Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Hard to argue this isn't a Biden Administration problem

Not happening elsewhere and didn't happen under Trump



Liberals love to pass off the inflation blame to things out of the Administration's control or otherwise just want to blame Trump (without providing any reasonable explanation as to why). The reality here is that inflation jumped within a few months after Biden took office and we are not just seeing higher inflation than we had under Trump, but we are seeing higher inflation than any other country. 

It's not Covid since we had a year of Covid under Trump and Covid is everywhere. It is not Putin, since we have had inflation problems long before Russia invaded Ukraine. While it might be a global problem on a smaller scale, we stand out as leaders (in a bad way). 

Even before Biden took office, critics suggested that the policies he was promising would lead to uncontrollable inflation. These critics turned out to be 100% correct. Policies regarding rent moratoriums, regarding restrictions on oil and gas, unresolved problems with our supply chains, and other issues may not be the sole reason for inflation, but it is the sole reason why we have the worst inflation in the world.

97 comments:

rrb said...


Remember when candidate Joe Biden said, “Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America,” during a 2020 campaign debate? Biden blamed Donald Trump for each of the 220,000 COVID deaths recorded at the time. While the count varies depending on the source, Worldometer indicates the United States is about to cross a total COVID death toll of 1 million.

Let’s set aside the question of whether the public should blame the president for each of the COVID deaths. Let’s also set aside the thorny question of whether that count includes dubious cases in which the victim died “with” COVID as opposed to “from” COVID. Neither of those concerns obscure a conclusion so obvious that even the Left cannot use its fallback, “Russian disinformation!” dodge. While Democrats and “health officials” united to impose vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and numerous restrictions, nothing stopped the pandemic from getting worse. Everything got worse even after we did everything the Left wanted.

This taps a common thread that passes through so much of the Left’s agenda. As the Left hypes an emotional response to a problem, the rush to action skips over a fundamental question that should precede any mandate or expenditure of public funds: Does the proposed solution work?

Does the Left’s prescription for climate change have any effect on climate? Does the Left’s intervention in education improve educational outcomes? Does the Left’s response to homelessness improve the homelessness problem? Does funding for drug treatment programs help reduce drug abuse? Does the Left’s foreign policy lead to more peace? Does borrowing trillions of dollars to “invest in people” lead to more productivity? Has the Left’s stewardship of universities resulted in better-educated graduates?

One is reminded of the forgotten lessons of command and control economies of the former Soviet Union and Mao’s China. Over and over again the party leaders caused famines and shortages by arrogantly substituting their judgments for those of the common people. Mao famously ordered farmers to “deep plow” their fields and “close plant” 10 times as many seeds as tradition dictated. Maoist solutions to the food shortage made things worse. Plowing too deep turns up subsoil with few nutrients, few soil bacteria and little capacity to nurture crops. And planting 10 times as many seedlings per acre, without fertilizer, starves all the plants. While actual harvests dropped dramatically, local officials filed phony production reports with inflated yields. Mao then taxed yields at 30 percent of the phony number leaving the collective farms without enough food to fend off starvation.

Like Mao blaming the Russians for the famines he himself caused, our speaker of the House casts about for an inflation villain. Instead of “deep plowing” and “close planting,” the American Left suggests that more government spending will fix inflation.

The Left’s prescriptions for virtually every social problem always have two things in common. First, they’re expensive. Second, they don’t work. When the solutions exacerbate the problems, the Left scapegoats or blames the failure on not having gone even bigger with the intervention. The Soviets and Mao proved that using social theory instead of practical experience is a consistent recipe for disaster. It’s time we confront our leaders with their incompetence.


https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/21/covid-proves-politicizing-everything-breaks-everything/

anonymous said...


Remember when candidate Joe Biden said, “Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America,” during a 2020 campaign debate


Rat and American Dumb Ass speaks again........BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! You are more broke than the GOP!!!!!!!

anonymous said...

prescriptions for virtually every social problem always have two things in common. First, they’re expensive.


bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! Unlike trumps first trillion dollar deficit riding on the heels of a tax break for his buddies.....God gave you a brain,,,,,, try using it once in a while!!!!

anonymous said...

And this asshole who can't walk and chew gum at the same time, is running daddy's business into the ground as assholes complain about Biden's kid......sad they can't see the forest through their trees of stupidity as Eric would be cleaning toilets if not for daddy!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Ed Mazza
Tue, March 22, 2022, 1:04 AM
Eric Trump launched a new attack on President Joe Biden on Monday night, this time going after him for having the nerve to ride a bike.

Biden, an avid cyclist, went for a ride over the weekend in Delaware ― but the son of ex-president Donald Trump had a problem with the bike’s “big ridiculous reflector on the front of it” and for even biking at all at a time when Ukraine is under attack from Russia.

“My father would be giving speeches in front of F-35s, talking about how he’s building the greatest military the world has ever seen,” Trump said. “Believe me, that was sending a true message of strength.”

Then he went after Biden for not only riding a bike but also doing so “in the middle of the day.”

“This is the commander in chief of the United States of America,” he said. “What message does that send the world that is literally in the middle of, just, some horribleness?”


Eric Trump’s attack was widely panned for omitting one key detail about his dad: When times got tough, he went golfing.

The former president declared a national emergency over border wall funding in 2019, then immediately left on a golf trip. He also golfed throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump, who claimed he wouldn’t have time to golf as president and would only work, instead played 308 times in his four years in office, according to Golf News Net.

rrb said...


Biden, an avid cyclist


BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

anonymous said...

Rat is alatent asshole!!!!!!


BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Myballs said...

Biden on a bicycle looked like Benny Hill. Lol.

anonymous said...

Just as I suspected, the GOP is deciding the SCOTUS pick based on misguided opinions and abject racism.....what a sorry group of people as I will repeat my prediction of 1 GOP pro vote as the rest of the spineless white boys cower in the abcesses of bigotry!!!!

Linda Qiu
By Linda Qiu
March 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers are misleadingly portraying Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s Supreme Court pick, as uncommonly lenient on felons who possess images of child sexual abuse.

During Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearing on Monday, and in social media posts before the hearing, several senators homed in on her judicial record on the issue. In doing so, they omitted the context of her remarks and sentencing decisions.

Here’s a fact check.

