans — said the Biden administration should offer Ukrainians in the U.S. access to Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a humanitarian deportation relief program for immigrants whose native countries have been beset by war, natural disasters or other crises.
The ongoing Russian military offensive in Ukraine has made it "too dangerous" for deportees to return there, the lawmakers told Mr. Biden in a letter, led by Senators Dick Durbin, the Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bob Menendez, the Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, and Rob Portman, the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
But CNN reports now
New satellite images show a Russian military convoy that has reached the outskirts of Kyiv is more than 40 miles long.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/world/gallery/ukraine-russia-crisis/index.html
Ugly photos....
If this happens Belarus will not help the Russians.
On Monday's edition of CNN's "The Situation Room," retired Brig. Gen. Peter Zwack suggested that the Russian invasion of Ukraine could be disaster for Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian leader of Belarus — one of the most repressive former Soviet republics in Europe, and the only country that is directly giving military assistance to Russia.
"The Belarusian troops could be coming in, according to our sources," said reporter Brian Todd. "How does that change the landscape of the battle?"
"Actually, I don't think it changes it that much," said Zwack. "I think it's the beginning of the long end of the Alexander Lukashenko regime. Most of those Belarusian troops, maybe 60, 70, 80,000 active and a quarter million reservists. The same thing as the Russian conscripts. They are encountering fierce Ukrainian resistance from Slavic brothers. Belarus had the protests in 2021. I think this is the beginning of the end for them."
If they join NATO!!!
RUSSIA
No, Putin Isn't a Defender of 'Christian Values'
The country is one of the most egregious violators of
religious liberty on the planet.
by Billy Binion Feb 25, 2022
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has pitted much of the world
into two teams, as war tends to do. The prevailing sentiment
in the West appears to be pro-Ukraine. But among certain
corners of the chattering classes, there's somewhat of a
third team: one that isn't anti-Ukraine, per se, but also
isn't anti-Russia. There is one foe, and it is America.
Its loudest adherents, ironically, are arguably U.S. nationalists
—who to varying degrees admire Russian President Vladimir
Putin's attempt at cultivating what they say is a more moral
nation. "I actually support Putin's right to protect his people
and always put his people first but also protect their
Christian values," said Lauren Witzke, the Delaware GOP
candidate for U.S. Senate in 2020. "I identify more with…
Putin's Christian values than I do with Joe Biden's."
Though Witzke took the fringiest route, she is not alone in her
overall approach. Steve Bannon, once an adviser to former
President Donald Trump, noted approvingly on his podcast this
week that at least "Putin ain't woke."
Fox News host Tucker Carlson similarly admonished his
audience: "It might be worth asking yourself…what is this
really about? Why do I hate Putin so much?" he probed as
he pushed back on the idea that the U.S. should intervene.
"Is he teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination?
Is he making fentanyl? Is he trying to snuff out Christianity?"
(The monologue was later recycled by RT, Russia's government-
controlled television network.)
It may be true that Putin isn't "making fentanyl." But to defend an
isolationist position, one need not make light of the Russian
president's moral atrocities—which have less to do with critical
race theory and more to do with allegedly jailing and murdering
dissidents.
Perhaps most ironic about Carlson's last question—and also per
Witzke's comments—is that Putin, while a self-avowed adherent to
Russian Orthodoxy, has been no friend to religious expression. In
2016, he passed a law criminalizing evangelical efforts outside of
church walls—a measure that hamstrings religious life in public, in
the home, and online, and thus targets many Christians for displays
of faith. Those displays don't have to be overt: In 2019, a Baptist
pastor was charged with illegal missionary activity for having the
audacity to lead a Baptist worship service, and two members of the
same sect found themselves in hot water after handing out religious
literature at a bus stop. Jehovah's Witnesses are often at the center
of such prosecutions as well and can face up to 10 years in prison.
The restrictions also likely impact the Orthodox community, as the
government requires that anyone sharing a faith have a permit to do
so and constrain those efforts to religious sites. In 2017, a year after
the law's passage, Russia earned an unenviable distinction on the
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's list of
countries most hostile to the expression of faith. As of last year,
it still sits atop that list, along with Syria, India, and Vietnam—
places that perpetuate "systematic, ongoing, and egregious"
violations of religious liberty.
Conservative expressions of affection for Putin's supposed moral
clarity are perhaps louder than usual. That doesn't mean they're
new. "While privacy and freedom of thought, religion and speech
are cherished rights, to equate traditional marriage and same-sex
marriage is to equate good with evil," wrote former White House
Communications Director Pat Buchanan in 2013, as he approvingly
summarized Putin's opposition to the latter. "No moral confusion
here, this is moral clarity."
But once again, Buchanan et. al need not align themselves with a
murderous despot in order to take a principled stand for traditional
marriage—particularly when considering that the Russian president's
positioning may be rooted more in strategy than in faith.
"Putin is seeking to tighten his grip on Ukraine and Belarus, as well as
expand Russian influence further into Eastern and Central Europe," wrote
Alexis Mrachek and Shane McCrum for the conservative Heritage Founda-
tion in 2019. That feels a bit prophetic now: "He will undoubtedly continue
to promote Orthodoxy in the process. This is simply an attempt to seduce
former Soviet republics back under the sway of Russia." The Soviet
Union of Putin's younger days was staunchly atheistic and used secularism as
a tool to secure state worship. That ultimately failed. In some sense, Putin has
subverted the approach to religion—leaning heavily on it as opposed to
eschewing it—to arrive at the same end goal: state worship.
"The reality is that Russia is not the most religious nation in the world as far as
…American evangelicals would recognize," says David French, a senior editor
at The Dispatch who writes extensively on religion and U.S. conservatism. "I
think it's much more a 'the enemy of an enemy is my friend.'…[Putin's]
opposition to some of the international forces that some folks on the right
in the United States despise the most creates a dynamic where there's a
strange new respect for Putin, or sort of perceived understanding of Putin,
or a perception that Putin can represent a welcome rebuke to an international order that they dislike." The things they take issue with may range from
the United Nations to pronouns in bio.
In that regard, Putin has been waging a different war for years—a cultural one,
where he has strategically placed himself at the front of the battlefield and succeed-
ed in wooing some high-profile figures on the American right. That's not
because the Christian values he espouses are necessarily important to him; I
doubt many religious adherents would describe killing and poisoning critics as
fruits of the Spirit. He's tried to obscure those cruelties by erecting himself as
a moral bulwark against deviance. It's a tall order—and yet, somehow, in certain
corners, he's succeeded.
YOU GOTTA REALLY WONDER ABOUT THE MENTAL MINDSET OF
EVANGELICALS AND FUNDAMENTALISTS WHO FALL FOR THIS!
https://twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/1497938468462157831?t=jZAn2l8EavhKyIBm2BYNSg&s=19
FANTASTIC NEWS !!!
Just 23% of Democrats choose Biden, who faces ‘landslide’ loss to Trump
February 28, 2022
Just 23% of Democratic primary voters would choose President Joe Biden for a second term, a “shocking” sign of his unpopularity within liberal ranks, according to the latest look at the 2024 race.
While still on top of a list of potential 2024 Democratic primary candidates, Biden has hit another low point in the monthly survey from McLaughlin & Associates, a GOP polling firm.
full article:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/just-23-democrats-choose-biden-faces-landslide-loss-to-trump
Biden keeps dropping
as do Democrats
The triggered twins spamming.
Sad , very sad.
The legally Armed PRIVATE citizenry of Ukraine are taking their privately owned guns and are killing Russians.
Their law is a lot like the US 2nd Amendment.
Oil drives every Evolved Country.
What’s Gone Wrong for Russia In Ukraine" Jamie
An Armed Citizenry, They have a Law like the US 2nd Amendment.
30 round magazine are very much in Style.
Let's go Brandon
Wheat day #1 of Biden's Presidency = $5.70
Today = 8.99
People from all over the world are coming to Ukraine to fight the Russians.
Ukrainians Return Home to Fight: ‘I Have to Go’ https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrainians-return-home-to-fight-russia-i-have-to-go-11646045875
Biden hoped to spark a political reset at home with his first State of the Union address. A war in Europe changed those plans.
