Russia on brink of ... NOPE! Russia INVADES Ukraine!

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I am majorly ignorant when it comes to sanctions and siezed assets. At what point can we start raiding the Russian piggy banks we have a lock on and start directing that back to rebuilding Ukraine? I figure a billion per war crime is reasonable.
 
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It was Kennan who came up with the policy of using NATO as a shield against the Soviet Union, and then by the late 1990s warned the U.S. of using NATO as a sword against Russia. Dubya ignored him (some say it started with Clinton), and that only increased U.S. neocon resolve.

Sachs explains it briefly, but I won't be surprised if he's laughed at by the anons of this thread just like they did Mearsheimer:




But many can't laugh this off. Why? Because the fact that the U.S. is the most warlike in the world and has engaged in intervention, disruption, assassinations, coups, etc., in many countries is not questionable. So they make asides, referring to to some weird view that Russia wants to form a new empire (actually, they make the same claims about China), and that raising this points is merely part of whataboutism. Then they announce that defense spending isn't that big or that there can only be a binary view of the world: one side is good and the other is evil, and the U.S. is good, end of story.

Or they just point out that others are ignoramuses or children; anything to just avoid getting into the heart of the matter.
Nice blog posting. 22041 - 22051.
 

kage69

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Recognition of risk to cannon fodder, or is it just getting harder to kidnap and ship Ukrainian children out to Russia?

Reliable weapons? Ammo? Food? Shelter? Training? Secure comms? Winter gear? Nope! But hey, we'll freeze your macho gazpacho for ya.

It's almost like Putin is trying to bring back that Stalin level of humor. Next he should tell them dark humor is like an MRE.
 
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kage69

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There’s this sperm bank thing


Word is it wasn't planned, that he was also miffed it was another girl. Others doubt it happened, like his reputed secret sons. Idk for sure, but I do know if a guy shacks up with a 'double jointed ex gymnastics champ with no gag reflex,' 30 years his junior, I don't think artificial insemination is something broached much.

There's this Viagra thing
 
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kage69

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So far as you’ve been told/led to believe…

True. Yet to be confirmed, but personally I think it's probably legit. Not that it makes a whole hell of a lot of difference, kids or no he is still a war criminal. He deserves another kind of cancer or a polonium smoothie, not more children.
 
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Damn! Look at these guys try to shoot it right before impact


Right in the ass


In stop-action, it looks like the drone went straight for the top-side gunner's puckered ass. Kudos to drone pilot. He deserves a new washer that the orcs probably ripped off from her/him and a week off from duties. Hopefully there was a trailer behind the rectum wrecker to go after the cabin crew. Poor bastards.
 

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Gotta love Russia terms for being willing to negotiate. We will only be willing to negotiate once everyone acknowledge that Ukraine never existed and is actually a part of federation of Russia.
 

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Gotta love Russia terms for being willing to negotiate. We will only be willing to negotiate once everyone acknowledge that Ukraine never existed and is actually a part of federation of Russia.
It's a PR stunt to make Putin look like he is being reasonable on the world stage and is sensitive to the needs of the Russian people. For internal consumption only - well, and external fools.
 
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