There is no secret that Zelenskyy has been disappointed by the response from America and NATO. He has repeated warned about things that were ignored prior to the invasion. He asked for a no-fly zone which supported by 75% of the patriots in America and opposed by the 25% who are either Putin loving, death to women and children, commies... or just flat out cowards. He demanded not too long ago that the lack of American response had been a "pity".
A pity. Let that sink in.
But as liberals are prone to do, they somehow believe that they know better than the Ukrainians what the Ukrainians need and they applaud a flaccid response from our own leadership. Do they want more Ukrainians to die? Apparently whether or not Ukrainians die is not important. What "is" important is to justify American response (good or bad) because being critical would jeopardize Biden and Democrats election prospects.
Rather than back what Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians actually need, these hypocrites suggest that "true" support is pushing propaganda about the war and letting everyone know that you believe Ukrainians will ultimately win. Sorry folks, but your personal faith in the Ukrainian bravery and tenacity did not help the person who just got killed in an air raid that targeted a hospital. They need more than cheerleading and moral support here.
Ultimately we have two leaders who disagree fundamentally on issues involving the slaughter of innocent civilians and the destruction of whole cities and towns. The leader who is helplessly watching his cities and citizens get shelled day after day wants certain types of assistance and has requested it time and time again. The leader who is sitting in his Delaware home resting is rejecting these requests while demanding it is too dangerous for his interests.
How can you possibly suggest that you can be for both sides of the disagreement?
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SJDS has destroyed you
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was “surprised” and the close results of the 2020 presidential election.
Barr said, “I think he actually, at the time of the election, thought he won the election. If there was a plan to stay in office, it’s something that materialized after the election. I saw no sign of a plan before the election to stay in office regardless of the outcome.”
Host Chuck Todd said, “He was sowing the seeds for four years. He accused Ted Cruz of cheating in the caucuses the first time he appeared on any sort of ballot here. Is this a pattern to practice?”
Barr said, “It was the same thing in 2016 on both sides. I felt for a long time he was going to lose the election. I went in in April and told him I thought he was going to lose the election. His personal behavior, obnoxious behavior, was turning voters away, and I felt he was going to lose. I was actually surprised it was as close as it was.”
But even though he said that Trump is unfit he would vote for him against Biden because he a leftist..
Hypocrisy on steroids
In the coming weeks, NATO, which has vowed to defend allied countries from any incursion by Russian forces, plans to gather 30,000 troops from 25 countries in Europe and North America in Norway to conduct live-fire drills and other cold-weather military exercises.
The exercises, which Norway hosts biannually, were announced more than eight months ago, NATO said, and are not linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which NATO said it was responding to with “preventive, proportionate and non-escalatory measures.”
But the training has taken on greater significance as Russia steps up its bombardment of Ukrainian population centers.
Around Kyiv, the capital, Russian forces have advanced into the suburbs but have been slowed by Ukrainian troops that have counterattacked with ambushes on armored columns. On Saturday, artillery fire intensified around Kyiv, with a low rumble heard in most parts of the city.
By Saturday, there were no indications of further efforts by the Russian army to move armored columns closer to the capital. Instead, soldiers appeared to be fighting for control of the towns along the highways that encircle it.
In Irpin, about three miles from Kyiv city limits, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers were fighting a street-by-street battle on Saturday, turning what was a quiet suburb just two weeks ago into a suburban battleground.
The former would have withdrawn from NATO and we would not have given support. Putin would have won by now.
Ch, Putin says he is fighting againt Nazis in Ukraine.
Nazis who are out to destroy Russia.
And he has every right to do that -- don't you agree?
You do agree with him that he is fighting against a dictatorship that has taken over Ukraine, don't you?
And you do agree with this Fox News Host, don't you, Ch?
Fox News Host Suggests Biden Sees Putin as Ally
1:24 pm EDT
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo wondered aloud whether President Biden actually wanted to see Ukraine “taken down” and was looking to “sell out” the country.
Said Bartiromo:
“Some people have told me over the weekend that they feel that, at the end of the day, this administration does not see Putin as the enemy, they see him as a partner!”
You DO agree with that, don't you Ch?
On Topic.
Because my Catholic Education taught me to see both sides.
To think logically and not emotionally.
So Reverend....
I write my own opinions here everyday.
It's not confusing?
Why do you keep asking questions like you don't read what I write?
Unlike you... I don't have to read what anyone else writes or listen to what someone else say to garner an opinion.
Been pretty clear here. Putin is committing war crimes. Ukraine is in humanitarian crisis. Innocent civilians are being murdered. Our leadership sits on their hands and demands that any real attempts to stop it would be WWIII? They refuse to consider a no-fly Zone. Biden personally prevented Poland from sending MIG fighter Jets.
I wonder... When Bush Sr should leadership and united allied forces in the Middle East to stop Hussein from annexing Kuwait? Why was that not WWIII?
The rest of the world against one country is not a World War.
Do you believe that any actual tangible attempts to stop a tyrannical war criminal from slaughtering innocent people cannot be done for "fear" of starting WWIII?
Do you suck up the prevailing rhetoric like the good little sheep you are?
CHT , congrats on your new car.
Hard work has great rewards.
Why do you keep asking questions like you don't read what I write?
He and Roger do this every Sunday, desperate for attention they make asinine comments hoping for a response because there is nothing else for them to do
Cali, is not wrong.
My wife and I enjoyed the morning tending to our flocks and herds and collecting eggs. A bowling partner wants 4 dozen, so we will get them to him tonight in our mixed league.
You, Scott and I have bought new vehicles, none are EV. All are the vehicle of our choice.
Hard work has great rewards.
So does alcoholism.
If you're good enough at it you get a new-used liver, a restraining order, and a room mate who thinks he's the 5th Beatle.
Jackpot.
LOL.
Cali, I saw your comment on gas mileage.
Yeah, it is exactly of zero concern when we bought my wife her new 2021 Toyota Tundra TED.
When she hauls cattle to market , ya need the power.
"If you're good enough at it you get a new-used liver, a restraining order, and a room mate who thinks he's the 5th Beatle."
True and funny.
Roger had zero say in having a forced roomie.
How sad it was to observe solid traffic in both directions from Atlanta to Orlando on I 75.......seems people had plenty of money to burn on high gas prices and than bitch about it....Oh well, no surprise there...!!!!!! My new buggy got 29.6 mpg on the return......very pleased with that efficiency !!!!!
"In this time of war, it’s not a time of profit," Biden
When did he declare us at war and with whom are we at war Against?
When did he declare us at war
AND WHAT THE FUCK DO THINK THESE TIMES SHOULD BE CALLED???? I guess you have trouble with understanding the spoke word....except when Donnie gas lights you with lies......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Denny, Don't play stupid as Jamie does.
Just answer the fucking question.
"In this time of war, it’s not a time of profit," Biden
When did he declare us at war and with whom are we at war Against?