By Kevin Liptak, Maegan Vazquez and Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated Feb 28, 2022
(CNN) - When President Joe Biden began mulling the themes he wanted to strike during his State of the Union address, the President knew he would likely need to include Russia's buildup of troops near Ukraine.
But in those early drafting sessions late last year, he did not expect the speech to act as a rallying cry for a besieged European nation. Now, as Biden prepares to deliver his yearly address to Congress and the nation, the White House and Democratic allies are acknowledging the war in Ukraine will assume an outsized role in what his advisers had once viewed primarily as an attempt to reset his economic agenda.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday that "there's no question that this speech is a little different than it would have been just a few months ago." And Sen. Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary Committee who's a longtime friend and colleague of Biden's, said the President's domestic agenda and any accomplishments he will outline during the address have effectively "been eclipsed by Ukraine."
While the historic Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will still be part of the President's message, Durbin said it would understandably take a back seat to escalating conflict in Ukraine by Russia.
"It's a life and death struggle," Durbin said, "that will be front and center."
Russia's invasion has galvanized Western nations and, in an era of bitter division in the United States, drawn mostly unanimous condemnation from Democrats and Republicans alike. It makes for an urgent illustration of Biden's animating principle of protecting democracies from a global wave of autocracy.
Biden and his team have revised portions of his speech to reflect the crisis, which the administration has been warning about for months. Once-unthinkable images of missiles and urban warfare in a European capital have gripped the President and his aides as a 70-year peace on the continent is tested anew.
As he was drafting the address with members of his team, Biden was thrust into a foreign policy emergency, sending them into the Situation Room nearly every day over the past several weeks as new intelligence showed the likelihood of an imminent attack growing.
Between his everyday meetings and frequent briefings about the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Biden has been preparing for his address by working with speechwriters and members of his policy team to adjust his message. He's also been doing run-throughs of his remarks, according to the White House.
His longtime messaging guru Mike Donilon has worked alongside Biden's top speechwriter Vinay Reddy on the tone and writing in the speech. Other policy advisers have helped corral the annual litany of requests from across the government to include various agencies' priorities in the speech.
Psaki told reporters on Monday that Biden is expected to lay out the efforts he has taken "to rally the world to stand up for democracy and against Russian aggression."
"He will talk about the steps we've taken to not only support the Ukrainian people with military and economic assistance, but also the steps he's taken to build a global coalition imposing crippling financial sanctions on President Putin, his inner circle and the Russian economy," she continued. "And he will talk about the steps he's taken to mitigate the impact of President Putin's invasion of Ukraine, on the global economy and the American people."
Psaki also said Biden is expected to discuss the US' importance as a global leader and the efforts he's undertaken to mitigate the impacts of the war in Ukraine on Americans. At the same time, he will seek to recalibrate an economic message that acknowledges the hardships many Americans are facing amid higher prices. That message, officials previewing Biden's remarks have said, will focus on a new plan to lower costs for American families and his administration's efforts in the labor market's recovery.
As he wrote his address, Biden sought ways to convey his understanding of Americans' economic unease, according to officials, who say the President will deliver a message that reflects the anxiety over inflation while also touting the past year's accomplishments.
He'll use the shipping example to illustrate corporate consolidation the administration says is driving up prices; three conglomerates now control 80% of global container ship capacity. Biden is launching an initiative between the Federal Maritime Commission and the Justice Department to promote greater competition.
He'll also highlight the toll Covid-19 has taken on nursing homes and announce new steps to improve conditions in those facilities, including plans to establish a new minimum staffing ratio and expand penalties for poorly performing homes.
The President also plans to call on Congress to send him legislation combating climate change, arguing that some of the tax credits he has petitioned for would lower costs for families. Biden "will call on Congress to deliver on a legislative agenda for clean energy and climate action that has overwhelming support from the American people -- Republicans, Democrats and independents," a senior administration
A lingering pandemic
Biden is expected to address the evolution of the pandemic and the US's response to it during the speech, amid changes to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and the White House's work to develop a strategy for the next phase of the pandemic.
A White House official said the President will highlight the "tremendous progress" the US has made in the fight against Covid, putting the country "in a position to move forward safely."
He will do so ahead of the release of the new strategy document that White House officials have been working on for weeks. The document was expected to be rolled out in time for the State of the Union -- as long as the Covid risk continued to decline and the CDC released its updated guidance first -- but was delayed amid the rapidly unfolding situation in Ukraine, which has dominated Biden's attention, one senior administration official said.
Led by Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients, White House officials have spent weeks putting together a new document outlining the administration's strategy to tackle the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said.
input from outside experts as it crafted the new strategy.
"In large part because we have more tools than ever before to protect Americans from Covid and to treat those who do get sick, we're in a position to move forward safely in a way in which Covid no longer disrupts our lives the way it has previously," the White House official said. "The President will also emphasize the need for the US to remain vigilant in the face of an unpredictable virus, including by preparing for future variants."
In need of a political turnaround
Biden brings a mixed bag of political victories and legacy-altering challenges to this year's address.
His poll numbers have slipped precariously since he first addressed a joint session of Congress a year ago. Then, Biden was enjoying the glow of a recently passed Covid stimulus bill and the successful start of a nationwide vaccination campaign.
This year, Americans have soured in their view of his performance. The persistent pandemic, higher prices, fears about crime and questions over government competence have all contributed to the slide. A sense of national disunity has not lifted, and the consequences will be visible on Tuesday, when a fence is erected around the Capitol to prevent protests from interrupting the speech.
Biden has also failed to advance his ambitious "Build Back Better" bill -- stymied not only by unanimous Republican opposition but also by a key Democratic holdout, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The future of that bill, which includes items like expanded education and money to combat climate change, is in doubt and how Biden addresses a path forward on Tuesday has been a subject of some debate among his allies.
Biden's second joint address to the House chamber, like his first one last year, will take place in front of a united Democratic Congress. It's clear that Democrats hope Tuesday's speech will be a moment when the President can deliver a message that gets through to voters and boosts his poll numbers -- especially ahead of the November midterm elections. Though Biden isn't on the ballot in 2022, the President himself has acknowledged that his administration has not adequately touted its own political victories.
Meanwhile, House Democrats, who have been hit with an avalanche of retirement announcements not seen in decades, are facing an uphill battle to hold control of the chamber in the midterms.
White House chief of staff Ron Klain told House Democrats in mid-February that he was hoping Biden's State of the Union address would boost the President's polling, in part by demonstrating leadership on national security and by showing empathy for Americans frustrated with Covid-19 and inflation.
Like Biden, Klain told lawmakers the White House believes it can do a better job of sharing with Americans what the administration has achieved in the President's first year in office and that Biden plans to acknowledge frustrations about the spike in consumer prices as well as the pandemic, according to two lawmakers on the call and a person familiar with its contents.
There was acknowledgment that there is more work to be done to ensure that Democrats -- including the President -- are perceived as more trusted on their handling of the economy, with Klain suggesting part of that will entail touting certain economic data points, like the number of jobs created.
That effort won't end with Tuesday's speech. Biden has said he hopes to escape Washington more in the coming year to engage with Americans in the country, and on Wednesday he'll visit Wisconsin to promote the infrastructure law that passed last year.
Signs of a change in political fortunes
Tuesday's remarks will look different from the last speech Biden gave in the House chamber, when he spoke in front of a masked Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. There were a limited number of attendees, who all wore masks and sat socially distanced.
This year, in contrast, every member of Congress has received an invitation to Tuesday's address and masks will be optional following changes to public health guidance.
As in years past, the first lady will have guests in her box who illustrate some of the President's messages and proposals. And more Cabinet members and Supreme Court justices will attend this year's address.
Yet it is the heavy dose of foreign policy that will separate this year's State of the Union from its predecessors. For Biden, it is the culmination of a nearly five-decade career that placed a premium on trans-Atlantic ties, including eight years as the Obama administration's frontman on Ukraine.
Having once famously told Vladimir Putin to his face that he believed the Russian leader "had no soul," Biden is now in a generational struggle that could have a lasting global impact.
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A lunatic is in control of nuclear weapons system large enough to destroy the world.
