Posted on 04/29/2022 5:25:20 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose
And you imagine that opposing Putin is contrary to opposing the Left, yet the latter yearn to have his power as they also are anti-Christ, and seek his power.
And you fail to see that the tactic of invoking real or imagined faults of Israel by Muslims in making the Palestinians victims is akin to you invoking faults of Ukrainians (in a war for survival) in order to make poor Putin the victim.
Thus you are manifest as being a deluded Putin propaganda puppet, who is quite evidently headed to Hell (you give zero indication of any real Christian faith), which is far far worse than anything on earth. Thus may God peradventure grant you "repentance to the acknowledging of the truth." (2 Timothy 2:25)
The end.
“...you are manifest as being a deluded Putin propaganda puppet...”
Gee, we have lots of those puppets on FR these days. Of course, the Russians spend big bucks on propaganda, and it fools lots of folks. They take a slice of the Republic of Georgia, a slice of Moldovia, four slices of the Ukraine and attempt to take the whole enchilada and yet to some it is poor Russia threatened by the mean little Azov Battalion.
Tell your boss Clinton or Soros or Biden that you need better scripts, also do you do this for free?, because most prostitutes at least get paid for whoring themselves out.
That there are a plethora of ardent pro-Putin propagandists, recalcitrant Russia defenders on FR reveals the decline of conservativism, and whom I suspect of the libertarian type, who care little about moral issues and Christian faith, and likely attack Israel also, thus will provide more fodder for the Left who hate the latter two. I wonder how the owner feels about this pro-Putin posting.
You just cannot get it can you? No mount of echo-chamber pastes justifies your irrational, illogical support of Vlad the invader, who is the worse of two evils as regards threat to life and liberty. Every time you engage in your vain defense of plutonium Putin the oppressor you are simply outing yourself as being opposed to God and country, to traditional and Christian conservatism, and being an ally of Communism. Putin is simply Stalin lite. Which is all you defend.
Sorry all your neocon buddies lost in Ohio and Indiana. The Republican party will now be a Trump America first party from now on, you and your neocon warmonger military-industrial complex bosses can move over to the Democratic party where you belong.
Which would be good, versus your unAmerican support of a anti-Christ ruler who threatens America with destruction, including conservatives, besides invading others. Trump should be on your hit list, for contrary to being a Putin puppet as the Left prevaricates - and who were blaming him in Feb. 2020 for this invasion, and contrary to you - the Trump,
July 11, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump told NATO leaders on Wednesday they should increase their defense spending to 4 percent of their country’s economic output, double the group’s current goal of two percent/4/3/19..nearly all 29 NATO members have increased their defense spending since Trump came to office, and at least 16 of the 29 are on track to meet their 2024 defense spending goals. Defense spending among 27 NATO allies has increased consistently between 2016 and 2018, with Hungary, Norway, Romania and Turkey making some of the biggest increases.
October 21, 2020 NATO spending has increased for the sixth consecutive year thanks to new contributions from allies, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in prepared remarks Wednesday...Canada and European countries' spending increased this year at a rate of 4.3 percent...Russia and China's aggressive behavior during Trump's term is one reason for the allies' increased spending.
this administration has been much tougher on Russia than any in the post-Cold War era," said Daniel Vajdich, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council....
Take military spending: Trump sought to add $1.4 billion for fiscal year 2018 to the European Deterrence Initiative — a military effort to deter Russian aggression that was initially known as the European Reassurance Initiative. That's a 41 percent increase from the last year of the Obama administration. The president also agreed to send lethal weapons to Ukraine — a step that Obama resisted. And Trump gave U.S. forces in Syria more leeway to engage with Russian troops.
"Those loosened rules of engagement have resulted in direct military clashes with Russian militants and mercenaries on the ground, actually resulting in one incident in hundreds of casualties on the Russian side," Vajdich said.
The administration has also imposed sanctions on dozens of Russian oligarchs and government officials...
