As Russia continues to build up troop presence near the Ukraine border, Joe Biden sent a warning to Vladimir Putin. In response Russia told the U.S. to stay out of the Black Sea “for your own good” while they conduct exercises. Biden turned back two U.S. navy ships…. Hours later Putin closed the Kerch Strait.
The Biden administration is attempting to give the illusion of strength but it is all an act and Russia knows it. The Ukraine is vulnerable to Russian absorption because a large portion of the Ukrainian people support Russia. NATO is attempting to issue threats, but Russia knows the EU, and specifically Germany, will do nothing except grasp their pearls. It is all false bravado on the part of the NATO alliance; they have no teeth and their electorate have no desire for another conflict.
A Background Note – Additional leverage Putin holds goes back to the Nordstream 2 gas pipeline to supply the energy needs of Germany. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was warned by President Trump not to go forward with the pipeline that creates a geopolitical leverage for Russia. Merkel went ahead despite the warnings, and adding salt to the issue, Germany never upheld their NATO funding commitments (2% of GDP). This was a major source of contention between Trump and Merkel.
The knuckleheads behind Biden attempted to flex their muscle toward Russia through a series of sanctions earlier today. The United States sanctioned 32 Russian entities and individuals along with six technology companies, formally attributed the SolarWinds cyber breach to Russian intelligence agencies, and accused Moscow of still trying to hack American targets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about words. Words, without action are meaningless. Putin knows the Biden administration is weak domestically because the majority of the U.S. electorate view his administration as illegitimate. Putin also knows Barack Obama foreign policy is essentially Biden foreign policy, and Putin accepts that both Obama and Biden are intent to weaken the U.S. globally.
From the Russian perspective a bunch of noisy and pontificating moonbats are currently running everything in the U.S. and there is absolutely nothing to fear because their leadership, our U.S. government, is weak and unsupported. Putin knows Americans are not going to agree to another regional war in Europe when the damn Europeans are not even willing to defend themselves.
Joe Biden acting like Scott Farcus only works until Ralphie puts a fist in Farcus’s face.
And don’t forget… the number one asset of Russia is energy (oil and gas); JoeBama’s energy policy has effectively assisted the Russian economy. So there’s that…
And isn’t our military on stand down so they can become as “woke” as possible? And aren’t conservatives, Christians, and Trump supporters being purged from our military? I don’t know if all that is true. But, sending mixed signals to the world about our military readiness is incredibly stupid *while* poking the Russian bear and kissing China’s Panda butt.
One thing I LOVED ABOUT TRUMP is, America First also meant not sticking our stupid noses into places it shouldn’t be stuck, but kicking serious arse when the need arose. Obama weakened America, Trump restored America, JoeBiden is destroying America as fast as he possibly can. It’s all such a damn shame.
25 thumbs up for you! This is right on.
Putin knows about how weak wimp Joe B is,
maybe before 4’year end of Joe Biden it will be a war some place,
Don’t care. None of our business. The country is a joke since we no longer actually have a country as defined by borders, language, culture, laws, a legitimate government, etc. The rest of the world already knew we were a joke before this.
From the Russian perspective a bunch of noisy and pontificating moonbats are currently running everything in the U.S. I would have to agree with the Russians on that Sundance.
I fear our government more than Russia.
Yep, DC is the enemy inside the gate.
Russia knows we fear our government more than Russia. Our national security is at high risk. What’s the message to the world when JoeBama turns ships around. It’s weakness and capitulation.
I wish the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt had turned around and asked for back up. I read today he was cleared of charges. Its hard for me to feel bad about Uncle Joe not sending the ships.
IT WAS DELIBERATE
Theya re sanitising it
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-special-agent-david-bailey-who-murdered-ashli-babbitt-is-a-brazilian-immigrant-and-black-lives-matter-militant-he-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-trump-su/
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-police-agent-david-bailey-who-killed-ashli-babbitt-was-the-same-officer-that-let-steve-scalise-get-shot-in-2017-exclusive-evidence/
https://redpilled.ca/the-best-of-the-best-diversity-hire-cop-david-bailey-who-murdered-ashli-babbitt-was-hired-with-a-sole-bachelors-degree-in-physical-education-he-rakes-in-over-120k-a-year/
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-ashli-babbitts-killer-us-capitol-special-agent-david-bailey-deletes-all-of-his-social-media-hours-after-our-bombshell-report/
Thanks for the great link!
