Posted on 03/05/2022 3:29:39 AM PST by Kaslin
The economic sanctions and boycotts directed at Putin’s Russia have been and will continue to be a complete failure. They may cause an economic slowdown in Russia, even a significant one. Aeroflot may stop flying outside the country. The French may seize the oligarchs’ floating brothels disguised as yachts, and Putin’s mistresses may miss their latest designer gowns from the Paris fashion shows. At the corner grocery store in Moscow, the shelves may be more even bare than usual. The sanctions will be “successful” only in that way. But these sanctions will not stop one bullet from being fired in Ukraine or prevent another kilometer of Ukrainian territory from being seized. That’s all that counts and, in that way, these sanctions are and will be a total failure.
But there is a way to turn the Russian invasion around in seven days. In less than a week, we could send Putin’s platoons back down the muddy roads to Russia, licking their wounds as they go. It will not necessitate American boots on the ground. And if Mr. Putin objects, it’s simply a technique he and his predecessors perfected over the years.
In 1939, the world faced a power-hungry, territory-taking gangster-dictator just as we do now. The United States wanted to help Great Britain fight Hitler, but our misguided neutrality laws forbade it. So, President Roosevelt found a way around that law by “trading” 50 old American destroyers in exchange for the American Navy’s use of the port of Bermuda. It was called the “Lend-Lease” program. The American destroyers, crewed by Brits, with a few American “consultants” on board, helped break the back of Hitler’s U-boat flotillas.
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What is "misguided" about our neutrality laws?
Well, it is misguided!
Feed them Russian food?
Those weapons were designed to counter Soviet Armor, I think.
Why is the Ukrainian Soros government, that has been used for money laundering by the deep state/Biden families/Romney associates etc. the “good” guy in this?
Just in:
Very close family friend has in-laws in Ukraine.
Says air raids are happening right now (received info Saturday, March 5 at about 5 a.m.) A rocket wiped out half a block near former pastor’s house.
Sorry, do not have location in Ukraine.
Putin=boogeyman
They are not the "good guy".
The Ukrainians, Ukrainian and Russian speakers alike, are the defenders.
In Europe.
Against the Russians, who murdered 5 million of them 90 years ago.
They are not invading Russia.
It is a case of bad/worse choices.
Let’s all die for Ukraine! ‘Murica!
helped break the back of Hitler’s U-boat flotillas.
That didn’t happen until well into the war...1943, I think.
But yeah, send them arms to defend themselves.
Because they are used for money laundering by the deep state/Biden families/Romney associates etc.
Fair question. Here's the follow-up:
Why is Putin the good guy when Biden's the IDIOT he wanted in office so he could invade Ukraine?
There's NO good guy in this. None.
News flash - Russia is not communist anymore!
The deep state and many incompetent Presidents have squandered a golden opportunity to ally with post-communist Russia. There are many common interests such anti-Muslim terrorism.
Putin is more Christian than Biden that’s dang sure. He’s rebuilt Christian churches in Russia, while Biden supports abortion murder and glorifies trannies.
Then why are we risking WW3 under the pretense of Ukraine being an innocent damsel in distress?
More devastation wrought by Soros with his color revolution installing a fake government in Ukraine, which he is actively working on doing in USA. Soros should be declared a terrorist.
Putin is an abortionist too by killing pregnant women in his shelling of civilian areas in the Ukraine.
Send them BBAM anti-tank missiles languishing in Poland.
Today’s version of the Lend Lease program.
Why are we risking WW3 under the pretense of Russia being an innocent victim?
They are the aggressors.
Russia took Georgia.
Russia took Crimea.
Russia invaded Ukraine.
I see a pattern.
Another fair question. Here's the only response I can think of:
Our country is being run by IDIOTS who consistently make the wrong decisions, without any capacity to foresee the consequences of their decisions, nor do they care anyway.
That, and Biden's covering up his corruption in Ukraine. Biden's also proving why Putin wanted him, rather than Trump for President. So Biden's also doing Putins bidding at the same time and he's too f'n stupid to know it.
That's the best answer I have. Right or wrong, there it is.
And when Putin responds by supplying our enemies with weapons. Or maybe giving the Iranians some Russian nuclear weapons expertise?
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