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2022-05-03 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Tucker: This is why Democrats are taking us to war with Russia

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11123 views ] Top

#1 Russian "regime change?" A more likely scenario is US democratic party regime sustainment.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-03 00:15|| 2022-05-03 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 This is what they had planned in 2017, when Hillary was supposed to be president and US troops poured into the Baltics. The "infrastructure hacking" lie was going to be used to start a war and it's not far to Moscow.

But Trump ruined their plans and postponed everything for five years. Now the plan is back. It's like when they tried for years to invade Iraq, but had to wait until 2003 to start the war.

Invest in weapons manufacturers. They're going to provide some spectacular returns to investors for a few quarters.

Posted by Blackbeard Unereck7174 2022-05-03 03:06|| 2022-05-03 03:06|| Front Page Top

#3 The FDR model of incremental involvement. Sort of got overridden by an Asian power. Then they sweated it for a week trying to get America focused on Europe only to have it handed to them by the Axis powers there declaring war. Once is a tragedy, twice is a farce.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-03 07:30|| 2022-05-03 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Wondering if Putin's health issues will turn into the saving-face-off-ramp that the Russians must be looking for.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-05-03 11:56|| 2022-05-03 11:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Invest in weapons manufacturers. They're going to provide some spectacular returns to investors for a few quarters.

Yeah, it was kinda slow for a while after Afghanistan but looks to be gaining steam now.

And, of course, we need regime change in Washington a whole lot more than we need it in Moscow.

But I'm still not sure Tucker has it right. Even with Democrats, it's too much of a stretch to believe they want revenge for the 2016 hacking. They'd crow about it if they got it but I still think they want to control the whole world, spread their sick socialist ideology all over the planet and suck the blood out of ordinary people everywhere. Extending NATO all the way to Vladivostok and getting a seat on the Gazprom board of directors for Hunter would be excellent steps in that direction.

Right now they think Putin is weak, he might be sick and his army is pathetic so they're gonna go for it. Forget the real threat which is China. They're all in bed with the CCP anyway, for now. (The CCP would be wise not to trust them.) They sense opportunity in Russia.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-03 12:14|| 2022-05-03 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 God knows I love a great conspiracy theory, but this one scares me deeply because so many of the events are actually happening:

By lurching incrementally to the edge of war with Russia, the Puppet Show is setting up the possibility of a National Emergency/Martial Law declaration that allows for the suspension of the Mid-Terms, habeas corpus, and those pesky individual rights defined by the Constitution, and effectively ends the Red Wave threat to Imperial Power. Ultimately, it would be the causus belli for civil war, and steps taken in recent history by DHS and the FBI to define the "greatest threat to America" being white supremacists and right wing extremist seems suddenly preparatory.

I can see no other reasoning for the path to nuclear confrontation with a mobilized Russia on a war footing.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-05-03 12:16|| 2022-05-03 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Wondering if Putin's health issues will turn into the saving-face-off-ramp that the Russians must be looking for.

Or to take the blame for last ditch measures.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-03 12:17|| 2022-05-03 12:17|| Front Page Top

#8 One good point Tucker made is that nobody is mounting a diplomatic effort to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine. All of the politicians in Washington are calling instead for escalation. Nobody is calling for negotiations. The only conclusion I can draw from that is that they really want war.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-03 12:44|| 2022-05-03 12:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Or to take the blame for last ditch measures.

Dark. True, but dark.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-05-03 13:09|| 2022-05-03 13:09|| Front Page Top

#10 The Really Big Lie that Carlson and Biden are both cooperating in telling is that Biden wants to and is going to war with Russia. Check the article I just posted about Blinken talking about Russia's next funding request.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-05-03 13:24|| 2022-05-03 13:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Ref #8: Abu nails it. What is not being discussed? Oh, succession of hostilities or brokered negotiations in Paris or Geneva.

Yea, looks like someone is enjoying the bloodshed. Sick bastids.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-03 15:03|| 2022-05-03 15:03|| Front Page Top

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