Posted on 07/03/2022 2:00:44 PM PDT by delta7
I like your post ... Succint. To the point, and easy to understand... 👍
Russians haven’t changed one bit since 1991. They are as imperialistic and corrupt as they were in USSR times.
[Nah. Europe has had more than 50 years.
They have a union of 26 countries.
This is their task.
We are not their financed and military outsource.
Cut the umbilical cord on these welfare queens!
It’s time for them to stand on their own feet.]
Relative to today’s economy, we spent the equivalent of $44T in WWII. I think of $40b as a small price to pay.
Ultimately, Russia is an 11 time zone country. I completely understand Germany wanting lebensraum, It used to be half the size of Ukraine and 1/50 the size of Russia. For Russia to want lebensraum? If Russia isn’t big enough today, it will *never* be big enough. Russia’s limitless territorial ambitions combined with its massive expanse and a regime structured for war are what make it dangerous.
Then let Europe pay it.
Until we break even, body count-wise (and the Russians are 60K short), we should supply Ukraine just to even out the cosmic balance.
It can be Europe getting "even". We shouldn't give them another penny. Europe should.
Russia’s limitless territorial ambitions combined with its massive expanse and a regime structured for war are what make it dangerous.
I believe this is almost completely a propaganda narrative of the West in order to have an enemy.
That said, if there is a chance it is true, time for Europe to step up.
Europe wasn’t going to go all in on a U.S. proxy war for the Ukraine crime syndicate involving George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Jao Bai-din, Hunter Biden, Paul Pelosi, John Kerry Jr., Christopher Heinz (Kerry), and Alex Vindman.
Yeah. Right. Sure.
Putin’s aim was to take on NATO.
Guess you don’t hear yourself.
Russia is far too corrupt and inbred to ever threaten Europe. If Europe falls it will be from within due to immigration.
[I believe this is almost completely a propaganda narrative of the West in order to have an enemy.
That said, if there is a chance it is true, time for Europe to step up. ]
[Russia is far too corrupt and inbred to ever threaten Europe. If Europe falls it will be from within due to immigration.]
I’d say that institutionally speaking, Russia is set up as a despotism wired for territorial conquest. That’s why, like China, only the complete dismantlement of the empire, with its component parts becoming independent countries, will end the threat. Barring that, we can only guard against them and arm the targets of their ambitions where we aren’t explicitly allied with those targets. Russia’s wars are clumsy, inefficient and inelegant. But by the end of its campaigns, it is bigger, land- and population-wise, and the free world is smaller. That’s why we can’t ignore Russia’s military expeditions.
—> Something like 10% of government spending is defense. I’m OK with that.
Sure. Southern border of the US - our national interest.
[Sure. Southern border of the US - our national interest.]
If price caps on Russian oil fail and gas prices explode vastly higher, it is only a matter of time until we hear talk of taking Russian oil itself.
Somebody will suggest we invade Russia and take their oil fields.
Soviet Russia must be destroyed.
It was in 1991.
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At the time, we had been given one of those tall, large, old satellite dishes. The MSM at that time did not encrypt their feed, so we had silent pool footage of calm, burly factory workers building barricades out of whatever they could find along with those little state-produced cars. We also could see the editing bays for the major networks, which was instructive. The bays may have had sound, but I don’t really remember.
So, that revolution was televised.
No matter the outcome in Ukraine, the WEF and the “Great Reset” wins. “Small wars, pandemic, economic chaos, starvation, abortion, non-reproductive/queer sex;”
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The 4th Reich is not winning, although they do keep plodding forward, if only because they dare not stop and lose momentum.
They are not winning the current *small* war. Putin has called them out, by name and deed and vowed to end them...actually, he has declared them ended.
No one believes the plandemic scam any longer, except for a small cadre still wedded to legacy media. C19 is over for the populace. Money pockets fizzled immediately. Economic chaos continues, but it does look as though the petrodollar is on life support and all the West can do is issue worthless paper.
Starvation is looming in the 3rd/4th world, but already the grain deliveries are slowly exiting the Black Sea and Russia has the capability of sending food by plane, if it gets that bad. The US has the most permissive abortion laws in the world and those are now relegated to the individual states, without the force of the Federal government behind it. Many trannies are not surgically altered and the new attention-getter/virtue signal is for intact biological women who present as males to become pregnant by their biologically male partners, who present as women. Ukraine took great pains to protect their Ukranian surrogates, as that is a source of foreign capital from male homosexuals, as well as a source of profitable fetal tissue now that Planned Parenthood has ben forced into retreat.
Worst of all, we know who the 4th Reich is in terms of organization and individuals. Secrecy served them well for a long time, but that is now gone.
They’ve done some damage, but likely no more than 10%-15% of global population. And everyone affected is angry & out for blood.
Ukraine is a disaster for them.
it is certainly revealing cracks in nato.
i was surprised germany had gone along with any of this. they have developed close ties with russia in the last 3 decades. former heads of state openly worked for russia after retirement. nordstream 2 was about to go on line.
presumably one side intent of the UK/US was force germany to separate from russia. I suspect both russia and germany are hoping that they can continue business once things calm down in a year or two, rather than end up in continuous war.
so uk/us want ww3, almost certainly put lithuania up to the kaliningrad trick, and france/germany put their foot down and said no.
What is air power against more competent fliers and layered air defense?
I am unaware of any fact of the Ukrainian air defeating a Russian aircraft in the air battle. Ukrainians were getting shot down on a daily basis until they lost their aircraft. Whatever assets they hid in Poland and Romania get shot down to this day everywhere it shows up.
This article cannot serve as a basis for rational discourse. It is slanted and warped and fallacious from the get-go.
It might be fun for some FReepers to pick it apart and reveal how profoundly flawed it is, sentence by sentence, but I, personally, regard that as a waste of time.
Regards,
There is no Supreme Soviet, and no Chairman of the Presidium.
Russia has had a bicameral Federal Assembly since 1993.
As for the global economics, the war is only four months old and is going to last at least on year, maybe two. One economic quarter is not enough to show any real global economic changes. Russian losses can not be made up like Ukraine's. Russian production of war material may look good short term, the in the long term the writing is on the wall due to sanctions. Too busy and tired this holiday weekend to go into the rest of this.
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