Ukraine Always Get What You Want

That Russia's military is either so clumsy or so ruthless as to shoot up a nuclear power plant still isn't a confidence-builder though, is it?

 

It may yet come to pass that the US military becomes involved. But it needs to be a calculated decision, not an emotional response driven by armchair dilettantes like us. Sorry that I’ve been ruined forever on being quick to back foreign excursions. You may mail complaint letters to the George W Bush Presidential Library.

 

The fact that the Russians have struggled with what is essentially the Bad News Bears of militaries hasn't been a confidence builder.

 

Ukraine is the size of Texas. The Russians still need more troops.

 

Putin can take his stupid trophy and shove it up his ass.

 

"Two-four-six-eight! Who we here to liberate?!"

 

A lot of us argued against that particular instance of halfwit US adventurism at the time. Not only because of the cost in lives, but in the loss of diplomatic advantage and moral leverage.

The idea there's been no planning for this - Putin invading Europe - as part of our trillion-dollar-a-year military/diplomatic apparatus is mind-boggling/heartbreaking.

 

Can someone explain something to me that I read this morning. It was the typical gobbledygook about how strong Trump was and that's why this is happening now. But one of the things that was mentioned was that Trump was with the Chinese president in FL, the US bombed Syria, so the world the knew not to mess with us. Can anyone parse that? I don't understand the meaning of it

 

Not me. I fell in line like a good little Southern fried Republican. I wasn’t cheering for war exactly, but I trusted what I was told and felt it needed to happen. Being a 20-something was a trip, man.

 

I'm much older, and was raised on a nightly TV dinnertime diet of network news body counts from Vietnam.

After which, Watergate.

I haven't trusted much of anything since.

 

China torturing and killing an ethnic minority in concentration camps for years.

But Ukrainian flags.

lol