[BobL]

How many times do I have to tell that the Ukraine War started on Feb. 24th, and it started because Putin got out of bed that morning, was bored, and figured that starting a war would be fun.

How many damn times?

There was NOTHING that happened before Feb 24th, 2022 that could have led to this war (or prevented it), I tell you NOTHING !!!!

Now please admit you are an idiot, or I will need to personally attack you here.

[Its All Over Except ...]

Provocation:

“Russia-Ukraine war: The western threat of nuclear annihilation’

“It was back in February that the West began to threaten Russia with nuclear war in response to a statement given by President Vladimir Putin. ...”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/russia-ukraine-war-western-threat-nuclear-annihilation

[DonaldC]

I’m sure we’ve war gamed every country on the planet.

[TheBattman]

It was in some form planned a LOT farther back than 2019. Putin really has been chewing on it since the Euromaidan event of 2014. He was ticked that they didn’t get more territory then... and that the international community, while not directly arming Ukraine, was supportive of them. And of course, the US’s covert support in that revolution against his puppet in the President’s Mansion...

[DannyTN]

War game studies are done all the time on both enemies and friends. Because you just never know when you're going to have to liberate France again or someone else.

The sanctions didn't start until 2014 AFTER Russia occupied Crimea and started funding and directing a rebellion in Ukraine's East.

POLITICSA Recent History of U.S. Sanctions on Russia

[PGR88]

in 2013, Senators John McCain, Chris Murphy, and State Dept’s Victoria Nuland stood on stage, and appeared in public with members of the “Right Sektor” - the UNELECTED, neo-nazi paramilitary political fringe groups that violently occupied and burned Government buildings in Kiev for weeks to drive Yanukovych from power.

All you leftist tw@ts should imagine - what if members of Russian Government appeared one stage in DC on January 6, while protestors (who later would go to Russia to receive military training) BURNED the Capitol Building and Federal Government buildings in DC??

[bigbob]

Putin’s aggressions correlate with his ability to fund them, and Biden’s stupid energy policy contributed to an oil windfall.

[adorno]

The Ukraine war was planned at the same time that the plans for taking Crimea were drawn.

And, the plans for taking Ukraine also included taking other countries after Ukraine had been absorbed into the new USSR (soviet Union).

Putin was not going to stop with Ukraine. He was planning on rebuilding the old Soviet Union. But, oops!, Ukraine was having none of it. Lucky for the world. Not so lucky for the FR members who continue to cheer for Putin’s ambitions.

[R_Kangel]

...... The US Military and Intelligence has War Plans for every country .... Yup .... including an invasion by Canada ....

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[Petrosius]

It's called contingency planning. Our military has been doing it for at least a hundred years against every possible threat. See the Wikipedia article on the United States color-coded war plans in the 1920's and 30's. I am sure that Russia and every major power is doing the same. This is just trying to make it more than it seems and justify Russia's land-grab.

[nickcarraway]

Obama promised Putinhe could have the Ukraine when he was president.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Seriously mentally ill people in charge are on a vendetta against Putin to the point they’ll burn the world down to get there.

Call your congress critters and let them know We Don’t Want War.

[Widget Jr]

It is this study, Extending Russia Competing from Advantageous Ground, which has been online since April, 2019.

"Editor's Note, September 2022: We encourage you to explore this report and its accompanying research brief. However, because Russian entities and individuals sympathetic to Putin's decision to invade Ukraine have mischaracterized this research in recent weeks, we also encourage you to explore this helpful resource on Russia's “firehose of falsehood” approach to propaganda and our research on “Truth Decay,” which is a phenomenon that is driven in part by the spread of disinformation."

It has been posted as the CIA Deepstate Bogeyman Damning Document of EVIL a half dozen times already. Maybe reading for meaning instead of reanding to make cheap accusations is warranted?

[jdege]

Developing war plans is what planning staffs do. It's how they train.

There's nothing about intent that can be inferred from the existence of a plan.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Ukraine War Planned YEARS AGO Documents Reveal

Which is why we initiated a Color Revolution to overthrow Ukraine’s democracy in 2014

[Republican Wildcat]

Russia / Putin had indeed been planning for this war for some time. Crimea was the first act. Plans were stalled by Trump’s election. After Trump was gone, it resumed.

Previous similar acts were the actions against Georgia that were thwarted. Putin is going to Putin.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Unrelated to the topic of this thread’s do people honestly believe that deluge of rancid keywords accomplishes anything?

[piasa]

Russia started invading parts of Ukraine before this report was even written.

[Alter Kaker]

Jimmy Dore is a socialist Bernie Sanders supporter. Every day this clown links to socialist content on FR. Why?

[McGruff]

Guess where she is now.