As the White House continues to escalate tensions in/around Ukraine, in order to create the self-fulfilling prophecy of Joe Biden as the magnanimous savior of all things Ukrainian, Russian President Vladimir Putin now starts positioning his own leverage against the western geopolitical narrative.
Delivering a national address today, Russian President Putin announced Russia would recognize the eastern Ukraine regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent breakaway territories. “I deem it necessary to make a decision that should have been made a long time ago — to immediately recognize the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic,” Putin said in his televised address.
Immediately following Putin’s remarks, the Joe Biden administration began organizing other allied governments to condemn Putin’s decision as a flagrant violation of the Minsk peace accords. The prior agreement of ‘limited political autonomy‘ paused a nearly eight-year-long regional fight in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. The people within the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine are favorable to Russia, supportive of Russia and do not align with the official government of Ukraine.
European leaders and the U.K. then vowed to trigger additional sanctions against Russia for Putin’s decision to support Donetsk and Luhansk as independent regions within Ukraine. However, the EU/UK did not outline what sanctions would be triggered, in part because the EU still wants to purchase energy from Russia, and in part because, well, meaningless prose is always the way the EU works.
This is, after all, a geopolitical exhibition of political theatre, you’ll see how below.
Following Putin’s remarks, the Kremlin also released a statement repeating their claims of western Ukraine military aggression that the government of Ukraine have repeatedly denied. The White House then released a statement saying Joe Biden called Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
WHITE HOUSE – President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine to reaffirm the commitment of the United States to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. President Biden strongly condemned Russian President Putin’s decision to purportedly recognize the “independence” of the so-called DNR and LNR regions of Ukraine.
He updated President Zelenskyy on the United States’ response, including our plan to issue sanctions. President Biden reiterated that the United States would respond swiftly and decisively, in lock-step with its Allies and partners, to further Russian aggression against Ukraine. (more)
The White House then tells us that Biden called French weasel Macron, who has been working as a narrative engineer on behalf of the people who control Joe Biden. Nothing happened, no actual sanctions were discussed, they just talked again and agreed to keep talking about what they have been discussing in their talks:
WHITE HOUSE – President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke with President Emmanuel Macron of France and Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany today about Russia’s ongoing escalation along the borders of Ukraine. The leaders strongly condemned President Putin’s decision to recognize the so-called DNR and LNR regions of Ukraine as “independent.” They discussed how they will continue to coordinate their response on next steps. (read more)
The White House then stomped their feet and turned a glaring stare toward the people in Eastern Ukraine who are favorable to Russia.
Instead of punishing Russia or issuing sanctions against Russia, Joe Biden signed an executive order [READ HERE] that targets the people who live in the eastern Ukraine regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Anyone from inside this DNR/LNR region of Ukraine is now blocked from any access to the U.S. financial system, banned from travel to the United States, and all U.S. assets and property of Ukrainian citizens in the disputed region are now frozen.
If you live in Eastern Ukraine and you do not align with the interests of Western Ukraine, Europe, NATO and the United States you are now being punished. The intent seems to be to make the Eastern Ukrainians suffer for supporting their independence. So much for that freedom thing.
The Executive Order outlines the punishment:
[…] “For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660, expanded in Executive Orders 13661 and 13662, and further expanded by this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 2 of this order. (LINK)
Despite the public proclamations that Russia is to blame for all the ills in the region, Biden will punish Eastern Ukraine for being Eastern Ukraine and totally ignore Russia. Why? Because there’s no evidence Russia has anything to do with what’s going on in Eastern Ukraine other than their support.
So, does Hunter still get his paycheck? Or is that money from the non-sanctioned areas?
Gotta be able to support the baby mama!
I’m confused.
Can’t answer that, but I DO know that Zelensky’s got a great cat-ate-the-canary smirk in that photo of him
I think Putin and Zelensky have decided to take turns punking and trolling Biden, NATO, Great Britain and the EU.
Da!
Wouldn’t be the first time they’ve shook down the US taxpayers.
Everyone involved is on the take.
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Putin just peed on Biden’s victory cone.
that ain’t a victory cone it’s a dunce cap
Look, my son has a whole lot of baby mamas that you don’t even know about.
I taught him well because I’m a skank.
