I wouldn’t want anything to do with either one of these countries. They are both crooks.
Had Biden and the NATO folks not pushed NATO membership for Ukraine to join “the club” chance are none of this would be happening.
Seems odd that Dems cry Trump would start WW3 but it’s Dems that get us into these things. Crimea was taken during Barry Santoro’s term and nothing happened.
Seems Putin has Dems figured out as Joe will blather but do nothing. Those sanctions he imposed have done just the opposite of their intent. More sanctions, slated to be announced today will do even less.
I do hope the American people have had enough of the DEI administration come November but I have my doubts.
You know…abortion and climate change being the biggest risks to the world.
unfortunately the North Atlantic Treaty includes neither (1) a process for expelling a member that has gone rogue (eg. Turkey) nor (2) a provision for its termination. it really should have been terminated shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and certainly should never have been expanded so as to give an aggressive Russian ruler a fig leaf for aggression.
I truly understand the murderous fervor of "reformers" like the Chinese Red Guards. I'm telling you - if they ever make me the king, you won't be able to find a single hank of rope in the nation.
It is important to remember that FJB's corruption touched Russia as well. Not just Ukraine. I think with more investigation we may find that there are more countries that Joe has extorted money from than not.
The truth remains, Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine will have to decide when they want to end this. I see a stalemate along the lines we are familiar with. There will be a Russian push in the spring. Ukraine will have to be able to repel it. If they can, you may get a negotiated settlement to end the fighting. If Russia prevails and finally makes a move on Kiev I would expect Ukraine to start hitting logistic hubs in Russia proper to try and slow them down.
Poland in the meantime furiously works to upgrade their armaments. I believe the US European armored footprint is now there, not in Germany. Sweden and Finland bracing.
I appreciate everyone's anger at Ukraine. There is a bigger war brewing in Eastern Europe. We'd better hope the Ukes can hold out.
Note that Biden encouraged Russia to invade by two actions in 2021: First, signing an order ending the Keystone XL pipeline. It would have brought 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to the U.S. At the time we were importing 600,000 barrels of oil a day from Russia. So Biden ensured Russia would continue getting our money. Second, Biden made the terrible withdrawal from Afghanistan, which showed Putin that his administration was incompetent.
Just recently Biden signed another order benefiting Russia: stopping further development of exports of U.S. LNG. Russia is a major supplier of natural gas, so Biden is telling Putin "I'm on your side."
The simplest and most effective means of combating our foreign adversaries is to strengthen America, which requires two things. First, the deportation of all the recently arrived illegal invaders, man, woman and child. Second, the return to a domestic energy production program that will have the effect of blossoming our own economy and concommitantly weakening that of our foreign adversaries. If Iran and Russia are deprived of their surplus energy revenues, their bellicosity will diminish proportionally. Likewise, if China is deprived of Russian oil and gas, it will need to purchase it from somewhere, including America, thereby helping to equalize our balance of payments problem. Trump seems to have realized that this is the essential essence of his election platform. Let us hope he is successful and, equally important, that he carries it out once elected.
Steve, your thoughts are music to my ears - and very Trump-nationalist as you suggest. Basically, just about everyone in the three branches of our government and their underling agencies hate nationalism and have gone to great lengths to stop it.
Our government is a bigger enemy to us than Ukraine, Russia, and possibly China, because they are here and have direct adverse impact on our ability to defend our Constitution. The implications of that realization are scary.
As you point out, one cannot be too cynical about this particular war for profit. It’s just one of the many really evil actions taken by this administration, whoever is actually making the day to day decisions. It’s neck and neck tied for most evil with the promotion of genital mutilation of children for profit in “children’s services,” schools and corporate medical institutions.