It’s all begins in Ukraine.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/04/14/two-tiered-justice-doj-close-investigation-into-murder-of-ashli-babbitt-with-no-charges/comment-page-1/#comment-7699376
Link was supposed to go to this:
Dollars to donuts the FBI knows it was a Right Sector Nazi thug from Ukraine that pulled the trigger.
Right Sektor is the Nazi organization responsible for the Maidan massacre used to oust Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych.
You’ve heard of a second home? Team Democrat has a second country from which it bases its operations against political opponents within the United States.
Infiltration, agitation and provocation of crowds to create disaster and death to stir up hatred of the opposition to effectuate regime change—is what Right Sector does.
Video of Right Sector’s Sergei Dybynyn—at the front of the violent Capitol groups yelling “Faster! Faster!” in Russian—is proof that Brennan, Nuland, & Biden, et al. ‘got the band back together’ to help Team Democrat run their 2014 Ukraine Coup playbook against American conservatives standing in their way of fundamentally transforming the United States into a techno-fascist satellite of Communist China.
Sergei even took a selfie next to next to the paint-by-numbers–provocateur-&-Capitol Riot-totem—Jacob Chansley, a.k.a. Q Shaman, etc.
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2021/01/18/were-ukrainian-neo-nazis-involved-in-planning-executing-the-capitol-hill-siege/
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2021/01/21/capitol-siege-ukrainian-media-embedded-with-ukrainian-militants-during-the-storming/
Bob Stone, that makes as much sense as it is horrible.
Everyone needs to know this: one of the Ukrainian leaders of the Maidan Revolution was photographed with the buffalo-head guy in the U.S. Capitol. Another leader of the Maidan Revolution was suspected of being there, but there is no proof.
In other words, the Democrats are pulling off a Color Revolution here at home. And we can look forward to more of their brownshirt enforcers.
This is how I put it in my complaint.
https://www.houseofstone76.com/in-the-beginning-there-was-ukraine
The US ships should never have been sent!!! The Black Sea is a Russian Lake, even more so than the Gulf of Mexico is to the US.
Keep poking the Russian Bear and We are going to get smacked. democrats are the absolute Worst at Everything.
You have that right! This is another regime change operation following: Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Armenia, Ukraine, Belarus, etc. And the election of Trump disrupted the dominoes from falling for four 4 years, but now the US Deep State is back on track:
Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault? John Mearsheimer ~ University of Chicago
In addition to that, targeting Russia with sanctions (via The Magnitsky Act) looks suspiciously like a complete CIA fabrication as well:
The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes
(full film at bottom of page at this link:)
https://swprs.org/the-magnitsky-act-movie/
A Blacklisted Film and the New Cold War
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/02/a-blacklisted-film-and-the-new-cold-war/
As you can see from the above, all of this was hatched about a decade or more ago… and the US is back on track. It is also the likely reason for China’s heavy handed crackdown on Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Uyghur Region and Myanmar… as they don’t want the United States anywhere near their border. But the American press has the US population too “zombified” to detect this or string all of the events together.
And as the United States is no longer a Democracy, but a kleptocratic oligarchy, the world has more to fear from the United States “faux-democracy” than Russia or China. IMHO
Yes, what is the compelling reason we are in the Black Sea other than to do China’s bidding or our poorly educated military leadership or both?
uh, what exactly do you think that ‘Russia’ wants to do with the USA?
So far Russia’s military escapades have been limited to action on its borders. It went into Ossetia and Crimea. Sevastopol is a major Russian military asset, and has been that way for 300+ years. They are not going to let NATO take it, period.
Other than that, what exact threat does Russia pose to the USA? Russia hasn’t sent armies to invade countries in South America. In contrast, the USA invaded Iraq, a country halfway around the world that wasn’t a threat in any way.
So, you want the US to start a war? We have no business over there.
You get my vote for comment of the day.
and his comment has been true for longer than the Biden administration.
As far as threats to Americas go, and in order of most to least, it is the government of America, then that of China well behind, at least for now, and then in a very distant third, the government of Russia.
I prefer Russia and Putin to our detestable cretins in Washington. Can it surprise anyone that once again our globalist CIA/FBI/DOD, et al. have again rendered us vulnerable to our enemies? The ENEMY China will soon command the Pacific and our surrender will follow shortly. Putin is intelligent in that he is striving to prepare his nation to oppose the Chinese global juggernaut. He is consolidating his borders and annexing population and resources to make his people capable of resistance. The idiot corrupt Europeans will soon huddle under the only force in the region to protect them, and Putin is emplacing that dynamic.
