Posted on 08/12/2023 9:14:07 PM PDT by Cronos
Russia's Foreign Ministry condemned on Saturday what it called Ukraine's "terrorist attack" on the Crimean Bridge,
..."There can be no justification for such barbaric actions and they will not go unanswered," ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
If you want to go down that rabbit hole check out Russian media, it is insane and frankly the mindset of the Russian people to what appears to be a vast majority are lock step with the RT messaging
My latest favorite is the woman complaint why Ukrainians are attacking “peaceful “ Moscow
Guess Germans in 45 could have said the same thing about Berlin
Amazing
And the Germans just announced another 8000 B-17s were shot down over Berlin
At least Ritter channel was banned, still have Macgregor though to get their “information “
I was in Mexico at a conference, giving a paper on the Mexican-American War. I mentioned to my coauthor that, in Mexico, the Mexican-American war is known as the War of Northern Aggression. He, who is from Louisiana, said, that’s what we call the Civil War. I replied, they’re ALL wars of northern aggression.
Think about it.
Tell that to relatives of the innocent Ukrainian citizens who are about to die in the retaliatory raids. They will die because Zelensky is forced to put on a meaningless show to impress the hinterland stooges of the DC oligarchs running this catastrophe.
Having a tough time working up a tear.
We would be better off with a dictator like Putin rather than the dictator we have. So I’m very confused why the uproar by so many so called conservatives about Russia when we have worse here . Zelensky is actually worse than putin.
Do the Russians have any idea what caricatures they look like, attacking as “terrorism” a hit on a bridge crucial to their logistics, while at the same time destroying entire Ukrainian towns and cities in order to run off pro-Ukraine civilians?
The old better red than dead argument. Russians love to use power to enslave others. Our American national anthem ends in a question, does our flag still wave over the land of the free and the brave? Take away bravery part, and the freedom part won’t last. Some aggressor will see to that. Ukraine has a chance because it is standing up to you.
US stocks of HIMARS launchers, after shipments to Ukraine (not even then 5% of our inventory), actually grew in 2022 and 2023. Where we’d use several hundred of them (besides a land war in Europe) is pretty mystifying.
You will be happy to learn that Russia has now made it illegal for anybody to take video of the Kerch Bridge so as to protect the Russian public from Ukrainian disinformation.
I believe his username is ‘Soul’, not ‘son’ of the South. No matter, but I am noticing too often that well-written, common sense commentaries around here are often met with insults and/or other false accusations.
To Soul of the South: your opinion is spot on, and allow me to expand your line of thinking in contrast of the blue and yellow flag wavers who have nested themselves on this forum in the recent months.
You stated”...There are very few federal programs that do not spend vast amounts of money to achieve negative results...”
Vietnam, Afghanistan, War on Poverty, Covid ‘Vaccines’, Border Security, etc. Shall I go on?
Before the accusation of ‘Putin propagandist’, perhaps we Americans should take a good look at ourselves at this point in history.
In America and much of western Europe. Our physical, societal, and dare I say spiritual infrastructure is collapsing around us. Our cities are becoming uninhabitable. From the west coast where mobs attack businesses and residents like locusts to this nation’s capital where the city council is pleading for the Nation Guard to be called out to stop the rampant crime and every murdering, feces filled cesspool in between.
This government claims to have the moral authority to play cop to the rest of the world while we insult other nations with our so-called gender-affirming policies being shoved in their faces. We are losing respect around the world - even in Europe.
Have the blue & yellow flag wavers even noticed that most of NATO has all but stopped supplying their side with advanced weaponry? Yet while now admitting their ‘counter-offensive’ has um... ‘not yielded the expected results’, we have to listen to more requests for billions to be poured in, thus increasing the body counts, and the possibility of this conflict spilling over into other parts of the world.
I wonder how the survivors on the Island of Maui feel about more of their taxes going overseas as they crawl out of the ashes? I wonder how those ‘sanctuary cities’ feel about their cities being overrun with exactly what they asked for?
We have an administration that believe gender is determined by psychology rather than biology, that weaponizing federal agencies against their own citizens is a good thing while the family leading all of this conduct themselves in a manner that would make any mafia family jealous, and believes that anything that doesn’t fit their agenda must be ‘racists’ (or whatever -ism they can throw out there).
So, and I mean this will all sincerity to all the blue and yellow flag waving war hawks out there:
If we’re going to spend hundreds of billions to protect any border, it should be OUR OWN. We can’t justifiably help anyone else unless we help ourselves first. They way it looks from our side, if we stopped sending weapons to Ukraine and focused on our own issues, perhaps Ukrainian, Russians, and yes - even Americans might stop dying.
Everything isn’t about Ukraine. Those of us who either work or have worked our butts of over the years are rewarded with insults and accusations when we say ANYTHING that may question the narrative of the day when it comes to that failed area of the world. So, on behalf of all Real Americans out there, any keyboard-pounding for that blue and yellow flag toward us should start with THANK YOU, rather than repeated insults.
You are routing for a U.S. government that is illegally indicting, incarcerating, and out right killing their political opponents, while their leader of that opposition is more popular that the government itself. If you check your history, you would understand how this is a recipe for a confrontation that most assuredly will take your most passionate issue (that Slavic Civil War) off the front pages.
that’s my $0.02 for the day.
jimjohn - OUT.
You will be happy to learn that the smoke pictures of the Kerch bridge from the other day were just Russian smoke generators working to mask the bridge from NATO-assisted Ukrainian drones.
My goodness, you Rooski trolls are ignorant. Do tell us what weapon the US has sent Ukraine that can substantively hit a target over 250 km from the front line at its closest.
Well, I suppose perhaps the Ukies could buy heavy missiles from some rogue country like Iran, IF they were on good terms. But, you can’t hide such shipments, and they’d be easily stopped. Even a piddly S-200 (warhead only ~ 200 kg) is a quite sizable object to try to hide in shipping, in 2023.
I’d think Ukie intel (with NATO help) would be good enough that sooner or later Ukraine can pop a fuel train on the Kerch Bridge. The resulting fire should cause some real problems. (Damage to the bridge.)
sorry Russia but when someone attacks a bridge you build on occupied Ukrainian territory, it is not terrorism it is national defense!
-—is collapsing——
I will argue that there is no collapse but rather purposeful destruction. The old society and all norms and morals and ethics are being cast aside by the radicals who claim to be the future and insist on progress toward that future. Their vision of Freedom is a total lack of restraints
There can be no co existence. The progressive individuals must be destroyed. Their City State bastions must be contained.
But it will not happen. Conservative society lacks the will to resist, to get down and dirty and fight
WTH! Imagine the Ruskies being upset having the largest military behemoth the world has ever seen using the Uke platform to aggressively attack them on their border, a days tank ride from Moscow. Destabilizing? Heck no, to destabilize we send our leaders to the border to scream “forced regime change in Moscow”, “no victory until Russia defeated”! The woke, green, pervo globalists in DC have such an easy time utilizing you neocon’s innate warmongering in order to infiltrate conservative sites like this. That way you can spread the administration’s globalists dogma as your more traditional globalist fellow travelers are doing on leftist sites.
Obviously! How could pathetic Ukraine hope to accomplish anything against Russia. Russia will defeat Ukraine they way Russia defeated Germany during WWII, single-handedly and without any lend lease!
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