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Eight sobering realities about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
The Guardian ^ | 02/24/2022 | Robert Reich

Posted on 02/26/2022 11:03:55 PM PST by jdege

The US and allies must be clear-eyed about this: what might the economic and political ripple effects of the war be?

We must do what we can to contain Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. But we also need to be clear-eyed about it, and face the costs. Economics can’t be separated from politics, and neither can be separated from history. Here are eight sobering realities:

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: genius; littlepeople; putin; russia; savy; smart; ukraine
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To: McGruff

Robert Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


21 posted on 02/27/2022 12:43:01 AM PST by Gasshog
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To: chajin

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There are just too many upsides to them in $6.00 gasoline.

Look at Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer that passed off Biden as vigorous and brilliant. I guarantee they think they can fool the people and recruit the elite GOP Senators who loathe and abhor the Republican base to work with them.

Does anyone believe the DoJ and FBi with Pentagon Generals / Intel won’t indict Donald Trump?

If they get Gas to $6,00, they are never giving that up.

They want people living in Cities, kids going to schools co-located in the neighborhood, Mass Transit as the only realistic choice, and to make it very difficult to flee.


22 posted on 02/27/2022 12:56:10 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (And the Wuhan Flu came from a food market and Joe Biden comes from the black community )
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To: jdege

Reich is a MARXIST economist. That explains his covering for Putin.


23 posted on 02/27/2022 12:57:02 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: jdege

Robert “Third” Reich just can’t help taking an underhanded shot at Trump in this crap article. Man, I really loathe leftist pigs like him.


24 posted on 02/27/2022 1:28:53 AM PST by Rocco DiPippo (I)
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To: McGruff

ReicccccccccccccccccccccccccccchhhhhhhhbhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhUUUUUUUHHHHH!

I miss Rush.


25 posted on 02/27/2022 1:38:17 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: jdege

Putin’s Puppets give the Biden Crime Family MILLIONS of DOLLARS!!


26 posted on 02/27/2022 2:11:27 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.be)
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To: AnthonySoprano

“If they get Gas to $6,00, they are never giving that up.”

They are wicked liars and pull the bait and switch tactic on almost everything they propose.

Obozo care - Dont worry, pass it and you’ll save $2500/yr and keep your doctor.

Dont worry, pass it and you’ll [fill your favorite bait and switch in here].


27 posted on 02/27/2022 2:15:23 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: jimwatx

A couple of days ago, a Freeper described Ukraine’s president as “the Ukrainian version of Jimmy Kimmel.” I still crack up every time I think of that. Maybe that’s what we are dealing with here … countries in the West that are run by clowns and buffoons.


28 posted on 02/27/2022 2:30:24 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: chajin

It’s not just western Europe’s reliance on Russian gas that is driving decisions in this conflict. Just look at the bucket full of @ssholes in our own government whose children have made a fortune working for Ukrainian gas companies. Those companies aren’t selling Ukrainian gas. They’re selling Russian gas that is transported by pipeline across Ukraine.


29 posted on 02/27/2022 2:35:53 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: jdege

He also blames Trump for Russia’s aggressiveness. he is not serious.


30 posted on 02/27/2022 2:56:16 AM PST by arthurus ( covfefe..|)
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To: jdege

“Somehow he doesn’t mention anything about ramping up domestic production, or slowing down this headlong dash into “green” idiocy.”

If you lived with a person who could be “triggered” into a violent rage, you quickly learn how not to trigger that rage. It’s Stokholm syndrome but on a small, personal scale. That’s where every published writer is today. No one wants to be “cancelled.” The symptom of being cancelled is becoming the focus of “rage.”


31 posted on 02/27/2022 3:47:56 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: Gen.Blather

He is spot on until 8 when he compares Putin with Trump and that neither want liberal democracies vs authoritarian rule.

The article appeared to be too good to be true, in the end the libtards always show their colors


32 posted on 02/27/2022 3:57:19 AM PST by SteelPSUGOP
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To: SteelPSUGOP
He is spot on until 8 when he compares Putin with Trump and that neither want liberal democracies vs authoritarian rule.

What he doesn't realize, in his self-satisfied but entirely misguided zeal for what he THINKS is intellectualism, is that liberal democracies ARE authoritarian - as we just saw in Canada. Our republic is the best system to prevent totalitarianism and authoritarianism, and people like Reich have been trying to circumvent it and undue it incessantly.

33 posted on 02/27/2022 4:07:06 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: jdege

Yeah right, RR. These Swamp dwellers are still trying to provoke a war with Russia. I’ve been watching the Ukraine live cams. As usual, the MSM is lying through their teeth. That includes Fox News. They’re showing OLD Video shots from years ago. The one shot of the Russian plane is from an old video game! SMH

Russia took out the US bioweapon labs! They scrubbed the news on that per usual. Putin is taking out the Ukraine Swamp and putting an end to their corruption, the child trafficking and drug markets. No more money for you, Hunter, Kerry, Pelosi & Romney! It’s over C_A! You lost.


34 posted on 02/27/2022 4:13:06 AM PST by WWG1WWA (Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden )
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To: jdege

What The Guardian (which makes the Amazon Compost look like a right wing rag) will never admit is that Putin attacked because he wants to recreate the USSR and hasn’t the slightest fear of the guy whose Party once told him that we’d be flexible when it came to defense.


35 posted on 02/27/2022 5:01:52 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: jdege
Somehow he doesn't mention anything about ramping up domestic production,

Yeah, he comes up short.

36 posted on 02/27/2022 5:14:48 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: jdege

Reich is a Bolshevik self-hating Jew. It explains everything. /spit.


37 posted on 02/27/2022 5:29:42 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: zeestephen
Did anyone read the "sobering realities" all the way to #8? Check out the last two sentences of this essay... no matter how irrelevant, the Political Left always finds a way to mention racism and Donald Trump.

...and they ALSO always find a way to use a "crisis" to their political advantage:

#9 Biden's poll numbers are in the toilet, and the entire Democrat Party is going to get its butt kicked in November, even if we cheat - WE NEED A WAR TO DISTRACT THE VOTERS!

;>)

38 posted on 02/27/2022 6:03:35 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("Shoeless Joe" played for the White Sox; "Clueless Joe" lives in the White House...)
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To: Who is John Galt?

“WE NEED A WAR TO DISTRACT THE VOTERS!”

It’s exactly that. Wag The Dog. At least in the movie the war was fake and created in a studio. With PINO Joe’s war, people actually die.


39 posted on 02/27/2022 6:08:18 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: jdege
The Guardian is a newspaper produced by the work-therapy program of London's Bethlehem Hospital for the Mentally Gaga. They start publishing screeds like this and as the gradually become saner they progress to picking random letters from the type tray or just covering themselves in ink and roll on the paper.
40 posted on 02/27/2022 6:12:48 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Dictatorship: now available in maple flavor.)
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