I am too old to matter, but who in this nation would go to war for this illegitimate gang of traitorous corporocrats? Whoops, seems like these vicious parasites forgot there are some advantages to the nation-state, like culture, community and the will to defend themselves. Should thought of that while they were taring down statues and funding BLM and the 1619 project.
Much like the corporate scum who supported Hitler thinking their money would control him, I cannot wait to see them devoured. Can’t come soon enough for me.
You won the thread with this comment.
Our government is a f*cked up stew of multinationals and China.
They want to weaken America to justify their continued investment in China.
Russia wants to sell oil and gas. They want the Ukraine, or at least want it to be a puppet state. Who cares? We should, but do not, care about the workers who lost their jobs because of Joebama.
This all has been predicted even from the beginning of our Republic.
I truly believe that Obama, Biden, Hilary and company are all in bed with Russia. I believe they are allies to Russia. They pretend to be arch enemies, when in truth they are pulling for Putin and communism to spread world wide.
You can’t explain Uranium One unless you want Russia to be a superpower. Same thing with China. You send all the U.S jobs there, you fund bio weapon labs in Wuhan controlled by the Chinese military….yet you mouth meaningless words and symbolic bullshit about communism while funding and giving communist countries your country’s wealth, resources and power.
Hell Joe Biden Barrack Obama and half the Republicans love Russia. It’s an old Saul Alinsky tactic…accuse others of what you are guilty of yourself.
Except the Russians hate Communism and Globalism. They are a Christian Republic, same as we used to be.
Uranium One was driven by stunning corruption and greed on the part of HR Clinton. The Russians accepted a ridiculous offer on the part of the US. It’s not up to them to refuse our bad ideas when they are helpful to them.
Truth
Envy is not the same as “in bed with”. Russia has been at this for decades and while the folks you mentioned have been effective in stifling freedoms here in the US, they are pikers compared to Putin. The advantage the fascists here have is they have a willing, sycophantic press, while Russia flat out controls their press. In my estimation it points to the desperation we see from the left in working to keep control they have garnered. They are on a slippery slope and know it….I submit the treatment of one PDJT as evidence of their desperation.
“Communism as a state ideology is dead in Russia. This is official. “No ideology may be established as a state or obligatory one,” goes Article 13 of Russia’s Constitution adopted in 1993. The CPSU ceased to exist following the collapse of the USSR in late 1991 and the party was banned. Communism in Russia was left on the dustbin of history. There it remains now.”
Are there active supporters of communism? Yes, the same as in the USA.
(You might want to listen to Putin speak about globalism sometimes and of the corrupt US politicians)
Yes, to your communist China in bed with US bureaucrats.
Nyet, to Russia.
Clinton is the naked communist. Putin is Orthodox Christian. The commies want to kill him.
The US establishment, and all the politicians they own from both parties, are united in their hatred of post-Soviet, Christian Russia.
Q1: is who is advising Biden- Obama?
Q2: does whoever is advising Biden actually want Russia and China to be the new global powers?
I suspect so
Obama’s past is v v v shady
His mother hung out with a bunch of Soviet spies—the Silvermaster group
https://theamericanreport.org/2020/06/16/sacred-communist-ground-baby-barack-obama-lived-at-the-gateway-to-seattles-chaz-with-mother-stanley-ann-dunham-on-avenue-now-patrolled-by-armed-marxist-revolutionary-guards/
The soviet union is no more and communist China is just a name for the ruling elite.
Is Joe gonna threaten to take Vlad out behind the gymnasium for good beat down!? Xiden would be a pile of goo on the pavement before he even got his jacket off.
Slow Joe can’t even remember where the gymnasium is.
Droolin’ Pedo Bidet thinks the gymnasium is where his sister Doctor Jilldoe goes to get her proctology exam.
China would love it if we get into conflict with Russia. Taking out the 2 biggest threats and pitting them against each other is a big win for China!
Our Military would love to have conflict with Russia so they can get 2-3 trillion dollars when our supplies get depleted as a result of conflict with Russia.
Globalist’s that hate America would love for America to fail would love it, if our country tanked.
Who benefits from all this voter fraud, and Russia conflict! China does! China is winning.