The Ukraine was once a part of Russia. Now, Mr. Putin wants part of it back. And he’s strong enough to take it. In the history of the world, land / counties, have always belonged to whatever group or organized country that was strong enough to occupy it and keep it. This is true of all including ours. The outcome of the Ukraine/Russia war has never been in doubt. Putin will win it if for no other reason than sheer attrition. Whats going on here in this war is classic CIA yet again. They see it as a way to weaken Putin while finding a means to replace US war fighting materials and keep the Unelected Government here happy. Classic CIA. But there is no win here for us. We are bleeding money and making the same mistakes we have made in virtually every war since Korea. If your goal is leadership change, you better know who the replacement will be before starting. In this case, they don’t. Russians know Putin is corrupt but he maintains an ordered life for Russians. So they tolerate him. And they will follow him just like Stalin. But who comes after Putin? Someone better? Or someone worse? The CIA has been wrong on this subject just about its entire life. It’s time for America to let this war reach its inevitable end, get our financial house in order, and address the real threat the free world is facing; Islamic terrorism as well as Empire building by China. But first, fire every single person in our government pushing for Ukraine to be a part of NATO, unless the real goal here all along is a war with Russia.
Me, I can't see any advantage in supporting Ukraine. As a matter of fact supporting the current Ukraine regime is akin to supporting the current US regime. Corrupt totalitarian entities masquerading as democracies. Who is worse? Putin -- a guy we know? Or Comedy boy and Diaper boy?
😂 great comment. When the truth finally comes out about how we have elites supporting this genocide people are going to be soberingly shocked. That includes the people in the GOP who find it much easier to pontificate about “the threat to freedom” and blindingly give away money we don’t have because it’s easier than actually fixing things here, which is their actual job.
Yes, there is an advantage. American and Ukrainian politicians and bureaucrats are getting fantastically wealthy on dollars that we print out of thin air.
Good thoughts here, Reddog, but I am much more concerned about who comes after Biden. Russia has always been a concern, but they also just continue to sit over there and mind their own business.
As for the CIA, they present a greater clear and present danger to us than Putin. Their current weapon of choice in controlling their enemy (us) is social media.
You andI are in agreement here. The entire leadership hierarchy of the FBI and CIA needs to be fired but then what? Like with Putin, the ties go deep and you have to keep tabs on what those deposed people are doing. We have a lot of work to do.
Just the Democrats setting up the next ten years of political strife. They don’t know how to fix anything, but they are really good at creating problems for the rest of us to argue about.
All military aged men. I think that this will start a scremishes on our homeland. There are already a lot of infrastructure that has caught on fire, been demolished or sabotaged. I worry and pray.
Prominent 'conservatives' talk all the time about "stopping Putin's land grabs(etc.)" and I just gag as our government and Zelensky's are more corrupt than Putin's(I am not supporting Putin in any way).
Now, if steadfast, credible allies such as Poland were threatened... That would be a legitimate cause worth fighting for, but Putin isn't that stupid and we all know it.
Like you, I have an element of respect for Putin but I am tired of feeling that I have to always clarify that I don't support him. Without agreeing with his moral life view, I can say he runs a respectable country and keeps it running very well. I cite Tucker Carlson's recent interview that showed several surprising aspects of life in Moscow.
From what I am seeing of the last several years in America, I wish life in Ohio was more like life in Moscow.
" . . but all he is doing is rejecting globalism."
Perhaps that's the issue where I relate to him. He wants to be left alone to operate within his own boundaries. But for Ukraine, a local skirmish regarding a former Russian possession, he has had no aggressive expansion.
Agreed. Never trust communists, but try to understand their game. I am a relative nobody, but I have yet to see a credible report on Putin's supposed goal of global hegemony - his bread is oil and he has plenty of it. Yes, he has many nukes, but is not going to use them other than leverage.
Speaking of wielding leverage... Our 45th wielded our economic leverage rather than starting wars very well. Funny how they kicked him out and fomented war...
"Funny how they kicked him out and fomented war..."
I don't trust Putin and know he is a ruthless dictator. Based on your second paragraph, Biden is worse than Putin since Biden is fomenting war for no real national interest. Economic sanctions against Putin seem to be keeping him in line just as Trump has done with other countries.
All I am saying is I see Putin doing some of the same things Trump did (or would do) as a Nationalist. That is, build an economy on selling one's natural resources, avoiding war with a strong stance of being prepared, and negotiating "deals" with other countries - even ones who consider themselves opposed to Russia in other ways. I don't see Putin trying to take over the world like China is doing.
My husband said to me one day recently: "When did you start supporting Putin? Why do you like him?"