Russia Asks China for Military Equipment
4:13 pm EDT
“Russia has turned to China for military equipment and aid in the weeks since it began its invasion of Ukraine, the Washington Post reports.
“The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, did not describe what kind of weaponry had been requested, or whether they know how China responded.”
Hi James.
Got Answer.
In this time of war, it’s not a time of profit," Biden
When did he declare us at war and with whom are we at war Against?
Washington Post reports.
Nothing.
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Ch unTruth says:
Been pretty clear here. Putin is committing war crimes.
Rev.: I agree.
Ukraine is in humanitarian crisis.
Innocent civilians are being murdered.
I agree.
Our leadership sits on their hands and demands that any real attempts to stop it would be WWIII?
No, Ch. They do not "demand" that. They and our NATO allies are hesitant to supply Ukraine with fighter jets in that doing that might give Putin an excuse to employ tactical nuclear weapons.
Personally, I do not agree. We and our allies are already providing hunge amounts of weaponry to Ukraine, and I don't think Putin would respond to our providing fighters with a nuclear strike.
That is my opinion.
But this is not just a unilateral decision of our President, but in consultation with our allies and the Pentagon.
They refuse to consider a no-fly Zone. Biden personally prevented Poland from sending MIG fighter Jets.
Again, I do not agree with that decision, but it was made by Biden in careful consultation with the Pentagon and our allies.
Why do you keep asking questions like you don't read what I write?
Unlike you... I don't have to read what anyone else writes or listen to what someone else say to garner an opinion.
I wonder... When Bush Sr should (sic/showed) leadership and united allied forces in the Middle East to stop Hussein from annexing Kuwait? Why was that not WWIII?
First, because Bush Sr. rightly got our allies to agree with our action,
and Second, our nuclear deterent was massive while Hussein's was NILL.
The rest of the world against one country is not a World War.
Do you believe that any actual tangible attempts to stop a tyrannical war criminal from slaughtering innocent people cannot be done for "fear" of starting WWIII?
No, I do not believe that. But I defer to the wisdom of our military and allies more than to your politically biased opinion.
Do you suck up the prevailing rhetoric like the good little sheep you are?
I am glad Biden pays attention to our generals, unlike Trump who always thought he was wiser than any of them and trusted Putin more than he trusted our own military and other intelligence agencies.
John Bolton feels sure that Trump, if elected, intended to get us out of NATO which would have made it easer for Putin to invade, and that is why Putin did all he could to get Trump reelected while he vainly hoped Trump would be our next President. Putin was conting on Trump's oft stated admiration for the dictator would mean Trump wold be a pushover who would not only allow but actually admire and APPROVE (as he recently said) Putin's invasion.
Biden's election has made the situation even more difficult for Putin than he thought it would be.
Neither Biden nor NATO nor the Ukrainians are pushovers.
Putin was counting on
We and our allies are already providing hunge sic amounts
Fuck you, you pedantic POS
huge amounts of weaponry
would
Cali, you might try actually answering my points.
:-)
NWRT
...You know, actually answering my points as I do Ch's points, without just calling him a "pedantic POS."
Pedo, I’ve actually served, I don’t trust anyone over a Lt Col., because everyone above them is a political appointment and has been for generations. It’s why we don’t win wars, anymore.
Cali, yesterday Fatty said his shoe box , got 31 highway.
Today, 29 mpg.
IBID.
"Pedo, I’ve actually served, I don’t trust anyone over a Lt Col., because everyone above them is a political appointment and has been for generations. It’s why we don’t win wars, anymore."
You’re the pedantic POS or was my picking that out what bothers you so much.
Asswipe
Pointless reply.
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IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Russia Asks China for Military Equipment
4:13 pm EDT
“Russia has turned to China for military equipment and aid in the weeks since it began its invasion of Ukraine,
the Washington Post reports.
“The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, did not describe what kind of weaponry had been requested, or whether they know how China responded.”
Financial Times:
“Another person familiar with the situation said the US was preparing to warn its allies, amid some indications that China may be preparing to help Russia. Other US officials have said there were signs that Russia was running out of some kinds of weaponry as the war in Ukraine extends into its third week.”
New York Times:
“Russia has also asked China for additional economic assistance, to help counteract the battering its economy has taken from broad sanctions imposed by the United States and European and Asian nations.
“American officials, determined to keep secret their means of collecting the intelligence on Russia’s requests, declined to describe further the kind of military equipment Moscow is seeking.”
It amuses more than "bothers" me for you to respond with "POS" and "a**wipe." :-)
Copy and paste another 17 articles no one will read, and pathetically flail around calling myself, rat, cold and KD, Nazis. In an attempt to garner attention
It’s all you have, your life is beyond pitiful…
I’m off for a walk and hopefully find some morels.
I have a life
Vasil, a middle-aged bus driver who had been on his way back from driving refugees to the border, said it was around 5:50 a.m. when he heard the deep “buh-buh” blast. “The entire sky was in flames,” he said. Vasil, who declined to give his last name out of fear for his personal security, added: “I am a God-fearing man. I took off my hat, looked at the sky and prayed.”
The strike killed at least 35 people and injured at least 134 more, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed it killed 180 foreign fighters in the attack. The Times could not independently verify either count, and government sources on each side have been found to inflate their opponents’ military casualties.
About 1,000 foreigners hoping to help Ukraine fight Russia were believed to be training at the base, known as the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, part of the new International Legion that Ukraine has formed to help repel Russia. The authorities did not mention whether any foreign citizens were among the dead or wounded.
Videos show several structures nearly destroyed, or still burning, as well as a large crater next to the camp’s training facility and sports fields. The crater was so deep a truck could fit into it, the man taking the video can be heard saying. The fires raged for hours after the explosion and were not extinguished until around 3 p.m.
Trump still loves him
He cannot stop playing prevailing rhetoric like the good little sheep he is!
It's like an addiction...
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https://coldheartedtruthlegacy.blogspot.com/2022/03/blog-post.html
YESTERDAY
Putin Mulls Seizing Assets of Foreign Companies
March 12, 2022 at 7:57 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
“As international companies pause operations or withdraw from Russia as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin is openly discussing seizing assets from those companies,”
the New York Times reports.
“Among the most lucrative assets in Russia that are at risk are airplanes… All told, the planes are worth as much as $12 billion.”
TODAY
Russian Prosecutors Warn Western Companies
March 13, 6:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 68 Comments
“Russian prosecutors have issued warnings to Western companies in Russia, threatening to arrest corporate leaders there who criticize the government or to seize assets of companies that withdraw from the country,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The calls and visits included threats to sue the companies and seize assets including trademarks.”
THERE ARE NO EASY ANSWERS.
TODAY
Finding a Way Out of the War Proves Elusive
6:41 pm EDT
“The United States accurately predicted the start of the war in Ukraine, sounding the alarm that an invasion was imminent despite Moscow’s denials and Europe’s skepticism.
"Predicting how it might end is proving far more difficult,”
the New York Times reports.