Western intelligence agencies have good visibility into the Russian leader right now and are closely watching his moves for any significant behavioral changes, several current and former officials said. Four American officials said there’s no intelligence saying that he is mentally unstable, but said he has displayed a different pattern of behavior than in the past.
The U.S. has solid intelligence that Putin is frustrated and expressing unusual bursts of anger at people in his inner circle over the state of the military campaign so far and the worldwide condemnation of his actions, two current and one former U.S. officials briefed on the intelligence told NBC News.
That’s unusual, they say, because Putin, a former Russian intelligence officer, usually keeps his emotions in check.
“He is no longer the same cold-blooded, clear-eyed dictator that he was in 2008,” former CIA Director John Brennan told NBC News.
A Western diplomat said the Russian president appeared to be increasingly insulated and misinformed.
“The main concern is the information he’s getting and how isolated he is. The isolation is a really big concern,“ the diplomat told NBC News. “We don’t believe he has a realistic understanding of what’s going on.”
Scott he is the nutcase, not Sleepy Joe.
I hope that someone will kill him.
A lunatic is in control of nuclear weapons system large enough to destroy the world.
Western intelligence agencies have good visibility into the Russian leader right now and are closely watching his moves for any significant behavioral changes, several current and former officials said. Four American officials said there’s no intelligence saying that he is mentally unstable, but said he has displayed a different pattern of behavior than in the past.
https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/frustrated-putin-may-order-escalation-violence-ukraine-us-officials-sa-rcna18026
McCarthy Chastises Marjorie Taylor Greene
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) appearance at a white supremacist rally was “unacceptable” and he plans to meet with her this week to discuss the situation, Punchbowl News reports.
Said McCarthy: “For me it was appalling and wrong. And there’s no place in our party for any of this… The party should not be associated any time, any place with somebody who is anti-Semitic.”
AND CALL JEWS JOOS?
Putin Stripped of Black Belt Over Ukraine Invasion
“Russian President Vladimir Putin has been stripped of his honorary taekwondo black belt over his country’s invasion of Ukraine, a personal rebuke heaped on top of international economic and sporting sanctions,” Reuters reports.
Putin Growing Frustrated Over Struggles In Ukraine
“U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin is growing increasingly frustrated by his military struggles in Ukraine,
and may see his only option as doubling down on violence,”
NBC News reports.
“As the Russian economy teeters under unprecedented global sanctions
and his purportedly superior military force appears bogged down,
Putin has lashed out in anger at underlings,
even as he remains largely isolated from the Kremlin
due in part to concerns about Covid.”
PROBABLY DUE EVEN MORE TO HIS CONCERNS ABOUT ASSASSINATION.
Putin Plans ‘Medieval Siege’ of Kyiv
After a classified briefing, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Russian President Vladimir Putin is laying the groundwork for a “medieval siege” of Kyiv,
Politico reports.
Axios:
Ukraine war enters new, uglier phase as convoy advances on Kyiv.
I HOPE SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE HE WILL STAND TRIAL FOR WAR CRIMES.
Some European countries are also slated to donate older Russian-made fighter jets to Ukraine in what could be the most significant moment in the recent batch of arms transfers. POLITICO reported Monday that Ukrainian pilots have arrived in Poland to begin the process of taking control of the fighters.
The White House has so far asked Congress for $6.4 billion to respond to the Ukraine crisis. Of that, $3.5 billion would go toward the Pentagon for the deployment of thousands of U.S. troops to Europe and other measures to reassure NATO allies. Another $2.9 billion would go toward humanitarian assistance to deal with a looming refugee crisis and security aid to Ukraine and NATO countries on the alliance’s eastern front, such as Poland and the Baltics.
I HOPE SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE HE WILL STAND TRIAL FOR WAR CRIMES.
Sure.
Put it on the docket right AFTER Joey Sprinkles stands trial for HIS war crimes. Namely, vaporizing an innocent family including very small children, simply because he's a fucking imbecile.
As Maxine Waters has instructed us, this needs to happen to every democrat politician in America every fucking day:
https://t.me/realKarliBonne/76621
On paper, a war between Russia and Ukraine is not a fair fight. On every quantifiable metric — troops, armed vehicles, aircraft, you name it — the Russians outnumber the Ukrainians by a significant margin. They have more advanced weapons, superior capacities in cyberspace, and a recent history of sophisticated deployments of military force.
Yet, so far at least, the war has not gone Russia’s way.
Russian troops have been kept outside Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital and the focal point of their initial advance. They have failed to win control over any other major Ukrainian population center. They have yet to establish air superiority. They are failing at even basic logistical tasks like ensuring their vehicles have enough fuel.
It’s less than a week into the invasion and it’s too early to make any definitive statements about how the Russian campaign will end. But the consensus among military experts is that the initial invasion was based on badly flawed strategic premises.
“It’s taken me a while to figure out what they’re trying to do because it looks so ridiculous and incompetent,” Michael Kofman, director of Russian studies at the CNA think tank, said on Twitter of the Russian advance. “The Russian operation is a bizarre scheme, based on terrible political assumptions, with poor relationship to their training & capabilities.”
Some analysts argue that the problem goes even deeper, that the Russian military is not merely tasked with executing a bad strategy but is itself an inept organization incapable of adequately performing basic battlefield functions. On this theory, even a better plan would have still yielded subpar battlefield results.
“The simplest explanation here is that the Russian military is bad! It was a paper tiger, and now the paper’s on fire,” writes Brett Friedman, a Marine Corps reserve officer and author of the book On Tactics.
In the long run, Friedman and other experts caution, Russia is still favored to win the war: It is simply too large and well-equipped. The Pentagon is warning that things will soon get worse: In a Monday briefing, a senior US defense official warned that Russia may lay siege to Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, a brutal tactic that intentionally cuts civilians off from basic necessities like food.
But in these first few days of the war, a rapid Ukrainian collapse is starting to look like an increasingly remote possibility — and if Russia does attain victory, it will do so at a significantly higher cost than President Vladimir Putin seems to have expected.
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If we find ways to equip them, Putin may be executed by the Russian government.
If we find ways to equip them, Putin may be executed by the Russian government.
LMAO.
What I wrote yesterday:
So this would fall in line with two different possible and competing concepts
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! Your genius Lil Schitty is posting the obvious!!!!!! Sorry sport but if your head was any bigger, you would give shorty a run his money when it comes to over inflated egos!!!!!!
They are committing war crimes.
Russian Forces Target Ukrainian Civilian Areas as Missile Hits Central KharkivRussian forces shift approach toward heavy bombardment of Ukrainian cities after failing to execute quick invasion.
KYIV, Ukraine—Russian forces struck the central square of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early Tuesday, as Moscow, frustrated in its plans for a quick victory, switched to a new strategy of pummeling civilian areas in an attempt to demoralize Ukrainian resistance.
Live-cam footage from Kharkiv’s central Freedom Square showed a missile landing just outside the local government’s headquarters, with a fireball charring nearby buildings and cars. Local officials said there were fatalities.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, launched last week by President Vladimir Putin with the aim of overthrowing the country’s elected government and ending its alignment with the West, has made slower progress than most military analysts had expected, as Russian forces struggle with fierce Ukrainian resistance and logistical problems.
Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv came under heavy shelling; a nearly 40-mile-long convoy of Russian armored vehicles inched closer to Kyiv; delegations from both sides returned home with plans to meet again.
Mr. Putin, who claims that Russians and Ukrainians are the same people, initially abstained from the kind of indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas that Russia used to subjugate its rebellious province of Chechnya in 1999-2000. The new barrages indicate that this relative restraint is falling away as Moscow seeks to crush Ukrainian resistance.
Heavy fighting continued throughout Ukraine on Tuesday, with Russian forces making advances in the south of the country and trying to push into the capital, Kyiv. A large column of Russian forces was heading toward Kyiv from the northwest, U.S. officials said. Satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies also showed the miles-long convoy.
The images are very disturbing.
REPORTER: “Mr. President, are you worried about nuclear war?”
BIDEN: .........
https://twitter.com/i/status/1498323440985595915
Look at his gait. He's walking on the fucking lawn, without even the challenge of a flight of stairs.
Put it on the docket right AFTER Joey Sprinkles stands trial for HIS war crimes.
