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2022-06-06 Britain

Britain will send long-range missile systems to boost Ukraine's fightback against Russian invasion despite Putin's threats to hit new 'targets' if the West continues to supply Kyiv with weapons

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-06 04:44|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Putin threatens MORE strikes on Kyiv if West supplies Ukraine's military with long-range missile systems as calm is shattered this morning by first attacks on capital in over a month

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-06 04:53|| 2022-06-06 04:53|| Front Page Top

#2 So Putin wants to expand the war. Yet he'll still have his defenders.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-06 09:07|| 2022-06-06 09:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Biden wants to negotiate a settlement.

Along with his Depends, Biden's wearing kneepads.

He's on his knees with everyone -- begging favors from commies in Venezuela, flying to the Magic Kingdom to beg His Majesty KSM on bended knee, begging Pooty for talks with urgent appeals in the pages of the New York Slimes

Posted by Blackjack21 2022-06-06 12:06|| 2022-06-06 12:06|| Front Page Top

#4 I doubt Biden wants to negotiate. He could care less if Russians and Ukrainians are getting killed.

I don't see why the Pentagon or anybody else would trust the Ukrainians with Javelins or long range launchers. The US will see them again in a wrong situation.

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-06-06 12:54|| 2022-06-06 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 It is the psychology of the bully on display. Outwardly threatening, but inwardly weak and timid.

The view from Europe is of a small and comical man. Biden has a history of trash-talking people he thinks are small or weak politically. He told lies about an obscure truck driver and falsely accused him of driving drunk when in fact it was Biden's wife who caused her own unfortunate death on the road.

He tried to bully Menachem Begin. In the American televised spectacle called "debates," Biden talked over and tried to bully Paul Ryan and then Donald Trump.

He tried to bully the Saudi King but is now groveling before him at his court.

Biden is a small and weak man, a little kitty who gets his back up and pretends to be a ferocious tiger.

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 12:57|| 2022-06-06 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 pretends to be a ferocious tiger.

Unless he's at the beach.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-06 14:32|| 2022-06-06 14:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Aggressive people at the beach are pricks. We trip them up every way we know.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 14:34|| 2022-06-06 14:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Had a friendly cluster of strangers on Miami beach.

One guy was playing his tunes loud and a couple of ladies asked him to turn it down so they could hear the waves. He came out of the water and turned it up, "so I can hear it in the water."

I walked over, picked it up and tossed it to him in the water. The crowd went wild.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-06 15:19|| 2022-06-06 15:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Spock and the boom box guy

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 15:24|| 2022-06-06 15:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Don't get why Biden needs to negotiate -- the US isn't a party to the war.

Yeah, yeah, yeah -- I can hear the stuttering, stammering "HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT!! THEY'RE USING OUR WEAPONS!!!"

The Vietnamese used Soviet weapons. The North Koreans used Soviet and Chinese weapons. The Iraqis used Russian weapons. The Soviets bankrolled every terrorist organization who would say a few nice things about Marx.

And they maintained they were not party to ANY of those conflicts.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-06 16:02|| 2022-06-06 16:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh, it's the current mismistration's war all right...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 16:12|| 2022-06-06 16:12|| Front Page Top

#12 It’d be awkward if somehow a flux compression generator was activated in “the square mile” given they now seem to have a 1 klick radius effect

Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2022-06-06 20:55|| 2022-06-06 20:55|| Front Page Top

#13 HIMARS to be seen soon. Izium combat service and support sustainment nodes for the northern Donbas pincer will be immediately put under attack via the primary rail lines that run N to S from Russia to Izium and points further east around the pocket the Russian forces are attempting to close.

Unlike much of the other rail lines in northern and western Ukraine, these are Russian gauge lines thus need no transloading to western carriages.

Likewise, the Ukrainians already have a bridgehead across the river N of Kherson, and may take advantage of the stripping of forces there to retake Kherson by cutting it off from reinforcements from the Crimea across the river.

It all comes down to the competence of Ukrainian soldiers and the incompetence of Russian logistics, versus time.

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-06-06 22:49|| 2022-06-06 22:49|| Front Page Top

#14 I walked over, picked it up and tossed it to him in the water. The crowd went wild.

You da man, Skidpants. Yo shit(ty pants) don't stink, fo sho'

Posted by BrownBart Shittypants Admirer 2022-06-06 22:51|| 2022-06-06 22:51|| Front Page Top

#15 Chealing Chomotle4158

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Posted by Big Claing9655 2022-06-06 22:55|| 2022-06-06 22:55|| Front Page Top

#16 We’ll see soon enough who is right, Big Claing9655. Premature insultation (no, it’s not a real word, but the idea still holds) sometimes turns out to be dreadfully embarrassing.

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