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No, Para, it does not. I brought the point up to show how your view on the War on Terror changed as facts and circumstances changed over time. | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
Zelenskyy also has a problem with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and their Free Exercise of Religion... He's NOT Really for Democracy, Freedom of the Press, OR Freedom of Religion! ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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They're after my Lucky Charms! |
Problem is China is China. And the long game involves going through several generations of leaders. Putin is Russia and Russia is Putin. Pooty wants to be remembered as a great Russian leader with statues of him next to Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Stalin, Lenin, you get the idea. Even is we discount the reports of Pooty's health issues, he has been in charge for 20 years and getting old. Add he has done nothing 'Great' to re-establish a Russian Empire. This invasion was about him trying to get that "Great' added to his name. Early in the invasion Russia published photos of generals being briefed that showed Moldova would be occupied as part to the clean up of this war. The Baltic nations are freaking out because they know they're next. If Russia does succeed in taking Ukraine, they will also hold 40% of the worlds grain, plus sizable oil reserves were recently discovered in Ukrainian territory (to include Crimea and off shore there). The Saudi's have said they are noticing some wells are becoming depleted. If OPEC is no longer the top oil producers, Russia could see themselves on top of that market. Not a situation I would want to be in. Lord, your ocean is so very large and my divos are so very f****d-up Dirt Sailors Unite! | |||
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ibsid, I read through that article quickly and honestly it just sounds like a bunch of Kremlin talking points. The Institute for the Study of War just published an article on Russia's information campaign. You can find the article at the link below. But I am also going to try to post it for those not interested in clicking the link: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 12, 2023
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Uhhh, I seem to recall back when Trump was in office, that the US was essentially energy independent as a 'Net Exporter' of fossil fuels! Drill Here, drill Now! ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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And you actually believe Russian MOD figures? OK, now that's just laughable. I guess you believe that all the videos of HIMAR's strikes are just fake news. | |||
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CHEG, how long is your lifetime? But let's agree for a moment that China is the biggest threat to world peace today. That's all the more reason to use this opportunity to take out Russia now, so they can't be any ally to China. | |||
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
Yep. Nonsense. If anything, it shows the world that Taiwan is on its' own... "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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'Kremlin talking points'...Maybe you should read it slower! Those are Historical FACTS in the Imprimis article from Hillsdale College! Here's a video account of pretty much everything contained in that article: ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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Peace through superior firepower |
Oliver Stone? I wouldn't trust anything he says. | |||
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SIGforum's Berlin Correspondent |
Very good summary of Russian info ops. They used to rule the roost right up to their invasion of Ukraine; but maybe that was because they had no serious competition, and everyone was just staring at their intricate system of bots, troll factories, intelligence-affiliated hacking groups and in-, semi- and official news sites, compounded by sympathetic disinfo laundry outfits in the West, and thinking "ooooh, these guys are so good at manipulating public opinion, they're eroding democracy under our sorry asses!" Of course come the invasion, it turned out that resilience of Western society had been vastly underestimated - most of all by Russia itself. Also, even more than the published US intelligence estimates accurately predicting the attack and always being a step ahead of their preparatory disinfo campaign, the Ukrainians ran a vastly superior propaganda effort in the early stages of the war, flooding social media with near real-time images of their plucky underdog troops delivering blows to the bumbling Goliath aggressor with ingeniuity and Western-delivered weapons. And somehow they managed that without compromising operational security, while the Russians had confiscated smartphones etc. from their soldiers over that exact fear. For much of the first half year, the latter were reduced to Vietnam-style daily overblown bodycount statements of how many enemies they killed, how much equipment they destroyed, how many kilometers they advanced. Of course in aggregate, at some point they would have to had destroyed the entire Ukrainian army and be on the Polish border if you believed them (some people actually do believe there are next to no Ukrainian troops left, and it's all just NATO soldiers in Ukrainian uniforms ...). By October, Russia had somewhat regained the propaganda initiative, mostly by pushing fears that they might go nuclear. Also, some war-weariness has set in throughout the West as grinding static warfare has returned following the unexpected Ukrainian successes in their sweeping fall offensives, with Russia resuming a "bite and hold" approach. As I noted elsewhere, there is a distinct recent uptick in disinfo activity while their expected spring offensive is building up. They are also able to capitalize on a lot of groundwork they laid with their continuos earlier efforts - Ukrainian corruption and authoritarianism, Nazis, allegations of war crimes, the US blew up Nord Stream, etc.; they're even dusting off the American biolabs thing. There has always been a hard core of believers in the West who swallowed it all, but were somewhat marginalized over the course of last year. With recent gradual changes, they're getting more of a voice again. Over here, surveys suggest that ca. 10 to 20 percent of Germans fully believe various Russian narratives, and another 15 to 25 do at least partially. There's an upcoming "peace demonstration" in two weeks initiated by the same wide assortment of suspects - leftists, feminists, peace activists and pro-Russian fellow travellers - who are back with the same reasoning they proffered last spring: So many people have been killed, maimed and raped in Ukraine, they should stop the war (read: surrender) to end the suffering, and most importantly avoid our latte being nuked. | |||
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_________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
Poll: Less Than Half Of Americans Support Shipping Our Weapons To Ukraine As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nears its one-year anniversary on Feb. 24, many Americans’ patience is wearing thin. A new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that American support for shipping weapons and tax dollars off to Ukraine is declining. Less than half of Americans, 48 percent, now say they favor the U.S. providing weapons to Ukraine, with 29 percent opposed and 22 percent neither in favor nor opposed. This is a decline from May 2022, when less than three months into the conflict 60 percent of U.S. adults were in favor of sending weapons to Ukraine. Americans are equally divided on whether to send cash. Thirty-seven percent favor it, 38 percent are opposed, and 23 percent are neither in favor nor opposed. For a war with no end in sight that has already cost U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion in less than one year, it makes sense that public support for funding the conflict is waning, especially as Americans are more concerned about how they’ll foot their wildly inflated grocery bill or handle declining wages, due in part to the influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Meanwhile, a fentanyl crisis — thanks to truckloads of illegal drugs smuggled into the country via the same disastrous border policies — is wreaking havoc on poor, blue-collar communities. More than 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021 alone. Americans seem to increasingly want the Biden administration to focus on issues at home. This is why almost half of them want Biden to help Ukraine negotiate a peace settlement with Russia. Perpetual funding of a proxy war overseas is simply not a priority for the average American, whether Democrat or Republican, which is probably why Biden administration officials reportedly warned Ukraine quietly that Americans have limited patience for endless wars. https://thefederalist.com/2023...-weapons-to-ukraine/ "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
Also, the way this guy dresses... it just seems fake. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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7.62mm Crusader |
That one on the right looks like a used car salesman. Or maybe door to door Kirby.. | |||
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Staring back from the abyss |
No kidding. That suit is way too small. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Peace through superior firepower |
That photo looks like the Biden display at a wax museum. | |||
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Shaman |
My Ukrainian engineer dresses just like him. Ugh. Maybe it's a Ukrainian thing. On another note, he tells me his friends that are fighting are absolutely slaughtering Russians. One friend is a medic. He has to treat wounded Russian POWs. He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. | |||
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His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm. |
Did I hear correctly that Nikki Haley wants to send them warplanes? | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
Just wait until they're all in for sending them warfighters... ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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