Why are we rushing to defend Ukraine? [merged threads]

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

Putin is a genius.  Put a bunch of troops along the border for training.  Let the satellites pick them up.  The price of gas goes up, profits go up for Russia, and pays for the training exercises plus a few million more.

#winning

 

[Dashinka 24,448]

21 minutes ago, LIBrty4all said:

Putin is a genius.  Put a bunch of troops along the border for training.  Let the satellites pick them up.  The price of gas goes up, profits go up for Russia, and pays for the training exercises plus a few million more.

#winning

 

I was thinking the same thing.  Putin could have taken Ukraine anytime in 2014 through 2017 if he wanted.  Don't we regularly run military exercises to piss off KJU?

[Mike E 11,739]

Putin gets credit  for making America  energy  independent again.  
 

https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/82668985

 

“So this is a stunner, but there's a new report published by the financial times of London that the United States is on track to produce more energy in a single year than it ever has. And to reestablish itself as the world's largest energy producer of oil and natural gas.”

 

 

[Dashinka 24,448]

Well, Kamala is being dispatched to root cause this concern.  We can all rest easy.

 

Kamala Harris dispatched to Munich conference to talk Ukraine later this month

 

https://nypost.com/2022/02/09/kamala-harris-to-go-to-munich-conference-to-talk-ukraine/

[JoBri 547]

To me it all seems scarily too much like WW2. You have those like British PM Chamberlain who wanted to believe Hitler would stop being aggressive in taking over countries, just as so many think Putin won't try to re-establish the former Soviet Empire. You had an axis of evil, Germany/Japan/Italy. But now the axis is Russia/China/Iran/North Korea. In WW2, the USA thought they could stay and should  stay out of it, and just supply weapons to Great Britain, just as we now are doing for Ukraine and our NATO allies. Japan and Germany were rapidly building up their militaries and might in WW2, and now it is Russia and China. Yet in the end it was one, full blown, world war. It just seems to me, so similar, then and now. 

[JoBri 547]

You even have a little ethnic cleansing going on. 

 

 “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (George Santayana).

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

7 hours ago, JoBri said:

To me it all seems scarily too much like WW2. You have those like British PM Chamberlain who wanted to believe Hitler would stop being aggressive in taking over countries, just as so many think Putin won't try to re-establish the former Soviet Empire. You had an axis of evil, Germany/Japan/Italy. But now the axis is Russia/China/Iran/North Korea. In WW2, the USA thought they could stay and should  stay out of it, and just supply weapons to Great Britain, just as we now are doing for Ukraine and our NATO allies. Japan and Germany were rapidly building up their militaries and might in WW2, and now it is Russia and China. Yet in the end it was one, full blown, world war. It just seems to me, so similar, then and now. 

Cept in WW2 they didn't have ICBM s that could wipe our country off the face of the Map from the other side of the world 

[Mike E 11,739]

7 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Cept in WW2 they didn't have ICBM s that could wipe our country off the face of the Map from the other side of the world 

Ukraine probably wishes it had nukes.  
 

If Ukraine survives this, I expect it will get nukes.  

[Mike E 11,739]

15 hours ago, JoBri said:

. But now the axis is Russia/China/Iran/North Korea.

+ Pakistan

[Dashinka 24,448]

1 hour ago, Mike E said:

+ Pakistan

Wait, I thought Pakistan was our friend?

 

What seems evident is the leaders in the West and especially our current inept leader seem to be promoting and pushing an invasion.  Somehow we now know Putin will invade/escalate on Wednesday, how do we know this?  Kind of eliminates a potential surprise.  

[TBoneTX 45,156]

Gotta keep them military contractors mollified!

[Dashinka 24,448]

6 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Gotta keep them military contractors mollified!

And try and boost Senile Joe’s approval ratings as well as deflect from other stuff.

[TBoneTX 45,156]

6 hours ago, Dashinka said:

deflect from other stuff

Yes!  What right-thinking folk could possibly focus on inflation, bare store shelves, et al. when patriotic Americans are protecting our vital national interests in Ukraine?

[Dashinka 24,448]

6 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Yes!  What right-thinking folk could possibly focus on inflation, bare store shelves, et al. when patriotic Americans are protecting our vital national interests in Ukraine?

I think you meant to say "the Biden family's vital interest" in Ukraine.

[STO Overland 137]

 

On 2/7/2022 at 6:21 PM, Dashinka said:

 Heck, even our own "leader" here really has no empathy for anyone else other than himself and his family.

We just need to go back one president and we can all state the exact same thing; unless one is wearing a blindfold or don't really give a flying $%&% about what he did because giving a flying $%&% wouldn't not suit the present agenda ! But my comment deflect from the topic question. 

 

JoBri: thank you for your service and for your insight..

 

Interesting piece that is worth 10 minutes of your time to digest. 

 

https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/yes-you-should-care-about-ukraine 

 

Edited February 14, 2022 by B52Boozer