Posted on 08/01/2026 4:45:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Seeing Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral seemed fitting: Z-Man’s money-laundering operation in Kyiv was the proximate cause of Graham’s death. Had the senator not been working so hard to add to the butcher’s bill in Europe, he would still be alive today. Surely there is a lesson here for some people to see.
I know there are plenty of pro-Ukraine cheerleaders who just cannot stomach any criticism of an ongoing military conflict that has now lasted longer than WWII. However, I have never seen this as anything other than a civil war that British, European, and American globalists have exploited for monetary and geopolitical reasons that have nothing to do with the sovereignty of Ukraine.
Ukraine is not a member of the European Union. It is not a member of NATO. If Ukraine’s diminutive dictator wishes to turn what’s left of his country into a parking lot, so be it. Let the weight of this folly fall on the head of a comedian who has led his country to slaughter and will leave it a rump of its former self. When the war finally ends, the multinational investment firms will recycle the carnage into reconstruction profits. Ukraine will be stripped and sold for parts. Its people will live in other countries. Foreigners from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East will be dumped into Ukraine by the millions to make up for the rump state’s depleted workforce. Ukraine will never look the same. And future historians will wonder why a comedian was allowed to destroy an entire nation.
It’s not as if the Ukrainian people have had a choice in this matter. Elections have been canceled. Public dissent is outlawed. Opposition political parties are outlawed.
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The FIRST thing the Z-man did was closes the borders so men of military age were NOT allowed to leave.
Didn’t work, plenty of fighting-age Ukrainian men in Poland partying it up.
We shouldn’t have one single dollar being sent to Ukraine by our government. Doesn’t mean I am a “Putinista” and it doesn’t mean I am a supporter of the “Globalhomo Ukranians”.
I am quite glad to see the Russian government getting its face pushed in by Ukraine, since Putin is the leader of Russia, and he is an unrepentant KBG scum. His spots have never changed. He just put on a different suit.
But Ukraine is not our friend. Their government only pretends to be in order to extract money from us.
I don’t forget all the corruption that was benefiting the Democrats before (and after) Trump’s first term.
If the US didn’t overthrow Ukraine’s elected government there never would have been a war. Now Ukraine will never get back Crimea or the Donbas region. Maybe more.
NATO has guaranteed 75 years of peace in Europe, a volatile area, which has allowed our trade with it to flourish.
It’s not about corruption.
If we had interests there, corruption would not matter.
Since we have no interests there, it’s all been a waste.
Oh, absolutely no one is asking Trump to intervene in Ukraine because the answer is a hard no
They are trying to manipulate and maneuver the US into a position where the political pressure to intervene in Ukraine is overwhelming
The though that the US should provide our most sophisticated and top secret nuclear ballistic missile defense technology to a corrupt and insecure Ukrainian government is patently absurd and will never happen
I would be in favor of impeachment against Trump and removal from office if he did so
Whether or not you wish to acknowledge the fact, use of micro yield tactical nukes is central to Russias current military doctrine and Russia has recently deployed the missiles to achieve these goals
Russia does not even need micro nukes because they have seemingly developed accurate and effective kinetic weapons with similar destructive capability to a micro yield weapon
Hope you are happy living in a bombed out, demographically altered Ukraine populated by the same third world trash that is destroying the EU and being robbed by Globalist carpetbaggers intent on buying up the Ukraine for pennies on the dollar and stealing its riches from the Ukrainian people because that’s the future of Ukraine if they do not come to term with Russia
America did that. You’re welcome.
Ignorant statement. Recent protests in Ukraine show freedom of speech and protest is respected while in Russia it is the cause of immediate arrest.
Trump says US can 'take whatever we want' from Ukraine minerals
US President Donald Trump said Washington holds the right to access Ukraine's rare earth mineral deposits at will under a bilateral agreement signed last year, stating the arrangement allows the United States to seize resources freely while establishing a joint investment fund.
https://en.yenisafak.com/world/trump-claims-us-right-to-ukraine-rare-earth-minerals-3721422
For myself, I believe that NATO should have ended when the Soviet Union collapsed.
The threat to America is across the Pacific, not the Atlantic. The Europeans will definitely decide to sit it out when it materializes.
The child-molesting chocolatiers from Brussels cause more trouble than they are worth.
NP, have lived all my life in the US, thanks
That wasn't my comment. You must've meant to send it to another FReeper. But ...
Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly to NOT be ruled by Russia anymore.
Sending American soldiers there to fight is not worth the risk and I don't remember anyone advocating it. Certainly not me.
You should learn the difference between a democrat and a Democrat.
“””””But Ukraine is not our friend.”””””
Our relationship is friendly enough that we have troops in Ukraine being trained by them and we buy their weapons and use their help with our military and allies in the Middle East while having them set up factories to make military weapons in America.
So you don’t even have to live with horrific consequences of the war and post war reconstruction that the people of Ukraine are dealing with
Figures🙄
Tell ya what , I’ll buy you a shiny new Bren 3 assault rifle and a one way ticket to Ukraine so you can live your fantasy on the Ukrainian front lines .
Seriously, I will
They also deployed some SOF capability to Afghanistan & Iraq.
NATO has been looking at the Pacific and dipping their toe (barely) into some military exercises and such, and part of Trump’s decade long effort to strengthen NATO is pressuring them to look outside of Europe more, as we are seeing in the Middle East, currently NATO can keep Russia limited if China attacks us and with their massive military weapons buildup and filling warehouses, they can serve as a weapon reserve for us, with new military budgets and increased manpower and weapon manufacturing they are moving to it will be easier to get them to look at how the problems for and threats to Europe include looking at the Pacific.
Please, your always arguing from an extreme position; nuclear war or now our most sophisticated missile defense technology. There is another easy choice, transfer older weapons and technology to Ukraine.
There is an older variant of the Patriot missile Ukraine could produce, pac2 which the US does not use anymore.
With weapons, our Air-force routinely retires old drones and planes. In storage we have 8,000 of Vietnam era M113's Pentagon is decommissioning at great cost due to asbestos, instead of handing them over to Ukraine.
The Cold War Fleet Heads To The Boneyard
The Air Force has been aggressively retiring planes this year, as it did in 2025, and while it will slow down the pace next year, the service is still planning to send many older aircraft to the boneyard.
https://simpleflying.com/usaf-quietly-shrinking-below-5000-aircraft-1st-time-history/
Most of the so called ‘protests’ in the United States are “rent a mob” - I doubt it’s any different in Ukraine.
So you think if a few hundred people are ‘organized’ that Americans should pay for their war? Gimme a break.
If American ‘elites’ want to launder their money there and get high paying jobs for the drug addicted whore monger sons, then THEY can foot the bill for the ‘war’. There’s over a hundred wars going on in the world last time I checked. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper to ‘rent a mob’ than to pay billions for weapons and soldier blood. We also need to get out of NATO - it’s another ‘we give and they get’ with lies, polls and rent a mobs. Time for all of us to grow up.
The Z man suspended all elections shortly after the war started. That's one of many thug choices that screams 'this is not a free country'...
LOL, supporting the decision of Ukrainians to fight for their own independence is evil? Okay
As to hypocrisy, I also believe in our border security, must I then join the Minutemen Project and guard the border otherwise I'm a hypocrite? Not sure where you came up with the whole "live your fantasy" nonsense.
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