Yet shelling continues in many cities across Ukraine
Are the Russians just pulling back in areas that they are being forced back or are they actually reducing their troop presence in a real sense? Time will tell what Russia ends up doing. They have made promises previously in this war and basically ignored them. More to the point, the ground forces around places like Kiev have not been the threat. It's been the missile attacks from afar that is causing all the devastation.
This would be a little like Mike Tyson promising not to hit his opponent with any more left jabs, while still allowing himself the ability to throw the right hook and cross. He only threw three jabs the entire fight and the hooks and crosses are what will knock out an opponent. Putin would be providing way more assurances in promising a scale back of long distance attacks rather than a promise to move some troops around.
Call me skeptical of the latest "new sign" of a deal just around the corner. I hope it is true. After all, the Ukrainians suggested just yesterday that half their children in the county have been displaced from their homes and many have had to flee the country. The amount of death and destruction will never go down, just continue to add up every day this war continues.
But this seems a bit more like a song and dance from a guy who is not getting the results he has hoped for and seems to be using anything and everything in his means to confuse and distract his adversaries. Nothing ever seems honest or straight forward with Putin and Russia. There always seems to be something sneaky up his sleeve, and honestly... who could trust that smirk?
49 comments:
Basically I agree with you about this one.
Unless the Russians agree to withdraw from Ukraine ���� but he will never admit defeat.
The Ukrainian government is negotiating with the Russians because they have a gun pointed at their head ��
At least you are disagreeing with Tucker Carlson. And rrb
Has any nation in Europe stepped up to take a leadership role in this shitshow (after all, it IS their fucking continent), or is it all still being left up to Dementia Joe to "lead?"
And have we thought of sending Will Smith to Moscow to slap Putin?
Axios summed it up.
Top Russian military officials said last week that Moscow's operation was entering a "new phase" focused on "liberating" the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists have been waging a low-level insurgency for eight years.Some military experts caution that Russia could use a temporary ceasefire as an opportunity to resupply its troops and reorient its strategy after failing to achieve many of its military objectives over the first month of war.
The latest: Turkey's foreign minister, who helped mediate the talks, said Tuesday yielded the most significant progress to date.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken said the U.S. is watching for actions from Russia, not words.Meanwhile, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a ceasefire agreement would not be sufficient to lift sanctions on Russia, per the BBC. That could be a key sticking point for the Kremlin.
What to watch: Ukraine's delegation said in Istanbul that there had been no breakthrough on a ceasefire or on territorial disputes in Crimea and Donbas, but that it had proposed a future security arrangement that will now be reviewed by the Kremlin.
The two sides will likely meet again within the next two weeks, Ukraine's lead negotiator said.
Ukraine will not allow the Russians to take a square inch from them.
Ukraine would agree not to join NATO as a negotiation process.
The usual dumbary from rrb.
Manchin Calls GOP Treatment of Jackson ‘Disgraceful’
11:11 am EDT
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said the way Republican senators treated Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson at last week’s hearings was “disgraceful” and “embarrassing,”
The Hill reports.
Said Manchin:
“It was disgraceful, it really was, what I saw. And I met with her and I read all the transcripts. I listened to basically the hearings and it just was embarrassing.”
He added:
“It’s not who we are. It’s not what we were sent here to do, to attack other people and just try to tear them down. I won’t be part of that. I think she’s extremely well qualified and I think she’ll be an exemplary judge.”
Biden to Sign Bill to Make Lynching a Hate Crime
11:10 am
“President Biden is poised to sign legislation Tuesday that would make lynching a federal hate crime, in a historic first that comes after more than a century of failed efforts against racial violence,”
the Washington Post reports.
Russia could use a temporary ceasefire as an opportunity to resupply its troops and reorient its strategy after failing to achieve many of its military objectives over the first month of war.
Why did it take a Democratic President to finally sign a federal bill making lynching a hate crime?
Plus this is one of the reasons why I don't agree with the Post on Afghan.