“There are three separate back-channel efforts underway to start negotiations —
*by the leaders of France; *Israel and Turkey;
and, in a recent entree,
*the new chancellor of Germany.
"But so far, all have hit the stone wall of Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s refusal to engage in any serious negotiation.
"At the Pentagon, there are
models of a slogging conflict that brings more needless death and destruction to a nascent European democracy,
and others in which Mr. Putin settles for what some believe was his original objective:
seizing a broad swath of the south and east, connecting Russia by land to Crimea, which he annexed in 2014.
“And there is a more terrifying endgame,
in which NATO nations get sucked more directly into the conflict,
by accident or design.”
THERE ARE NO EASY ANSWSERS.
I don't remember calling any of you here Nazis.
Quote me where I did.
As for having a life, I frequently go away and do other, better, more important things.
Watch videos of Protsenko dancing and playing her violin,
write another letter to the editor,
attend church and a discussion group by zoom.
Talk about Ukraine by phone with my 103 year old father in NC.
Well Reverend... it sounds to me like you agree more with me than you do with Biden, but just don't have the power of your convictions to actually criticize Biden.
Don't worry... that is just partisan overwhelming everything else.
If we elected a President of the United States to simply be told what to do by Generals and other advisors, then it seems like a pretty big deal for a figurehead. I am also not certain that we can know that there really is this sort of consensus. I am betting there are some in those ranks that are pushing a more aggressive strategy.
I tend to believe that when you are elected the so called "leader of the free world" that the ultimate decisions are going to be up to you. Not Generals, not advisors. They provide you with their opinions, but ultimately the person with the ultimate authority must do what is right.
A call to arms.
“If we allow the Marxists, and communists, and socialists to hate America, there will be no one left to defend our flag or to protect our great country or its freedom.”
He wants a civil war two
WELL, WELL NOW, DO YOU DARE CALL THIS TREASON?
FOR THAT IS WHAT IT IS.
Romney Slams Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘Treasonous Lies’
March 13, 2022 at 8:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) took to Twitter to denounce former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s comments on the war in Ukraine.
Said Romney:
“Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.”
AND DO YOU REFUSE TO CALL THIS TREASON?
Kremlin ORDERS Media to Feature TUCKER CARLSON
March 13, 2022 at 8:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 87 Comments
According to talking points sent to Russian media,
the Kremlin wanted viewers to hear as much from Fox News’ Tucker Carlson because he “sharply criticizes the actions of the United States and NATO,
their negative role in unleashing the conflict in Ukraine,
and the defiantly provocative behavior from the leadership of the Western countries and NATO towards the Russian Federation
and towards President Putin, personally,”
Mother Jones reports.
YEAH. I GUESS YOU GUYS WERE RIGHT WHEN YOU WERE SAYING TUCKER CARLSON WAS ONLY BEING PATRIOTIC.
TOWARD RUSSIA, MAYBE?
MOTHER JONES:
Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media:
It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson
The Russian government has pressed outlets to highlight the Fox host’s Putin-helping broadcasts.
David Corn
Washington, DC, Bureau Chief
On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a request:
Use more Tucker Carlson.
“It is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who sharply criticizes the actions of the United States [and] NATO, their negative role in unleashing the conflict in Ukraine, [and] the defiantly provocative behavior from the leadership of the Western countries and NATO towards the Russian Federation and towards President Putin, personally,” advises the 12-page document written in Russian.
It sums up Carlson’s position: “Russia is only protecting its interests and security.”
The memo includes a quote from Carlson:
“And how would the US behave if such a situation developed in neighboring Mexico or Canada?”
The document—titled
“For Media and Commentators (recommendations for coverage of events as of 03.03)”
—was produced, according to its metadata, at a Russian government agency called the Department of Information and Telecommunications Support, which is part of the Russian security apparatus. It was provided to Mother Jones by a contributor to a national Russian media outlet who asked not to be identified. The source said memos like this one have been regularly sent by Putin’s administration to media organizations during the war. Independent media outlets in Russia have been forced to shut down since the start of the conflict.
The March 3 document opens with top-line themes the Kremlin wanted Russian media to spread:
The Russian invasion is *“preventing the possibility of nuclear strikes on its territory”;
*Ukraine has a history of nationalism (that presumably threatens Russia);
*the Russian military operation is proceeding as planned;
*Putin is protecting all Russians;
*the “losing” Ukrainian army is shelling residential areas of eastern Ukraine controlled by Russia;
*foreign mercenaries are arriving in Ukraine;
*Europe “is facing more and more problems” because of its own sanctions;
*and there will be “danger and possible legal consequences” for those in Russia who protest the war.
The document notes that it is “necessary to continue quoting” Putin.
It claims that the “hysteria of the West had reached the inexplicable level” of people calling for killing dogs and cats from Russia and asks, “Today they call for the killing of animals from Russia.
Tomorrow, will they call for killing people from Russia?”
A section headlined “Victory in Information War” tells Russian journalists to push these specific points:
*The Ukrainian military is beginning to collapse;
*the Kyiv government is guilty of “war crimes”;
*and Moscow is the target of a “massive Western anti-Russian propaganda” operation.
It states that Russian media should raise questions about Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s state of mind and suggest he is not truly in charge of Ukraine.
And it encourages these outlets to “broadcast messages” highlighting the law recently passed by the Russia Duma that makes it a crime to impede the war effort or disseminate what the government deems “false” information about the war,
punishable for up to 15 years in prison.
This portion instructs Russian journalists to emphasize that these penalties apply to anyone who promotes news about Ukrainian military victories or Russian attacks on civilian targets.
This is the section of the memo that calls on Russian media to make as much use as possible of Tucker Carlson’s broadcasts. No other Western journalist is referenced in the memo.
Mother Jones is not posting the full document to protect the source of the material. Here are photos of the memo. The first shows the opening page; the next displays the paragraph citing Carlson.
Prior to the Russian invasion, Carlson was perhaps the most prominent American voice challenging opposition to Putin.
In one now-infamous commentary, he said, “Why do Democrats want you to hate Putin? Has Putin shipped every middle class job in your town to Russia? Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked your business? Is he teaching your kids to embrace racial discrimination? Is he making fentanyl? Does he eat dogs?”
Carlson repeatedly noted there was no reason for the United States to assist Ukraine in its battle with Russia and
insisted it was “not treason, it is not un-American” to support Putin. He contended that Ukraine was not “a democracy” but a “client state” of the US government.
After Putin attacked Ukraine, Carlson ceased his anti-anti-Putin rhetoric and shifted to a new line:
that the United States and the West purposefully goaded Putin into launching the war.
Carlson said it was “obvious” that “getting Ukraine to join NATO was the key to inciting war with Russia.”
He asked, “Why in the world would the United States intentionally seek war with Russia? How could we possibly benefit from that war?” He said he did not know.
More recently, Carlson mouthed Russian disinformation, and he did so as a new set of Kremlin talking points once again pushed Russian journalists to cite the Fox host.
