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2022-03-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Mercer - Uncle Sam still king of all invaders: Ukraine & the West's failure
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Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-05 02:31|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 "Hypocrisy".... indeed.

Please Mercer, if it's so bad in Texas, just pack it up and head back to the utopian paradise of Johannesburg.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-05 02:42||   2022-03-05 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 She's not wealthy enough to support WWIII.

Rasmussen Reports poll of Americans today:
"If a wider war breaks out in Europe, should the U.S. military be involved?"

All Voters - Yes - 49%

- Yes by Income -
Under $30K: 37%
$30-50K: 48%
$50-100K: 51%
$100-200K: 52%
Over $200K: 66%
Posted by Alistaire Greremp6080 2022-03-05 06:59||   2022-03-05 06:59|| Front Page Top

#3 "If a wider war breaks out in Europe, should the U.S. military be involved?"

Under $30K income: 37% Yes, 63% No
== refuse to get killed or send their sons to be killed in Biden criminal family's war

Over $200K income: 66% Yes, 34% No
== also refuse to send sons to get killed but love to signal virtue by sending other people's sons to die for Biden criminal family
Posted by Ulomotle Spiter7314 2022-03-05 07:05||   2022-03-05 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ well i guess it's a really good thing so many of us are poor now (silver linings playbook)
Posted by Snaitch Jising2032 2022-03-05 07:08||   2022-03-05 07:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Fuck those neocon warmongers
Let them go fight their next war with their own money and spill their own blood
Posted by Oscar Omairt2428 2022-03-05 07:59||   2022-03-05 07:59|| Front Page Top

#6 About the only land we've acquired in the 20th Century have been places to bury our dead while fighting for other people. When we've been told to get lost, we have (France, Philippines).
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-05 08:13||   2022-03-05 08:13|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Well the 21st century's gone much better. We have Afghanistan - oh wait. Um, maybe Iraq? No? Ok, then Syria? Libya?

We know why the Biden family and neocons like Miss Lindsey and Mistress Nuland see Ukraine as a good business. But why is going to war for Ukraine any of America's business?
Posted by Andy Borgia9377 2022-03-05 08:18||   2022-03-05 08:18|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Yes! They turn over their own lands to the communists, then come here..... then hate us !

Appears to be something of a pattern.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-05 08:23||   2022-03-05 08:23|| Front Page Top

#9 What I want to ask is when Pakistain sponsors, enables, supplements the real savagery, actions that take American lives [not Ukranian or Congolese or Lithuanian or whatever] where are these sanctimonious poseurs then? Do they advocate carpet bombing the A-Pak border, or MOABing Quetta? Do they drag out the generals and commanders of the Pak forces who openly collude with America's enemies, and hanging 'em like Saddam?

Ok, screw that, maybe the real Area 51 is in fcukin' Rawalpindi that's why it's such a precious thingy. There's still hundreds of ISIS fighters in prisons awaiting probably some form of moslem trial; people who burnt, raped, plundered, beheaded noncoms, all on teevee just to mock the world's masculinity [or lack thereof]. Does the geneva convention apply to them? I don't think so, could they be liquidated without much hoopla? Certainly.

So why is Putin the most vicious, savage and fearful thing which will make these otherwise very convention worshiping people draw so outside the lines? Is he an Ossama? Nope. Are the Ossamas still Ossamas? Yupp.

Color me reactive, but hypocrisy like this is so infuriating.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-05 08:31||   2022-03-05 08:31|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ That's Chinatown Neoconville, Jake
Posted by Jiggs Spelet2829 2022-03-05 08:34||   2022-03-05 08:34|| Front Page Top

#11  Does the geneva convention apply to them?

I’m not a lawyer, but it is my understanding that as irregular fighters not wearing the uniform of a nation that signed the Geneva Accords, the rules explicitly do not apply to them.

The Democrats have been screaming about Russia for political advantage since the 2016 election. This time it got real.

It has nothing to do with Neocons, it seems to me, who are a spent force that did not survive President Obama, friendless since a number of them loudly became NeverTrumpers who pushed voting Democrat in the last election. Unless you mean Neocon as code for Joooos, Jiggs Spelet2829, in which case there is nothing more to say.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-05 09:29||   2022-03-05 09:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Very well said, TW. There's a huge volume of cascading 'unforeseen' consequences of handing out Infantry weapons to everybody who shows up at the local MacDonald's.
Posted by Cesare 2022-03-05 09:36||   2022-03-05 09:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Lindsey Graham is the Queen of neocons. He's not Jewish.

Neocons want to intervene militarily all over the world, without thinking through the consequences. They have botched four interventions in 20 years. We need to resist Miss Lindsey and her comrades
Posted by Omeck Sninens7511 2022-03-05 09:39||   2022-03-05 09:39|| Front Page Top

#14 Funny thing, when I first visited Rantburg t'was because some wise guy at reddit told me to 'well if yer so smart go talk some sense into those neocons over at rantburg.com'

So that's what some people think of us out there.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-05 09:42||   2022-03-05 09:42|| Front Page Top

#15 I stayed and learned. And now am a lover of the ale passed around here. An' the folks... them're A-okay too. 😀
Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-05 09:44||   2022-03-05 09:44|| Front Page Top

#16 We've had our share of John McCain-lites here. Miss Lindsay is just the same
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-05 09:46||   2022-03-05 09:46|| Front Page Top

#17 I think you really have to take Churchill's dictum to heart, and expand on it. To paraphrase: "Any young man who isn't excited by the possibility of war has no heart. Any older man who isn't turned off by the idea of war has no soul."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-05 09:50||   2022-03-05 09:50|| Front Page Top

#18  Lindsey Graham is the Queen of neocons. He's not Jewish.

Fair enough, Omeck Sninens7511. I’m very pleased to withdraw my objection.

Dron, at one point I considered myself a neocon. Before that a classical liberal. The thing is, American-style classical liberals are called conservative, so here I stand. Your redditters are just a little behind the times. ;-) Tell ‘em thanks for sending you.

There's a huge volume of cascading 'unforeseen' consequences

Those are the words I was reaching for. Thank you, Cesare.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-05 10:18||   2022-03-05 10:18|| Front Page Top

#19 Your turn of phrase, Dron. Reminded me of...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-05 10:21||   2022-03-05 10:21|| Front Page Top

#20 Correction: Your turn of phrase, TW...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-05 10:23||   2022-03-05 10:23|| Front Page Top

#21 So World Net Daily becomes Mother Jones.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-05 11:14||   2022-03-05 11:14|| Front Page Top

#22 ^ All organizations eventually become leftist.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-05 11:16||   2022-03-05 11:16|| Front Page Top

#23 I started hearing shrieking at 'dumb bomb'.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-05 11:28||   2022-03-05 11:28|| Front Page Top

#24 Neocons want to intervene militarily all over the world, without thinking through the consequences. They have botched four interventions in 20 years. We need to resist Miss Lindsey and her comrades

That's why Jeb Bush got his ass kicked in 2016. Please don't ask me to explain Brandon. I can't.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-05 14:13||   2022-03-05 14:13|| Front Page Top

#25 Dron is perfectly correct about Pakistain. But don't forget China.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-05 14:16||   2022-03-05 14:16|| Front Page Top

#26 Question: What's the difference between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping?

Answer: Xi Jinping has been very effective at bribing our corporate and political elites.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-05 14:22||   2022-03-05 14:22|| Front Page Top

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