WHAT WAS SAID
“Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker. She’s been advocating for it since law school. This goes beyond ‘soft on crime.’ I’m concerned that this a record that endangers our children.”
— Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, on Twitter last week

“You also have a consistent pattern of giving child porn offenders lighter sentences. On average, you sentence child porn defendants to over five years below the minimum sentence recommended by the sentencing guidelines. And you have stated publicly that it is a mistake to assume that child pornography offenders are pedophiles.”
— Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, in the hearing on Monday
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These claims are misleading. In a series of posts on Twitter, Mr. Hawley took Judge Jackson’s legal recommendations, remarks and sentencing decisions out of context. Ms. Blackburn’s statement is a further distortion of the judge’s views.

In one tweet, Mr. Hawley said that “Judge Jackson advocated for drastic change in how the law treats sex offenders by eliminating the existing mandatory minimum sentences for child porn” as a member of the United States Sentencing Commission, which advises Congress on federal sentencing guidelines.

This was an overly broad characterization of sentencing recommendations made by the commission. It also omits that the commission is bipartisan and issued the recommendations as a body.

The commission noted in a 2012 report to Congress that existing sentencing guidelines on crimes involving images of child sexual abuse “fail to differentiate among offenders in terms of their culpability” and result in penalty ranges that “are too severe for some offenders and too lenient for other offenders.”

James's Fucking Daddy said...

Myballs said...
Biden on a bicycle looked like Benny Hill. Lol.


I wondered how many flies he would catch with his mouth open while cycling ?

Quite a technique for an avid cyclist

ROFLMFAO !!!

James's Fucking Daddy said...


* maybe VERY lo iq gave him lessons

James's Fucking Daddy said...

anonymous said...

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!




Is this VERY lo iq with a mouthful of flies

While being on the receiving end ?

ROFLMFAO !!!

James's Fucking Daddy said...

CDC in 2019:

The anti-parasite drug ivermectin is not authorized or approved by FDA for treating or preventing #COVID19. Large doses can cause symptoms like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, & seizures.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3kNRkvH. #PoisonPreventionWeek


Mary Talley Bowden MD
@MdBreathe

Funny, I've treated over 2200 patients with this medication and never seen these side effects.... and all of them stayed out of the hospital.


https://twitter.com/MdBreathe/status/1506203058954551303


The CDC has lost all credibility

and the FDA is not far behind.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said it retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv early Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and their attack on the embattled southern port of Mariupol raged unabated.

Explosions and bursts of gunfire shook Kyiv, and black smoke rose from a spot in the north. Intensified artillery fire could be heard from the northwest, where Russia has sought to encircle and capture several suburban areas of the capital, a crucial target.

Residents sheltered at home or underground under a 35-hour curfew imposed by city authorities that runs to Wednesday morning.

Russian forces also pressed their siege of Mariupol after the southern port city’s defenders refused demands to surrender, with fleeing civilians describing relentless bombardments and corpses lying in the streets. But the Kremlin’s ground offensive in other parts of the country advanced slowly or not at all, knocked back by lethal hit-and-run attacks by the Ukrainians.

Early Tuesday, Ukrainian troops forced Russian forces out of the Kyiv suburb of Makariv after a fierce battle, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said. The regained territory allowed Ukrainian forces to retake control of a key highway and block Russian troops from surrounding Kyiv from the northwest.

Still, the Defense Ministry said Russian forces were able to partially take other northwest suburbs, Bucha, Hostomel and Irpin, some of which had been under attack almost since Russia’s military invaded almost a month ago.


Their bravery is absolutely awesome.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Former President Donald Trump's personal assistant in the White House, Nick Luna, appeared virtually on Monday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, multiple sources tell ABC News.

Luna, who served as Trump's body man in the West Wing, was initially subpoenaed by the committee in November. He was granted a short postponement in December but previously engaged with the committee before Monday's virtual appearance.

The panel said Luna was with the former president on Jan. 6, and was nearby when Trump called former Vice President Mike Pence that morning and urged Pence not to certify the results of the 2020 election.

MORE: Jan. 6 committee: Evidence Trump engaged in 'criminal conspiracy,' may have broken laws

A committee spokesperson declined to comment on witness appearances.

The committee already has firsthand knowledge of Trump's Jan. 6 phone call with Pence from retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who served as Pence's national security adviser.

Depending on how much contact Luna had with Trump, Luna's testimony to the committee could shed further light on Trump's state of mind that day.

In a recent legal filing that cited interview transcripts, official records and emails, the committee argued that Trump was repeatedly told by aides and allies that he lost the election, and suggested that he was knowingly spreading unsubstantiated claims of fraud -- an allegation that could have implications for a potential criminal case against Trump in the future.

Since last year, the committee has conducted more than 600 interviews and issued more than 75 subpoenas, questioning additional White House officials and obtaining thousands of pages of Trump White House records on a rolling basis.

Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., recently told reporters that the panel is aiming to wrap up its interviews with potential witnesses in the coming weeks, and could begin another slate of public hearings as early as May.

James's Fucking Daddy said...

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸

Watch this VIDEO and tell us the Jan 6th defendants aren't being treated unfairly:
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1506049450795540488

Reposting this. Defense attorneys encourage their J6 clients to plead guilty because Trump voters cannot get a fair trial in their own nation’s capital.

We have tyranny right here in the US. Let’s fix our country first.



No right to a speedy trial

No right to see exculpatory evidence

No right to a true jury trial with an impartial jury

Trumped up charges

Storm Troopers

Banana Republic

Joe Biden's "America"

James's Fucking Daddy said...

Louie Gohmert
https://twitter.com/replouiegohmert/status/1506027290777505804

Matt Perna didn’t harm anyone, yet Biden's vengeful DOJ sought to throw the book at him. This led to the end of his life, a life he used to serve others.

Will the Biden/Garland DOJ hold itself accountable?


the real enemies of the people

and a threat to democracy

James's Fucking Daddy said...


Hey Hunter and the "big guy" are still walking free and biking around

DOJ and FBI can't figure out the evidence

Banana Republic

James's Fucking Daddy said...


While a leading multi-billionaire 2020 Democrat presidential candidate (Bloomberg who by himself spent over a billion dollars trying to win the nomination, talk about elite) writes that people need to start taking the bus and not buy things in bulk.

How out of touch can you be?

buying in bulk saves money and protects you from inflation

are they doing this on purpose?

rrb said...



Fascism straight up:

What exactly is democracy? Well, pluralism is the hallmark of it. In a democracy, citizens can have any opinion they want to have. They can express any opinion they want in public whenever they care to express it, including through mass media. If citizens are dissatisfied with their political leadership, they can challenge their leaders for office. Now, all of these things are true in every free country, in any period, always.

These are not just features of democracy. These are prerequisites for democracy. So, with that in mind, you should know about a political party in Ukraine called Opposition Platform for Life. With 43 seats in parliament, it is the largest opposition party in that country. Over the weekend, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, banned that party. Opposition Platform for Life is now prohibited from "all activity within Ukraine."