On Wednesday, Carlson claimed that the “Russian disinformation they’ve been telling us for days is a lie and a conspiracy theory and crazy and immoral to believe is, in fact, totally and completely true.”
He was referring to the Russian allegation that the United States had set up biowarfare labs in Ukraine. But this charge was far from proven. At a congressional hearing, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland had testified that Ukraine possessed biological research facilities and that the US government was worried about “research materials” falling into the hands of Russian forces. This was a far cry from substantiating the Russian charge that Washington was working on bioweapons in Ukraine.
But Putin’s regime jumped on the Nuland testimony and cited it as proof of nefarious American activity.
Carlson echoed this Russian propaganda.
A March 10 “recommendations for coverage” memo from the same Russian agency highlights this bioweapons allegation as a top talking point for Russian media, noting the message should be that the “activities of military biological laboratories with American participation on the territory of Ukraine carried global threats to Russia and Europe.”
The document goes further, encouraging its recipients to allege that the “the United States is working on a ‘biogenocide of the Eastern Slavs.'”
The memo lays out the details of this bizarre conspiracy theory:
The United States was conducting “experiments with genetic material collected on the territory of Ukraine,” with the “main objective” being “to create unique strains of various kinds of viruses for targeted destruction of the population in Russia.” The United States even had a plan to transmit pathogens “by wild birds migrating between Ukraine, Russia and other neighboring countries.”
This scheme included “studying the possibility of carrying African swine fever and anthrax.”
The memo claims “biolaboratories set up and funded in Ukraine have been experimenting with bat coronavirus samples.” It cites Nuland’s testimony and says the United States was involved with “military biological laboratories” in Ukraine that “potentially posed a global threat to all of Europe.”
Carlson had amplified a slice of this Russian propaganda.
The March 10 memo advises Russian journalists to cite Carlson on another matter:
how the economic sanctions imposed on Russia would harm Americans:
American analyst and Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson called President Biden’s sanctions policy a punishment for the American middle class:
“Biden explained that he was going to punish Putin by banning Americans from buying Russian energy resources. But the problem is that markets around the world are already ready for Russian oil, starting with China, India, and Turkey. If you want to get to the bottom of it, just think about who will suffer the most from sanctions? The answer is not on the surface. Middle-income Americans will suffer. The very people who were crushed by Covid restrictions for two years. Now they will suffer from cuts to energy sources… So, the Vladimir Putin who is being punished, is actually American citizens—yes, all of you.”
The document notes that Carlson’s anti-sanctions argument “can be reinforced with a selection of reports that enthusiastically encourage Americans to tighten their belts in the name of saving Ukraine.”
As with the March 3 memo, Carlson was the only Western journalist named in this more recent how-to-help-Putin memo.
But this edition does point out that the New York Post “writes that it was not anti-Russian sanctions that spurred inflation, but rather the wild spending of Joe Biden himself. President Biden wants to blame Vladimir Putin for the rise in inflation. However, all the fault comes from his policy implemented long before the Ukrainian crisis.”
The March 10 guidelines contains other false claims for Russian journalists to promote:
*that US forces had been training Ukrainians to launch an offensive in Donbas this month
and that Russia’s attack on Ukraine was an effort to preempt that military action;
*that the Ukrainians have plans to “use nuclear weapons in some form”;
*and that the horrific bombing of Mariupol that struck a hospital and a birthing center was fake news.
It urges Russian journalists to assert that Russia was being victimized by cancel culture and Russophobia was “on the march.”
It’s unclear whether these memos had any impact on Russian media outlets, which already were regularly citing and praising Carlson.
Pro-Putin media organizations in Russia may not have needed the Kremlin’s recent encouragement to make Carlson a star.
RT, the Russian propaganda outlet, embraced Carlson’s defense of RT after social media companies banned RT content.
And on Friday, Komsomolskaya Pravda ran a splashy story headlined “Well-known American TV journalist Carlson was outraged by the ‘lies of the United States.'” It was all about Tucker’s on-air (and unfounded) anger over the Nuland testimony and the biolab allegations. In this instance, a pro-Putin Russian media outlet was using Carlson’s disinformation to advance Moscow disinformation.
Just like the Kremlin wanted.
Fox News and Carlson did not respond to requests for comment.
Additional reporting was provided by David Lee Preston and Hannah Levintova.
Sounds like a lot of that was written by Ch, doesn't it?
Maybe he can get featured in PRAVADA, etc.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warns it's "only a matter of time" before Russian missiles strike a NATO country, amid reports that Russia's invading forces had escalated airstrikes on western Ukraine over Sunday night.
Driving the news: Zelensky said in a televised address that Sunday was a "black" day as Russian missiles struck from "east to west" and hit a military training base near Ukraine's border with Poland, killing 35 people and wounded 134 others, per an English translation provided by the president's office.
Zelensky again called for a no-fly zone — which Western leaders have repeatedly ruled out due to concerns about escalating the war and potentially bringing NATO into a conventional conflict with a nuclear power."If you do not close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian missiles fall on your territory. NATO territory," Zelensky said. "On the homes of citizens of NATO countries."
State of play: "Indiscriminate Russian shelling and air attacks are causing widespread destruction," per a U.K. Ministry of Defense intelligence update Monday.
"Russian naval forces have established a distant blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, effectively isolating Ukraine from international maritime trade," the defense ministry said in an update Sunday evening.
"Russian naval forces are also continuing to conduct missile strikes against targets throughout Ukraine. Russia has already conducted one amphibious landing in the Sea of Azov and could look to conduct further such operations in the coming weeks."
— U.K. Ministry of Defense
By the numbers: 30 missiles struck the Lviv region of western Ukraine alone on Sunday, where the bombarded Yavoriv military base is located, according to Zelensky.
Russia's Ministry of Defense claimed to have killed "up to 180 foreign mercenaries" in the region and vowed to continue with strikes, per the Washington Post, which notes the claims could not be verified.
The big picture: While Ukraine is not a member of NATO, Poland is and U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CBS on Sunday that the U.S. would "defend every inch of NATO territory."
He said even if an accidental shot struck a NATO member country, the "alliance would respond to that."
What to watch: Negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian officials were resuming on Monday.
Wendy Sherman, deputy secretary of state, told "Fox News Sunday" Russian officials had shown a "willingness to have real, serious negotiations."
Meanwhile, Sullivan was meeting with senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Yang Jiechi on Monday to discuss the invasion.
I expect that we are getting close to a war with Russia.
Bipartisan Pressure Increases on Biden Over Ukraine
March 14, 2022 at 6:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 62 Comments
Washington Post: “A growing number of U.S. lawmakers ratcheted up pressure on President Biden on Sunday to increase military aid to Ukraine, including sending fighter jets and air defense systems that the administration rejected last week.”
