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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
Monday, May 23, 2022 8:43 PM
THG
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 8:09 AM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quote:Originally posted by second: Ukraine rules out any ceasefire deal that would involve ceding territory to Russia | May 22, 2022 Ukraine has said it will not agree to any ceasefire deal that would involve handing over territory to Russia, as Moscow intensified its attack in the eastern Donbas region on Sunday. “The war must end with the complete restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty,” said Ukraine’s presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, in a Twitter post. The Polish president, Andrzej Duda, offered Warsaw’s backing, telling politicians in Kyiv that the international community had to demand Russia’s complete withdrawal and that sacrificing any of Ukraine’s territory would be a “huge blow” to the west. “Worrying voices have appeared, saying that Ukraine should give in to Putin’s demands,” Duda said, in the first in-person address to the Ukrainian parliament by a foreign leader since Russia’s invasion on 24 February. “Only Ukraine has the right to decide about its future,” he said. On Saturday, Ukraine’s lead negotiator in the stalled peace talks, Mykhailo Podolyak, said: “Any concession to Russia is not a path to peace, but a war postponed for several years. Ukraine trades neither its sovereignty, nor territories and Ukrainians living on them.” Podolyak made clear that Ukraine would not accept any deal with Russia that involved ceding territory, and that agreeing to a ceasefire now while making concessions to Russia would backfire on Ukraine because “Moscow would hit back harder after any break in fighting”. More at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/22/ukraine-russia-ceasefire-deal-territory-donbas The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 8:52 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 10:12 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Gas prices have hit a record high every day for three straight weeks. Nobody gives one single shit about Ukraine and Russia.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 10:43 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Gas prices have hit a record high every day for three straight weeks. Nobody gives one single shit about Ukraine and Russia.People who drive Ford F-150 Lightnings don't buy gasoline.
Quote:Those people are not like 6ix.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 11:27 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Those people are not like 6ix.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Nope. They just drive around with 1,800 lb batteries that cost $26,000 to replace and are hazardous waste. They also buy into the "zero-emissions" claims because they think that electricity is magical.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:27 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Those people are not like 6ix. These people are nothing like me either... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hungry-parents-sacrificing-amid-soaring-090109778.html But they're certainly nothing like you and they're not going to vote the way you want them to.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:45 PM
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 5:42 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Nope. They just drive around with 1,800 lb batteries that cost $26,000 to replace and are hazardous waste. They also buy into the "zero-emissions" claims because they think that electricity is magical.I got a 60 month plan with MP2 Energy: 100% Renewable Electric Vehicle Charging plans give residential customers free charging during specific off-peak hours, a fixed energy rate to avoid unexpected price fluctuations, and access to our first-class customer service. https://www.mp2energy.com/EV 6ix, you know less than nothing because what you are sure is true isn't true. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Meanwhile, they continue to rally against nuclear power and are going to be responsible for both home electricity prices per kWh skyrocketing and redoubled efforts for coal mining to feed their addiction because, spoiler alert, there ain't enough land for wind farms and solar power on every planet in the Milky Way to charge all the electric cars you morons are pushing. (For now, let's not even dive into how much money and emissions are exhausted mining for the materials that you morons used to use in your tiny cell phone batteriess and are now putting into batteries that are 1/3 the weight of your vehicles). Meanwhile, a new F-150 Lightning is just a few years away from becoming a 6,171 lb paper weight, because unlike mid-90's to early 2000's Toyotas, there isn't going to be any used car market for them when the difference in replacement cost for a battery is 26,000%. Quote:Those people are not like 6ix.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 5:45 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Those people are not like 6ix. These people are nothing like me either... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hungry-parents-sacrificing-amid-soaring-090109778.html But they're certainly nothing like you and they're not going to vote the way you want them to.Your hungry parents
Quote:-- Smith earns $67,000 a year. Her husband brings home about $20,000 to $30,000 a year. She says she "makes too much for assistance" but too little to get by. Makes too much is very true because Georgia Median Household Income is $58,700. Makes "too little to get by" is very false.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 5:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and other like-minded intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine war
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 6:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: That's not my point here. My point is that they're not voting the way that YOU want them to. Have a nice day.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 8:32 PM
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 9:52 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote: Originally posted by SECOND: blah blah blah...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 11:16 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: My Mother had a saying that people dig their own graves with their teeth.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 11:20 PM
