[Mariner]

This is the only published article I've seen that mentions the fact that Ukraine has cut off 85% of Crimea's water supply, a canal from the Dnieper River...since 2014.

Two other facts are never mentioned: 1. The existing cease fire expired yesterday. 2. But for about a month Kiev has been putting military pressure on the rebels in Donbas and importing NATO arms.

All in all, I say yes...the Russians are going to invade and seize all land east of the Dnieper river. And nobody is going to do anything about it.

Nor should they.

[Yo-Yo]

Russia will invade Ukraine, and at the same time China will invade Taiwan. Harris/Biden will not lift a finger to help either one.

[cranked]

And?

We aren’t going to do anything but acquiesce.

Let ObamaIdiot’s handling of Ukraine-Russia be the guide/blueprint.

[fruser1]

What would you do if you were Putin?

[romanesq]

Always heartwarming to see the love for old Soviet Russia renewal by invading others here on Free Republic.

(Puke)

[Uncle Miltie]

Don’t call him byDUHn fer nuthin....

[Tai_Chung]

Russia got 1/2 of Ukraine when Biden was Vice President, they might try to get the the other 1/2 while Biden is President

[Nomad577]

Ukraine HAD nuclear weapons (from when it was USSSR), they were talked into giving them up by the rest of the world with assumptions of protection

Whatever happens or has happened to Ukraine is an unfortunate message to other countries that want to start their own nuclear programs, which we usually try to talk them out of

Also somehow Putin/Trump got associated together and Biden/Ukraine, so conservatives take Putin’s side. But it makes no sense at all and we as a country should technically support Ukraine

[PGR88]

From the article

Ukrainian observers believe the Kremlin may even consider a decisive military push through south-eastern Ukraine to create a land corridor linking Crimea with Donbas and end the peninsula’s chronic water shortage – Ukraine has blocked 85 percent of water supplies to the Crimea since 2014.

Crimea and Black Sea access has been a Russian project and possession for 400 years. They certainly don’t want NATO anywhere near Crimea. The only thing that surprises me is that Putin/Russia didn’t grab a land corridor when the Crimea Referendum was done in 2014. Why have they waited?

[Leaning Right]

> Nor should they. <

If you mean that no power should step in and fight Russia over the Ukraine, then I must agree with you. But if you mean that Russia somehow deserves eastern Ukraine, then I must disagree. Unlike with the Crimea, even eastern Ukraine is heavily Ukrainian by nationality. Russia has no moral right to that land.

But as I’m sure you would agree, it’s all not worth the bones of a single American soldier (to paraphrase Bismarck).

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The Russians would not be doing this if Trump was in office. For all the left-wing blather about Russian collusion, Trump was the worst thing that ever happened to Putin. Biden, meanwhile, is a senile old fool and Putin and Xi know they can roll him.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

The Ukrainians shouldn’t have given up their nukes.

5.56mm

[dfwgator]

[McGruff]

Could be the straw that broke the canel’s back:

A deepening water crisis in Crimea is putting severe strain on the Russian government’s finances and increasing pressure on Moscow to deliver on the promises it made when illegally occupying the peninsula, internationally recognised as Ukrainian territory, in 2014.

For several months, cities in Russian-occupied Crimea have been rationing their water. In most of the region, authorities only provide water for six hours a day: three hours in the morning and three hours in the evening.

This crisis dates back to 2014 when Crimea, already under Russian occupation, voted in a referendum widely regarded as not free or fair to become a province of the Russian Federation. Ukrainian authorities subsequently blocked the North Crimean Canal which had been supplying over 85 per cent of the peninsula’s water supply.

https://emerging-europe.com/news/inside-crimeas-water-crisis/

Crimea is Putin’s baby.

[Vermont Lt]

The Russians are getting ready to test Joe. And the Chinese are waiting to go into Taiwan.

Watch Joe send US troops to backstop the Ukrainians.

I can see him calling Merkel and asking her to send German tanks and troops. She would show them the tee shirt from the last time the Wehrmacht went to Kiev. That’s a big “No thanks.”

[McGruff]

[Daniel Ramsey]

America does not need to be a global Karen.

[ballplayer]

Better get Kamala ready for the 3AM phone call,she can record a message on the answering machine,Joe is getting his beauty sleep,will discuss situation with Vladimir in the morning

[353FMG]

You think Biden will stop them?