Posted on 03/09/2022 9:27:04 AM PST by george76
Have you noticed that the anti-war movement in the United States has almost shriveled up to nothing? In the old days, hordes of radical leftists were passionately against our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but these days many on the left seem to want war with Russia more than anyone else. But before we find ourselves pulled into a war that could have catastrophic implications for the entire planet, perhaps we should take a step back from the precipice and reflect on what we are about to do. The Russians have spent an enormous amount of time, money and energy developing a new generation of extremely advanced nuclear weapons, and Vladimir Putin has already warned us that he is willing to use them. And once one side or the other uses nuclear weapons, there will be no going back.
This is such a critical moment in our history. If we make the wrong decisions now, there may not be a future for our country. So instead of responding emotionally to what is going on, we desperately need to analyze the situation with cool heads. The following are 5 very strange questions that every American should be asking about the war in Ukraine right now…
#1 Are we ready for hundreds of millions of people to perish in a conflict with Russia? Harry Kazianis has participated in many war games over the years, and in 2019 he had the opportunity to participate in one which simulated what would happen if a war between NATO and Russia erupted in Ukraine. According to Kazianis, the simulation resulted in more than a billion deaths…
Over just three days, as I have done countless times over the last several years, a group of past and present senior U.S. government officials from both sides of the aisle gathered to wage a NATO-Russia war in a simulation at the end of 2019. In the course of what we called the NATO-Russia War of 2019, we estimated one billion people died. And if we aren’t careful, what happened in a simulation could happen if a NATO-Russia war erupts over Ukraine.
In fact, in the simulation I mentioned above from 2019, in which Russia invades Ukraine in a similar way as it did over the last week or so, not only does NATO get sucked in unintentionally, but Russia eventually releases nuclear weapons in its desperation. The result is an eventual escalation of bigger and more dangerous nuclear weapons whereby over one billion lives are lost.
#2 If we provide fighter jets to Ukraine will that mean that we get sucked into a shooting war with Russia? U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has previously stated that the U.S. would be willing to replace any MiG-29 fighter jets that Poland sends to Ukraine with new American-made fighter jets, and now Poland has put a unique twist on that proposal. Apparently the Polish government wants to give the MiG-29 fighter jets to us, and then we would be the ones delivering them to the Ukrainians. But if we actually did this, would this make us an active participant in the conflict?…
Poland said on Tuesday that it was ready to deploy — immediately and free of charge — all their MiG-29 fighter jets to the US Air Force’s Ramstein Air Base in Germany and place them at the disposal of Washington to provide them to Ukraine, according to a statement from the Polish foreign ministry.
#3 Why are al-Qaeda fighters being allowed to fight for Ukraine? In the old days, we were told that al-Qaeda was the most evil terror organization on the entire planet, but now they are apparently on our side. It is being reported that 450 al-Qaeda fighters have already arrived in Ukraine, and nobody in the western media seems to have a problem with this…
Close to 450 extremist Arab and foreign nationals have arrived in Ukraine from Idlib to fight against Russia’s forces, less than only three days after they left Syria, passing through Turkey.
Relatives of extremists that have arrived in Ukraine told Sputnik that senior fighters from terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (the rebranded version of Jabhat Al-Nusra, i.e Al-Qaeda) have held a number of meetings with senior leaders in the Turkistan Islamic Party group and Ansar Al-Tawhid and Hurras al-Din groups, and agreed on allowing a number of all their fighters to enter Ukraine through Turkish soil.
#4 Does the United States really have 26 biological research labs in Ukraine? The Chinese government is making this accusation, and if it is true someone out there has a lot of explaining to do. Because there is absolutely no reason why the U.S. should be conducting dangerous biological research in Ukraine at all, much less at 26 different facilities. But according to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this is precisely what has been going on…
“The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone. It should give a full account of its biological military activities at home and abroad and subject itself to multilateral verification.”
#5 Why are Chinese media outlets embedding reporters with Russian military units that are participating in the invasion of Ukraine? Normally, reporters are only embedded with forces that are considered to be friendly. For example, it would be unthinkable for reporters from the United States to be embedded among the Russians. But apparently the Chinese see this conflict much differently…
It is important to note that the Chinese have refused to denounce what Russia has done. In fact, they aren’t even calling it an “invasion” at all. Unfortunately, I think that we all know why this is happening. The Chinese are planning to invade Taiwan at some point, and so they are watching how this current conflict plays out very, very carefully.
The Russians and the Chinese have been working to develop closer relations for a long time, and when China finally pulls the trigger on an invasion of Taiwan the U.S. could find itself in a state of conflict with both of them simultaneously.
Many in Washington would be absolutely shocked by such a development, but this is something that I have been talking about for a very long time. In recent years the U.S. has grown extremely complacent, and meanwhile the Russians and the Chinese have both been rapidly modernizing and upgrading their military forces.
Now World War 3 has suddenly erupted, and Russia and China both sense an opportunity to change the game thanks to the incompetence of the Biden administration.
That was the plan all along. If we don’t believe anything they tell us, when they DO tell the truth, we will poo-poo them and we end up getting screwed again. Covid was the incubator to all this.
“the State Department has admitted the US has bioweapon labs in Ukraine”
I assume you can provide the quote?