A war with Russia would turn this nation into a pile of rubble. As would we do the same to Russia. No one wins.
Do you suppose that Putin knows this? Is it possible that even Gropey understands the outcome of open warfare between 2 nuclear superpowers?
The answer is yes, they both do. As do the Demotards and their Marxist ilk. MAD has existed since I was a young man, and to this day, it is still working.
These people huff, and puff, and threaten, but it is well understood, by our own Military members and leaders, especially the older ones, that a war with Russia would be suicide for both.
This is all theater. Why can be a difficult question to answer. Whomever wins would rule the ashes. And those ashes would be radioactive for longer than any of us can live.
The submarines alone, could end the world, in 1 day. The rest is window dressing. Our subs, and their subs, keep very smart people, awake at night, a lot. That is a fact.
Our people aren’t smart.
Russia building thousands of churches and embracing Christianity really has the Dems ticked off….
I almost wrote, “and it has satan really ticked off, too” but then I realized that would be redundant. lol…
What a fking disaster.
I’ve been reading a bit about this on another site whereby the focus is on Ukraine wanting to take back Crimea, which this 3/19.2021 article covers in detail: “Ukraine approves strategy to ‘recover Crimea, threatening all-out War With Russia”.
FTA: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba announced this week that the country’s National Security and Defense Council had approved a strategy that is aimed at retaking Crimea and reintegrating the strategically important peninsula.
Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea, was annexed by Russia in March 2014, following a US-backed, far-right coup in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
As Kuleba and Kiev are well aware, any attempt to impose its “full sovereignty” over one of the Russian Navy’s most important warm water ports on the Black Sea would result in a full-scale war that threatens the outbreak of a third world war.
As part of its “3 pillars” strategy for retaking Ukraine, Kuleba notably stated that Zelensky’s administration sought “full Ukrainian sovereignty” over not just Crimea but that of the port city of Sevastopol as well, which serves as the home of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet.
The other site states that B*den admin will back/push Ukraine to war…UN would end up the peace-maker…all part of the great reset strategy…and Nordstream 2 comes into play.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/ukra-m20.html
https://www.unian.info/politics/russian-aggression-ukraine-approves-strategy-to-end-occupation-of-crimea-11349913.html
Through all the Obama Admin shenanigans with Ukraine, a lot of US politicians got money: Lindsey Graham, John Kerry, Joe&Hunter Biden, Mitt Romney, and No-Name. Don’t forget, the CIA ran a color revolution to overthrow the Ukrainian President a few years back. Then there is Vindman, former ambassdor Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill , and the “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella, who were all involved with Ukraine and attempting to frame President Trump over the phone call with the Ukrainian President.
Maybe all these rascals will have to give up their nice profitable kickbacks from corrupt Ukrainian leaders after the Russians take over Ukraine. I doubt Vladimir Putin will offer these fools bribes for anything . . .
Russia is not going to give up that port, no way, no how. So anything that goes against that, is not up for debate. I guarantee that. Anyone who knows the Russians and their Navy, knows they wont even hear talk of it, never walk away from it.
Agree.
Exactly. Their only warm water port.
Not gonna happen.
Putin blocks foreign warships from entering Black Sea amid Ukraine war fears – ‘Big risk’
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1423781/Vladimir-Putin-news-russia-Ukraine-Black-Sea-warship-big-risk-Joe-biden-ont
Are these people stupid?
Crimea was always Russian
Exactly what people are missing. It’s Crimea that’s the issue and it’s Russian, historically.
Since Catharine’s the Great time. It’s Russian
Sevastopol was the key strategic asset in that region for the Tsars, the Soviets, and now the Russian Federation.
Anyone thinking that Russia will allow NATO to grab its key asset in the south is a fool. Russians will never let it go, and they are correct to defend it at all costs.
The west promised the Soviets that they would not absorb the former Soviet states into NATO. They lied. What they did is drive Russia into the arms of the Chinese.
I concur.
Corn Pop Putin been a thorn in Beijing Biden’s side going on 50 years now!!. That devil strikes again. HAhahahahah
Corn Pop story was disinformation, the late Corn Pop was a real black dude who happened to be Young Pedo Bidet’s boyfriend. Corn Pop found out Pedo was using his long, blonde leg hairs to get little kids to mess with, and confronted Pedo at the pool about it trying to put a stop to it.