So, with a single command, Zelenskyy made it impossible for anybody to run against him for president. He did this not just to Opposition Platform for Life, but to ten other political parties that he believed were insufficiently loyal to him. They're all illegal now. Obviously, there's a war underway in Ukraine, and on that basis, Zelenskyy has declared martial law, but we must tell you, there is no evidence that the opposition parties he banned were aiding Russia in its war against Ukraine.

Opposition Platform for Life, for example, denounced the Russian invasion the moment it happened, just like everybody else. But Zelenskyy took the opportunity to turn Ukraine into effectively a one-party state, which it now is. So having banned all opposition, he then seized control of the country's media outlets. Zelenskyy signed a decree that combines all national television channels into a single platform that he controls. He described this as a "unified information policy," and it certainly is unified.

So, if all of these details seem shocking to you, if this is not the Zelenskyy you've heard about on the Today Show, then you may not have been paying attention to Ukraine. Zelenskyy has been solidifying complete control over Ukraine for a long time, since long before the Russian invasion and the war. Last year, he had his main political opponent arrested and his assets seized by the state. At the same time, Zelenskyy shut down three of Ukraine's most popular television networks—channels that, not coincidentally, had criticized him.


https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-ukraine-leaders-lying


So there's not a dime's worth of difference between this fascist comic fuck and Putin himself.

Fuck this asshole.

We've already lost 4 American servicemen to a NATO fuck up.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Of course you ignore thecoldheartedtruth, that the President has very limited authority over inflation rates, especially in a medical crisis and a war in Ukraine, that is effecting the amount of oil availability, and the supply chain cost.

He is the President and he gets blamed. But his own decisions except to block the oil availability, were inspiring to most educated people.

rrb said...



Of course you ignore thecoldheartedtruth, that the President has very limited authority over inflation rates


This is the stupidest thing you'll read here today.

Where would I find a directory of these so-called 'inflation rates' alky?

And the rest? Just an ignorant word salad.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Remember when soars started, the discussion was about the necon decision to invade Iraq?


It has been replaced by Tucker Carlson.


Now that NatCons are trying to solidify that constituency ideologically, it seems freshly possible to align instead with Carlson, whose lead Masters and Vance have followed on everything from opposing vaccine mandates to sympathizing with Vladimir Putin’s geopolitical worldview.”

Do you really want to be seen as a NatCon!

rrb said...



Show your plagiarism alky -

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/magazine/tucker-carlson-politician.html/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

rrb is getting dumber every day....

rrb said...



And Candace owens did a masterful job of making the NY Times look like the assclowns they really are...

Received an email from The NYTimes asking for comment regarding me “advancing ideas that Ukraine is a corrupt country”—similar to Russian state TV.

I replied informing them that I actually got my ideas from the New York Times, and provided them links to their past articles. 😂


https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1506004049061195778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1506004049061195778%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdirectorblue.blogspot.com%2F





Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/22/the-rise-of-the-tucker-carlson-politician/

rrb said...



Cum-Allah's Nat Sec Advisor has resigned to attend to "some pressing personal matters."

LOL.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If the NatCon philosophy becomes the Republican agenda, it might lead to the end of the Republican party, when Vladimir Putin restores the Russian Empire.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Ch's final sentence in his thread article is false.

"...we have the worst inflation in the world."

I invite everyone here to google:
"Which nations today have the highest inflation In the world?"

You will quickly see that Ch
just made that up.

Another of his FAKE "facts."

rrb said...


BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!:


Former President Donald Trump on Monday announced the court ruled in his favor in Stormy Daniels' libel lawsuit against him and she will have to pay him nearly $300,000 as a result.

Trump announced the win on Twitter through his spokeswoman Liz Harrington.

"The 9th Circuit just issued a final ruling in the Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels) frivolous lawsuit case against me brought by her disgraced lawyer, Michael Avenatti, upholding the lower court ruling that she owes me nearly $300,000 in attorney fees, costs, and sanctions (not including appeal costs)," Trump wrote.


https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/donald-trump-announces-win-stormy-daniels-case-says-she-owes-him?utm_medium=social_media&utm_source=twitter_social_icon&utm_campaign=social_icons

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

rrb, The American Thinker say that you are full of shit.


https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/why_would_emanybodyem_back_putin.html


In truth, there are numerous people, nominally on the right, who are praising, egging on, and making excuses for Putin in his war of conquest against Ukraine. I won’t bother to link to any of them. You’ve no doubt seen them and can provide your own examples.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

James, his final comment was a complete option, just like a politician, not an analysis.

Even before Biden took office, critics suggested that the policies he was promising would lead to uncontrollable inflation. These critics turned out to be 100% correct. Policies regarding rent moratoriums, regarding restrictions on oil and gas, unresolved problems with our supply chains, and other issues may not be the sole reason for inflation, but it is the sole reason why we have the worst inflation in the world.

Every day I try to keep my options on politics separate. Objective thinking is not easy.

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

rrb, The American Thinker say that you are full of shit.


That's nice alky. And I'm glad that it means SO much to you because it means NOTHING to me.

You rely on the opinions of others to tell you what to think and feel every minute of every day.

I don't.

Fuck Ukraine.

Zelensy's a fascist thug. Let him and Putin duke it out and let the Euro-weenies fucking deal with it.

The US National Interest is NONE. Zero, Nada, Zilch.

Let the robin's egg blue helmets of the UN perform a humanitarian effort here - without raping anyone - and evac Ukranian refugees to the rest of Europe.

And keep US soldiers out of the NATO exercises. Those dumb fucks have killed 4 of our guys already. That's ENOUGH.

Caliphate4vr said...

So there's not a dime's worth of difference between this fascist comic fuck and Putin himself.

Fuck this asshole.

We've already lost 4 American servicemen to a NATO fuck up.


A little corrupt country going against a vastly larger corrupt country

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

I count ca. 30 nations with rates of inflation higher than the United States.


https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation%20rate

updated March 22, 2022

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Rrb is foaming at the mouth.
Hasn't had his proper rabies vaccination.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This is one of the best articles about this situation. By a very conservative person..

What is happening in Ukraine was avoidable and unnecessary. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States and Western Europe continued to treat a geographically smaller and dramatically weaker Russia essentially the same as they did a bellicose and powerful Soviet Union, thus, triggering and exacerbating Russian paranoia which gave rise to the ascension of Vladimir Putin.

