Posted on 03/04/2022 7:19:08 PM PST by Ennis85
The same media yawned when China overran Hong Kong and downplayed Biden allowing the Taliban to enslave Afghans, however. But, we must care about the suffering in Ukraine.
“But the biggest question is: why are Americans hanging on every doing within this incident?“
Maybe because one wrong shell or bomb it could explode into the rest of Europe or go nuclear .
Commodity markets have zoomed higher creating yet another huge risk.
Another rocket stage was ignited under the inflation rocket.
An ugly truth is that we have conveniently forgotten the thousands of nuclear weapons in the world .
A nuclear exchange is a definite possibility somewhere in the world and this war shows that reality .
I have no interest in fighting for or against ‘leaders’.
My concern is for the ordinary people whose homes are being bombed to smithereens and who are having to flee - women with their babies and old people, leaving their husbands and sons behind to fight.
Putin has a very narrow mind and lives in the past. He’s sacrificing innocent people to his daydream of a renewal of ‘empire’.
I wonder how you would have seen things in the Spring of 1939.
He would have been right there with Chamberlin, Lindbergh and Old Man Kennedy.
I asked the same basic question of someone the other day here. Would he have shown such sympathy for the German people (since, we can’t “boycott” the Russian people because they are innocent and separate from the gov) in 1940? Few ever do.
And actually, US never declared war on Germany per se. Hitler declared war on US as soon as the US declared war on Japan.
Feeling sorry for the citizens being attacked - sure, of course. But is it our fight to get our people killed? Why not still upset about Uyghers, or the myriad atrocities that go on endlessly in Africa and Arabia?
That’s my point. It has nothing to do with being sympathetic. One has to distance oneself from things that aren’t really their business. This applies to whole nations as well as individuals. We sympathize with murder victims and their relatives in the next city but are we really going to stick our necks out to “do something” about the murder rate? Maybe be a vigilante out ther? To do so would not only be arrogant in a way (this stranger knows what to do for you), it would be irresponsible to all those YOU hold dear personally as you get yourself in trouble.
Very, very similar.
Putin has apparently invaded Ukraine to ensure the independance of the DPR and LPR republics: and to prevent the current Ukranian regime from attacking them anymore.
This casus belli is eerily similar to Kosovo.
Kosovo wasn't US territory. It's independance was assured by American arms, including *months* of bombardment of Belgrade.
If Kosovo's independance can be assured by the might and valor of the US, why can't Russia step in to help Russophones literally on its border?
WaPo?
seriously?
why post such left wing BS?
Zelensky is not innocent
there’s more than one evil-doer in action here
I agree. This was avoidable. Our state dept is terrible.
Democrats will use the Ukraine war as an excuse for high food and gas prices for mid-terms. It’s called distraction. Never let a crisis go to waste. Gosh Americans aren’t paying more for food and gas due to COVID mandates, long unnecessary shut-downs, forced vax or lose your job, shut down of our oil and gas production. Nope, it’s all because of Ukraine war.
Are you talking about dopey joe and his threat to use nukes and F-15s on us?
Yep, I agree. It’s going to hit us. Farmers are already saying they won’t plant due to high cost of fertilizer, they will only plant soy beans, or they will sell out their farm land. Can we say food shortage this coming fall?
I agree with you on many points. However, Germany was different as many of their citizens turned in their Jewish neighbors, knew they were being transported to their deaths, and did nothing. They took their homes, their lands, their money.
So you’re saying that only Germans are really evil. Which is a smack to America as German is our biggest influence besides the English base.
I doubt all Germans simply turned in Jews knowing what would happen (actually they were slave camps, not simply for termination).
Likewise, only Germans had the opportunity for such discrimination. It was part of Hitler’s policy. Whereas even Japan didn’t have that (mostly because they were very racist and wouldn’t have any “diversity” in there anyway); just equal-opportunity kill.
So again, it’s kind of six half dozen or other. German people were put in this position by their own, I don’t believe all were simply evil back-stabbers who knew everything about Hitler and NAZI plans, and they did things for self-preservation, which is natural. Thus, yeah, I can excuse Russians (as per the “cat” thread), or I can choose to see them as part of the machine that is evil. It’s easy to understand either way.
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Oh they’ll use it for anything.
My concern is they will gin up so much fervor over Ukraine that people will naturally want to “do something” such as bomb Russians, then get in the war either in Ukraine or Russia. Then that means American lives. But Dems will support it because “it’s honorable”. Like we were with Moslems in Yugoslavia. But really….why?
If this turns into major war, We can get in then. Happened this way before, almost every time.
There are good people in Russia, Ukraine, and America. But all three of those governments are corrupt and evil beyond what most people can imagine (because they just believe whatever their TV Masters tell them).
The media spent four years lying about Trump, two years lying about covid, and now people are hanging onto their every word about Ukraine. Idiots!
Anyone smart will keep an eye on the battle of the thugs and focus their time on preparing for what's to come. Just keep in mind that whatever our government wants to do to Russia, they will want to do to us next.
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