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1 posted on 07/09/2025 4:31:52 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
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The cliffs notes version. It’s the warmongers in Israel who are responsible for the middle east’s problems.


2 posted on 07/09/2025 4:34:38 PM PDT by Lod881019
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You wrote this? FFS, take up fishing or bowling


3 posted on 07/09/2025 4:35:34 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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Longest load of crap I’ve seen this season.

Just because things happen you don’t like doesn’t mean it’s aliens or pizzagate or global warming.


4 posted on 07/09/2025 4:39:22 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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I don’t have time to read this now, but I wanted to say that I’ve been following news and politics a long time

And the only way what I read makes sense, is if there is a whole lot of blackmail going on behind the scenes. No I can’t prove it.


5 posted on 07/09/2025 4:44:57 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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Quit being a clown.


6 posted on 07/09/2025 4:45:29 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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Oh yeah don’t worry about Williams, he has the worst record for discernment on this site but types more than anyone. Take his insults with a grain of salt


7 posted on 07/09/2025 4:47:26 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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I’m pretty sure the people trying to off Trump aren’t his “backers”.


9 posted on 07/09/2025 5:17:52 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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<< Iran’s capacity to project power—through missile technology, asymmetric warfare, and its regional alliances (Hezbollah, Houthis, Hashd al-Shaabi)—has only grown >>

Lamest. Propaganda. Ever.

10 posted on 07/09/2025 5:35:16 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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The headline makes no sense. Why would Trump’s backers want him dead?


11 posted on 07/09/2025 5:43:07 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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>> " In short, Zelenskyy is a hostage of the very regime he nominally leads.
He is a figurehead president whose survival depends on toeing the line drawn by the neo-Nazi factions empowered by Western intervention. His hands are tied, not by diplomacy, but by terror from within.
Any serious negotiation or deviation from the war agenda risks not only his presidency—but his life."
<<

Let me assure you, this statement is 100 % false.
Zelensky is definitely no hostage to anyone. The true hostages are the Ukrainian people.
When the little costume wearing lunatic declared martial law and general mobilization in February 2022, frontline towns and cities in Ukraine are governed solely by Zelensky's military administration regime.
Many of those farther from the front line still have some civilian, but mostly military authorities as well.
He is using his martial law powers to enhance the authority of his close circle of advisors and Neo- Nazi military thugs to secure a stronger grip on authority to clear out political opponents in logal government.

About the martial law and general mobilization;
Zelensky declared martial law on February 24, 2022, knowing Ukraine's constitution mandates that elections cannot go ahead until any declaration of martial law is lifted.
The duration of martial law and general mobilization in Ukraine has to be extended every 90 days.
Zelensky's regime has voted and he has signed a martial law extension  15 (!!!!!!) times already  to avoid any elections!!
He simply denies the Ukrainian people the elections they want and deserve.
The grifter upgraded himself to a dictator.
The next 90 day extension will expire on August 6th 2025.
No doubt, the power hungry lunatic will continue signing extensions after extensions.
Have you noticed that the coward is very rarely in his own country ?

13 posted on 07/09/2025 7:28:30 PM PDT by ANKE69 (“I said once that it smells of authoritarianism in our country. Now it stinks.” Vitali Klitschko)
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By the time Zelensky was elected in 2019, the war in Donbas was essentially over, and had become one of Russia’s patented “frozen conflicts”. The vast majority of fighting happened in 2014 and 2015. In the 12 months before the invasion, just 7 “civilians” were killed by active hostilities on BOTH sides. I placed civilians in scare quotes because 6 of those 7 were men, and there is no way to know if they were combatants or otherwise involved in the war. In fact, casualties had been steadily declining since since 2016, as neither side appeared to really want the fight. 89% of civilian casualties, mirroring overall casualties, happened in 2014 and 2015, then the war fizzled out. Essentially, the war was ending, and the only way for Russia to take the land it wanted was to invade.


14 posted on 07/09/2025 7:33:11 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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Zelenskyy’s reversal from peace candidate to war-time president can only be understood in this context. It was not a free choice. It was coerced

Zelensky's "reversal" was not from some mythical "ultra nationalist threat" in Ukraine, IT WAS BECAUSE PUTIN INVADED UKRAINE! Idiocy

Its clear now to everyone except die hard Putin apologists, ONLY one side doesn't want peace-Russia.

15 posted on 07/10/2025 3:59:17 AM PDT by tlozo ("“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is under immense pressure from hard-line ultranationalist forces within Ukraine

In the 2019 elections in Ukraine the ultra-right received 2% of the vote, lower than any country in Europe.

In fact, Zelensky a Jewish person getting 73% of the vote in Ukraine to be elected president, shows that "ultra right or ultra nationalist" accusations are a myth.

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, other parties joined Svoboda to form a united party list; the Governmental Initiative of Yarosh, Right Sector and National Corps. However, in the election, they won 2.15% of the votes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)

17 posted on 07/10/2025 4:16:57 AM PDT by tlozo ("“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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