Twenty years for Russia. Already, Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in the world.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The bulk of those minerals are in Russian held territory.
Notice: There are no US companies in Ukraine mining rare earth minerals.
Yup, that immediately made WW2 England "not a free country" and Churchill a "thug" when he suspended elections during the war.
Notice how there are NO protests in Ukraine calling for elections and even two of Zelensky's biggest opponents have rejected having elections during the war.
Ukraine's Opposition Leaders Reject Holding Wartime Elections - March 06, 2025
Ukrainian opposition leaders Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko have dismissed the possibility of elections in the country during Russia's full-scale invasion after media reports suggested US officials had approached them about the idea.
Poroshenko, a former president, and Tymoshenko, a former prime minister -- the country's most influential opposition figures -- said on March 6 that elections should take place only after peace has been established.
Poroshenko admitted in a written statement published on social media that his team has had contact with US "partners" but that "the essence of our conversations with representatives of the American side has always been reduced to two principles -- security first and peace through strength."
"Our team has always been and is categorically against elections during the war," he added.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-opposition-elections-poroshenko-zelenskyy/33338598.html
Maybe just maybe because there is a war going on?
It shouldn’t be, but it is.
It should be and is proving very helpful to us in Europe and the world, things would look very differently today if Russia had breezed in and taken Ukraine within weeks like they thought they would do 5 years ago, Trump has used the Russian threat and then the Russian actual invasion, very effectively to shape things better than they were in 2016 with NATO and our Pacific allies, and to reduce Russia in stature, Russia is neck deep in a quagmire and largely taken off the world stage, while also prompting a military and energy rebirth in almost all of our friends and allies.
I agree with you on the minor point, but disagree with you on the overall point.
Which one is which?
Agreed- most definitely.
"There are some corruption problems with the Ukrainian leadership"
Some? Bwhahahaha!
The minor point that it keeps Russia occupied. The major one is that things would look very differently today if Russia had breezed in and taken Ukraine within weeks like they thought they would do 5 years ago.
This article was written by someone named Shirk, as in shirk your responsibilities.
And all the other hundreds of wars in the world? What about them?
The little people are almost always innocent and in pain. Should we jump in and give billions of dollars worth of weapons and help to those people too? If not, why not? Everyone who suspends elections is like Churchill? YOU know better.
Tell me why we should be donating to Ukraine. Why NOT the other hundred countries involved in wars? And to compare Churchill and the world war II situation to Ukraine is delusional.
The resulting war changed all of our militaries and woke up a lot of the voters to doing what Trump wanted them to do with breaking dependence on Russian energy, nuclear came back, voters moved right, governments moved right, old stale weapon stores were sent to be used against the country they were built to be used against and factories started being built to replace the old with not only new copies and versions, but a lot of new and different weapons instead of the old, while governments and voters woke up to the need for massive new military spending, military drafts, and increasing the numbers of their military because of the vast consumption of a modern war, in men, machines, and ammo.
All this didn’t just happen in Europe, it helped get us back into the Philippines, set Japan off on their biggest military build up since WWII and moving towards an aggressive military and closer ties to us, Australia, Taiwan woke up, the Middle East started coming together against Russia’s partner iran.
Suddenly we and our friends and allies are looking at maps, and seas, and weapon manufacturing, and new tactics and strategies, and bringing in Ukraine to help them with it, start looking at this completely different situation since 2021, the changes are incredible.
In 2021, all of this looked dismal, moribund, atrophied, little manpower, rusting equipment, aging 30 and 40 year old missiles and technology and ammunition, much of it at end of life and needing expensive disposal, defensive relationships taken for granted and stale, and largely shallow, militaries and war largely fading in memory and looked at through outdated eyes by most of our friendly nations, and look at all the shifting of countries toward us and away from Russia, even Latin America is erasing Russia influence.
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this was a good article.
sub-dividing the uke is a decent solution -even if ukies(without the leetle grifter) are allowed to have a rump state.
The difference is Russia, we help Ukraine because it is Russia continuing their move on Europe and they need to be stopped from conquering Ukraine and gaining that population, wealth and geography, as it is now look at today’s situation with Kaliningrad, Moldova, Transnistria, Gotland island, the tiny little fruit of the Baltic countries, and the Baltic Sea, and look at where Russia is today globally with Venezuela, Cuba, Africa, Iran, and so on, almost out of the picture.
There is a reason that Russian invasions in Europe are important and why we devote less attention to little wars that mean little to anyone who isn’t literally there, when Europe burns, the world burns, it is the home of World Wars, and affects everything, keeping it free of Russian rule after freeing much of it only a generation ago, is something we have to work at.
This guy is a moron - it is not a civil war, it is an invasion by an imperialistic power that has committed atrocities and genocide there once before under Stalin, a dictator whom the current Russian leadership , whose KGB head boss, fully in bed with communist holdovers from the Cold War, still idolizes.
It will eventually use any territorial acquisitions as a jumping off point for more if the west submits.
You do know most of Europe will be Muslim countries within 40 years, right? And that they’ll be conquered by Muslim true believers not the educated Muslims from places like the UAE? Right?
As to the domino theory, what other countries has Russia taken over since Gorbachev left? And as strained as they are financially right now because of the war do you believe they’ll move on to other countries? And you feel it’s our business? Why? If we gave them 40 billion do you think we would get one cent back from them? Or ten pounds of rare earth? A fair trade would only happen with Trump. If democrats get in office they’ll trade to line their own pockets NOT the pockets of our country.
My suggestion is if Europe wants to remain free they close their borders and start preparing for the possibility that Russia or someone els might invade and that they should build up their own armies and get their own weapons NOT butter up the corrupt ones in the US with ‘swaps’ like jobs for sons of ‘elites’ in exchange for American tax dollars... It wasn’t just Hunter - Ukraine paid off the elites who controlled taxpayer money. That alone should disqualify them from ever receiving American’s money.
Twenty years for Russia. Already, Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in the world.
The Democrats are doing no such thing and in fact enabled Russia and Hillary Clinton’s favorite Russian to invade the country in the first place, which was followed by Obama’s dithering while he pretended to assist them with blankets only, which was followed by Biden withholding aid in order to extort them for bribe money to his family. Lazy lip service is just that, lip service.
That is definitely not how you treat an ally or friend. It is how you assist the Russians in waging war abroad while you pretend to be doing otherwise.
The Democrats have always been pro-Russian and pro North Vietnam and pro Comminist China since at least John Kerry’s political ascendency, which includes his cuddling up to the Sandinistas, and they were more so when Obama, the son of two individuals who met each other while studying Russian, was crippling us in the White House.
You should be “wondering why” the “corrupt and despotic” Globohomo EU has pumped $200+ billion Euros into Putin’s war economy since ‘22. They are clearly quite happy to do business with Putin’s regime.
Russia as a Muslim country with all those nukes? OMG
OK, how much will it cost us to assist Ukraine? And how can we work a deal where that corrupt hellhole country doesn’t take us to the cleaners? Maybe we should still walk away from Ukraine and start spending all our money on our own defense.
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