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Ukraine Fatigue Is Not an Option
The Wall Street Journal ^
| Feb. 22, 2023
| Daniel Henninger
Posted on 02/22/2023 9:08:58 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
This week is the Ukraine war’s first anniversary, but it feels like 10 years, not one. Ukraine “fatigue” is understandable. But let’s try to put the sensation of war fatigue in context.
Vietnam came to be known in the 1960s as the television war, shown on the TV news every night. News programs then lasted a half-hour, with Vietnam usually just a segment. Still, the unsettling daily footage eroded public support for the war.
Today, with all media on all the time, we are saturated with Ukraine’s war, as we are with mass murders, weather disasters or a train derailment. The sense of feeling worn down by events has become the natural order of things. I had Super Bowl fatigue before the opening kickoff.
In recent months, the argument over Ukraine has been about its importance for the U.S. Is this really “our” war? It is almost eerie that an answer to that legitimate question is emerging almost at the moment of the war’s first anniversary.
It has become clear in the past several weeks that the tectonic plates of global power are shifting. The autocratic alliance of China, Russia and Iran is signaling it’s no longer content to accept an indefinite standoff of competing ideologies and commercial interests as the status quo. They have decided to make Ukraine a singular test, which they believe the U.S., Europe and Asia’s democracies will fail.
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To: MinorityRepublican
Because Wall Street is led by war profiteers.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:10:46 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(Starve the beast and steal its food!)
To: Fai Mao
Wall Street is a lot of things, but the “military industrial complex” is a tiny part of the corporate zoo these days. I doubt very much that the big money wants this war to continue.
You are welcome to look up the proportion of equity of defense stocks in the S&P.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:16:13 PM PST
by
buwaya
(Strategic imperatives )
The Ukraine is the money laundering head quarters for the Deep State. We never should have gotten involved, but the US and NATO helped overthrow the Ukraine in 2014 and worked to build an army there to overthrow Putin. They have stated they want regime change and Merkel has come out and admitted publicly that the Minsk Agreements were not sincere, they didn’t want peace with Russia, they just wanted time to build up the Ukraine to go to war with Russia.
SO fatigue in watching over 200 billion us Tax Payer dollars be flushed into the money laundering operation in the Ukraine is understandable. We’re sick of the Biden crime family and their interactions with the Ukraine.
This isn’t some noble war - those are lies. This is 10% for the big guy, and in return, the Ukraine is home to the Deep State. Let’s kick the deep state out of the Ukraine and let citizens live there. Wait, Zelensky and others are treating the citizens like cannon fodder so few may be left.
C’mon the public heard Biden brag about extorting the Ukrainian officials to protect his sons crimes there! Pelosi’s son, Schumer’s son, the FTX funding the DNC via the Ukraine. REally, so much of the DNC leadership, and BIden regime depend on the Ukraine to keep laundering ‘foreign aid’ from tax payers. Let’s cut them off and make them get real jobs!
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:18:10 PM PST
by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
To: MinorityRepublican
It's not an option for the ruling class, neocons and RINOs.
But, the quicker Russia ends this war, the better off those of us that believe in an American First agenda will be.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:19:14 PM PST
by
Kazan
To: Fai Mao; ransomnote; Kazan
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:21:20 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
Ukraine is the epitome of Corporate War at the behest of the NWO/NGOs.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:22:13 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
President Trump said he'd end the war in 24 hrs with peace negotiations. He's not urging people to keep fighting. The same bad actors who support the Biden Regime's crimes support propping up the Ukraine war.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:23:05 PM PST
by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
To: MinorityRepublican
Ukraine Propaganda and Spam Fatigue *is* most definitely an option on FR and it set in for many of us several months ago.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:23:23 PM PST
by
Allegra
To: MinorityRepublican
They need to come to the table. No good comes from these slogging Russian wars.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:24:02 PM PST
by
toddausauras
(Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
To: ransomnote
There is not an ounce of evidence that Ukraine serves as the “money laundering” operation for the “deep state”.
Ukraine and Chinese companies gave Hunter Biden money to buy influence from his VP dad.
The current government of Ukraine were elected as reformers.
All the ranting that goes on here about Ukraine never discusses its actual strategic position in Europe, or its considerable natural resources, which is why Russia wants it.