Sad you are sooooooo fucking dumb that you have trouble understanding the difference, not that the killing was justified......non are when russian indiscriminately drops cluster bombs and targets apartments with artillery.....No wonder why you are an Ag school drop out without a single redeeming gene in your body.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
They are committing war crimes.
Since when are we the final arbiter on alleged "war crimes"?
Mr. Biden will describe what Ms. Psaki called “steps he’s taken to build a global coalition imposing crippling financial sanctions” on Russian banks, industries, companies, wealthy oligarchs and Mr. Putin himself.
But even as Mr. Biden takes note of the global crisis overseas, aides said his speech will remain focused on the two most critical issues in his presidency: the economy and the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr. Biden will deliver his address to a joint session of Congress as the economy continues to recover from the pandemic-induced recession that caused millions to lose their jobs. The president will use the speech to highlight the low unemployment rate, the rapid growth in the country’s gross domestic product and the addition of more than six million jobs since he took office about a year ago.
Joey Sprinkles is so fucking popular he requires another fence around the Capitol, and thousands of NG troops for his SOTU.
37%
And the alky says he's going to assassinate Putin.
Don't respond to the racist rodent bastard and kputz.
The president will use the speech to highlight the low unemployment rate, the rapid growth in the country’s gross domestic product and the addition of more than six million jobs since he took office about a year ago.
Show your plagiarism alky - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/us/politics/biden-state-of-the-union.html
Under Biden, it’s all chaos, chaos everywhere, at home and abroad, and there is no end in sight. And all of this chaos is a direct result of Biden’s policies, his incompetence, his lack of empathy, his lack of decency, his corruption, his ego, his stupidity, and the fact that he becomes more mentally diminished by the day.
The State of our union is Joe Biden’s creation, and it is as bad as it’s ever been.
Biden has nothing to stand on other than lies, rhetoric, division, and a corporate media that can no longer put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/26/nolte-state-joe-bidens-union-domestic-worldwide-chaos/
Since when are we the final arbiter on alleged "war crimes"?
Ask those germans after the nuremberg trials dumbass!!!
So according to the sage of mahogany ridge - the alky - if your house burns to the fucking ground and you rebuild, you're added one net new house to the housing starts data.
Six million jobs were not "added" alky.
This is what we call a LIE.
Six million jobs destroyed for no good reason at all were DESTROYED to depose a bad orange man, and we remain about nine million jobs in ARREARS.
When your predicate for a "recovering economy" is founded on a fucking series of egregious LIES, it's tough to believe anything that comes from the left.
You guys are in Skeets Hussein 0linsky's "Lie of the Year" territory.
U.S. domestic oil production is down 1.2M barrels a day since Trump was president. At the same time, the biden administration continues to increase oil purchases drom Russia, now our #1 supplier. And incredibly, Biden had refused requests and demands to boost our production.
Everything our idiot president touches turns to shit.
Send Mr. Trump to Moscow and negotiate with Vladimir Putin, because he is the best President in history.
Somebody has to go to Moscow and talk to Putin, to at least get a ceasefire in place and allow humanitarian supplies to come in. There are only two people who have ever impressed Putin on the world stage enough to pull this off: Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.
Mr. Xi leads Russia's only important ally. And Mr. Trump, whatever some Americans think of him, dominates world opinion in a way nobody has since Ronald Reagan. Uniquely, he is seen now as likely to return to the presidency.
Mr. Xi won't lift a finger to help. Why would he? Mr. Trump, though, would be happy to lead a delegation to give this a try.
Right now, Old Joe is hiding away in Delaware, and Team Biden, Blinken, Klain, Wendy Sherman is still trying to do a sell-out deal with Iran. That's why Saudi Arabia won't increase oil production. Waiting for these folks to get the message and do something smart may be a long time in coming.
But perhaps with all the newfound courage among our NATO leaders, one or two of them can ask Trump to go visit Putin on their behalf. Making a deal with Trump instead of Biden could be just the kind face-saving gesture that would entice Putin to stop the shooting.
Bidenomics has failed Americans by design .
What's the SOTU over under for number of times biden actually reads stop for applause?
They won't give The President credit but
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/ukraine_crushes_three_great_myths_about_russia.html
Right now, Old Joe is hiding away in Delaware, and Team Biden, Blinken, Klain, Wendy Sherman is still trying to do a sell-out deal with Iran. That's why Saudi Arabia won't increase oil production.
Wrong.
The Saudi's have an "OPEC+" agreement directly with Russia to limit production to keep prices up.
The current administration 'probably' could've affected this, but chose instead to destroy US energy independence.
Joey Sprinkles is the 'Shit-Fingered Midas.' The Shit-Fingered Midas who is SO popular he requires barricade fencing and thousands of troops at the Capitol to deliver his SOTU.
"So according to the sage of mahogany ridge - the alky - if your house burns to the fucking ground and you rebuild, you're added one net new house to the housing starts data.
Six million jobs were not "added" alky."
No matter how often we teach the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT are unable to learn.
How did Russia make such a miscalculation?
Some smart people say it's because Putin and his cronies believed their own propaganda. But that‘s not really it.
Consider that, if, God forbid, Russia had been invading Lithuania, they would have killed civilians indiscriminately. Lithuanians are not Slavs, and the Russians know they aren't wanted there, and they hate Lithuanians for it.
But the Russians see, or saw, Ukrainians as part of themselves. That is why they wanted to invade. The invading Russian soldiers were given strict orders not to harm Ukraine civilians, which proves the point.
This also shows a fundamental problem. Russian soldiers don‘t know why they are there. They have no motivation. They believed Ukrainians would love them. They don‘t get that the reverse is true. Some Lithuanians in Ukraine report that the Russian armed forces seem to be sleepwalking.
All that Russia has accomplished in Ukraine is that ethnic Russians living in Ukraine are joining the Ukrainian armed forces. And they hate the invader to death.
What will happen next?
Russia will lose. It has run out of many types of munitions -- and fuel. Its soldiers go unfed and without ammunition. The war is costing Russia unsustainable sums. The freezing of its central bank reserves along with other economic sanctions taken by the West is beginning to create unheard-of inflation. Hundreds of tanks and armored carriers blown apart or abandoned line the road north of Kyiv.
Ukraine has to hold out for some time longer. And it will. And it will win. If the reader thinks this is an exaggeration, or some overly hopeful wishful thinking, the reader is wrong.
Slava Ukraini - Glory to Ukraine.
Tadas Klimas is an American of Lithuanian descent who was awarded the U.S. National Intelligence Medal of Achievement (NIMA). He is also a former law professor and is the author of Comparative Contract Law.
AP Headline: January 13, 2022
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-ukraine-germany-vladimir-putin-f17301d038ad02e31f9c916fa7df2ce5
Tell us again who's Pro-Putin.
Democrats defeat GOP sanctions on Russian gas pipeline
Roger and James posted stories of How Trump took the US to energy independence and how Joe gave it away.
"The current administration 'probably' could've affected this, but chose instead to destroy US energy independence." RRB.
RRB, I see alky is Butt hurt as he cried out "ignore RRB".
And unfortunately Putin will bomb cities like both sides did during the Second world war..
is, but chose instead to destroy US energy independence.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The comedic asshole rat continues his lie about US being energy independence....>WTF is wrong with you?????? US imports 12+ million barrels of oil a day......your pipe dream of fucking stupid is astounding!!!!
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes pounded the central square in Ukraine's second-largest city and other civilian targets Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital. Ukraine’s embattled president accused Moscow of resorting to terror tactics to press Europe’s largest ground war in generations.
With the Kremlin increasingly isolated by tough economic sanctions that have tanked the ruble currency, Russian troops advanced on Ukraine’s two biggest cities on Day 6 of an invasion that has shaken the 21st century world order. In Kharkiv, a strategic eastern city with a population of about 1.5 million, explosions tore through the region's Soviet-era administrative building and residential areas. A maternity ward relocated to an underground shelter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the targeted attack on Kharkiv’s main square “frank, undisguised terror,” blaming a Russian missile and calling it a war crime. “Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget. ... This is state terrorism of the Russian Federation.”
