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2021-04-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Biden declares Russia threat 'national emergency,' lobs sanctions; 10 diplomats booted over election meddling

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-15 10:52|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "National emergency"?

WTF?

Reichstag fire time in the USSA.

Once again, it's those sinister Russkies destroying the Fatherla-, er the Wokeland

Posted by Javiter Chuth4248 2021-04-15 11:47|| 2021-04-15 11:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Its 'Operation Squirrel', ignore our Chinese paymasters behind the curtain.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-15 12:13|| 2021-04-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Putin declines to meet with Biden in person.

Also, NATO to leave Afghanistan on Trump timeline of May 1, while Biden extends US troop exit to September 11, hanging them out there out there all alone with no NATO support.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-04-15 13:10|| 2021-04-15 13:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe Putin and the Biden admin are both expecting that Plugs will be gone from the WH before Sept 1?

Posted by Pliny Hapsburg9931 2021-04-15 13:21|| 2021-04-15 13:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Putin blocks ALL foreign warships from reaching Ukraine for six months after Biden's Black Sea U-Turn: Russia closes the Kerch Strait after US President pulled US warships and hit Moscow with sanctions

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-15 13:26|| 2021-04-15 13:26|| Front Page Top

#6 What'd they do, threaten to release the election results?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-15 14:32|| 2021-04-15 14:32|| Front Page Top

#7 ^6 Sounds about right.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-04-15 16:05|| 2021-04-15 16:05|| Front Page Top

#8 So will the ~~experts~~ pearl clutchers at The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists move the hands of their clock closer to midnight, or is the "no big deal?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-15 19:40|| 2021-04-15 19:40|| Front Page Top

#9 "...hanging them out there out there all alone with no NATO support."

Like we get any support now.

Posted by Clem 2021-04-15 22:11|| 2021-04-15 22:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Two of his three complaints are acknowledged fictions.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-04-15 22:18|| 2021-04-15 22:18|| Front Page Top

#11
laughter heard...come join in the laughter!

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