Signed,
Jill Biden
Well, maybe he can shift his rhetoric to Eastern and Western Ukraine, and send in some “peace-keeping” troops. Kamala can lead the effort.
It’s just a matter of time before the RCMP and the CIA glowboys arrive with their tacticool stuff.
You will NOT celebrate your independence.
Oh Noes!!
Well now that Russian Forces have entered Ukraine, we shall see where the rubber meets the road.
These criminals in DC will either get us all killed, or they will try their hardest to muck it all up.
Of course, one must cover up the corruption and disease that runs amok in Washington. Russia is no pushover, and I truly hope these cretins dont stick their noses in.
It’s over.
Putin won.
We – in this case the bad guys – lost.
Kind’a like Afghanistan
Lesko Brandon FJB
😉🇺🇸
Yes. This was very clever of President Putin.
He allowed the hysteria to run rampant, invasion invasion invasion!
So when he actually now sends his troops, no one is invaded, just supported.
Had he done this three months ago, he would have been decried.
Now?
Meh.
If those idiots go to war with Russia, China will join Russia and we will have an unwindable war on two fronts.
We still have 4 days left this week. Expect further stupidity!
With Mexico being declared the winner.
Absolutely unwinnable! China makes everything, and has all the food. Russia has all the minerals, gas, oil contracts.
The Communists in the government are showing who is boss, and it is their paymaster, China!
Stock up on everything to keep your family fed and safe. Even dental/Doctor practices are shutting down. People can’t afford them
China is using the Blank Grudge Murders play in Korea and Japan.
Just as we made an ugly U-turn on race relations, ’tis the same there, same authors too.
Dark Lies Matter.
Which is the other front?
China is incapable of an attack on the US. Taiwan, maybe.
Just think of what would happen if a war with Russia and China . We make nothing here 🤷♂️
Maybe this was the minor incursion Biden mentioned in January and the big guy’s cut just got bigger.
Investing.com (@Investingcom) Tweeted:
*PUTIN SAYS UKRAINE IS A U.S. COLONY WITH ‘A PUPPET REGIME’
*PUTIN SAYS U.S. AND NATO HAVE UNASHAMEDLY TURNED UKRAINE INTO A THEATRE OF WAR https://t.co/eToyByTv92
Well, there ya go!
Истина!
If Joe Biden had been President on December 7, 1941, he would have sanctioned the Hawaiians after the Japanese attack,
Would not be surprised if no serious sanctions are ever implemented. After all, the EU and US are buying Russian oil, and you can rest assured Putin has so much dirt on the Biden’s he feels comfortable taking these steps.
Not the whole island chain; just Honolulu!
This should solve a lot of problems.
https://babylonbee.com/news/ukraine-asks-kyle-rittenhouse-to-guard-their-border
Actually, right after the trial I read the analyses by a lot of lawyers who were on Rittenhouse’s side. They seemed to think it would be hard for Kyle to win these cases.
We shall see.
Putin has very shrewdly outmaneuvered Biden and his feckless administration. This would NOT have happened with President Trump.
Sorry, but Putin did not need to expend any shrewdness, to outwit the gang that not just can’t shoot straight, but that consistently shoots themselves in the foot.
Even Barry said it; ” never underestimate Joes ability to f*ck things up!”
You know this how?
You have to laugh at the incompetency of the decadent West.
President Trump warned Germany.
“warned Germany”
Is that in the video at a certain time stamp?
Or just your general statement like “warned Germany not to get dependent on Russian natural gas (Nordstream2)?
I watched most of it but lost concentration part way thru and got distracted onto something else
12:00
thx much, Daniel, I’ll tune it in
The video cites NATO nations warning, but not PDJT specifically, though I do indeed recall him saying essentially just this.
Germany really crippled itself with the Green Fantasy.
Don’t we buy a boat load of oil products from Putin??
Yup, and we want more. Which shows you that none of this is really serious. It’s all for show.
Exactly, US politicians arejust BSing. This is for the MIC.
And fertilizer, a shit load, (obvious pun), of Russian fertilizer
That’s gonna suffer big time, already big cuts due to production difficulties in Russia, and poking the Bear has consequences.
Yup.we’re now a net importer of oil. 15 months ago we were a net exporter
And today a large refinery in Louisiana blew up.
