Putin addressed Russia at 5:36am to inform his country he was declaring war on Ukraine. The operation is officially underway and here is the run down.
Russian President Putin to Ukrainian soldiers: “Your ancestors fought the Nazis, don’t obey the orders of the Nazi Junta in Kyiv. Lay down your arms and go home.”
PUTIN: “To anyone who would consider interfering from the outside: if you do, you will face consequences greater than any you have faced in history. All relevant decisions have been taken. I hope you hear me.”
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BIDEN: ON THURSDAY, WE WILL ANNOUNCE FURTHER SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA.
Explosions now being reported in Odesa as well, as Russian bombardment of Ukraine continues.
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— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) February 24, 2022
A terrible night for the people of Ukraine. The response to markets have been severe, with cascading futures and soaring commodities. The kitchen sink is being thrown at Ukraine and there is no way the capitol can stand for longer than a few days. The west now finds themselves in the unenviable position of having to completely cut off Russia and deal with the deleterious consequences of not having enough wheat, potash, oil and gas, or cutting them off and now dealing with a militarily superior foe on its borders. One thing is for certain, tonight is the beginning of a new militarization across Europe, for the sake of their survival.
REMINDER: Ukraine isn’t a democracy, but a US puppet state of thieves powered by corruption.
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Trump describes his BFF Putin as a “genius” which tells us a lot about Trump’s definition of intelligence. It also explains why Trump won the south where family trees lack branches.
Speaking of former presidents, what is Jimmy Carter saying? How did he describe Putin?
He called Leonid Brezhnev an idiot for the invasion of Afghanistan.
Turned out Jimmy was quite correct.
Putin is repeating his predecessor’s mistake.
And u know family trees have no branches cause u swing from them. Best of luck.
His obsessive need to constantly suck Putin’s dick again begs the question: How much money does he owe the Russians?
The Russians have videos of trump, with underaged hookers. Trump isn’t worried about money… plenty of southern folks willing to give him their entire disability check to MAGA.
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Clearly putin still sour about his pal losing the election. Congratulations for picking on the 80 pound weakling on the playground. Fly should move to Russia, see how nice it is to live in a country that has a criminal organization as a ruling power.
YES, Russia, China and Iran are nations led by evil despotic leaders, but we already KNEW this – and a smart administration knows how to deal with them.
Perhaps the problem is that apparently people like you actually BELIEVE what the far left MSM feeds them?
That somehow “Russia” rigged the election for President Trump?
That Trump (who came IN to politics as a BILLIONAIRE) took the job to try and cash in but the Dems are not thoroughly corrupt, weak on foreign policy and a DISASTER for the free world?
That it wasn’t the blundering weakness of this administration around the world that projected weakness that invited this mess?
That it wasn’t the radical green leftist loonies who don’t understand that oil is FUNGIBLE and that the only thing you get by stopping domestic energy production, is enabling foreign, unfriendly nations to increase THEIR output and weaken national security?
When will the deluded left WAKE UP?
Trump claimed he was going to get out of Afghanistan, but he didn’t have the balls to do it. I voted for trump, the result was abysmal. Could have it been worse the other way? Possibly, but I can’t imagine it. “You people” seem to lump everyone into a group. The reality is many people think for themselves, and you can too.
Billionaire trump? Seriously? He’s gone bankrupt, what, about 9 times to date?
And here we have a bunch of, what my good old friend would call, whack ass bitches, whining about wearing a mask in places that they don’t own. Puts things in perspective.
The masks for adults aren’t the problem. The problems are when they push them on kids in which infection rates and hospital admissions are close to zero. The problems become when they try to push infinite booster shots to be the standard practice without data to support benefits. Your problem is that you’re a whole idiot. Time to send your wokeness to the front line.
Make it a double whole idiot.
Again with your generalizations. I didn’t vaccinate my kids because the test data was a whopping ~3000 kids before approval. Couple that with 1.5 years of data on the effects of covid on children. It’s a no brainer – no risk for kids, no vaccination needed. Stop playing this stupid game of me vs “them”. There is no “them”.
Guys ..short-term thinking political whores and the short-term rewards oriented people who put those whores in office is what got us here. We’ve borrowed a lot of money and spent it on candy for the masses and on making enemies all over the world.
I don’t know how, with voters being so easily-programmed to believe lies, we get out of this. But I will promote the election of more responsible, longer-term thinking, leadership.
Paul/Gabbard 2024
Remember, we had an arrogant operative named Nuland, allow herself to be recorded on multiple occasions …recorded while she was orchestrating the installation of new undemocratic leadership in Ukraine under Obama. And for her stupidity, hubris and arrogance, she’s been promoted and now is out point-person at State on Ukraine v Russia. This is how fucked-up we are.
Indeud
How will “fuck the EU” play over time with the Europeans if they stick with us and cut themselves off from Russian energy and other commodities?
Russia will own Ukraine by day’s end. Good luck with that. Ukrainians and Russians have been killed for what end other than Putin’s vanity? This will be Putin’s undoing . Just hope he’s maniacal but not insane. Have doubts.
You don’t think Putin’s “aggression” has anything to do with him trying to stop Ukraine from joining NATO which would put a bunch of missiles right on their border?
Whether Putin is complicit in this stage act or not, it’s definitely all by design.
The west wanted this war and they provoked Putin to ensure it happened.
I think Germany halting Nordstream 2 certification may have been the last straw.
As bad as things appear now, Biden is scheduled to talk on the subject.
A big fat yawn. Life goes on.