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 7:00 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: These people are nothing like me either... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hungry-parents-sacrificing-amid-soaring-090109778.html But they're certainly nothing like you and they're not going to vote the way you want them to. Looks like the Associated Press (fake Leftist "news") is finally admitting that nobody gives a shit about Ukraine or Russia too. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/24/massive_turns_in_opinion_on_dcs_response_to_russia_147644.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 8:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Quote: Originally posted by SECOND: blah blah blah... Just so you know SECOND: I haven't read any of your recent posts.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 8:44 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Signym, you write fan fiction where Putin and Trump are the heroes of the stories.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 8:54 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Signym, you write fan fiction where Putin and Trump are the heroes of the stories. Trump's story ain't done yet.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 8:59 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Signym, you write fan fiction where Putin and Trump are the heroes of the stories. Trump's story ain't done yet.Trump's fantasy was that Putin would not have attacked Ukraine if Trump were President, but if Trump were President and there was an attack despite his personal friendship with Putin, he would win it and all Ukrainians would be so grateful for him bringing peace. Trump has no shame when he spins fantasies about himself as the hero of every story. https://web.archive.org/web/20220427072409/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/donald-trump-piers-morgan-ukraine-rigged-election The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 9:54 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Oh. I'm not talking about that story that nobody cares about. I'm talking about the one that is going to have broad impact here in the states. How about Chapter 1: SCOTUS? Bring on the gun control, baby. See what happens. In Biden*'s fantasies about himself, he's the Good Humor Man. He gets to eat ice cream all day, every day, and has plenty of opportunity to sniff your daughter's and granddaughter's hair.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 10:24 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Oh. I'm not talking about that story that nobody cares about. I'm talking about the one that is going to have broad impact here in the states. How about Chapter 1: SCOTUS? Bring on the gun control, baby. See what happens. In Biden*'s fantasies about himself, he's the Good Humor Man. He gets to eat ice cream all day, every day, and has plenty of opportunity to sniff your daughter's and granddaughter's hair.The 2nd Amendment was written by slave-owners to prevent abolitionists from forbidding state militias hunting down and killing runaway/rebellious slaves. The Republicans on the Supreme Court would change their minds about the 2nd Amendment if a gunman entering the Supreme Court hunted down and killed Republican Supreme Court justices as if they were rebellious slaves. In 2008, the Court made a 5-4 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. Kill those 5 Republicans and the decision would go the other way. The Supreme Court is in the District of Columbia, which means it would be particularly ironic that the judges killed are the ones who changed the law so that they could be killed. https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog/on-this-day-a-divided-supreme-court-rules-on-the-second-amendment The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 12:07 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Archived. You've really outdone yourself this time, Arthur.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 1:54 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Archived. You've really outdone yourself this time, Arthur.6ix, a Federal Marshall handles death threats against Federal judges. I think you should call them, 6ix, because "archiving" does nothing to protect Republican Supreme Court judges who have gone crazy. For example, among constitutional scholars, Dred Scott v. Sandford is widely considered the worst and craziest decision ever rendered by the Supreme Court. A War between the States followed. https://www.britannica.com/event/Dred-Scott-decision https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-judge-threats-attack-60-minutes-2021-05-30/ On a similar note, if Vladimir Putin is captured, he will be executed for his crimes. Tit for tat, Putin would do the same to Volodymyr Zelenskyy if he was captured. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 5:55 PM
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 6:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Ukraine is fighting this war on behalf of the free world – to make sure it remains free. The free world must at least try to match the Ukrainians’ bravery.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 7:16 PM
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 7:53 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: I wonder how all of that Ukraine -Biden money laundering, as documented in Hunter's laptop, will play in the "free" press.
Thursday, May 26, 2022 3:01 AM
Quote:120,000 emails from Hunter’s infamous laptop made public within a searchable database In what is being touted as “a modern Rosetta Stone of white and blue-collar crime,” a former staffer from President Donald Trump’s administration made more than 120,000 emails from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop public within a searchable database. Garrett Ziegler, 26, worked in the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy under Director and Assistant to the President Peter Navarro. Using the nom de plume Marco Polo, the former aide reportedly created the site BidenLaptopEmails.com “to see justice delivered.”... “Here are 128k emails from the Biden Laptop, which is a modern Rosetta Stone of white and blue-collar crime under the patina of ‘the Delaware Way,'” the site reads, referencing an expression of President Joe Biden. While some previously reported emails were left out, the “10 for the big guy” message alleging the former vice president’s involvement in Hunter’s business dealings can be found.
