Don’t worry, Kamala Harris will straighten this whole mess out. 
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Not fookin' likely
Plausible deniability essentially. Sounds like they want to leverage a swap to do it and just say it was a one for one trade and we couldn't have possibly known that they would have given it over to the Ukrainians.
Possibly the reason for flying to Ramstein is to try and unequivocally signal that this is an American deal rather than materiel laundering. But we all know what this is lol.
I think that’s it exactly. Eastern Europe is scared shitless right now. Nobody wants to provoke Putin over that fragile line. Delicate balance, isn’t it? Helping Ukraine with one hand, but not enough to antagonize Putin to retaliate.
I agree about the WW2 similarities.
Don't you hate it when you're right?Heavy sarcasm on my part.
Harris travels to Poland, Romania as Russia continues invasion of Ukraine for 14th day
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Years from now she'll tell the story of how she had to duck and run when leaving the plane to avoid the bullets whizzing over her head.
Lots of people who have been freeriding their national security beneath the blanket of Pax Americana are SUPER nervous right now. Lots of people want to talk shit about our country until "someone" needs to "do something."
You could replace "Mr. Atkins" in Rudyard Kipling's tome with "America" and not be far off of world opinion...
It won’t get any better. I suspect we will most certainly see a rise in the number of “keyboard commandos” soon….
Europe needs to nut up and if the Polish plane swap is because they want some level of deniability then it reinforces my already low opinion of that country.
Part of me wants to tell Europe to learn Russian and hope for the best. I’m waiting on China to not let a crisis go to waste…
You know what would be crazy? What if, just spitballing here, but what if the Ukraine had a bunch of A-29’s, MD-530 gunships, small arms, uparmored vehicles, and other miscellaneous military hardware…say the kind we gave to Afghanistan. Wouldn’t that be a hoot? Our navy is divesting itself of some patrol boats, surely that would help in some capacity. Anything, send whatever can kill Russians to the Ukraine. Marines don’t need tanks? I know someone who does.
While I’m ranting, WTF is the difference escalation-wise between Javelins and aircraft? Javs are killing more Russians than their health care system, but airplanes would push Pootie Poo over the edge? Cossack, please. Let’s turn Ukraine into Afghanistan, the 1985 version, not the post-9/11 shitshow we all know and love.
Part of me wants to tell Europe to learn Russian and hope for the best. I’m waiting on China to not let a crisis go to waste…
You know what would be crazy? What if, just spitballing here, but what if the Ukraine had a bunch of A-29’s, MD-530 gunships, small arms, uparmored vehicles, and other miscellaneous military hardware…say the kind we gave to Afghanistan. Wouldn’t that be a hoot? Our navy is divesting itself of some patrol boats, surely that would help in some capacity. Anything, send whatever can kill Russians to the Ukraine. Marines don’t need tanks? I know someone who does.
While I’m ranting, WTF is the difference escalation-wise between Javelins and aircraft? Javs are killing more Russians than their health care system, but airplanes would push Pootie Poo over the edge? Cossack, please. Let’s turn Ukraine into Afghanistan, the 1985 version, not the post-9/11 shitshow we all know and love.
What we need are some leaders with some actual scrotal mass and not manginas. We have become as grasshoppers in the sight of the world. We can remain that way or change it. We seem to be growing comfortable being viewed as the new worldwide weaklings.
Whenever I’m on the brink of World War Three, I always send Kamala Harris.
(And I get points for a couples quote.)
And where do you plan on redeeming those points...?
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Nothing instills confidence more than knowing Kamala is on point.
Seriously, Russia isn't even talking to anyone from this administration. They're talking to French President Macron.
Tamsui River, starring Ben Affleck, it's not really a war movie, more a love story.
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Sorry to quote my own post -- really just want to add to my previous comment, evidently other world leaders aren't even taking calls from Biden:
Saudi, UAE leaders declined calls with Biden amid Ukraine conflict: report
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Well now there is this.
Basically Psaki is saying we can expect Russia to use bio and chem weapons in a “false flag” attack.
Basically Psaki is saying we can expect Russia to use bio and chem weapons in a “false flag” attack.
This is pretty serious. We've started wars with countries over their WMD programs.