In an emotional appeal to the European Parliament later, Zelenskyy said: “We are fighting also to be equal members of Europe. I believe that today we are showing everybody that is what we are ... We have proven that, as a minimum, we are the same as you.”
In addition to the strikes on cities, reports have emerged that Moscow has used cluster bombs on three populated areas. If confirmed, that would represent a worrying new level of brutality in the war — and could lead to even further isolation in Russia.
Already, with Western powers sending weapons to Ukraine and driving a global squeeze of Russia’s economy, President Vladimir Putin’s options have diminished as he seeks to redraw the global map — and pull Ukraine’s western-leaning democracy back into Moscow’s orbit.
The Kremlin denied Tuesday that it has used such munitions and insisted again that its forces only have struck military targets — despite evidence documented by AP reporters of shelling of homes, schools and hospitals.
Biden is more concerned with getting through the SOTU without fucking up than he is with saving people in Ukraine.
Europe is leading. Biden is following from the back row.
Roger spends paragraphs upon paragraphs explaining something I could have told in one sentence.
Putin is a victim of his own hubris.
And unfortunately Putin will bomb cities like both sides did during the Second world war..
It's not cost effective to reduce cities to rubble nowadays. The Russians still need infrastructure.
RRB, I see alky is Butt hurt as he cried out "ignore RRB".
He's incapable of a rudimentary level of conversing, let alone spirited debate.
Picture being trapped in a tiny box in a "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" facility with no legitimate contact with the outside world. Your only companionship an aging mental patient trapped in his own Beatles fantasy world.
Your kid visits once, perhaps twice a year out of guilt and a sense of familial obligation. And your life's work is a veritable Mount Everest of human failure, replete with multiple failed marriages, physical spousal abuse resulting in law enforcement intervention, financial ruin, and the ruination of a vital organ as a direct result of the abuse of alcohol.
And then imagine being under such psychotic illusions that you present yourself on an obscure political blog as a sage, an authority, a wise intellectual self-charged with diagnosing and fixing the worldview of the blog host.
What we get every day around here is a glimpse into the deepest recesses of a profound mental illness. Albeit from the safety of a distance provided by the interwebs.
Morbidly fascinating and irresistible to ridicule.
START AT THE BOTTOM AND READ UP
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Another Top Conservative Backs Ketanji Brown Jackson
March 1, 2022 at 8:39 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is receiving another major endorsement from a prominent Republican on Tuesday, this time a lawyer who represented President Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, Donald McGahn, among other former Trump White House officials,” CNN reports.
Lawyer William Burck said of Jackson that “no serious person can question her qualifications to the Court and to my mind her judicial philosophy is well within the mainstream.”
U.S. Intelligence Focuses on Putin’s State of Mind
March 1, 2022 at 7:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard 57 Comments
“The US intelligence community has made evaluating Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state of mind a top priority in recent days as it seeks to establish how that is affecting his handling of the rapidly escalating Ukraine crisis,“ CNN reports.
“The efforts come as longtime Putin-watchers have publicly speculated that his behavior has become increasingly erratic and irrational.”
YouTube Blocks Russian State Media In Europe
March 1, 2022 at 7:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments
“YouTube is blocking channels connected to Russian state-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik across Europe effective immediately, due to the situation in Ukraine,” Reuters reports.
Quote of the Day
March 1, 2022 at 7:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
“Every square today, no matter what it’s called, is going to be called Freedom Square, in every city of our country. No one is going to break us.”
— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by Axios, speaking to the European Parliament as his translator began to choke up.
Biden’s Dilemma Is to Find Putin an Off-Ramp
March 1, 2022 at 7:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard 87 Comments
“With Ukraine holding Russia off longer than many U.S. officials had expected, President Biden now faces a great unanswered question — how to give Vladimir Putin an off-ramp to avoid even greater calamity,” Axios reports.
“A cornered, humiliated Putin could unleash untold pain on the world, from cyberattacks to nuclear threats. After enacting brutal sanctions, the White House now must consider how the invasion can end without a new catastrophe.”
War In Ukraine Enters New Phase
March 1, 2022 at 7:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
“The initial stage of the war in Ukraine has confounded expectations. Russia’s military invasion failed in key objectives, upending predictions of a rout of Ukraine. Then, after years of avoiding direct confrontations with Moscow, Western nations are now directly punishing Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies with truly devastating economic sanctions while openly supplying arms to Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports.
“But after five days of fighting, there is little sign that this conflict will end soon. Instead, the conflict appears to be moving to another phase, more unpredictable and dangerous than the first. Fighting in Ukraine is escalating, not scaling back, while the rhetoric between Russia and the West has reached levels of aggression not seen since the height of the Cold War.”
Axios: “A miles-long armored Russian military convoy nearing Kyiv and targeting of civilian areas in Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, may herald a new phase of fighting after six days of stiff Ukrainian resistance.”
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Finland Lawmakers to Discuss NATO Membership
March 1, 2022 at 7:27 am EST By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
“Finland’s Parliament is meeting Tuesday to discuss a petition calling for a vote on NATO membership, a move that comes amid a dramatic shift in public sentiment,” the Washington Post reports.
“Finland, which shares a long border with Russia, is a close NATO partner but not a member. Support for formally joining the military alliance has been low — until now.”
Putin Warns Again About Nuclear War
March 1, 2022 at 6:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard 119 Comments
Associated Press: “For the second day in a row, the Kremlin raised the specter of nuclear war, announcing that its nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarines and long-range bombers had all been put on high alert, following President Vladimir Putin’s orders over the weekend.
“Stepping up his rhetoric, Putin denounced the U.S. and its allies as an ‘empire of lies.’”
Large Explosion Rocks Kharkiv
March 1, 2022 at 6:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments
“A large explosion struck central Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, on Tuesday, directly in front of the city’s administrative building, creating a huge fireball that appeared in a video to engulf several cars driving through an area called Freedom Square,” the New York Times reports.
Washington Post:
“Kharkiv remains under the control of Ukrainian government authorities, but the city is being ‘surrounded’ by Russian troops, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Tuesday.”
U.S. Positioned to Withstand Economic Shock
March 1, 2022 at 6:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard 16 Comments
“As Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine, half a world away the U.S. economy appeared to be rebounding from a winter surge of Covid-19 infections,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“A range of U.S. data suggests U.S. economic activity picked up in recent weeks. Many Wall Street analysts expect the Labor Department on Friday to report large job gains in February and a further decline in unemployment.”
“These developments suggest that the U.S. is in a position to withstand the economic shock that might emanate from battlegrounds in Ukraine. Those effects could push U.S. inflation higher from already elevated levels, but the economic expansion appears to be on solid ground.”
Biden to Give His First State of the Union Address
March 1, 2022 at 6:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments
“President Biden will use his first State of the Union address on Tuesday to claim credit for a robust economy and a unified global response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, even as he acknowledges the pain of inflation and the struggle between ‘democracy and autocracy’ around the world, administration officials said on Monday,” the New York Times reports.
“The speech, which has been in the works for months, was originally meant to focus primarily on the president’s domestic agenda, using the rare prime-time platform as a way to jump-start his stalled efforts to pass far-reaching social spending legislation.
“But the war in Europe that erupted last week has forced the White House to ensure that Mr. Biden’s address ‘reflects a moment in time,’ as Jen Psaki, the press secretary, put it Monday afternoon..”
Playbook:
“The GOP is ready to pan Biden’s address no matter what he says. And with the president’s approval numbers as poor as they are right now, they’ll have a receptive audience.”
ON THE OTHER HAND, AMERICANS ARE NO LONGER AS SUSCEPTIBLE TO OUT AND OUT LIES AS THEY HAVE BEEN.
ON THE OTHER HAND, AMERICANS ARE NO LONGER AS SUSCEPTIBLE TO OUT AND OUT LIES AS THEY HAVE BEEN.
Yet you keep posting them like it's your fucking JOB, pederast.
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Invasion Opens Fissures Between Putin and Oligarchs
March 1, 2022 at 8:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
“Fissures appear to be forming between Russian President Vladimir Putin and members of the oligarch class who made billions of dollars while showing fealty to the autocratic leader but now see their fortunes threatened by Western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports.