“The public calls from both Republicans and Democrats to answer Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s urgent pleas for air assistance come as the Biden administration declined an offer from Poland to deliver MiG-29 airplanes to Ukraine for fear such a move could be interpreted by the Russians as an escalation of the United States’ role in the war.”
“The bipartisan push underscores the growing hawkishness among many leaders on Capitol Hill, who have been urging Biden to do more to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian attacks as the war rages into its third week.”
A More Agonizing Endgame
March 14, 2022 at 6:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments
Matt Bai: “The universe of outcomes in Ukraine is limited now. The most likely scenario involves Putin unleashing savagery on the country to possess it, and it ends with Ukraine leveled, Zelensky dead and Russian troops on the Polish border. You’d have to think a negotiated alternative that leaves Ukraine partly intact, if that window opens, would be preferable…”
“But Biden must know that he needs to prepare the country for a more agonizing endgame. His job, in the best case, will be to make a negotiated outcome palatable abroad and at home.”
“If he does, count on this: Our much-needed sense of unity will be shattered overnight.”
What Would Draw the U.S. Into War
March 14, 2022 at 6:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments
New York Times: “Jake Sullivan said that Russia would suffer ‘severe consequences’ if it used chemical weapons, without specifying what those would be. He sidestepped the question of how Mr. Biden would react. So far he has said the only thing that would bring the United States and its allies directly into the war would be an attack on NATO nations. Quietly, the White House and the senior American military leadership have been modeling how they would respond to a series of escalations, including major cyberattacks on American financial institutions and the use of a tactical or ‘battlefield’ nuclear weapon by Mr. Putin to signal to the rest of the world that he would brook no interference as he moves to crush Ukraine.”
“The more the fighting moves west, the more likely it is that an errant missile lands in NATO territory, or the Russians take down a NATO aircraft.”
U.S. Worried Putin May Move on Moldova
March 14, 2022 at 6:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments
New York Times: “In private, officials express concern that Mr. Putin might seek to take Moldova, another former Soviet republic that has never joined NATO and is considered particularly vulnerable. There is renewed apprehension about Georgia, which fought a war with Russia in 2008 that today seems like a test run for the far larger conflict playing out.”
“And there is the possibility that Mr. Putin, angered by the slowness of his offensive in Ukraine, may reach for other weapons: chemical, biological, nuclear and cyber.”
Angry, Frustrated Putin Likely to Escalate War
March 14, 2022 at 6:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 32 Comments
“More than two weeks into a war he expected to dominate in two days, Vladimir Putin is projecting anger, frustration at his military’s failures and a willingness to cause even more violence and destruction in Ukraine, in the assessment of U.S. intelligence officials,” the AP reports.
If he doesn't use nuclear weapons, the United States and our allies will destroy the Russian armed forces in the few months.
Told ya so
Facts.
KansasDemocrat March 12, 2022 at 8:30 AM
Oil as peaked in price.
As gasoline has become unaffordable.
In turn as people use the minimum to avoid the Biden Gas Tax.
Gasoline will go down too, as I predicted.
Has Joe got a date with Congress yet?
"In this time of war, it’s not a time of profit," Biden
When did he declare us at war and with whom are we at war Against?
It's getting more likely than before,especially if we keep China from getting involved.
Russia attacked a military training center only 15 miles from Poland.
At least 35 people were killed and 134 were injured in western Ukraine yesterday by the missile strikes.
Why the location matters: Poland is part of NATO, a Western military alliance that includes the U.S. An attack on NATO territory would bring Russia in direct conflict with the West.
What else to know: Talks between Russia and Ukraine start again today; an American journalist was killed outside Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, yesterday.
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Russia asked China for help with its war in Ukraine, the U.S. said.
China’s response: It denied the report. The U.S. will meet with China’s top diplomat today, and Ukraine will be a main topic.
What else to know: Russia cut off Instagram access at midnight, which further isolates its people from the world. Facebook was banned earlier this month.
The President should request a declaration of war with Russia, if they fire from Ukraine to a NATO allies country.
Oil prices slid at the start of trading on Monday morning, a respite from the volatility of recent weeks as Russia’s assault on Ukraine grinds on.
Brent crude, the international benchmark, was trading at about $107 a barrel, down roughly 5 percent. In December, it cost about $65 a barrel, before Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, began what President Biden called a “vicious war of choice” in Ukraine. West Texas Intermediate, the American benchmark, was trading around $103, down almost 6 percent.
Oil prices, which surged last week as the markets braced for American sanctions, are showing signs of leveling out. On Tuesday, President Biden shut off the spigot of Russian oil into the United States as punishment for the war in Ukraine. He also banned the import of Russian natural gas and coal.
Mr. Biden had initially resisted calls for such aggressive sanctions on Russian oil, concerned that they would push fuel prices higher — a potentially polarizing issue in an election year. But as Russia escalated its attacks on Ukraine, he announced sweeping sanctions, which he warned would inevitably bring more pain at the pump for Americans.
“I said I would level with the American people from the beginning,” he said last week. “And when I first spoke to this, I said defending freedom is going to cost.”
The average price of a gallon of gas was $4.325 on Monday, according to AAA. That is up from a week earlier when gas prices hit $4.009, nearly the highest level since 2008, but unchanged from Sunday.
Even before Mr. Biden’s decision, the United States imported only a small amount of Russian oil, representing less than 10 percent of its total energy resources. But the step, intended to further economically isolate Russia, effectively prevents the country from profiting from American oil purchases.
When did he declare us at war and with whom are we at war Against?
HOW MANY MORE TIMES ARE GOING TO POST THE SAME NAIVE GIBBERISH, GOAT FUCKER????? DON'T YOU HAVE CALVES TO BREED?????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Copy n paste
Rinse
Repeat
Alky, when did you realize you have a very limited intelligent?
I predicted lower gas and Oil prices.
Biden said we are currently AT war.
"In this time of war " Biden
He does know how farming/ranching works.
"DON'T YOU HAVE CALVES TO BREED"
He is a great polluter dependent on 100's of thousands of food miles to feed himself.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Copy n paste
Repeats the same BS until lies become his truth,,,,,,,,,,BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Kettle meet the goat fucker....LOLOLOLOL
Fact Joe Said we are at "War".
Dead bodies, of civilians and combatants, remain trapped under the rubble or lying in the open where they fell,” the Red Cross said in a statement.
A pregnant woman who became a symbol of Ukraine’s suffering when she was photographed being carried from a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol has died along with her baby, the Associated Press has learned. Images of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had circled the world, epitomizing the horror of an attack on humanity’s most innocent.
Ukraine announced plans for new humanitarian aid and evacuation corridors on Monday, although ongoing shelling caused similar efforts to fail in the last week, including on Sunday.
The U.N. has recorded at least 596 civilian deaths since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, though it believes the true toll is much higher. Millions more people have fled their homes, with more than 2.8 million crossing into Poland and other neighboring countries in what the U.N. refugee agency has called Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II.
My food chain is our Ranch.
We have 100's of plants started from.seeds saved the years before.
