Posted on 07/07/2025 7:49:15 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
At President Trump's direction, the Department of Defense is sending additional defensive weapons to Ukraine to ensure the Ukrainians can defend themselves while we work to secure a lasting peace and ensure the killing stops. Our framework for POTUS to evaluate military shipments across the globe remains in effect and is integral to our America First defense priorities.
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I wonder if your mom has figured out that it's not mucus in your Special Ukraine Sock, mucus.
Oh, heck yeah. I didn’t want the cabbage-scented mung all over me. 😖
Equally as nauseating is the girlish squealing, giggling and hopping up and down.
You’re a Chicom propagandist.
Russia “lobs” Iranian, and NK missiles daily into Ukraine “proper”
Goood for the goose good for the gander
Proves they were never pro Trump but pro pitin.
Can only imagine the ego pitin has after 25 years of absolute power.
Imagine he has a man that whispers in his ear each morning, “remember Ukraine”
At this point pitin is in a no win situation, if he caves on Ukraine he is gone, if he keeps going and Russian economy collapses he is gone.
But for pitin there is the “hitler in his bunker “ scenario where Steiner is coming to the rescue and all will be well
You could be right, but then there is the 1991 scenario, no one, certainly not many in 1990 even considered the collapse of the Soviet Union as possible and certainly not as fast as it happened.
I have always thought that the end of this war and any reclaiming of Ukrainian territories by Ukraine would happen not by some miraculous military breakthrough, but because of the economic and political collapse of Russia.
No time table prediction, but is seems much closer than ever before.
The country that was touted self sufficient, had nearly unlimited reserves of men and Soviet equipment, so many shells and missiles that the average Russian was tripping over them walking to work……. Is now reliant on China, NK, and Iran to sustain pitin’s ambitions.
“National wealth fund” is drying up, inflation and interest rates through the roof, can’t defend territory from Ukrainian drone and missile attacks even in Moscow and St. Petersburg (most important to the “all Russians are important” pitin’s power), airports are shut down daily, relying on old and decrepit tankers to move their ever decreasing petro life line….
The man who claimed he could protect Russia if you just gave him unlimited power is looking weak and desperate
You mean like the new “pitin’s youth”
Brigades
And remember it was Obama who wanted them destroyed🤔
Remember the Kuwaiti road of death, cluster munitions
“The U.S. has a strategic interest in containing Russian expansionism.”
Not in isolation, that’s absurd.
We have that interest ONLY if it threatens a real interest. And the US has no real interests in Ukraine.
“Vlad’s goals stated from day one are being met,”
LOL! Putin wanted to take Kiev in three days. Zelensky was supposed to take a plane out.
But Putin used an old failed strategy and Zelensky outsmarted him.
Now Russia is going broke fighting Putin’s two-week war.
His goal is the occupation of Ukraine,
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Laughable.Vlad has had 20 years to do that, if he wanted to. I stand, he will keep the Russian Donbass, at all costs, get used to it….and no more NATO encroachment, the tricky part is how will he be able to solve the Ukie Neo Nazi problem?
Much written the Rada will have to legislate anti Nazi statues.
“Laughable.Vlad has had 20 years to do that, if he wanted to. I stand, he will keep the Russian Donbass, at all costs, get used to it….and no more NATO encroachment, “
From the same poster that said Ukraine will be wiped off the map.
“the tricky part is how will he be able to solve the Ukie Neo Nazi problem?”
“This propaganda isn’t new. Russia has for years highlighted the activity of a marginal group of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists as a way of trying to stigmatize all of Ukraine. Yes, some members of these ultra-nationalist groups have used Nazi insignia, made Hitler salutes, and used antisemitic rhetoric, but they are politically insignificant and in no way representative of Ukraine. The political parties which the ultra-nationalists support received just over 2 percent of the vote in the 2019 elections. Ukraine is a flawed democracy, but unquestionably a democracy, and in no way a Nazi regime.”
https://www.adl.org/resources/article/why-putin-calling-ukrainian-government-bunch-nazis
I don’t like Chinese food I know that much.
>>”Not in isolation, that’s absurd.”
There’s nothing isolated about Russia invading neighboring countries. You don’t have to go far back in history to see that. And when it comes to dealing with one of our top two geopolitical competitors (China being the other), an invasion this significant can’t be looked at in isolation.
There’s no question that both of those countries view us as more than merely economic competitors. They view their prosperity and our prosperity as a zero sum game. That’s the way authoritarian governments work. They’re not interested in improving the lives of their people by giving them more freedom. That’s anathema to their philosophy. So the only way to give their people enough prosperity to keep them from storming the gates is through empire.
>>”And the US has no real interests in Ukraine.”
Again, you’re missing the point. Our interest isn’t with Ukraine per se but with Russia.
>>”Laughable.Vlad has had 20 years to do that [occupy Ukraine], if he wanted to.”
If he wanted to do that, he’d do exactly what he’s been doing for the past 20 years. The invasion/annexation of Crimea took place just over 10 years ago, if you remember. Over the past 20 years he’s also been engaged with other wars of annexation with neighbors (see the Russian-Georgian conflict of 2008).
Russia’s conventional military forces have demonstrated themselves to be sub-par during this most recent conflict so the idea that if he wanted to accomplish Ukrainian annexation he would have already done so is not compelling. Conquering Ukraine is not an easy task, as Ukraine’s stiff resistance has demonstrated.
Russia’s inability to achieve their strategic goals regarding Ukraine shouldn’t be used to explain away their intent. As I asked in my previous post, if Russia has already achieved their strategic goals with Ukraine then why aren’t they pursuing a ceasefire? The answer is obvious.
“Stop Russia”, in the abstract, is not a US interest on any level. It’s nothing but passion and emotion. And it’s for children who don’t understand the world.
Only when/if they impinge on a real US interest should we “stop” them. And we have a boatload of real interests $$ in the original members of NATO. Just like we have a big boatload of real interests $$ in the Pacific theater.
We have virtually NONE in the new NATO members.
And absolutely zero in Ukraine.
>>“Stop Russia”, in the abstract, is not a US interest on any level.
There’s nothing abstract about Russia annexing Ukraine. Such a move puts them that much closer to NATO countries with whom we have mutual defense agreements and treaty obligations. Clearly our interests are better served if Ukraine remains independent. That’s not emotion, that’s pragmatism. And that doesn’t mean we should get into a head to head war with Russia over it, but we should use whatever influence we have to secure that outcome if we can.
If we’re unsuccessful, we’ll survive, but it just means we’ll have to deal with a stronger, more expansionist minded Russia next time. And BTW, if we’re successful in brokering an outcome where Ukraine’s independence remains intact, RUSSIA will survive. Maybe Putin won’t, but Russia will.
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