We should have stayed there
The Taliban rulers of Afghanistan continue to chip away at the freedoms the country knew for two decades, dragging Afghans back under their draconian version of Islamic sharia law and defiantly distancing their regime from the international community in the process. The latest moves — both official and unofficial — include restrictions on women traveling, men's grooming, and access to international media and even public parks.
Why repeat do you the same stupid shit on multiple threads that are always off topic and everyone skips right by, pedo?
Should I put it in bold
Idiot
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Why did it take a Democratic president to finally sign a federal bill against lynching as a hate crime?
Too make up for his eulogizing a KKK leader ?
the Goddard worshipping waterboy asked so I figured I'd let him know
And he posted the exact same Gospel according to Goddard on the previous thread
Of course Goddard has no idea what CHT's thread topics are
and neither does the charlatan
What a retard
dementia?
ROFLMFAO !!!
So much that Putin thought he could attain, he hasn't.
A very speedy victory. Nope.
The hope that he could cut Germany off from NATO. Nope. Germany is solidly in, even if it costs them.
Sow disunity in NATO. Nope. NATO is more united than ever.
Meanwhile Russian troop losses keep mounting. Even his generals are getting killed.
The idea that he could set up an effective puppet government in Ukraine -- forget that forever!
The idea that he could claim to have liberated Ukraine from "Nazis" -- forget it!
The idea that his was a war of liberation of a people who would welcome his troops -- forget it!
The possibility that the Russian public could forever be kept in the dark about what really was happening in Ukraine -- forget it! Parents continue finding out from their own sons what is really happening.
Putin's desire for some sort of political survival is at stake, and he knows it.
He's desperate.
Caliphate4vr said...
Why repeat do you the same stupid shit on multiple threads that are always off topic and everyone skips right by, pedo?
Should I put it in bold
Idiot
roger must have "taught" him
he is an idiot
and stuck on stupid
rrb said...
Has any nation in Europe stepped up to take a leadership role in this shitshow (after all, it IS their fucking continent), or is it all still being left up to Dementia Joe to "lead?"
And have we thought of sending Will Smith to Moscow to slap Putin?
Biden is the worst president ever
and the polls are showing it
No one has ever been propped up higher and fallen so quickly
ever
and he has fixed nothing at home, but broken a shitload
and the future does not look bright
his dark winter has turned into a dark presidency
we are fucked
Handwritten notes may reveal 'unknown person' in last Trump call before mysterious seven-hour gap
Travis Gettys
March 29, 2022
Handwritten notes in a previously released document from the National Archives may reveal the identity of the "unknown person" who was the last reported call made by Donald Trump before the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The National Archives turned over White call logs to the House select committee, which the Washington Post obtained and found a seven-hour, 37-minute gap in calls between 11:17 a.m., when the call was made to the unidentified individual, and 6:54 p.m., when Trump instructed the operator to call aide Dan Scavino.
However, handwritten notes on another White House document shows Trump called then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) at 11:17 a.m. -- three minutes before his final call to then-vice president Mike Pence, which has been previously reported but was not recorded in the call logs turned over to the committee.
This might be as important as the Nixon tapes
Hey alky
your constant effort to find anything on Trump is like your entire life
a failure
try enjoying your likely last few months
maybe start sing duets with your bunky
this might be as important for you as anything you have ever attempted
In Biden's words, I heard anger, frustration and resolve. But I did not hear -- even before the cleanup -- any change in U.S. policy toward Putin and Russia. It is not our place to decide who leads the Russian Federation. Nor is it within our power.
In Warsaw, with the "cannot remain" phrase, Biden was giving voice to the victims and refugees of Putin's war-of-choice. "I was expressing moral outrage that I feel, and I make no apologies for it," Biden said Monday. His controversial words were not by any standard "horrendous." Perhaps to a fault, they were human.
LA Times
A spiritual defense of the war in Ukraine? Putin's patriarch is trying
Deborah Netburn
Tue, March 29, 2022
Wearing crisp, olive-green robes and a towering, white head covering embroidered with the somber face of Jesus, Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, addressed the faithful from an ornate 10,000-seat cathedral in Moscow.
