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War in Ukraine

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by PITBOSS, Jan 21, 2022.

  1. sierragator

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    What is Russian for snowflake?
     
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  2. duchen

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    They aren’t going to be able do the kind of searches needed to identify the number dead yet. This is not civilian peace time for searching
     
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  3. gogator7444

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    Please try. Go ahead. Alaska is *right* there for you to teach us. Tucker & Trump may welcome along with a handful but the rest will teach you the definition of FAFO. (Look it up if you don't know because I can't post it fully)
     
  4. tampagtr

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    Not sure if this was already posted, but shocking, shocking I tell you, that a bit of a deep dive, although not that deep, of current quotee Douglas MacGregor includes a rant against secret manipulative “rootless cosmopolitans”. Hmmm. Who could be be referring to?

     
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  6. gogator7444

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    From Zelensky's speech to Germany...I think Ukraine's stance on remaining neutral may have to do with NATOs reaction:

    "“We asked what Ukraine can do to join NATO, to be guaranteed its security and we were told that the decision was not yet on the table,” Zelensky told the Bundestag, adding that refusing to let Ukraine join the EU was like new bricks being added to the wall."

    "Addressing German lawmakers via video link, Zelensky said: “We are separated by a wall. It is not a Berlin wall, it is a wall in the middle of Europe between freedom and bondage, and this wall is getting bigger with every bomb falling on Ukraine, with every decision not made for peace and that could help us. Why is this happening?”

    Zelensky compared the Berlin Airlift during the Cold War to the current situation in Ukraine, saying: “The airspace was safe then but now we cannot build up an airbridge because Russian bombs and missiles are falling from the sky.”

    Earlier in his address to the German Bundestag Thursday the Ukrainian president also explicitly referenced the post-Holocaust motto: "never again." “Every year politicians say never again. Now I see that these words are worthless. In Europe a people is being destroyed," Zelensky said."
     
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  8. swampspring

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    As far as mainstream news sites, I do like the Independent and Guardian as well.
     
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  9. wgbgator

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    Self-purification = wants to be peed on
     
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  10. ajoseph

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    How in the hell does Fox continue to give Tucker airtime???? How in the hell does a sponsor of that Show keep sponsoring that show????
     
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  11. wgbgator

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    Its their highest rated show and they've never cared about the integrity of their news side?
     
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  12. ajoseph

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    I get it. The viewers love his systematic attack on the Left. But this is different. Even most of the Right can see with their own eyes that what Russia is doing is wrong. And most certainly, their sponsors should be concerned with such negative press.
     
  13. wgbgator

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    To paraphrase Michael Jordan, fascists buy sneakers too
     
  14. gogator7444

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    That doesn't work in the 21st century, Princess.
     
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  15. duchen

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    The racist and anti-get etc. movements are part of the Russian sycophants world view. Sadly, these idiots would be happy with a dictator who would limit the rights of those they don’t like. They don’t get that it comes him to Root on them, too. Russia has effectively coopted a segment of the US population. But, many people have now looked at who they supported differently. The Roger Stones, Bannons, Mike Flynns and POTUS 45s of the world will have to answer for their pro-Putin views now. How “savvy” and “smart” is putin to send a garbage army into war like this?
     
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    They let him stay on the air telling his viewers vaccines are bad (he's vaccinated; has to be to work in the Fox studio by corporate policy). If they let him kill their viewers, they will certainly let him traitor on air.
     
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  17. ajoseph

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    It just comes across so clearly to me how disingenuous and contrived his narrative is and has always been. But he is incredibly gifted on his ability to mislead, misdirect and lie, Socraticly.

    But his take on Ukraine and his love for Russia so blatantly runs across the grain of The American and World pulse, that I am astonished that he hasn’t had sponsor pullback.

    I really believe that we would be a better country without him on the air.
     
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  18. wgbgator

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    I don't think its terribly complicated. If you were a Marxist in 1930, you wanted the Soviet Union to thrive. If you are a nationalist in 2022 longing to punch back at gays and whatever "woke" things you think threaten civilization, you want Putin's Russia to project power and strength (or perhaps more accurately, to reflect American/Western weakness under (lowercase) liberal rule). Its really no deeper than that. They didn't need to be coopted, it was already their world view, it just needs vindication. They arent pro-Putin, more like anti-anti-Putin, because deep down its about America, not Russia for them. You will not find any coherence to it.
     
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  19. gogator7444

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    Someone in that thread noted his left arm was shaky? He's really lost it btw. Which is why appeasement may not be a great idea. He seems to be beyond reason.
     
  20. gogator7444

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    I really think he's crossed the line more than once but this Ukraine thing is treasonous/Hanoi Jane behavior. Sponsors need to step up & walk away. Fox only sees dollar signs.

    Send him to one of the alternative networks, or Russian state media.
     
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