Just a coincidence I’m sure. No CCP agents made a trip from their Houston redoubt or anything like that – and if they did Homeland Security will get right on it . . . Just as soon as they finish their 1000th viewing of their favorite porn scenes from Hunter Biden’s laptop.
And a top fertilizer plant went up in flames a few weeks ago 🤷♂️
Isn’t 800k-900k a day of crude oil enough?
So the Demented Fraud’s puppet masters wrote a sternly worded letter that says in part; “Hey you peasants living in eastern Ukraine can’t put your nonexistent retirement accounts in the US”. That should show those people that their potatoe diets are safe as long as they keep living in poverty.
So surprised lol…
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1495909788596805632
It seems like a lot of activity to try to make the resident look “presidential”; someone should have told them they needed more to work with before they wasted all this time and effort.
No matter how you frame it, they are still putting lipstick on the pig.
Look ! a leader working for the benefit of his own countries interest… Wow, What a concept! Maybe the Oval Office intruder-pooper could learn something. Nope, he is incapable of any kind of self-examination. If Jill ever told him he was a little girl, you can bet he’d do nothing but self-exam.
I have no idea if we should care about this. But lets see what tomorrow brings.
The biggest play would be to accept Ukraine into NATO immediately. Russia would be livid. But with 70% of their military sitting on the border they would be sitting ducks. And the rest of their country would be ripe for the taking. FJB and FVP as well. I hate all commies equally.
Let me guess you have no children or grand-children serving in the military.
No but part of my son is still in Afghanistan. The other parts are buried in a graveyard in Georgia. So there’s that.
So let’s support something that potentially puts millions in the dirt? There is no ripe for the taking when considering a nuclear power. Good grief.
Whatever happens in Ukraine is not worth one ounce of American blood.
Enough already!
Our agreement in 1993 was for Russia to remove it’s nukes from Ukraine and we would not allow Ukraine in NATO. That’s the agreement we signed
In 1990 we promised Russia that NATO would not expand East, not one kilometer.
NATO is now a treacherous farce.
You are sick
Russia is no longer under a communist government. They are also not stupid, and want nothing to do with bailing out the Nazis who 8 years ago staged a coup against the elected government of Ukraine with the help of the CIA. Why in the world would they want to take on the burden of cleaning up that cesspit of a nation?
The people of Donetsk and Luhansk did not want to accept the coup (sound sorta familiar?), and resisted the Nazis. For this crime the Nazis have attacked them for 8, count ’em 8 years. But just as the US has supported jihadi headchoppers to attack “enemies” with all of the murder and mayhem that followed, they have also supported the Nazis who have committed murder and mayhem on the Russian ethnics of eastern Ukraine. The only ones who have come to their aid has been Russia.
The commies you should be concerned with are the ones in the US and Canada who are destroying our freedoms and cultures. As I said at the start, Russia is not a communist state now, nor has it been for years. As is becoming clearer day by day, we are the country under that threat.
The Cold War has been over for decades, and Russia could have been our friend had it not been for the ignorant hatred toward them – no longer communists, get it? – kept alive by people such as yourself. You want to know why they are aligning with China? Because all of the promises made to not expand NATO were broken by “Our Leaders”, and for their own safety the Russian people had to recognize that those same “Leaders” were doing everything in their power to destroy their nation and undermine their culture no matter what. They have religious freedom, and are NOT okay with wokeism, and these policies are supported by their government.
Not communists.
Agreed in full.
Well explained.
If anything, the American working class is more aligned with Putin than our own leaders. He is fighting the same puppet-master we are.
Why is collusion with Russia so exaggerated? Because friendly relations with Putin and Russia would crush the Globalists, that’s why.
Russia is the only country to have survived Jeffery Sachs and George Soros’s criminal privatization looting scheme, and risen to beat them back. Putin did that, and that’s why they fear and loathe him.
dumb idea
Ah, but this portends Biden using this same financial sanctions against American citizens. The same method being used by Trudeau against the truckers: freeze the accounts of anyone who opposes the Biden regime. Anyone who opposes Democrat policies. Anyone who is Republican or who supports Trump.
Gee, why didn’t he just freeze their bank accounts?/sarc
Just coincidental timing that this occurred simultaneously with Canadas parliament voted for tyranny?
MLK would have rotted in Birmangham jail, his and his supporters bank accounts frozen, if only Alabama had “Emergency powers”.
In a battle of wits against Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden is unarmed.