Just finished our yearly hatch of 20 out of 23 incubated chicken eggs.
Eggs laid here, hatched here, those that are hens will be replacements.
Older hens and roosters will be butchered as meals require.
Sad how losers like Lil Schitty and his friends rat and the goat fucker all posted how COVID mortality wasn't really a problem since it was the underlying issues causing people to die.....Well, seems like some statistical analysis, something Lil Schitty embraces, has conclude COVID mortality could be 3x what has been reported......
The pandemic was worse than the official numbers show, and how much worse is now becoming more evident after two years. A new study, based in part on statistical modeling, suggests the loss in lives was close to three times greater than the official data. It is important to understand what happened and why in the greatest public health catastrophe since the 1918 influenza pandemic, which is estimated to have killed at least 50 million people.
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The new study, peer-reviewed, was published Thursday in the Lancet medical journal and carried out at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. The research, examining the pandemic years 2020 and 2021, found that while the official death toll worldwide was 5.94 million due to covid-19, in fact 18.2 million people might have perished in the pandemic. That estimate is similar to one reached by the Economist in ongoing research that uses different methods. Both studies suggest that the pandemic’s pain in lost lives has been undercounted because of a combination of factors, including neglected treatment for other ailments.
At the core of this is a measure of excess mortality, the difference between the observed numbers of deaths from all causes, and what would normally be expected over the same time period, absent the pandemic. Although excess mortality is an estimate, it can help underscore the true scope of the catastrophe in lost lives, help scientists prepare for the next pandemic and pinpoint vulnerabilities in public health systems.
The President should request a declaration of war with Russia, if they fire from Ukraine to a NATO allies country.
They have already filed weapons 15 miles from Poland's border.
KansasDemocrat said...
My food chain is our Ranch.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Sure it is you fucking lying sack of shit....!!!!! Your food chain is the local Krogers supplemented by government handouts.....LOLOLOLOLOL!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/13/covid-death-toll-worse-than-reported/
It's terrible news.
My maternal grandfather died of the Spanish flu in 1919 after returning from Europe during the First World War.
Ignore kputz completely. Never even call him a fucking joke.
We have 100's of plants started from.seeds saved the years before.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And vegetable matter for your brain....LOLOLOLOLOL. Too fucking funny goat fucker.....you are about as credible as trump winning because he said so......Idiot
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
The President should request a declaration of war with Russia, if they fire from Ukraine to a NATO allies country.
Yeah, that's it alky. We want Mr. Fucking Magoo at the helm as we enter WWIII.
Imbecile.
Tulsi Gabbard 🌺
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1503334079667658752
@MittRomney, you have called me a ‘treasonous liar’ for stating the fact that “there are 25+ US-funded biolabs in Ukraine which if breached would release & spread deadly pathogens to US/world” and therefore must be secured in order to prevent new pandemics. Bizarrely, ...
... you claim that securing these labs (or even calling for securing these labs) is treasonous and will lead to a loss of life, when the exact opposite is obviously true. The spread of pathogens is what will cause the loss of life, not the prevention of such spread.
Senator Romney, please provide evidence that what I said is untrue and treasonous. If you cannot, you should do the honorable thing: apologize and resign from the Senate.
Evidence of the existence of such biolabs, their vulnerability, and thus the need to take immediate action to secure them is beyond dispute:
#1. State Department’s Victoria Nuland acknowledged such labs containing dangerous pathogens exist in Ukraine in her testimony to the US Senate (March 8, 2022): “Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact we are quite concerned that Russian troops may be seeking...
...to gain control of. We are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.”
#2. Pentagon Fact sheet (March 11, 2022) has numerous statements directly & indirectly confirming the existence of such biolabs. https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FACT-SHEET-THE-DEPARTMENT-OF-DEFENSE'S-COOPERATIVE-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-BIOLOGICAL-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-ACTIVITIES-IN-UKRAINE.PDF
“The United States, through BTRP, has invested approximately $200 million in Ukraine since 2005, supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites.”
#3. CBS Face the Nation (March 13, 2022) correspondent David Martin said a Pentagon official told him they’re concerned about the existence of such biolabs in Ukraine: “The concern is that the Russians will seize one of these biomedical research facilities that Ukraine has...
...where they do research on deadly pathogens like botulism and anthrax, seize one of those facilities, weaponize the pathogen, and then blame it on Ukraine and the US, because the US has been providing support for some of the research being done in those facilities.”
#4. In April 2020, in refuting Russia’s accusation that U.S. is using biolabs in Ukraine to develop biological weapons, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine acknowledged there are U.S. funded labs in Ukraine working with pathogens for vaccine & other peaceful purposes https://ua.usembassy.gov/u-s-ukraine-partnership-to-reduce-biological-threats/
#5. CNN fact-check (March 10, 2022): “There are US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, that much is true.”
#6. Furthermore, according to the DoD there are two biolabs in Ukraine that have been under Russian control for some time: “Russia illegally took possession of two Ukrainian-owned laboratories that BTRP upgraded in 2014 and continues to deny Ukrainian access to these facilities.”
So, Senator Romney, you have a choice: out of pride, continue to deny the truth or admit you are wrong, apologize, and resign.
Aloha.
And remember that without the truth, we can be neither safe nor free.
Looks like the 2020 Democrat presidential candidate has ripped the deniers (many criticizing Tucker and calling him "treasonous also) including Romney and state media a new one
deservedly
The President has to speak and request a declaration of war.
Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1503157018793848834
Daily reminder that Mitt Romney's advisor was literally on the board of Burisma
Many politician's families got rich from that poor and corrupt country including the Bidens, Kerrys, Romneys and Pelosis
Odd
and that's where a lot of the Trump impeachment "witnesses" came from
Odd
almost like American politicians installed their preferred regime there
And the press here protected and supported that
I wonder if people like Biden could even get their top prosecutor fired ?
Odd
If only some tape or evidence existed
Now tell us something sweet about Tucker Carlson providing propaganda for Putin and the Russians, F Daddy.
IF YOU THINK THINGS AREN'T SERIOUS, READ ALL THIS:
Zelensky to Address Congress Virtually
March 14, 2022 at 10:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will deliver a virtual address to members of the U.S. Congress at 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning, the Washington Post reports.
Anti-Trump Republicans Line Up for 2024
9:53 am EDT
“Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is planning trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IK) is considering a rough timeline for a potential presidential announcement. And allies of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) are openly talking up her White House prospects,” the AP reports.
“More than two years before the next presidential election, a shadow primary is already beginning to take shape among at least three fierce Republican critics of former President Donald Trump to determine who is best positioned to occupy the anti-Trump lane in 2024.
“Their apparent willingness to run — even if Trump does, as is widely expected — represents a shift from previous years when “Never Trump” operatives failed to recruit any GOP officeholders to challenge the incumbent president. But with the 2024 contest almost in view, the question is no longer whether one of Trump’s prominent Republican critics will run, but how many will mount a campaign and how soon they will announce.”
