Posted on 02/25/2022 10:01:38 PM PST by bitt
Russian president vladimir putin pines for the old Russian empire and takes Ukraine’s independence as a personal affront. But the invasion of Ukraine is not a limited regional dispute between neighbors. Putin is also motivated by a deep opposition to democracy more broadly. That is why he has waged a long-running shadow war to destabilize free societies and discredit democratic institutions in the United States and around the world. Ukraine is one flash point in a larger global struggle between democracy and autocracy—one that stretches from the steppes of Eastern Europe to the waters of the Indo-Pacific to the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
The scope of that wider struggle was on vivid display on February 4. In Beijing, the world’s two most powerful autocrats—Putin and China’s Xi Jinping—cemented their deepening alliance. In the United States, where American leaders should have been unified in championing democracy against these aggressive adversaries, the opposite happened: The Republican National Committee formally declared the violent insurrection of January 6, 2021, to be “legitimate political discourse.”
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barf. she’s panicking. she can’t shut up.
Just let her yapper keep spewing. She will ensure she herself ensures she’ll never hold office again.
Behold the new party lines...
If you’re not a woke liberal leftist, you’re in league with Putin.
If you think the Dems cheated in 2020, you’re in league with Putin.
If you oppose transgender madness, you’re in league with Putin.
If you voted for Trump, you’re in league with Putin.
If you think Biden is a dementia-addled puppet, you’re in league with Putin.
WHAT rule of law, particularly, are the GOP breaking - witch?
I never again want to meet any human who takes this woman seriously.
Eastern Urban Utopias have a history of more than a century of cheating.
Why would they stop in 2022?
That laundry is about to come back a bit unclean.
What is she talking about?
🖕
Apparently the only way to make Hillary shut up is by putting her under oath.
NO, I didn’t bother to read the Atlantics CRAP, why would I be interested in the WAILING BANSHEE’S miserable mutterings?
6 feet in the ground would work for me!
Sodom marches in.
Along with all the other nations that the Living Lord can’t stand.
Goats
No longer Sheep nation.
How exactly was she described before her invalid days while on the campaign plane? Oh yes. “Boiled cabbage, gin and farts.”
ha ha good one
A cunning stunt of writing by this Russian asset. The Clintons, Bidens, Obamas, and half the republicans are owned by russia and china. Trump was his own man. Made in America. Lying slag Hillary should be in prison.
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