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Sure, if the military/industrial/congressional complex has anything to do with it. Big bucks all around.

“President Zelenski rings NYSE opening bell.”

Yes, of course he would. Some of the international financial firms are among his biggest cheer leaders (think Biden hasn’t gone way far enough). Just read the editorials in the Wall Street Journal.

Whatever. In the meantime, the military/industrial complex is making out like bandits, thank you very much. Loads of orders for new weapons, replenishments, etc. Nothing like a nice little war to increase defense budgets, increase profits.

The Europeans, Ukrainians are chumps.

“I am so happy…”

Yes, I agree. Maloney has been my US Rep forever, and she is a real piece of work. Nasty, malicious, deceitful, arrogant. And a real phony with her so-called support for women’s rights (supports trannies in women’s bathrooms, women’s sports, wormen’s shelters and prisons, etc.).

I disagree with Nadler about most everything, but he has his outlook and is not a nasty, malicious witch like Maloney.

This was their in-your-face response to the fact that Trump-supported candidates won so many primaries.

Take that, sheeple. We don’t give a rat’s a$$ what you think. We’re in charge and there is nothing we’re going to let you do about it.

So Trump is going to receive more and more messages about what is going to happen to him, if he should decide to run for President again.

I think they’re calling for a Lee Harvey Oswald or a John Wilkes Booth. Trump better check out his security, including the Secret Service Agents who are charged with protecting him.

This is the funniest article I ever read (too bad the underlying basis is such a serious, frightening matter). But those clowns in the Biden administration are just too ludicrous.

(Just recently Secretary Blinkin’ , on his African trip to enlist support from African countries, was filmed admonishing the PM of one of the countries there over the fact that that man’s administration had just arrested the leader of the opposition - “democracies just don’t do that.” Everyone was giggling.)

“If Garland didn’t approve it, who did?”

It was the Russians. They tricked the FBI agents into thinking they were being ordered to raid Trump’s house.

Just think what would have happened if Trump had managed to overcome the cheating and had prevailed in the 2000 election. (He would have gotten the JFK treatment.)

“Only 30% of US weapons sent to Ukraine reach destination.”

Unimportant. The important thing is that the defense contractors are receiving big bucks to replenish their stocks. Gotta keep that war machine going.

“Bye Bye WSJ.”

All Rupert Murdoch-owned news outlets are very anti-Trump. Prior to the 2000 election, they were not quite as strident but still hostile. Now they are letting out all the stops.

Another WSJ columnist, Peggy Noonan, idolizes Lynne Cheney and has always propagandized against Trump, calling him crazy.

“You know that the CIA and Allies want to get us into a war…”

Reminiscent of the U2 incident. Remember that? When Eisenhower and Khrushchev had this meeting all set up, to reduce tensions, the CIA sent a U2 to fly over Russia - and the Russians shot it down. Big brouhaha, meeting kaput.

“Biden policies causing pain for the middle class.”

The Biden administration and its backers don’t give a rat’s a&& about the middle class and what might help or hurt them. They’ll do whatever they and their big donors want them to do.

“They could try...”

Putin could use some of his Taliban goat herder allies. NATO and the US under Biden will fold like a cheap shirt.

“Thank goodness he has his pension and business contacts…”

Zelenski has just offered him a job as Governor of Donetsk oblast.

Goes back to Alexander Nevsky and the Teutonic Knights. He lured them onto the thin part of the ice on the ice-coated lake because he knew their heavy armor could not be supported by the ice, and sure enough the ice cracked and they drowned.

Yes. The Russians are good at setting traps like that. (They did the same sort of thing to the Germans in WWII.).

Their army does a retreat, the Ukrainian fighters who have holed up in the city do some high fives (“See that? We defeated the Russians!”) and pour out into the flat lands surrounding the city to pursue the retreating Russians. The Russians wait a while for the bulk of the Ukrainian fighters to push on to the tree-less, unprotected plain, and then bomb the sh&t out of them. Then they move in to mop up in the city.

“Reality will set in when NATO starts staring into the eyes of old man winter…”

Ol’ Man Winter appears to have a deleterious effect on wars with Russia. Just ask Napoleon or the failed house painter.

“Wilson reveals that the goal of US policymakers and their involvement in both the EU and NATO is not only to move both organizations up to Russia’s borders, but to absorb Russia itself…”

Which they were well on the way to doing when Yeltsin was in charge. Yeltsin was our boy - see cover of late 1990’s Time magazine: “Yanks to the Rescue.”

But then Putin succeeded Yeltsin and the good times went away. Oh well…

“Give us your top three reasons why our tax dollars are being spent in Ukraine rather than here in America.”

1. The weapons sent (or that we contemplate on sending) to Ukraine are vastly more profitable for the MIC than those that might be deployed to control the US border.

2. The US needs to implant a permanent wedge between Russia and Europe in order to stymie any cozy trade relationships that would imperil US economic and military dominance over the Western part of the Eurasian continent. (The Brezhinski doctrine.)

3. It might divert attention from US domestic problems that Brandon and company don’t want to deal with.