American politicians over the years, while exploiting the political instability and corruption in Ukraine for personal and political gains, continued to falsely insinuate to the various Ukrainian governments that they would be allowed to join NATO, whose sole original reason for being was to stop Soviet aggression.

At the same time, the American political elites were unleashing an unnecessary war in Iraq, pursuing a futile 20-year conflict in Afghanistan, enabling an implacable terrorist state, Iran, fomenting violent civil wars in Libya and Syria, and willfully choosing to become dependent on China. Thus, they weakened the United States and squandered American lives and treasure as well as the faith and confidence of its citizenry.

Even as late as 2021, if the United States and Western Europe had been honest with the Ukrainians about their actual intention of never allowing them to join NATO, and subsequently armed them with sufficient weaponry to thwart a potential invasion, war could have been avoided.

Putin, while a megalomaniac, is not Hitler or Stalin. Their ascendancy to power was a devastating outgrowth of their time and place. The circumstances leading up to the invasion of Ukraine are unique to Putin and these times. The 2020s are not the 1930s.

It is not appeasement by other European nations that prompted this war. Instead, it was the deliberate actions by America and Western Europe to hoodwink Ukraine and antagonize Russia while simultaneously compromising and weakening themselves, particularly Germany. This hobbling of Germany and the West was accomplished by foolishly succumbing to the most successful ploy of the century-old international communist movement: fictitious climate change. The subsequent mania by the ruling classes in western nations to eliminate reliance on fossil fuels has hobbled their wealth-generating capacity and vastly enriched Putin (and Iran) by driving oil prices through the roof ever since Biden began his attack on American oil production on day one of his presidency,

rrb said...


A little corrupt country going against a vastly larger corrupt country


But let's make them part of NATO because shut up.

At this point NATO's only value is to Putin to use as an excuse for his aggressions. It no longer has any value or national interest to the US. Just like the UN. A net drain of ca$h run by people who fucking hate us.

This is the "New World Order" Joey Sprinkles wants to be the Grand Marshall of in the next Davos parade.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The invasion of Ukraine will not spawn World War III as China, the dominant member of the budding axis that includes Russia and Iran, will make certain it does not. If Putin’s debacle results in the conquest of Ukraine or perhaps even a de facto stalemate, all signs point to China dominating and effectively controlling Russia and its massive reserves of natural resources that will enable this axis to dominate and effectively control all economic activity throughout the world.

That outcome cannot be allowed to eventuate. Thus, the United States and Europe must unconditionally support Ukraine with advanced weaponry regardless of the ever-present government corruption in Ukraine and its egocentric president, Volodymyr Zelensky. The adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is applicable in these circumstances. Further. it is not a necessity to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine or introduce NATO ground troops if Ukraine is sufficiently armed and financially supported.

The war in Ukraine cannot be dismissed as not being in America’s vital interest. This nation cannot retreat into self-imposed isolationism, while at the same time deliberately undercutting its economy through absurd regulations and taxes; chasing the fleeting apparition of “green” energy; being far too dependent on China for not only vital manufactured items but many essential raw materials; gratuitously allowing a terror-sponsoring Iran to achieve regional hegemony in the Middle East; and inanely devastating American society through an undeclared war on the culture in order to transform the nation into a dystopian Neverland.

If the war in Ukraine ends in a stalemate, America should gradually phase out of NATO and force the European Union to assume the primary responsibility for defending Europe. America must rebuild its economy and society as well transform its political class in order to face the greatest and most lethal threat to the United States in its nearly 250-year history: China. A nation whose communist leadership is maniacally obsessed with global hegemony spawned by a centuries-old belief in Chinese manifest destiny and retribution for Western-imposed subservience in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

It is my fervent prayer that the people of this nation never experience what the victims and survivors of World War II or any unconditional war in the modern era have endured. The American people can continue to live in peace but only if the United States is a dominant moral and economic force able to underwrite being the unrivaled military power in the world and be willing to use all those strengths, together with its allies, to resolutely confront potential adversaries before they metastasize into a far greater threat.

While the war in Ukraine is in America’s vital interest, it should also be a soul-shattering wake-up call to its citizenry.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/the_war_in_ukraine_is_in_americas_vital_interest.html

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

rrb hasn't read anything about isolation because he's not smart enough to understand something he doesn't like.

CH is the only real person on the right side of thecoldheartedtruth.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

It's nice to see that some conservatives are rational..


The American people can continue to live in peace but only if the United States is a dominant moral and economic force able to underwrite being the unrivaled military power in the world and be willing to use all those strengths, together with its allies, to resolutely confront potential adversaries before they metastasize into a far greater threat.

While the war in Ukraine is in America’s vital interest, it should also be a soul-shattering wake-up call to its citizenry.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/the_war_in_ukraine_is_in_americas_vital_interest.html

rrb said...

The alky cannot grasp the fact that the proposition is not binary.

It's not Globalism vs. Isolationism.

There is a vast debate to be had in between the two. Specific to policy detail and geopolitical situations that can shift with the prevailing winds.

Small thinkers see on Globalism and Isolationism ONLY. The rest of us live in the real world with the current realities.

Globalism is inherently AGAINST US National Interests. From Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum to that stupid Chi-com fellating fuck who runs the WHO to the UN, American interests always come LAST to these assholes, and we need to keep that in mind FIRST and foremost.

Idiot leftists 'want to buy the world a Coke' and sing Kumbaya with those who wish us dead.

The world is a dangerous and nasty place. Bowing before it is fucking retarded and a great way to get more soldiers killed.

rrb said...



The alky is helpless without the opinions of others with which to spam this blog.

Post that AT article at least a dozen more times alky. Maybe in bold. And italics.

It makes you look smart, like 'Fredo' smart.

rrb said...



Oh, and all of that "Ukraine is a vital interest to America" misses one significant and glaring point -

Our Commander in Chief is a fucking imbecile in the throes of significant cognitive decline. Even if Ukraine WAS in our vital interest, we're not in any position to deal with it with the present dumb fucks in DC.

James's Fucking Daddy said...

rrb said...


And Candace owens did a masterful job of making the NY Times look like the assclowns they really are...

Received an email from The NYTimes asking for comment regarding me “advancing ideas that Ukraine is a corrupt country”—similar to Russian state TV.

I replied informing them that I actually got my ideas from the New York Times, and provided them links to their past articles. 😂

https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1506004049061195778


That was a classic

Yet some here rely on the NYT, WP and state media

won't phase them a bit.

too busy being state media waterboys and plagiarizers

Anonymous said...

Bidenomics has failed Americans by design.

"Child poverty rose from 12.1% in December to 17% in January 2022,"

James's Fucking Daddy said...

