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Russia-Ukraine war: What triggered Putin and what may happen next
Fox news ^ | 02/24/2022 | Greg Norman

Posted on 02/24/2022 4:10:05 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

It had been feared for years: a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. And now, it’s happening.

Images of Russian tanks rolling into Ukraine were perhaps the most chilling that Fox News monitored through a long night during the opening round of the assault.

The question remains: What is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aim?

If it is just to enlarge and solidify the pro-Russian eastern portion of the country that has been disputed for the last eight years that would be grim enough.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: putin; russia; triggered; ukraine
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To: FreedBird

If anything he encouraged it by basically publicly proclaiming Putin would invade.

To the point where if Putin actually didn’t invade, he would come off looking weak. Joe gambled that Putin wouldn’t take the bait, and he lost.


21 posted on 02/24/2022 4:35:42 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FreedBird
When a person is compromised, there is little he can do but yield and do what he is told.

The Japanese have a better idea.

22 posted on 02/24/2022 4:36:21 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CaptainCarrollton

A lot of foreign mercenaries, and praised by many of the American left.


23 posted on 02/24/2022 4:36:22 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Brandon’s gifts to Putin triggered this. START treaty renewal, lifting sanctions on that pipeline, etc. Biden has been giving away the store and Putin thinks he can steal everything else he wants.


24 posted on 02/24/2022 4:37:55 PM PST by lodi90
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To: dfwgator

What is Biden the Town Crier? Does he have brain?


25 posted on 02/24/2022 4:38:03 PM PST by FreedBird
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The stolen election.


26 posted on 02/24/2022 4:39:08 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: RoseofTexas

China is not going to do anything. They can take a long view and get Taiwan without firing a shot, even if takes another 50 years.


27 posted on 02/24/2022 4:39:15 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?)
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To: rfp1234

Exactly


28 posted on 02/24/2022 4:39:26 PM PST by Nifster (I’m see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: lodi90

And seeing how Americans, at least on the surface, rejected a President who was standing up to them, and even portrayed him as being Putin’s friend.


29 posted on 02/24/2022 4:39:40 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CaptainCarrollton

I would say killing Ukrainian neo-nazis like the Ukrainian Azov Battalion is a good thing.

Look up their battalion patch on a search engine. The Ukrainians wear the same Nazi emblems as the bastards my dad fought against in WW2.


Well, since they are “nazis” how about we just put them in ovens and be done with it?

How about Ukrainian kids and doctors? Is it a good thing to kill them, too? A bunch of them were alive yesterday and are dead today. I guess you got to break a few eggs to make a Russian omelet.


30 posted on 02/24/2022 4:39:44 PM PST by lodi90
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To: MarMema

Yes they and also do not study any history


31 posted on 02/24/2022 4:39:55 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

China will eventually buy out Taiwan, they’ll put their people on the boards of the Taiwanese companies.


32 posted on 02/24/2022 4:40:16 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CaptainCarrollton

Well then you will be happy when Putin invades the Balkans too


33 posted on 02/24/2022 4:40:42 PM PST by Nifster (I’m see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

Same thing. Study Russian history over the last 500 years and you would see what is going on.


34 posted on 02/24/2022 4:40:43 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?)
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To: whyilovetexas111

That is correct. NATO was obsolete a long time ago.


35 posted on 02/24/2022 4:41:29 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?)
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To: Nifster

I expect the Balkans to get hot very soon, Serbs and Croats are starting to go at it in Bosnia.

Although I think you meant the Baltics (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia)


36 posted on 02/24/2022 4:42:23 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Skul

My son is in the 82nd Airborne.


37 posted on 02/24/2022 4:42:58 PM PST by Enough_Deceit (Proud Mama of a US Marine and a US Soldier Bitterly Hanging On to Her Guns and Religion. Ooorahh!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What triggered Putin?

Napoleon Bonaparte.


38 posted on 02/24/2022 4:44:07 PM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: dfwgator

exactly, they take a pragmatic long view of things.


39 posted on 02/24/2022 4:47:03 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?)
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To: Nifster

He sucks but I like him more than Biden, Clinton, Obama, Camel 🐫 Harris. You get the idea.


40 posted on 02/24/2022 4:48:45 PM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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