Posted on 02/21/2022 5:19:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
We did the same thing with Kosovo...... ‘recognized Kosovo’ and then even bombed Serbia to take the territory from them but now Biden is this is illegal and goes against International Law........ Somehow by his double standards it wasn’t illegal when it was done to Serbia.....go figure.
Exactly....Biden seems to think only the US Government has the right to recognize break away areas.
Because Jones has been correct and has been far more accurate than any other MSM, including FOX which basically tells you what the GOPe wants you to know.
1. It’s infowars
2. Putin has criticized Lenin in the past, but still sees him as a “national hero” and the “founder of Modern Russia”. In fact Lenin is still on display in Moscow in his Masoleum!
3. Stalinism is where it is at in Rissia now. He is being rehabilitated.
Alex is usually right.
Yuri Bezmenov predicted everything that’s happening today in 1985. This has been a slow rolling boulder for many many years. Sadly it might be too big to stop. Too little too late.
Not bad.
Russia lost the support of most Ukrainians:
A) Before WW2.
B) During the time of the USSR following WW2.
C) And reinforced during Viktor Yanukovych’ presidency.
Russia can’t lose what they already lost.
It is true many ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine stuck with pro-Russian attitudes. However, I really wonder if that support is as universal as Putin would claim. In several years, the separatists, with strong assistance from Russia, have not been able to take much over 1/3 of Donbass.
In fact, I think Putin is moving now partially because of that stalemate, and partially because a weak US President gives him an opening.
You are certainly correct in thinking that the separatists receive assistance from Russia. They were initially organized and financed by Russia. My wife is from Alchevsk near Lugansk and she is a Russian speaker but 100 percent pro Ukraine. Any plebiscite will be corrupted by Russia just as was done in the Crimea. If one could get a fair vote, then Kaliningrad would vote to leave Russia and be part of Germany again.
I would like to hear the rebuttle and reasoning against the Russian leaders’ speech.
I partially agree, in that most of the sanctions I’ve heard of so far will not knock off Putin. Some are just pathetic responses.
Better would be a 5 year project to render Russia irrelevant as an energy supplier. Granted that the West will have to do some serious rethinking of energy policy, but it is quite doable. Double US gas production. Initiate immediately.
Cut off all SWIFT transactions to / from Russia and Russian allies. Either we are serious about this, or we are not. If major hacking or DOS attacks occur as retaliation, chop ‘em off from the web. (Yes, a major project, I realize.) If they want to develop their own system with China, fine. They’ll regret it.
Bleed ‘em / guerilla war. A starter would be to supply Ukraine with 2 Javelin missiles for every piece of Russian armor near Ukraine, plus any satellite / location info. needed. Provide 2x the number of UAV’s. In return, we get cheap lithium in the future.
All Euro NATO members immediately enact 3% defense spending with emphasis on immediate procurements not requiring large manpower resources. If Putin is worried about NATO’s currently unaggressive position now, make him sweat about what NATO could be in 5 years if provoked.
My Dad, years ago, had a good friend from Ukraine, maybe 10 years older than my Dad, the friend back then living in the same city as my Dad’s parents. The friend as a young man had observed the Russians in Ukraine in the late ‘30’s, then the Germans, then after the Germans were driven out, the Russians again. I only recall bits and pieces, but especially I recall him telling us: “The Nazis were terrible. The Russians were worse!” He eventually managed to escape and made it to the US.
Sometimes he’d share a little incredibly good wine, and say “to celebrate our freedom here.” Afterward Dad would have to stop on the way back to my Grandma’s for mint chewing gum so Grandma wouldn’t smell the wine on our breath. (Grandma was a fierce Methodist.) ;-)
I gotta agree with you on that last. It’s clear now any talk of negotiation by Putin was misdirection.
Particularly noticeable are Putin’s moves right after Olympics. Remember the friendly / cute bear at Sochi?
My maternal grandmother was an old-fashioned strict Methodist too. Solzhenitsyn said that we should not refer to the communists as Russians as the Russians were the first victims of communism. But now we have the post Soviet Russians allowing Putin and his corrupt buddies to whitewash Soviet history and allow one man to take on more power than the last Czar ever had.
Well, for one thing, what major Western leader has advocated for Ukraine to regain nukes?
It’s one thing to say Ukraine should have demanded far greater security guarantees in return for giving up their nukes, or for some Ukrainian politician to muse “Uh, maybe it was a mistake to not keep a few for defense.”
It’s totally another for some Western power to say Ukraine should be re-armed with nukes now. What is Putin’s evidence?
Wow. You are so articulate.
Yeah, those are not bad points, esp. about the Russian people being the first victims of communism.
The crazy thing is, EVERYBODY (except maybe China and almost for sure some Muslim terrorists) would be better off if Putin had accepted Trump’s challenge to get past the old animosities and fears and work toward mutual benefit(s).
LOL, so according to you, Putin is not a hardline nationalist or war-hawk?
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