I replied: "Where we are now, in this country, Putin is no worse than the Regime destroying the USA. Right now, the US sanctions against Russia, has not and is not hurting the people of Russia. They are in a better situation then we are. Those sanctions just built a wall around the USA and censor the information we can access. There is no free speech here anymore, nor the right to live freely."
Yes agree, Needles & MT. My husband & I completely disagree on Ukraine. When I compare Ukraine joining NATO with the USA allowing Russia or China in Mexico or Canada, he looks at me like I'm crazy. He sees Putin invading Ukraine as aggression & not defense.
Read Cernovich’s comment on ‘X’ that everyone is observing the purchases of $10 million apartments by daughters of Ukrainian officials in Miami and Monaco. There’s tons of money floating out there and EVERYONE is watching this?!?!?!?!
Run America, run. Turn tail and get the hell out of Ukraine. Plaster posters everywhere of politicians who are on the take. Primary them. Remove them from office. The International corruption that goes on in DC must stop. And those that partake in rancid riches must be stripped of their wealth down to their last cent. Our country is rotting from its core. If that means we close Washington DC and force politicians to operate from glass houses in their home districts, so be it. At least we will have a better shot at making them miserable and wiping them out.
Putin has already achieved most of what he wanted from the onset of this war. It is highlighted on that map and includes Crimea, perhaps even a bit more to use as a negotiating angle. He is content to stay there, for as long as it takes, and just pick off the Ukrainian’s one by one, until someone comes to their senses and ends the damn thing, but he’s not going to give back what he’s taken. That’s just reality. The Biden administration has two choices: negotiate an end to it, or escalate into Russia proper, using “bigger and badder” weaponry.
We hear “ceasefire! Ceasefire” across the planet shouted at Israel, who are actually fighting an existential war for their future survival, even a plan for them to surrender their land to their sworn enemy, but no such cries are heard being shouted for Ukraine, who have and continue to lose exponentially far more lives on a daily basis than in Israel.
I heard also that much of the money supposedly earmarked for Ukraine is being used by our Defense Dept. right here in this country to fund their massive censorship complex on Americans.
It has also brought the European economy to its knees by shutting off its vital energy supplies, which, I believe, was deliberate. The bombing of the Nordstrom’s pipeline- by us! - should be proof of that.
The Ukraine war never had to happen. I believe it was a deliberate provocation. I also don’t believe the Biden administration or NATO cares a frig about Ukraine. It has merely been a “useful idiot”, in a war of attrition. It is all well beyond tragic.
I’ve been against this war from day one, believing that the only reason it was happening was our weak, frail, demented, crooked, bribable WH resident.
This would never have happened under Trump and last week Putin all but admitted it, saying that he would prefer that Pedo Joe win this year. Yet the left is out there screaming that Trump is a Putin stooge. No, it was Hillary who was the Putin stooge.
I propose we erect recruiting stations at our southern border and process every military aged man or woman illegally entering to serve in Ukraine's military for three years. We can also gather those currently here for the same mission. None are US citizens so we can say we aren't fighting in that war. After their service, they could be fast-tracked to legal citizenship in the US after proper procedures are followed. Make Ukraine a sanctuary country!
However, the world doesn't care about Ukraine - only the US grifters packing their secret retirement accounts with our tax dollars from returned bribes. Countries are sending their military aged men here to America to cause complete insurrection (probably with our pansy military supporting them) when Trump gets elected President. Every illegal crossing is another soldier in their preparation for that day.
If we lived in a society with faith in God, that would work. But let me propose the way that would roll out today is: many would join, many would die, then a few extremely well-trained killers would come "home" to ply their trade.
They're here now anyway, David. And, yes, they will ply their trade which is why so many military aged males are dominating the border crossings. It's NOT for citizenship.
History has a lesson for us if we are willing to learn. French King Louis XVI was a big financial supporter of the 13 colonies in their war with Great Britain. His motivation was to cause grief for GB but his help financed the American Revolution. In the process France was bankrupted and the efforts to correct the situation led to the French Revolution and the demise of Louis XVI along with thousands of aristocrats and the eventual rise of Napoleon. As Don noted we are spending (actually printing) billions of dollars to support <s>corrupt American politicians and their enablers</s> the war. Bankruptcy cannot be far away.
