Whilst appreciating that in these strange days it does not do to have anything else other than a 'world view' on foreign policy, I can't help but wonder what the reaction would be in other countries if one of their senior politicians offered assistance to the aggressor in war.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...AUO7yx?ocid=msedgntp

Hopefully, her “stance”, among others, will be enough to get this traitor voted out in the near future.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Hopefully, her “stance”, among others, will be enough to get this traitor voted out in the near future.

Voted out? By her own people? Doubtful….

But not impossible.

The responses in the twitter feed following the article are astoundingly stupid. If you need a lesson in ignorance, or want a headache, read them.

I believe the question was once asked "where's the comet?"

Hmmm. I saw an interview with an average Russian. His concern several days back was that McDonalds might close. It is has favorite restaurant where he "dines every day." Coke has pulled out as well.

A) Russia has pumped lots of money into DC

B) The Marketplace sanctions will hurt far more than the political ones

China has pumped billions more into America than Russia. There are hundreds of medical people at institutions and colleges on their payroll with more being found weekly as investigations go on, many illegally concealed it. As for banning Russian oil here, it's 10% of our consumption. Nobody is attempting to ban Russian oil in Europe, where natural gas can be up to 70% of that countries consumption, and fuel oil up to 50%.

Nonetheless it will add to our fuel cost inflation and we will suffer more than EU by a larger margin. It was predicted by a popularly elected candidate that once Biden got into office we would see $7 a gallon gas. We are more than halfway there with the national average now over $4 a gallon. That already will more than double the price of fuel on a 650 mile trip for the summer. Every $50 increase means another attraction or feature, even a fancy restaurant meal, might be off the table for those on well controlled budgets. In aggregate that drives down our economy overall.

OC has very little affect on our country's policies, it's the cumulative affect of 81 million voters who brought this on. Those voters don't seem willing to admit they are the cause but they aren't escaping the costs they imposed on us all.

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
I can't help but wonder what the reaction would be in other countries if one of their senior politicians offered assistance to the aggressor in war.

Please let us know if any do.

Omar is loud, and gets outsized mention in the warped institutions which are our press, but she is anything but senior.

She's gotten re-elected to Congress precisely once and sits on four relatively minor subcommittees in the House. She gets airtime from one side's press because of her demographic and her membership in 'the squad', and from everyone else to highlight her odd positions and activity, such as her take on the current unpleasantness.

People must want to read about her but understand she has the clout of a gnat in a tornado. Sound and fury.....

One of the most powerful human motivators is to influence others because it can lead to the most important things: access to food, shelter, sex, and valuable possessions, and cooperation to obtain those things. The first step in influencing others is to get them to pay attention to us, and one of the surest ways of attracting attention is to challenge or criticize what a large percentage of the rest of the group believes. In primitive societies breaking a taboo would result in censure and loss of those things, but in a society like ours that’s no longer true. As long as a significant minority supports the taboo breaker, usually precisely because he/she is a taboo breaker and the supporters get a vicarious thrill or sense of self-righteousness through that support, the breaker will survive, and very often prosper—sometimes greatly.

In a situation like this most people with any sense of compassion and morality will object to the unprovoked crimes of mass murder and destruction. But even if some will shrug it off as “not my concern,” at least they won’t try to attract attention to themselves by doing something like standing up for someone other than the true primary victims. The left in this country has, however, found that to be a very effective way of attracting attention to themselves and therefore support. There are many examples that we could cite going back many decades, so this is nothing new or different in principle, only in its specific focus.

The thing to recognize and remember, though, is that people like this do things like this because it’s successful. Their goal is to attract attention, and they get it in many different ways.

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Does anyone remember Bob Geldof and the whole "Feed The World" thing? In 1984 he brought together a bunch of what were popular musical acts, produced a single and a video, and tried to use the proceeds to feed starving people displaced by war in Ethiopia.

In order to get any food to the people who were starving, they first had to feed umpteen jillion gunmen who not only killed the people who were starving whenever they wanted to, but kept the war going that would ensure the starving people kept starving - or died of starvation.

Tell us, oh Mz. Ilhan, how you propose to buy Russian oil and get the proceeds to the common people of Russia without being forced to feed Putin's war machine first?

Let her get all the attention she wants - so long as she is judged by adult standards.

I think her and the "squad" need to go to Russia and show them how to do it. It is amazing at how many simpletons we have in the USA and the people they represent. We really need to have some required qualifications for those who wish to run.