Dishonest, indecent, untruthful Rev. said...
I count ca. 30 nations with rates of inflation higher than the United States.


Your list is a bit dated but celebrating that countries such as Venezuela, Zambia, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Syria, Surinam, Sudan, Sierra Leone,Sao Tome and Principe etc. have higher inflation numbers is not "winning"

It has made us third world

Guess CHT needed to have said major countries.

but how dishonest of you

as always

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The subsequent mania by the ruling classes in western nations to eliminate reliance on fossil fuels has hobbled their wealth-generating capacity and vastly enriched Putin (and Iran) by driving oil prices through the roof ever since Biden began his attack on American oil production on day one of his presidency,


https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/the_war_in_ukraine_is_in_americas_vital_interest.html


I have been saying the same thing about inflation rates, but Ch has a political bias.

Anonymous said...

The alky cannot grasp the fact that the proposition is not binary."
True RRB

Roger doesn't understand that All Wars are War of attrition.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Kremlin lashes out at Poland for siding with Ukraine
Yahoo News
ALEXANDER NAZARYAN
March 22, 2022, 9:45 AM

In a blistering social media post, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now a top Kremlin security adviser, lashed out at Poland for its support of Ukraine, reviving and escalating decades-long tensions between Moscow and Warsaw.

Poland’s surprisingly spirited defense of Ukraine would prove “expensive and pointless,” Medvedev predicted, ominously adding that he was confident that Warsaw would “make the right choice” and embrace Russia again.

Medvedev is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and served a four-year placeholder presidency when Putin was facing term limits. Medvedev went on to serve as Putin’s prime minister and is now deputy chairman of the Kremlin’s security council. Putin is the chairman.

In Monday’s post on the Telegram social network, Medvedev lamented that “the interests of Polish citizens have been sacrificed to Russophobia” by “talentless politicians and their puppeteers” in the United States. He branded Polish leaders — two of whom, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Mateusz Morawiecki, traveled to besieged Kyiv last week with other Eastern European leaders to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — “political imbeciles” who were spreading “vulgar” propaganda about Russia.


Most observers see propaganda emanating primarily from Russia’s tightly controlled media outlets, which have mostly portrayed the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine as a justified operation of limited scope.

Inna Sovsun, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and a leader of the liberal Holos (“Voice”) party, branded Medvedev’s musings “psychotic” on Twitter, adding that the “rhetoric is so similar to what we were hearing about” Ukraine in the months leading up to last month’s invasion, which has shattered the post-Cold War order in Eastern Europe.

“This is a direct assault on Poland,” Sovsun wrote.

rrb said...




Western arm-twisting and the powerful effect of bank sanctions ensure a certain degree of sanctions compliance and support for symbolic U.N. resolutions condemning Russian aggression. But the lack of non-Western enthusiasm for America’s approach to Mr. Putin’s war is a phenomenon that U.S. policy makers ignore at their peril. Just as Western policy makers, lost in fantasies about building a “posthistorical world,” failed to grasp the growing threat of great-power competition, they have failed to note the development of a gap between the West and the rest of the world that threatens to hand the revisionist powers major opportunities in coming years. The Biden administration appears not to understand the gap between Washington and what used to be called the Third World, the degree to which its own policies contribute to the divide, or the opportunities this gap creates for China.

Opposition to Russia looked like a global slam dunk to many in the West. World opinion would so robustly oppose Moscow’s attack that countries like China would pay a high political price for failing to jump onto the anti-Russia bandwagon.

That is not how it is working. Some countries, like America’s disheartened and alienated Middle East allies, worry about backing a withdrawing Washington against an ascendant Russia. Others balance their detestation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine against other concerns. Many non-Western countries fear the consequences of Western responses to Russia’s behavior more than they fear Russia, don’t trust the West’s willingness or ability to manage the economic consequences of the war in ways that protect the interests of non-Western states, and are shocked by the imposition of sanctions on Russia’s central bank—a weapon they fear will one day be directed against them.



https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-west-vs-rest-of-the-world-russia-ukraine-dictators-south-america-asia-africa-11647894483?mod=opinion_featst_pos1

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Medvedev’s anger appears to stem from the Kremlin’s disappointment with Warsaw, where a socially conservative, nationalist government may have been seen as sympathetic to Putin as he launched the invasion of Ukraine. Like so much else about the war, that would appear a grave miscalculation on Moscow’s part.

Poland has taken in more than 2 million Ukrainian refugees, in a show of solidarity that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. Not only that, but the country’s suddenly emboldened leaders have proposed transferring fighter jets to Ukraine — a proposal that caught U.S. diplomats and military leaders by surprise — and starting an international peacekeeping force to beat back the stalled Russian invasion. Perhaps most worrisome for Moscow, Poland has become a key hub for the transfer of military supplies to Ukraine, including powerful antitank and antiair weapons that have thus far stymied the Russian assault.

“I never thought we had this in us,” a Polish student told the New York Times of these developments. “Nobody knew we could be mobilized like this.”

Those same developments angered a Kremlin that is finding few allies in its purported effort to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, whose president is Jewish and had family perish in the Holocaust. To the contrary, nations that had rebelled from Russian influence see little reason to help an effort that could, in the future, turn against them.

After all, Putin has been clear that he feels Russia needs to reestablish itself as a regional superpower. Last year he published a 5,000-word article titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” which portrayed Ukraine as an artificial construct due to its long history with Russia. He could arguably apply the same revisionist logic to justify conquering other ex-Soviet bloc, Slavic nations — like Poland — even at the cost of triggering a broader European conflict.

Poland’s defiance has nevertheless clearly pained elites in the Kremlin. “Sooner or later they will understand that hatred of Russia does not strengthen the society, does not contribute to prosperity and peace,” Medvedev wrote in his embittered Telegram post, one of his first on a network that is widely used in Russia and Ukraine.

Much as Putin has throughout the war with Ukraine, Medvedev engaged in revisionist history that rendered Russia as both hero and victim. He noted that it was the Red Army that expelled Adolf Hitler from Poland, but he ignored the fact that Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin agreed to split Poland ahead of the Nazi invasion. In 1940, Soviet security services murdered more than 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals in what came to be known as the Katyn Massacre.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Later, after World War II, Poland suffered from decades of repression under Soviet rule. As in Ukraine, the lack of geographic distance made autonomy nearly impossible to exercise, though the Solidarity movement of the 1980s proved among the most potent antiauthoritarian forces to challenge the Kremlin.

