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War in Ukraine

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

  1. gogator7444

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    Pro Moscow Ukranian who is godfather to Putin's children.


    Was wearing Ukranian flag so he could hide/not get arrested. Didn't work.
     
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    The President is helping Ukraine, but not nearly as much as he should be in my opinion. Now I have no idea because I’m not in the President’s inner circle, but I cannot help but cynically wonder if we have been restrained in our decision making by that obvious conflict of interest. To me, this is a failure of basic understanding of strategy. You assign a strategic main effort and subordinate all other considerations to it. The fact that we did not drop our involvement with Russia the day after they invaded Ukraine indicates either that defeating Russia is not our strategic main effort (which it obviously should be) or we have failed to subordinate less important considerations (a renewed Iran deal) to it. Either way, I lay the dead baby at Jake Sullivan’s doorstep and, again, call for the President to put someone in there who knows what they are doing.
     
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  3. gogator7444

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    Oh fully agree. That should've never happened, and I feel Biden (& the buck stops with the President) needs to do more/obstruct less. I am by no means a Biden person, but he's not Trump.

    Sullivan needs to go but Biden has to care enough. Feels almost like we're coasting and doing "just enough" and that's going to end with a Putin victory, which means Ukraine decimated, Zelensky dead, and leaves Putin free to move on to the next place.
     
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  4. sierragator

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    So somewhere between that kind of passivity on one hand and the enabling and rage tweets we will get if former guy returns to office. This is not just about Ukraine, about time we acted like it.
     
  5. g8rjd

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    Womp womp.

     
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  6. gogator7444

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    Yep. That's the guy I posted is godfather to Putin's kids.
     
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  7. sierragator

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    lock him up
     
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    Hang him in public with a sign around his neck that says Putin, you’re next.
     
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  9. sierragator

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    Saw a tiktok and obviously meant to be somewhat funny...but with Lend & Lease back & Ukranians getting training...Warthog time?

    Columns get brrrrrrrrrrt? Yes please.
     
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  12. ursidman

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    Bug Tussle NC
  13. WarDamnGator

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    Cant Russia veto anything at the UN under the current rules? We’d have to kick them out?
     
  14. sierragator

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    No UN peacekeepers, Russia and China will not allow it.
     
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    But only for a while ......
     
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  16. gogator7444

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    ***** correction on the guy that was arrested by Ukraine. PUTIN is godfather to his kids, not the other way around. Just saw this corrected on CNN.
     
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  17. g8rjd

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    Giggle.
     
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  18. sierragator

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    Russia must be so incredibly proud of the courage their soldiers display as they target civilians, women, children, the elderly. Just saw that they raped an 83 year old woman. I wonder if they get a medal for that.
     
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    Gosh, I get being conservative but this Trumpist nonsense has to just get old. There are half a dozen of these idiots who need to be primaried into retirement or into a new career as a commentator on fox or breitbart
     
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    All explosions are chemical. There are some kinetic bombs that are just heavy things going really fast. I think it's like the term assault weapons. It's the dispersion of the poison to kill people. More of an intent type of thing.
     
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