Top Putin Ally Admits War Has Not Gone to Plan
9:50 ams
“One of President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies said Russia’s military operation in Ukraine had not all gone as quickly as the Kremlin had wanted, the strongest public acknowledgement yet from Moscow that things were not going to plan,” Reuters reports.
“National Guard chief Viktor Zolotov blamed the slower than expected progress on what he said were far-right Ukrainian forces hiding behind civilians, an accusation repeatedly made by officials in Russia.”
Uptick In GOP Censures Signals a Growing Radicalism
9:48 am
Seth Masket:
“The Republican National Committee’s censure last month of GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger was a historical rarity — national parties almost never reprimand their own officeholders.”
“But in many ways it was the culmination of what’s been happening at the state level. State and local parties are increasingly disciplining their officeholders, and it’s mostly happening on the Republican side.”
GOP Primaries Get Nasty
9:44 am
Politico:
“Democrats running for Senate are still holding their fire in primaries. Republicans are stuck in the Thunderdome.
“GOP candidates are already pummeling each other in monthslong advertising free-for-alls, fights intensified by unprecedented television spending. The parties’ approaches in money spent and messaging could hardly be more different so far, as is the mere number of contested races: For Republicans, there are more than a dozen states where GOP candidates are attacking each other in bids for Senate nominations, while Democrats have unresolved primaries in just two key states — neither of which have turned vicious yet.”
Zelensky Pressured Biden for More Sanctions on Russia
9:40 am
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pressed President Biden during their latest call for more sanctions to further squeeze Russia, CNN reports.
“Zelensky specifically asked Biden for further efforts to cut off Russia from international trade and to continue targeting the Russian elite, as the US has continued to add more oligarchs and their families to its sanctions list. Zelensky also mentioned closing off Russia’s access to international waterways during the call.”
Russia Threatens to Pay Bondholders in Roubles
7:46 am
“Russia has threatened to pay international bondholders in roubles rather than dollars just days before a key interest payment on its external debt comes due,” the Financial Times reports.
“Moscow is scheduled to make a combined $117 million in interest payments this Wednesday on two dollar-denominated bonds… Neither bond’s contracts gives Russia the option of paying in roubles.”
Czar Vladimir
7:42 am
Niall Ferguson:
“I don’t think Putin is mad. I think power has corrupted him. And it has also distanced him from reality. He clearly underestimated the Ukrainian resistance, and he clearly underestimated the risk to the Russian economy. These are miscalculations, not signs of madness. They’re the kind of miscalculations you make if you are very divorced from reality, because you lead the life of a czar, in vast — if hideous — palaces, surrounded by people who are terrified of you and tell you what they think you want to hear.
“If I put myself in Putin’s position, I don’t think he’s trying to resurrect the Soviet Union. He’s looking back even further and trying to bring back the Russian Empire, with himself as ‘Czar Vladimir.’ It’s an ideology of conservative, orthodox nationalism that Putin offers, that has nothing to do with the Soviet legacy.”
Bipartisan Pressure Increases on Biden Over Ukraine
6:51 am
Washington Post:
“A growing number of U.S. lawmakers ratcheted up pressure on President Biden on Sunday to increase military aid to Ukraine, including sending fighter jets and air defense systems that the administration rejected last week.
“The public calls from both Republicans and Democrats to answer Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s urgent pleas for air assistance come as the Biden administration declined an offer from Poland to deliver MiG-29 airplanes to Ukraine for fear such a move could be interpreted by the Russians as an escalation of the United States’ role in the war.
“The bipartisan push underscores the growing hawkishness among many leaders on Capitol Hill, who have been urging Biden to do more to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian attacks as the war rages into its third week.”
A More Agonizing Endgame
6:46 am
Matt Bai:
“The universe of outcomes in Ukraine is limited now. The most likely scenario involves Putin unleashing savagery on the country to possess it, and it ends with Ukraine leveled, Zelensky dead and Russian troops on the Polish border. You’d have to think a negotiated alternative that leaves Ukraine partly intact, if that window opens, would be preferable…
“But Biden must know that he needs to prepare the country for a more agonizing endgame. His job, in the best case, will be to make a negotiated outcome palatable abroad and at home.
“If he does, count on this: Our much-needed sense of unity will be shattered overnight.”
What Would Draw the U.S. Into War
6:42 am
New York Times:
“Jake Sullivan said that Russia would suffer ‘severe consequences’ if it used chemical weapons, without specifying what those would be. He sidestepped the question of how Mr. Biden would react. So far he has said the only thing that would bring the United States and its allies directly into the war would be an attack on NATO nations. Quietly, the White House and the senior American military leadership have been modeling how they would respond to a series of escalations, including major cyberattacks on American financial institutions and the use of a tactical or ‘battlefield’ nuclear weapon by Mr. Putin to signal to the rest of the world that he would brook no interference as he moves to crush Ukraine.
“The more the fighting moves west, the more likely it is that an errant missile lands in NATO territory, or the Russians take down a NATO aircraft.”
U.S. Worried Putin May Move on Moldova
6:37 am
New York Times:
“In private, officials express concern that Mr. Putin might seek to take Moldova, another former Soviet republic that has never joined NATO and is considered particularly vulnerable. There is renewed apprehension about Georgia, which fought a war with Russia in 2008 that today seems like a test run for the far larger conflict playing out.
“And there is the possibility that Mr. Putin, angered by the slowness of his offensive in Ukraine, may reach for other weapons: chemical, biological, nuclear and cyber.”
Angry, Frustrated Putin Likely to Escalate War
6:32 am
“More than two weeks into a war he expected to dominate in two days, Vladimir Putin is projecting anger, frustration at his military’s failures and a willingness to cause even more violence and destruction in Ukraine, in the assessment of U.S. intelligence officials,”
the AP reports.
YESTERDAY
Kremlin Orders Media to Feature Tucker Carlson
8:26 pm
According to talking points sent to Russian media, the Kremlin wanted viewers to hear as much from Fox News’ Tucker Carlson because he “sharply criticizes the actions of the United States and NATO, their negative role in unleashing the conflict in Ukraine, and the defiantly provocative behavior from the leadership of the Western countries and NATO towards the Russian Federation and towards President Putin, personally,”
Mother Jones reports. (SEE AGOVE starting at 9:07PM)
AND
China Locks Down Big Cities
7:38 am
“China forced millions of people into lockdown and closed big cities yesterday after the number of coronavirus cases tripled in 24 hours, marking the country’s worst day since the original Wuhan outbreak,” the Times of London reports.
The Guardian:
Hong Kong tackles deadliest Covid wave.
The alky can relate to this -
The man who allegedly stabbed two employees at the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday was a Broadway usher and passionate critic of former President Donald Trump whose recent social media tirades had worried some of his friends, several people who spoke to Gothamist on Sunday said.
