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US sending advanced rocket systems to Ukraine
The Hill ^ | 05/31/22 8:21 PM ET| | BY JORDAN WILLIAMS

Posted on 05/31/2022 7:35:57 PM PDT by RandFan

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To: Right Brother

You are jealous, because you don’t know the streets of Alchevsk, Kharkov, Lugansk, and Kiev. My wife is one of those Russian-speakers in the eastern Ukraine but she also speaks Ukrainian. Her grandmother spoke an intergradient between the two languages.

Did you know that minor administrators and bureaucrats in city services and clinics in the occupied areas are forced to join “the party” and its name is United Russia? Did you know outspoken Ukrainians are disappered (in the Latin American sense)? Did you know the Russian check not only papers and documents but peoples’ phones to see what they have been reporting? Did you know that the forceful conscription of Donbas teens and young men is literally done at the point of a gun on the street? Did you know that the cemetery in Alchevsk is growing at a very fast rate because new conscripts get little training and are killed at a very high rate?


21 posted on 05/31/2022 8:41:54 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: RandFan

The official U.S. Congressional “Money Laundry Mat” must remain safe, secure and open for business regardless of all costs and whatever it takes. How else are our beloved, esteemed congresscritter rulers gonna retire multi-millionaires if the “laundry mat” gets closed down?
Ya don’t want your favorite congresscritter running around looking like one of the low-life, common “unwashed masses” now do you ya? Well, do ya? /S


22 posted on 05/31/2022 9:06:30 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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there are concerns about escalating the war into a larger conflict.

Yep. Just keep the war going inside Ukraine until it looks like Syria, John McCain's big success story.

23 posted on 05/31/2022 9:45:45 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Monterrosa-24

Thank you. Well said. I remember those Russian behaviors and policies from Cold War studies.


24 posted on 05/31/2022 9:55:59 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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Ivan is a nasty piece of work but is also good for some laughs.

NUKE SHOWDOWN Russia threatens to wipe out the entire US with just four Satan II missiles in chilling warning over Ukraine

25 posted on 05/31/2022 10:33:11 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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“US sending advanced rocket systems to Ukraine”

Biden told reporters on Monday that the U.S. was “not going to send to Ukraine rocket systems that strike into Russia,”

Another walk back by Biden himself this time?


26 posted on 05/31/2022 10:49:24 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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if we aid Russia, we hurt Ukraine.
if we aid Ukraine, we hurt Russia.

on the surface, there does not appear to be much difference, but Russia is much bigger than Ukraine, so if we want to keep them both as weak as possible, the strategy would be to aid the weaker against the stronger.

if we do nothing, the stronger (Russia) wins and becomes even stronger, as well as poised to begin an invasion of its next victim. This too does not seem very viable as a long term solution.


27 posted on 05/31/2022 11:21:47 PM PDT by SteveH (.)
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” Did you know outspoken Ukrainians are disappered (in the Latin American sense)? Did you know the Russian check not only papers and documents but peoples’ phones to see what they have been reporting? Did you know that the forceful conscription of Donbas teens and young men is literally done at the point of a gun on the street? Did you know that the cemetery in Alchevsk is growing at a very fast rate because new conscripts get little training and are killed at a very high rate?”

Are you pretending that the Ukrainian side doesn’t do anything like that? Update yourself on what the civil war is.


28 posted on 05/31/2022 11:40:07 PM PDT by NorseViking
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If Ukraine is paying us for weapons that we gave them to begin with then we’re not selling them weapons were giving them weapons. And you have to remember that Putin is not a Washington DC politician who says things just to say that I wanna point something out to all of you; that nations that have come out of Socialism and communism like Russia understand the value of telling the truth, something is the Western countries have yet to learn. For that reason I take Putin very seriously when he says that there will be consequences for sending these weapons in for all the countries involved.


29 posted on 06/01/2022 7:12:36 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum )
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Is NOT a civil war. It is a criminal war of aggression. First with the dirty war started by Russia with its fake “separatist” movements. Then with the all-out invasion supported by criminal thugs like yourself. You are soooo smart that you said Kiev would fall within days and that was over two months ago. There are heaps of Russian rotting corpses since then and you are still a criminal for both countries because you support the aggression that is destroying Russia and killing innocents in the Ukraine.


30 posted on 06/01/2022 10:37:40 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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I have family and friends in the Ukraine. I know how evil the Russian land grab is.

I'm very sorry for your family's trouble. I mean that sincerely.

But this is the United States of America. We have our own problems to deal with. Adding another war on behalf of alien peoples is not anywhere on my to do list.

31 posted on 06/01/2022 10:42:01 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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