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So What If Russia Conquers Ukraine?
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Posted on 05/26/2025 12:59:37 PM PDT by ExpatCanuck

Let’s say Russia takes over Ukraine (one of the most corrupt countries in the world)… then what? As long as Russia doesn’t go on an ethnic cleansing rampage (doubtful given their common ethnic origins), and honors the mineral agreement with the USA, why should we care?


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To: ExpatCanuck

Because it’s nothing but argument bait. Who needs that crap?

It must not be Memorial Day in Russia, because all of the tovariches are out in force.

Really, get out of the home and go for a walk on the grounds and remember real heroes. Not the keyboard warriors you wish to get all worked up.


41 posted on 05/26/2025 1:41:46 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: ExpatCanuck
You mean like it always was before 1991?

Not my problem. Stop being world cop. Avoid foreign entanglements.

42 posted on 05/26/2025 1:47:48 PM PDT by Salman (Avoid foreign entanglements.)
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To: ExpatCanuck

who cares?
we should be neutral.
no more taxpayer dollars!
i don’t trust rubio.He’s an amnesty guy.


43 posted on 05/26/2025 1:49:50 PM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: ExpatCanuck

“Let’s say Russia takes over Ukraine (one of the most corrupt countries in the world)… then what?”

Putin has been very clear in that his objective is reconstituting the Soviet Union. Ukraine is just another step along that path.
Then what? The baltic states.
Then what? Poland.
Then what? Moldova.
Then what? The list goes on.
Then what?


44 posted on 05/26/2025 1:50:29 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“ Trump will lose his bully pulpit. No more achievements on the domestic front.

Trump will be forced to show that he’ll support NATO. And that means thousands of American troops to the Baltics.

Trump will no longer be able to criticize NATO. The Europeans will have the upper hand.”
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You must have drawn the short straw and been designated as the Memorial Day on-call ZEEPER/neocon.


45 posted on 05/26/2025 1:51:46 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: ExpatCanuck

Not only should we not care, the average Ukrainian at this point is fighting for a regime that practices censorship and imprisons journalists, has shut down a major church body, promotes homosexuality and maligns family values, and has waged a wide-ranging war on Russian language and culture (which a large swath of Ukrainians identify with). The average Ukrainian faces no sanctions or negative consequences from a Russian takeover. So they are just fighting and dying at this point to repress and persecute themselves and their neighbors, all as slaves of the EU elites that are pushing all these agendas. Tragic.


46 posted on 05/26/2025 1:52:49 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: DugwayDuke
Putin has been very clear in that his objective is reconstituting the Soviet Union.

If you repeat a lie often enough do you imagine anyone will believe it?

There is a problem of demonstrably aggressive warmongers seeking to enslave an ever larger swath of the globe - and you are siding with them.

47 posted on 05/26/2025 1:54:34 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: SSS Two

Greece also has longstanding ties to Russia, so they’d have another option in trading partners if the EU continues to harass them. That’s assuming the EU doesn’t break up under the weight of its arrogance.


48 posted on 05/26/2025 1:59:05 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: ExpatCanuck

I was very much in favor of a negotiated peace settlement but both Russia and Ukraine have made it clear that they don’t want peace. They have also reminded us of how untrustworthy both of them are.

I am now very much in favor of walking away from this. Let the Euros handle it.


49 posted on 05/26/2025 2:00:03 PM PDT by Allegra (I survived the Trump Recession 4/7/25 - 4/10/25)
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To: ExpatCanuck

There are just two ways left for the Ukrainians to sustain a fight against the Russians now.

Direct foreign troop deployment on the ground or, nuclear weapons.

Every single thing (weapons) the west has sent to The Ukraine has been met and defeated by the Russians.
Leaves just two of those above.


50 posted on 05/26/2025 2:06:23 PM PDT by crz
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To: ExpatCanuck

It would be a Euro version of Afghanistan. Especially in cities like Kiev-you never want to fight a guerrilla war in a big city, the locals have many places to hide.


51 posted on 05/26/2025 2:07:41 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: SSS Two

“Russia says it wants the whole of Ukraine.”

No, they have not said that...ever.


52 posted on 05/26/2025 2:07:51 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: ExpatCanuck
That might be the best case scenario for US taxpayers.

There is no national interest in Ukraine but our politicians and elite have been laundering money there for years. Thus, the reason we've wasted at least $200 billion there.

53 posted on 05/26/2025 2:07:57 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: DugwayDuke

If they really wanted to reconstitute the USSR, they’d have started with easier targets, such as the resource-rich Stans.


54 posted on 05/26/2025 2:12:12 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“....I never did GAS one way or the other, except for the hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer money being squandered.”

Glad you said that. Now I don’t have to.


55 posted on 05/26/2025 2:13:01 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: DugwayDuke

““Let’s say Russia takes over Ukraine (one of the most corrupt countries in the world)… then what?”
Putin has been very clear in that his objective is reconstituting the Soviet Union. Ukraine is just another step along that path.
Then what? The baltic states.
Then what? Poland.
Then what? Moldova.
Then what? The list goes on.
Then what?”
Then nothing.
Putin doesn’t want Germany, France or the UK.
Nobody does. They’re too worthless, hysterical and screwed up by all the muslim terrorists they let in.


56 posted on 05/26/2025 2:17:53 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: ExpatCanuck

You know Ukraine had a Russian friendly government until the CIA sponsored coup in 2014. They were at peace and Crimea was still a part of Ukraine until then.


57 posted on 05/26/2025 2:19:08 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: ExpatCanuck
honors the mineral agreement with the USA

😂😂

58 posted on 05/26/2025 2:23:53 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: ExpatCanuck

All of this conversation about Russia while the Muslims have taken England and are working on France.
Germany and Belgium will be gone next.
We’ve spent trillions since 1945 on the defense of western Europe to
preserve the birthplace of western civilization and culture.
What have they done?
Given it away to the muslims and africans and indians.
All of this effort needs to be expended on removing non ethnic europeans from
Europe for any of this to make sense.


59 posted on 05/26/2025 2:24:24 PM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: ealgeone

“Poland may not want the Bear on their doorstep in light of prior history.”

Russia also doesn’t want to be on Poland’s border, as shown by Medvedev yesterday on his map of the future Ukraine.


60 posted on 05/26/2025 2:24:49 PM PDT by BobL
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