Joe was extorting Ukraine for a billion US dollars in aid. Fire the prosecutor that’s investigating my son Hunter.
He admitted it and bragged about it at a CFR meeting.
Biden’s now REPAYING Ukraine with BILLIONS of OUR Tax Dollars.
Heh Pe lo si, exactly what was the impeachment funny business distracting us from…eh?
Outta the mouths of babes comes wisdom 🙂
It’s obvious this is the goal now , provoke Putin with Ukraine attacking those cities 🤷♂️
So I believe the CR had $770B for the Pentagon – How much goes to Ukraine? How much of that comes back to the people manipulating Biden? Kiev/ Kyiv a money laundering operation?
Business as usual.
SOB grifter.
Soooo is Putin really the bad guy? Are we the baddies? 🤣
We citizens aren’t the baddies. Just the knuckle headed racist communist demoncrats in charge of the charade.
Far more than they alone, the Derp State is a bipartisan cesspool of murderous corruption.
But only 2 or 3 Republicans surface to protest. I bet OUR Congress can’t even muster as many against a totalitarian takeover as Canada has.
Maybe this is Ron Klaine’s way of re-starting our own oil production.
Biden can fend off his LEFT FLANK of crazies by saying, “Because of Russia’s attack on democracy (cough, cough), we must put aside, but only for a short time, our goals to reduce our use, in order to face an immediate danger.”
And, in that way, oil flows again and makes voters happy.
Too late.
The oil companies will NOT stupidly expand production to erase their windfall profits … which Beijing Biden plans to confiscate as soon as the 22 Election Theft is complete.
See ZeroHedge post a few days ago.
That would be crediting him with any good intentions towards US citizens.
I do not believe the people running Biden have any intention of allowing US elections in November, sad to say, so they have stopped caring about polls and favorability numbers.
Gas prices jumped again. Soon anyone who is not working at home in front of a laptop is going to be howling.
“How dare you?”
-Greta Thunberg
I don’t want Putin to run over anyone, but when it comes to the gov’t of Ukraine, I don’t give a damn if the laundered money that flows through spigots back to American pols and former American pols AND THEIR WIVES is shut off.
Yeah, Cindy McCain!
Were the Iraq and Libya wars over money……the petrodollar……??????
Is the next war over Ukraine about money……the petrodollar……??????
Putin is threatening to replace the petrodollar with gold, gold backed currency, and/or even cryptocurrency…….
https://www.encouragingangels.org/new-blog/2022/2/18/lmsj6sn6dnnscl3mbpmuvpq8ofjypd
I think Qaddafi was also looking to replace the petrodollar with an independent African currency backed by gold and silver.
Absolutely. The Wikileaks emails proved it. That’s the real reason, or one of them, that Samantha Powers bombed Libya.
The Qaddafi gold is still missing, as far as anyone knows. Under some rocks in the desert somewhere. Or not.
The more we screw with the world in screamingly obviously corrupt ways the more reason and ability we are giving them to kill the petrodollar.
The pain would be unimaginable for us, yet our fools risk it, if not beg for it.
back in the day, Putin allegedly said something along the lines of: “Negotiating with Obama was like playing chess with a pigeon. He knocks over all the pieces, poops all over the board, and struts around like he did something smart.”
Can’t wait to see what he thinks about negotiating with Biden*.
When asked about Edward Snowden Putin was quoted, “Talking to him (Snowden) is like shearing swine; lots of squealing and very little wool”😱👍😎✌️
Does this fit Joe’s “minor incursion”?
Ending the Cold War, bringing down the Soviet Union, and establishing a lasting peace between the US and Russia is Ronald Reagan’s greatest achievement.
Democrats refuse to accept Reagan as one of the great presidents, which is why they must pretend none of those things happened.
Warmongering neocons didn’t like it either. They need their cold war.
I was really hoping Putin would just Red Pill America on everything the D.C. Swamp and Biden have been doing in the Ukraine -Give up names and evidence.
A weak America is good for Putin. There is no reason for Putin to make America great again even if he could destroy publicly the entire government.
Large portions of western Maryland that would LOVE to be annexed by West Virginia. I bet they are paying attention.
I’m rootin’ for Putin!