“The cracks are faint and fall short of suggesting any groundswell of oligarchic opposition to Putin… But expressions of unease that weeks ago seemed unthinkable have surfaced repeatedly in recent days.”
THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE ARE ALSO GETTING NO LONGER AS SUSCEPTIGBLE TO OUT AND OUT LIES AS THEY HAVE BEEN.
Trump’s Secret of a Really Good Tweet
March 1, 2022 at 7:19 am EST By Taegan Goddard 25 Comments
Former Attorney General William Barr writes in his new book that Donald Trump told him the “secret of a really good tweet” was “just the right amount of crazy,” the Washington Post reports.
WE HAVE A MADMAN IN THE KREMLIN WHO WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD AND A MADMAN WANTING TO GET BACK INTO THE WHITE HOUSE TO DO THE SAME THING.
THEY WERE ALWAYS SOFT ON PUTIN, WHICH IS WHY THEY HAD TO MAKE UP PHONY “COLLUSION” CHARGES ABOUT TRUMP:
Here’s the Thread That Shreds the Obama-Clinton ‘Tough on Russia’ Narrative.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/02/28/heres-the-thread-that-shreds-the-obamaclinton-tough-on-russia-narrative-n2603845
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq2mSdx3tNU
Karolina Protensko, born in Ukraine, whose mother is Russian and father is Ukrainian, now lives and performs on the streets of Santa Monica. Her videos are followed by millions.
During a 2019 phone call, Zelenskyy said, “We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps specifically we are almost. ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes.” Javelins are an anti-tank weapon and have been essential in Ukraine’s defense against Russia. All you really need to know about Trump’s response is that it began, “I would like you to do us a favor though ...”
Trump froze $400 million in military aid to Ukraine as he made his extortion attempt, only unfreezing the aid months later after a whistleblower complaint about it. That frozen aid, coupled with his “I would like you to do us a favor, though,” as a direct response to Zelenskyy’s ask for more Javelins were at the center of Trump’s first impeachment, on which Mitt Romney was the only Republican senator to vote guilty.
Romney voted guilty, and Sens. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Roger Marshall of Kansas, and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama were not in the Senate at the time. Every other Republican in the Senate—along with all 195 Republicans who voted in the House—voted against holding Trump responsible. (And Hagerty, Lummis, Marshall, and Tuberville absolutely would have voted not guilty given the chance.)
Trump has praised Vladimir Putin as Russia invaded Ukraine, and insisted that the invasion would not have happened if he had been in office. Trump is now claiming credit for NATO’s strength (after he threatened to pull the U.S. out of NATO) and for U.S. military aid to Ukraine, all part of his campaign to insist that this would not be happening if he were in the White House. In reality, what Putin would or wouldn’t be doing if Trump was in the White House is a mystery, but what we absolutely know is that if Putin invaded Ukraine, a Trump-led United States would not be taking a leading role in a major international diplomatic response.
Republicans, meanwhile, have largely either dodged answering whether they’re with him on his view of Putin or have tacitly supported Trump’s stance.
The Republican talking points are much more focused on blaming Biden than on blaming Putin. “Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a renewed invasion of Ukraine is reprehensible,” House Republican leaders said in a group statement last week, before moving directly to their real interest. “Sadly, President Biden consistently chose appeasement, and his tough talk on Russia was never followed by strong action.” These are people who literally voted against impeaching Donald Trump for withholding military aid to try to create a scandal that would harm Biden’s chances in 2020. Many House Republicans followed their leaders in blaming Biden more than they blamed Putin, and the same is true in the Senate.
And no wonder. Once Trump got Republicans to back him in attempting to extort elections help from Ukraine, where wouldn’t they go with him?
Give the Kos-Suckers the credit they're due, Looney tunes alky troll squad plagiarist asshole...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/28/2082861/-As-GOP-blames-Biden-for-Russia-Ukraine-remember-these-words-I-would-like-you-to-do-us-a-favor
LOL.
Dmitry Medvedev Warns France
March 1, 2022 at 9:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Former Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev responded with an ominous warning to a French comment that Europe was going to wage “total economic and financial war” against Russia.
Said Medvedev: “Don’t forget that in human history, economic wars quite often turned into real ones.”
DIPLOMATS WALK OUT OF RUSSIAN MINISTER'S SPEECH
Diplomats Walk Out of Russian Foreign Minister’s Speech
March 1, 2022 at 9:32 am EST By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“About 100 diplomats, many from Western countries, walked out of a speech by Russia’s foreign minister at the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday in protest over his country’s invasion of Ukraine,” the New York Times reports.
RUBIO WALKS OUT OF SOTU
Rubio to Boycott the State of the Union Address
March 1, 2022 at 9:17 am EST By Taegan Goddard 67 Comments
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) won’t attend President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address tonight because he doesn’t want to take a Covid-19 test, the HuffPost reports.
Said Rubio: “I don’t have time to go take a Covid test today. I only take a test if I’m sick."
Said Medvedev: “Don’t forget that in human history, economic wars quite often turned into real ones.”
As he was leaning toward Medvedev in Seoul, Obama was overheard asking for time - “particularly with missile defense” - until he is in a better position politically to resolve such issues.
“I understand your message about space,” replied Medvedev, who will hand over the presidency to Putin in May.
“This is my last election ... After my election I have more flexibility,” Obama said, expressing confidence that he would win a second term.
“I will transmit this information to Vladimir,” said Medvedev, Putin’s protégé and long considered number two in Moscow’s power structure.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-summit-obama-medvedev/obama-tells-russias-medvedev-more-flexibility-after-election-idUSBRE82P0JI20120326
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
START AT THE BOTTOM AND SKIP ACTUALLY READING
Fixed it for you and thanks but that's what is already done
ROFLMFAO !!!
https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1498026076123148288?t=c7F58Hc_JN5AL2kRhd0nGw&s=19
LauraLoomer
https://gettr.com/post/pxhiqbc63d
So hey everybody. What’s on your Alzheimer’s patient gives a state of the union address tomorrow bingo card?.
Come on man!
Malarkey!
This is a dog faced pony show!
Jill wiped my butt today.
Poor kids are just as bright as white kids.
The cockroaches used to rub my leg hair in the pool.
PUTIN!
PUTIN!
CORNPOP!
You know.. the thing.
YOU AINT BLACK! STUPID SON OF A BITCH!
PUTIN PUTIN
We don’t need gas pipes! Who needs gas pipes when we are giving out equity crack pipes?
Hey everybody! I’m Jill Biden’s Husband.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Alzheimer’s patient give a State of the Union before. Have you?
Should be interesting.
Would be real funny if it wasn't true
8:48:
Highly intelligent comment?
No.
Crypto Exchanges Refuse to Freeze All Russian Accounts
March 1, 2022 at 9:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard 50 Comments
“Faced with a request by Ukrainian leadership to freeze the accounts of all people in Russia and Belarus, major crypto exchanges are steadfastly refusing, saying the tactic would unfairly harm civilians and ‘fly in the face’ of the crypto community’s libertarian ideology,” Vice News reports.
Oopsie - another alky FAIL:
UPDATE — Polish President Duda just said: "We are not going to send any [fighter] jets to the Ukrainian airspace" because "that would suggest an open military interference in the Ukrainian conflict." NATO is not a party to this conflict, Duda said.
https://twitter.com/vonderburchard/status/1498617907764412417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1498617907764412417%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgregp-3534%2F2022%2F03%2F01%2Fremember-those-viral-tweets-saying-eu-fighter-jets-will-be-in-ukraine-within-the-hour-on-sunday-yeah-there-will-be-no-fighter-jets%2F
8:48
Racist comments?
Yes.
Black children are not cockroaches.
NATO is not a party to this conflict, Duda said.
So much for all that phony "NATO support" Joey Sprinkles is said to be rallying.
LOL @ the pederast and the alky.
Is rrb rejoicing because there may be less jet fighters than needed to knock out the forty mile convoy threatening Ukrain's capitol?
still rootin for pootin?
The Post Millennial
Tucker Carlson calls out warmonger Adam Kinzinger for spreading an obvious hoax online.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1498490688304033793
Kinzinger is a real threat to America
And no wonder Tucker's ratings are going balistic while in a new CBS poll Biden's continue to tank.
