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I think the US is backing the wrong side in the Ukraine invasion
Self / Freerepublic | 03 March 2022 | Self

Posted on 03/01/2022 8:22:34 PM PST by ShadowAce

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To: Tom Tetroxide
Even old softie Mikhail Gorbachev said this back in late Dec 21.

Washington grew “arrogant and self-confident” after the collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the expansion of the Nato military alliance.

I think the deep state was anticipating this and it going to use it to advance its agenda.

201 posted on 03/02/2022 10:25:44 AM PST by CodeJockey (If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes journalism. )
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To: Fury
Sides won’t matter much when the increase in oil prices (WTI is up $10 in 5 days) starts to get passed to the pump. $4-5 dollar gas prices for a majority of the country will get everyone’s attention.

WTI at 111.37 16:14 Eastern.

Wait till this works its way to the pump. Going to be lots of surprised people.

202 posted on 03/02/2022 1:15:06 PM PST by Fury
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To: ShadowAce
Biden CANCELS test of Minuteman III ballistic missiles to 'demonstrate restraint' and avoid angering Putin

What was that you were saying? Which side is the U.S. on?

203 posted on 03/02/2022 2:19:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ShadowAce

Look, you are a smart person, but I think it’s time to admit you made a knee jerk, Deep State approved post.


204 posted on 03/02/2022 2:20:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
We are now seeing the exact same thing among some self-described conservatives except in reverse. If anyone on the left is in favor of something, we automatically should take the opposite position no matter how ridiculous it may be. And that's how we end up with some "conservatives" rooting for the restoration of the Soviet Union.

I say basically the same thing all the time.

205 posted on 03/02/2022 2:21:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Rurudyne
Russia has a lot to blame here too. They kept promising their "Slavic brethren," they would bail them out, but they didn't.

Remember in 1999, when Kosovo was breaking off from Serbia, then NATO started bombing them. Russia promised to bail them out. And they never did. So I imagine there are a lot of Serbians and others who are ready to tell Russia to get bent. They don't have other Slavs backs.

206 posted on 03/02/2022 2:25:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I’m not excusing the Russians. I’m not excusing NATO.

As for the US, this Ray Stevens song speaks to me about us getting involved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqr4j5d1xCQ&list=RDMM&index=18

They say weak men cause hard times. Ours are so soft headed they don’t even know who should use which bathroom.


207 posted on 03/02/2022 2:44:25 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: CodeToad
Mexico was perfectly willing to keep those asylum seekers, etc. on its side of the border while Trump was President. It is well-within our own ability to secure that southern border with a wall, etc., if we so chose. But...Biden was elected, so our border is screwed.

That's not Mexico's fault. It's ours.

I personally don't want to begin a shooting war with Russia, but I'm totally fine with non-military embargoes and other actions to isolate and cripple their economy.

208 posted on 03/02/2022 2:47:11 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: CodeToad

See, I was just thinking that last night. The best thing that could happen to our country, AND the people of Mexico, would be if we pulled a Putin and took over Mexico and made it a territory rather than let China come in and take over Mexico. And that is coming very soon. China is going to be at our southern border and be a burr under our saddle just like the Ukraine is to Russia.

It would cure a LOT of their problems, and a LOT of our own problems. It would be a win win for Both. And we ARE ALREADY at war with Mexico. It would help curb the gangs, It would help repair their corrupt government, it would make their economy better, it would make their quality of living better, and if they are happy in Mexico they will stay there which would in turn help our own economy and crime problems...

This is the similar situation Putin is up against.


209 posted on 03/02/2022 2:59:51 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

The idea that 1) we have the right to invade and conquer Mexico, and 2) we’d be better off if we did, are insane.


210 posted on 03/02/2022 3:04:40 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: dfwgator

He’s also the culture war anti christ and not commie enough

The Ukraine to them and the GOPe has always been a piggy back and left has a welcome diversion and a crisis not to be left unexploited

Few folks question the media and tech narrative onslaught which is strong as F

Is they fear being called a putin apologist

Perfect storm for progressives and neocons and cold warriors to collude and are they ever

It’s a mess with extremely high stakes

We are as poorly led as we are informed


211 posted on 03/02/2022 3:12:24 PM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever was a day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

So we would let China do it instead? Because they are positioning themselves to do this right now through the back door. In fact all of Central America one at a time working towards Mexico as the final prize.


212 posted on 03/02/2022 3:28:02 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: aces

Great point many of have said and know.

Trump got in the way of the NWO.

Hes gonna win 2024.


213 posted on 03/02/2022 3:32:55 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Openurmind
So we're going to invade a neighboring country with whom we are at peace because some other country 8000 away may - someday in the indefinite future - itself invade? That's "Poland attacked us first!" level of excuse-making.
214 posted on 03/02/2022 3:33:45 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

So we are “at peace” with a violent criminal gang ruled corrupt government who’s target victim of choice is the people of the U.S.?

They are already committing acts of war against the U.S., they are already invading us. And the Government of Mexico will not put it check. They never will... This is about the people, not the corrupt politicians who abuse their own.

The whole story and the bigger picture cannot be ignored away. I have talked with many honest moral Mexican citizens, and they themselves would welcome it, if it repaired their country so that they could live there safely instead of having to run from it.


215 posted on 03/02/2022 3:45:41 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

The Mexican army is not attacking us. There are criminal gangs on the border we are perfectly capable of stopping without an all-out invasion of Mexico. Vuild a wall, adequately man it, and that’s it. Problem solved. Our lack of will to do that pretty basic activity doesn’t give us an excuse to conquer the entire country.


216 posted on 03/02/2022 3:54:48 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

So “at peace” we have to build a wall to prevent being invaded by criminals? Like Hadrian had to do to protect himself from the peaceful Picts?

It is just a bandaid that will never cure the true illness.


217 posted on 03/02/2022 3:55:06 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“The Mexican army is not attacking us.”

No a corrupt government who is owned by the criminal gangs is invading us.


218 posted on 03/02/2022 3:58:20 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Williams

What does Putin have to do with the Taliban? I was talking about the Taliban. and why WE were in Afghanistan.

You spun this to say I support Putin, I do not. Putin is evil, but the Ukraine is absolutely no better. Neither deserve to be supported.

Is there an unwritten law that we absolutely have to support one or the other? No... A logical person would support neither of them.

What I said was that our very own three letter agencies are not so cute and innocent themselves and that is why we were in Afghanistan. And they haven’t been cute and innocent for a very long time.


219 posted on 03/02/2022 4:22:19 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind
So a country that isn't willing to build a war to protect its border is instead going to invade and conquer that neighbor????

And what do we do after we conquer Merico?? Because those 80 million Mexicans would then be inside our borders, so how do we prevent them from just coming north into the "rest" of the United States? All you will have done is bring the problems even closer.

But it gets worse, because we will then have the same problems on Mexico's southern border, so we'll then have to go on to Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, etc. We'll have burdened the American taxpayer with supporting 100 million new Third World "subjects.". And we'll not only have publicly crapped on the core principle of self-determination, which is the sole foundation of any government's legitimacy, but bought ourselves a few decades worth of large-scale jungle insurgencies.

At least it won't be your blood being spilled, eh?

220 posted on 03/02/2022 4:51:38 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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