The United States has created so much havoc in the world just to feed the military industrial complex. One needs to just look at all the nepobabies living the highlife in Paris, London and St Tropez With the graft money, the US has spent. Those hotspots are filled with Iranians Panamanians South Americans, and now Ukrainians. Our country keeps getting poor and poorer . These third world profiteers have their families and their distant relatives living on our money that our grandchildren have to pay back. It truly is a sad fact that our country is the destroyer of worlds.
The other fact that is that Russia is using forced conscripts to empty the streets of bums, drunks and unemployed as their canon fodder. The best and brightest if there is such a thing in Ukraine, have left for Poland or maybe even the US. Biden and all the other politicians in the US who support this death and destruction should go to hell. The good part is sisnce they are politicians they will be by default. Thank you for a beautiful article
According to the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) who just surveyed 17,000 people across 12 countries- NINE out of TEN people believe that Ukrainians cannot win and need to negotiate…..so why is the USA going to flush billions more down the toilet?
This war is very much a tragedy, more so than most wars, because the differences between the two antagonists were resolved in early 2022 but we, through our lackey running dog Boris Johnson, broke it apart. All for money and more power. How it's going to end is not quite for certain yet, but the preponderance of forces favor the Russians, even though they have been, until recently, fighting a very lackadaisical, low energy war. (Many is Russia, critical of Putin, call it an "almost war"). All this did was prolong the death, destruction, and misery for the citizens, mostly ethnic Russians in the east, and the soldiers actually fighting.(Most all of the Ukraine has been spared the destruction that has been occurring in the eastern provinces since we started the war in 2014).
Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, and Biden, plus all the Western Europe leaders, have all lied repeatedly to Gorbechov, Yeltsin, and Putin about their intentions towards Russia. So, I don't know how any Russian can trust any agreement done by them, except Trump, and the Deep State warmongers will undermine him if he is reelected. This means more bloodletting with a nuclear armed state that's been repeatedly invaded by Europeans, from the West, for hundreds of years. Pray that Putin continues his patience, and pray for his good health. There are Russian nationalist who rightly see this war as an existential threat to their country, as opposed to Western leadership that sees it as just another war to make money from.
Can’t thank you enough for writing this. Well put together and illumines all that makes sense to me.
Why can’t we find a way to make bad actors deeply regret f’g with us without us getting sucked into “forever wars”? I hope Trump gets a second chance to show us how.
My guess is it’ll never happen until we sever the cord between Pentagon & industry fat cats.
Golda said there’ll never be peace in the M.E. until Palestinians love their children more than they hate Jews. I suppose the American corollary is putting our children above the love of money.
We need to use Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals on the military/industrial complex, not to throw baby out with bathwater, but to keep it from killing our babies.
I do believe you want your military in top condition and tested, ready for battle. Reagan had the right idea and scheduled scrimmages with Div. 3 countries- Falklands & Panama.
How do these thieves, traitors and fools not think or not care that at some point someone, and more like a bunch of someone’s is going to come after them for this.
I wouldn’t want anything to do with either one of these countries. They are both crooks.
Had Biden and the NATO folks not pushed NATO membership for Ukraine to join “the club” chance are none of this would be happening.
Seems odd that Dems cry Trump would start WW3 but it’s Dems that get us into these things. Crimea was taken during Barry Santoro’s term and nothing happened.
Seems Putin has Dems figured out as Joe will blather but do nothing. Those sanctions he imposed have done just the opposite of their intent. More sanctions, slated to be announced today will do even less.
I do hope the American people have had enough of the DEI administration come November but I have my doubts.
You know…abortion and climate change being the biggest risks to the world.
Putin took Crimea under Obama’s watch - and NOTHING happened. We did not respond. It deserves repeating.
unfortunately the North Atlantic Treaty includes neither (1) a process for expelling a member that has gone rogue (eg. Turkey) nor (2) a provision for its termination. it really should have been terminated shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and certainly should never have been expanded so as to give an aggressive Russian ruler a fig leaf for aggression.
All the more reason for the US to withdraw as unnecessary to the revised goals for sovereignty of the countries in the EU.
