Notre Dame Joe

14 hours ago, walksalone said:

ask before you assume, you know what assuming does...

 

and what correlation does that link have to what I originally said?

Feed him at your own risk 

4 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

No it isn't.

Well I guess if you want another world war.

On 5/26/2022 at 5:20 PM, walksalone said:

 

lol, please enlighten me as to why I am silly

On 5/26/2022 at 6:26 PM, Moiraine said:

 

 

I thought you were joking around because I said in my post "/s in case someone is silly."

I don't think NATO should attack Russia.

Well if Finland joins NATO then all of the members are obliged to go to war at the next border incident. That idea is quite silly. 

On 5/10/2022 at 5:00 AM, commando said:

invading those buffer states and making them part of russia kinda removes the buffer states.

Said states are supposed to play off the powers against each other.  Like Siam inbetween the French and British empires.

On 5/10/2022 at 8:11 PM, knapplc said:

 

The only no votes were Republicans.

 

And a bloated cheeto supporter was on here earlier today whinging about some twitterati with a Ukraine flag.

 

This seems like a call to arms for all reasonable-minded people.

Interesting choice of words.  IIRC one of our celebrity terrorists used them to explain that she didn't mean what everyone heard her say

18 hours ago, TGHusker said:

The land strikes me as looking just like the midwest. Nebraska, SD, Iowa etc.  I can't imagine being a farmer and having these kind of battles taking place on my farm. 

Looks like the worst terrain for a defensive war.  At least the holes provide something.  

On the geopolitical game you want nominally neutral buffer states inbetween the two powers.  If they are border to border there will eventually be an incident. 

Russians have been pushed back out of artillery range around Karkov, sort of.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/one-village-at-a-time-the-grinding-artillery-war-in-ukraine/#:~:text=The back and forth maneuvering is playing out,a war of position%2C a war of artillery%2C

18 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Who are you talking to?

 

Chomsky is always incredibly well-versed and always has an interesting take, but he also likes being unpredictable, especially to people who presume his political leanings on a subject. You can tell by that clip that he really enjoyed teasing, prolonging and dropping his little Donald Trump bombshell to his progressive audience. 

 

I would have guessed you liked his conclusion in this case, which is not inaccurate but avoids tons of relevant context. He may have gotten to that context if the clip hadn't ended. 

 

Also Chomsky is old, cranky, and doesn't really care what anyone thinks.  There are a lot of buffoons that come to mind before Chomsky, and they have millions more followers. 

 

Chomsky has never paid attention to context.  He kisses the a$$ of every 3rd world thug that winds up opposed to the US.   He actually recycles the same story ad nauseum.

https://www.facebook.com/sri.org.pk/videos/chomsky-on-bill-clinton/1060241747900698

10 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

Not at all. In fact, TFG would be sharing intelligence and possibly weapons with Putin. He'd have had six closed-door meetings with Pooty already just since the war started. What would they talk about? That's not your business, American citizen!

Trump would have taken out the first Russian convoy in one shot, leaving Putin to remind his people that he only lost by one score.

8 hours ago, commando said:

i believe the biggest strategic blunder putin made in this war was waiting till trump was out of office to start it.   

You would think that. 

On 5/1/2022 at 6:18 AM, DevoHusker said:

Didn't expect this

 

 

 

So NOW will you admit Chomsky is a political buffoon?

You don't have to admit he's always been one, I will handle that. 

21 hours ago, teachercd said:

Wait...

 

Are you more surprised that Spain has weapons or that they still have a Queen?

A masked up one.  I didn't see her majesty Elizabeth II wearing a face diaper. 

2 hours ago, JJ Husker said:

This was a common occurrence during the cold war. NATO/US jets and the Soviets would push it to the brink of engagement. It’s just constant testing and a game. The last thing Putin should be hoping for is our military to get involved. He talks big and threatens but I don’t think he’s that stupid…..unless he’s certifiable and actually wants an excuse to end the planet.

That could be a great movie or two. 

According to the Russian-language Novye Izvestia media outlet, Ukrainian forces this week fired mortars at the villages of Nekhoteyevka, Zhuravlyovka and Golovchino in the Belgorod region and fired at a checkpoint in the Bryansk region.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-territory-under-attack-as-ukraine-shells-border-checkpoint-official/ar-AAWJv6I?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e41fb877c1624c15bd4d9cfceceae1dc

In before Putin complains about escalation through intrusions upon territorial sovereignty.  

17 hours ago, Crusader Husker said:

Is it just me?  I am picturing a bunch of guys in a white van driving from place to place starting fires and moving on.

 

 

I am wondering why the other tanks don't roll when one gets blown up.  

On 4/25/2022 at 5:44 AM, Scarlet said:

I'm going with internal sabotage first, second would be someone's intelligence services/special forces maybe in conjunction with #1.  Putin doesn't need a false flag anymore I don't think.  Plus I'm not sure he'd do that on a facility with military value like an oil depot.  He'd probably blow up a school or church if he were to do a false flag. 

 

 

Cheaper to plant a laptop with fake photos in kgb run computer repair shop.

I am loving the new Twitter already 

7 hours ago, Moiraine said:

If Russia ever invades Moldova they will probably get lost in Poland or Romania because it's so small and then set off WWIII for real.

This is Putin's last war.

10 hours ago, Scarlet said:

The same could have been said for their foray into Afghanistan.  The only thing the Russians have to show for 56 days of their war is untold carnage on both sides, loads of lost military hardware, demoralized and worn-out troops, dead commanders, a sunken flagship, etc., all for a few small gains in the east. 

 

I suppose that's the model Russian military campaign so you're probably right.  Has throwing untrained and scared conscripts ever worked in the long run?    At any rate, at this point they've definitely underperformed when we look back at thinking Kyiv would fall within a week.  

