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2022-10-19 -Great Cultural Revolution
Fake News Says Demanding Peace In Ukraine Is Going To Get Us Nuked. Remember when the media was screaming that Trump was going to start World War III? Now, Trump talking about peace is dangerous.
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Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Nothing better than a piece of fearmongering and a cup of coffee in the morning.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-10-19 06:00||   2022-10-19 06:00|| Front Page Top

#2 So at this point, everything we do or don't do leads to nuclear war and global warming. So when the ice age comes, I'm going to laugh.
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-10-19 06:44||   2022-10-19 06:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Just listen to a smart lady
Posted by European Conservative 2022-10-19 07:07||   2022-10-19 07:07|| Front Page Top

#4 War is Peace
Slavery is Freedom
Provoking Russia is Defending Biden’s Loot Freedom
Peace Talks = Nuclear War
Posted by Big Brother Is Sniffing You 2022-10-19 07:21||   2022-10-19 07:21|| Front Page Top

#5 And me without me morning iodine pill. Oh whatever shall I do?
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-19 07:53||   2022-10-19 07:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Fear not. Cavalry’s coming — after Nov. 8 the Shitshow will come to an end.

Just be sure to GET OUT AND VOTE for your favorite AMERICA FIRST candidate 19 days from now.

McCarthy warns no more 'blank check to Ukraine' if GOP captures House
By Juliegrace Brufke, Congressional Reporter & Ryan King, Breaking News Reporter
October 18, 2022 02:20 PM

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) warned that Congress will likely intensify scrutiny over military aid to war-torn Ukraine if Republicans recapture the House .

While iterating his longstanding support for Ukraine, McCarthy argued that many Republicans in the House have been rankled by the lack of focus on domestic matters, such as raging inflation, and will likely question the prudence of high-dollar donations to a country half a world away.

'POWER' PLAY FOR MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: BEWARE THE BASE, KEVIN MCCARTHY

“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,” McCarthy told Punchbowl News. “They just won’t do it.”

Posted by Billy B 2022-10-19 08:26||   2022-10-19 08:26|| Front Page Top

#7 How much of the $66 Billion we poured down that rathole has been stolen?

Congress isn’t tracking any of this. Ukraine is the most corrupt country north of Sudan. What happened to all the weapons that aren’t accounted for?

Which black markets are the Ukrainian thieves now flooding with Uncle Sam’s boondoggle?
Posted by Billy B 2022-10-19 08:35||   2022-10-19 08:35|| Front Page Top

#8 What happens when Russia moves on from Ukraine to Poland or Moldova or Estonia or Finland or......
Posted by AlanC 2022-10-19 10:41||   2022-10-19 10:41|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 10:44||   2022-10-19 10:44|| Front Page Top

#10 The problem is that everyone is right... and they’ve all already lost. Russia does need to feel safe, yes, but Russia also needs to give up trying to force reunion on unwilling former provinces to accomplish it, and it would be truly helpful if both countries gave up their massive corruption and racial nonsense as a tool to control the peasants.

Pyrrhic victory for one and Pyrrhic defeat for the other — Russia is no longer believable as a conquering military, too much of Ukraine is rubble, both have lost enough of the flower of their youth through death and emigration that depopulation is certain unless both countries start upping fecundity to five or six babies per mother, and possibly not even then.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-19 11:20||   2022-10-19 11:20|| Front Page Top

#11 I say, dear Sir, how does one expect the Russians to conquer Eastern Europe when they cannot conquer Kyiv, or even a small town in southern Ukraine?

What sayest thou, my good man?
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 11:53||   2022-10-19 11:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Precisely, Chaim.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-19 13:31||   2022-10-19 13:31|| Front Page Top

#13 
Posted by ACA JOE 2022-10-19 13:52||   2022-10-19 13:52|| Front Page Top

#14 how does one expect the Russians to conquer Eastern Europe when they cannot conquer Kyiv, or even a small town in southern Ukraine?

