re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Tucker Carlson has been a fanboy of Putin for awhile.

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How, by not trusting Zalenskyy?

You are going to have to link me these instances, or, like low-t boy, you are going to exposed as being a liar. Tucker is easy to link, so support what you post.

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and 10% will be going to “the BIG GUY.”

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Bruh, let's be real. Half the OT has more net worth than Joe fricking Biden

i admit, i don't watch Tucker as much as I used to, so I don't know how he leans regarding Putin. I do recall seeing headlines that he was being critical of Ukraine in some form. Sorry I didn't pay that much attention so I can't recall where I saw those, It would have been on Rantingly, Drudge, Free Republic, or the Poliboard.

It could easily have been Tucker being critical of Biden/Zelensky/Ukraine corruption.

You think they trust China to cover that side of the country if all out war starts?
Serious question, just talking tactics.
I'm impressed with the knowledge on what they have and what they are using.

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Just half?

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I'm being extremely conservative

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IF it was gonna happen, wouldn't the attackers be the ones attempting to rewrite history???

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Russia said to get rid of Nazis. Putin's favorite mercs, Wagner Group was founded by a Neo Nazi and named it for Hitler's favorite composer.

Russia began encroaching on Crimea almost 2 decades ago by building a dam from their side to a Ukrainian island in the middle of the straits. The island's populace requested military help for the government, so a base was established there way before 2014. They asked for Bazookas and got a base instead, not a large one by any means but at least a presence.

Ukraine had signed multi billion dollar deals each with Chevron, Exxon and Shell to develop its tight shale oilfields in early 2014, then Russia invaded and the agreements were cancelled.

I forget which politard idiot claimed that Ukraine siphoned oil and gas from Russia. Russia pays royalities to Ukraine for the original main natural gas line to Europe, the Brotherhood Pipeline. It also pays royalties to Ukraine for any crude oil pipelines going through its territory. Ukraine buys natural gas and did buy crude oil from Russia but after 2014, it ceased buying crude oil. It's refineries haven't been operating at all since around 2014 except for one which operates at times but mostly shutdown. The one in Odessa is even owned by Russian Lukoil.

As far as "biolabs" Russia had at least 2 dozen in Ukraine before it declared its independence. These biolabs were to develop biological weapons. Russia had quite a few also in Kazakhstan as well. The USA helped guide them in cleaning these up. FTR, the lab which tells you anything from a blood, saliva, urine or biopsy sample is a biolab.

You really ought to educate yourself beyond nutter talk from alt news websites and posters.

We already know that Russia had ACTIVELY been behind the
"Renewable Energy" movement and not only funded but gave talking points to stop "Tar Sands" development expansion by stopping pipelines from being built. It's only beenn done in Canada since the first upgrader was built during WWII to provide synthetic crude for the war effort. It was also behind the "anti fracking" movement.

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USA didn’t have a very nice response when nukes were stockpiled at our doorstep. Is it really that unreasonable for Russia to have a negative reaction? Particularly after they were told this wouldn’t happen?

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Do you acknowledge that Russia completely ignored the agreement they agreed to - where Russia and US would respect Ukraines borders in response to Ukraine giving up nukes?

It will put China in a severe bind.

I'll have to see if I can find it again, I read a thread today that was discussing the Russia/China relationship and how much strain it is under due to Russia's ham-handed war effort.

I'm not trying to avoid answering, but I really don't know. I do think China will play the long game and make whatever decision (US or Russia)is in their best interest at the time they have to make it.

China's economy is much more linked to ours than it is to Russia's. Any Chinese decision-making will have that at the top of their list of factors to consider.

Would they go so far as to invade Russia, no I don't think they will do that? They really don't have to do much but sit there. In a full-blown war, NATO doesn't need to cross Chinese territory to do anything. That gives China a clear path to staying neutral, which is what I think they will do.

I think that what China has seen out of US warfighting capabilities in Ukraine is going to cause China to proceed a little more cautiously in regard to Taiwan. They need some time to incorporate the lessons learned into their military...once that happens, who knows.

ETA: This is the link to the thread about China/Russia relationship I mentioned above.
https://twitter.com/HalBrands/status/1568622130916429824

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If Russia's battlefield situation in Ukraine is as bad as it seems, it will create serious dilemmas for China. A thread:

My view has long been that: a) Xi Jinping is probably dismayed that Putin launched such a ham-handed, incompetent invasion of Ukraine so soon after signing the "no limits" declaration; in part because

b) that invasion has already created strategic blowback for Beijing (more US/democratic concern about Taiwan, increased defense spending in Indo-Pacific, explicit threats of sanctions if China comes to Russia's rescue);

but c) Beijing cannot calmly sit by and see Russia defeated in Ukraine, because that will lead (at a minimum) to a severely weakened Russia that is a less useful ally and less able to distract Washington, and (at a maximum) could create political instability in Moscow.

At an extreme, of course, political instability in Moscow could create instability within the "strategic partnership" in which Xi has invested so much.

This, by the way, was why America's best option for sticking it to China right now has always been to ensure that Russia loses in Ukraine--it leaves Xi in a place where we have no good options.

We will soon see whether this judgment about China's role in the Ukraine crisis is correct.

You can bet that, as Russia's position deteriorates, Putin will look for increased Chinese support. If Beijing doesn't find a way of providing some such support, we could see greater strains in the Sino-Russian partnership sooner than many analysts imagined.

Either way, what is happening in Ukraine is not at all good for China--and it shows how the distinctions we sometimes try to draw between theaters can be a bit artificial. END

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