How do you think they took Berlin?

On 4/10/2022 at 5:24 PM, DevoHusker said:

 

 

Wow just in Time.  Now UKR can stop them from moving troops north from Crimea.

there is one thing a hypothetical President Trump could learn from Putin; how to deal with underperforming government employees.

8 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

Yes, thanks.

I feel it's a dubious practice at best, and most folks here have complained about it in other topic threads.

the government had made it into its own racket.  In recent years there has been a somewhat bipartisan pushback.  However people working for the government still tend to favor the government. 

8 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

I am not blind to China. I know they are helping Russia. They have for a long time.  But, they aren’t the ones slaughtering their neighbors. 
 

Your belief that Tucker is great is amazing.  Especially when he and your favorite President work well for Russia. They both love and admire Putin so much. 

You are partially right.  Trump deterred Putin from moving into Ukraine, which at least delayed his impending international catastrophe.

4 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

Officials have been seizing assets for decades. 

Just call it a tax on unrealized gains. 

18 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

So...Russia invades their neighbors, slaughters civilians, your dream President praises them for being so smart and being "peace keepers".  The US and the rest of the western world put major sanctions on Russia and provide Ukraine with weapons and other help and your response is......but what about China.

 

Tucker is a disgusting piece of s#!t who has stated he's rooting for Russia instead of Ukraine.....and your praise of him says a lot.

 

Priceless. 

Your ignorance of China is worse than what you don't know about Tucker.  Right now JinPing is a bigger asset to Russia than the useful idiot Biden.  

18 hours ago, Scarlet said:

Here's over six minutes of his trash and lies, not stitched together. 

 

Why hate Putin?  This clip was after he invaded btw......after he invaded Chechnya, Georgia, eastern Ukraine, Crimea.  Let's not forget this is your new source's take after Putin's documented war crimes during and after those invasions including the war crimes committed in Syria.  

 

What's not to like about Putin, right?  A murderous tyrant who kills opposition leaders, gaslights the likes of you, interferes with our elections, sews discord in our society, and is responsible for some of the most horrific war crimes since Hitler.  But he doesn't "eat dogs". Nevermind Tucker's racist trope with that comment.  

 

@DevoHusker

 

You said he's softened his stance in the last 30 days?  I call bulls#!t on his intentions.  The only reason he's playing that card, if he actually is, is that it's a horrible look to still be in Putin's pocket as the atrocities of what the Russians have done to civilians in the Ukraine are rolling in.  He's afraid that even his bosses might consider support of Putin at this time, a bridge too far.   

Tucker et al were never for Putin in the way that Labron James and Disney are for China.  Tucker does have an intelligent understand of ow power works and why the worst possible outcome is if Russia and China team up against the US.  That's actually the vast majority opinion, even among those who only understand that nuclear war is worse than Russia retaking the Ukraine.  It's only a small number of narrow minded individuals who basically place their political opponents into the same mad-libs over and over again.  But we know they are liars.  No number of tweets can change that the Trump admiration sent weapons to the Ukraine even though they bribed onl the Biden family with do nothing jobs. 

btw I hear a lot of chest thumping from this admin about redundant sanctions on Russia.  Why do we not hear any sanctions one degree of separation away in China?  What makes them so special that they can subvert the sanctions and make a nice profit too?

13 hours ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

It's okay, it's obvious none of them have watched a full episode of Tucker ever and are knowingly going off dishonest reporting from fellow liberals.

Called it.  Not only is your 'evidence' made of 2 second clips stitched together but the liars forgot to erase the news flashes on the bottom.  

You really should bite down and watch a conservative source for 5 minutes. It's good for your brain. 

On 4/4/2022 at 2:27 PM, commando said:

knowing which units re there is relatively easy....there are dead russians there with unit patches on and ukraine and the nato help has been picking up communications all war long.   .    and with all of nato providing intel i imagine we do know a lot about the troops in the units.

20 hours ago, nic said:

I don’t know. I don’t watch Tucker….well not until the other day when I watched part of a show to see what the fuss is all about and reported back that he seems like a conspiracy theorist. You all should start a “Tucker is a piece of xxxx” topic. It would be a hot thread within the hour.

It's okay, it's obvious none of them have watched a full episode of Tucker ever and are knowingly going off dishonest reporting from fellow liberals.  Sometimes they even make it up entirely.   

18 hours ago, Crusader Husker said:

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I don't want to paint with a broad stroke.  It was one family we stayed with when we were going to visit one of the consecration camps.  This was the comment they made.  This was in 92.  I sensed some of it was embarrassment by the whole situation.  Our German hosts did not want to enter the place when we visited.  We we at Bergen Belsen.   

We also had to deal with some awkwardness with another host family in the old East Germany.  I commented how beautiful the church was we sang in.  The grandfather told us it was rebuilt in the 50's because the Americans blew it up.  I remember I was like, sorry??  Over all it was a great visit, but the war that happened 45 years before that did cause some awkward moments.

We all have bad things in our past.  America has plenty of them too.

There has been a lot of wars in that part of the world that don't make the American history books.  I still am finding out about small wars that were not that long ago.  One example is the Chechnyan war with Russia that was American media mentioned briefly in terms of a counter-terrorism police operation.  

16 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Why are you bothered so much by people pointing out prominent Americans that support Putin in this war?

Because it is a lie.  It exploits the victims to gratify your political passions and is thus some of the worst things you have said. 

7 hours ago, VectorVictor said:

It's difficult to remember, but not all Russians are the villain here, either. Just the ones enabling Putin, like Tucker Carlson. 

Do you actually believe Putin got permission from Tucker or any American to invade Ukraine?  What level of person am I dealing with here??