Posted on 02/28/2022 1:04:37 PM PST by blam
It’s pretty obvious what Putin is doing. He most definitely is not throwing his full military punch. Putin has shown what the military reality is and is going to use that at the negotiating table. This can be negotiated if the NATO crazy talk ends and the GD American Democrat Party stops destabilizing the area for power and profit. If the negotiations fail, you will then see the Russian Army unleashed.
Stick to principle, condemn Ukrainian state-support for Nazi battalions while also condemning Putin’s invasion. Just like we’d condemn ISIS ...or the Chec’s Putin’s using.
The pursuit of truth matters, else before we know it we will no longer be able to recognise anything.
“Why does he sit in a throne like chair and 100 feet away from his minions ?”
Fear of catching COVID or shrapnel.
[A mad man is most dangerous when he’s cornered.]
No one handed Putin his job. He clawed his way to power. He knows a thing or two about how to appoint men he can trust with his life to key positions and keep them from conspiring against him individually or in collusion with each other. If he loses and withdraws from Ukraine, he will likely continue to rule Russia until the end of his natural life just like his North Korean counterpart.
Very likely he wears a bullet proof vest at all times and carries a pistol.
I want that table.
Afraid of covid!
What an awful and telling photo of Putin.
Gives the impression that he is weak and isolated. He may not be, but that’s the sort of photo I would expect of Biden.
Cue the Lusitania.
It's always been my understanding that the Russians have a lot of weapons, but not so much in the way of money for maintenance and training. Most of what they bring in through petroleum revenue probably goes toward paying off Putin's retainers.
Looks like Russia wants to fight the world because many Western countries are announcing that they are supplying weaponry to Ukraine, and, other than the usual suspects like China and Iran, most of the globe is opposed to Russia’s transgression.
Putin really blew it on this.
In WW2 80% of Russian soldiers never returned home.
Exactly. Why would the EU want to incorporate a war zone? That doesn’t make any sense unless the desired outcome is a wider war.
I’m surprised Russia hasn’t turned off the oil and NG taps.
Cue the Lusitania.
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Wonder if our woke schools teach anything about WWI or WWII these days? It’s good for kids to understand the origins and costs of wars. Just saying.
Vlad:
F.O.A.D.
—> other than the usual suspects like China and Iran, most of the globe is opposed to Russia’s transgression.
If Iran, China, and North Korea get involve, it will stretch those nations.
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