Putin has planted Russia on a new moral high ground by supporting two new Republics who have determined they do not belong to the Ukraine. Now when the west throws its hissy fit, Putin can point to Canada, Australia, and the U.S. and credibly ask what kind of moral ground the west has when it has jailed and is currently hunting down its own citizens who are supposed to have rights of free speech.
This is a tremendous turn of events and I think one day historians cataloguing this era will point to this as a defining moment of when the west lost any moral authority openly on the world stage.
It will be interesting to see how this continues to unfold.
In the meantime, let’s go Brandon!
Between Afghanistan & this, my guess is that the Uni-polar Moment is officially over.
That meantime will be VERY short-lived.
Putin told everyone they need to read “Always With Honor” by Pyotr Wrangel and started quoting whole passages of it without notes. Two years ago today, Joe Biden tweeted this:
yeah?
Biden doesn’t understand Putin’s plan: humiliate, not negotiate
Ghostwriter: I am reading the book now. Only a few pages in, but, very engaging, so far.
Wiki -“n September 2021, following the abrupt[16] withdrawal of the United States troops from Afghanistan under Biden‘s administration, in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, Wrangel’s grandson Peter A. Basilevsky compared the “bureaucratic incompetence” of the U.S. government in Afghanistan to the successful November 1920 evacuation of 150,000 anti-Bolshevik soldiers and civilians under Wrangel which became possible with far inferior resources of the White army and in the face of the advancing Red Army.[17]“
My copy is en-route.
Always With Honor (PDF book)
https://kyl.neocities.org/books/%5BHIS%20WRA%5D%20always%20with%20honor.pdf
Meanwhile, back in Taiwan…….
Ron Klain never saw the pitch Putin threw at him today. Klain got caught looking and struck out.
“What has America done for the benefit of mankind? She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”–John Quincy Adams, 1821
Despite John Quincy Adams’ best efforts, I live in a dictatorship. This IS an American Dictatorship, even if they still feel the need to try and hide it.
When the Permanent Government steals elections from the People and installs their own candidates instead of the ones chosen by voters, that is a Dictatorship.
When they use the Intelligence Agencies and National Police to wiretap, frame and overthrow their political opponents, that is a Dictatorship.
When they conspire with Big Tech Oligarchs to silence the opposition, that is a Dictatorship.
When they frame opponents in a Reichstag Riot and put them in Black Rendition Sites without trial, that is a Dictatorship.
When they conspire with America’s enemies–their partners–to unleash a Bio-Weapon Virus on America and then force Experimental Genetic Injections on the whole world for billions, maybe trillions in blood-money, that is a Dictatorship.
Putin steals elections, Biden steals elections.
Russia is run by sleazy oligarchs; America is run by sleazy oligarchs.
Russia’s system is corrupt top to bottom. Well, so is ours.
Russia suppresses political speech. So does America.
Russia uses Secret Police. So do we.
Every so-called Western “Democracy” has adopted some shade of COVID Naziism. Forced experimental injections, lockdowns, denial of medical freedoms, censorship of doctors and patients, etc..
Blackface Castreau wanted to shut down discussions of vaccines so badly he declared Martial Law. And especially any discussions about the Vaxx Passport. Not to mention, Canadian Big Pharma and Big Government collect patent royalties from every western Vaxx sold anywhere. And now that War on Canadians has been ratified by the Reichstag.
Just because Soros wants to run Russia as well as Ukraine, we’re supposed to invade Ukraine? RUFKM? When are Ukrainians going to come over here and fight for my freedom?
But we’re supposed to go somewhere to fight for somebody else’s freedom?
Brother, we’re fresh out over here. …………………………….
I’ve heard nothing but incessant warmongering in the Professional Liar-Media for weeks now. What is curious are the things we haven’t heard from the Press:
No discussion of Putin’s historical claims, whether right or wrong.
No discussions of the Soros Color Revolution conducted in Ukraine under Obama.
No discussions of Hunter and the bribery, payoffs and money-laundering there by the OBiden Syndicate.
No discussion of how the Big Guy Biden approved doubling Russia’s NordStream gas deliveries–and killed the competing EastMed pipeline in Israel and Greece.
Q: Why is Putin the sole designated rogue dictator when Trudeau just declared Martial Law against his peaceful political opponents?
Q: Why is Fake President Putin’s policy of Russian Reconquista wrong–and Fake President Biden’s policy of Central American Reconquista right?