That was always Putin's goal was to control the invasion corridors into Russia. As Catharine the Greats said, "The way to secure Russia's borders is to expand them." Russia had gotten control of the one in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Chrimea and the "break away" republics. There are two past Ukraine in Moldavia and they have part of that country locked down too. If Ukraine had fallen fast, the Baltic states would be next, then Poland.

Fortunately, the Russian military proved so inept that they won't even get past the republics. Now the plan is to make sure the Russian army dies in Ukraine and can't rebuild. With the demographics in Russia falling like a fat dog from a hot air balloon, the loss of their breeding stock in Ukraine or fleeing makes sure the Russian Federation won't survive past this century.

How well this plays out 20-50 years from now will be... interesting.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-19 14:04||   2022-10-19 14:04|| Front Page Top

#15  That was always Putin's goal was to control the invasion corridors into Russia.

No it wasn’t. He stated clearly that the goal of this operation was to keep Ukraine out of NATO, to eliminate Ukraine’s Nazi battalions and politicians, and protect Russian speakers, in pursuit of which the Russians have secured their land bridge to Crimea and are now proceeding to destroy Ukraine’s infrastructure.
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 15:22||   2022-10-19 15:22|| Front Page Top

#16 No it wasn’t. He stated clearly that the goal of this operation...

Riiiiiight. Straight from the Russian propaganda page. If you actually had independent thought, you would have seen Putin active in those regions I mentioned while playing rope-a-dope with every western leader and US president since "W". It is part of a long term plan and it just blew up in his face with Ukraine. I bet you believe the same story about the Poles attacking German soil and attacking that German radio station.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-19 15:31||   2022-10-19 15:31|| Front Page Top

#17 Hahaha

He stated it explicitly. There is ZERO chance of any Russian leader restoring the USSR. None.

This whole episode is surrounded by mountains of bullshit. Thank G-d it will be over soon when the Trump GOP pulls the plug.
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 15:40||   2022-10-19 15:40|| Front Page Top

#18 "The current 'ultimatums' are a warm-up for kids, a preview of demands to be made in the future. He knows them: the total surrender of the Kiev regime on Russia's terms," Medvedev warned.

From a source "Chaim" will like.

https://tass.com/politics/1506165
Posted by European Conservative 2022-10-19 17:43||   2022-10-19 17:43|| Front Page Top

#19 He stated it explicitly. There is ZERO chance of any Russian leader restoring the USSR. None.

I'll use small words for you. It. Isn't. About. Restoring. The. USSR.

Clear? Most likely not.

Anyway, Russia is mostly flat with mountains in the middle and forests to the north. Not many natural barriers to form a defensive line at. It is perfect territory for Mongols to horde through or Panzers to blitzkrieg through. The Russians do not have and never have had the population to defend it properly. Which is why they expand to the choke points, aka invasion routes. That way they can plant their army (heavily reinforced with subjugated populations in the front) at those and defend the heartland. That is what Putin tried to do.

Although, if you believe everything he is saying at face value there is little I can say that will penetrate that thick skull of yours.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-19 19:06||   2022-10-19 19:06|| Front Page Top

#20 Deputy envoy of Russia to UN denies export of Iranian drone to Russia, threatens to review relationship with UN secretary office, if UN send experts to study Russian drones in Ukraine
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-19 19:08||   2022-10-19 19:08|| Front Page Top

#21 Try again. Your understanding of geostrategy appears to have been frozen in the Fulda Gap era.

Or maybe taken from a John Wayne western eastern.

The key to everything in this war is Crimea. Russia cannot possibly give up Crimea. The little clown in the T-shirt suddenly, in March of 2021, about a week after Shithead Biden’s investiture in the WH, announced that his government (read: the US) would “take back” … CRIMEA. (Gee, I wonder who put that idea in his little head?)

That’s unthinkable to any Russian government, no matter how liberal or progressive and pro-Western. Navalny himself was the most strident advocate of restoring full Russian control over Crimea in 2014!

The huge naval base at the deep-water port of Sevastopol is the jewel in the crown for Russia. The peninsula itself is arid and entirely dependent for water upon the Ukrainian mainland.

