Posted on 04/30/2022 11:03:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of trying to destroy the Donbas and all who live there.
“The constant brutal bombardments, the constant Russian strikes on infrastructure and residential areas show that Russia wants to empty this territory of all people. Therefore, the defence of our land, the defence of our people, is literally a fight for life,” he said late Friday in his nightly video address to the nation.
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The Dnieper looks to be a formidable barrier to any attacker. From either bank.
ALASKA to cuz1961
He was offered evacuation just after the invasion started. He said, “I need ammunition, not a ride.”
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Are his family safe in the U.K. ?
This is citizenship not a ride,,, yet.
I have to disagree. Doing what? Calling his nation to arms to defend itself from invaders? If only Biden were such an asshole regarding the invaders from our southern border.
Lenina Crown
I wish I had you around.
You are so special my love.
Your legs are so pneumatic.
I would absolutely agree with that if there was any similarity.
And a much better standard of living. There is a reason Russian troops are looting washing machines.
I am sick of Putin. I think the president of Ukraine is doing a great job uniting his country and fending off a dangerous enemy. I think your post is nothing more than Russian propaganda.
Gee.....after WWII, Britain threw out all the Polish Fighter Pilots who fought the huns for them there, using their own planes they didn’t have enough pilots for..... Times sure have changed.
Yet, the “ride” is there - any time he wants it. Courtesy USA evac team who will put their lives in peril.
In other words: “Send More MONEY!!”
One minute, the Russians are so pathetic and weak they can’t even beat Ukraine.
The next minute, Russia wants to reclaim the whole Soviet Union and they are so mighty and they are ready to attack Poland and everyone else.
This is the same hogwash we hear on this site all the time about Ukraine War from the warmongers.
You can’t have it both ways and be credible. Which is it, Zelensky?
“Money for nothin’......”
Gee.....after WWII, Britain threw out all the Polish Fighter Pilots who fought the huns for them there, using their own planes they didn’t have enough pilots for..... Times sure have changed.
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They’ll probably end up kicking them out too.
Poland, my favorite European country.
What U.K. did to those pilots always tourqed my jaws.
Plus Montgomery getting a bunch of their parachute troops shot with his incompetence in market garden.
( I think Monty was a closet Nazi sympathizer )
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I'm sick of both of them. Zelensky for running such a corrupt government (think Bidens, Clintons, and others), and Putin for starting a war just for territorial conquest.
If I see American troops headed to Ukraine, I will be out on the streets once again with a bullhorn.
NO MORE AMERICAN KIDS TO DIE OR MAIMED FOR USELESS REGIONAL CONFLICTS!
Well when you have a pack of dogs what you wanna do is when you punish when you want to do it in front of the other dogs so that they all learn a lesson. I think that’s what’s going on here and I think that Putin has every intention of just leveling the place and never rebuilding
Bullshiite. This war is about oil & gas reserves. The last time we had an oppressive regime invade their neighbor over oil & gas, an international coalition kicked his ass back to Iraq.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
also:
Why Russia wants to invade Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
The Russians weren’t even interested in eastern Ukraine until oil was found there. Their interest is simply in raping that country. Russia gets 60% of its revenues from oil exports. Europe gets 40% of their oil from Russia.
In 2012 massive oil and gas reserves were found in Crimea. Crimea signed a $10 billion exploration contracts with Shell and Chevron to develop the new found oil and gas fields. These oil and gas products would compete in Europe with Russia’s oil and gas, reducing Russia’s oil revenues, which we recall amount to 60% of their total GDP. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, cancelling the contracts with Shell and Chevron.
But Ukraine still had massive reserves in, you guessed it, Donetsk and Luhansk, and other areas East of the Dnieper River. In 2019, Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited Ukraine, and soon after Ukraine awarded exploration contracts to a consortium of U.S. oil companies. Again, these oil reserves would compete in Europe with Russian oil, so Putin is invading Ukraine to shut down this latest attempt to extract Ukrainian oil and sell it in competition with Russian oil.
This explanation makes more sense to me than the “Putin feels threatened by NATO expansion” excuses for the invasion.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044221/posts?page=1#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmdSzVFSKc
If the Ukes allow some small region in the west to be its own republic, but the OIL belongs to Ukraine, do ya think Pootypoot would allow that? Nope.
-PJ
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