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philip964 wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 8:13 pm https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nation ... -rcna27559

US officials said we helped sink big Russian ship.

US officials need to keep their mouths shut and NBC News shouldn’t publish stuff like this.

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 4:53 pm

extremist wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 11:47 am I'm not an apologist for anyone, Trump, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Biden, or AOC. I just have my eyes wide open and don't believe anything the media or the government tells me.

Done here on this thread.

YOU are the one who said that Russia's aggression was justified because Ukraine had "provoked" it. Are you backtracking now?

Here extremist…this is for you… Your pals on behalf of whose invasion you’ve been advocating, have been committing repeated war crimes against innocent civilians who are trying to escape. These ones were deliberately gunned down by Russians as they were trying to flee from the battle. The elderly. Young married couples. Families. Even their dogs. In your book, this is justified, because "reasons". I'm posting links rather than embedding the videos. Enjoy the visuals. I hope they haunt you. The Russian army are savages, and they’re governed by a fascist pig. God will judge us all, but what Russia is doing is completely beyond redemption.

https://youtu.be/vmNole9dQRU

https://youtu.be/OV0HgDRw2co

https://youtu.be/Mb3_R__r7Go

Every single one of these people (and their pets) would still be alive today if Putin weren’t demonically possessed. But keep defending him.

Paladin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:05 am

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 8:14 pm The whole war situation is a replica of the movie, "Wag The Dog". We are all getting destroyed at gas pumps and grocery stores and all the MSM talks about is Ukraine.

Joe Biden bragged today about the increase in jobs and GDP as if he had something to do with it. Are people really this stupid? He is taking credit for the jobs picking up in the year after the government put the whole economy on shut down.

My wife and I talked about this and we are concerned. It seems that the so called "world leaders" are the ones who should all be in jail and it is sobering to think than anyone in their right mind actually believes their transparent lies or falls for their distractions.

Right at this moment there is overwhelming legal evidence that Hunter and Joe should be sharing a cell together... with Hillary in a neighboring prison wing.

Flightmare wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:56 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:49 pm

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 8:14 pm Are people really this stupid? He is taking credit for the jobs picking up in the year after the government put the whole economy on shut down.

Mostly, yes they are.

Not much different than school boards or city councils claiming to lower your property taxes by lowering the rate, but still taking in an increased amount of revenue. Politicians will often massage "statistics" to defend their point of view.

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 8:23 am

extremist wrote: ↑Sat Mar 26, 2022 10:53 pm I presume you were against the invasion of Iraq also?

I wasn’t … because I was duped (unintentionally, or intentionally) … and then I was. Hindsight is 20/20. I wanted us out of there LONG before we actually got out. As soon as it became clear that Saddam Hussein's threat of WMD was hollow, which admittedly took a couple of years to determine, I realized that we had made a big mistake. I understood the rationale behind the decision to invade Iraq, and I let that sway me into supporting it. But then that rationale turned out to be flawed, so it became unjustifiable. If killing young Americans (first and foremost) along with thousands of others isn’t justifiable, then it’s a moral wrong. Iraq was a huge mistake.

I no longer support invasions where the root justification is false. If we can’t KNOW with 100% certainty that a country is an existential threat to ourselves, then we have no freaking business invading it. Period. We are not the world's police. This has nothing to do with my support for our boots-on-the-ground warfighters who served in Iraq, who I think performed magnificently, and who did their duty as ordered to by their command structure. But they too deserved better.

Putin's rationale for invading Ukraine is even flimsier than ours was for invading Iraq.

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:23 pm

philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 5:41 pm I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Russia a year or so before Trump took office. It was not the country that had been portrayed in the cold war. The people were warm and friendly, they drove Volvo's and Honda's. The women were not ugly. It was to me an ordinary European country, well somewhat. I was hoping after Trump's election, he would be able to soften Putin and allow American's easier access to the country. The Democratic plan was otherwise. I feel sorry for the Russian public, however, not as sorry as I feel for the Ukrainians. This is Putin's war not the people of Russia's war, but they will be the ones to suffer for it, both in their young son's lives but in the economic hardship this will cause now and in the future.

As my guide told me, the communists were one chapter of a very long book. This will be another sad chapter for them.

I have nothing against the Russian people. I never have. This war is increasingly unpopular in Russia. I’ve never been there, but my mother has, a couple of times, and she shared the experience with us. Many Russians are intensely patriotic, particularly older Russians about their roles in WW2. If the Russian people at large have a flaw, it is generational at this point…and that is the flaw of allowing themselves to be ruled by autocratic strongmen—whether that is a tzar, or a Soviet premier, or a Putin. Their legislative body exists to rubber stamp whatever the strongman wants. And this particular strongman's wants are irrational.