For weeks, religious leaders around the globe had been begging the bearded patriarch to speak out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But in weekly sermons that air live on Russian TV, Kirill, 75, has done just the opposite, painting the war as an apocalyptic battle against evil forces that have sought to destroy the God-given unity of Holy Russia.
The day before Russians marched on Ukraine, he congratulated Russian soldiers as defenders of the fatherland and said they “cannot have any doubt that they have chosen a very correct path in their lives.” Less than two weeks after the invasion began, he described the conflict as having “metaphysical significance” and warned his flock that the price of admission to the happy world of Western consumption and freedom was as simple as it was terrible: to agree to hold gay pride parades.
“We are talking about something different and much more important than politics,” he said. “We are talking about human salvation.”
Last week, the patriarch said it was “God’s truth” that the people of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus share a common spiritual and national heritage and should be united as one people — a direct echo of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s defense of the war.
“Someone must pray for our united people,” Kirill said, holding a gilded staff symbolizing his role as spiritual shepherd of the more than 90 million members of his church. “Someone must defend God’s truth that we are really one people.”
The same day, Ukrainian authorities accused Russian forces of bombing an art school where more than 400 people had sought shelter.
In a country where more than 71% of people identify as Russian Orthodox, Kirill is a powerful religious and political figure who has consistently refused to acknowledge the destruction, dislocation and growing death toll of the war in his frequent public statements.
“He lives in a parallel universe,” said UC Riverside professor Georg Michels, who specializes in Russian and Ukrainian history. “He describes the current situation in Ukraine as Russians defending against a foreign invasion, not as Ukrainians fighting for democracy, and their lives, against a Russian autocracy.”
Experts say Kirill is a complex figure in Russian politics: smart, charismatic and an ambitious operator. He rose in the ranks of the Russian Orthodox Church during the Soviet period — when the communist government viewed religion as an archaic relic of oppression — and was the first patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church to meet with a Catholic pope in nearly 1,000 years. He is also rumored to have been associated with the KGB, the former Soviet Union's main security apparatus.
“To be fair, to become a church leader in the Soviet Union and to get anything done at the time, you had to be affiliated with the KGB,” Michels said.
Kirill set off a scandal a few years after becoming patriarch when he was photographed wearing a $30,000 watch that was subsequently photoshopped out of an official image put out by the church. (A reflection of the watch remains visible in the picture.)
He and Putin have long been close allies. Kirill once described the first 12 years of Putin’s rule as “a miracle of God.” Putin has said that Kirill’s father, who worked as a priest in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), baptized him in secret in 1952. The two men frequently appear in public together: at Easter services, visiting monasteries and traveling to pilgrimage sites.
Dunning-Kruger alky's GREATEST PRESIDNT OF ALL TIME!!!11!:
Amid Europe’s largest land war since World War II, 7 in 10 Americans expressed low confidence in President Joe Biden’s ability to deal with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a new NBC News poll, and 8 in 10 voiced worry that the war will increase gas prices and possibly involve nuclear weapons.
And during the nation’s largest inflation spike in 40 years, overwhelming majorities said they believe the country is headed in the wrong direction and disapproved of the president’s handling of the economy.
Those are some of the major findings of the new national NBC News poll, which found that Biden’s overall job approval rating had declined to 40 percent, the lowest level of his presidency. The survey also found that Republicans enjoyed a 2-point lead in answering which party should control Congress ahead of November’s midterm elections.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/bidens-job-approval-falls-lowest-level-presidency-war-inflation-fears-rcna21679
Karma is a fucking BITCH.
In recent years, Putin has increasingly highlighted his own religiosity: wearing a silver cross around his neck, kissing icons and famously immersing himself in the freezing waters of a lake in front of television cameras. The icy dip was a brazen display of manhood and an Orthodox Christian ritual to mark the Feast of the Epiphany.
