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2022-10-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Captured Ukrainian militant told about officers from the USA, Britain and Poland

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Posted by badanov 2022-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 End this shit. Get our troops out of this rathole, now.

Before Biden and his Freakshow create the 3rd fucking trillion-dollar overseas disaster in a row.

End this insanity. Bring ‘em home, and quit provoking tge bear in his back yard

Posted by Dino Crolutle7772 2022-10-17 00:15|| 2022-10-17 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 If we don’t tap the brakes on our involvement we’ll be in a real live honest to goodness shooting war with Russia and its minions
Once that starts a nuke is almost inevitable

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-10-17 10:22|| 2022-10-17 10:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Why would you trust anything from a Russian mouthpiece?
https://regnum.ru/news/polit/3725508.html

Posted by Gerthudion Platypus2602 2022-10-17 11:49|| 2022-10-17 11:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Like it or not, if Russia isn't stopped in Ukraine the next stop is Poland, Moldova and the Baltic States. The Western Europe becomes their bitch. I'd far rather they were our bitch.

Posted by Gerthudion Platypus2602 2022-10-17 11:51|| 2022-10-17 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ They can’t even take Kyiv. So tell us, genius, how they’re going to take over Europe?

This is complete insanity. Pull back from the brink

Posted by Lampedusa 2022-10-17 11:55|| 2022-10-17 11:55|| Front Page Top

#6 They can’t even take Kyiv.

They gave up on taking Kiev ages ago. Now they’re going for turning the country into depopulated rubble as punishment for daring to try to escape Moscow’s embrace.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-17 12:16|| 2022-10-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 @Gerthudion

If Russia will not stop, why did Russia return territory to Georgia once Georgia stopped its belligerency in 2008?

Anyways, there's enough open source - Brooklyn and Cockney accents among UAF troops, English being spoken over comms, English classes for UAF troops - it does not take a leap of faith to come to this conclusion.

Posted by mossomo 2022-10-17 12:54|| 2022-10-17 12:54|| Front Page Top

#8 No surprise that Zelensky's boys aren't winning this thing without a little help. I just don't wanna hear any moaning about Americans, Brits and Poles who get their butts blown off fighting somebody else's war. I don't like paying for it either.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-10-17 13:57|| 2022-10-17 13:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Like it or not, if Russia isn't stopped in Ukraine the next stop is Poland, Moldova and the Baltic States. The Western Europe becomes their bitch. I'd far rather they were our bitch.

Bullshit.

If Putin attacks a NATO country, he will get a NATO response and justifiably so. He knows that. He won't do it.

But Ukraine is not a NATO country nor should it be. Ukraine is not Poland. Donbas is not the Sudetenland. Putin is not Hitler. Crimea was Russian centuries before it was Ukrainian and even then only on the map when it was all part of the Soviet Union and nobody thought it mattered. Asking Putin to give Crimea back would be like asking America to give Oklahoma back. It won't happen without a fight and America has no dog in that fight.

Joe Biden's primary responsibility is to the security of the American people. He ignores our security on our own border while risking that security in a part of the world where the American people have no interest and where Russians have a great interest. Biden is asking for trouble that we don't need. Biden should be impeached.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-10-17 14:23|| 2022-10-17 14:23|| Front Page Top

#10 If Russia wins in Ukraine, Dale's spontaneous emission will knock that entire hemisphere back for a thousand years...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-17 14:26|| 2022-10-17 14:26|| Front Page Top

#11 If Putin attacks a NATO country, he will get a NATO response

Not sure I agree.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-10-17 15:04|| 2022-10-17 15:04|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Why not?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-10-17 15:30|| 2022-10-17 15:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Stalin did not attack NATO. Neither did Khrushchev, Brezhnev or Gorbachev. Those people were all ruthless, ambitious murderous thugs but they did not they did not attack NATO because they didn't want to get their asses kicked. If you think that Putin is cut from the same cloth, why would he be any different?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-10-17 15:35|| 2022-10-17 15:35|| Front Page Top

#14 I think NATO might be a paper tiger. Germany, France and others have turned their militaries into make work programs. They couldn't fight if they wanted to, and they don't want to. Plus I don't see this administration as good for anything but hand wringing. Putin could nuke the whole continent and we'd sit by and watch IMHO.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-10-17 16:24|| 2022-10-17 16:24|| Front Page Top

#15 ~~Putin could~~ Biden has economically nuked the whole continent and we'dre sitting and watching our own economy fall apart along with it

fify

Posted by Billy B 2022-10-17 16:41|| 2022-10-17 16:41|| Front Page Top

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