“Irrelevant & immaterial, as the same affect as an armed invasion is the result. Difference is, this adversely affects American citizens.”
I agree with you lack of Mexican border control. Mexican president thanks Biden: “You, president Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built, not even one meter of wall. And that, we thank you for that, sir,” said López Obrador.
That is the president of Mexico thanking Joe Biden for putting America last. It would be nice if this was sarcasm, but sadly, it is not. López Obrador is genuinely grateful that Biden has betrayed his Constitutional oath and the American people to allow millions of illegal aliens to rush across the border.”
Biden policy of open-Mexican border is a disaster.
However, ignoring the Russian Ukraine Invasion in lieu of Mexican border invasion would be a considered as a fallacy of relevance which an allegation of wrongdoing is countered with a similar allegation.
Or, would be the antithesis of two wrongs making a right.
We are 31.5 trillion in debt and that is growing by leaps & bounds, In addition, we have well over 100 trillion in unfunded liabilities with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, interest payments on debt etc.
Illegal immigration costs the American taxpayers roughly 250 billion per year, and those costs keep growing as well. Do you honestly believe that we can print our way out of our money woes, or are you a realist who understands that we are rapidly approaching a point of dire consequences that threatens us, and will have devastating impacts across the world?
If you are a realist, then you have to agree that bankrolling a proxy war in Ukraine is committing national suicide.
Zelenskyy has shown that he is no better than Putin. Zelenskyy has chosen to sell out his citizens to host a proxy war in his nation, and place his citizens in a war zone. Zelenskyy has prohibited all opposition political parties, along with muzzling the press from talking against his leadership. Most importantly, he could have avoided a Russian invasion by simply implementing the 2 Minsk Agreements they had signed with no intention of honoring. His country would not be a war zone that is being destroyed, and his people being killed.. In other words, all of this drama could have been avoided by stopping the aggression against their Russian speaking citizens.
Would you support a leader of this nation targeting & attacking non English speaking citizens? Note that I am talking about citizens, not those here illegally.
Hopefully your answer is no, yet you refuse to even acknowledge that fact in Ukraine.
But back to money. Do you have children & grandchildren? Because you are putting those family members further in debt by supporting this conflict. When the fighting ends, who do you think will get the bill to rebuild Ukraine, while our nation continues to crumble. Is that what you want to do with your loved ones, saddle them with debt & a crumbling nation? I certainly do not want that for my children & grandchildren. I even have great grandchildren, and I'm sorry, but this country is in no position to help the world.
I almost feel like Zelenskyy is blackmailing this nation, by specifically blackmailing Biden, because Zelenskyy has the goods on Biden's corruption. So, whether you understand it or not, you are providing cover for Biden's corruption. Shame on you and the rest of you cheerleaders. Want to really help Ukraine? Stop funding the war and watch them make the tough choice of coming to the peace negotiation table. They may lose some land mass, but at least they won't lose even more. They will save citizens, and can start the process of rebuilding their nation.
1- Putin’s Planning for Retirement, Has Eyes on 3 Successors: Ex-Speechwriter
By Jon Jackson
1/13/23 at 12:18 PM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin could opt for retirement and choose a hand-picked successor rather than run in the next election, according to a former speechwriter for the leader.
Abbas Gallyamov, a political analyst who once worked as a speechwriter for Putin, made the claims about his ex-boss during an interview on the Khodorkovsky Live YouTube channel.
Due to the growing unpopularity of the war, Gallyamov said Putin could face a greater challenge at the polls during the next election in 2024. An option for the leader could be to “rig the elections,” but that could be “too big of a risk” due to a growing revolutionary mindset within Russia, Gallyamov said.
Instead, Gallyamov feels Putin could pick his heir and retire. Gallyamov said the leading choices of who Putin would trust as his successor would be Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin or his Deputy Chief of Staff Dmitry Kozak.
Gallyamov said that retirement would allow Putin to spend the rest of his years in a palace in the Black Sea resort town Gelendzhik while holding the title of senator-for-life. (Current Russian laws allow former presidents to take the permanent senator distinction.)
The political analyst also said there’s an increasing sense among Russian officials that Putin is no longer viewed as the “guarantor of stability” that he once was, and people in Putin’s circle are not happy about the power of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group mercenaries.
Gallyamov said these Putin allies fear Prigozhin and his sledgehammer. The reference to the tool comes after an unverified video surfaced in November that allegedly showed a former Wagner mercenary being executed with a sledgehammer.
Reuters reported that Prigozhin commented about the video on Telegram by saying the man had “betrayed his people.”
Despite Gallyamov’s comments about Putin possibly retiring, George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government professor Mark N. Katz told Newsweek that he doesn’t “think Putin trusts anyone enough” to hand over the reins.
“I don’t think he would even switch places as he did with [former Russian President Dmitry] Medvedev in 2008 to 2012,” Katz said. “But I imagine there are several people who hope to succeed him. It might be easier to keep them under control if they can all still hope to get the nod from Putin, while actually giving someone the nod could unleash a power struggle.”
2-Russian tank repairmen in the Belgorod region have reportedly blown up a T-72 tank they were repairing, causing damage to two other tanks.
On Thursday evening, a fire broke out at a tank repair base in Belgorod, located near Russia’s border with Ukraine, according to Baza, a Russian Telegram channel that regularly posts information about security issues within the country.
The fire, which reportedly started due to a violation of fire safety during repairs, caused ammunition to detonate, destroying one tank and damaging two others nearby.
Firefighters arrived at the scene two hours after the fire, and it was extinguished in half an hour. There were no reported casualties, said Baza.
The T-72 tank has played a key role in the Russian military throughout the conflict that began when Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded neighboring Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine publishes on its Facebook page Ukrainian estimates of the total losses Russia has faced since the invasion began. It estimates that so far, Russia has lost a total of 3,098 tanks in the conflict.
Multiple videos have circulated on social media in recent months which appear to show Russia taking out its Soviet-era tanks from storage to be deployed in the Ukraine war.
In September, Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, shared a clip on his Twitter page that appears to show multiple 50-year-old T-62 tanks lined up on railway tracks in Russia.
“Old Soviet tanks taken out of conservation by Russia - with no protection against modern weapons,” the adviser to the Ukrainian government tweeted. “And new Russian conscripts (also with no protection against modern weapons and a modern army - we’ve seen what they fight in). Perfect combination, doomed for success, I would say.”
The British Ministry of Defense said as far back as May that Russia had moved 50-year-old T-62 tanks from “deep storage” to be deployed for use by its Southern Grouping of Forces (SGF), and that such vehicles are likely to be “particularly vulnerable” to anti-tank weapons.
The T-72 main battle tanks replaced the T-62 units, which were in production in the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1973.
Russia rarely releases figures on losses of personnel and equipment. So far, the Kremlin has confirmed the deaths of fewer than 6,000 troops and fewer than 4,000 additional fighters drawn from Russia’s so-called “people’s republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.