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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/16/24 at 6:17 pm
[quote]His credentials mean that Xi allowed his article to be published. That's not a good look for Russia, especially his concentration on Sino-Russia relations.
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[i]Vladimir Putin is trapped in an information cocoon[/i]
This is remarkable.... it is completely true, it is the "Dictat...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/16/24 at 5:46 pm
[quote]There is a zero point zero percent chance that China moves on Taiwan in the next several years. (Much less 3 months)
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You are correct on all of your points. But the people saying Putin would not invade Ukraine (and I was one of the people who believed them on that) were rig...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/16/24 at 4:14 pm
[quote]So how does that work? If a NATO country attacks a non NATO country, are they still able to draw everyone else in with article 5?[/quote]
NATO is a defense-only pact....
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/16/24 at 3:48 pm
[quote]Within a few months, we could be supplying and financing 3 conflicts. Ukraine, Israel and possibly Taiwan. At some point, we might actually need some 155mm rounds ourselves.[/quote]
When it rains it pours... intentionally, in this case...
The collective West needs to shift to a War time...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/14/24 at 10:11 pm
[quote]I would like someone to tell me how this 60 billion is going to change things if the same policies (or lack of) are still in place? That is a serious question. We saw this in Vietnam. If nothing changes that just means more Ukrainian deaths and destruction. [/quote]
Respectfully to you... ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/14/24 at 9:04 pm
[quote]Do you honestly not remember the CIA getting caught spying on the Trump campaign, colluding with foreign intelligence agencies (including a former British spy whose dossier was based on the word of a former Russian spy) attempting to frame the Trump campaign as Russian spies, all to interfere...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/14/24 at 8:45 pm
[quote]A friend transitioned out of the USN to work for the CIA in SE Asia 1970's. He'd never seen a bigger clusterfrick in his life.[/quote]
supposedly fantastic at gathering intel (paying people for information and secrets), but horrible at managing the operations they put into action, which of...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/14/24 at 3:25 am
[quote]the CIA did overthrow...[/quote]
No, the Ukrainian people overthrew that administration because they were pissed that it did a 180 on joining the EU and turned towards Russia...
The CIA did nothing more than the FSB does in American elections and politics... actually, they probably did...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/14/24 at 3:19 am
[quote]They’re a regional power because we took out Sadaam.[/quote]
Yep, I mentioned exactly that here a few days ago.
And some of the attack today was launched from within Iraq, but by non-government militias... but still, the Iraqi government is not hunting them down and putting them out of ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/13/24 at 5:34 pm
[quote]Is it? Guess [u]your[/u] an urban fellow[/quote]
you're
(sorry, couldn't resist)...
re: NYC Council began its meeting today by praising Allah as the supreme lord of the world.
Posted by Lee B on 4/13/24 at 3:54 pm
You guys oppose Allah? What about Yahweh?...
re: WW3 has just started….
Posted by Lee B on 4/13/24 at 3:52 pm
Trump is much, much, much more unquestioningly supportive of Netanyahu than Biden... and Jarod is the great Israeli lobbyist in the family (see Abraham Accords)
Iran stirred up crap in Syria and Yemen while Trump was in office...
If Trump had one he'd have weakened NATO by this point and WWIII...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/13/24 at 3:39 pm
[quote]less developed parts of the country[/quote]
well... that's just a funny phrase in this context...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/13/24 at 3:38 pm
[quote]I disagree, if the national security supplemental (which includes aid for taiwan, israel, and Ukraine) that was passed by the senate was put to a vote in the house it would pass in spite of the far left and the far right. Mike could put it up for a vote but he won't because he knows it would ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/13/24 at 2:36 pm
America's identity changes every couple of decades... you can't stop that, people die off and are replaced by people who think differently. If you rigidly legalize it and enforce it, young people leave and the country collapses....
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/13/24 at 2:24 pm
[quote]
This is the far left like the squad stopping everything. Any package includes Israel and they support Hamas and Palestine and will never budge. People put way too much blame on the Republican party over the Ukraine funding and it’s very unwarranted.[/quote]
That is not at all reflected i...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/13/24 at 2:06 pm
[quote]it the West had not meddled,[/quote]
God forbid the West help people stand up to invasion and tyranny.
WTF is actually wrong with you goose-steppers?...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/13/24 at 1:59 pm
The fact that the "far-right" and the "far-left" now share the exact same talking points about how America and NATO are evil puppets of shadowy globalists and should fall is amazing to me... as is the fact that they don't look at the fact that they share the same talking points and think it's screwy...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/13/24 at 12:33 am
[quote]And long overdue. The decline in our military that began during the Obama administration is continuing. We are nowhere near strong enough to deter Chinese aggression[/quote]
Wasn't that decline in defense spending the winding down of the War on Terror and a reaction to the financial crisis...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Lee B on 4/12/24 at 12:42 am
Kadyrov's soldiers, that he sent to Ukraine, were... useless, but apparently they aren't soldiers, they're like actors picked because they look right and all they do back home is make propaganda videos. They are all in their 20s... too young to have ever been the fabled Chechen warriors that people ...
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