Like I have previously stated, this is the same neoliberal playbook trying to provoke Russia. What the idiots in the White House do not realize is that Putin was just waiting for them. He has his plans all set and will now force Ukraine into submission. If there is a regional conflict, Russia will destroy Ukraine and NATO, the EU and US will do absolutely nothing about it. Granted, Russia will not shoot first but if attacked with rockets or artillery it is game over for Ukraine.
Sundance’s analysis is 100% correct.
Quite right.
Putin is very shrewd. He has figured out much of how this would go. He is prepared to make his moves based on what his opponents do. It would be unlikely to catch him flat-footed.
Putin is, The Prince of Russia.
All the pieces of the chess board are in play.
The Final End Game is coming into view.
Stuff is going to rapidly accelerate now and we ALL have front row seats to the Greatest Show on Earth.
Exciting times ahead whether they be good or not.
Prelude to the next war……..damn all Democrats!
… don’t forget that Liz Cheney, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, and others of the Uniparty endless-war-caucus always want more war … as long as someone else fights and dies
I’ve felt for a while that we have to protect Biden for the good of the country. Now I feel that all is lost. Whadda bunch of losers.
What? The Hell?
“Protect Biden”?
John, the only possible reason to say something like that is to keep Kamala “Heels Up” Harris out of the job – if that is the reason – you should really say so and make it implicit.
Almost all of the democrat party believes the USA to be the “great satan” as our worst enemies do. Why would you want to protect the Illegitimate Plagiarist? He is using his last bit of rapidly diminishing capacity to set the wolves with him upon the country. Eviscerating everything that makes America great and unique.
Sad that Tucker missed it too.
Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland … the pies of Europe constantly being divvied up by their neighbors, predominantly Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. Well, Austria-Hungary is no more; it has been long since shredded into a slew of small countries and is no longer a threat. Germany, while an economic power in Western Europe, is led by Merkel, a former East German, which makes her rather wishy-washy. Finally there’s Russia. Now she looks to the west and sees that Poland is not really to her taste any more; while there may be some U.S. forces stationed there, it’s not enough of a threat to try to digest again; besides, there’s nothing behind Poland as Western Europe is mired in Merkel’s do-nothing policy. However, Belarus and Ukraine have had a history of ties to, and being absorbed by, Russia. Expect Russia, even after Putin leaves the scene, to push to reabsorb Ukraine and, perhaps even Belarus. But the emphasis will be on the former breadbasket of Russia, the Ukraine. Beyond that, only time will tell which countries from the former Soviet Union Russia may want to reabsorb.
IMO-Russia can have these former commies and Nazis-all of them except Poland which maybe has seen the light
These countries and Lithuania are full of them
Revisionist Historian Who Glorifies Nazi Collaborators Is Nominated as Head of State-Sponsored Genocide Center in Lithuania
https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/04/15/revisionist-historian-who-glorifies-nazi-collaborators-is-nominated-as-head-of-state-sponsored-genocide-center-in-lithuania/
Western Ukraine isn’t appealing to the Russian palate.
Not friendly, more trouble than it’s worth.
Just remember Russia doesn’t have a Navy to close off the entire Black sea. You can’t realistically do it with submarines. Besides Ukraine you have Turkey. Turkey likely has nukes also, even if it means confiscating the US nukes stationed there.
The current SecDef (a lobbyist from Raytheon) might want to just give those nukes to Turkey … to help fight “White-Christian-Supremacy” in NATO …
ace hardware in my area is running out of lumber. costs have risen 180% . there are other pressures on these morons than foreign policy. domestic tranquility is about to implode. the costs to american families is waking people up. who knows what will happen. the only thing for sure is liberal/progressive failure. which logically leads the other way for success.
Every thing they touch turns to sh*t.
Maybe Biden Inc. didn’t really want to recall those Destroyers, but he had no choice as they collided with each other while being manned and womaned and transmaned by the Woke.
This BS propaganda. DOD just want reason how to spend their trillion dollar budget. Warmongering is a racket.
Ukraine should of put more pressure on LIEUTENANT COLONEL Vidddddman to become Defense Minister. He would show Vlad his place.
Vindman will give his boot a dapper strap
And will look so much smarter when his garter has some snap!
He will wear a nightcap for a nap
And be bewitching with some stitching on his cap!
He will drape his cape
And puff his cuff
Embroider his lapels!
And be the King of the Ukrainians in pastels!
Bravo! Well said.
So why should we care if Russia assimilates Ukraine, especially if the majority of the Ukrainian people support that?
