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Trump Blames U.S. for 'Almost Forcing' Putin to Invade Ukraine
Newsweek ^ | 10/8/22 | ANDREW STANTON

Posted on 10/09/2022 4:23:41 AM PDT by JonPreston

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To: Shady

Amen


61 posted on 10/09/2022 6:06:32 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

I think both you and Trump are right. The administration is using it as a squirrel to distract from our economy, the MIC is supporting it because of more weapons sales and the RINO Neocons want something to babble about and run on to get reelected.

Meanwhile, Hunter (and the Big Guy) are very likely making a killing in UKR monkey business with Zelensky.


62 posted on 10/09/2022 6:09:30 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Rockingham

As you state, Putin wanted this conflict for his own gain. It’s not Biden’s war, but Biden’s weak rhetoric, failure to draw clear red lines, and his debacle in Afghanistan were ‘green lights’ to Putin. Biden has green lit bad actors all over the world, including the millions of illegals crossing our borders, through his dumbass remarks and even dumber actions placing us interests below that of so-called global interests.


63 posted on 10/09/2022 6:13:28 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Drago

Thanks, it seems that outside of long praise of Zelensky there wasn’t anything of note in the quick interview with Trump in regard to Russia’s invasion.

It was a short quicky, generic interview.


64 posted on 10/09/2022 6:13:48 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: JonPreston

Like the spider with the fly.


65 posted on 10/09/2022 6:15:16 AM PDT by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength. )
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To: sam_whiskey

I don’t ‘wrap my head around’ that because the potential price is too high given the rhetoric flying around about nukes and Zelenksy sitting fat and happy to egg it all on.

We owe Ukraine nothing. Maybe Biden does but I don’t. They never kicked back a sleazy dime to me. The were NEVER part of NATO, we have no treaty with them.

If Zelensky wants world intervention he should have gone to the UN to plead his case and form a world coalition like GHWB did with Gulf War I during Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. He didn’t. He just whined, shamed, goaded, and chastised and then demanded billions of dollars. Billions - near trillion now from all the handwringing western countries - none of them sanctioned by anything chartered.

Ukraine is simply not worth a nuclear exchange


66 posted on 10/09/2022 6:16:57 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: JonPreston

Trump is correct. Biden, especially with the kickbacks, Bio labs, his rhetoric, and Biden and the Democrats clear Fascist tendencies and support, played a big role in provocation of the conflict. This was, in my opinion, a preventable conflict.

If people want peace, they need to think not of their own security but also that of their enemy. PS, I am not a Putin fan, nor did he have the right to invade, but he was able to sell Russian security to his people.


67 posted on 10/09/2022 6:19:32 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Pete Dovgan
Trump is correct. Biden, especially with the kickbacks, Bio labs, his rhetoric, and Biden and the Democrats clear Fascist tendencies and support, played a big role in provocation of the conflict. This was, in my opinion, a preventable conflict.

^^^^^ Thank You ^^^^^^

68 posted on 10/09/2022 6:21:43 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Williams

—China and Russia are in a frigging all out military alliance to bring about world domination.—

*punch someone over and over in the face
*They finally punch back after an hour of abuse
*LOOK EVERYONE THIS GUY STARTED ATTACKING ME!


69 posted on 10/09/2022 6:23:39 AM PDT by brandberenstein
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To: JonPreston

Truth.


70 posted on 10/09/2022 6:27:55 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: JonPreston

Here’s an interesting fact that many have forgotten:

When Trump was in office, a Ukrainian Prosecutor came out in public to announce he was investigating and would cause indictments of Joe Biden and his circle of gangsters including Ukrainians who accepted bribes.

Now why would this Ukrainian Prosecutor come out in the open like that?

Because with Trump in office, he did not fear Biden’s crime ring, he was emboldened and wanted to do the right thing.


71 posted on 10/09/2022 6:36:24 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Williams

Calm down Willie, take your meds. The fog of war is thick. Hard to tell what is really going on.


72 posted on 10/09/2022 6:48:52 AM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: JonPreston

Donald us Magnus Trump is correct


73 posted on 10/09/2022 6:50:06 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: AndyJackson

—> Let’s see if the guys in the snake pit here turn on Trump.

Only a Zeeper would do that.

Trump is correct


74 posted on 10/09/2022 6:51:36 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: ansel12
it seems that outside of long praise of Zelensky there wasn’t anything of note in the quick interview with Trump in regard to Russia’s invasion.

The link confirms every quote in the article...you lying jackass.

75 posted on 10/09/2022 6:52:45 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: Williams

“And welcome to Free Republic.

Do you work for the Biden Administration?”

Thanks.

Sorta.


76 posted on 10/09/2022 6:54:13 AM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: mac_truck

Generic, and it was, short, a quick run through the things we have all heard repeatedly.

It was not an in-depth interview or on anything new, it was one of those quick stop-by radio-type quickies politicians do.

The only new thing was that the praise of Zelensky, while generic and the same ol same ol, went a little longer than usual.


77 posted on 10/09/2022 7:05:20 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: EEGator
My point is that the US response to the last perceived global strategic crisis was to invest in education across the spectrum across the country and turned it into arguably the best system in the world.

In this global crisis we are destroying American education. We are adopting a social standard that makes classical liberal education impossible and dumps it on the scrap heap of Western racist sexist culture.

78 posted on 10/09/2022 7:10:53 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: JonPreston

You have to listen very carefully to what Trump actually said, which was the Biden’s taunting “almost forced” Putin to invade. This not the same as “caused” Russia to invade. Trump also did not say anything about NATO expansion, biolabs, or any other US action that led to the invasion. Biden’s taunts certainly were unwise and probably did contribute to the timing of the decision of Putin, who is know for being thin-skinned, to invade, but they were not the cause.

The fundamental cause of the war is Putin’s unwillingness to view Ukraine as a legitimate sovereign country. For him, Ukrainians are not a nationality from the Russians, but instead only “Little Russians” who speak a Russian dialect. The same goes for his view of the Belarusians. Putin’s goal has always been to reassemble the disconnected parts of the “Russian World” into a restored Russian Empire.

One further point, if Putin’s final decision to plunge both Russia and Ukrainian into war was due to Biden’s schoolyard taunts, it shows that Putin is actually a weak and irresponsible leader.


79 posted on 10/09/2022 7:15:05 AM PDT by Salohcin
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To: AndyJackson

I understood and agree. I was pointing out additional things we are doing wrong.


80 posted on 10/09/2022 7:16:51 AM PDT by EEGator
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