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2022-02-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin: Russia is preparing a response to the US and NATO on security guarantees

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Posted by badanov 2022-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Contemplating the next chess move.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-11 07:25|| 2022-02-11 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Consider Prime Minister Klain's calculations: Magoo's SOTU speech is two weeks from Monday. The midterm elections come just six months after, so this speech is effectively the start of the campaign.

Klain no doubt wants SOTU to be a victory lap re COVID -- Magoo's version of W's "Mission accomplished!" bullshit. IE.e. claiming victory when in fact the 'vaccine' failed, the lockdowns and masks caused enormous damage for next to no benefit, and the horrors of all the side effects are now being made public in a slow drip that will continue for years.

Why would Klain/Magoo want to announce more troop movements & other preparations for war in Ukraine? How would that possibly help the Democrats this fall? Do any voters actually give a shit about shithole Ukraine?

Much more likely that Magoo will announce he's negotiating a deal with Putin. There's no benefit and a huge potential cost if he lets this remote, almost totally irrelevant conflict pre-empt his big SOTU address claiming Happy Days Are Here Again.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-11 07:45|| 2022-02-11 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 The two "highlights" of the SOTU will be the announcement of a "deal" with Iran that will involve the US directly supplying Iran with nukes, (because equity!) and the finding of an obscure clause in NAFTA that allows for the US military to help the Canadian gummint crush the trucker's protests.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-11 08:08|| 2022-02-11 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 The trucker issue is becoming scary. This could be the spark that sets off civiI w@r if Magoo and Jolson don't rein in their attack dogs

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-11 11:26|| 2022-02-11 11:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Predictably, the "conservatives" in the Canadian gummint are stabbing the truckers in the back now.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-11 11:30|| 2022-02-11 11:30|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not right vs left or "conservative" vs "progressive." This is the traditionalist commonsensical People vs the incompetent, corrupt globalist-COVIDian Wokerati elites.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-11 12:06|| 2022-02-11 12:06|| Front Page Top

#7 If a critical mass of people come to the conclusion that a gummint of self-appointed "elites," sitting around telling everyone else what to do or not do isn't cutting it, there's gonna be quite a show.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-11 12:10|| 2022-02-11 12:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Afraid this one could get kinetic. Didn't end well for Gage's redcoats when they confronted the Sons of Liberty.

Maybe not the RCMP but reports are many of the police and tow truck drivers are defecting to the Freedom Convoy's side.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-11 12:16|| 2022-02-11 12:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Now the coke-head premier of Ottawa says they are "working on a plan" to end the vaxx passports. Really. They couldn't, you know, just announce on their state-run media that the passports are now invalid and people should toss them in the trash.

Bunkum and lies.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-11 12:48|| 2022-02-11 12:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Doug Ford?! Canada's Hunter Biden is Lremier of its largest province? YGBSM

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-11 13:16|| 2022-02-11 13:16|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 toss them in the trash

Your grandfather's card for the draft?
He burned it. Okay, so he's daft...
But you're taking your war
On this cold pretty far,
Are you not, Covid kids? [Yeezus laughed]

Posted by Omomock Lumumba4849 2022-02-11 16:54|| 2022-02-11 16:54|| Front Page Top

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