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War in Ukraine

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

  1. duggers_dad

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  2. citygator

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    What a dipshit.

     
  3. duggers_dad

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    I can barely remember when the US was capable of diplomacy.

    Barely.
     
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  4. vegasfox

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    Democrats and RINO war hawks schooled by Putin.
     
  5. chemgator

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    You forgot to mention that Hitler had a mustache and Putin does not. That really would have burned me.

    They are both invaders without justification, hell-bent on conquest and destruction. The age of the invading leader is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. Besides, there is plenty of evidence that Putin thought the war would be won in three weeks or less. The Russian army made it to the edge of Kiev in less than a week. And you may want to check something called "life expectancy" and see if it has changed between 1938 and 2022, if you think you can handle that assignment.

    You seem like you goose-egged your I.Q. test. Maybe you should study some more and get back to us when you have an actual intelligent thought. (Let me know if you don't know what "irrelevant" means, and maybe we can get someone to explain it to you.)
     
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  6. vegasfox

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    Pretty cocky post coming from someone who humiliated himself on the Ukraine war thread.
     
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    Somewhere in Time
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  9. chemgator

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    We probably need to open a self-defecating thread for right wingers to defend their Man, their Hero, their Savior, against the Ghost of Biden while they twitch at the idea of spending on Ukraine, and compare Putin to Gandhi. We could have a post come up randomly that shouts "SQUIRREL!" and they would have to switch from Biden-hating to Hilary-hating or Pelosi-hating, while supporting Gaetz, Boebert, and MTG. When the Wildcard Post comes up, all posts have to be about Kamala Harris and how dark her skin is.
     
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  10. chemgator

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    SQUIRREL!

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    “I cain’t quit you!”

     
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  12. pogba

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    I thought this administration had the magic cure for this war? It still isn't over?
     
  13. G8trGr8t

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    Ukraine advancing their missile game. Hopefully they are getting a lot of outside expertise from people with the ability to do so

    who wants to see one of these decimate red square?

    Zelensky reveals new Neptune missile capable of hitting Moscow is ready

    With the new US President Donald Trump withdrawing military aid to Ukraine, the country has become increasingly desperate to boost its own domestic weapons production capabilities.

    Queue the so-called ‘Long Neptune’, which ‘has been tested and successfully used in combat’, President Volodymyr Zelensky said today.

    Originally designed as an anti-ship missile, it has a range of 1,000km – double that of Britain’s Storm Shadow, hundreds of which have been supplied to Ukraine.

    That’s far enough to strike Moscow, Russia’s capital city, roughly 842km away from Ukraine’s border.
     
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    I suppose Trump telling Putin how much be admires him was not quite enough to end the war. Who knew?
     
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  15. chemgator

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    Trump has declared that he was "being sarcastic" about ending the war in one day. In other words, he lied.
     
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    Yep, whoever was pushing the buttons for Biden had a much better grasp on the endgame for this war.

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  17. duggers_dad

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    In summary …

     
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    Ukraine is dying.

    But it’s a sacrifice we’re willing to make.
     
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  19. G8trGr8t

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    Volunteer coalition - a term the US coined to form the group to free afghanistan - a group that many of our allied gave treasue and blood to.

    Now the group being put together to defend Ukraine from Russia, except the USA will not be on the front lines to ensure lasting peace, the EU will do it without us.

    a force much like the US force in S. Korea and Putin is going to have to deal with it or attack them

    UK and France deploy troops to Ukraine to pressure Vladimir Putin: "We must weaken his war machinery"

    The volunteer coalition will kick off next Thursday with a meeting in London of high-ranking military officials from the countries forming it to begin coordinating the technical aspects of deploying peace forces in Ukraine.

    In theory, the mission of these forces will be to safeguard the future ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. In practice, their mission will be to protect Ukraine. It will be a role similar to the 24,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea since the ceasefire reached in 1953 between that country and North Korea.

    Therefore, there will be, at least on paper, a risk that the volunteer coalition - a term not without a certain irony, coined by the U.S. in 2003 to refer to the countries that accompanied it in the invasion of Iraq - may come under attack or have to defend Ukraine.

    Planning all of this is not going to be easy. And even more so because this seems destined to be the first exclusively European military mission, without any U.S. support since World War II. Unless the Donald Trump administration changes its stance, Washington will not provide air cover, logistical support, or intelligence to the Europeans, which may also include Australian and New Zealand soldiers, although the list of countries is still uncertain.
     
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