Posted on 11/22/2024 2:23:27 PM PST by marcusmaximus
A senior Russian lawmaker has declared that President Vladimir Putin is justified in targeting NATO nations aiding Ukraine, as tensions escalate over military support to Kyiv.
Andrey Kartapolov, head of the Russian State Duma's defense committee, said the supply of Western weapons enabling strikes on Russian territory gives Moscow "every right to strike military facilities in NATO countries" that assist Ukraine, according to Russian news agency TASS.
"Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has made a decision that we fully support," Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin stated on his Telegram channel. He described the move as "an appropriate and long-awaited response," adding that the U.S. and its European allies were "using missiles to strike Russian territory."
"Our country has the right to target military facilities of states that attack us," Volodin continued. "Despite Western claims that Russia will not dare to act, it will—and it has every right to do so," he asserted.
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Do you think he’s kind enough to use a sock? He’s the type to let it fly everywhere and make someone else clean up his mess.
Remember when the Russian put missiles in Cuba?
Like we did twice in Iraq and in Afghanistan?
Russia has far more of a reason to be in Ukraine than we did in EITHER Iraq war.
This war wouldn't be occurring if we hadn't fomented an illegal coup in Ukraine and installed a government hostile to both Moscow and the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine.
Enough of the stupid of cliches.
More Russian posturing and more Freepers carrying onabout all the unstoppable weapons. Has the Ukrainian invasion not revealed the pathetic state of Russian arms? We only need to discuss the comparative wills to win. Even a broken down kleptocracy can beat the west should the west chose not to fight.
No Russia and its leader is the aggressor. Ukraine is defending itself. Russia went back on its agreement it signed years ago that guaranteed Ukrainian independence. Putin desires to rebuild the Russian empire. The rest of Europe doesn’t want that and will fight to stop aggression.
Putin will start a war he cannot win.
You are an imperialist stooge. Russia has been doing this for the last 500 years. You know nothing about history.
That's who you're supporting -- the globalists that have hijacked our foreign policy so they can profit off of it.
You're an IDIOT if you think Russia is a bigger threat to this country than the globalists in the WEF and defense industry that have bought and paid for Western politicians like Icky Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham and the entire Democrat party.
He certainly lets it fly all over the forum...
Putin will start a war he cannot win.
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The US will start another war they can not win…..they haven’t one a war since 1945.
Exactly !
Next they will say that bombing the electrical grid is a “war crime”.
(...Slobodan Milošević has joined the chat...)
Ukraine; NATO did not attack Russia?
Obama/Nuland certainly provoked Putin
You nothing about Russian history. Russia has be the aggressor in Central and Eastern Europe for hundreds of years.
I guess you could care less about my airplanes being destroyed in NYC on 9/11.
Much less all the Democrats that died.
Where do you think that comes from?
Moslems, you idiot!
Which countries foster radicals and nurture radical
Moslems; You of questionable rational thinking.
If I recall correctly the USA has not had a Constitutionally legal war since 1941.
Putin knows how many nuclear warheads are aimed at Russia, so the bluffing is just to intimidate, but if not, he is a complete madman.
Of course, I cared. That doesn't change the fact we invaded a "sovereign country." I'm just pointing out how moronic your cliché is.
There are damn good reasons to invade sovereign countries. We had one in Afghanistan and the Russians had several in Ukraine.
Everything that has happened in Ukraine is result in our meddling in that country. We fomented an illegal coup and set off a civil war there. We installed a puppet government hostile to Moscow and armed, trained and funded a 600,000 man army. This after promising the Russians no eastward expansion of NATO in the early '90s.
If China or Russia did anything like that in Mexico, we'd invade that sovereign country.
Enough of your stupid clichés. If China
But Ukraine is not a part of NATO so NATO should not
be involved.
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