Thursday, May 26, 2022 3:08 AM
Thursday, May 26, 2022 4:11 AM
Quote: Escobar: NATO vs Russia - What Happens Next Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 06:00 AM Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, In Davos and beyond, NATO's upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order... Three months after the start of Russia’s Operation Z in Ukraine, the battle of The West (12 percent) against The Rest (88 percent) keeps metastasizing. Yet the narrative – oddly – remains the same. On Monday, from Davos, World Economic Forum Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab introduced Ukrainian comedian-cum-President Volodymyr Zelensky, on the latest leg of his weapons-solicitation-tour, with a glowing tribute. Herr Schwab stressed that an actor impersonating a president defending neo-Nazis is supported by “all of Europe and the international order.” He means, of course, everyone except the 88 percent of the planet that subscribes to the Rule of Law – instead of the faux construct the west calls a ‘rules-based international order.’ Back in the real world, Russia, slowly but surely has been rewriting the Art of Hybrid War. Yet within the carnival of NATO psyops, aggressive cognitive infiltration, and stunning media sycophancy, much is being made of the new $40 billion US ‘aid’ package to Ukraine, deemed capable of becoming a game-changer in the war. This ‘game-changing’ narrative comes courtesy of the same people who burned though trillions of dollars to secure Afghanistan and Iraq. And we saw how that went down. Ukraine is the Holy Grail of international corruption. That $40 billion can be a game-changer for only two classes of people: First, the US military-industrial complex, and second, a bunch of Ukrainian oligarchs and neo-connish NGOs, that will corner the black market for weapons and humanitarian aid, and then launder the profits in the Cayman Islands. A quick breakdown of the $40 billion reveals $8.7 billion will go to replenish the US weapons stockpile (thus not going to Ukraine at all); $3.9 billion for USEUCOM (the ‘office’ that dictates military tactics to Kiev); $5 billion for a fuzzy, unspecified “global food supply chain”; $6 billion for actual weapons and “training” to Ukraine; $9 billion in “economic assistance” (which will disappear into selected pockets); and $0.9 billion for refugees. US risk agencies have downgraded Kiev to the dumpster of non-reimbursing-loan entities, so large American investment funds are ditching Ukraine, leaving the European Union (EU) and its member-states as the country’s only option. Few of those countries, apart from Russophobic entities such as Poland, can justify to their own populations sending huge sums of direct aid to a failed state. So it will fall to the Brussels-based EU machine to do just enough to maintain Ukraine in an economic coma – independent from any input from member-states and institutions. These EU ‘loans’ – mostly in the form of weapons shipments – can always be reimbursed by Kiev’s wheat exports. This is already happening on a small scale via the port of Constanta in Romania, where Ukrainian wheat arrives in barges over the Danube and is loaded into dozens of cargo ships everyday. Or, via convoys of trucks rolling with the weapons-for-wheat racket. However, Ukrainian wheat will keep feeding the wealthy west, not impoverished Ukrainians. Moreover, expect NATO this summer to come up with another monster psyop to defend its divine (not legal) right to enter the Black Sea with warships to escort Ukrainian vessels transporting wheat. Pro-NATO media will spin it as the west being ‘saved’ from the global food crisis – which happens to be directly caused by serial, hysterical packages of western sanctions. Poland goes for soft annexation NATO is indeed massively ramping up its ‘support’ to Ukraine via the western border with Poland. That’s in synch with Washington’s two overarching targets: First, a ‘long war,’ insurgency-style, just like Afghanistan in the 1980s, with jihadis replaced by mercenaries and neo-Nazis. Second, the sanctions instrumentalized to “weaken” Russia, militarily and economically. Other targets remain unchanged, but are subordinate to the Top Two: make sure that the Democrats are re-elected in the mid-terms (that’s not going to happen); irrigate the industrial-military complex with funds that are recycled back as kickbacks (already happening); and keep the hegemony of the US dollar by all means (tricky: the multipolar world is getting its act together). A key target being met with astonishing ease is the destruction of the German – and consequently the EU’s – economy, with a great deal of the surviving companies to be eventually sold off to American interests. Take, for instance, BMW board member Milan Nedeljkovic telling Reuters that “our industry accounts for about 37 percent of natural gas consumption in Germany” which will sink without Russian gas supplies. Washington’s plan is to keep the new ‘long war’ going at a not-too-incandescent level – think Syria during the 2010s – fueled by rows of mercenaries, and featuring periodic NATO escalations by anyone from Poland and the Baltic midgets to Germany. Last week, that pitiful Eurocrat posing as High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, gave away the game when previewing the upcoming meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council. Borrell admitted that “the conflict will be long” and “the priority of the EU member states” in Ukraine “consists in the supply of heavy weapons.” Then Polish President Andrzej Duda met with Zelensky in Kiev. The slew of agreements the two signed indicate that Warsaw intends to profit handsomely from the war to enhance its politico-military, economic, and cultural influence in western Ukraine. Polish nationals will be allowed to be elected to Ukrainian government bodies and even aim to become constitutional judges. In practice, that means Kiev is all but transferring management of the Ukrainian failed state to Poland. Warsaw won’t even have to send troops. Call it a soft annexation. The steamroller on the move As it stands, the situation on the battlefield can be examined in this map. Intercepted communications from the Ukrainian command reveal their aim to build a layered defense from Poltava through Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhia, Krivoy Rog, and Nikolaev – which happens to be a shield for the already fortified Odessa. None of that guarantees success against the incoming Russian onslaught. It’s always important to remember that Operation Z started on February 24 with around 150,000 or so fighters – and definitely not