Posted on 06/05/2022 9:32:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Save your lies for someone who cares and focus on Poland. I think you have about a couple of years to reform and become a good neighbor. Otherwise, the writing is on the wall..:)
Ukraine could have had a Second Amendment.
Were there only 700,000 Ukrainians?
Is your head going to explode HouseRino? All of your neocon, warmongering dreams are turning to 5hit.
So sad.
They had drones; what prevented them from being able to take out the convoy is Russia’s layered air defense system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKSQ1VhCmW4
I knew from the start the Ukraine would probably lose.
But that doesn’t make russia/putin right for invading a harmless sovereign neighbor. You have to be a pure sycophant psycho to think it’s ok.
WTF?!?! What a sad attempt to walk back and disavow your abject stupidity in trusting No Brain Biden to fight a war. You are beneath contempt. Live in shame.
You’re IQ 90 at best. I never said Ukraine ‘would win’ just that I support their side.
I shall never recover from the devastation wrought by your savage wit. I suspect that you will call me a "mean poopy-face" next. You should change your FR handle to "Bag of Hammers" you dim, humorless clown.
I will give you scores on that for being funny. I still hate russia/putin though :P
I am perfectly happy with Russia or the Ukraine losing, I just don’t want to pay for it and let Biden use the Ukraine War as a distraction for his assault on Americans.
It is, but it’s gotten on the backburner for now. Guns guns shootings are the main screaming of the left now, and I think that’s even far worse.
Yes: They could have kept their freakin' nuclear weapons!
Seriously: What country bordering Russia could be so stupid as to get rid of their nuclear arsenal on the basis of a mere "assurance?"
Regards,
“What country bordering Russia could be so stupid as to get rid of their nuclear arsenal on the basis of a mere “assurance?”
Complicated answer.
1. Although Ukraine voted overwhelmingly for independence and a new future not based on the Soviet Union, 70% of the country had historical, familial or cultural ties to Russia. Putin isn’t wrong to say that Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are effectively three brothers.
2. Despite #1, Ukraine only has to look North at the basket case that is Belarus to see what Putin wanted Ukraine to be. No matter how brotherly they are, they don’t want what Putin offers.
3. The Budapest Memorandum was signed before Putin, Dugin and Zhirinovsky brought their misty-eyed ethnonationalist empire restoration fantasy into play.
4. At the time both Russia and Ukraine appeared to be inclined towards embracing western reforms and having a lot of fun transitioning out of the 70s.
Btw: The genocide trigger for the Special Military Operation is a total fiction. Even the DPR, on their own website, say the genocide ended three years ago.
Sporadic fighting between the mercenaries and separatists on one side, and Azov Nazis on the other, was ongoing but it had reduced to a turf war between two groups of fanatics, and barely touched the Russian speaking general population. For 3 years straight, civilian deaths didn’t exceed 27 in any calendar year.
If Putin really paid attention to the DPR, he’d have invaded before 2016 when the fighting was FIFTY TIMES MORE INTENSE than it was by December 2021.
“Seriously: What country bordering Russia could be so stupid as to get rid of their nuclear arsenal on the basis of a mere “assurance?”
Ukraine never had the launch codes for those nuclear missiles, so they weren’t going to do them any good anyway.
Still shouldn't have permitted their removal for nothing more than a flimsy "assurance."
Should have retained possession, and then looked for scientists and technicians capable of "re-activating" the weapons.
At least the fissile materials could have been harvested and re-used!
Regards,
No perhaps about it. Zelensky led Russia on with feigned ignorance.
The launch codes wouldnt have been needed for disassembly at all. These systems varied by country and weapon, but IIRC a lot of them were just an authorization code given to the officers in charge of the weapon system, to be checked against locally held information to verify authenticity. At the fire control station the officers would then have used a local security means, some sort of physical key or key code held locally, to unlock a physical lock on either the weapon proper or the warhead.
The US subsequently created a centrally run system, but I dont know if they have implemented this across all weapons.
Agreed!
Mentioning the lack of "launch codes" is a Red Herring - comparable to saying, "I can't drive the car, because I don't have the pink papers, or the key."
Ukraine could simply have "hot-wired" the nuclear weapons!
Regards,
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