But whether this represents a true spiritual awakening by Putin, or political theater, is hard to say.
“He sees religion as helping to give Russians a proud identity,” said John P. Burgess, professor of theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and author of "Holy Rus': The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia." “When Putin makes pilgrimages to the major Orthodox Russian sites and encourages restoring them, he’s saying, ‘This is something we can be proud of; this is beautiful and historic.’”
Putin and Kirill also share a nationalist ideology that, in their eyes, justifies the war in Ukraine.
As they see it, the origins of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church date to 988. That’s when Vladimir I, the ruler of Kievan Rus', which included parts of current-day Ukraine and Russia, converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
“The way this narrative unfolds, there is an organic wholeness between the relation of the Russian and Ukrainian people, and if Ukrainians see it differently, it is only because they have been led astray and corrupted by the West,” said Victoria Smolkin, a scholar of communism and the Cold War at Wesleyan University.
From this point of view, Russia is not attacking a sovereign nation-state; it’s restoring the natural relationship between two countries.
“What they are after is salvation,” Smolkin said. “Not just of the Ukrainians, but of themselves. They see it as their mission to establish unity.”
The schism between the two countries is not just geopolitical; it has played out in the church as well. For more than 300 years, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was officially tied to the Russian Orthodox Church and overseen by the Moscow patriarch, but that is no longer the case. In 2019, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was authorized by the patriarch of Constantinople to break away from Moscow and become autonomous. With 78% of Ukrainians identifying as Orthodox as of 2015, this reduced Kirill’s flock by one-third.
“That was a big and significant event,” Smolkin said.
Kirill refused to accept that Orthodox Christians in Ukraine were behind the split and, in a sermon March 13, blamed the schism on political pressure from outside forces.
“It must be remembered that we all belong to the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church — the same church as in Moscow and in Kyiv,” he said. “And God grant that we all preserve unity, regardless of any external pressures and any efforts alien to the church, to destroy the spiritual unity of our peoples.”
The net result of electing a president via mail in ballot FRAUD:
Biden's 40% approval rating is not just the lowest of his presidency, but 70% of Americans have low confidence in Biden's ability to deal with Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and a plurality of blame Biden and his policies for high and steady inflation in the economy.
Also, 80% fear the war will raise gas prices and possibly devolve into nuclear war and overwhelming majorities (71%) say they believe the country is headed in the wrong direction and disapproved of the president's handling of the economy, with only 33% approving, according to NBC.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/presidential-approval-ratings-inflation/2022/03/27/id/1063072/
May this presidency collapse in such a stunning and epic fashion as to not be forgotten by the American people for at least a hundred fucking years.
For decades, Russian church leaders have cooperated with the government in order to advance the interests of the church, said Stephen Batalden, professor emeritus of history at Arizona State University. But now, this tacit quid quo pro is being tested in new ways as the Russian state engages in what the U.S. has declared to be war crimes committed by Putin against Ukraine.
“Kirill has failed disastrously to defend the integrity of the Russian Orthodox Church, and that has all kinds of ramifications for the splintering of the church,” Batalden said.
In the days after the invasion, some Orthodox parishes in Ukraine stopped commemorating the Moscow patriarch in their prayers during public worship, in open defiance of his authority. And some Russian Orthodox churches in other countries are denouncing the Moscow patriarchate or breaking ties altogether.
“The more churches and religious connections the Moscow patriarchate loses, the weaker its claims in the so-called Russian world,” Smolkin said.
However, it is unclear how much agency Kirill has to denounce the war. Nearly 300 Russian Orthodox priests in Russia signed an open letter appealing for peace, but that’s a small fraction of the 35,000 priests there.
“I think there is every indication that Kirill and Putin have overlapping interests, but it’s also hard to imagine Kirill taking a different position than the Kremlin,” Smolkin said.
