1984Echoes

We need more of that in America... For all our Putin Boot-Lickers... Including Boot-Licker #1.

And they give it right back with the tying goal...

What the...? Ras scores a goal?!

You do realize that there are numerous examples in history, in which a strongman yanked his nation in any direction he pleased. Do you not even recognize this? Where did Mussolini yank Italy? Did anyone in Germany defy Hitler? No matter how depraved, idiotic, or murderous his orders, they did exactly as he ordered. Have you ever heard the names Castro, Chavez, Kim, Maduro, Duterte, Jinping, Xedong? People follow orders because they fear the leader. No matter if generals, security forces, whatever. This is all Putin. And you don't recognize it.

And if not... Wicked, wicked, wicked Propaganda (with a capital P) on the part of Ukraine.

They are parking their superyachts in the Maldives, which has no extradition. Bomb them, sabotage them, sink them. I could care less about the Maldives protection scheme.

From Russia's KGB no less...

4th line gets one back with Rowney scoring...

There's a Washington Post story on this I believe with more details... (Link inside the Yahoo news blip: https://news.yahoo.com/russia-invaded-young-boy-played-171328148.html)

Clip: A Kharkiv boy playing piano in a hotel as the Russians were surrounding the city for shelling:

Can we sell him to the Russians? Him and Tulsi Gabbard?

This. Erdogan has crapped all over his own democracy for years... but we'll need to put a hold on challenging him and his grievances...

I saw that... Erdogan pointedly asked: "If we get invaded will you think about us too?"

Like Josef Stalin?

There was a huge uncertainty factor with Vladdie as well, when he first came to power. After 2014, that uncertainty was completely gone. In 2022, Putin has gone WAY over the line. We are not repeating 2014.

Russia never filed the paperwork. Kick them out. On a paperwork technicality would also be hilarious. And it's true. Proper paperwork was never filed for Russia after the demise of the Soviet Union.

Because it is all Putin.

How soon can we get this palace coup please?

I've been fever dreaming this would happen for the past couple of hours...

Russia is bringing in thermobaric missiles to exterminate Kyivans.

I wouldn't shed tears over those outcomes either...

My buddy's wife is from Kherson. Kherson controls the water supply into Crimea and is a heavy target by Russian forces. Kherson is on the west side of the Dnieper River. Ukrainian forces have so far held off Russian attackers from being able to get over the bridge from the Crimean side (east) of the Dnieper to the Kherson side.

Yes. That would bankrupt Trump though.

He's not going that low (66).

The Big Bang Anti-Tank Weapon, some assembly required... If I'm in Kyiv with one of these... it would work for me...