Ukraine experienced similar depredations at the hands of Russia, both before and after World War II. But in its recent attempts to reclaim influence over Eastern Europe, the Kremlin has mounted a campaign of falsehoods and grievances that recalls Soviet propaganda in its overweening inaccuracies.

“History is now being redrawn, monuments are being demolished,” Medvedev lamented on Telegram.

Poland neighbors Ukraine but — unlike Ukraine — is a member of NATO. If Putin were to attack Poland, NATO’s collective defense clause would necessitate a military response from much of Europe and the United States. Given how poorly the Ukrainian invasion has gone for Russia, such an attack doesn’t seem likely — but the Kremlin’s bluster is disconcerting all the same.

“We should take this seriously,” Ukraine expert Alina Polyakova, head of the Center for European Policy Analysis, said of Medvedev’s provocative post.

President Biden, who has vowed to defend “every inch” of NATO territory with the U.S. military, is set to visit Poland on Friday after meeting with European leaders in Brussels.

Anonymous said...

Roger, tell us how Biden crushing the US Energy sector was a good thing here at home?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

rrb carries water for Putin and Russia

Anonymous said...

James your not posting under your Roger I'D.

Idiot

James's Fucking Daddy said...


Brendan Fischer

DOCUMENTS:
https://twitter.com/brendan_fischer/status/1505707864257662987

Trump's post-White House political operation, Save America, raised $3.5M in February, and now has over $110M cash on hand.

That's more cash on hand than the RNC, the DNC, and the Biden campaign combined. https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00762591/1575872//



but he is very unpopular

imagine how much more he would have if he was popular

or spent a billion like Bloomberg

btw who still controls a FAKE NEWS outlet.

like Bezos does the Washington Post.

billionaires controlling the narrative

the new democrat party

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

TAKE NOTE:

Why the Right is Obsessed with Putin
12:00 pm EDT
Dan Pfeiffer:
“The concept of strength is the axis on which Republican politics has long rotated. Every Republican political campaign is about portraying the GOPer as strong and the Democrat as weak. This is why so much hay was made of Michael Dukakis’s tank photo op.

"Republicans worked hard to undermine John Kerry’s military service, and pushed false narratives about the health and cognitive abilities of Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.

“The type of strength and how it is used is irrelevant. When strength at all costs is emphasized at the expense of empathy, compassion, and morals, Putin can become the ideal leader for a morally bankrupt political party."

Anonymous said...

James posted:

"The subsequent mania by the ruling classes in western nations to eliminate reliance on fossil fuels has hobbled their wealth-generating capacity and vastly enriched Putin (and Iran) by driving oil prices through the roof ever since Biden began his attack on American oil production on day one of his presidency,"

When does Joe cancell his E.O. against America

Anonymous said...

Expect to pay more for butter, cheese and milk in 2022, USDA predicts higher prices

James's Fucking Daddy said...


KansasDemocrat said...
James posted:

"The subsequent mania by the ruling classes in western nations to eliminate reliance on fossil fuels has hobbled their wealth-generating capacity and vastly enriched Putin (and Iran) by driving oil prices through the roof ever since Biden began his attack on American oil production on day one of his presidency,"

When does Joe cancell his E.O. against America



probably about the time he visits the southern "border"

He's too busy fucking things up to fix the messes he's created

How's Putin and Russia doing for Biden in negotiating a new Iran deal with China also "helping out". Funny how Biden talks tough about Putin then gives him the keys to the "negotiations"

What could go wrong for the US and the world with Biden allowing the axis of evil to create our major treaties ?

Well the "big guy" continues to get paid well

Whoever that is.

Where's Hunter ? Painting some multi-million dollar masterpiece ?

rrb said...

Blogger KansasDemocrat said...

Expect to pay more for butter, cheese and milk in 2022, USDA predicts higher prices


Russia is the leading exporter of wheat, while Ukraine is the fourth-largest exporter. Together, these countries account for nearly one-third of total wheat exports in the world.

Much of Russia’s and Ukraine’s wheat exports are sent to the Middle East and Africa.

For Egypt, which is the top importer of wheat and has more than one-quarter of its population living below the poverty line, Russia and Ukraine are the sources of 78 percent of its wheat imports.

In addition to wheat, Russia and Ukraine are large exporters of fertilizer. Russia, and its ally Belarus, account for 42 percent of all potash exports, which is used for producing fertilizer.

The supply disruptions from the war on Ukraine will particularly impact the agricultural sector in India – one of the largest importers of fertilizer. India sources one-third of its potash from Russia and Belarus. Its agriculture sector is sizable and makes up 15 percent of the country’s GDP and provides employment for 60 percent of its workforce.


https://humanevents.com/2022/03/21/how-the-war-on-ukraine-will-shatter-global-food-security/

When food prices go through the fucking stratosphere, maybe all those pro-war leftists can eat their fucking Ukraine flag pins.



Anonymous said...

RRB, exactly.

Sweden is seeing a 30% drop in food production because they rely on Russia Manure and Chemical fertilizer.

Her in the USA chemical fertilizer are up 400%.

rrb said...



Her in the USA chemical fertilizer are up 400%.

So FAR.

We're 45-60 days away from planting. All the guys who could afford to purchased early. And I know some guys who are going to forego plantings beans and corn this year, making hay/bale-age only.

If you were a soil health - micro nutrient skeptic before, this should get you to change your mind.

Anonymous said...

Look at this Biden Build Back Better Win.
WAL-MART

All Natural* 90% Lean/10% Fat Ground Beef Sirloin Tray, 1 lb

$5.77, A Pound.

Anonymous said...

I will be baking 80 less acres because of Fertilizer costs.
I will run cattlevon it instead.
Many of my fellow ranchers/farmers are reducing input solely on the Biden spikes in prices.

C.H. Truth said...

He is the President and he gets blamed. But his own decisions except to block the oil availability, were inspiring to most educated people.


How would you know?

I am actually educated with a four year degree....

You have a diploma?


Perhaps it was "inspiring" to uneducated people?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I know this is off topic but

A New Period of Consequences
It’s 1936 again.
by William Kristol
March 22, 2022 5:16 am
A New Period of Consequences
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the front-line positions of Ukrainian military in Donbass, Ukraine on December 06, 2021. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
In June of 2010, Jamie Fly and I wrote a piece for The Weekly Standard. We called it “A Period of Consequences.” We took the title from a couple of sentences from a Winston Churchill speech:

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

It is a good phrase and a good way of delineating eras. But what struck me when Jamie suggested the quotation was that the line was not from a speech in late 1938 or 1939, as war in Europe was blooming.

No. The passage is from a speech Churchill gave to the House of Commons on November 12, 1936.