The United States and other Western nations have also seen ties between political and religious leaders. During Francisco Franco's rule in Spain, the Roman Catholic Church was granted legal status and other financial benefits while colluding with the fascist dictatorship. The evangelist Billy Graham was a friend and advisor to a procession of U.S. presidents. When President Trump was in office, evangelical leaders laid hands on him to pray. But experts say the relationship between Putin and Kirill is different.
“In U.S. politics, religious institutions are profoundly important, but they are autonomous actors. They can lobby and negotiate in their own right,” Smolkin said. “It is hard to see the Russian Orthodox Church as a fully autonomous actor independent of the Russian state.”
And yet, scholars say, the U.S. is not immune from the religious and political ideologies that Putin and Kirill are using to justify the war. Both men portray themselves as defenders of traditional Christian values against the excesses of an immoral and decadent West symbolized by gay pride parades, same-sex marriage and feminism, Batalden said.
“Right-wing politicians in America that are manipulating these same issues for their advantage are singing from the same choir as Vladimir Putin and Kirill," he said.
NotTheBee gloats that you can see Democrat Squee Machine Chuck Todd's soul die as he's forced to report on the Grim Milestone.
https://youtu.be/aPqUgdo2wps
If you watch closely, you can see a piece of Chuck Todd's soul die as he reports Biden's newest poll numbers ðŸ˜
https://notthebee.com/article/if-you-watch-closely-you-can-see-a-piece-of-chuck-todds-soul-die-as-he-reports-bidens-newest-poll-numbers-
From your original post -
After all, the Ukrainians suggested just yesterday that half their children in the county have been displaced from their homes and many have had to flee the country.
Have we been able to independently verify this or the Ukrainian casualty count, or are we left to take the little fascist comic's word for it?
Most Americans believe President Joe Biden should step down if gas prices continue to skyrocket, hitting $8 per gallon, a Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday found.
“If you have to pay $8/gallon for gas, do you believe President Biden should step down for mishandling U.S. energy production?” the survey asked.
Overall, 58.6 percent believe Biden should step down in that scenario, while 36.2 percent disagree.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/29/poll-majority-say-joe-biden-should-step-down-if-gas-prices-skyrocket-to-8/
https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/COSA-Gas-Prices-Full-Report-0322.pdf
Great Britain
LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - Britain has detained a Russian-owned $50 million superyacht hours before it was due to leave London where it had docked for a meeting of the superyacht awards, saying the move was part of its sanctions package aimed at punishing Moscow.
The 58.5 metre Dutch-built yacht, named Phi, was detained in the Canary Wharf financial district of London under the government's Russian sanctions, the first time the regulations have been used to detain a
The government said Phi was owned by a Russian businessman that it did not name, but that ownership was "deliberately" hidden, with the company the ship is registered to based in St Kitts and Nevis, and the ship carrying Maltese flags.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the owner of the vessel had not been sanctioned in Britain but that under the law a ship owned, controlled, chartered or operated by persons connected with Russia could be subject to detention.
Andrew Bailey has warned the hit to living standards from surging energy prices in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be worse than in any year in the 1970s.
Speaking at an event in Brussels, the Bank of England Governor said: “This really is an historic shock to real incomes. The shock from energy prices this year will be larger than every single year in the 1970s.”
Vladimir Putin’s warmongering and resulting sanctions have sparked a huge surge in oil and gas prices, piling further pressure on households at a time when inflation is at a 30-year high.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ftse-100-markets-live-news-060741431.html
rrb's daughter
Brawl erupts after elderly man confronts Orange County woman over her swastika armband: report
Sky Palma
March 29, 2022
Authorities in Orange County, California, are recommending hate crime charges against a woman who allegedly hurled anti-Semitic insults at a man who asked her to remove a Nazi armband she was wearing, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The woman was sporting the armband while walking around a local community center on March 7. When the 81-year-old man confronted the woman, she reportedly responded with the anti-Semitic comments. That's when a physical altercation broke out with other men who tried to remove her armband.
After police arrived and took a report of the incident, the district attorney’s office recommended the woman be charged with criminal threats, offensive words used to provoke a reaction, and a hate crime enhancement.