Sounds like their business in their backyard, not something the US should meddle in.
As for the pathetic weak old man installed as puppet president, and the huge problems that causes including hostile world powers moving to take advantage of that now: We should pause and think about the people who supported that, and why. They are the ones who created this very bad terminal situation we are now in, and it seems most of them are very happy with it.
The US has been weakening for decades now, economically, militarily, culturally. We no longer have what it takes to dominate the world. We can thank the people who are happy with the geriatric puppet for this – the ones who sold us out to outsourcing to China for easy profit, the “progressives” and identity class Marxists who have corrupted our culture and educational system, the ones who weakened us mentally and physically conforming to the feminist gestalt dominating everything now.
Biden was foolishly trying to act tough a couple weeks ago. Now he’s acting weak and almost begging Russia to de-escalate. The situation is a mess.
Also, you really should correct the title of this post. It’s misleading.
Are you the CTH proof reader now,
“Also, you really should correct the title of this post. It’s misleading.”
As already mentioned by several commenters, Russia is not blocking the entrance to the Black Sea; they’re blocking the entrance to the Sea of Azov.
Speaking of America v. Russia.
It appears the tables have turned. The Bush-Clinton-Cheney-Obama uniparty has crippled the USA. Our “GDP” depends on healthy families, healthy marriages. First things first.
And the Russians, who have lived in a tough neighborhood for millennia, now have better numbers in nation-building categories. The things that matter. Most importantly, their leaders care about their own nation. Unlike our oligarchs.
Why has the West invested so much bravado capital in propping up Ukraine’s fledgling ‘independence’? Ukraine is Russia and has been since 15th/16th Century. The Crimea has been the site of Russia’s primary Black Sea year-round naval bases for hundreds of years. Ukraine did not win its independence…it became loosened from Russian control through an administrative blunder during the collapse of the Soviet Union. If Ukrainians want freedom…let them, not us, fight for it!
If we as Americans want to set some people free…attack south, across the Rio Grande and free those poor people!
Sarah is interesting.
The line seems to be that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a fine thing saving those oppressed Ukrainians from themselves and liberating fellow Russians who live there to be incorporated back into mother Russia.
Real Sudetenland 1938 stuff.
Yep, definitely an agenda.
But despite the repetitive exaggeration, the point is about right: Our propaganda has demonized Russia, a costly distortion that should be rectified.
It’s easy to understand that Russia is no threat to the US since Communism collapsed.
The neo-cons are the carnival spruikers for the non existent Russian ‘threat’. It’s good for military business, while not being a problem. That doesn’t make Russia no threat to the Ukraine. But Ukraine suffers from the intractable problem of a huge Russian diaspora at their core loyal to Russia.
Traitorous immigrants, so to speak.
It’s kind of cute. Straight from the Sudetenland playbook.
Defense of Russian-speaking peoples from “oppression” everywhere.
Putin scolds Germany for antisemitic abuse of Russian-Germans. Says they’re always welcome to come “home”.
Says he’s proud of the achievements of Russian-Israelis, a major population bloc there. Asks why are they having so many babies when they didn’t back “home”? Something in the water?
Bonding.
Would he extend paternal protection over Russian-speaking Israelis? Against, say, Iran?
How about the large community of Refuseniks here in Boston?
Isi Leibler 03/16/2014:
Candidly speaking: Putin, Ukraine and the Jews
Thirty years ago, I would never have visualized myself supporting closer relations between Israel and Russia.
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Candidly-speaking-Putin-Ukraine-and-the-Jews-345546
Scut Farkus.
Excelsior!
If your goal is to weaken or destroy America, what would you do differently from what these buffoons are already doing? It’s disgustingly incredible to behold.
The Germans would have to be insane to stop buying Russian fuel and instead be pushed into buying American exports. It would be like China trying to force us to buy things from them rather than Canada or Mexico. As for not wanting WW3 in their backyard, who can blame them. They know that if DC and NY starts a war, it will be Ukrainians, Poles, Baltic people, and Germans who will die. And that would just be round 1.
All a misdirection play from domestic disaster on all fronts. Legitimacy, boarder, Vaccines, alask summit w/ CCP, etc.
Yup
Could Ukraine/Russia be analogous to China/Taiwan? China watching very closely our reaction if Ukraine “rejoins” Russia?