Russia’s elite forces. And yet they liberated Mariupol and destroyed the elite neo-Nazi Azov batallion in a matter of only fifty days, cleaning up a city of 400,000 people with minimal casualties. While fighting a real war on the ground – not those indiscriminate US bombings from the air – in a huge country against a large army, facing multiple technical, financial and logistical challenges, the Russians also managed to liberate Kherson, Zaporizhia and virtually the whole area of the ‘baby twins,’ the popular republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Russia’s ground forces commander, General Aleksandr Dvornikov, has turbo-charged missile, artillery and air strikes to a pace five times faster than during the first phase of Operation Z, while the Ukrainians, overall, are low or very low on fuel, ammo for artillery, trained specialists, drones, and radars. What American armchair and TV generals simply cannot comprehend is that in Russia’s view of this war – which military expert Andrei Martyanov defines as a “combined arms and police operation” – the two top targets are the destruction of all military assets of the enemy while preserving the life of its own soldiers. So while losing tanks is not a big deal for Moscow, losing lives is. And that accounts for those massive Russian bombings; each military target must be conclusively destroyed. Precision strikes are crucial. There is a raging debate among Russian military experts on why the Ministry of Defense does not go for a fast strategic victory. They could have reduced Ukraine to rubble – American style – in no time. That’s not going to happen. The Russians prefer to advance slowly and surely, in a sort of steamroller pattern. They only advance after sappers have fully surveilled the terrain; after all there are mines everywhere. The overall pattern is unmistakable, whatever the NATO spin barrage. Ukrainian losses are becoming exponential – as many as 1,500 killed or wounded each day, everyday. If there are 50,000 Ukrainians in the several Donbass cauldrons, they will be gone by the end of June. Ukraine must have lost as many as 20,000 soldiers in and around Mariupol alone. That’s a massive military defeat, largely surpassing Debaltsevo in 2015 and previously Ilovaisk in 2014. The losses near Izyum may be even higher than in Mariupol. And now come the losses in the Severodonetsk corner. We’re talking here about the best Ukrainian forces. It doesn’t even matter that only 70 percent of Western weapons sent by NATO ever make it to the battlefield: the major problem is that the best soldiers are going…going…gone, and won’t be replaced. Azov neo-Nazis, the 24th Brigade, the 36th Brigade, various Air Assault brigades – they all suffered losses of 60+ percent or have been completely demolished. So the key question, as several Russian military experts have stressed, is not when Kiev will ‘lose’ as a point of no return; it is how many soldiers Moscow is prepared to lose to get to this point. The entire Ukrainian defense is based on artillery. So the key battles ahead involve long-range artillery. There will be problems, because the US is about to deliver M270 MLRS systems with precision-guided ammunition, capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 70 kilometers or more. Russia, though, has a counterpunch: the Hermes Small Operational-Tactical Complex, using high precision munitions, possibility of laser guidance, and a range of more than 100 kilometers. And they can work in conjunction with the already mass-produced Pantsir air defense systems. The sinking ship Ukraine, within its current borders, is already a thing of the past. Georgy Muradov, permanent representative of Crimea to the President of Russia and Deputy Prime Minister of the Crimean government, is adamant: “Ukraine in the form in which it was, I think, will no longer remain. This is already the former Ukraine.” The Sea of ??Azov has now become a “sea of ??joint use” by Russia and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), as confirmed by Muradov. Mariupol will be restored. Russia has had plenty of experience in this business in both Grozny and Crimea. The Russia-Crimea land corridor is on. Four hospitals among five in Mariupol have already reopened and public transportation is back, as well as three gas stations. The imminent loss of Severodonetsk and Lysichansk will ring serious alarm bells in Washington and Brussels, because that will represent the beginning of the end of the current regime in Kiev. And that, for all practical purposes – and beyond all the lofty rhetoric of “the west stands with you” – means heavy players won’t be exactly encouraged to bet on a sinking ship. On the sanctions front, Moscow knows exactly what to expect, as detailed by Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov: “Russia proceeds from the fact that sanctions against it are a rather long-term trend, and from the fact that the pivot to Asia, the acceleration of reorientation to eastern markets, to Asian markets is a strategic direction for Russia. We will make every effort to integrate into value chains precisely together with Asian countries, together with Arab countries, together with South America.” On efforts to “intimidate Russia,” players would be wise to listen to the hypersonic sound of 50 Sarmat state-of-the-art missiles ready for combat this autumn, as explained by Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin. This week’s meetings in Davos brings to light another alignment forming in the world’s overarching unipolar vs. multipolar battle. Russia, the baby twins, Chechnya and allies such as Belarus are now pitted against ‘Davos leaders’ – in other words, the combined western elite, with a few exceptions like Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Zelensky will be fine. He’s protected by British and American special forces. The family is reportedly living in an $8 million mansion in Israel. He owns a $34 million villa in Miami Beach, and another in Tuscany. Average Ukrainians were lied to, robbed, and in many cases, murdered, by the Kiev gang he presides over – oligarchs, security service (SBU) fanatics, neo-Nazis. And those Ukrainians that remain (10 million have already fled) will continue to be treated as expendable. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir “the new Hitler” Putin is in absolutely no hurry to end this larger than life drama that is ruining and rotting the already decaying west to its core. Why should he? He tried everything, since 2007, on the “why can’t we get along” front. Putin was totally rejected. So now it’s time to sit back, relax, and watch the Decline of the West.