I truly understand the murderous fervor of "reformers" like the Chinese Red Guards. I'm telling you - if they ever make me the king, you won't be able to find a single hank of rope in the nation.
It is important to remember that FJB's corruption touched Russia as well. Not just Ukraine. I think with more investigation we may find that there are more countries that Joe has extorted money from than not.
The truth remains, Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine will have to decide when they want to end this. I see a stalemate along the lines we are familiar with. There will be a Russian push in the spring. Ukraine will have to be able to repel it. If they can, you may get a negotiated settlement to end the fighting. If Russia prevails and finally makes a move on Kiev I would expect Ukraine to start hitting logistic hubs in Russia proper to try and slow them down.
Poland in the meantime furiously works to upgrade their armaments. I believe the US European armored footprint is now there, not in Germany. Sweden and Finland bracing.
I appreciate everyone's anger at Ukraine. There is a bigger war brewing in Eastern Europe. We'd better hope the Ukes can hold out.
Hoover bidet did get several million from the wife of a Moscow mayor if memory serves.
Good statement!
Note that Biden encouraged Russia to invade by two actions in 2021: First, signing an order ending the Keystone XL pipeline. It would have brought 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to the U.S. At the time we were importing 600,000 barrels of oil a day from Russia. So Biden ensured Russia would continue getting our money. Second, Biden made the terrible withdrawal from Afghanistan, which showed Putin that his administration was incompetent.
Just recently Biden signed another order benefiting Russia: stopping further development of exports of U.S. LNG. Russia is a major supplier of natural gas, so Biden is telling Putin "I'm on your side."
The simplest and most effective means of combating our foreign adversaries is to strengthen America, which requires two things. First, the deportation of all the recently arrived illegal invaders, man, woman and child. Second, the return to a domestic energy production program that will have the effect of blossoming our own economy and concommitantly weakening that of our foreign adversaries. If Iran and Russia are deprived of their surplus energy revenues, their bellicosity will diminish proportionally. Likewise, if China is deprived of Russian oil and gas, it will need to purchase it from somewhere, including America, thereby helping to equalize our balance of payments problem. Trump seems to have realized that this is the essential essence of his election platform. Let us hope he is successful and, equally important, that he carries it out once elected.
Steve, your thoughts are music to my ears - and very Trump-nationalist as you suggest. Basically, just about everyone in the three branches of our government and their underling agencies hate nationalism and have gone to great lengths to stop it.
Our government is a bigger enemy to us than Ukraine, Russia, and possibly China, because they are here and have direct adverse impact on our ability to defend our Constitution. The implications of that realization are scary.
if the ukes are intent on taking foreigners in their army, deport recently arrived migrants of appropriate age to kiev.
That is a great idea. Ukraine = sanctuary country.
AMEN & AMEN!
As you point out, one cannot be too cynical about this particular war for profit. It’s just one of the many really evil actions taken by this administration, whoever is actually making the day to day decisions. It’s neck and neck tied for most evil with the promotion of genital mutilation of children for profit in “children’s services,” schools and corporate medical institutions.
The Ukraine was once a part of Russia. Now, Mr. Putin wants part of it back. And he’s strong enough to take it. In the history of the world, land / counties, have always belonged to whatever group or organized country that was strong enough to occupy it and keep it. This is true of all including ours. The outcome of the Ukraine/Russia war has never been in doubt. Putin will win it if for no other reason than sheer attrition. Whats going on here in this war is classic CIA yet again. They see it as a way to weaken Putin while finding a means to replace US war fighting materials and keep the Unelected Government here happy. Classic CIA. But there is no win here for us. We are bleeding money and making the same mistakes we have made in virtually every war since Korea. If your goal is leadership change, you better know who the replacement will be before starting. In this case, they don’t. Russians know Putin is corrupt but he maintains an ordered life for Russians. So they tolerate him. And they will follow him just like Stalin. But who comes after Putin? Someone better? Or someone worse? The CIA has been wrong on this subject just about its entire life. It’s time for America to let this war reach its inevitable end, get our financial house in order, and address the real threat the free world is facing; Islamic terrorism as well as Empire building by China. But first, fire every single person in our government pushing for Ukraine to be a part of NATO, unless the real goal here all along is a war with Russia.
