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This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

So dopey.
I can't believe you couldn't bring yourself to answer the question (i asked it more than once) posed to you earlier.
It points to the intellectual dishonesty in your trolling.

Why do you think it would make me happy to see Putin, or MBS, or Obama, or anyone else get away with war crimes?

U.S. War Crimes in Yemen: Stop Looking the Other Way

The State Department warned for years that the U.S. was complicit in war crimes in Yemen.
No one put a stop to it.


Human Rights Watch

if we are going to realistic, these circumstances are not comparable.
 
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Still stand with Russia?
Never have. This is all an invention in your mind.
When I asked you to quote something from me that you mistook at support for Putin you pointed to a hashtag someone put on a clip I posted that was a German politician explaining how we had gotten to this point.

Why do you assume someone that can explain a viewpoint MUST hold that viewpoint?

Are you personally incapable of articulating a position you don't hold as your own?
I thought people learned to do things like this in 7th grade debate class.

I think Russia's aggression against Ukraine is wrong.
Same way I think that Saudi Arabia's aggression and regime change efforts in Yemen are wrong.

I could tell you why the King of Saudi Arabia thinks it would be a good idea to hand select the leadership of Yemen, but that wouldn't mean I agreed with it.
Is that distinction simply impossible for you?

Do you think Saudi Arabia's regime change efforts in Yemen, and the slaughter that has followed, are ok, since we fix their planes and sell them the bombs?
I don't. I think it's the same shameful display of man's inhumanity to man that history is replete with.

The Saudi regime's invasion of Yemen has cost the lives of 10s of thousands of preschoolers.
And the U.S. is helping the invaders.
The indifference vis-a-vis Ukraine still boggles my mind.

Don't you want to see all the war criminals hanged?
 
Bro-you been so pro Russia for so long your HROT nick name is "FSU Nat". Anyone else, I would not say anything, or heck maybe even agree. But coming from you? Nah, going to call it out for you once again trying to inject sympathy to Russians.

Sympathy has two meanings. 'Pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune', and 'understanding between people'.
I have zero pity for those who think aggressive war is valid policy instrument.

I can understand why we'd go to war to prevent a perceived enemy putting bases on our border.
I can understand why other nations would go to prevent a perceived enemy from putting bases on their border.

Some people are incredulous that other countries could share our jealousies.
 
Sympathy has two meanings. 'Pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune', and 'understanding between people'.
I have zero pity for those who think aggressive war is valid policy instrument.

I can understand why we'd go to war to prevent a perceived enemy putting bases on our border.
I can understand why other nations would go to prevent a perceived enemy from putting bases on their border.

Some people are incredulous that other countries could share our jealousies.
That it took you a month to respond speaks volumes.
 
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That it took you a month to respond speaks volumes.
If I missed responding to someone in this thread it wasn't intentional.
There is only one person I've ever blocked.
Considering what I'm seeing from those still responding to that one person in this thread, I made a good call.
 
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Setting aside the war criminal thing, Putin is such Euro-trash. This is from his $700 million yacht.
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Had the honor of sitting next to 4 star retired General Wesley Clark on my flight home from working in S FL. The Former Allied Supreme Commander of NATO and all around bad ass mentioned to me he will be on CNN at 9 am to discuss this war.

Did you talk to him??

What was the conversation like?
 
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As a matter of fact, yeah.

She said that NATO wasn't doing enough without knowing anything they're doing.

She had her talking points from the RNC and ran with it.

Keep up.
The whole world ( those paying attention) knows what nato is doing and has done.
 
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Did you talk to him??

What was the conversation like?
I did. Not much as I had hoped. He had hearing issues and wore hearing aides. As I didn't want to blow his cover by yelling at a 4 star General on the plane. He also fall asleep pretty quickly into the flight. It's amazing how deeply retired soldiers can sleep. I felt kinda felt it was my patriotic duty to let him rest his head on my shoulder. We did talk briefly between all this. He did call someone to ask about the important details about summitt in Belgium.
 
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Never have. This is all an invention in your mind.
When I asked you to quote something from me that you mistook at support for Putin you pointed to a hashtag someone put on a clip I posted that was a German politician explaining how we had gotten to this point.

Why do you assume someone that can explain a viewpoint MUST hold that viewpoint?

Are you personally incapable of articulating a position you don't hold as your own?
I thought people learned to do things like this in 7th grade debate class.

I think Russia's aggression against Ukraine is wrong.
Same way I think that Saudi Arabia's aggression and regime change efforts in Yemen are wrong.

I could tell you why the King of Saudi Arabia thinks it would be a good idea to hand select the leadership of Yemen, but that wouldn't mean I agreed with it.
Is that distinction simply impossible for you?

Do you think Saudi Arabia's regime change efforts in Yemen, and the slaughter that has followed, are ok, since we fix their planes and sell them the bombs?
I don't. I think it's the same shameful display of man's inhumanity to man that history is replete with.

The Saudi regime's invasion of Yemen has cost the lives of 10s of thousands of preschoolers.
And the U.S. is helping the invaders.
The indifference vis-a-vis Ukraine still boggles my mind.

