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Notre Dame Joe

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  1. Tucker called out Frank Gehry for designing ugly buildings that depress anyone who has to see them. No one else in the infotainment nursery can think like Tucker.
  2. Let's not forget that Obama-Biden sent blankets and food. Trump sent javelin missiles. Now did Biden eventually come around to the Trump policy of arming Ukraine? Yes, after the invasion had already started, and it was too late to cut off access routes to Ukranian soil. So Biden gets reduced credit for late homework. Totally expected from the man who is slow to get every major policy issue. So for all the gas-lighters posting pictures of Trump next to dead bodies, you got what you voted for.
  3. And you notice Putin made his big invasions during the Obama-Biden and Harris-Biden administrations. He didn't become dictator of Russia without knowing how to sense weakness. That's why it is intellectually offensive to see his lackeys blaming the party of out of power who can no longer create deterrence.
  4. In the nuclear field Russia is ahead of the US. Left wing activists raised such a fuss that America effectively stopped developing our nuclear arsenal in the late 20th Century, along with missile defense in the 2st. Our enemies did not have such noble pretensions and can do much more than they have shown.
  5. Yes there was one party in charge of POTUS, and both Houses of Congress when Putin believed there was no deterrence. So your mind runs with the big lie that its really the former President's fault an in incendiary fashion blames the current mess on the party out of power. Well it's tough for you. Leaders are called upon to address the world as it is, not how they want. If Biden and the Ds cannot handle this crises then they should never have been put in position.
  6. An explanation of how/why Russia is shifting to the eastern UKR. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60938544 Russian forces are trying to encircle Ukraine's army in the east. They have taken control of Izyum - a strategic town on the road between Ukraine's second city Kharkiv and the separatist areas - and have bombarded a succession of Luhansk towns, including Rubizhne, Lysychansk, Popasna and Severodonetsk, destroying blocks of flats and killing civilians in their homes.
  7. It shows Ukranian generals are reading Huskerboard.
  8. Like 95% of the non-insurrectionists from Jan 6th? Except instead of a $150 fine they have served a jail sentence for over a year awaiting trial on trespassing and disrupting and official proceeding, which was what the Kavanaugh stormers were doing. I'm guessing they don't have much and/or need it to hit the invaders. If UKR had that capability they should hit a few Russian refineries.
  9. you mean Zelensky didn't redeploy his defenders out of Kiev because the Russians said it was no longer a priority? There was an interview on Sky this week with two British volunteers back from UKR. They said even more than weapons UKR needs strategic planning. And they want to return to provide it. They never believed it, they said it for political motive. you notice they remain silent and anonymous after the NYT 'confirmed' what they already figured.
  10. Some insurrectionists are more equal than others. Putin's bogged down in New Jersey, planting fake laptops in sole proprietorship computer repair shops.
  11. It's kind of worrisome. This was reported a couple weeks back in both Fox and the liberal mainstream. It wasn't really contested. And political junkies all saw it. And here people accuse me of making it up out of thin air. WTF is going on in their brains?
  12. By all means, blame the war on Tucker Carlson and Trump. We have a one party state as Russia attacks. So obviously you should focus your time on the powerless. I'll take that bet. Ds are uncomfortable around the American flag. And 2/3 of Ds said they would flee the country instead of defending it against an invader. If there was ever good grounds for collusion...
  13. I dunno, I don't watch the Ukranian Oscars either.
  14. I finally found a media outlet reporting on all those Nazis in Ukraine.
  15. This is big news if true. Hopefully it is an not this one Russia begins to mobilize military reinforcements for Ukraine as casualties mount, Pentagon says https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-begins-to-mobilize-military-reinforcements-for-ukraine-as-casualties-mount-pentagon-says/ar-AAVuX6a?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2f1875e43620445b9ddbca1308c3b036 I am eager to get back to the regular outrage over a rock star I barely remember pulling out of a music market I don't use to protest a podcaster I'd never heard of.
  16. I was wondering if average farmers with tractors could destroy the supply roads. Maybe it's so flat that the invaders could loop around any depression or obstruction. I was going to say the Soviets took a million casualties in WWII and still outnumbered the Nazis 3:1. But I was off by a factor of 8. Historically the Russians don't do well fighting outside of Russia. They won against Finland but performed so poorly that Hitler thought they would be easy pickings. And of course they won their one front war against a German army split among 3 fronts. Before that we have WWI, Russo-Japan War, the Crimean War.
  17. Invading army taking up defensive positions? Protective berms are seen around Russian military equipment near Ozera on March 17. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies) https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-19-22/h_155e2997f0e4db71afe85a410ce456ad
  18. A discussion of the Chechens in the Russian army. Experts even estimate that non-ethnic Russians (i.e., Russian citizens, but of non-Russian origin) constitute a majority in the army. Coming from less socio-economically well-off federated entities, these members could account for a significant proportion of deaths. https://theconversation.com/chechens-fighting-in-ukraine-putins-psychological-weapon-could-backfire-179447
  19. I just told you he publicly predicted this in 2015. That was when everyone knew we were approaching President Hilary. Here is a contemporary take. Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence bolster deterrence. But Joe Biden’s predictable reassurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will show restraint means Putin likely will not. https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/16/10-realities-of-ukraine/
  20. This tweet claims to record a lecture from 2015 where a U Chicago Prof says that US is going to ruin Ukraine.
  21. Wow this is tone deaf, even for the Ds.
  22. Pretty bold compliment for a professional columnist at The Atlantic. Why would I trust this guy's take on anything? Blast from the past year. Russia was lying about her troup movements and Biden was worried that military aid would be a provocation The White House statement also acknowledged that additional security assistance had been made ready, but would be contingent upon Russia crossing territorial red lines: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/18/white-house-ukraine-military-lethal-weapons-495169
  23. Trump as always did an exxagerated dysphemism. A foreign dictator doesn't have to be a genius to know that you strike when your rival is slow and indecisive. By that a fox is a genius. btw, the USSR was not shy about sending airplanes to countries like Vietnam and Korea. https://www.rbth.com/history/332396-how-soviets-fought-against-americans
  24. Because planes were the only thing in the bill? Russia would look like a genius of they signed a paper treaty that recognizes territorial gains and removes the teeth of the sanctions. Keeping UKR out of NATO would be gravy.
  25. I suspect they towed an empty shell without fuel or munitions.
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