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Posted on 3/3/22 at 10:03 am to mmmmmbeeer
Shouldn’t you be in Ukraine?
Posted on 3/3/22 at 10:09 am to lsuroadie
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Oil. It’s always about oil. It will always be about oil.
If we are talking resources Russia/Ukraine is much more about gas than oil. There are large deposits in the Black Sea and Donbass. It's also about water for Crimea. The Ukrainians dammed up the canal supplying most of their fresh water.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 10:17 am to Byrdybyrd05
U.S. needs to stay out of it. Let them fight. If this Russian invade spreads beyond the Ukraine, let the east handle it. You don't become a member of NATO to let us be world police when the shite hits the fan. As many problems as we have, we don't have any direct invasion. And that's not a coincidence.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 10:30 am to Byrdybyrd05
I quit reading at "Glenn".
Although used to like him (very early days), fella oozes 'wack job' to me.
Although used to like him (very early days), fella oozes 'wack job' to me.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 10:40 am to red sox fan 13
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So Putin is actually a good guy trying to keep us safe and delay the great reset. Got it, thanks
This isn't a fricking movie or video game. There aren't "good guys" and "bad guys." There are individuals, entities, groups, nations, and coalitions all looking out for and acting in their own interests.
Putin is not acting in our interests and probably hates us. That said, is it hard - especially after the last 2 years of authoritarian abuse and propaganda- to acknowledge that our own institutions will use whatever means necessary to continue to apply control?
The intentions of our own governments, media, and corporations are far more disturbing than an aggressive bully in Eastern Europe, where the American people have zero economic or strategic interests.
Putin can be a "bad guy" at the same time as those in our own society that wish to abolish the Constitution and the natural rights it protects.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 10:44 am to Byrdybyrd05
Blind linking to fricking Glenn Beck should be an instaban. frick you, OP.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 11:10 am to Chicken
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just watched this entire video...good stuff...
Nah, that video was full of shite. It’s the great reset.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 12:37 pm to LSU-MNCBABY
quote:It seems farfetched because it's farfetched.
This would be the opposite of what Twitter, Reddit, liberal politicians and the main stream media is telling you.
So does it really seem far fetched based on other events and talking points those entities have been in unison on?
Posted on 3/3/22 at 12:42 pm to Byrdybyrd05
Thank you for the impartial, credible perspective.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 12:51 pm to SPEEDY
Posted on 3/3/22 at 1:25 pm to Byrdybyrd05
Glenn Beck
Posted on 3/3/22 at 1:33 pm to GaPhan
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GaPhan
Excellent video my man. I had no idea about all of the oil and gas involved.
I watched the whole thing
Posted on 3/3/22 at 2:34 pm to Meauxjeaux
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This is more than oil.
I have been talking about the real reasons for days in the big thread.
Putin's reasons are:
Taking the offshore gas/oil fields he did not get control of when he took Crimes
Taking the shale oil fields in eastern and western Ukraine
Controlling Soyuz and Brotherhood pipelines that run from Russia across central Ukraine
Access to the water from the Dnieper River because the Ukrainians shut down the Northern Crimean canal and Crimea is drying up
Connecting the Russian separatists of Transdniestria in Moldova physically to Russia.
A significantly smaller reason is pushing the land bridge to Russia farther back toward the Fulda gap
Outside of rhetoric reuniting ethnic Russians with the motherland is just a romantic talking point
The primary reasons are oil/gas and water anything else is secondary, tertiary, or simply just obfuscation.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 4:19 pm to Obtuse1
The best video that I've seen was the one on the earlier crisis in Ukraine (from 2014).
John Mearsheimer is a professor of political science at U of Chicago and his presentation is spot on. You should watch the video to its end. The Q&A session has some amazing insights as well (such as the impact of the media and the greater threat posed by China, and the fact that the interventionist U.S. foreign policy ironically leads us into many wars and then many lost wars because we never have a magical exit strategy).
In the end, the U.S. foreign policy promoted by the liberals and neo-cons is causing great harm.
LINK
John Mearsheimer is a professor of political science at U of Chicago and his presentation is spot on. You should watch the video to its end. The Q&A session has some amazing insights as well (such as the impact of the media and the greater threat posed by China, and the fact that the interventionist U.S. foreign policy ironically leads us into many wars and then many lost wars because we never have a magical exit strategy).
In the end, the U.S. foreign policy promoted by the liberals and neo-cons is causing great harm.
LINK
Posted on 3/3/22 at 4:45 pm to Obtuse1
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Outside of rhetoric reuniting ethnic Russians with the motherland is just a romantic talking point
Kinda, but ethnic homeland shite just means more to the Russians than a modern American lens.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 5:48 pm to shel311
Good video if you watch it all. Beck's point on Switzerland and their banks is rather eye opening when you think about it, doing what they've never done before.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 6:40 pm to JohnnyAlpha
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The best video that I've seen was the one on the earlier crisis in Ukraine (from 2014).
John Mearsheimer is a professor of political science at U of Chicago and his presentation is spot on.
The Mearsheimer video is a good video. Beck hits on some of the same themes, actually. Russia and China are nationalist in outlook and will do what they feel is in their best interest and to hell with other countries.
The EU and US are trending toward a more unified, global identity, albeit at different rates and with some starts and stops (Brexit). One thing for sure, once a government gets control of some facet of your life, it seldom wants to relinquish that control.
This post was edited on 3/3/22 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 3/3/22 at 6:45 pm to Byrdybyrd05
A Russian on Reddit explained why they are mad. Best explanation I have heard. TL;DR it stems from WW2. Putin and the wealthy feel they are above Germany and Japan and deserve more than our handouts. The Ukraine has zero chance of joining NATO because they can't meet the requirements, but the threat rustled the rich.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 6:47 pm to danilo
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Putin is very savvy
Have we spoken about how he is a genius ? We need to …
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