The subject of Churchill’s remarks was that Britain needed a major increase in defense spending. It was then—in November 1936—that Churchill was already lamenting British complacency. It was in 1936 that he deplored the failure to take seriously the threats of the new world in which Britain found itself. It was in 1936 that Churchill tried to urge a new seriousness and willingness to face facts and their challenging consequences.

And even then, in 1936, Churchill acknowledged his surprise that “the dangers that have so swiftly come upon us in a few years, and have been transforming our position and the whole outlook of the world.”

He warned that there was no quick solution to the problem Great Britain faced: “We have entered a period in which for more than a year, or a year and a half, the considerable preparations which are now on foot . . . will not . . . yield results which can be effective. . . . It is this lamentable conjunction of events which seems to present the danger of Europe in its most disquieting form.”

Still: “We cannot avoid this period; we are in it now.”

This came more than a year before the Anschluss. Almost two years before Munich. Two years before Kristallnacht. Two and half years before the occupation of Prague. Almost three years before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the invasion of Poland.

Well, we are in 1936 again.

We have entered a period of consequences.

And as important as the events of today are, it’s important to keep in mind that we are still in the very early stages of this new era. We haven’t seen most of the consequences, nor have we done most of what we will have to do to come to grips with them.

One hopes we are awakening more quickly than Churchill’s contemporaries. But it’s clear we are not yet fully awake. And it would be a very good thing indeed if we could get ourselves to wake up more quickly, more thoroughly, than Britain did in 1936. Because the years from 1936 to 1939—and of course after 1939—were very bad ones.

If we were to wake up quickly, we’d be coming to grips now with the increases in defense spending that we need—and also with increases and improvements needed for our diplomatic and covert activities.

We’d be getting serious about the overall reorganization of our national security apparatus.

We’d be getting systematic about how to deal with the new world of disinformation that we face both at home and abroad.

We’d be seriously evaluating questions of our economic penetration and dependence on our adversaries.

We’d be focused on the fact that one of our two political parties is incapable of being serious about the threats we face, because the America First strain of thinking which first appeared in Republican politics almost a century ago is reborn and dominant.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

And we wouldn’t neglect the fact that our other party is only hesitantly and haltingly coming to grips with the moment. That party—and the nation—lacks, for now, a Harry Truman, a Dean Acheson, or a George Marshall. One hopes that the moment will summon forth such a figure. But such a hope has yet to be fulfilled.

So when I say that it is 1936, I mean that no matter how trying this moment is, the period of great testing lies ahead of us.The immediate crisis is merely the beginning of a series of challenges that we’ll face for quite a while.

And one of the keys to handling the future well is understanding that we’re at the beginning of a new era, not dealing with a temporary or unpleasant interruption in the status quo.

Churchill knew in November of 1936 that he was unlikely to prevail quickly, in the short term. But he nonetheless emphasized that he would “not accept the mood of panic or of despair.”

Nor should we.

We do, after all, have two advantages Churchill did not. One is the experience of the failure of the 1930s, and the contrasting successes of the post-World War II American-led international system. Recent history provides us all kinds of lessons in international relations that were not available to leaders in the 1930s.

Even more important is another lesson staring us in the face: The heroism of the people of Ukraine, and the leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky. All decent people stand today with Ukraine and Zelensky.

Having said that, I wonder if we fully appreciate the heroism of the Ukrainian people and the unpayable debt we owe them for their stand.

Because if President Zelensky had fled, and the government of Ukraine had collapsed or quickly sued for peace, we would now be accommodating the new reality, as we did after 2008 and 2014. Putin would have succeeded. We’d be continuing our drift downward, trusting in “procrastination, half-measures, soothing and baffling expedients, delays.”

There would be no real prospect of an awakening in the United States and Europe were it not for the stand the Ukrainians have made.

We would still be denying the threats we face. We would still be turning away from the urgency of the task we face. We would even, I daresay, still fail to appreciate the preciousness of the freedom and decency we have the obligation—and the honor—to defend.

It is the Ukrainians who have shown us what free men and women can do, and what they are sometimes required to do, in defense of that freedom. It is the Ukrainians who have shown the world that we are in a new period of consequences. It is the Ukrainians who have given us the example of what it means today to fight back against brutality, and to fight for freedom.

Слава Україні! Героям слава!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The fact is that some people who have a higher education, don't always out think other people.

K'putz is a prime example.

Quit insulting, it's against you're on guide lines.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

On topic...


Stock market news live updates: Stocks charge higher day after Powell hints at more aggressive rate hikes
Alexandra Semenova
Tue, March 22, 2022, 10:55 AM·10 min read
U.S. stocks advanced Tuesday as investors continued to weigh hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell alongside the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The S&P 500 rose 1% to 4,505.00 as of 11:48 a.m. ET, and Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 200 points, or about 0.6%, to 34,755.64. The Nasdaq Composite was up 1.9% to 14,095.33. The moves follow a choppy session Monday that saw all three indexes cap last week's winning streak to close lower after Powell signaled the central bank was prepared to act more aggressively to rein in inflation. Meanwhile, the 10-year U.S. Treasury climbed to yield 2.372%.

The Fed’s top leader reiterated in comments at the National Association for Business Economics Monday that policymakers will lean into higher short-term interest rates “as needed” to mitigate fast-rising price levels, with a goal of bringing inflation back down to an annual pace of about 2% while maintaining low unemployment.


It is very difficult.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-live-updates-march-22-2022-223839138.html

Anonymous said...

Roger , care to actually debate me on Bidenomics?

Anonymous said...

S&P 500, BIDENOMICS
"4,509.10 -287.46 (-5.99%)year to date

Anonymous said...

Dow
34,796.52 -1,788.54 (-4.89%)year to date

Anonymous said...

In a few Days Americans receive financial investment quarterly reports.

Bidenomics comes with a steep price

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott, do you really want to quit sending these weapons?


The Javelin antitank missiles that figured in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment for deliberately delaying military aid to Ukraine are now wreaking havoc on the Russian invaders.

The lightweight but lethal weapon has, military experts said, helped the underdog Ukrainians inflict major damage on Moscow’s much-vaunted military and stymie their advance.

Not only has the United States-made weapon become a symbol of resistance, it’s been dubbed “Saint Javelin” in a meme circulating on the web created by Canadian marketer Christian Borys, which shows Mary Magdalene, a saint of the Orthodox church, cradling a Javelin in her arms.

“The Javelin, very specifically that system’s advanced capabilities, have been vital to Ukrainian military survival and ability to hold ground” against the Russians, said John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the nonpartisan Madison Policy Forum in New York City.

