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1 posted on 04/04/2022 1:42:41 PM PDT by ransomnote
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From the article: The host asks him if the Maidan revolution in 2014 was organized by the Americans.

He replies: “One thing that particularly caught my attention is Victoria Nuland, who is currently the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, saying that...”

...it cost the U.S. $5bio to get into Ukraine and that they weren’t going to leave now after that. What does that mean, Madame Nuland? She is by the way the same one who, when told the Europeans weren’t happy, said ‘f*ck the EU’. So it’s pretty clear...”

Tells you everything you need to know.

The article also mentions Ukraine shutting off the water to Crimea. That's an act of war.

2 posted on 04/04/2022 1:49:41 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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teeter on the redline

Odd Euro phrasing.

When folks gotta pee, they pee.

Red line, blue line.. they pee on it.

Teeter indeed.

3 posted on 04/04/2022 1:51:32 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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Second SS Panzer Division (Das Reich) Unit insignia...
4 posted on 04/04/2022 1:55:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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BKMK


6 posted on 04/04/2022 1:59:04 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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Aleksandr Dugin*, in 1997, had predicted everything that Putin has done

I guess he was a Psychic, huh? Got messages from God, huh?

Practically a proto-Qtard, him. Praise His Name!

8 posted on 04/04/2022 2:02:46 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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Russell Brand video suggests that the war could be stopped if the money flow ends. We should demand the Monied crowd forgive Ukraines debt. (That are making 300% on their loans to Ukraine). I think that’s a good angle to start. They won’t but they’ll know we know they know we know.
Insanity.


10 posted on 04/04/2022 2:10:12 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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Hmmm...after some further digging it appears that the 2nd SS Panzer Division (Das Reich) was composed of Germans, and NOT Ukrainians.

Kind of makes this person’s other assertions a tad suspect.


11 posted on 04/04/2022 2:17:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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This war is very telling.

It is very telling about us in a negative way:

1. When we do not have/see a threat of force, we will walk all over you if our economic interests collide.

2. We no longer see Russia as a world power, a peer, or even near peer.

Irony:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/solomon-islands-says-wont-allow-chinese-military-base-knows-ramification-2022-04-01/

The Solomon Islands worked out a deal with the Chinese. For them it would have been economically beneficial to let the Chinese in. But under pressure from the US, Australia and New Zealand, they backed off. And this is ***right now*** while we tell the Russians to accept us playing in their back yard.

Did we tolerate Russian missiles in Cuba?
Did we tolerate Grenada building a huge runway and getting Soviet support?
Did we tolerate Nicaragua being aligned with the Soviets years past?

But since I mention China, they too prove my point. We would never dare do with China today what we are doing with Russia, specifically Taiwan or the Spratly Islands. Why? Because the economic interests want us to get along with them ($1.15 per hour wage for a factory workers - no EPA, no OSHA, avoid some taxes) and they are a near peer.

Yes, China where you have oppression of Uygers, Christians, forced labor, a single party communist rule, censorship, political prisoners...That's an “ old friend” where we see no wrong. Just like we see no wrong In Saudi Arabia, where you have a kingdom, no free speech, oppression of gays (they get thrown from buildings), women, and they gave the order to have a US resident working for the US news media to be hacked apart alive, in the NATO country of Turkey: Kashoggi.

Our interests in this conflict are PURELY economic. Ukraine is a former Soviet Republic, not a member of NATO, has a huge ethnic Russian population, their government is corrupt, it's hardly a democracy nor has free speech, they have entire units that had a Nazi ideology (now just starting to become known in the US)... And we are talking about “sovereignty” and “democracy.”

In summary: we lied, we're supporting shit heads, Russia has a viable security argument, we have no contractual security agreement with Ukraine... We are there for money (Ukraine is an economic diamond in the rough), and all the human rights, sovereignty, democracy talk are just a post decision rationalizations that do not even make any sense but get the masses behind the decisions made for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgfaKxtzu90

13 posted on 04/04/2022 2:20:34 PM PDT by Red6
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This is sthe sort of rationality you get from wife abusers. The crminality and barbarism is not Putins fault. No it the West fault for not kowtowing to his meglomania and thuggish impulses.

BTW it absure for the Putin bots to blame the West and Minski when their god Putin declared "The Minski agreements no longer exist" as justifiticaion for hsi criminal barbarism

14 posted on 04/04/2022 2:21:37 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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How much did Klaus Schwab and George Soros push for this?


17 posted on 04/04/2022 2:25:53 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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What we always hear from the majority here on FR:

But Putin invaded Ukraine. It was a brutal invasion, and innocent Ukrainians are being slaughtered. /sarcasm (I wish)

21 posted on 04/04/2022 2:38:39 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Don’t forget Biden’s remarks in 1997 that Ukraine joining NATO was a line we couldn’t cross because that would provoke Russia into war. (I’m paraphrasing).


22 posted on 04/04/2022 2:47:50 PM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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Thanks for posting this!


23 posted on 04/04/2022 2:52:59 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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He adds that what happened before the Maidan revolution was Ukraine forbidding the Russian language:

“You have 40% of the population that speaks Russian.

now change that to calif and spanish...


24 posted on 04/04/2022 2:56:18 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Estonia and Latvia joined NATO in 2004. They border on Russia.

This is argument makes no sense.

At present, NATO has 30 members. In 1949, there were 12 founding members of the Alliance: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The other member countries are: Greece and Turkey (1952), Germany (1955), Spain (1982), the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), Montenegro (2017) and North Macedonia (2020).


26 posted on 04/04/2022 3:07:36 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Thanks for posting.


27 posted on 04/04/2022 3:08:26 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Russia is reminding people why there is a NATO.

It was starting to unravel before. Russia was starting to look like a good neighbor. Countries were starting to depend on them... that was Trump’s point, if you are afraid of Russia, why are you depending on them? Why are you letting your militaries atrophy? And if you are not afraid of them, why do we fund NATO?

Russia has just reminded everyone why they need to fund their militaries and keep their powder dry.


30 posted on 04/04/2022 4:53:05 PM PDT by marron
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