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2022-02-12 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
US Embassy in Kiev is to be EVACUATED as Russia mobilizes for 'invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday': Biden will call Putin from Camp David at 11am TODAY in a final bid to avoid war
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Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-12 00:36|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Pledged to fight to the death to defend the borders of other countries but cannot defend our own.
Posted by Punky Elmigum9411 2022-02-12 04:39||   2022-02-12 04:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Guess Kamala's mission failed.

White House Sends Kamala Harris to Europe to Lead on Ukraine Crisis
Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-12 07:03||   2022-02-12 07:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Guess Kamala's mission failed.

The conference she's supposedly going to doesn't start until next Friday.

And with over 500 attendees, there's a lot of mouth exercises necessary before she can 'administer' to them.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-02-12 07:53||   2022-02-12 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 If Magoo and his handlers say Russia's about to invade, it likely means Russia's not going to invade. Putin's just toying with them now.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-12 08:47||   2022-02-12 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 This keys with the morning 'news' radio's tone, like it is as certain as the next Jurassic Park movie release.

Bullshit.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-12 11:12||   2022-02-12 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Link at #2

Harris will travel to Germany to attend the Munich Security Conference

Worst ruling class in well over a 150 years. Totally oblivious to history.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-12 11:27||   2022-02-12 11:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Potential War on the European Continent and the President goes off to "relax" at Camp David, away from the PEOC and all the connectivity of the White House because he is sundowning now and the visibility risk of his dementia is too much to hide, and he might try and interfere with the ongoing crisis were he in the building.

The absurd Cackle-Jackal sent next week to represent us with our most important allies on something as dire as a Russian military invasion.

This is Monty Python level comedy script material.
Can there be any greater proof of the Potempkin Presidency? All that remains to see behind the Wizar of Oz Curtain would be Obama going to the WH to be on top of the action with Susan Rice at al.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-02-12 11:56||   2022-02-12 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Absolute shit.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-12 12:07||   2022-02-12 12:07|| Front Page Top

#9 So now, when Putin doesn't invade, Biden can take credit for preventing war.

Of course, following the leaked war plan to a tee and still winning. That's like the Babe calling that home run.

If Putin does invade, it won't be for territory. It will be for the effect it will have on Europe and the USA. Conventional wisdom says invasion will unify the West against him. I'm not so sure that is true. I think it will tear it asunder.
Both as a coalition and within individual nations. While China looks on...
Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2022-02-12 12:19||   2022-02-12 12:19|| Front Page Top

#10 SO IS SHE BEING SET UP AS THE FALL GUY FOR A COMING UKRAINE DEBACLE? Kamala Harris dispatched to Munich conference to talk Ukraine later this month.
Also, is Munich a felicitous location for talks on a threatened invasion in Eastern Europe?
Posted at 9:15 am by Glenn Reynolds
Posted by Frank G 2022-02-12 12:20||   2022-02-12 12:20|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 So now, when Putin doesn't invade, Biden can take credit for preventing war.

Bingo. Just in time for SOTU.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-12 12:23||   2022-02-12 12:23|| Front Page Top

#12 Russia won't invade unless her troops come under live fire from Ukrainian military.

Right now, Zelenskiy has shown he has no interest in the current scenario being driven by western intelligence agencies.

In the case of being under fire, Russia will conduct a punitive raid into Ukraine, just as she did in 2008 in Georgia.
Posted by badanov 2022-02-12 12:25||   2022-02-12 12:25|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ this. Nothing but kabuki designed to make Magoo seem tough and big and bad. A foreign policy version of Corn Pop.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-12 12:30||   2022-02-12 12:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Bidet looks weak here, Putin looks strong at home.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-12 12:31||   2022-02-12 12:31|| Front Page Top

#15 I want to know what stocks Pelosi and her fellow insider-traders in our Parliament of Whores are buying now.

Me, I loaded up on NASDAQ puts, gold, LMT, RTX late last month. Shoulda held on to my oil stocks tho
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-12 12:51||   2022-02-12 12:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Penguin nails it at #9. But don't worry. Kamala will still have plenty of favors to dispense.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-02-12 12:59||   2022-02-12 12:59|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ Good moves. But I can't figure out how to short Biden's approval ratings.

Speaking of which, would any of this be happening if Biden's approval ratings were better?
Posted by Matt 2022-02-12 13:02||   2022-02-12 13:02|| Front Page Top

#18 Wag the Dog is being tested for Slow Joe. That’s why all the saber rattling. The solution is easy but would cost the Biden’s personally which is why it’s unlikely. Russia gets guarantees on a 10 year moratorium for Ukraine in NATO in exchange for a demilitarized Donbas region. The Russian and Euros have 10 years to jointly investigate and eliminate the corruption in Ukraine. The US can pound sand, and will gladly do so since it’s a Euro problem and the Euros have their solution.

Only problem is the corruption leads straight to Hunter and Joe Biden, and probably some Russian oligarchs as well.
Posted by Greater the Anonymous5721 2022-02-12 13:55||   2022-02-12 13:55|| Front Page Top

#19 If the endgame would involve extraditing Vindman, Nuland and a few others from the "national security community" to Russia for a quick trial and execution, I could be all for it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-12 14:00||   2022-02-12 14:00|| Front Page Top

#20 My favorite is this is all over Russia sending pedophiles to Siberia.

And if my Al-lu-minium Chapeau is just right, I can see China directing "Biden" to harass Russia.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-12 14:06||   2022-02-12 14:06|| Front Page Top

#21 Only problem is the corruption leads straight to Hunter and Joe Biden, and probably some Russian oligarchs as well.

And Russian and Ukrainian organized crime. They don't want the party to end in Donbass.
Posted by badanov 2022-02-12 14:43||   2022-02-12 14:43|| Front Page Top

#22 This is essentially Africa with white faces. Like the warlords bandits berserk killers you see in one of those interminable African civil wars in Rwanda or the Congo or Ouagadougou or Whathaveyou.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-12 14:52||   2022-02-12 14:52|| Front Page Top

#23 I'm just waiting for Biden to fail and stumble us into another European war.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-02-12 19:13||   2022-02-12 19:13|| Front Page Top

#24 ^ Re stumbling, check out Sam Faddis today on the Russians moving in a US sub off the Kurile Islands
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-12 20:27||   2022-02-12 20:27|| Front Page Top

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