Produced by defense contractors Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, the 46-pound weapon is shoulder-fired and has the “lethality to penetrate any tank or mobile vehicle on the battlefield,” Spencer said.

“It can also shoot down helicopters,” he said.

Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies agreed that the Javelins “have taken on a symbolic meaning beyond the military.”

“The Javelins are the most sophisticated and most effective weapon the Ukrainians have, but not the most numerous,” Cancian said.

The Ukrainians have more Israeli-made NLOS “Spike” antitank missiles in their arsenal as well as German Panzerfaust 3 antitank weapons, Cancian said.

“The short answer is that infantry antitank weapons (of which Javelin is one) seem to be quite effective,” Cancian said in an email to NBC News. “There are lots of social media videos of their use. Further, the Russians seem to be moving very slowly, if not actually stalled, and these weapons must be part of what has given the relatively small and weak Ukrainian forces so much ability to resist.”????????

C.H. Truth said...

The fact is that some people who have a higher education, don't always out think other people.

You brought up Education Roger?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott, the sanctions imposed by President Biden are working independently well!!!!


Sanctions imposed on Russia to cripple its economy may be starting to hurt its military capabilities.

The country’s primary armored vehicle manufacturer appears to have run out of parts to make and repair tanks, according to a Facebook post by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Citing “available information,” it reported state-owned company Uralvagonzavod, which builds tanks such as the T-72B3, has had to temporarily cease production in Nizhny Tagil.

In addition to Uralvagonzavod, one of the largest tank manufacturers in the world with reportedly 30,000 employees last year, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant has also run out of foreign-made parts.

“The specified companies specialize in the manufacturing and repair of tanks, as well as other armored equipment needed by the Russian Federation armed forces,” the General Staff wrote in its Facebook post.

Western allies, including the United States and the European Union, have ordered a complete halt to the export of certain components like microchips to Russia as part of an escalation package of sanctions.

So-called dual-use goods have been banned, since they can be employed for both military as well as civilian applications.

“Our aim is to reduce the Kremlin’s capacity to wage war on its neighbor,” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen explained earlier this month.

It may be working. Halting the manufacture and repair of T-72B3s, as well as more advanced but less numerous T-80s and T-90s, could hobble Russia’s efforts to continue its advance across war-torn Ukraine.

Over the past 27 days since Putin’s invasion, Russian tank columns have been one of the main targets of drone strikes by Ukraine’s fleet of Bayraktar TB2s.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-largest-tank-manufacturer-may-132623968.html

Anonymous said...

"C.H. TruthMarch 22, 2022 at 1:25 PM

The fact is that some people who have a higher education, don't always out think other people.

You brought up Education Roger?"

And he ran from his topic.

Got back in his wheelchair of cut n paste.

Myballs said...

He hates thst he's the least educated person on the board. And it shows.

C.H. Truth said...

Scott, the sanctions imposed by President Biden are working independently well!!!!

So the Russian military is withdrawing from Ukraine?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Off topic but amusing... He has been saying the same thing about the last election


March 22, 2022
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell struggled to contain himself on Tuesday as he announced what he called "the biggest breaking news bombshell proof" of election fraud.

During an interview with conservative podcaster Steve Bannon, Lindell claimed he had "definitive proof" that voting machines were used to steal the 2020 presidential election from then-President Donald Trump. He pointed to a "forensic" report about data that was found on one voting machine in Mesa County, Colorado.

The report claimed to make the "conclusive determination" that ballots cast on voting machines should not be counted because they are not secure. Lindell is facing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems.

Lindell argued that conservative media outlets, which have largely avoided him, would benefit from publicizing his report because they are also being sued by Dominion.

"Is your bestie, [Fox News host] Sean Hannity, finally going to have you back on the show?" Bannon asked.

"I will be texting Sean this morning," Lindell replied. "Is this news? The biggest breaking news bombshell proof. We finally have what's inside the machine."

"If they don't put it up there, they are in on it!" he said of conservative media. "This is the smoking gun bombshell evidence we've been waiting for."

"But, Mike," Bannon attempted to interrupt.

"I know what you're going to say!" Lindell complained.

"Mike, hang on," Bannon pleaded.

"If they don't put it up -- listen, Steve," Lindell jousted.

"Mike!" Bannon said.

"I'm going to answer your question!" Lindell insisted. "If they don't put it up, it doesn't mean that the evidence isn't real. It means that they're in on it! I don't know. Because it certainly does not mean that the evidence isn't real."

"We are in another time in history where good is evil, evil is good, everything is upside down!" he added. "You can't explain why judges never looked at the evidence for a whole year!"

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-graham-ketanji-brown-jackson-hearing-video/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott, the sanctions might end the war, Working incredibly well.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

But even scarier.


https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-lashes-out-at-poland-for-siding-with-ukraine-134545060.ht



The Russian are threatening Poland....

Anonymous said...

MyballsMarch 22, 2022 at 1:38 PM

He hates thst he's the least educated person on the board. And it shows.


Yes it does.

Anonymous said...

.H. TruthMarch 22, 2022 at 1:39 PM

Scott, the sanctions imposed by President Biden are working independently well!!!!

So the Russian military is withdrawing from Ukraine?"

Answer : nope


But , Bidenomics have crushed Americans budgets and savings and investments


Anonymous said...

Biden is leader of the New World Order.

James's Fucking Daddy said...

the sanctions imposed by President Biden are working independently well!!!!

Yep we are crushing the Russiam citizens

And Americans are hurting.

Putin appears to be doing OK though

Mission Accomplished ?

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

Scott, the sanctions might end the war, Working incredibly well.



So well in fact the Saudi's are now accepting the Chinese Yuan as currency for oil.

Driving Russia and China much closer together facilitated that.

Tell us again how well the educated "smart" set are doing so far with these 'sanctions' alky.

C.H. Truth said...

Scott, the sanctions might end the war, Working incredibly well.

Well either they end the war....

Or they did not work.


You cannot say they worked when they intended desire is not accomplished.

According to most observers, this is looking like something that will go on for some time. Everyday that the war continues. Every innocent civilian that dies. Every commercial or residential building that is destroyed...

Is an example of the sanctions "not working".


Not that you care about dead Ukrainians or destruction of cities and towns. None of that matters to you, Roger. The "only" thing that matters to you is how people view Biden.

Anonymous said...

Roger have you been outside of the USA ?

Anonymous said...

So well in fact the Saudi's are now accepting the Chinese Yuan as currency for oil"

That post is at least three step above Rogers level of Macro Economic Understanding.