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Peggy Noonan on MTP…did we lose Fiona Hill’s phone number?

Earnest goes to jail was an under appreciated classic which informed The Shawshank Redemption

Interesting professional take I dunno. If Putin doesn't care what happens to them...it could be longer.

That is actually a charity in Canada https://www.saintjavelin.com/

Also very good

SNORT!

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Say the bubbas and neck beards had succeeded on 1/6…they had the scaffolding out and were hanging anyone who gain sayed them. People would be sorely pressed to demonstrate courage.

Not watching these Olympics is the only thing most of us can do.

Wes Clark just now was going on about the assassination plans …yes this is the scary stuff

sloppy slavs

Crimea has that Turkish population hence Erdogan interest

Not unexpected.

Declared...you can do at any time. Having him judged at the International Court would require the legal proceedings. It would be something to do. It would have the impact of the various International Left trials against Henry Kissinger and so forth. The US and EU and NATO will be able to sanction him. The UN isn't going to do that most likely because of Russia's veto in the UNSC. Unless he is toppled from power somehow.

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this is the stuff I keep hearing and seeing

There are plenty of stories about Ukraine that we are hearing that they have a lot of fight in them. That they are becoming more unified against Putin. BUT, I can't be sure if that's real because of the ability of propaganda to sell a story. As for the geography... it was plenty good for insurrection during WWII.

We can bleed Putin. We can make him pay for 2016. We can make the Trumpies cry.

I have some very pessimistic colleagues where I work about all this. Its hard not to be affected by that. I just don't know how this will play out. The thing that strikes me though is that people are using the template of Kabul for Kiev. I don't think that applies. In Ukraine we apparently have a place with a real sense of nationhood. Just because they have terrible corruption problems doesn't mean there are not people who will fight which they definitely did and continue to do since 2014. Afghanistan was tribes, various regions and the city of Kabul. A place where empires go to die. It also had the Russians, Chinese and Pakistanis plus the gulf billionaires funding an insurrection against the US and NATO. Now the shoe can be on the other foot. I'm all for that. Fuck Vladdie with a duck. Fuck his troops. Fuck his oligarchs and fuck anyone who takes his coin to be on RT or run for office.

Apparently, Canada has a huge Ukrainian diaspora. I have just heard from my brother who lives in Rochester, NY that they call them Yookies.

You missed 1991

We have given Ukraine a ton of weapons. We expect they can put up a fight like they did in 2014 when a bunch of militias fought off the rogues gallery that Putin sent in. However, the Russian Air Force and all those ballistic missiles and arty will kill a lot of people. I will not go out on any limb and predict how this will go. Putin should know but we have plenty of evidence that he has been self-deluding in this incident that wars have a way of creating their own chaos. For example, what happens if Russians expand the war into NATO territory.

Your tell was referring to Ukraine as The Ukraine. Ok.