Warspite63
Staff Sergeant
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- Dec 8, 2022
Interesting (and depressing/infuriating/disgusting...) ... but I only made it to Point 4 before I got too angry to watch any more .......
"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (24 Viewers)
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Interesting (and depressing/infuriating/disgusting...) ... but I only made it to Point 4 before I got too angry to watch any more .......
Admiral Beez
Major
I never thought I'd see the day where the USA position is that an emerging democratic nation in Europe should surrender to Russian aggression. POTUS 33-41, Cold War warriors to a man, all dedicated to containing Russia and defending democracy and freedom in Europe, must be turning over in their graves.
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GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Reagan or Kennedy would have put Putin in his place in short order.
Thumpalumpacus
Colonel
He's not holding cards. He's trying to steady the table so his house of cards doesn't collapse.
Yes, he's got Trump with his (I think intentional) vacillating, but at the end of the day there's dead Russians shipping home in droves, increased economic stresses that may implode unforeseen, and cabals inside his government that are jockeying for position once things go sideways. That looooooong dining table from a few years ago wasn't only from Covid, I suspect.
Thumpalumpacus
Colonel
Bush the Senior did exactly that in 1990-91 in Iraq. Smartly, I should add. Lined up coalition support, provided the mustard with us 500,000 American troops, and issued a bitch-slap.
MiTasol
Major
Yes but the Joker is in his hand and that is the only card that counts among him, Ukraine, and the Joker.
Admiral Beez
Major
OTOH, Obama let the world down. Too distracted in Afghanistan and Iraq, POTUS44 failed to help Ukraine during the 2013-14 Maidan Revolution, before the first invasion of Crimea and Donbas.
Tangentially related and an example of the Russian influencing operations going on:
www.abc.net.au
Former Reform UK politician jailed for taking bribes from pro-Russians
Nathan Gill, a hard-right British former politician and one-time ally of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, pleaded guilty earlier to eight counts of bribery between December 2018 and July 2019.
www.abc.net.au
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