That’s an awful lot of dogs not barking. Here’s one more:
We were all told that Donald Trump was compromised by Putin with Russian pee-pee hookers. It was all Clinton campaign/FBI horseshit without a shred of evidence. Yet it was in the headlines for years.
So it is now fair to ask; does Putin have similar–but real–kompromat on the Bidens? We’ve seen Hunter’s laptop with him screwing youngsters. We’ve seen Joe Biden assault girls onstage at televised ceremonies. If he couldn’t control himself in that setting, what did these freaks do for the cameras when they were overseas, with Intel professional setting honeytraps for them?
If it was fair to ask Actual President Trump, it is certainly fair to ask this pervy Imposter.
I don’t believe Biden will lift a finger. Against Putin, anyway.
Biden will do as he’s told. By Putin, anyway.
As a child, John Quincy climbed to the rooftop of his parents’ barn to witness the Battle of Bunker Hill and begin his part in that Mighty Struggle for American Freedom.
We’re halfway through the hayloft and headed north.
Rest in the Vine: Invasion of the Ukraine Snatchers
Many good points.
I will add the following for consideration:
There is video of Putin allegedly setting out, quite bluntly, the Western oligarchy’s assault on religion and Christianity in particular. He openly said that the Western elites worship Satan. I don’t speak Russian, but assuming the English subtitles were correct and fit the timing, he absolutely was not kidding when he said it. So, that is from the mouth of a horse that for sure knows the validity of the assertion.
Second, under Putin Russia was restored very quickly to being an openly Christian Orthodox country. Only four religions are legal in Russia: Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Islam, and Judaism. No Satanic temples allowed.
We know that Davos crowd loathes God and loathes Christianity in particular.
So . . . Are the Western oligarchs the baddies? Seems like maybe so.
https://vk.com/@580896205-putins-speech-prior-to-recognizing-donbass-republics
here is Putin’s speech today, machine translated
its long, and has many historical references
but it’s Putin’s thoughts right now on Ukraine
grab a drink, and spend some time digesting it.
According to Keane, Putin is after all of Ukraine and Ukraine will not be able to stop him. Russia is taking Ukraine and it’s over before it even begins.
thinks he has five stars
claims to have five aces
Isn’t Keane one of those Obama generals? Maybe I’m wrong.
What’s the benefit to Russia of having to control the Western, Ukrainian speaking portion of Ukraine? Just giving itself a headache. Unless there is a geostrategic advantage like a warm water port (Crimea), or a pipeline route they need, why bother?
BFS.
The General is spot on.
Keane is a rotten as Vienna sausages in a zip lock bag left out in the sun for two weeks.
He is the prototype of *.mil offal at the highest levels.
Can anybody explain to me why I should care if part of Ukraine decides to separate from the rest and/or join Russia
You shouldn’t care, joe
if you are in the US/Canada
This is purely for those interested in the geopolitical dynamics of Eastern Europe.
Your (our) energy prices will continue to rise. That’s about it.
If you have a son/daughter in the service, it might impact you,
If you are content to only examine North American happenings,
then this isn’t anything to worry about.
Your instincts are correct.
We are energy independent. Putin’s pipeline and politics thereof should have zero affect on oil prices here, but remember who is in charge. Big pharma, big oil and the list goes on. Reverse Fascism.
You SHOULD care if American leaders take us into ANOTHER European war.
NATO isn’t an American monolith
As much as the US foots the bill for NATO,
land we like to subscribe to American dominance
Germany, imo, is the decision maker here, as far as full on war is concerned
There is not much to win for the EU, and a lot to lose
The EU has to keep its trade doors with Russia open.
And yes, there isn’t a win here for the US and FJB.
The vast majority of people are asking the same question, Joe.
Whats the benefit for the US? It’s confusing, why the war drums are beating so hard.
That won’t translate into 2022/2024 votes, imo.
Upon reading this, the failed policy of past appeasement comes to mind. Since, it is only ethnic Russians living in those regions looking toward Russian identity seeking to keep aligned to the Russian orbit.
It is all orchestrated BS being built on a centuries long bogeymen.
Yes the Ukrainian identity has a very ugly past that plays on Russian strategic fears.
Fears that are likely have being knowingly gamed to bring about the current geopolitical divisions.
What do think Podesta and Manafort where doing in the pre-Trump era.
