Thoughts about Ukraine?

[hollohas]

Oil is over $106 A BARREL. Time to buy a horse.

And the jackwagon in the WH wants to release from the strategic reserve...that won't help anything and it's an awfully bad idea to reduce our reserve with the world on the edge or war.

[BushMasterBoy]

Well the ruble keeps dropping, we can verify that anyway.

If Putin has calls on oil and puts on the DJIA, he is making a killing. Nothing surprises me anymore. Only governments can launder money and get away with it. It is really easy when you are the president and own the courts. That is why they call it an oligarchy. It is easy to hide Bitcoin and digital currency when you have nuclear weapons. I believe every .gov is corrupt, regardless of geography. The polits want only two things from us, our money and our vote.
I will be in the back yard cutting firewood.

[Osmosis]

So terribly sad. I feel very bad for the Ukrainians of course, but also for the Russian conscripts who apparently thought they were going to be greeted by cheering crowds and instead walked into a meat grinder. I partly blame our government going all the way back to Bush for mishandled the integration of Russa into the modern world and we set up Ukraine for this pain by over promising without understanding the risks to them. I hope Ukraine can hold out and it becomes enough of a stalemate that the Russian army steps in and call it off.

On another note, however this ends, I think I will hold off vacationing in Europe or the Middle East until all of the ~500 Stingers currently being handed out are finally accounted for. It would make flying there way to stressful for me.

[XJ]

The ordinary people of Ukraine have been shoved into a shitstorm by the people that George Carlin identified years ago

[BushMasterBoy]

Putin is killing kids in the Ukraine. I am with Sgt. Fury on this baby murderer.

[hollohas]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ll-climbs.html

Convoy is not doing so well.

[colorider]

And the jackwagon in the WH wants to release from the strategic reserve...that won't help anything and it's an awfully bad idea to reduce our reserve with the world on the edge or war.

Some of the reserve was released. Enough for 3 days worth of supply. Wow. 3 days.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Yes, there's pro-Ukrainian propaganda out there. Every party in a war uses and issues propaganda to some extent.
Yes, Biden is (finally) supporting Ukraine -- at least verbally. Soros and others are jumping on the anti-Putin bandwagon because of course they are; they need to distract everyone from the fact they were working with him to attack anti-communists for years. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
The timing of this was convenient for Biden because it takes the heat off him for a variety of issues. I suspect Putin felt the heat Biden was taking on those issues made the timing convenient for him.

The bottom line on this for me is that a neo-Stalinist is rampaging. People die every day but usually not because of deliberate action by a tyrant who thinks he can get away with literal murder. He should have been put in his place and boxed in when he pulled this crap with Georgia and Crimea but the Leftists in and out of our government didn't want to do that. He waited when Mr. Unpredictable was in office but launched his expansionism again once the Senile-in-Chief was in office and overwhelmed. If he's not stopped and put down this time, he'll keep escalating and that will cost us more in the end than doing something now. These kinds of thugs don't stop until they realize they're going to get hurt.

[FoxtArt]

Yes, there's pro-Ukrainian propaganda out there. Every party in a war uses and issues propaganda to some extent.
Yes, Biden is (finally) supporting Ukraine -- at least verbally. Soros and others are jumping on the anti-Putin bandwagon because of course they are; they need to distract everyone from the fact they were working with him to attack anti-communists for years. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
The timing of this was convenient for Biden because it takes the heat off him for a variety of issues. I suspect Putin felt the heat Biden was taking on those issues made the timing convenient for him.

The bottom line on this for me is that a neo-Stalinist is rampaging. People die every day but usually not because of deliberate action by a tyrant who thinks he can get away with literal murder. He should have been put in his place and boxed in when he pulled this crap with Georgia and Crimea but the Leftists in and out of our government didn't want to do that. He waited when Mr. Unpredictable was in office but launched his expansionism again once the Senile-in-Chief was in office and overwhelmed. If he's not stopped and put down this time, he'll keep escalating and that will cost us more in the end than doing something now. These kinds of thugs don't stop until they realize they're going to get hurt.

Well said.

Even we do it.



The thing to remember to is we live in an age where everyone is a "journalist" and disinformation has no state monopoly anymore. Most of the propaganda is made by glorified trolls with varying levels of intent. Sometimes states adopt it unknowingly. Sometimes propaganda is still state created. In any event, it is hardly justification for the most corrupt developed nation with the most corrupted of all media to come in and invade under guise of "freeing them from fascists" and "peacekeeping". If it was, we should be invaded by Russia too by that logic.

[Gman]

Social media is a cesspool (always has been). MSM fishes in that cesspool for "news" and shares the 'catch of the day'.

What Putin is doing killing civilians is indefensible. No foil hat required.

I hope the reports of Russian troops poor morale are true, not understanding why they are there and being instructed to kill Ukrainians who haven't done anything to them. I have heard of some surrendering and some intentionally puncturing fuel tanks so the equipment is unable to continue the attack. I hope that is true. The Russian military should turn their guns around on their leadership, IMO.