Don't you want to see all the war criminals hanged?
"Regime change in Yemen" Why do you *continually* lie about what is happening in Yemen, You Fuc king Russian Stooge? The Saudi's support Yemen's legitimate, Sunni majority backed, UN recognized government, which has been pushed out of the capital by the Iran backed, minority Shiite rebels. Any third grader can google or wiki these facts. The circumstances in Yemen are unrelatable to Russia's invasion of Ukraine except as an attempt at "whataboutism" by Kremlin supporting Russian stooges like you
 
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I did. Not much as I had hoped. He had hearing issues and wore hearing aides. As I didn't want to blow his cover by yelling at a 4 star General on the plane. He also fall asleep pretty quickly into the flight. It's amazing how deeply retired soldiers can sleep. I felt kinda felt it was my patriotic duty to let him rest his head on my shoulder. We did talk briefly between all this. He did call someone to ask about the important details about summitt in Geneva.

Nice. I've seen him on CNN. He's 77.

What'd you talk about?

We're you in first class?
 
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Nice. I've seen him on CNN. He's 77.

What'd you talk about?

We're you in first class?
Yes in first class. Just the madness of all this. I told him I spent some time in Ukraine helping those who were injured from the 2014 war with Russia and how the strength of these people (still my friends who many are fighting now) inspire me. He is a top military mind. He hopes we can find our way out of this sooner than later.
 
Yes in first class. Just the madness of all this. I told him I spent some time in Ukraine helping those who were injured from the 2014 war with Russia and how the strength of these people (still my friends who many are fighting now) inspire me. He is a top military mind. He hopes we can find our way out of this sooner than later.

Wow.

How/why did you go to Ukraine?

I lived in Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk for 6 weeks in 2011.
 
Wow.

How/why did you go to Ukraine?

I lived in Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk for 6 weeks in 2011.
I am a Prosthetist. I have a very unique skill set of making and fitting prosthesis. I was asked to be on a medical mission to help those in Ukraine to fit legs and arms. Was there 3 weeks in L'Viv. Beautiful town and people there and they all hate Putin. Have so many amazing stories and experiences from that trip. This whole thing is breaking my heart. I have been in touch with all of the patients and most of the others I have met. Have no words for what they are going through. Have a few patients who were soldiers who are back fighting on the front lines.
 
I am a Prosthetist. I have a very unique skill set of making and fitting prosthesis. I was asked to be on a medical mission to help those in Ukraine to fit legs and arms. Was there 3 weeks in L'Viv. Beautiful town and people there and they all hate Putin. Have so many amazing stories and experiences from that trip. This whole thing is breaking my heart. I have been in touch with all of the patients and most of the others I have met. Have no words for what they are going through. Have a few patients who were soldiers who are back fighting on the front lines.

Wow. That's great. Lviv is the nicest town in Ukraine, I heard.

East Ukraine was a polluted slum, sadly. I keep in touch with my tour guide still. He lives in the west. I did a fundraiser for him and raised $1,900!

HROT donated $580.

Thanks HROT!

 
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Putin assumed Ukraine was as weak as 8 years ago.
He assumed he could compel on the battlefield what had thus far eluded him at the diplomatic table - declared neutrality from Ukraine, recognition of Crimea as Russian, and either independence for Donetsk and Luhansk, or more suitably from the Russian perspective, membership in a federated Ukraine serving as a Russian bloc in Ukrainian politics.

They expected something akin to the US invasion of Panama. A few days of shooting and then the process of installing a new regime.

Instead they had split their forces in the face of well armed and determined enemy, squandering their numerical superiority, and putting extra burden on a clearly insufficient logistics train.

“Klotzen, nicht Kleckern!” as Heinz Guderian would say.
Sounds like a good explanation.
 
Wow. That's great. Lviv is the nicest town in Ukraine, I heard.

East Ukraine was a polluted slum, sadly. I keep in touch with my tour guide still. He lives in the west. I did a fundraiser for him and raised $1,900!

HROT donated $555.

Thanks HROT!

Was blown away how food was so cheap to us for meals.

That's awesome you were able to raise that money.
 
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Poor people in Africa and Asian will suffer food scarcity, the West will suffer higher prices.
Russia is a large grain exporter as is Ukraine. Not being able to use the Black Sea is going to screw up deliveries and increase prices.

Surely some folks on this board can tell us more about crops, but this doesn’t bode well on top of other stresses:

Food prices in the U.S. have already been soaring, and now we are on track for an absolutely horrible winter wheat harvest. Of course this comes at a time when the war on the other side of the globe is going to greatly reduce wheat exports from Russia and Ukraine. Over the last 12 months, the price of wheat has already risen 69 percent, and now this crisis threatens to go to an entirely new level.

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Due to extreme drought, winter wheat is in very bad shape in states such as Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The following comes from one of the most prominent agricultural websites in the entire country…



That same article also discussed the fact that winter wheat was severely damaged by a wind storm “that brought ‘Dust Bowl’ conditions to Kansas”


And forecasters are telling us that “abnormally dry” conditions will likely continue across much of the nation for the foreseeable future…
Sounds like a perfect storm that's building.
 
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Sympathy has two meanings. 'Pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune', and 'understanding between people'.
I have zero pity for those who think aggressive war is valid policy instrument.

I can understand why we'd go to war to prevent a perceived enemy putting bases on our border.
I can understand why other nations would go to prevent a perceived enemy from putting bases on their border.

Some people are incredulous that other countries could share our jealousies.
It seems that you have it ass backwards. It's the Russians who are attempting to build bases on their enemies borders, wouldn't it?
 
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