The Anti-Defamation League tweeted a photo of the woman, showing her dressed in all black with a swastika emblazoned on her left arm.
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rrb's daughter
I don't have a daughter alky. You don't either for that matter from the photo's I've seen.
Furthermore, several of my very best and oldest friends are Jews. In fact, I'll be attending the wedding of a Jewish best friend's son this summer. And the collective net worth of those in attendance can be measured in the BILLION$.
So... you were saying alky?
Let us know when you score that 'door code to freedom.'
LOL.
THWAP!!!
And have we thought of sending Will Smith to Moscow to slap Putin?
Would be a more serious threat than much of what we have done so far!
us threat than much of what we have done so far!
Tell that to those tanks blown to shit on the side of Ukraine roads and the thousands of body bags sent back home!!!!!!! Those weapons built by Raytheon and Lockheed and General Dynamics are technological wonders bringing American might to Russia!!!!!!!!!
Take a look at these brave men
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-has-ordered-detention-russian-owned-superyacht-british-waters-bbc-2022-03-29/
Wrong link but the pictures of guys with their head espoused to gunfire is among
Scott, the president has united NATO and other country to destroy the Russian economy and slow the threat to ���� Ukraine in a historic manner
Right now he is the leader of the free world ��
Would be a more serious threat than much of what we have done so far!
Nothing says you're serious like trotting out a senile imbecile to blather a series of gaffes that need to be "walked back" by half the civilized world.
And as a bonus you have Clinton toady Leon Panetta saying that Biden's problem is that he's "Irish."
So Cum-Allah's problem for being a fucking retard is because she's Black.
Got it.
Axios 5 minutes ago
Worth noting: The Ukrainian side said its proposed security guarantees should Ukraine ever come under attack again are based on NATO's mutual defense clause.
Countries including the U.S., Canada, China, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey and the U.K. would launch immediate diplomatic consultations and, should those fail, take steps like supplying weapons and maintaining a no-fly zone.Mykhailo Podolyak, the lead Ukrainian negotiator, said Ukraine had already received "positive responses" from some of those countries.Between the lines: Countries including the U.S. would be wary of explicitly committing themselves to intervene militarily to defend Ukraine.
All of our allies agreed with President Biden
We will supply fighting air craft to Ukraine.
It is about damn time
WATCH: Trump Scores 181-Yard Hole-in-One While Playing with Ernie Els
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/03/28/watch-trump-scores-181-yeard-hole0in-one-while-playing-ernie-els/
In other news, Joe Biden did not shit his pants today. At least not yet anyway.
Biden has a history of gaffes. Even if it happens again, remember that happens to older people but it doesn't mean that they are mentally disabled.
Scott The National Revue
Biden Had It Right the First Time
By ROBERT ZUBRIN
March 29, 2022 6:30 AM
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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, in 2018. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool via Reuters)
His speech in Poland provided moral clarity: Putin must be defeated for good.
The truth shall make you free.
— John 8:32
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLEPresident Biden closed his speech in Warsaw March 26 with a ringing denunciation of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” he said, setting off a firestorm of criticism from around the world.
Attempting to ameliorate the impact of the president’s words, the White House staff immediately tried to walk them back, saying that Biden didn’t really mean that he wanted Putin removed from power, but only that Russia should not be allowed to exert power over its neighbors.
This didn’t wash. The tyrant’s spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, rejected Biden’s remark, saying, “It is up to the Russian people to choose their president.”
French president Emmanuel Macron was also upset with Biden’s use of the word “butcher” to describe Putin. “I wouldn’t use this type of wording because I continue to hold discussions with President Putin,” Macron said. “We want to stop the war that Russia has launched in Ukraine without escalation — that’s the objective.”
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Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass seconded this view, tweeting, “Ending the war in Ukraine and avoiding escalation must be our priorities.”
