Posted on 03/08/2023 5:15:22 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
COMMENT #113: “You do know that Biden has never been on the right side of a foreign policy issue in his whole miserable life, right? Remember the billion dollars and Hunter?”
YES, I did.
But, you had forgotten Hunter Biden had TAKEN THE CASH from RUSSIA.
BTW, you may appreciate this article:
“Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/inside-hunter-biden-e2-80-99s-multimillion-dollar-deals-with-a-chinese-energy-company/ar-AAVFFrA.
Did you read what I wrote?
“London is the biggest international “laundromat” around. It’s where the heavy hitters go for their laundering needs. Others include Cyprus, Panama and various Caribbean islands.
Obama, for instance, was paid off by a host of people through much slicker means, in New York. Obama is a slicker and higher toned crook than Biden. Most of them are.
Ukraine is mentioned only because some small time grifters - the Biden’s - passed through, and because of the unsophisticated nature of their grift Ukraine became the mcguffin in the usual American political wars. You have heard of Ukraine, but that doesn’t make it important.”
That Billion dollars was US taxpayer money that Joe used to bribe your corrupt friends to shield Hunter and Joe and the whole laundromt. Yeah, Russian dude and China, but you can’t find any in Ukraine. The epicenter of laundering US “foreign aid” to the corruptocrats. Nice people you are championing. They all hate the US and us. Do you too?
I can’t doubt that. We still have no national interest in Ukraine and we don’t need to be at odds with Russia. We have common interests we could be focusing on.
Epicenter for the corruptocrats is New York City.
That’s where most of Washingtons’ money comes from.
Actual sources of foreign bribes- China, Saudi, Russia top the list by far.
But you cant get off Ukraine. Face it, the whole US political system is completely corrupt, and it is mainly Americans, in the US, doing the bribing.
Russia doesn’t have common interests vis a vis the US.
Given its economy is something like that of Saudi Arabia, its primary interest is imperialism.
F them
I don’t disagree with that. The topic here is Ukraine, and we have no interest there that justifies the billons of our taxpayer dollars. And a possible war.
What you said, though somewhat off the topic, is another problem that needs to be dealt with. A serious problem. And, yeah, NYC is as bad, worse, than maybe anywhere is as far as corruption. But they wear expensive suits.
don’t agree, but I’m done here for now.
“Man in the street type interviews you see from Ukraine are all in Russian and not Ukrainian.”
For decades, the Soviet Union leadership actively promoted Russian as the primary language across the USSR and controlled territories. It started to change after 1975, when Russia signed up to the Helsinki agreement and by the 80s regional languages like Ukrainian were not as actively suppressed.
The USSR decentralised in the 80s and the Soviet Socialist Republics had even more flexibility;that’s why, when the USSR finally disbanded, the borders of Ukraine and Belarus were easily ported into the new borders of independent nation states instead of them being regions of Russia.
The Ukrainians living in my county (some have been in England for 20 years while others are refugees) are from Donetsk, Zaporozhzhia and Khmelnychchyna. They ALL speak Russian as a first language and some speak Ukrainian as a second language. They have Netflix in Russian and Ukrainian, with Russian providing far more content than Ukrainian. Does it make them pro Russian? Of course not.
The advancement of the Ukrainian language IN OFFICIALDOM is a nationalist push - Poroshenko put it into policy and one of his last acts of office before Zelenskyy took over was to promote Ukrainian AND delegitimize Russian as an official state language.
But the idea this was ever going to exterminate the Russian language OUTSIDE OF officialdom is laughable, hyperbolic, paranoid Russian propaganda.
It’s never worked that way. Decades of the Soviet Union suppressing Ukrainian language didn’t kill it off. Centuries of England suppressing Welsh didn’t kill it off.
Most Welsh nationalists outside of seriously rural areas speak Welsh AND English fluently. Welsh comes first as the promoted language, English comes first when communicating to the wider world.
And us English are 90% fine with that. Both languages are great for different things. We don’t want to kill Welsh off anymore; it’s unnecessary.
Russia projects its own prejudices. It wants to kill off Ukrainian separateness and that means terminating the language. It therefore can’t tell the difference between a political gesture that promotes minority Ukrainian over majority Russian, and cultural genocide.
The Texas situation you talk about is an organic shift. The same happened here where I live; 50 years ago you would’ve needed subtitles to understand Broad Yorkshire accents and dialect. Now, Yorkshire speakers have only a slight accent. We can blame TV and radio for it. But it isn’t cultural genocide, it’s just evolution.
That was meant as a compliment.
We’re seeing the world divided more clearly into two factions. Notice what one faction supports and desires to appease. Might the object of the near future be Jerusalem?
But you cannot escape the fact you are totally aligned with Biden and the deep state. Doesn’t that ever give you any pause for reflection?
And, you and the Russian war criminal brothers are victorious
“Russia still is but The West isn’t.”
No, Russia still is but the West never was. That’s a pretty easily demonstrated fact. After all, a country can leave NATO and nobody will declare war on them. You can’t say the same for Russia.
“cannot escape the fact you are totally aligned”
YOUR statement is totally non-factual.
You are so wrong!
1. I am against the INVASION of Ukraine by Putin.
2. I NEVER have received any cash from Putin.
3. Biden is in error with his very slow transfer, almost forgotten, military supplies.
4. Transfer fighter jets
It would behoove you to ponder WHY you support Putin???
Putin likes to portray himself as a new czar like Peter the Great or Ivan III, the 15th-century grand prince known as the “gatherer of the Russian lands.” Most consider Putin’s invasion of Ukraine war as a catastrophic error.
Dictator Putin is creating a militarized, nationalistic society, fed on propaganda and obsessed with an “existential” forever war against the United States and NATO.
No. Re-focus your attention on WHY you support Putin? Putin has dragged Russia into the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes in Ukraine, and the a special court European Parliament has called for regarding Russia’s crime of aggression resulting in the invasion of Ukraine.
You need to stop obsessing on my choice of supporting Ukraine to ponder your support of this invasion by Putin and his fatalistic cult of death.
I now will choose to let you take this time to re-consider your statements. As you simply, talk to my hand!
Have a great day. :)
“Thank you for posting the information in comment #56. Very important knowledge.”
Your more than welcome.
I appreciated his insight as well.
His whole address: https://ricochet.com/1214468/finnish-intelligence-officer-explains-the-russian-mindset/
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“Russia projects its own prejudices. It wants to kill off Ukrainian separateness and that means terminating the language. It therefore can’t tell the difference between a political gesture that promotes minority Ukrainian over majority Russian, and cultural genocide.”
I deeply respect you insight and value your comment #130 in entirety.
4) Europa???
Europa is a moon of Jupiter.
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