Thursday, May 26, 2022 6:51 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Oh BTW... LOTS of wealthy pople pay no "income" taxes because they make sure not to be paid as "income" but as capital gains. That's a widely acknowledged fault of tax law. Instead of using this fact as a vehicle for your longstanding war against Republicans and Trump, why don't you use some of that vast wealth that you claim to have and agitate to have the law changed? Or would that cut into your lifestyle too much?
Thursday, May 26, 2022 7:09 AM
CAPTAINCRUNCH
... stay crunchy...
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Escobar: NATO vs Russia - What Happens Next Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 06:00 AM Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle,
Thursday, May 26, 2022 7:26 AM
Quote:Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH: Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Escobar: NATO vs Russia - What Happens Next Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 06:00 AM Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, I'd love to know if "Pepe" was paid in USD or rubbles. I bet I know what he's going to use to buy stuff with. "A Jew is the new Hitler." That's dark comedy gold. I missed Pepe pointing out that the source of ALL OF THIS death and destruction is one person. One person acting without any logical, achievable goal in mind other than pure destruction and murder.
Thursday, May 26, 2022 8:40 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Oh BTW... LOTS of wealthy pople pay no "income" taxes because they make sure not to be paid as "income" but as capital gains. That's a widely acknowledged fault of tax law. Instead of using this fact as a vehicle for your longstanding war against Republicans and Trump, why don't you use some of that vast wealth that you claim to have and agitate to have the law changed? Or would that cut into your lifestyle too much? Trump took his tax returns to the Supreme Court twice while he was President. That is not what a sane, honest man of integrity would do, especially after promising to make the information public. Then there was Trump calling for the death of his Vice-President. Then there are thousands of law suits which he has lost where he was cheating people out of their money. Trump is a rotten apple, but there are millions of Americans who are just as rotten because they swallow rotten Trump with delight. He is so tasty for them. Putin is another rotten apple. Signym eats him with gusto! https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/donald-trump-mike-pence-jan-6-politico.html
Thursday, May 26, 2022 9:54 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Jesus Christ. Can you even say anything without lying at this point?
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Friday, May 27, 2022 7:45 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: More fantasies about Ukraine winning the war?
Friday, May 27, 2022 2:47 PM
Quote: and Originally posted by second: Former NATO general says Putin has 9-month window to win war “After a few months, with training of reserve units, there could be a Ukrainian strategic counteroffensive that could throw the Russians out.” Loukopoulos believes this could likely be done by Ukraine seizing Russian territory that it could exchange for its own territory in negotiations. “Can the Ukrainians create a fact on the ground to counter Russian gains? Right now they cannot,” he said. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/26/nato-general-putin-has-8-9-months-to-win-the-war
Friday, May 27, 2022 2:50 PM
Quote:In Stunning Shift, WaPo Admits Catastrophic-Conditions, Collapsing-Morale Of Ukraine Front-Line Forces
Quote:Biden Readies Approval Of Long-Range Rockets To Ukraine - Russia Warns Over "Red Line"
Quote: US General Floats Military Options to Help Export Ukrainian Grain
Friday, May 27, 2022 7:17 PM
Friday, May 27, 2022 9:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: What stake do we have in the Russia-Ukraine War?
Friday, May 27, 2022 10:29 PM
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