Senator Jim Risch (R., Idaho), the minority leader of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also chimed in, terming Biden’s closing sentence a “horrendous gaffe,” adding: “This administration has done everything they can to stop escalating — there’s not a whole lot more you can do to escalate than to call for regime change.”
While I have been extremely
I will post the link
So Biden spoke the truth: For the sake of world peace, Putin cannot be allowed to remain in power. Biden’s statement may have been, as Senator Risch said, a gaffe. But gaffes are what happens when politicians inadvertently speak the truth.
The West could readily empower Ukraine with the means to repel Putin’s invasion. But we are not doing so because our purposes are confused. Some within administration circles want Ukraine to win and are calling for sending Ukraine all the weapons it wants. Others just want Ukraine to go away, and they wager that the fastest way to achieve that is to let Putin win. So, torn between these two outlooks, the administration sends drones, but only 100 of the small short-range kind suitable to taking out trucks, not the larger, heavier versions capable of destroying tanks. We are fine with Ukrainians destroying Russian tanks, to be sure, but only if they do it with infantry willing to risk coming close enough to use handheld anti-tank rockets. We are willing to provide Ukraine with short-range anti-aircraft missiles capable of shooting down low-altitude Russian aircraft, but not missile systems for shooting down high-altitude bombers.
Certainly, we must not send fighter aircraft, which could knock down bombers and subsonic cruise missiles and also do a job on Russia’s stalled convoys, its tanks that are roaming open country in the south, its artillery bombarding Mariupol, and its ships waiting offshore to strike Odessa. No, providing Ukraine with airpower would make Putin very unhappy, so we supposedly must not do it. Yet we cannot win, or even draw, without making Putin very unhappy.
Clausewitz said that the key quality a military leader needs is resolution. Winston Churchill, at the beginning of his Second World War, sets forth the “moral of the work,” the first line of which is “In War: Resolution.” Resolution requires moral clarity. For a brief shining moment on Saturday, Biden offered just that.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/biden-had-it-right-the-first-time/#slide-1
Furthermore, several of my very best and oldest friends are Jews. In fact, I'll be attending the wedding of a Jewish best friend's son this summer. And the collective net worth of those in attendance can be measured in the BILLION$.
Don’t put the meat and dairy on the same plate, it lets’em know you’re a goyim and yes I did that at a wedding and got called out.
That “wedding” could also been called a merger
Then I proceeded to mix all the silverware around
😂
Don’t put the meat and dairy on the same plate, it lets’em know you’re a goyim and yes I did that at a wedding and got called out.
LOL. Too funny. This ain't my first rodeo with this family. As a child I celebrated every major and minor Jewish holiday with these folks. Had my own yarmulke and everything. These are good old ham-eating Jews. The rabbi might care but the rest? Fuck 'em.
That “wedding” could also been called a merger
Many of them are a merger of two fortunes. And I've been in attendance of a few of those as well.
Then I proceeded to mix all the silverware around
Nice.
In fact, when the parents of the kid getting married got married 30+ years ago themselves, it was at one of those Jewish beach clubs in Westchester. As their reception was winding down we sashayed across the lobby to another reception that was just getting started. Pounded several more Glenlivet's before we were found out and asked to leave. The tux I was wearing only went so far. Heh.
Ended up at an Italian restaurant for dinner later that night. Had the whole fucking place in an uproar by the time we left.
Clausewitz said that the key quality a military leader needs is resolution. Winston Churchill, at the beginning of his Second World War, sets forth the “moral of the work,” the first line of which is “In War: Resolution.” Resolution requires moral clarity. For a brief shining moment on Saturday, Biden offered just that.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/biden-had-it-right-the-first-time/#slide-1
There are several excellent reasons why the National Review has become a joke on the right and is only fawned over by the 'Never-Trump' assclowns.
. As a child I celebrated every major and minor Jewish holiday with these folks.
I went to Temple with my old roomies during one of the high holidays
So old yid fell with a heart attack. The youngest brother leans forward and says , “Think there’s a doctor here”.
We started laughing so hard we had to leave
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