I’m not ok with the 100 to 200 Billion we have sent along with weapons.
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Orygun
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So 10-20 billion dollars is ok…but not more? @Gooddad also agrees with that?
Camp
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There is no end in sight and that is a problem.
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Putin never would have invaded with Trump in office. Brandon exudes weakness.
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Camp
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Clearly Biden isn’t paying attention.
For heavens sake the CCP floated a balloon across our airspace with ZERO ramifications.
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Well he is probably compromised as regards the CCP.
Ukraine too for that matter.
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zantax
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Well he did shut down the investigation into the lab leak.
If he isn’t on the Chinese payroll he is working for free.
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there was no coup. yanokovik driving himself to russia and being replaced by his own deputy is not a coup
there is absolutely an end in sight
nothing of the kind has happened. We’ve promised about 100B (that includes the weapons), we have so far delivered around 30B. The strikers they have not gotten yet are decommisioned. The bradleys they haven’t gotten yet are being decommissioned. The abrams were sending them haven’t even started being built yet. What is a decommissioned striker vehicle worth to us? It costs us money to keep it permanent storage, it will never be used and is completely worthless to us. Yet when we give it away we value it at what it would cost to replace it with a new one (which we aren’t doing)
The 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia installed a Communist government under the domination of the Soviet Union. The coup involved mass demonstrations and subversion of the state police force to achieve regime change through intimidation and threats of civil war. There were no deaths as result of the coup, and the transfer for power followed the constitutional procedures. The coup marked the beginning of the Cold War.
In contrast to the events in Czechoslovakia, the 2014 coup in Kyiv was far more violent with dozens of deaths. Many of the deaths came from shots that originated from areas controlled by the far-right Ukrainian nationalists. The removal of the president did not follow the constitutional procedures. A leaked phone conversation recorded Victoria Nuland and other US officials plotting the replacement for the elected president.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck it most likely a duck. Based on historical standards, the 2014 color revolution in Kyiv was a coup.
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Putin stated in March that regime change was not the goal in Ukraine.
An explanation for Putin sending forces near Kyiv was to force a negotiated settlement. A Kyiv and Moscow did reach a tentative agreement at the end of March but it was blocked by Washington.
And I will bet dollars to dog nuts that Putin has been laughing about anyone who believed what he said.
IMHO Putin is about as good a liar as Trump. And I am pleased to hear that good people of Russia are now starting to get the truth about what is happening. I am hoping that Putin’s lies to his people will finally catch up with him.
e7alr
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I would have thought that Trump’s lease on the frontal cortex apartment had expired by now.
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Russian propaganda
There were no deaths associated with Putin’s Puppet leaving. He got in his car and drove himself to Russia.
nobody shot at him
nobody chased him
he was not arrested
he was not deposed
there were no tanks in the street
there were no boots stomping down the hall
There was no coup
it does not look like a duck
it does not quack like a duck
it does not walk like a duck
(unless all you see is ducks)
e7alr
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Just stop. The thrust towards Kiev at the beginning was meant to decapitate the Ukrainiane government;
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Orygun
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Takes a special level of gaslighting to try to convince folks that the Russian military assault on Kyiv was “to avoid WW III” and that “regime change was not the goal in Ukraine.”
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Cool, are you able to read Putin’s mind? Or do you have a secret informant in the Kremlin?
The stalled 40-mile Russian convoy that resulted in hyperventilating media coverage appears to have been made up of the least-effective equipment in the Russian inventory.
The history of war is filled with diversions and fakes to distract from the main attack. In the case of Ukraine, the main battle has been in Donbas. The rest is of secondary importance, and that includes the Russian convoy toward Kyiv.
A Ukrainian report from Bakhmut:
. . . Ukrainian infantrymen told the Kyiv Independent of unprepared, poorly-trained battalions being thrown into the front line meat grinder to survive as best they could with little support from armored vehicles, mortars, artillery, drones and tactical information. . .
Mortarmen spoke of extreme ammunition scarcity and having to use weapons dating back to World War II. . .
“The battalion came in in the middle of December… between all the different platoons, there were 500 of us,” says Borys, a combat medic from Odesa Oblast fighting around Bakhmut. “A month ago, there were literally 150 of us.”
“When you go out to the position, it’s not even a 50/50 chance that you’ll come out of there (alive),” says the older Serhiy. “It’s more like 30/70. . .
Multiple soldiers say Bakhmut troops are barely given enough time to learn to shoot a rifle – sometimes their training is just 2 weeks, before they’re dropped into the hottest parts of the most intense current battle of the war.”