I feel bad for them. But I feel worse for the Ukrainians. They’ve been a sovereign nation since January of 1990—32 years now. They have an absolute right to maintain their sovereignty. Absent Ukraine having invaded Russia…which they have NOT…Russia has ZERO right to invade Ukraine for any reason whatsoever. Putin is an evil pig, and the deaths of all involved are on his head.

parabelum wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:05 am Two of the victims were a pregnant woman and her unborn child. May you rot forever Putin.
What supposed to have been a joyful future was shattered, all because of the true nazi Putin and his unnecessary invasion and killing.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukrainian ... l-mariupol

philip964 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:11 am The reason it’s such a story is the White House bald faced lied about it. Obama started biolabs in Ukraine. Russia said we did. White House said we didn’t it’s Russia propaganda.

Then the reason Tucker picked it up two days ago was a State Department official under oath in Congress told the truth and said yes we had established biolabs in Ukraine.

Why in the world would we spend our money to give Ukraine a biolab.

But the biggest sin is to then lie about it.

Why should we believe anything they say now?

Remember we are the good guys.

Paladin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 5:53 pm Nuclear primacy is the condition in which a nuclear power can defeat another nuclear power by eliminating its nuclear weapons before they can be launched against them. The reason why NATO ABM sites have been built in Poland and Romania is to push their reach closer to Russia’s European borders. This already increases the threat to Russia immensely. By capturing Ukraine and incorporating it into NATO, Ukraine could then potentially serve as a much, much closer missile launching site for NATO missiles pointed at Russia. The Ukrainian border is less than 500km from Moscow.

The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy (PDF)

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 12:28 am

BigGuy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 11:51 pm

parabelum wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 10:05 pm

Ruark wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 8:58 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 10:04 pm Peter Santenello has a YouTube channel where he investigates different types of communities and does human interest reports on the people who live there, and what their daily lives are like. He’s covered the Amish and Mennonites in Ohio, Muslims in Detroit, NYC gang life, Chicano culture in East L.A., immigration and the Texas/Mexico border, etc.

He lived in Ukraine for 4 years, reporting on things there, and returned to the US about a year ago. His wife is Ukrainian, and they have a number of friends both there, and in Russia. One gets the impression that he’s maybe a little bit left of center, but he’s not a whack job, and he scrupulously keeps politics out of his videos…which I have enjoyed and found interesting.

Interesting comments from him, thanks for posting it. A couple of points did sort of jump out. He talked about most Ukrainians being against the Russian presence - EXCEPT for people from some parts of the south and the east. Exactly. Those are the ethnic Russians, 14,000+ of whom have been killed over the past 8 years by Ukrainian radicals.

He also said "if Russia wins, there will be no Ukraine." Not true. Russia's mission in Ukraine is twofold: to stop the persecution of ethnic Russians in the south and east, which continues as you read this, and to demilitarize the country, because of the threat it poses if it ever joins NATO. The goal is for Ukraine to become a neutral country politically, without militaristic aspirations like it has today. Zelensky is horribly inflaming the situation, pretending to be some valiant Joan of Arc hero, and making everything worse and increasing the destruction and suffering.

If Russia wanted to "conquer" Ukraine, they could have easily steamrolled over it in a few days. They could have bombed Kiev into the stone age in a couple of hours. They haven't, simply because they're not interested in "acquiring" Ukraine in any way, shape or form. Russia wouldn't have Ukraine if you handed it to them on a silver platter.

I’ve lived through the war criminal Slobodan Miliosevic and his fellow Russian dictatorship comrades friend. Putin and the invaders are torching civilians, kids and everything that stands in the way, right now. They are evil, pure evil. What you type is straight out of Pravda. Those of us who lived directly through Russian aggression ain’t buying it pal. They are getting hammered in toe to toe fighting, so now it is civilian infrastructure destruction and psychological warfare they are after. By the way, their low rank soldiers by in large are not into this. I’m sure Pravda isn’t reporting though.
Putin is an evil communist bully, why be an apologist for this monster? Sorry to be personal, but what you’re typing might as well be coming from Kremlin directly, with all due respect.

I agree so much and I think Putin is so near crazy, I bought a folding camping toilet seat for my “storm shelter” today.

philip964 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 3:06 pm

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 6:35 pm
My dad was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam that went down. All aboard were killed instantly. I see a video like that and think of him. As crazy as that may sound.

We will always honor your father’s sacrifice to this country. I will never for get my first year in college seeing young men a little older than me walking to class with canes. The war became real at that point. I guess they were the lucky ones. They came home. I’m very sorry you missed getting to spend time with a true hero.
Bless you and your family.

I find my self depressed over this unnecessary war. I see no positive outcome. At worst I may have to use those iodine pills I bought 8 years ago. A better outcome I see suffering on suffering for the people of Ukraine. A resumption of the Cold War and potentially more and more conflict and suffering in Europe. Potentially Taiwan being taken over as well. Gas has jumped 70 cents in two weeks. Diesel is as high as I have ever seen it in my lifetime. No end to the bad news is in sight.

God bless America. Give us the foresight and leadership to survive and help the world. Asked in his name, Amen.