War in Ukraine

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YankeeVol said:
How so?
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Budapest Memorandum, of which there were three total. Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Ukraine being the most lucrative as the day after the dissolution of the USSR they had the worlds third largest nuclear weapons stockpile.

I doubt Belarus or Kazakhstan ever call that bill due. But Ukraine did.
 
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Burhead said:
Just wondering if this is why he announced that new 150,000 man paramilitary force? Luka pays lip service to Putin but I get the sense he doesn't support the full annexation of Belarus into Russia proper.
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Well I’d guess that arming the locals that you intend to ultimately subjugate isn’t high on even the Russian idiot’s Bingo cards so you might just be right. This should be popcorn worthy watching Luka try to navigate the situation if that report has any legs.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Well I’d guess that arming the locals that you intend to ultimately subjugate isn’t high on even the Russian idiot’s Bingo cards so you might just be right. This should be popcorn worthy watching Luka try to navigate the situation if that report has any legs.
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Unless these paramilitaries they are arming are aligned with a USSR, greater Russia model.

Most of the control methods started out "unofficially". It was the 'will of the people' to start up these firing squads on hosting nation wide witch hunts of anyone not Soviet enough. Ignore the man behind the curtain establishing and arming those firing squads.
 
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LouderVol said:
Unless these paramilitaries they are arming are aligned with a USSR, greater Russia model.

Most of the control methods started out "unofficially". It was the 'will of the people' to start up these firing squads on hosting nation wide witch hunts of anyone not Soviet enough. Ignore the man behind the curtain establishing and arming those firing squads.
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Valid point to consider.
 
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hog88 said:
Jill wouldn't be mortgaging our country for Ukraine, she'd be doing to line the pockets of the green weenies.

Great, they should be footing the entire bill. It is their continent.
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You must not have paid much attention to the news. They even accused Stein at one time of being a Russian agent. Just like they have Tulsi.
 
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AM64 said:
We let unions run wild, and never applied antitrust regulations to them like we did companies. Unions sell labor; companies sell goods and services - should be a direct correlation. Companies theoretically can't collude or monopolize markets, unions are free to do both; that means unions have had unfair advantage which invariably leads to increasing wage rates with no matching increase in productivity. Next are minimum wage rates that get bumped time and again for no good reason except to make liberals feel good. Any increase in the cost of labor without a matching increase in productivity is inflationary and skews the local labor rate vs the broader labor rate (global labor rate in this case). We simply overpriced US labor.

The other issue is that of skills and work ethic. We are losing ground with both. Some groups of people are more enamored with gang life or "appearance" than they are with working and gaining the required education. Other groups have been oversold on "college for everybody" and don't feel that labor is for them. We're like a spoiled society - spoiled kids who want a life of leisure without having to earn it and brats who don't want to do anything productive. Look at education scores and check where Asians stack up against the rest of US society - a particularly apt comparison since we were talking Taiwan and electronics manufacturing.
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You wouldn’t rather spend billions on Ukraine than spend millions on labor.
 
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TVOLS said:
Poor choice of describing it. They contacted Russia to notify them who would be visiting for "deconflicting purposes" (no permission ask). Meaning Biden visiting today I wouldn't do anything stupid.
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If Ukraine has control of the air space and air superiority… and if you are the POTUS, you don’t ask for permission. Isn’t that what the narrative was when Pelosi went to Taiwan?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
If Ukraine has control of the air space and air superiority… and if you are the POTUS, you don’t ask for permission. Isn’t that what the narrative was when Pelosi went to Taiwan?
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How often has China shelled Taiwan in the last year? How many times has Russia shelled Kyiv?

See how that was a dumb comparison?
 
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