Me, I can't see any advantage in supporting Ukraine. As a matter of fact supporting the current Ukraine regime is akin to supporting the current US regime. Corrupt totalitarian entities masquerading as democracies. Who is worse? Putin -- a guy we know? Or Comedy boy and Diaper boy?
😂 great comment. When the truth finally comes out about how we have elites supporting this genocide people are going to be soberingly shocked. That includes the people in the GOP who find it much easier to pontificate about “the threat to freedom” and blindingly give away money we don’t have because it’s easier than actually fixing things here, which is their actual job.
Yes, there is an advantage. American and Ukrainian politicians and bureaucrats are getting fantastically wealthy on dollars that we print out of thin air.
"But who comes after Putin? Someone better?"
Good thoughts here, Reddog, but I am much more concerned about who comes after Biden. Russia has always been a concern, but they also just continue to sit over there and mind their own business.
As for the CIA, they present a greater clear and present danger to us than Putin. Their current weapon of choice in controlling their enemy (us) is social media.
You andI are in agreement here. The entire leadership hierarchy of the FBI and CIA needs to be fired but then what? Like with Putin, the ties go deep and you have to keep tabs on what those deposed people are doing. We have a lot of work to do.
Looks like the Chinese are coming to take back California! More Chinese - 21,000 - crossed over in California last month than did Mexicans.
Just the Democrats setting up the next ten years of political strife. They don’t know how to fix anything, but they are really good at creating problems for the rest of us to argue about.
All military aged men. I think that this will start a scremishes on our homeland. There are already a lot of infrastructure that has caught on fire, been demolished or sabotaged. I worry and pray.
What's the down side?
Prominent 'conservatives' talk all the time about "stopping Putin's land grabs(etc.)" and I just gag as our government and Zelensky's are more corrupt than Putin's(I am not supporting Putin in any way).
Now, if steadfast, credible allies such as Poland were threatened... That would be a legitimate cause worth fighting for, but Putin isn't that stupid and we all know it.
Like you, I have an element of respect for Putin but I am tired of feeling that I have to always clarify that I don't support him. Without agreeing with his moral life view, I can say he runs a respectable country and keeps it running very well. I cite Tucker Carlson's recent interview that showed several surprising aspects of life in Moscow.
From what I am seeing of the last several years in America, I wish life in Ohio was more like life in Moscow.
Putin is not a good guy, but all he is doing is rejecting globalism. Ukraine is a corrupt subject of Russia and our politicians.
Our credibility as a country is only hurting more than ever and that is what bothers me the most.
" . . but all he is doing is rejecting globalism."
Perhaps that's the issue where I relate to him. He wants to be left alone to operate within his own boundaries. But for Ukraine, a local skirmish regarding a former Russian possession, he has had no aggressive expansion.
Agreed. Never trust communists, but try to understand their game. I am a relative nobody, but I have yet to see a credible report on Putin's supposed goal of global hegemony - his bread is oil and he has plenty of it. Yes, he has many nukes, but is not going to use them other than leverage.
Speaking of wielding leverage... Our 45th wielded our economic leverage rather than starting wars very well. Funny how they kicked him out and fomented war...
"Funny how they kicked him out and fomented war..."
I don't trust Putin and know he is a ruthless dictator. Based on your second paragraph, Biden is worse than Putin since Biden is fomenting war for no real national interest. Economic sanctions against Putin seem to be keeping him in line just as Trump has done with other countries.
All I am saying is I see Putin doing some of the same things Trump did (or would do) as a Nationalist. That is, build an economy on selling one's natural resources, avoiding war with a strong stance of being prepared, and negotiating "deals" with other countries - even ones who consider themselves opposed to Russia in other ways. I don't see Putin trying to take over the world like China is doing.
Not arguing with you personally, but our sanctions on Russia are only hurting us, not Putin.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/02/11/the-western-sanctions-against-russia-and-u-s-cbdc/
Well put Danimal.
Thank you, sir.
Mussolini made the trains run on time.
Mussolini was a horrible, ruthless, evil man, but he was a stronger leader than Biden.
Completely agree. Wish that I could convince my husband of this.
My husband said to me one day recently: "When did you start supporting Putin? Why do you like him?"