Thus enters the scraper of money being left on the table and his son.
Sundance tells us, this is all phoney baloney being designed to elevated Bid=nd as a mythological savory of peace in our times.
My exception to this observation is, “What if the fallout is being designed to bring about the replacement of the US dollar as the world’s currency reserve with all that entails.
Think about it.
How can extreme sanctions designed to destroy the Russian currency in the financial world result in anything but Russia forging currency relationships outside of US dollar global currency transactions mediums of settlements.
Result in anything than presenting an alternative to the US dollar.
The sixty four thousand dollar question is, “Is that the goal the Corporate multi-national Globalists.
Just food for thought beyond the by-lines and co-opted MSM selling a counter intelligence narrative bought and paid for by those that actually pay the bills of the corporate MSM free press.
So due you actually think Germany the largest European economy will willing enlist into sanctions that result in their economy kicking stakes off fences and smashing grandma’s piano to keep warm though the winter.
Thus enters a sanction busting divide, that cast light on NATO alignments.
That is what is meant by strategic divisions, leading to a global financial realignment that calls into question the dominance of the US dollar as the global currency reserve of economies of multinationally scale of transactions.
Just how much of the USofA domestic policy is alingned to seeing this result.
As always the answer is dependant on, “Just Who has paying the bills of our so-called free press.”
So, you mean one of Putin’s goals might be to do to the petrodollar what Soros did to the Russian ruble when Soros shorted it and caused one of the worst contractions in a nation’s economy ever? The kind of contraction that had Russian parents dropping their kids into orphanages so the children would not starve to death?
Talk about revenge being a dish best served cold.
Bankrupting Soros has got to be Putin’s idea of euphoric bliss.
Also, not sure if all the Canadians who just got their money frozen give two f”s about the world’s reserve currency being any good for anything, ATM.
After listening to Putin’s remarks today, I get the sense that Ukraine has been sort of a test run for “democratic” autocracy. It seems that the west has been perfecting their assest seizures, color revolutions, cultural conditionings, newspeak, etc. by experimenting on the people and institutions in Ukraine, then scaling upward from there.
So Beijing Biden and the EU are going to SANCTION the Ukraine break-away areas.
Add FREEZING their USA assets.
🤔 Putin just signed a ChYna deal to sell 100 million tons of COAL to ChYna.
… Giving Russia plenty of incoming cash.
So what happens when Putin requires Western Energy Importers to PAY in GOLD?
• EU CAN’T say NO to Russian Gas … that they receive through Pipelines from Russia through Ukraine.
• USAA CAN’T say NO to Russian Oil … which Beijing Biden has DOUBLED since taking office.
Ding ding ding on the gold. Who has been repatriating and stocking up gold these last eight years? China. Germany. Russia.
Poland too I think.
Russia could make Germany pay in gold.
Russia and China already worked out a payments settlement scheme outside SWIFT. No petrodollars being frozen for those two as a punishment.
Who is this Ron Klain idiot?
The hand behind the occupant or just another pawn of Obama and Rice, cabal??
Klain is a pawn of Obama but Klain’s parents told him he was the smartest boy they ever knew so we have that going for us!
Pawn of Val Jarret and Susan Rice.
Anybody know what Lisa Monaco and Alexandria Chalupa have been up to lately? Seems to me they both had pretty deep ties to Ukrainian corruptocrats. They were both up to their necks in RussiaGate and they may very well be concerned about what Durham might know.
Ugly ugly people. Vile.
So Putin did invade Ukraine – with words!
Russia’s ‘invasion’ of Ukraine looks pretty modest so far.
https://www.nationalia.info/img/750/750/27380
Russia has a weak economy and a dying population. (Vodka, abortion, grain drain, low birth rate, etc.)
Secondly, Russia has them by the balls – energy wise. Many European countries foolishly shut down nuclear plants; Green Energy isn’t producing what they had mapped out; and United States production (thank you, AOC) is off.
Many EU countries have fired up old coal plants.
Checkmate?
Who is going to win a battle of wits between Putin and Dementia Joe? That’s a tough one.
Sundance…You surely do not need my input but I have to say, you spit out a winner almost daily. It is not because of hard work but a talent for the truth.
It time for someone to tell biden to STFU and that he does not get to tell other countries what to do.
FJB is a total loser
FU46
FJB