Security footage released Sunday showed the enraged suspect, who police identified as 60-year-old Gary Cabana, leaping over the museum counter, cornering two employees and plunging a knife into them as they tried to escape. He fled the building and remained at large Sunday, the NYPD said.
Friends of the suspect who saw the footage, along with social media posts they attributed to him, said they were in disbelief, claiming the behavior did not match the Broadway-loving usher they’d known for decades.
"It wouldn’t have ever occurred to me that he might lash out," said Tara Varney, who said she studied theater with Cabana at Missouri State University in Springfield, and had remained close to him.
Varney and other friends said that Cabana had a history of mental illness, which appeared to worsen during the pandemic. A public Facebook post shared on an account that three friends said belongs to Cabana called the stabbing a “total frame job,” while seeming to acknowledge that he had previous altercations at the museum.
“Bipolar is a tough road to hoe,” one of those posts from Sunday read. “Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde on the 2 ‘supposed’ days I ‘acted up: 2/24 +. 3/9. Total blind side when I got ‘the letter,’” an apparent reference to the letter revoking his MoMA membership.
It continued: “It wasn't SCREAM 6 at MoMA it was poke poke poke wake-up call.”
Multiple people close to Cabana said they noticed a shift in his social media presence at the start of the pandemic, as his musings shifted from critiquing films to posts filled with anger directed at tourists who did not follow COVID protocols, as well as Trump, whose leadership Cabana said allowed the pandemic to worsen.
“His politics are liberal,” Varney said. “He’d get more worked up about them than I would choose to.”
https://gothamist.com/news/moma-stabbing-suspect-worked-on-broadway-suffered-from-worsening-mental-health-issues-friends-recall
White House Warns of Blow to Covid-19 Fight
10:47 am
“The Biden administration says that it might have to scrap critical Covid-19 programs unless Congress moves to approve funding left out of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Democratic leaders now plan to hold a stand-alone vote in the House this coming week on $15.6 billion in Covid-19 aid, without paying for it by clawing back state funds. Such an approach would likely hit a wall in the 50-50 Senate, where Democrats would need at least 10 Republican votes to advance the proposal.”
BETTER BE CAREFUL. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CHINA COULD BEGIN TO HAPPEN HERE -- AGAIN.
IT'S A RESOURCEFUL VIRUS AND PLAYS DIRTY.
The fed govt has a large amount of border wall supplies sitting around, purchased but now idle. So Texas had been buying up the material through surplus channels. That is, until Biden found out about it and stopped it. Good grief, he'd rather let is all for. He is the worst president in history.
Let it all rot
Here is the latest version of my letter to the editor, resubmitted today and scheduled probably to run on the 25th.
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I have concluded that there are now a significant number of Republicans who no longer represent what this nation stands for. Sadly, they have misled many Americans, including working class people, into thinking they are “for” them, “for the people,” when actually they are would-be autocrats who want to rule our nation for the benefit of their own selfish personal profit.
In this they resemble the
corrupt oligarchs who along with Vladimir Putin are now dictatorially ruling a captive Russia.
What can we do about them? Oppose them. Free ourselves from them. Vote them and the candidates they support down and out.
In addition, I find myself wishing, for the sake of future generations to be born in our land, that most Americans will now unite in insisting on rewording our Pledge of
Allegiance to make it include words that are found neither in the Declaration of Independence nor in the Constitution, but that now strongly need to be placed front and foremost in everyone’s mind:
Those words are: “I pledge
allegiance to the United States of America, a nation intended [by God] to have a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people – not of, by, and for only the rich.”
Government that is "of the people, by the people, and for the people" – for all the people – those words need to be heard, learned, and constantly repeated by all the citizens and school children of our land.
James Boswell, Normal
Balls, wasn't Mexico going to pay for the wall? Trump solemnly promised us Mexico would pay for it.
I feel rather strongly about my letter but, being of sound mind, I'm not planning to stab anyone.
:-)
Congress Keeps Pushing Biden on Ukraine
11:03 am
Playbook:
“Something quite striking has happened in Washington since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Congress — which typically takes a back seat on foreign policy matters — has repeatedly driven the White House beyond its comfort zone with bipartisan demands for more assertive policies.
“It started with calls for tougher sanctions,
then escalated to an appeal for a larger military and humanitarian assistance package.
Members of both parties then clamored for a U.S. ban on Russian oil,
which the White House saw as politically risky given the effect on gas prices at home.
And they insisted that the U.S. end permanent normal trade relations with Russia.
“The tactics have worked.
And this week, lawmakers will be at it again
— this time nudging the Biden administration to go further than it wants in facilitating the transfer of fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine.”
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I agree. I do not usually like to be hawkish, but I think we need to do this. Although it worries me, I think Putin will not DARE go nuclear in any way.
That is, until Biden found out about it and stopped it
I am sure you have a solid link that will verify your statement.....If not.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Also, Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky will deliver a virtual address to members pf the U.S. Congress at 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning, the Washington Post reports.
Interest Rate Hikes Add New Challenge for Democrats
11:39 am
NPR:
“In an attempt to curb inflation, the Federal Reserve is expected this week to begin raising interest rates for the first time in three years.
“The move presents President Biden and Democrats with yet another political challenge from a different end of the economic spectrum than higher prices.
“Higher interest rates, after all, will put a strain on Americans looking to borrow. Buying a home or car, or taking out a student or business loan, for example, will all cost more — although even after several expected rate hikes, borrowing costs will remain low by historical standards.”
REPUBLICANS BETTER BE CASREFUL, TRYING TO USE THIS POLITICALLY. AMERICANS ARE INCREASINGLY WILLING TO BITE THE BULLET WHEN CONFRONTED BY FOREIGN AGGRESSION.
OH HOW FERVENTLY WE SHOULD HOPE THIS IS TRUE~~~~~
Sanctions Will Knock Russian Economy Back 30 Years
11:40 am
“Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war on Ukraine and the resulting global response will set Russia’s economy back by at least 30 years — close to old Soviet Union times — and lower its standard of living for at least the next five years, according to economists, investors and diplomats,”
CNBC reports.
“Practically overnight, the country’s 40-year effort to build a prosperous market-based economy that began under former leader Mikhail Gorbachev has failed,
one more casualty in President Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.”
GOOD!
Too many conservative people believe that we must let Russia win.
But fortunately most importantly the majority of Republicans support supporting Ukraine..
The President is probably going to Europe very soon
The American Thinker believes that we should let Russia win.
March 14, 2022
Alas, the Best Outcome in Ukraine Now May be a Relatively Quick Russian Victory
By Selwyn Duke
It’s hard finding an American, anywhere, who believes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a good thing. I’m no exception. War is ugly, and innocent people suffer as the pseudo-elites play their geopolitical chess games driven by power-lust, pocketbook and politics. This also isn’t about rooting for the “good guys.” For Vladimir Putin cannot be counted among them, and, for that matter, neither can ex-actor and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy or our globalist “leaders.” Rather, this concerns something else
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