An invasion like this would unite the majority of the US. Would never happen though, you’d be insane to invade a populace with so strong a military presence and so many armed civilians.
FWIW...I don't have cable news. So, I don't get the 24/7 news coverage channels like CNN or Fox. I was searching for Ukraine News (bing, google, or youtube searching to see what I could find), and I watched a Youtube video. One of the Youtube videos I watched had the video you are talking about in the side bar as a related video. It was Youtube's algorithms that promoted the video to me. Google does engage in partisan suppression of content that doesn't fit the correct narrative, but I guess that video isn't on their radar yet.
I realize this is a bait post, but I would like to point out something about it. Look at the sheer malignant narcissism it portrays with him sitting well beyond any reasonable “COVID safe” distance, but stuffing everyone else close to one another at the other end of the table. The narcissism, paranoia, and—most importantly—lack of consideration of anyone else as necessarily being unimportant, all standard Strongman philosophy, is on full display.
Israel? That's quite the stretch. Here's my prediction of what awaits Russia on the tail end of this mini campaign:
Nice to know it’s warming up, since dealing with frozen ground would have been too difficult to dig him up for this.
Agree. (Except for the part about bait. It was in jest. If i actually intended it as bait, id put it in one of the covid threads).
When was it ever? How many juntas, tyrants, and dictators have we propped and are propping up right now? How many popular or democratically elected governments have we helped topple? The only thing we care about is our own self interest.
CNN says there is a 40 mile long military convoy heading to Kyiv… it’s too bad they have no allies willing to bomb the shit out of it.
That's only partially true. We have made mistakes and we have had to make some horrible choices, but we are the closest thing this world has seen to a benevolent global power. The fact that we haven't always done what's perfectly right (or simply can't) should not be a reason to abandon these ideals. This is clearly a case where we get to choose the righteous path. Ukrainians want to be Western and Putin is a whackadoodle that needs his patient, multi-decadal, terroristic nibbling of eastern Europe put to an end. It's time. Now.
How many times has the US helped save the world? How much money in foreign aid has gone out? How many times as recently as THIS mess has the world said "where's the US? We need help?" Are there bad decisions? Yes. Every country has them. But since you hate the US so much let's take it out of the equation. THE WHOLE WORLD...WHOLE THING with the exception of Belarus, NK & maybe Brazil (they just announced expedited immigration visas to refugees) has said this isn't right. CHINA included. So if you somehow feel that the US is tainted by bad choices & the rest of the world is pure as the driven snow, then how do you excuse or explain the reaction of everyone else? You can't. Because it's just another way to excuse Putin by villifying the US.
American F-16's have landed in Romania and are participating in air-to-air combat training with Romanian fighters. American F-15 Eagles of the 48th fighter wing from England have arrived in Lask, Poland. Eight more from the 336th Fighter Wing in North Carolina have joined them. Along with Danish F-16s and Polish F-16s they are participating in air patrols across Poland and the Baltic states, as well as practicing air-to-air and air-to-ground bombing missions. B-52s of the 5th Bomb Wing out of Minot AFB in North Dakota have arrived in England. 8 more F-35-II Lightnings have arrived in Germany, augmenting the 6 already on patrol over the Baltics, Poland and Romania. This has the potential to get out of hand very quickly if one stray missile crosses a line on a map.