And from from 12/26/17 there is
Trump Sends Tank-Killing Missile To Fight Russia in Ukraine, But What Can It Do? By John Haltiwanger On 12/26/17 at 5:53 PM EST The decision to sell the Javelin missiles also comes not long after the Trump administration approved a limited weapons sale between American manufacturers and Ukraine of Model M107A1 sniper systems, ammunition and associated equipment...It's fired from the shoulder and tracks targets via infrared (heat signature). Instead of targeting the front or sides of tanks, which are thick with armor, the missile flies in an arc and hits the top of tank where the armor is weak.. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko defended the move in a Facebook post, thanking President Donald Trump for his support. Poroshenko further described the arms sale as "a transatlantic vaccination against the Russian virus of aggression." - https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tank-killing-missile-fight-russia-ukraine-759745
And as reported by abcnews.go.com om Dec. 23, 2020,
"Previously, as reported by ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News, Headlines & Videos om Dec. 23, 2020, "Trump admin approves new sale of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine.." The new package included Javelin anti-tank weapons, 150 missiles and two launchers, which came after a first sale, completed in March 2018, which included 210 Javelin missiles and 37 launch units.. "The Trump administration first approved the sale of Javelins to Ukraine in December 2017 -- a step that former President Barack Obama never took.... ..
But rather than continuing to counter your incessant stream of Russian propaganda continuing, I will close with more from Pres. Trump again since at least you look forward to a Trump presidency:
Trump also speculated that Putin had likely been motivated by a desire to rebuild the Soviet Union, which included Ukraine and other now independent states in eastern Europe and Asia. "They wanted to rebuild the Soviet Union," Trump said, adding: "That's what this is all about to a large extent... because somebody wants to make his country larger or he wants to put it back the way it was when actually it didn't work very well.".. Trump has condemned Russia's aggression, describing the killing of Ukrainian civilians as a "holocaust." ..He has also claimed that were he still the president, Russia would not have launched the invasion. In Sunday's interview he pointed to his decision as president to provide enhanced military aid to Ukraine.
You are just wasting my time with your continuous irrational, illogical rationalization is itself an argument against your delusional support of the worse of two evils. Such supporters may just as well immigrate to Russia seeing as they seem to worship this anti-Christ dictatorial oppressor ruler. At least then they would see us censored under state media control. But again, your ultimate war is with Christ, and thus may God peradventure grant you “repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” (2 Timothy 2:25)
Stop drinking the neocon kool-aid, unless you enjoy enriching the arms industry while the rest of us get poorer at their expense
https://www.eurasiareview.com/11102021-debating-defense-budgets-why-military-purchasing-power-parity-matters-analysis/
Meanwhile, enemies of defense spending might be happy to know that, 71% of young people are ineligible for the military. The Army dropped grenade throwing as a requirement to graduate because new recruits could not throw far enough. “We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don’t have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 [82 feet] to 30 meters." Also, there is the Intellectual Decline of the Army Officer Corps. The size of the U.S. military in 2017 was half of what it was in 1990, and in general I think many signed up for the benefits rather than patriotism. 16% were women and racial and ethnic minorities made up 43%, and a poll from the Military Times and Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families conducted in July 2020, 49.9 percent of 1,018 active-duty military respondents had an unfavorable view of the president, compared to about 38 percent who had a favorable view. That poll showed Biden with a 4-percentage-point lead over Trump
Fewer Americans want to serve in the military. Cue Pentagon panic 4/10/2019, 6:55:46 PM · by GuavaCheesePuff · 70 replies The Guardian ^ | April 10, 2019 | William M. Arkin.official military polling shows that fewer and fewer young Americans consider the military as a career or as a transitional step – only some 12.5% – the lowest number in a decade.
Congress Takes 1st Step in Forcing Marines to Make Boot Camp Coed
6/18/2019, 9:34:06 AM · by PROCON · 48 replies military.com ^ | June 12, 2019 | Gina Harkins The commandant of the Marine Corps will have five years to stop separating men and women at the service's oldest boot camp, if a new amendment added to the 2020 defense authorization bill survives to ratification. Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat and chair of the House Armed Services Military Personnel subcommittee, proposed the amendment on Wednesday, "Training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, may not be segregated based on gender," the measure states. "The Commandant of the Marine Corps shall carry out this subsection not later than five years after the date of the enactment... >Defense Bill Would End Gender Segregation at Marine Corps Boot Camp 1/6/2020, 2:48:12 PM · by RomanSoldier19 · 78 replies www.military.com ^ | 9 Dec 2019 | | By Hope Hodge Seck
Top Marine stresses need for more female infantry officers, research on 1-year paid maternity leave 2/25/2020, 5:18:38 PM · by jazusamo · 87 replies The Washington Times ^ | February 25, 2020 | Douglas Ernst The nation’s top Marine, Commandant Gen. David Berger, took to social media Tuesday morning to stress the service’s “most important matters.”