I replied: "Where we are now, in this country, Putin is no worse than the Regime destroying the USA. Right now, the US sanctions against Russia, has not and is not hurting the people of Russia. They are in a better situation then we are. Those sanctions just built a wall around the USA and censor the information we can access. There is no free speech here anymore, nor the right to live freely."
Yes agree, Needles & MT. My husband & I completely disagree on Ukraine. When I compare Ukraine joining NATO with the USA allowing Russia or China in Mexico or Canada, he looks at me like I'm crazy. He sees Putin invading Ukraine as aggression & not defense.
Keep working on him, dear.
Read Cernovich’s comment on ‘X’ that everyone is observing the purchases of $10 million apartments by daughters of Ukrainian officials in Miami and Monaco. There’s tons of money floating out there and EVERYONE is watching this?!?!?!?!
Cernovich described it as ‘New Ukrainian money’ and it’s EVERYWHERE and massive’ ?!?!?!
and all the "journalists" are silent
Just read - One ex-CNN journalist Brian Stelter is running for the School Board in NJ.....wait for it....as a REPUBLICAN.
Run America, run. Turn tail and get the hell out of Ukraine. Plaster posters everywhere of politicians who are on the take. Primary them. Remove them from office. The International corruption that goes on in DC must stop. And those that partake in rancid riches must be stripped of their wealth down to their last cent. Our country is rotting from its core. If that means we close Washington DC and force politicians to operate from glass houses in their home districts, so be it. At least we will have a better shot at making them miserable and wiping them out.
Putin has already achieved most of what he wanted from the onset of this war. It is highlighted on that map and includes Crimea, perhaps even a bit more to use as a negotiating angle. He is content to stay there, for as long as it takes, and just pick off the Ukrainian’s one by one, until someone comes to their senses and ends the damn thing, but he’s not going to give back what he’s taken. That’s just reality. The Biden administration has two choices: negotiate an end to it, or escalate into Russia proper, using “bigger and badder” weaponry.
We hear “ceasefire! Ceasefire” across the planet shouted at Israel, who are actually fighting an existential war for their future survival, even a plan for them to surrender their land to their sworn enemy, but no such cries are heard being shouted for Ukraine, who have and continue to lose exponentially far more lives on a daily basis than in Israel.
I heard also that much of the money supposedly earmarked for Ukraine is being used by our Defense Dept. right here in this country to fund their massive censorship complex on Americans.
It has also brought the European economy to its knees by shutting off its vital energy supplies, which, I believe, was deliberate. The bombing of the Nordstrom’s pipeline- by us! - should be proof of that.
The Ukraine war never had to happen. I believe it was a deliberate provocation. I also don’t believe the Biden administration or NATO cares a frig about Ukraine. It has merely been a “useful idiot”, in a war of attrition. It is all well beyond tragic.
you left out how well Zelenski has lined his own pockets!
I’ve been against this war from day one, believing that the only reason it was happening was our weak, frail, demented, crooked, bribable WH resident.
This would never have happened under Trump and last week Putin all but admitted it, saying that he would prefer that Pedo Joe win this year. Yet the left is out there screaming that Trump is a Putin stooge. No, it was Hillary who was the Putin stooge.
I propose we erect recruiting stations at our southern border and process every military aged man or woman illegally entering to serve in Ukraine's military for three years. We can also gather those currently here for the same mission. None are US citizens so we can say we aren't fighting in that war. After their service, they could be fast-tracked to legal citizenship in the US after proper procedures are followed. Make Ukraine a sanctuary country!
However, the world doesn't care about Ukraine - only the US grifters packing their secret retirement accounts with our tax dollars from returned bribes. Countries are sending their military aged men here to America to cause complete insurrection (probably with our pansy military supporting them) when Trump gets elected President. Every illegal crossing is another soldier in their preparation for that day.
If we lived in a society with faith in God, that would work. But let me propose the way that would roll out today is: many would join, many would die, then a few extremely well-trained killers would come "home" to ply their trade.
They're here now anyway, David. And, yes, they will ply their trade which is why so many military aged males are dominating the border crossings. It's NOT for citizenship.
