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Russia Must Not Win This War (America Can’t Go ‘Wobbly’ on Ukraine)
The New York Times ^ | February 19, 2023 | David French

Posted on 02/19/2023 6:21:33 AM PST by Jim Noble

As we approach the first anniversary of Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, two ominous trends are emerging at once. First, Russia is doubling down. It’s pouring fresh troops into Ukraine and launching new offensive operations.

Second, poll after poll after poll demonstrate that American support for Ukraine is slipping away. While Americans have sympathy for Ukraine, declining percentages are willing to spend American resources to keep Ukraine in the fight.

Yet the outcome of the war is simply too important — to America as well as Ukraine — to allow our support to falter. On the war’s anniversary it’s time for a concerted effort to persuade Americans of a single idea: We should support Ukraine as much as it takes, as long as it takes, until the Russian military suffers a decisive, unmistakable defeat...

Rather than press Ukraine to undertake offensive operations, the administration and Democratic and Republican congressional allies must impress upon the American public the extraordinary high stakes for America in the outcome of a war fought so many thousands of miles from our shores.

One of the miracles of modern life is that it’s been generations since the great powers have gone to war against one another...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aholesandoligarchs; alwayschump; davidfrench; davidfrenchtheneocon; frenchtheneocon; neoconlickspittle; neocons; nevertrump; ukraine; warpigs
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Well, OK David. How far do you want us to go, and what price do you think we should be prepared to pay?
1 posted on 02/19/2023 6:21:33 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Jim Noble

It is extremely important that the Globalists lose.


2 posted on 02/19/2023 6:23:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: Jim Noble

The Slimes is for Ukraine? Then I’m against it. Not saying I’m pro-Russian, but I’m against U.S. involvement in this war. Especially if the Slimes is for it.


3 posted on 02/19/2023 6:24:32 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Jim Noble

Paleocons have gone wobbly from the start.


4 posted on 02/19/2023 6:24:37 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: Jim Noble

There is no way Russia will lose this war without us losing our lives. This is a war on their border and is about their existence. WWIII anyone? Is it worth it?


5 posted on 02/19/2023 6:24:53 AM PST by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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Well, OK David. How far do you want us to go, and what price do you think we should be prepared to pay?

Precisely. Why don't you do and fight, David? How about sending your children?

This war started and is ongoing because of political stupidity and feckless foreign policy moves by an administration that isn't qualified to order coffee let alone define geopolitical policy.

6 posted on 02/19/2023 6:26:16 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: neverevergiveup

do = go


7 posted on 02/19/2023 6:26:38 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Jim Noble

David French is a leftist neocon scumbag which he has proved over and over with articles like this.


8 posted on 02/19/2023 6:26:53 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (The Ukraine is dead, the head just doesn't know it yet.)
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To: dforest

Do not take counsel of your fears....... General George Patton


9 posted on 02/19/2023 6:27:34 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: dforest

Russia has already lost


10 posted on 02/19/2023 6:29:32 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: wildcard_redneck

“David French is a leftist neocon scumbag which he has proved over and over with articles like this.”

French, Frum, Brock, and Brooks give all David’s a bad name.


11 posted on 02/19/2023 6:29:55 AM PST by Luke21
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To: ClearCase_guy

Bingo! The Globalists want a war, even if it goes nuclear. Like Trump, Putin threatens the Great Reset.


12 posted on 02/19/2023 6:30:21 AM PST by Spok (They lie, we know they lie, and they know that they we know they are lying. And still they lie.)
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To: Jim Noble

How about it was none of our business?


13 posted on 02/19/2023 6:31:00 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: bert

You have nothing to back up that claim. So quit lying.


14 posted on 02/19/2023 6:31:37 AM PST by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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“One of the miracles of modern life is that it’s been generations since the great powers have gone to war against one another...”

The author begs for a change...


15 posted on 02/19/2023 6:31:47 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: EvilCapitalist

Exactly.

Slimes wants war.

Then just like that .....
NO MORE TALK OF RIGGED ELECTIONS
NO MORE TALK OF BIG GUY CLASSIFIED DOCS
NO MORE TALK OF SCUMBAG TRAITOR HUNTER
NO MORE TALK OF BORDER COLLAPSE

AND .....
NO MORE MAGA TALK.


16 posted on 02/19/2023 6:32:58 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Jim Noble

A quote from Paul Fussel is appropriate here:

In general, the principle is, the farther from the scene of horror the easier the talk. One young combat naval officer close to the action wrote home inl the fall of 1943, just before the marines underwent the agony of Tarawa: “When I read that we will fight the Japs for years if necessary and will sacrifice hundreds of thousands if we must, I always like to check from where he’s talking: it’s seldom out here.” That was Lieutenant (j.g.) John F. Kennedy. And Winston Churchill, with an irony perhaps too broad and easy, noted in Parliament that the people who preferred invasion to A-bombing seemed to have “no intention of proceeding to the Japanese front themselves.”

Just like the Zeepers. No balls. Just Klacking Keyboards.


17 posted on 02/19/2023 6:36:23 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Jim Noble

This is a Euro problem, not an American problem.


18 posted on 02/19/2023 6:36:44 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: ClearCase_guy

“It is extremely important that the Globalists lose.”

It’s been pointed out that the Globalist plan for a single, digital, world currency is ABSOLUTELY TOAST if the Globalists cannot achieve their goal of controlling Russia and China...and that they are STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS with that project if they fail in Ukraine.

That’s a good enough reason alone for me to not want them to win...and that’s without getting into their plans for the housing we will have to move into, the transportation options they’ll allow, and the replacement of meat with bugs that is already taking place in Europe.


19 posted on 02/19/2023 6:37:49 AM PST by BobL
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The war satisfies two great globalist goals of depopulation and war profiteering. I predict it will smolder on like Afghanistan or Viet Nam.

Solution is: Elect Trump, who would facilitate a negotiated peace. Meantime turn off American support and get all our people out of the region.

If we keep supporting Ukraine this will continue for thirty years. Instead, let's end this.

20 posted on 02/19/2023 6:38:13 AM PST by caddie (We must all become Trump, starting now!)
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