War in Ukraine

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MontyPython said:
Big Tyler Durdin fan.

His article is spot on.

Russia's weapons are tanks and bombs. Ours are dollars and sanctions.

If Russian economy crashes, Putin is done.
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Then we get to prop Russia back up with a cash infusion. Don’t know what the other options are at this point though. If it’s gotta happen, let him be done soon. I just want to get out of this without a maniac throwing nukes around as a last, desperate act.
 
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DuckInAPen said:
Taibbi On Putin, Our One-Time Bastard - The American Conservative
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"I would like to point out that we already tried regime change in Russia. I remember, because I was there. And, thanks to a lot of lurid history that’s being scrubbed now with furious intensity, it ended with Vladimir Putin in power. Not as an accident, or as the face of a populist revolt against Western influence — that came later — but precisely because we made a long series of intentional decisions to help put him there.

Once, Putin’s KGB past, far from being seen as a negative, was viewed with relief by the American diplomatic community, which had been exhausted by the organizational incompetence of our vodka-soaked first partner, Boris Yeltsin. Putin by contrast was “a man with whom we could do business,” a “liberal, humane, and decent European” of “alert, controlled poise” and “well-briefed acuity,” who was open to anything, even Russia joining NATO. “I don’t see why not,” Putin said. “I would not rule out such a possibility.”
 
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CBS News Dragged For Story On Lack Of Transgender Rights In Ukraine As Country Is Invaded

CBS News was caught in the Twitter crossfire Tuesday for running a story about a lack of transgender rights in Ukraine as the country is laid to waste by Russian invaders.

The story, published Tuesday, describes the plight of transgender Ukrainians as “a war within a war” that only makes matters worse as shells fly from Russian weapons systems into civilian population centers across the country. It profiles 31-year-old transgender woman Zi Faámelu, who says they can’t flee due to the threat of transphobic violence in Kyiv and surrounding countries.

CBS News Dragged For Story On Lack Of Transgender Rights In Ukraine As Country Is Invaded
 
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‘A Moment Of Truth For Europe’: European Parliament Greenlights Ukraine Bid To Join EU

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to accept Ukraine’s application to join the European Union (EU) after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a passionate speech before the body.

Zelensky formally signed an application to join the European Union on an expedited basis on Monday after making repeated to calls to allow his country to join the bloc. Zelensky’s calls have received vocal support from some already in the bloc, including the countries of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

‘A Moment Of Truth For Europe’: European Parliament Greenlights Ukraine Bid To Join EU | The Daily Wire
 
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DuckInAPen said:
Taibbi On Putin, Our One-Time Bastard - The American Conservative
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"Not unlike Donald Trump, Putin made a wager early on that his country would fare better taking the nationalist path than it would as a vassal state to a global economic system he believed was declining. Now that he’s made such a dramatic commitment in that direction, his story is destined for the same treatment in the Western press as Trump’s election, as an unspeakable evil whose origins are a taboo subject. Anyone who even brings them up must be an apologist. What sort of person cares from whose womb the devil emerged?

Condoleezza Rice was on Fox Sunday, where host Harris Faulkner asked her to comment on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, saying, “When you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime.” Rice answered with a straight face: “It is certainly against every principle of international law and international order.” This dovetailed with Mitt Romney saying Putin’s invasion is “the first time in 80 years a great power has moved to conquer a sovereign nation,” and EC chief Ursula von der Leyen claiming Putin has “brought war back to Europe,” as if a whole range of events from Iraq to Afghanistan to Kosovo never took place.

If you’re wondering why the levels of media insanity in response to Putin’s attack have been cranked up to levels never before seen on the Internet — “as if there had been Twitter on 9/11” is how one reporter friend put it — it’s not just because Putin’s act in isolation is horrible, and barbaric, and a tragedy for Ukraine and the region. It’s also because the event creates a massive propaganda imperative. Even though the pre-emptive war pretext Putin invoked was identical to the one Rice, her boss George Bush, and current media hero David Frum deployed to attack Iraq, there will be an effort now to hammer home with younger audiences especially that Putin’s war is the first violent break of the international order since the Sudetenland. For people like Rice and Frum, Ukraine is a ticket to absolution."
 
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Vol737 said:
Then we get to prop Russia back up with a cash infusion. Don’t know what the other options are at this point though. If it’s gotta happen, let him be done soon. I just want to get out of this without a maniac throwing nukes around as a last, desperate act.
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The silver bullet we've held onto to date is banning the purchase of all oil/gas products from Russia. This would hurt us and them... but if they're on the edge of a financial cliff... do it.

Putin goes bye bye and the world returns to normal.

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