At least we're not training them to do it well and giving them citizenship for a killing spree in an unallied country.
Excellent proposal Shrugged !
you offer some excellent ideas, Shrugged!
History has a lesson for us if we are willing to learn. French King Louis XVI was a big financial supporter of the 13 colonies in their war with Great Britain. His motivation was to cause grief for GB but his help financed the American Revolution. In the process France was bankrupted and the efforts to correct the situation led to the French Revolution and the demise of Louis XVI along with thousands of aristocrats and the eventual rise of Napoleon. As Don noted we are spending (actually printing) billions of dollars to support <s>corrupt American politicians and their enablers</s> the war. Bankruptcy cannot be far away.
The United States has created so much havoc in the world just to feed the military industrial complex. One needs to just look at all the nepobabies living the highlife in Paris, London and St Tropez With the graft money, the US has spent. Those hotspots are filled with Iranians Panamanians South Americans, and now Ukrainians. Our country keeps getting poor and poorer . These third world profiteers have their families and their distant relatives living on our money that our grandchildren have to pay back. It truly is a sad fact that our country is the destroyer of worlds.
The other fact that is that Russia is using forced conscripts to empty the streets of bums, drunks and unemployed as their canon fodder. The best and brightest if there is such a thing in Ukraine, have left for Poland or maybe even the US. Biden and all the other politicians in the US who support this death and destruction should go to hell. The good part is sisnce they are politicians they will be by default. Thank you for a beautiful article
According to the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) who just surveyed 17,000 people across 12 countries- NINE out of TEN people believe that Ukrainians cannot win and need to negotiate…..so why is the USA going to flush billions more down the toilet?
And why are we not calling for a cease fire like the useful idiots want to inflict on Israel?
Bidet needs more diapers, Dr. Jill needs more upholstery fabric for a few new dresses and Hunter needs more coke!
Does Dr Jill wear her dresses backwards like Fani Willis? Do women do that? I sometimes wear a t-shirt inside out but never backwards.
What is flushed down the toilet ends up in this case in the hands of the wealthy who run the Democratic Party and their cronies.
This war is very much a tragedy, more so than most wars, because the differences between the two antagonists were resolved in early 2022 but we, through our lackey running dog Boris Johnson, broke it apart. All for money and more power. How it's going to end is not quite for certain yet, but the preponderance of forces favor the Russians, even though they have been, until recently, fighting a very lackadaisical, low energy war. (Many is Russia, critical of Putin, call it an "almost war"). All this did was prolong the death, destruction, and misery for the citizens, mostly ethnic Russians in the east, and the soldiers actually fighting.(Most all of the Ukraine has been spared the destruction that has been occurring in the eastern provinces since we started the war in 2014).
Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, and Biden, plus all the Western Europe leaders, have all lied repeatedly to Gorbechov, Yeltsin, and Putin about their intentions towards Russia. So, I don't know how any Russian can trust any agreement done by them, except Trump, and the Deep State warmongers will undermine him if he is reelected. This means more bloodletting with a nuclear armed state that's been repeatedly invaded by Europeans, from the West, for hundreds of years. Pray that Putin continues his patience, and pray for his good health. There are Russian nationalist who rightly see this war as an existential threat to their country, as opposed to Western leadership that sees it as just another war to make money from.
Danny Huckabee
Can’t thank you enough for writing this. Well put together and illumines all that makes sense to me.
Why can’t we find a way to make bad actors deeply regret f’g with us without us getting sucked into “forever wars”? I hope Trump gets a second chance to show us how.
My guess is it’ll never happen until we sever the cord between Pentagon & industry fat cats.
Golda said there’ll never be peace in the M.E. until Palestinians love their children more than they hate Jews. I suppose the American corollary is putting our children above the love of money.
We need to use Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals on the military/industrial complex, not to throw baby out with bathwater, but to keep it from killing our babies.
(replying to myself)
I do believe you want your military in top condition and tested, ready for battle. Reagan had the right idea and scheduled scrimmages with Div. 3 countries- Falklands & Panama.
Not stiff but away games.
How do these thieves, traitors and fools not think or not care that at some point someone, and more like a bunch of someone’s is going to come after them for this.
They think AI and robot dogs with guns will protect them.