This is why the US involvement in this conflict is so utterly stupid. We have zero national interest in that peninsula, let alone any vital national interest. Provoking the little twerp in Kyiv to provoke Russia over Crimea was the stupidest, most reckless, most insane foreign policy manoeuvre imaginable.

For Russia, protecting Crimea is the ultimate vital interest”; Russia quite literally will cease to be a great nation if the Biden fools get their way and install NATO on the Crimean peninsula.

Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 19:49||   2022-10-19 19:49|| Front Page Top

#22 
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 20:02||   2022-10-19 20:02|| Front Page Top

#23 Chaim - don't be an ass
Posted by Frank G 2022-10-19 20:20||   2022-10-19 20:20|| Front Page Top

#24 
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 20:26||   2022-10-19 20:26|| Front Page Top

#25 2nd strike
Posted by Frank G 2022-10-19 20:27||   2022-10-19 20:27|| Front Page Top

#26 
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 20:44||   2022-10-19 20:44|| Front Page Top

#27 
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 20:50||   2022-10-19 20:50|| Front Page Top

#28 Your understanding of geostrategy appears to have been frozen in the Fulda Gap era.

You either are completely ignorant, or just a tool. I'm voting a tool.

Chrimea is important to Russia, yes. Ever since Russia took it over Putin has done everything he can to get ethnic Russians to move there, built a bridge and tried to make it the "to go" place for the elite.

It was also an invasion point and a war was fought over it in 1854 that the Russians took over 500,000 casualties in and only threw in the towel when they could bring men in faster than ones they were losing in the field.

If you actually did your history homework, you might know that instead of relying on Russian propaganda news feeds.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-19 22:24||   2022-10-19 22:24|| Front Page Top

#29 threw in the towel when they could bring men in faster than ones they were losing in the field.

threw in the towel when they couldn't bring men in faster than ones they were losing in the field.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-19 22:33||   2022-10-19 22:33|| Front Page Top

#30 Chimera is important to Ruritania, yes.
But Russia “took over” Crimea при Екатерине II. Look it up, junior.
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 22:33||   2022-10-19 22:33|| Front Page Top

#31 Chrimea is important

Chrimea rivah.

Comic you are, and it’s been fun, but I miss Der Alte Blockhead.
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 22:36||   2022-10-19 22:36|| Front Page Top

#32 But Russia “took over” Crimea при Екатерине II.

Your Russian roots are showing. Nice try Putie licker.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-19 22:38||   2022-10-19 22:38|| Front Page Top

#33 No, I just speak multiple languages, you dope. Which is why, decades ago, I already learned more Russian (and German, and other countries’) history and geography and strategy than you ever will.
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 22:42||   2022-10-19 22:42|| Front Page Top

#34 
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 22:45||   2022-10-19 22:45|| Front Page Top

#35 I love it when they out themselves as Russian propaganda agents.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-19 23:22||   2022-10-19 23:22|| Front Page Top

#36  Which is why, decades ago, I already learned more Russian (and German, and other countries’) history and geography and strategy than you ever will.

Are you sure, Chaim? People have the odd idea that Americans are monolingual, but this has never been so. As of the 2000 census, 20% of Americans lived in a home where more than one language was spoken, and even more live in communities where a second language is necessary to be able to function on the street — it’s probably closer to 25% now. I’m just a little suburban housewife in the middle of the American Midwest, but I grew up with three languages — two of which my parents had in common — while Mr. Wife’s father was taught in Polish through sixth grade and for his mother ditto Canadian French. The trailing daughters were immersed in German during their early years, both proper Hochdeutsch and the Hessish dialect heard around Frankfurt (a.M, not an der Oder), followed by French, Hebrew, Latin, and Japanese. Their American friends also spoke Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Russian, one or more of the Indian languages, Farsi... plus the usual French/Spanish/German/Latin taught here in schools.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-19 23:39||   2022-10-19 23:39|| Front Page Top

#37 The dope above is definitely monolingual.
Posted by Chaim 2022-10-19 23:59||   2022-10-19 23:59|| Front Page Top

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