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Tucker Carlson: Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a humiliating defeat for Joe Biden

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-27 08:25|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 With no thanks to support from Tucker Carlson.

Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-02-27 09:54|| 2022-02-27 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ please explain how its 'our' war?

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-27 10:45|| 2022-02-27 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Biden is a nobody. This is a dramatic change of events negatively degrading the USA as a significant player in world events. In the next days watch how this plays out. The USA has missed the bus. Kerry will lament environmental degradation with Gore crying on his shoulder.

Posted by Dale 2022-02-27 11:32|| 2022-02-27 11:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Re #2: Tucker's stance is hypocritical. He has belittled Ukraine and the Russian threat to it. Now that the war has begun, instead of admitting he was wrong, he makes it a tool to bash Biden.

BTW, Tucker still hasn't got it was the Russian side that was bribing Hunter. From there, his other analysis is wrong as well as superficial.

Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-02-27 12:24|| 2022-02-27 12:24|| Front Page Top

#5 How were the Russians bribing Hunter? Hunter was on the board of Burisma, a Ukraininan company. The Ukrainians were going after the corruption when the big-guy had the prosecutor fired.

Perhaps the Russians were also bribing Hunter but that doesn't mean Ukraine wasn't knee deep in it as well.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-02-27 13:07|| 2022-02-27 13:07|| Front Page Top

#6 This is the end of American dominance - an unreliable ally and a fake hegemon that's totally incapable of preventing chaos and preserving order in the world.
Nations will rely on themselves from now on
No one will look to America to keep the peace or guarantee stability
Now there will be a rush to get nukes
Nations will find alternatives to the dollar and SWIFT (yen, crypto)
End of an era

Posted by Jumbo Greatle3077 2022-02-27 13:28|| 2022-02-27 13:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Pres. Yanukovitch was a Russian installed puppet. The Russians stole the election for him in both 2004 and 2010. The 2004 election drew massive protests and got overturned (the first Maidan revolution). In 2010, Yanukovitch proceeded to turn Ukraine into a corruption syndicate to weaken the country for Russian domination. It was under his rule that that Burisma was illegally consolidated under his energy minister. They were all working for the Russians and getting paid, in Burisma's case, with very favorably priced gas and oil. Some of that Russian money was used to pay Hunter. The Big Guy stepped in to prevent Burisma from being prosecuted after the second Maidan revolution in 2014.

BTW, the 2014 revolution began when Yanukovitch reneged on a popular association deal with the EU.

Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-02-27 13:34|| 2022-02-27 13:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Hunter will now take payment for his paintings in renminbi and crypto only. Dollahs are for suckahs

Posted by Hupang Peacock7262 2022-02-27 13:36|| 2022-02-27 13:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Re #6: Have you looked at the currency exchange rates. Since the Russian invasion, the dollar has increased against other currencies.

The Ruble has fallen. Severely. It is costing the Russian government billion of dollars each day to prop up the Ruble in currency exchanges so it does not fall even more. Soon the dollars will run out and the Ruble fill fall much further. I believe to less than one penny for a Ruble.

Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-02-27 13:40|| 2022-02-27 13:40|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Actions have consequences, as they say.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-27 14:50|| 2022-02-27 14:50|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ I think this used to be Common Knowledge™ . Paleos excepted

Posted by Frank G 2022-02-27 14:55|| 2022-02-27 14:55|| Front Page Top

#12 The new currencies that replace the US fiat currency will be tied to critical commodities like oil and strategic metals - when the oil price soars the dollar crashes. Oil will hit $150 soon

Most of the countries that have tons of those metals and that oil won't rely on the US any more

Posted by Chesney Stalin5043 2022-02-27 15:00|| 2022-02-27 15:00|| Front Page Top

#13 I have watched all of Tucker’s statements about the Russia/Ukraine situation. His main points have been;
1. Why are we so fixated on the territorial boundaries of Ukraine when we let 2 million plus people a year invade our country? There are hundreds, if not thousands of years, of border disputes and changes in that area.
2. We are not protecting a “democracy” in the sense we see it. Ukraine jailed the opposition leader (last May) and ended freedom of the press prior to this conflict breaking out. Are the citizens of Ukraine that desire stronger ties with Russia not allowed a voice? Is that Democracy?
3. Biden’s disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan and other displays of weakness, which have been discussed on this site ad nauseam, have contributed to this mess.
4. How about we focus a bit on the American people for once. Over 100,000, mostly young, Americans died from Fentanyl and other drugs streaming across our border last year. And will again this year, so Democrats can import the votes they need. A callous and evil operation.

Tucker doesn’t praise or support Putin. I think he sees him for what he is. He also sees Unkraine for what it is. And spends a great deal of time focusing on China, because of our dependence on that hostile regime.

Posted by Wheater Clineng6119 2022-02-27 18:15|| 2022-02-27 18:15|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ My take as well, but better stated

Posted by Frank G 2022-02-27 19:20|| 2022-02-27 19:20|| Front Page Top

#15 @ #9 - What happened in previous times in crisis (gold moving to the US around WWI). Money will flow to the US. Don't be surprised if the stock market turns around soon. European money's gotta go somewhere, and that somewhere is the US (for all of its faults).

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-02-27 20:08|| 2022-02-27 20:08|| Front Page Top

#16 Confucius' song: "Long-ago wrongs
Forgotten!" Smoke, chopsticks, and tongs.
"New friends, let us feast
With a faceful of grease
On not one but a hundred Hong Kongs!"

Posted by Cleling Panda1816 2022-02-27 20:14|| 2022-02-27 20:14|| Front Page Top

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