romad1

This is the sort of thing you had to expect. RT (note, the channel on your DirectV thanks to AT&T being oligarch friendly) is whipping up the home crowds.

If Canada was responsible for a genocide in our country and had imprisoned thousands of us for the bulk of the last century . . . all the American gun strokes would have anywhere near the reason to be as passionate as the Ukrainians have been... Hopefully it matters.

Plus she has a mask!

decent thread

Tulsi Gabbard being a Russia tool. Remember her? She was Foxnews favorite dem running in 2020.

Following the letter of the OSCE agreements is important. We cannot allow Vladdie any wiggle room.

Jake Sullivan gives off a young Dick Cheney vibe and I'm saying that's a compliment.

So young

IF, we are even listening to Putin about "historical Russia" THEN shouldn't East Prussia be returned to Germany?

It’s a mix: Professional 1/3, conscripts 1/3 and PMCs (private military contractors). Ukraine has a lot of the latter as well. The militias in Ukraine are similar to the US Civil War when rich men would raise regiments for their own vainglory.

He's going to hammer Ukraine. Its going to be extremely bloody because there are plenty of Ukrainians who are also spoiling for a fight. The Russians are terrible at the beginning of wars because they are slovenly. I don't see an endgame that ends up well unless Putin is driven from power somehow.

Might just be good planning Lvov is going to be the defacto capital of wartime Ukraine unless the defenders of Kiev can hold out longer than Putin can afford the sanctions and other pain inflicted on him. .

Its crazy to think this...but Biden and Sullivan have played this pretty well. They have judiciously leaked intel that I won't tell you how dear that stuff is because of sources and methods. But,the intel is use or lose. They won't save Ultra by letting the Germans conquer Britain. Letting the Japanese conquer Australia wouldn't save the analogous US code breaking operation against Japan.

[chef's kiss]

After WWII, so the story goes there was some dinner party in England and some chinless wag lifts his glass and says "its so nice to finally get back to all the things we've been fighting for" and his companion looks at the table of upper class twits and asks "are they all poles?" Its a story i've seen in multiple forms. Ukraine has paid a packet since 1917. Just like Poland did.

Yeah, History...that cuts both ways.

If Vlad the Hammer destroys Kiev in order to save it he is going to kill some Americans.

I wonder if they will have embeds in with the Russian columns

Some discussion about how the media will broadcast this. During 2003 and 1991 attacks in Baghdad, the US networks had very shrewd workarounds. Vladdie doesn't want to show his mayhem on TV.

Erdogan is interested in all this because of the Turkish minorities in these territories. He could give a fig about Russian majorities.

I understand the Crimea is similar

Extraordinary to wake up to that.

Oh, I don't know...its likely done Russia and China a lot of good.

Apparently Macron's requirement not to be poisoned is being seized on by the nutters as evidence that when they take your PCR test "they" can do something nefarious with it.

Its a great tool for manipulating events though.