Pentagon study finds rising suicide rates in military 9/27/2019, 12:49:01 AM · by fwdude · 26 replies The Hill ^ | 09/26/19 | Ellen Mitchell Suicide rates in the military were higher in 2018 compared to the previous five years despite efforts to prevent such deaths, according to an annual Pentagon report released Thursday. A total of 541 active duty, National Guard and Reserve troops committed suicide last year, the Department of Defense Annual Suicide Report found.
Heritage Index Rates Navy, Marines ‘Marginal’ In Ability to Counter Current Threats 11/4/2019, 11:30:14 AM · by robowombat · 25 replies USNI News ^ | October 30, 2019 8:01 PM | John Grady Heritage Index Rates Navy, Marines ‘Marginal’ In Ability to Counter Current Threats By: John Grady October 30, 2019 8:01 PM The Navy and the Marine Corps have been assessed as “marginal” in their ability to meet the challenges from rival powers in Beijing and Moscow, as well as regional threats coming from Tehran and Pyongyang, according to annual report on U.S. military strength from The Heritage Foundation
Pentagon Report: China Now Has World’s Largest Navy as Beijing Expands Military Influence 9/2/2020, 7:28:08 PM · by Retain Mike · 8 replies US Naval Institute ^ | September 1, 2020 5:31 PM | John Grady
The Swedish Submarine that Sank a US Aircraft Carrier 5/9/2020, 3:40:45 PM · by Enlightened1 · 13 replies Dark Docks via Youtube ^ | 04/04/20 Brand-new, nuclear powered, capable of carrying twice as many aircraft as most competing foreign carriers, and protected by an entire task force... the $6.2 billion USS Ronald Reagan seemed invincible leading up to an international war game exercise in 2005.
But we know this since we still have much freedom of the press, which Putin controls in Russia, and even extends to · Vladimir Putin declares all Russian military deaths state secrets Revealing state secrets is punishable by up to seven years in prison.
But he has your vote.
The United States invaded or attacked Vietnam, Grenada, former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Libya in the last 60 years, now name me how many nations China and Russia have done the same
More irrational, illogical argumentation, with false equivalence being the case again, along with more ignorance of Russian invasions* amid its multitudinous wars. This here might as well have been written for you: https://www.numbers-stations.com/articles/soviet-and-russian-invasions-since-1917/.
And that you also seem to think China would not seek to conquer most of the world if it was the sole super power and with no US to deter them -and which the Soviets would have done if it alone possessed The Bomb - is simply more anti-American ignorance, along with a bias that one would expect of a Howard Zinn.
But seeing as you insist on your support of anti-Christ and anti-American entities regardless of what refutes you on this pro-God, pro-Amerca forum, then leaving you to your chosen delusions is sadly warranted, as warned already. Thus again, may God peradventure grant you "repentance to the acknowledging of the truth." (2 Timothy 2:25)
*A List of Nations that gained independence from Russia and/or the Soviet Union since the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Finland- Gained independence during the Russian Civil War period/Finnish War of Independence.
Estonia- Gained independence during the Russian Civil War period/Estonian War of Independence. Was invaded by the Soviets in 1940, and then regained independence with the fall of the Soviet regime in 1991.
Latvia- Gained independence during the Russian Civil War period/Latvian War of Independence. Was invaded by the Soviets in 1940, and then regained independence with the fall of the Soviet regime in 1991.
Lithuania- Gained independence during the Russian Civil War period/Lithuanian War of Independence. Was invaded by the Soviets in 1940, and then regained independence with the fall of the Soviet regime in 1991.
Poland- Gained independence following the Russian defeat in World War One. Was invaded by the Soviets in 1920, but defeated the invaders. Lost independence again in 1939 when invaded by Germany and the Soviets. Gained independence again after World War Two, but had to suffer from Russian occupation and the imposition of a pro-Soviet Communst regime.
Belarus-Gained independence with the fall of the Soviet regime in 1991.
Ukraine-Declared independence during the Russian Civil War but was conquered by Lenin’s Red Army and was absorbed into the Soviet Union. Ukrainian resistance to Soviet rule led to The Holodomor, a genocidal act of intentional starvation against Ukrainians by the Soviet regime. Ukraine gained full independence in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Moldava-Gained independence with the fall of the Soviet regime in 1991.
Georgia-Declared independence during the Russian Civil War but was conquered by Lenin’s Red Army and was absorbed into the Soviet Union. Georgia gained full independence in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Armenia- Declared independence during the Russian Civil War but was conquered by Lenin’s Red Army and was absorbed into the Soviet Union. Armenia gained full independence in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Azerbaijan- Declared independence during the Russian Civil War but was conquered by Lenin’s Red Army and was absorbed into the Soviet Union. Azerbaijan gained full independence in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Kazakhstan-Gained independence in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Tajikistan-Gained independence in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Uzbekistan-Gained independence in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Kyrgyzstan-Gained independence in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union.