“On March 24th, Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky signed what was essentially a declaration of war on Russia. In the document, titled Presidential Decree No. 117/2021, the US-backed Ukrainian leader declared that it is the official policy of Ukraine to take back Crimea from Russia.
The declaration that Ukraine would take back Crimea from Russia also followed, and was perhaps instigated by, President Biden’s inflammatory and foolish statement that “Crimea is Ukraine.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was a chief architect of the US-backed coup against Ukraine in 2014, continued egging on the Ukrainians, promising full US support for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine. Many Americans wonder why they are not even half as concerned about the territorial integrity of the United States!”
https://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/world-news/pushing-for-war-why-is-the-biden-administration-pushing-ukraine-to-attack-russia/
Meanwhile Biden looking for the brains he lost or was it gave away
I’m pretty certain Russia along with the CCP have all the dirty little secrets on the JoeBama administration as well as the rest of the people in our government. As long as their in charge, Russia, the CCP etc. can do whatever they want without any concerns.
It is laughable that JoeBama put sanctions on Russia for interference in the 2020 election when we all know it was traitors in our own Goverenmnt and China. IMO Putin is a strong leader (like him or not but that is the truth) and we have a weak leader (who is being led) and the US is now the laughingstock of the world. It is a damn shame how these commie Democrats & RINO’s are ruining this country.
The most dangerous place on the planet today is on board a United States Naval warship sailing the high seas.
The ships are targets on Chinese, Iranian and Russian radars and our sailors must know their Commander in Chief does NOT have their backs.
That is probably true.
Fighting the goat herding Taliban is difficult on their landscape but not at sea of course. I don’t know how capable a U.S. carrier would be against multiple incoming missiles and potentially underwater torpedo attacks.
I hope we don’t learn the answer to that but I think it’s more likely now with senile Commander-in-Chief Biden in charge than it has been in many decades.
Isn’t the military going through a purge process of aggressive heterosexual white males etc
Well. The Aegis Missile platforms are pretty slick stuff. I would say they are equal to the task. We will never know unless the Chicoms or someone else is dumb enough to try it. The tests i have seen and simulations, say that the enemy might have a very, very bad day.
Remember, of all the weapons platforms we have, the one that scares the bejesus out of our enemies is the Boomers. The ghosts of the deep are what gives them the night sweats. They never know where they are, and what they are up to. They cannot be countered, and our enemies know it. On the flipside, Russian, Chinese and Iranian subs are like underwater battlewagons, they make a lot of noise, and no one has made silent subs like the American Navy. Our subs are like stand off weapons, that can be used from a long distance. Without them even knowing you are there. Our enemies do not have that advantage. The Ivans have a few that come a close second, and can be sneaky and quiet, but our tech is beyond anything they have come up with. Now that was 8 years ago, I cant speak to what the bad guys have now, but our stuff is pretty damn impressive.
Granted, our resources are probably much better and is that is why they all try to steal it.
My concern is the “willpower” of our leaders to defend America and use it.
That, imho, is lacking greatly.
Joe Biden acting like Scott Farcus only works until Ralphie puts a fist in Farcus’s face.
I’m laughing, but this is so true. Joe y Bathhouse Barry administration is weak. They are also cowards.
Let’s try to get this straight. Russia is trying to protect Russians on it’s own border, meanwhile we are being invaded on our southern border and the DC rats are promoting it.
Trump couldn’t do it.. but maybe Putin can..
maybe the American People.. or a reborn Texas Republic.. and Russia need to make an Alliance..
‘..because the enemy of my enemy are my friends..’ ..Juan Seguin
Obama and the CIA started this in 2014 when they overthrew the Ukraine Government and installed their puppets. Victoria Nuland told the Russians to “Get out of the Crimea”. So Putin was not going to lose the Black Sea Fleet Naval Base so he sent his military to secure the Crimea and the rest is history. The Ukrainians would still have their country intact with the Crimea if the CIA under Obama had not been such evil scum.
What would our reaction be if the Russians had overthrown the government of Canada and installed one hostile to America ?
My fear and terrible gut feeling is that the Russians have now moved too many units into play and spent too many resources for something not to happen. IMHO Putin has had enough of the neocons and now he is going to do something about it. Putin said recently: “The Western powers who seek to provoke us must understand that Russia will not again fight a war on our soil.” So my wild guess:
The Russians will push out and anex enough territory to comfortably defend the Crimea and the Donbass from any possible military ground threats. I doubt Putin wants the whole of the Ukraine. In the process they will kill many Ukrainians. A terrible state of affairs and one that was totally brought about by Obama and Biden.
