Posted on 02/23/2022 7:35:16 PM PST by MercyFlush
Now it’s Istanbul, it was Constantinople.
“while pretending I should care about Ukraine’s border”
You seem to care a lot about it.
“If we had to protect one of our land borders because an immediate neighbor allowed ChiCom troops to be stationed there, we’d take action. We’ve done it before.”
Putin is the ChiCom partner. So I’m not sure your point.
You just remind me that in fact Putin is the closest ally of the ChiComs.
Maybe we should pulverize him.
I don’t have it but it was cited at the UN Security Council.
arguing about legitimacy is semantics. he did it. will he win? who will stop him? ultimately what price will it cost him, if any?
that is what matters. this is the power game at the highest level. fluffy words are tools, not rules.
I like your style!
I wish you had been right.
no fly zone? oh my, that is world war 3. is this administration incompetent and motivated enough to do it? (maybe?)
do we have tech superiority sufficient to actually institute one? I assume the russian military development the last several decades has been in part based on defeating just that.
China might decide that this is a great time to invade Siberia.
Anyone know how far along the construction of that pipeline is?
There is zero chance of a US-enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine. If we tried, there’s a good chance our bases in Poland and Turkey would come under Russian missile attack. Where things go from there is anybody’s guess, but it’s no place good.
You are ridiculous. Is Mexico shooting missiles into the US attacking air and military bases?
It is to late for that.
Trump had it all set up and because he got oil so low, Putin could not afford to go this way.
Just like a part out of R Reagans playbook. And it worked..until the election happened and Biden took over and destroyed the oil industry.
It was an election wasnt it?
Only when Trump was President. They own Biden.
The US. “We’re going to be like other nations that God can’t stand.”
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They don't want a freer and more prosperous Ukraine along that long border they share as an example to the Russian people of how much better life can be in countries aligned with Western culture and economic systems.
The old claims that blue jeans and rock and roll brought down the USSR are not totally without merit. They were part of it.
Okay...I’m going to go there: Is there any chance the nukes are gonna fly? One Twitter person says high-ranking people and the President’s family are being moved out of DC. Is that true?
Putin might be stupid enough to do this. Russia threatened to shoot a nuke at the Nevada test range about a month ago and we had ground based missile forces at DEFCON2 for the first time since Gorby was overthrown.
Hate to say but it could happen.
Putin wants an empire and he’s bent on getting it at any cost.
Doc. Strangelove Brandon?
Lol!
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