Posted on 01/20/2022 6:27:05 PM PST by Williams
Hope this vanity to General/ Chat is not too intrusive.
I love Tucker Carlson, his analysis and his bravery, to the extent he's the only Fox show I watch every night.
However, Tucker's opposition to any possible (even imagined) American military action is extreme.
Tucker is against America going to war with Russia over Ukraine. That's ok, but so is everyone, including the Biden Administration. Biden made it clear the American/ NATO reaction to a Russian invasion, would be limited to sanctions.
Yesterday, everyone but Tucker heard Biden practically invite Russia into Ukraine. But Tucker still claimed on yesterday's show that Biden wanted a war with Russia over Ukraine.
Today, he continued his parade of guests who said America wants to invade Russia, and that America will be defeated. I'm not exaggerating, his guest tonight was saying that NATO was created to prevent war, and that the Europeans will not support an invasion of Russia and we'll fail. That's crazy, no one is discussing an invasion of Russia.
Tucker NEVER acknowledges the only thing going on right now is a threatened Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Tucker and his guests keep touting Russia's "strategic interests" which justify invading Ukraine. This is supposedly because Ukraine is about to join NATO, something which is no where near happening and which is a pretext Putin is raising to justify annexing Ukraine.
Prior to this crisis, Tucker had guests claiming we wanted to invade Iran, and who said Iran would defeat the United States.
I respect Tucker's non-intervention beliefs. I accept that some elitists want endless wars. But that doesn't justify lying about a planned US war in Russia, or even in Ukraine.
It also doesn't justify echoing the old Soviet/ Russian ploy of claiming Russia has to attack other countries in "self defense", because the West is "encircling" Russia.
The only thing being done to support Ukraine is giving them weapons to defend themselves - and threatening SANCTIONS. This was also the Trump policy.
Why does Tucker oppose economic sanctions to deter military invasions in Europe? Well he doesn't exactly oppose them, he ignores them and instead argues against his strawman of a planned WWIII with Russia. No one is threatening that.
I'm sorry, but his guests on this topic are anti-American apologists for Russia.
There's an obvious counter argument, that it's a bad thing to encourage Russian military attacks in Europe. Tucker never even acknowledges that argument.
The Ukrainian army will take him if he is fit enough. Go sign up.
“Tucker NEVER acknowledges the only thing going on right now is a threatened Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
That’s not really accurate. Kiev is threatening to try to conquer the Donbass and Crimea. We are arming and training them for it. Our warships routinely sail within two or three miles off the Crimean coast, claiming that we got permission from Kiev. We tried to launch color revolutions in Belarus and Kazakhstan in the last two or three months. We just spend several years trying to overthrow their ally in Syria with ISIS/FSA and demand they back out.
So congrats, we have finally convinced them we are hostile and aggressive. And when they complained, we rushed weapons to Ukraine to make the point that yes we are.
So soon, we will probably see missiles in Cuba again as they try to illustrate for us what they are saying.
Meanwhile China runs wild, the border is wide open, crime is rampant, shelves are empty, and our economy is in free fall. That is the crisis.
NATO isn’t a military unit.
Shallow thinkers like him populated the Obama, Trump and now Biden admins. They have pushed Russian into a military alliance with China. Their combined power exceeds ours and the gap will only grow from here.
The stupidest possible geopolitical maneuver they have accomplished.
You go fight. Hell no I won’t go.
“My Son is a Major in the US Army with two extended tours in Iraq - I don’t want him or any of his fellow soldiers to set foot in the Ukraine - especially because of a diplomatic screw-up by Brain Dead Biden.”
We have 20 grandkids, grand nieces and nephews, we don’t want to see sacrificed and wasted for egos and deep state B$!
Reagan wanted a “Marshall Plan” for Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, and to woo Russia into the fold.
Instead the Bush and Clinton Administrations decided to dance on the grave of the former Soviet Union, which only served to alienate them.
1..2..3..4...we don’t want your bleeping war!
“... I doubt they want an actual shooting war or ground war with Russia...”
I hope you are right. They act so irresponsibly that it’s hard to tell. Maybe they “just”!want a return to a Cold War they can profit from personally, with sweet jobs or at least by being taken seriously.
Use of US forces should only be used if clearly in the best interests of the USA period….
And it seems like the denizens of DC have never been in a bar. I don’t mean an effete DC bar, I mean a pool hall or a Texas dance hall.
Walking around acting tough to intimidate people even though you really have no intention to punch anyone... that’s a good way to get punched in the face.
The eastern hal of ukraine is Russian speaking.
The country should’ve divided their originally…
And NATO shouldn’t have tried to expand into ukraine.
For 2500 years of history, invasion of Russia has been a bad idea.
Bingo!!
This is what happens when regional conflicts become proxy fights between Superpowers. If the West just stayed out of it, by now the Ukrainians and Russians may have worked out a solution. Once outsiders get involved, the whole dynamic changes.
Thanks for posting it:
Deeper question: Just what the Hell does the US stand for anymore?
Who are we to impose ourselves on the rest of the world?!
Thanks for posting it:
Deeper question: Just what the Hell does the US stand for anymore?
Who are we to impose ourselves on the rest of the world?!
They have been trying to purge the military of conservatives for a year now.
A war would allow Biden to distract the military, to get them out of the country.
Biden would then have a free hand to act against his domestic opponents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918
You think the Rats and Never Trumpers aren’t chomping at the bit to impose these kinds of laws again? A war is the perfect pretense.
Russia isn't going to invade Ukraine. I've watched a few YouTubers from and in Ukraine and they aren't worried about A Russian invasion. It's all propaganda on our end.
We fomented a revolution in 2014. Soros was heavily involved, meeting with the incoming President. Then, we proceeded to use Ukraine to pester Russia. Russia wasn't going to allow Ukraine to cut off its access to the Black Sea so it annex Crimea with the full consent of its residents, which were overwhelmingly pro-Russian.
Of course, Biden is making an issue out of all of this to distract from his failures. I doubt he wants to send troops to Ukraine, But he wants the media to cover this bogus story.
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