ROTFL :D
Posted on 10/10/2022 1:41:51 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Fears were raised today that Belarus could join the conflict in Ukraine after President Alexander Lukashenko announced he will deploy a 'joint military task force' with Russia on the country's western border.
The dictator said this was in response to what he said was a clear threat to Belarus from Kyiv and its backers in the West, claiming without evidence that that Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine were training Belarusian 'radicals' for terror attacks, after announcing plans to deploy joint troops with Moscow.
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'Strikes on the territory of Belarus are not just being discussed in Ukraine today, but are also being planned,' Lukashenko said at a meeting on security, without providing evidence for the assertion.
'Their owners are pushing them to start a war against Belarus to drag us there.'
'We have been preparing for this for decades. If necessary, we will respond,' Lukashenko said, adding that he had spoken to Putin about the situation while at a meeting in St Petersburg.
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'My answer was simple: 'Tell the president of Ukraine and the other lunatics: if they touch one metre of our territory then the Crimean Bridge will seem to them like a walk in the park'.'
He also claimed Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine were training Belarusian 'radicals' to carry out terror attacks in his country.
'The training in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine of Belarusian radical militants for them to carry out sabotage, terrorist attacks and to organise a military mutiny in the country is becoming a direct threat,' Lukashenko said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
this is exactly why we should of slapped down Putin much harder to begin with, now the dictator is emboldened.
At least 2 of the 4 islands in question, were at one time Russian territory by treaty. The remaining 2, Etorofu Island and Kunashiri Island, Japan claims were never subject to anyone elses claim, and hence Japan claims them. So we are talking bout 2 islands the Japanese may have claim to. Germany was forced to surrender far more territory than 2 small islands (even that was too small a price for Germany to pay). For the record, my father fought the Japanese in New Guinea, Borneo and disembarked in Kure in Jan 1946. For sonlme reason you keep thinking I’m a Russian. What is your connection to Japan?
They also lost Korea and Manchuria, which they had conquered before WWII.
The came very close to doing exactly that in WWII.
The Progressives wanted to continue all price controls and industrial policy put in place by FDR, but the returning GIs would have none of it.
The dominance the Left took of the Media during WWII has endured and grown until about 1994.
The Union response to dissent was mixed. One can even say it was, overall, incoherent.
The point was about pro-Confederacy or not; all parties in the North were anti-confederate. The question was what was to be done with respect to treasonous speech or organization.
This is a nice discussion of cases.
The dictator is panicked.
This is (yet another) problem with wars. War makes pre-war calculations moot. The situation changes fundamentally. Wars feed on themselves, creating their own purposes as they go on.
Before this war the dictator was emboldened, and had made his calculations given what he thought were the prevailing conditions. He had a certain risk-reward analysis. But I am sure that, had he known ahead of time how events would unfold even a month in, or maybe even days in, he would probably have considered it all an unacceptable cost.
Now, seven months later, the problem he faces has nothing to do with the situation in February. He has to figure out how to extricate himself from this without being destroyed in the process. And a great number of the Russian nomenklatura are in the same boat, no matter what they were thinking back then or now.
NATO isn’t invading anyone. They would strike, but they would not mass troops.
It’s too silly to imagine.
“Why do you fixate on the possibility that Russia might use nuclear weapons?”
I just stated a fact of the result of what you wish for.
Yep. Looking at that photo is surreal Ask if you were going to date one or the other Bush seems genuinely kind, while
Putin seems to be smirky scheming!
President Zelenskyy is like President Trump trying to remove corrupt deep-state of embedded Russian Communists. Zelensky has banned all communist political parties & arrested corrupt officials regardless of political persuasion.
Previous President Yanukovych of Ukraine was Putin’s puppet.
[In 2006, a criminal charge was made for the falsification of documents regarding the retraction of Yanukovych’s prior conviction. Two documents had been forged regarding Yanukovych’s robbery in association with rape and assault and battery. Yanukovych had been a member of “a group of individuals who brutally beat and raped a woman, but bought off the victim and the criminal case was closed.” The signature of the judge for these documents was forged.]
In Jaroslav Krejci’s “Great Revolutions Compared: The Outline of a Theory provides a useful conceptual framework with which to study revolution” Revolution is not a single event, but rather a period of a “revolutionary process.”
Yanukovych had an estimated net worth of $12 billion, misappropriating funds from Ukraine’s treasury of $70 billion transferred to foreign accounts during Yanukovych’s presidency. Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein froze the assets of Yanukovych and his son Oleksander on 28 February 2014 pending his money laundering investigation.
***BTW, during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, more than 7,000 Ukrainian companies were attacked by the so-called “Yanukovych Families” [think mofioso] including cases of the ‘Family’ entering the corporate rights of the firms by illegal methods, and “assaults” in order to obtain “tribute” of commercial gain.
The victims of Yanukovych’s ‘family’ raiders were offered to pay a regular “tribute” in the amount of 30–50% of the company’s profits or cede ownership of it.
The same day that parliament removed Yanukovych from office, it voted to authorize the release of his rival Yulia Tymoshenko from a prison hospital. She had been imprisoned since 2011, in what many saw as political payback by Yanukovych. Ukraine economy had suffered greatly because of PUTIN’S PUPPET President Viktor Yanukovych.
“slapped down Putin much harder to begin with, now the dictator is emboldened”
Probably true.
That’s dumbassery and has NEVER played well in America. We won’t win elections with doggerel gobbledygook like this.
Opposition politics doesn’t work in America.
Bush genuinely kind looking?
Well I spose in a chimpanzee kind of way. Putin is definately a schemer. Aren’t all political leaders though. How do you think they climbed the ladder.
If you are interested here is a new analysis of the Crimea bridge explosion, use it if you find a thread to post it on.
” Finland’s national broadcaster Yle has published an interesting interview with an explosive ordnance disposal expert, retired Major Myka Tyry of the Finnish Defence Forces, on the Crimea Bridge blast. He makes a number of points I’ve not seen elsewhere.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1579480666282287104.html
Interesting,
“I despise the so-called conservatives here who root for the half-pint dictator Putin, I despise the so-called conservatives who cheer Belarus and their pig dictator Lukashenko. I will forget that you ever called yourselves conservatives, and I hope you have pleasant wet dreams about your hero, Putin.”
I agree. These folks are not conservative or maye we can identify as C.I.N.O. [conservative-in-name-only]
ROTFL :D
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