We had a lone fat libtard war protestor or two on the local news in my red state when Trump droned the pos Iranian terrorist general raghead 🤪
Not a peep now 🙄
Willing to fight to the last Ukrainian, eh? Why aren’t you over there?
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Biden was losing his fig leaf. One Crisis was going away for the sake of State level Dems and some Dems in contested areas.
BOOM, New Crisis that triumphs the 48 Vote barrier in the Senate - and Biden is immediately back in business flushing more Trillions and dispersing them to cronies and special interests.
Anyone with a brain knows the Political strategists evaluated what type of Crisis would propel Dems through Elections and keep Biden doing the only thing he does - Spend.
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NATO outspends Russia 20-1. While you and I subsidize this spending, Xi will soon be matching us trillion to trillion. The price for Russia? Client state status of the CCP, tying down the resources, attention and credibility of America while Xi reigns unchallenged in Asia.
The Nunn - Luger act of 1991 created these bioweapons research labs.
The Nunn - Luger act of 1991 created these bioweapons research labs.
Our 'intelligence people are beating war drums - and the left - always their cheap butt boys are dancing to the beat... that's worth looking at...
It's irrationals, doesn't make sense, isn't in the best interest of the United States, but it's happening. When MSNBC bimbos and pretentious 'men' talk about Putin - it's the exact same hatred they express for Trump and for Trump's followers. Their willingness to risk all out nuclear war is almost flippant. In style in a twisted fashion..
To make matters worse, UAE and the Sauds aren't taking calls from Biden - but they are talking with Putin. Also, 'intelligence' people have been moved into FOXNews... a real easy asset and ego trip for journalists. How long until our guys are as dependent as the CNN and MSNBC idiots? And stop asking the hard questions...
Lots of questions to ask on this one... Poland's leaving us out, UAE is leaving us out, China is leaving us out, Saudi Arabia is leaving us out....
“Why aren’t you over there?”
Why aren’t YOU over there fighting for Pidor Putin since you love him so much?
“If the MSM and the democrats are on the side of Ukraine, shouldn’t we be rooting for Putin?”
If the MSM and the democrats came out tomorrow all singing hymns and praising Jesus, would you start rooting for Satan?
How far are you willing to take this kneejerk reactionary reflex as a guiding strategy?
BINGO!
“ Are we ready for hundreds of millions of people to perish in a conflict with Russia?”
Sure would solve the social security payments issue. The Medicare, Medicaid and Obama-care outlays would be reduced exponentially. Likely eliminate the accumulated debt of the federal government…no one left to demand payments. Probably deal a death blow to the petrol and chemical industries and reduce power consumption in the U.S. dramatically. The Greens would love it. Be really good for our “carbon footprint.”
I’d say it would eliminate a lot of problems created by the current generation of the political class. All their mistakes and massive corruption would be gone overnight.
And all of us peasants would be dead, so we couldn’t vote them out or revolt against any of them that survive. I wonder how that seems to them as they sip their drinks on some Caribbean or South Pacific island?
Unchecked programs in government turn the Nunn-Luger act into the Fauci-Wuhan circus over enough time and money.
Nah. I sent a lot of 50cal in the commies direction years ago. It’s your turn.
So you’re troll hunter, eh? Self-appointed. Like humblegunner. Maybe you ARE humblegunner. Whatever you are you aren’t over there fighting. Show us the courage of your convictions.
“Kamala went to Ukraine and made a speech saying Ukraine should join NATO. 4 days later the Russians attacked.”
If Kamala is pulling the strings, she must have a time machine to have forced Russia to start massing troops on Ukraine’s border months before her speech.
Pretty damn far...
The only thing I can knowledgably comment on is the fighter plane comment. A fighter plane has a lot of subsystems that require constant maintenance. If you hand someone a fighter plane and it flies, say, for six hours, not only will it require fuel, but a few systems will likely have failed. Radios, control display units, of which there are several, weapons systems and subsystems, all require testing, maintenance, and repairs. This means test equipment and knowledgeable technicians to operate the test equipment and repair or replace whatever is broken. So, you need one pilot and perhaps twenty other well trained people along with the spares and tools they need. Not to mention all of the compatible weapons required by that particular plane and any munitions.
You can’t just dump all that stuff in a building as it has to be stored in a way it can be quickly and reliably recovered when needed. We can forget about supplying fighter planes as they have to go along with buildings full of hardware, test equipment and appropriate weapons. And, if you start landing those planes in another country you can expect whever they land to be bombed PDQ.
Is he a bit of a bully? Yes. Does he plan to keep taking in the nations of the old soviet union one little chunk at a time? Yes. So far it's working for him. Even if he were to meet against enough resistance to make him stop, he's still won by the beeellllyuuuuns that Russia has made from sky high oil prices.
IMHO the oil price thing is like a positive side-effect for him. When he weighs all the pros and cons of his actions before implementing them, one of the pros is that it always makes oil price go up. That means even if he's wrong on the next land grab and his main objective isn't met, perhaps with a steep price, that cost is mitigated by the fact that he and Russia at least made tons of money in oil and natural gas spikes. So to him the worst case scenario is some good mixed with some bad, and a best case scenario is some good mixed with more good. That means his risk/reward analysis tells him to keep doing what he's doing.
To me that doesn't sound like a madman.
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