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What Putin really told Biden ---- Russian and US leaders dropped their respective rhetorical gauntlets but nobody really expects Russia to invade Ukraine
asiatimes.com ^ | December 8, 2021 | Pepe Escobar

Posted on 12/08/2021 6:50:02 PM PST by elpadre

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To: elpadre

“...Russian oligarchs have plenty of $$$$ to give Hunter...”

as do oligarchs of the Ukraine, China and half dozen more countries.”

I like Washington DC, California, San Francisco, & NYC oligarchs, they love liberal democrats and are corrupt and woke.

Oligarch is a “loaded term” for foreign business people.


21 posted on 12/08/2021 8:34:41 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Nifster

“This author is a fool” Why so?? I’ve read similar scenarios from other writers. What they suggest is certainly possible.


22 posted on 12/08/2021 8:38:25 PM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: elpadre

Biden looked an acted like an idiot. Putin is probably still laughing.


23 posted on 12/08/2021 9:17:51 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: elpadre

An interesting take on the situation.

What would Biden’s denatured troops do in the Ukraine?


24 posted on 12/08/2021 9:24:34 PM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx; elpadre

Did you read what he wrote? He doesn’t read Drudge, he goes there because Drudge - regardless of its content and bias - has a bunch of good links to the foreign media. Elpadre reads the foreign media, not Drudge.


25 posted on 12/08/2021 9:41:26 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: elpadre

Putin serves at the behest of the oligarchs that run Russia


26 posted on 12/08/2021 9:53:24 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: elpadre
"History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen."
-- Enoch Powell

Enoch Powell was right.

27 posted on 12/08/2021 10:09:14 PM PST by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: elpadre

Well played😁


28 posted on 12/08/2021 10:23:40 PM PST by Thunder 6
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To: elpadre

Well played😁


29 posted on 12/08/2021 10:24:44 PM PST by Thunder 6
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To: Thunder 6

Sorry.double tap.


30 posted on 12/08/2021 10:26:47 PM PST by Thunder 6
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To: Thunder90

I see Putin as more of a Tsarist imperialist than a communist. He is trying to revive Russia as Europe’s central power.


31 posted on 12/09/2021 12:12:25 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: elpadre

WHOA! AsiaTimes just wrote that Russia invading Ukraine is fake news. War Inc (?) is pushing for war. Plus, AsiaTimes doesn’t like or trust Biden. Bannon should talk to them.


32 posted on 12/09/2021 1:49:04 AM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: Ancesthntr

Yes, I did. Going there is the problem. It’s like sticking your hand in fire. You don’t have to read fire to know that is wrong.


33 posted on 12/09/2021 2:02:20 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: Chode

Over vodka with his cronies, they have a good laugh, buy a painting from Hunter, and that’s that. Ukraine has been bucked for hundreds of years, ever since Bogdan Chmelnicki’s uprising against the Poles ultimately ended with their annexation by the Czars.

WTF. Their language is almost the same as Russian. Their peasants dress similarly to Russian peasants. Their writing is Cyrillic, too. All the suffering they endured under Stalin was on Stalin, though he made sure to use Jewish Party members to do the dirty work, so the Jews got punished for his sins when—surprise!—Hitler invaded and Stalin never saw it coming. But he did foresee a back-lash, so made sure to have a scapegoat ready.

Sure. Give Ukraine weapons to defend itself, instead of pillows and blankets. Then they’re on their own. Period. This is all that America can and should do. Ukraine will be suitably grateful.

China is the real threat. So is Iran.


34 posted on 12/09/2021 2:25:17 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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Of course the dumb media will just use the well placed excuse, the Russian invasion was “totally unexpected”.

Invasion is extremely unlikely in the short term (about 4 months) for a reason many here are not thinking of, the weather. If you look at the second world war, most if not quite all of the major offensives take place in the summer often starting in June, while the larger counter offensives all seem to have occurred in winter generally starting in late November or early December. So an invasion while not impossible, is very unlikely as if it is not completed before the mud thaws will be bogged down giving Ukraine and any allies a chance to counter attack in much better weather.

35 posted on 12/09/2021 2:32:43 AM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: Fraxinus

This “Russia might invade Ukraine” is hardcore gaslighting. Russia already invaded Ukraine years ago. Border checkpoints and Ukrainian military units were attacked from inside Russia. Then entire Russian military units invaded Ukraine. If that isn’t “invasion” nothing is. Much of it is on video, too.


36 posted on 12/09/2021 2:39:53 AM PST by lodi90
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To: clearcarbon

rotflol


37 posted on 12/09/2021 3:26:11 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Thunder90

Putin is using the old commie playbook.

“You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw”

― Vladimir Ilich Lenin


38 posted on 12/09/2021 4:16:53 AM PST by Krosan
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To: elpadre

Putin will invade Ukraine. He needs a return to Russian glory


39 posted on 12/09/2021 5:31:16 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: elpadre

Meanwhile, sick Mother Russia continues to die


40 posted on 12/09/2021 5:35:44 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Free Republic has gone to hell is a Covid handbasket)
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