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Message 2094726 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 2:56:10 UTC

Thank You UKRAINE Crisis fo Showing World and Particularly da VOTERs of America the DING BATs Named SUPERJOkE and Kam a BLAH.

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Message 2094730 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 5:18:16 UTC - in response to Message 2094726.  

Dull, when the guy who couldn't keep his pants zipped was in, Putin knew he had a lackey; He doesn't have one now.
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Message 2094732 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 5:50:54 UTC

Oh look! Dull has stopped flying the Russian flag all of a sudden. :-O
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Message 2094748 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 14:24:21 UTC - in response to Message 2094732.  

Oh look! Dull has stopped flying the Russian flag all of a sudden. :-O

Oh, wonder if he got a visit. A friends daughter got a visit. One of those three letter visits where they seek to determine your loyalty.
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Message 2094762 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 19:57:47 UTC

Well the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project is dead in the water while sanctions on five Russian banks and three Russian individuals go into action as Tanks roll into Ukraine as Europe makes first big moves.

U.S. will sanction Russian financial firms, sovereign debt and individuals after Ukraine incursion.
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Message 2094773 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 22:31:10 UTC

Once Puten is done with annexing the Ukraine will he go for Alaska claiming the US swindled it from Russia?
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Message 2094810 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 17:47:59 UTC - in response to Message 2094773.  

Once Puten is done with annexing the Ukraine will he go for Alaska claiming the US swindled it from Russia?

Yep. Very likely.

Especially so since he seems to keep on getting away with his now well rehearsed 'game'...

See:

... Putin’s Donbass Move & Why Western Sanctions May Not Deter Russia...
wrote:
... PUTIN USING HIS OLD PLAYBOOK IN UKRAINE?... [As done for his Ossetia, Georgia, and Crimea invasions]...




All a very deadly game.

Appeasement looks to have failed again. Are Big Guns the only option?...


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Message 2094818 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 19:20:03 UTC

One question. In the long or short run has appeasement ever worked? The best that could be said about Neville Chamberlain's appeasement actions was that they bought some time for England to arm up.
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Message 2094855 - Posted: 24 Feb 2022, 1:40:26 UTC - in response to Message 2094818.  
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From my reading of history, Appeasement is useful for a brief delay but is never anything more than procrastination into ever greater future pain...

Note: Putin, as for various other dictators, do not think beyond the utility of their 'expendables' (people)...


Hard harsh cruel reality: Psychopaths have never learnt the beauty of caring about, or caring for, people. They really do not have the brain circuitry for such feelings. No arguing or reasoning is possible. There simply is not the awareness there about the feelings of people for any meaningful discussion to be possible. Totally coldly numbingly unbelievably chilling.

Hope that you never need to deal with such a thing.


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Message 2094856 - Posted: 24 Feb 2022, 1:44:38 UTC
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Two current views for Putin's moves:


RUSSIA HAS LIST OF UKRAINIANS "TO BE KILLED OR SENT TO CAMPS" AFTER INVASION...


UKRAINE ISN’T THE ONLY TARGET OF PUTIN’S AGGRESSION...



This is where we are ALL thrust into unfortunately unwelcome 'Interesting Times'...

Where the cruel laughs of Putin and Jinping hauntingly hunt across The World.


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Message 2094863 - Posted: 24 Feb 2022, 3:56:57 UTC

WAR

Not a Movie

REAL HELL

I Hate Being Human Right Now.

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Message 2094869 - Posted: 24 Feb 2022, 7:41:41 UTC

Is it possible that the Russian people over the last twenty years or so have been exposed to the western world enough to resist a move to put things back the way they were during the cold war?
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Message 2094900 - Posted: 25 Feb 2022, 0:42:01 UTC

So, I guess that means that all of the YouTube videos that depict everyday life in Russia is pretty much the same as it is anywhere else in europe or at least eastern europe is just well supervised propaganda choreographed to appear like things are better than they really are. I would have hoped that exposure to a freer way of living would have spawned a need for more freedom in everyday life.
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Message 2094928 - Posted: 25 Feb 2022, 14:44:45 UTC

Now this is really worrying.

Ukraine sees radiation spike in Chernobyl after Russia attack.

Ukrainian authorities said that radiation levels had increased in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and warned the seizure of the nuclear plant by invading Russian troops could have “terrible consequences.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered his troops to invade Ukraine and on the same day they seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in one of the most radioactive places on earth.

Ukrainian authorities also said that they had informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that they had lost control of highly radioactive fuel rods from the power plant.

“In the terrible hands of the aggressor, this significant amount of plutonium-239 can become a nuclear bomb that will turn thousands of hectares into a dead, lifeless desert,” said Ukraine’s environmental protection ministry...
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Message 2094940 - Posted: 25 Feb 2022, 15:54:37 UTC - in response to Message 2094928.  

Just one example of the plunder of a madman?


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Message 2094941 - Posted: 25 Feb 2022, 16:02:23 UTC

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, "Vlad the Invader" intends to rebuild the USSR while the USSE argue over sanctions.
Wonder how their "mythical" EU army would have dealt with the situation?
Politicians & diplomats "alway" know what's best for their citizens.
Here's a quote I came across recently while reading up on WWII (Special Boat Squadron).
Note the date.
For further context, here is a parliamentary discussion between conservative MP Simon Wingfield Digby and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, 1944:
“Is it true, prime minister, that there is a body of men out in the Aegean islands, fighting under the Union flag, that are nothing short of being a band of murderous, renegade cut-throats?”
“If you do not take your seat and keep quiet, I will send you out to join them!”
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Message 2094944 - Posted: 25 Feb 2022, 16:21:19 UTC

Putin Says He’s Ready for Talks With Ukraine After Xi Call.

But will Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy be silly enough to travel to Minsk?
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Message 2094962 - Posted: 25 Feb 2022, 21:46:20 UTC

Very large protest demonstrations have, and continue to take place in a number of cities throughout Russia These are occurring , even in the face of mass arrests. Many highly placed civic authorities in Russia have signed a statement opposing this wrongful war of choice against Ukraine.

A whole platoon of Russian motorcycle reconnaissance soldiers have surrendered to the Ukrainian authorities. They said that they were told they were on a peacekeeping mission. They did not bargain on a bloody war of conquest again a sovereign nation of fellow-Slavs.

Against a much stronger adversary, Ukrainian soldiers have turned back invading Russian forces from various strategically important places near the Ukraine-Russian frontier. These include an airport near Kyiv, and a bridge in the South of Ukraine. Both were needed by the Russian military to continue their invasion.

Mr. Putin is mistaken in his assertion that Ukraine is a sham nation, with no right to exist. It has resisted assaults on its sovereignty by conquerors, for centuries, as real historians have now repeatedly pointed out.
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Message 2094970 - Posted: 26 Feb 2022, 0:20:33 UTC

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Message 2094971 - Posted: 26 Feb 2022, 0:21:40 UTC
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This is, unfortunately, a lot more than just Putin's "game".

The lives of many people live or die by Putin's supposed "game".

Also, the next games at play by Jinping and (whatever Ayatollahs of) Iran follow on from the gaming seen for Ukraine...


Appeasement has never been seen to lessen strife and death...

Sadly, Putin has chosen to chase the rites of a Madman to chase trial-by-death.


Here's hoping the ENTIRE WORLD rallies to a positive rescue.

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