Posted on 10/23/2025 11:40:34 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Let’s put the events of the last 72 hours into context.
On Monday and Tuesday, Russian oil refineries in NATO countries Hungary and Romania suddenly, and simultaneously, have mysterious explosions and catastrophic fires {citation}}. On Wednesday, NATO head Mark Rutte comes to visit President Trump in the White House, and at the end of the day, the same Russian company, Lukoil, whose refinery exploded in Romania, suddenly becomes sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury. These events are not disconnected.
President Trump then disputes a Wall Street Journal report, further saying he did not give approval, nor does he know where NATO long-range missiles are coming from that were launched from Ukraine into Russia.
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President Trump saying, “wherever they may come from,” is alarming in itself. We all know that British PM Starmer, French President Macron, German Chancellor Merz and NATO Secretary Mark Rutte are all in alignment to push NATO into a direct conflict with Russia using the non-NATO state of Ukraine to do it.
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So we are talking about the USA selling weapons we don’t have to EU for money they don’t have?
The war is over - only the dying continues in order to save face.
But it doesn’t make sense that Trump would suddenly flip from being intensely vigilant and outspoken about the corruption in the intelligence agencies and advisors to suddenly being susceptible to this corruption.
What I was asking for was something that makes sense.
Agree.
Any attack also risks direct NATO intervention in Ukraine and possible loss of Kaliningrad.
No one is claiming responsibly - so do not assume anything. And yes Russia took out Nordstream which was of no value to them anyway.
NATO has nothing to do with Hungary and Romania, so quit drumming up false assumptions then making conclusions based on those assumptions.
LOL Both Paris and London have nukes: they could kiss goodbye to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
“using an estimated $300 billion in frozen Russian assets”
Welcome to Cathay Cruises. Once we get to international waters, our dear friends on our Russian partner sister ship will be able to provide you with copies of patented western drugs for mere rubles on the dollar and Euro.
Let me introduce you to our Indian and Chinese biotechnology experts. Let’s have some hearty applause for Dr. H. One Bee, a graduate of the Biotechnology Synthesis Program of one of India’s finest technical universities....
You want to play who has more nukes with Russia?
Have these NATO boobs gamed out how the European Muslims will participate ?
“they’ve imported millions of fighting age young men”
The “migrants” are there to take the European women; all the problematic young European men will be rounded up and shipped off to be immolated by TOS flamethrowers or blown up by Lancet drones.
Does it ever make you feel lonely taking such asinine positions in public? why do you do it?
Even the British, Poles and Germans are not claiming the Russians blew up their own pipeline. They are accusing rogue Ukrainian colonels of doing it - with a rented sailboat. LOL.
“they could kiss goodbye to Moscow and St. Petersburg”
ABM systems protect NYC and DC, and those cities.
Anti-missile systems are a top Russian R&D priority. Russian troops are getting paid, and so are Russian scientists.
Even minor Russian cities will get high-quality anti-missile systems.
LOL - the are members in NATO.
I don’t think Trump wants to be in a hot war against Russia. Yet I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that all other parties do, and that they intend to force Trump’s hand or go around him somehow. Hegseth and Trump must put a stop to it.
Correction. Trump has the intel the many bureaucratic layers of 17 intel-agencies want him to see.
“US will be drawn in by Article 5”
Don,
The wife wants to know when my pay will be deposited.
The airline says it wants to get paid before the plane takes off for Europe.
Love You,
Pvt. Loyal
ABM systems protect NYC and DC, and those cities.
What systems are they exactly. There used to be a last ditch nuke armed Nike attempt to render incoming warheads inactive, wishfully, but I know of no such system today aside from a few launchers in the Pacific.
WIKI
The U.S. foreign correspondent William Shirer was assigned to Berlin at the onset of World War II. In his diary entries on 9 and 10 September 1939, he wrote about the puzzlement felt by many:
Apparently the war in Poland is all but over....Britain and France have done nothing on the western front to relieve the tremendous pressure on Poland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War
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