This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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"the photo shows how the life of Mariupol residents was divided into "before" and "after""
"the flourishing beautiful city has become a place uninhabitable in a matter of days"
"the flourishing beautiful city has become a place uninhabitable in a matter of days"
Clarification. Ohio's are boomers. The Typhoons would be being tracked by Seawolf, Virginia, or LA class subs.
Remind me again why we are supposed to feel sorry for the 18 year old russians that are cruising through residential neighborhoods, firing indiscriminately
Correct. Though most Ohio's, these days, are tomahawk platforms and less nuclear ballistic missile launchers.
Someone is cutting onions over here.
He’s not wrong about Bone Spurs.
Probably because they’re ill trained conscripts being used as canon fodder…and they’re 18.
If I didn’t have an open mind I wouldn’t engage on this board and I have never denied there is ten feet of sleaze inside that Beltway. And they all walk in it.
BAU through history. I had friends in 68 who were ill trained in jungle warfare. They were 19.
OMG!! Bingo!! You nailed it!! Now, please for the love of all things holy, apply this to Trump, Ted Cruz, and pretty much every single Republican in power who has bent the knee to Trumpism. This is today’s Republican Party. These evil assholes do this daily. Just use Ted Cruz…every time he talks about the Democrats he’s doing exactly this!!
If you think both sides aren’t sleazy then you have the problem not me!
Maybe, for like the hundredth time, compare Republican vs. Democrat administrations over the last 50 years as far as indictments, arrests, etc. and tell us this is a both sides thing. Hell just compare 4 years of Trump to Obama. It. Isn’t. Comparable. Please, Goldie.
Some of them did horrible things.
We don’t condemn them all for it.
There’s a quirk in human tribalism where we want to go from focused anger/disgust with the individual actors to entire groups.
I don’t think it’s necessarily laziness, I think tribalism is in our genes.
From a diplomatic side, these folks might be right. I just think they are being overly optimistic that Putin can be negotiated with here. Under no circumstances will Putin agree to something that is a clear defeat for them, which would be to withdraw from all areas of Ukraine. That's just not going to happen. It seems that Zelinsky might be amendable to handing over the Donbas region and Crimea as part of a peace deal, but I think that is a mistake because then the Russians effectively do win. It certainly gives them something to spin. And the next time (there will be a next time), I doubt there will be a completely incompetent Russian military to fight against. I have to think that there will be a purge after this embarassing display by the Russian military (or not, you never know how autocrats are going to react).
How can a country be bombed into neutrality?
That’s an…. implausible statement.
I can believe that many failed to hit a target, but not that many were ‘shot down’.
Any treaty with Putin would be foolish.
