Posted on 06/21/2024 5:43:04 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
‘History is watching. The failure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will not be forgotten,” President Biden said on the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Now is the time to prove that the United States stands up for freedom and bows down to no one.”
Strong words.
Too bad they are nothing more.
Time and again, Biden has bowed down to Vladimir Putin, allowing the tyrant to dictate the terms of this unlawful, immoral invasion.
Nowhere is this more true than the disgraceful limitations on Ukraine’s strategy.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I’ve said from the beginning that Biden and Putin are in cahoots.
Longer it goes on, longer the big guys get 10%
“There was peace and quiet until Russian “irregulars” invaded en masse, claiming to be “separatists”.”
There hasn’t been “peace and quiet” since 2014. Covid fears caused a substantial lull.
“Russian “irregulars” invaded en masse”
Can you give a date and link please. Was it shortly before the war exploded?
There were undoubtedly Russian “irregulars” but the “en masse” is unknown to me.
H/T JOHN SOLOMON——There are still wide swaths of documentation kept under wraps inside the Biden State Dept that could substantially alter the public’s understanding of what happened in Zelensky-Biden-Obama-era Ukraine. President Trump should order these released:
<><> Daily intelligence reports from March through August 2019 on Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky and his relationship with oligarchs and other key figures.
<><>What was the CIA, FBI and U.S. Treasury Department telling Trump and other agencies about Zelensky’s ties to oligarchs like Igor Kolomoisky, the former head of Privatbank, and any concerns the International Monetary Fund might have?
<><>Did any of these concerns reach the president’s daily brief (PDB) or come up in the debate around resolving Ukraine corruption and U.S. foreign aid?
<><>CNBC, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal all have done recent reporting suggesting there might have been intelligence and IMF concerns that have not been fully considered during the impeachment proceedings.
<><>State Department memos detailing conversations between former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. He says Yovanovitch raised the names of Ukrainians she did not want to see prosecuted during their first meeting in 2016. She calls Lutsenko’s account fiction.
<><>State Department officials admit the U.S. embassy in Kiev did pressure Ukrainian prosecutors not to target certain activists. Are there contemporaneous State Department memos detailing these conversations and might they illuminate the dispute between Lutsenko and Yovanovitch that has become key to the impeachment hearings?
<><>State Department memos on U.S. funding given to the George Soros-backed group the Anti-Corruption Action Centre.
<><>There is documentary evidence that Obama’s State Dept funded this group,
<><>and that a Ukrainian prosecutor sought to investigate whether that aid was spent properly
<><>and that the US embassy pressured Ukraine to stand down on that investigation.
<><>How much in total did Obama’s State Dept give to this group?
<><>Why was a US federal agency giving money to a Soros-backed group?
<><>What did taxpayers get for their money?
<><>were they any audits to ensure the tax dollars were spent properly?
<><>Were any of Ukrainian prosecutors’ corruption concerns legitimate?
<><>Did Zelensky ever comment?
<><>Where are transcripts of Joe Biden’s calls and meetings with Zelensky from April 2014 to January 2017
<><>(at the time Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma)
<><>What did Biden say to Zelensky WRT firing the prosecutor investigating Burisma?
<><>Did Biden confer at all with Zelensky?
<><>Did Zelensky or any Ukrainian officials ever comment on Hunter Biden’s role at the company?
<><>Was any official assessment done by U.S. agencies to justify Biden’s threat of withholding $1 billion in U.S. aid if Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin wasn’t fired?
800,000 CIA officers? Who knew they had the budget?
I don’t give a crap about Russia or Ukraine. I give a crap about my own country being destroyed from within.
All this claptrap sounds exactly like the $hit they fed us in the 50's and 60's. I don't need a re-run of that time. I already lived through it.
That's what the British said about the Revolutionary War, and what the government in Washington said about The Civil War.
That said, if you don't do dead tree books then Wikipedia for all its' faults has a reasonable bare-bones summary at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men_(Russo-Ukrainian_War)
Russia has their own alternative GPS system called Glonass. Maybe we could jam it, but retaliation is attacks on our own satellites.
And then there is always good old fashioned inertial navigation systems. Better then ever before.
[my own country being destroyed from within.]
That doesn’t seem to be a priority ...
US tax dollars helped Ukraine
Not really. It is worse than that. All tax dollars are expended before we get around to foreign giveaways. Interest on the debt has overtaken Defense as the #1 budget item. The giveaways are paid with printed or borrowed dollars.
Interest costs on the national debt just surpassed spending on defense, MedicareIn first 7 months of fiscal year 2024, spending on net interest surged to $514B
Government Spending
By Megan Henney
Fox Business
Published May 17, 2024 12:02pm EDT[excerpt]
In the first seven months of fiscal year 2024, which began in October, spending on net interest surged to $514 billion, surpassing spending on both national defense ($498 billion) and Medicare ($465 billion). In fact, interest costs have topped spending on veterans, education and transportation combined.
[...]
From just four decades ago, the debt skyrocketed from $907 billion to more than $34.5 trillion as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the latest Treasury Department figures.
“Someone needs to give Chad C. Milligan and his zeeper comrades a rifle and a plane ticket to Ukraine.”
Oh no, not him, but he’d send my sons in a red hot minute. Yeah Chad, I have three military age sons. What do you have to give?
I gave at the office.
“I gave at the office.”
You’re one sick weirdo.
There won't be any wider war unless the West encourages Putin with weakness.
The Romans knew...Si vis pacem, para bellum.. Still true after 2000 years.
The reality is you know nothing about them, otherwise, you wouldn’t said what you said. They have one of the largest human trafficking operations in the world, drug smuggling, organ harvesting, they are renowned for their money laundering operation, just to name a few. They are not the idyllic society that you fantasize it to be.
Putin has lost. Mother Russia is withering to nothingness as we post
THEY had/have the makings of a civilized European state: Rule of Law...
Surely you jest.
Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries on the planet.
You know all this because you have been told by whom?
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