His best polling number there?
41% on his handling of the Ukraine conflict...
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8:59 capital
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U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin is growing increasingly frustrated by his military struggles in Ukraine and may see his only option as doubling down on violence, current and former U.S. officials briefed on the matter told NBC News.
As the Russian economy teeters under unprecedented global sanctions and his purportedly superior military force appears bogged down, Putin has lashed out in anger at underlings, even as he remains largely isolated from the Kremlin in part because of concerns about Covid, the sources said.
“This is somebody that’s clearly been caught off guard by the size of the Ukrainian resistance,” Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said on MSNBC. “He has isolated himself. He’s not been in the Kremlin very much. ... You’ve got less and less inputs, and these inputs are from sycophants."
He added: "I do worry that he’s been backed into a corner. I do worry that there is no obvious exit ramp.”
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Josh Gerstein
https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1498661247159517190
BREAKING OVERNIGHT: Media coalition files emergency petition w/DC Circuit seeking to reverse press lockout from testimony at 1st #J6 #CapitolRiot trial. Doc: https://bit.ly/35g45fk Earlier:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/28/first-january6-trial-reffitt-00012216
There obviously should have been a change of venue (as well as a speedy trial) but why the fuck lock out the press ?
Joe Biden's America
police state
state media
banana republic
1984
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Is rrb rejoicing because there may be less jet fighters than needed to knock out the forty mile convoy threatening Ukrain's capitol?
Simply acknowledging the true nature of NATO's relationship/involvement in this conflict as opposed to you, who has been incessantly LYING about it.
Non partisan dilemma.
With Ukraine holding Russia off longer than many U.S. officials had expected, President Biden now faces a great unanswered question — how to give Vladimir Putin an off-ramp to avoid even greater calamity.
Why it matters: A cornered, humiliated Putin could unleash untold pain on the world, from cyberattacks to nuclear threats. After enacting brutal sanctions, the White House now must consider how the invasion can end without a new catastrophe.
Between the lines: Nobody knows what Putin would accept.
Many officials fear that we are heading into a very dangerous period — the punishing Western sanctions pushing an autocrat into a corner.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), vice chair of the Senate intelligence committee, has hinted Putin could be addled.
"This is the most dangerous moment in 60 years," Rubio tweeted Sunday night. Putin, he said, "is facing a humiliating military fiasco & he has triggered extraordinary consequences on #Russia's economy & people that will not be easy to reverse ... And his only options to reset this imbalance are catastrophic ones."
A European diplomat told reporters at a briefing yesterday: "It's like the Sun Tzu thing of giving someone a golden bridge to retreat across. How do you get him to go in a different direction?"
"I think the door to diplomacy remains open," the diplomat continued. "Putin ... doesn't normally back down. But he also controls the information environment in his own country to such an extent that if he does, he can cover his tracks. ... So I think there is room for him to de-escalate — and that's certainly what we're pressing for."
The diplomat pointed to yesterday’s Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Belarus as the most viable off-ramp in a sea of bad options, noting that negotiations lasted for four hours and appear headed for a second round.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said before the talks that he was willing to discuss "neutral status" for Ukraine — one of Putin's three demands.But the other two — demilitarization and "denazification" of Ukraine, and recognition of Russia's claim to Crimea — suggest Putin will never accept a deal in which Zelensky remains in power.
The bottom line: The West's response to Putin — for so long, uncertain and halting — has moved at astonishing speed and ferocity over the past week. How Putin will respond — and whether de-escalation is even possible — is keeping national-security leaders up at night.
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The bottom line is the President has the greatest dilemma in a century.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin is growing increasingly frustrated by his military struggles in Ukraine and may see his only option as doubling down on violence, current and former U.S. officials briefed on the matter told NBC News.
Idiots believe this.
Idiots who believed Brennan and Clappers LIES for years believe this.
Joe Biden on Day #1 of his Presidency attacked the US Oil production.
We told you it would hurt the US.
Logan Hall
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/loganclarkhall/status/1498475511902883841
i remember this video whenever i think we should set aside differences and find common ground with the left. don’t budge. don’t move an inch. you owe them nothing.
"peaceful" and hillarious
I still get a laugh
The bottom line is the President IS the greatest dilemma in a century.
Everything he has touched has turned to SHIT.
36%
Fencing and troops to protect the SOTU.
This is tin pot dictator shit.
Those same Intel did see the war coming.
Biden fired the first shot at We The People by purposely designing his failed policies .
Project Veritas
https://gab.com/ProjectVeritas/posts/107853904012875889
BREAKING: Twenty-Five Year CNN Operations Manager Joins Project Veritas as Executive Producer
“I thought that [FBI raid on Project Veritas] was the biggest abridgment to the first amendment in maybe the history of this country.”
“In the first five days of working at this company [Project Veritas], I had more conversations about ethical journalism than I did probably in the last 10 years of my career.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lByqGXOiFU
This could get interesting.
Of course it won't get covered by state media
Thank God we still have some independent journalists and a few real ones.
and people are bypassing the MSM who think they are the arbiters of "misinformation".
While they spew it.
“I thought that [FBI raid on Project Veritas] was the biggest abridgment to the first amendment in maybe the history of this country.”
AND THEY SHOULD PUT THAT INCREDIBLE DOUCHE BAG O'KEEFE IN JAIL WITH TRUMPS KIDS......BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
I just watched, with captions, the entire almost thirty minute speech Vladimir Putin gave the Russian people. It is chilling.
U.S. Officials Fear Putin May Arrest Americans In Russia
March 1, 2022 at 10:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“The U.S. government is concerned that the Russian government may retaliate for recent Ukraine-related sanctions by arresting American citizens in Russia and holding them as pawns in the conflict,” NBC News reports.
Democrats Turn Against Mask Mandates
March 1, 2022 at 10:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 45 Comments
“When President Joe Biden gives his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, the mask mandate will be gone in the Capitol, reflecting a stark nationwide shift for Democrats against the public safety rule that has fueled a red-versus-blue culture war,” NBC News reports.
“Behind the shift is a blend of science and political science.”
Related from Axios: The limits of “following the science.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
March 1, 2022 at 10:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard 167 Comments
“Yes, he would.”
— Former national security council official Fiona Hill, quoted by Politico, on whether Vladimir Putin would use nuclear weapons.
Tracking the Russian Oligarchs
March 1, 2022 at 9:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
A new Twitter account is tracking the private jets of Russian oligarchs around the world.
China Rattled by Calls for Japan to Host Nuclear Weapons
March 1, 2022 at 9:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard 37 Comments
“China has reacted angrily to calls by Japan’s influential former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, for Tokyo to consider hosting US nuclear weapons in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising concern over Chinese aggression towards Taiwan,” The Guardian reports.
“Abe, who presided over record defense budgets before resigning in 2020, said Japan should cast off taboos surrounding its possession of nuclear weapons following the outbreak of war in Europe.”
Shipping Giant Steers Clear of Russia
March 1, 2022 at 9:48 am EST By Taegan Goddard 12 Comments
Shipping giant Maersk will temporarily halt all container shipping to and from Russia, deepening the country’s isolation as its invasion of Ukraine sparks an exodus of Western companies, Reuters reports.
Dmitry Medvedev Warns France
March 1, 2022 at 9:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard 92 Comments
Former Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev responded with an ominous warning to a French comment that Europe was going to wage “total economic and financial war” against Russia.
Said Medvedev: “Don’t forget that in human history, economic wars quite often turned into real ones.”
Two Democrats to give responses after Brandon's SOTU .
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/02/28/full_speech_russian_president_putin_calls_the_west_an_emire_of_lies_in_response_to_illegitimate_sanctions.html
Here's Putin's speech with captions. He calls the west an "empire of lies" because we are "illigitimately" sanctioning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, and hints at nuclear war, including some very specialized weapons. He calls the present leaders of Ukraine Nazis.
The man apparently believes what he is saying, somehow.
Ukraine Pushing to Disconnect Russia from Internet
March 1, 2022 at 11:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Ukrainian officials are asking a key organization responsible for the operation of the internet to disconnect all Russian sites from the global computer network of networks,” Rolling Stone reports.