We are NOT including invasions of nations by the Red Army in the later parts of World War Two, as the Russians were kicking out the German and other Axis forces from Axis-occupied territory. However, in those eastern European nations “liberated” from the Germans, the Soviets instituted a 40-year occupation and imposed pro-Russian Communist rule. We are also not counting the Soviet offensive into Japanese-held Chinese and Korean territory in the last days of World War Two, or the invasion of several northern Japanese islands.
Finland-Invaded by Russia twice, once during the Finnish War of Independence, and then in 1939, when the Soviets made a deal with Hitler to put Finland in the Russian “Sphere of Influence.”
Ukraine (UPDATED 02.24.22)-Invaded by Russia multiple times. During the Russian Revolution/Civil War, Ukraine declared independence from Russia, but was quickly invaded by Lenin’s Red Army. In 1991, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine achieved full independence. In 2014, Russia invaded and annexed the Crimea region of Ukraine, followed by Russian military support for pro-Moscow rebels in the eastern Donbass region. In 2022, Russia declared the rebel-held areas “independent,” and openly sent thousands of troops into the disputed region of Ukraine. This was the opening move in the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin essentially declared war on Ukraine in an early morning televised address on Thursday, February 24, 2022. Russian forces immediately began a massive assault on Ukraine, including missile and air attacks on Ukrainian military facilities and infrastructure. Russian ground forces (apparantly joined by troops of the Belarusan military), crossed the border at multiple points.
Georgia-Invaded by Russia twice, once in the Russian Civil war period, when a briefly independent Georgia was forced into the Soviet Union, and again in 2008 when Russia invaded in support of pro-Moscow rebels.
Armenia-Invaded by Russia during the Russian Civil war period, when a briefly independent Armenia was forced into the Soviet Union.
Azerbaijan-Invaded by Russia during the Russian Civil war period, when a briefly independent Azerbaijan was forced into the Soviet Union.
Estonia- Invaded by Russia twice, once during the Estonian War of Independence, and then in 1940, after the Soviets made a deal with Hitler to put the Baltic States in the Russian “Sphere of Influence.”
Latvia--Invaded by Russia twice, once during the Latvian War of Independence, and then in 1940, after the Soviets made a deal with Hitler to put the Baltic States in the Russian “Sphere of Influence.”
Lithuania--Invaded by Russia twice, once during the Lithuanian War of Independence, and then in 1940, after the Soviets made a deal with Hitler to put the Baltic States in the Russian “Sphere of Influence.”
Poland-Invaded by Russia twice since 1920, once during the Russo-Polish War of 1920, in which Lenin’s Red Army tried to re-conquer Poland, and then in 1939, after the Soviets made a deal with Hitler to divide up Poland between them. Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, and then the Soviets invaded Poland from the east on September 22, 1939. NOTE: Russia has invaded and occupied Poland and Polish territory many times in pre-World War One history also.
Romania-Also as a result of the Soviet-German treaty, Russia invaded Romania and seized what is now called Moldava in 1940.
Hungary-Occupied by the Soviets during World War Two and forced to live under a Communist regime, the Hungarian people rebelled against their Communist government in 1956. This Hungarian Revolution was crushed by the invading Soviet Red Army.
Czechoslovakia-In 1968, a reform movement called “Prague Spring” was led by the Czechoslovak leader. Seeing this as an anti-Communist movement, the Soviet Union led a combined army of Warsaw Pact troops in a swift invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the imposition of a pro-Russian government.
Afghanistan-The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in December, 1979 to prevent the overthrow of the Communist Afghan regime. Following the initial invasion and conquest, the Soviets engaged in a ten-year occupation and counter-insurgency war against the Jihadi Mujahadeen, before withdrawing in defeat.
Chechnya-Chechnya is a region of south Russia that enjoyed a sort of independence briefly after winning the First Chechen War against Russia. In 1999, Russian forces invaded and crushed the Chechens, destroying the city of Grozny in the process.
In addition to these outright military invasions, the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia have engaged in numerous proxy wars, military interventions, border conflicts with neighbors, and shadow wars against multiple foes during the Cold War and in the years since. Those actions are not listed here as they do not constitute “invasions” of victim nations. - https://stateoftheworld.substack.com/p/the-facts-on-russian-invasions-in
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