Those are the considerations for our national security, not blathering about homos, WEF and money laundering
Biden didn’t even want to defend Ukraine, which illustrates how reality has been turned on its head by the Ukraine haters.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:26:13 PM PST
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
To: Allegra
Spam Fatigue
Repeat: There are no Good Guys on any of the many sides of this conflict. Only innocent civilians caught in the middle.
I offer no solution other than turn off the money faucet.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:27:41 PM PST
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable STILL )
To: ransomnote
>
... the FTX funding the DNC via the Ukraine... Man, there's a story that disappeared quickly.
Anybody heard from ol' Sam Bankman-Fried lately?
I half expect to read that he hung himself from a tree with an electrical cord, and then shot himself in the chest with a shotgun (which was never found). Or maybe he shot himself first and then hung himself. It's so hard to tell...
The FTX story got stepped on, hard. Too many big names involved.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:28:25 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
To: drSteve78
I agree with everything you just said.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:28:33 PM PST
by
Allegra
To: Williams
There is not an ounce of evidence that Ukraine serves as the “money laundering” operation for the “deep state”.
Sure, GMAFB
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:29:15 PM PST
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable STILL )
To: toddausauras
They need to come to the table. No good comes from these slogging Russian wars.Cease fire. Then get Polish troops to come in Ukraine as peacekeepers. Putin gets to hold on Dontesk.
To: ransomnote
I find it quite curious that you are so sure that Ukraine is the “money laundering headquarters of the deep state”. With no actual information.
This is based on one arrangement by H. Biden, among a large number of other bits of business he was engaged in in several other countries.
To say that such a grandiose conclusion has such a tenuous support... well, it’s rather like blaming global warming on CO2, a trace gas.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:29:48 PM PST
by
buwaya
(Strategic imperatives )
"More credible is the assertion by the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that China may be about to send lethal war materiel to Russia, joining Iran as an active equipper of Mr. Putin’s long war." Wall Street Journal
In reality, the Ukraine just received a shipment of radioactive material from 'friends' and is training it's soldiers in an area next to the radioactive 'exclusion zone'. So NATO is accusing China of sending lethoal war material to Russia as NATO sends lethal war material to the Ukraine.
NATO is losing the war of attrition with Russia. NATO sanctions haven't caused Russia to implode as expected; Russia's economy is performing better than theirs. NATO can't produce ammunition as fast as Russia. Time to push harder for that WWIII they want?
>>>>> President Trump POSTS on Truth Social. <<<<<
https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109900963541880273
"If you watch and understand the moves being made by Biden on Ukraine, he is systematically, but perhaps unknowingly, pushing us into what could soon be WORLD WAR III. How crazy is that?"
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 02/14/2023 Vol.449, Q Day 1935, ransomnote wrote: |
Is it false flag season? Rumor was that Zelensky wanted to withdraw from Bakhmut but was told to wait until after Biden's visit. But how to 'justify' withdrawing from Bakhmut after posturing with 'daring' pronouncements when Biden visited? Maybe the Russian Embassy's Tweet is pointing to the Ukrainians planning a False Flag to 'justify' withdrawing his troops? Or a false flag 'somewhere' because Zelensky keeps wanting WWIII and the propagandists on FR keep 'threatening' that Poland is 'next' or Belarus is 'next'. They hint that Putin is Hitler and must be stopped. SO maybe the Ukrainians have a radioactive false flag in the works? [H/T Ymani Cricket] https://twitter.com/RusEmbUSA/status/1627389785441533953?cxt=HHwWgoC8heeY05UtAAAA
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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 02/14/2023 Vol.449, Q Day 1935, Ymani Cricket wrote: |
I believe this goes with that: From: https://t.me/s/intelslavaIntel Slava Z 🇺🇦🇧🇾 Ukrainian militants conduct exercises near the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, reports AFP According to the agency, this place has become an “important training ground” for Ukrainian troops, which is located 15 km from the border with Belarus. |
Thread on FR: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4132705/posts
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:30:47 PM PST
by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:32:30 PM PST
by
cowboyusa
(There is no co- existence with Pinks and Reds)
To: MinorityRepublican
He could have saved everyone the trouble, and just taken tja6 area, but he was too prideful, and greedy.
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posted on
02/22/2023 9:34:01 PM PST
by
cowboyusa
(There is no co- existence with Pinks and Reds)
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