“It’s the latest attempt to turn Russia into a pariah state in retaliation for the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. Experts call it a massive — and ill-advised — step.”
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We are living in dangerous times.
No political reasons
BRUSSELS — The U.S. government is concerned that the Russian government may retaliate for recent Ukraine-related sanctions by arresting American citizens in Russia and holding them as pawns in the conflict, current and former U.S. officials tell NBC News.
Among the concerns national security officials are discussing is that President Vladimir Putin’s government may target Americans doing business in Russia — such as employees of U.S. companies — if they comply with the new U.S. sanctions.
That could force Americans in the country to make an undesirable choice between violating U.S. law and running afoul of the Russian government.
The Biden administration has started notifying some major businesses with operations in Russia that, depending how far the situation escalates, Putin could start taking Americans hostage, two people with knowledge of those conversations said.
The urgency to consider pulling employees out has increased now that Russia and the European Union have closed their airspace to each other's planes, making it far harder to get a flight out of Russia.
“It’s absolutely a plausible concern,” said Evelyn Farkas, the top Pentagon official for Russia during the Obama administration.
It’s unclear whether the Biden administration has specific reason to believe Putin may take U.S. hostages or is merely anticipating potential worst-case scenarios. But discussions about mitigating the risk for Americans in Russia have involved multiple U.S. national security agencies as well as U.S. Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens, officials said.
The Russian Embassy in Washington didn’t respond to a request for comment.
There’s a long history of Russia detaining American citizens, often under purported espionage charges, and detaining them for long periods of what the U.S. has described as wrongful imprisonment.
That includes two former U.S. Marines currently held in Russia: Trevor Reed, sentenced in 2020 to nine years in prison on charges of assaulting a police officer, and Paul Whelan, sentenced to 16 years on spying charges. The U.S. has called for the immediate and unconditional release of both Americans.
Former U.S. officials say the United States for decades has harbored particular concerns about American businesses in Russia and their employees, especially at times of high tension between Washington and Moscow.
“This is what will happen: They’ll get arrested on trumped-up charges,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior CIA officer who oversaw Russia and Europe operations. “There’s always a concern that Americans doing business in Russia are caught up in the bilateral tensions and can be unjustly imprisoned — sometimes for long periods of time.”
The State Department said concerns about Americans being detained or prevented from leaving Russia are among the reasons the U.S. is currently urging its citizens to consider leaving the country immediately.
BRUSSELS — The U.S. government is concerned that the Russian government may retaliate for recent Ukraine-related sanctions by arresting American citizens in Russia and holding them as pawns in the conflict, current and former U.S. officials tell NBC News.
Well thank goodness we've told them they're on their own and won't be offered any official US assistance to leave.
Just like Afghanistan.
Sloppy Joe - "Hey Americans trapped over there! Go fuck yourselves!"
Joe Biden - American Statesman
Benny
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1498683607216537604
Trump's Top Economic Advisor Says EXACTLY What We're ALL Thinking About Biden's Ukraine DISASTER
wtf is wrong with the Biden administration?
Why are they funding Putin ?
and forcing higher prices on America
He is my hero
BREAKING: BRAVO!������ “In an emotional speech, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addressed the European Parliament to speak about Russia's ongoing invasion into his country. The speech comes hours after Zelenskyy submitted an application to the European Union to grant Ukraine immediate membership into the E.U.”
Benny
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1498681217721503747
Reporter ROASTS Biden's State Department FLACK Over Weak Sanction Put on Russia— So Embarrassing
WOW, they carved "everyone" out from the sanctions
embarrassing
True:
So much for all that phony "NATO support" Joey Sprinkles is said to be rallying.
LOL @ the pederast and the alky.
Putin is losing more support than I thought about..
As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalates, Orban faces greater pressure than ever to choose between Moscow and Hungary’s Western partners in the EU and NATO. But he is showing increasing signs that he may continue to straddle the line between the two.
The Czech Republic on Friday said it would pull out of the IIB to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and urged other members of the bank to do the same — which, on Sunday, Hungary’s neighbor Romania did.
Also on Friday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, a key Orban ally, warned in the Financial Times that Putin’s aggression in Ukraine would extend to other parts of Eastern Europe if left unchecked, and urged Western countries to end the “era of illusions” about Russia.
“We are seeing that the price of European naivete over Russia is Ukrainian blood,” Morawiecki wrote.
Speaking to journalists Saturday at Hungary’s border with Ukraine, Orban said his country would support all proposed EU sanctions against Moscow and acknowledged that Russia’s invasion would likely cause changes in his relationship with Putin.
La Times
Reporter ROASTS Biden's State Department FLACK Over Weak Sanction Put on Russia— So Embarrassing
WOW, they carved "everyone" out from the sanctions
embarrassing
Yep.
Told ya.
And the alky and the pederast fell for it hook, line and sinker because the WaPo told them to.
Worshipping at the altar of big government is always an epic fail, yet they always go back for more.
“We are seeing that the price of European naivete over Russia is Ukrainian blood,” Morawiecki wrote.
Told ya AGAIN!
Germany made it clear years ago their acceptable trade-off was to tongue-bathe Putin's scrotum in exchange for keeping warm.
LOL.
He's not a genius like you think.
KYIV, Ukraine—Russian forces bombarded the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and warned of further strikes against the capital, Kyiv, as Moscow, frustrated in its plans for a quick victory, shifted to a new strategy of pummeling civilian areas in an attempt to demoralize Ukrainian resistance.
On Tuesday afternoon, Russia’s Defense Ministry said it would strike Ukrainian intelligence and communications facilities in central Kyiv that it said are being used for “information attacks” against Russia, and urged residents living nearby to leave for their own safety. Western diplomats took the warning as a signal that a massive strike on Kyiv’s residential areas was imminent. Some of the remaining staff at foreign embassies left Ukraine’s capital.
Live-cam footage from Kharkiv’s central Freedom Square showed a missile landing just outside the local government’s headquarters at 8:01 a.m. local time, with a fireball charring nearby buildings and cars. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said two Russian cruise missiles caused dozens of casualties and that numerous children had died in other attacks.
“A missile targeting the central square of a city is open, undisguised terrorism,” Mr. Zelensky said. “It’s terrorism that aims to break us, to break our resistance.”
In an emotional video address to the European Parliament later Tuesday, Mr. Zelensky said Ukrainians were dying in a struggle for the country’s survival. “We are giving our lives for the right to be equal,” he said, unshaven and wearing a green army T-shirt. “Prove that you are with us and will not let us go.”
LOL at you again as you tongue wash trumps stinky ass because you are stupid!!!!!!!!
Must suck big time to think keeping warm in the winter is a bad thing....especially to assholes living in the frigid north in an uninsulated single wide like you do......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
In an emotional video address to the European Parliament later Tuesday, Mr. Zelensky said Ukrainians were dying in a struggle for the country’s survival. “We are giving our lives for the right to be equal,” he said, unshaven and wearing a green army T-shirt. “Prove that you are with us and will not let us go.”
To paraphrase the line from 'Animal House':
"You fucked up. You trusted a Clinton."
John Bolton about Trump.
This is really about Trump's lack of any significant historical knowledge, his lack of strategic thinking and, frankly, his lack of thinking about pretty much anything other than what benefitted Donald Trump. Why was he concerned about Ukraine in the summer of 2019? Because he wanted that DNC server. Why was he concerned about corruption in Ukraine? Because he was looking for an excuse to cover the reason he was refusing to send $250 million of security assistance to the Ukraine, and only when that finally blew up in his face.
Trump didn't send $250 million million of security assistance....
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1498476882404290565
Hillary Clinton didn't take cash from Russia. It was Russia AND Ukraine.
Two very corrupt countries
Is Hunter still on the payroll to both also ?
and the "big guy" ?
whoever that is
Is Bolton still advocating for WW3 ?
Roger, are you for American Jet Fighters Flying over Ukraine?
Hey goat fucker....are you for building more energy efficient vehicles or will you just go along with the flow and import more fuel to run POS like you drive......BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Is Bolton still advocating for WW3 ?
Yep.
Saw him on MSDNC calling for exactly that.
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