Putin would be an idiot to not be seeding the USA with Russian operative “illegals” seeking “asylum” through Mexico. If I were the head of a hostile state, I’d do it in a New York second. Who wouldn’t infiltrate their enemy at their enemy’s invitation and expense and install a fifth column complete with suitcase nukes and the will to use them?
We are fools to throw open our borders to other countries’ unvetted “chirren” to the point of destroying our own country. Only fools are controlled by their emotions.
I’ve had a persistently bad feeling that the COVID epidemic was just a training session for something far worse. I can’t shake it. It might just be due to the societal effects of COVID itself or watching a few docs and movies about the start of WW II and how shocked and surprised many of its victims were.
Then, I realized that humanity still has an abundant supply of evil people in the world that would create another holocaust or worse if they were given the chance. Senile Biden’s presidency makes it far more likely that a crazed tyrant or even a rogue superpower in the world will become over confident about a weakened and confused American led deterrent that has prevented many serious incidents over the years.
I am not surprised that JoeBama flinched against the Russians and I’m not surprised at the Russian aggression. The tyrants of the world see and smell weakness and confusion. The gov’t is not run in the WH as it usually is. God knows where and how the decisions and policies are actually made and from how many disparate locations.
The ideal of a steady, competent continuum of leadership does not seem to be present and the terrible and misguided choices Biden has made for the JoeBama cabinet make it even worse. The worst aspect of a major conflict is that it is easier to start but often impossible to end unless one side surrenders. The people are powerless to prevent it and stop it if the wrong group of people are in charge–like now!
“the COVID epidemic was just a training session for something far worse’.
Yep, govt restrictions and control of your movements is coming in the name of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Carbon is life’s exhalation, you get power over everything if you can convince the plebs they’re all going to die and govt will save them.
Remember half the population has an IQ less than 100, and that’s barely enough to do your shoe laces up.
Putin knows that Obama is essentially the U.S. president and Biden is just a figurehead front. He knows Obama is weak and mostly wants to take down his own country as punishment for past treatment of blacks. He knows he can walk all over Obama … as he did during his first 8 years as president.
Biden hey COMPROMISED with his WHOLE family by CHINA and now backing down to Russia. Make America Great Again in REVERSE.
No Russian ever called me a deplorable.
That’s very good.
Speaks of many things.
Sundance, sorry but you are wrong on geography. Putin has blocked the Sea of Azov, not the Black Sea, to U.S. ships. The Sea of Azov is a branch of the Black Sea, but it is held by the Ukraine and Russia. The 2003 treaty between Russia and the Ukraine that defined the land borders did not address the Sea of Azov.
Turkey controls that entrance. Im sure you know this, if you know your geography.
The US ‘has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing’.
Ukraine has some Vietnam familiarities .
Both State players are toxic.
If we go there it’s about ‘face’, not national interest. Get the Japs to explain ‘face’ to you.
What is “victory” if the US military ever get involved? Is that like Afghanistan or Iraq?
Ukraine has the same white-ant Russian population as Sth Vietnam had VC supporters at village level.
US industries that support war efforts with materiel loved/love the idea of either of these conflicts getting as big as possible sub nuke.
Good luck to Ukraine, get an AK 47 and see how you go.
I pass.
Biden isn’t the problem. Biden has dementia. Obama is in the White House ‘basement’ controlling things.
Obama–the great American apologist.
Biden was inaugurated into an already setup, functioning, administration.
Obama was known for drawing red lines only to promptly retreat instantly if challenged–as the Russians just did.
Russia and China see an opportunity to make some moves with spineless Democrats in the White House. Our military brass also fails to impress.
Half Chan says they’re flooding the tunnels in DC. The white hats.
Our military brass is stupid. Sad Dog Fat Ass Mattis? Lloyd Austin? Milley?
Putin is no Popcorn.
Who in their right mind would be ok with sending their kids to Ukraine to fight Vlad at the behest of a MultiNational corporate cartel and their Uniparty members? Will we be treated to a Gulf of Tonkin incident, to rally the patriots? Do not underestimate The Illegitimate Usurpers owners.
They’re counting on flyover country to do what it’s always done and that’s support their dumb wars.
Toby Keith is ready with another pro war song and Hannity will play it ad nauseum.