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These are huge yachts owned by psuedo government officials. In peacetime, if Russia sunk Bezos' and Gates yachts as they were sitting at some sovereign country, and likely resulting in the deaths of American's that maintain the yacht even if Bezos and Gates weren't on them, we'd want blood. Putin is threatening nuclear war, intelligence that seems to have been pretty solid lately is also saying that this Putin seems a little unhinged, and we're in some of the most turbulent time I have ever been in throughout my lifetime. You guys really think that wouldn't be a major escalation?

Tell me how to start WWIII, without saying you want to start WWIII.

You guys always look down on Newsmax. This might be the first time i've watched it and it seems pretty good to me.

To go further, the accuracy of the information was spot on. I defended our intelligence after Iraq, even as I admitted some major issues. But overall, that, plus many other things over the years, had soured me a bit. I was definitely skeptical of not only things you posted, but what I was seeing on much of our MSM related to 'intelligence sources'. I will say this has restored some faith in our intelligence. To the original point, Biden and his administration get props for using that intelligence so well.

Yup, that's where I was going with that as well. I doubt Putin cares how many he loses as long as he wins the war.

I know, I don't want to be critical in a time of war, but c'mon with your video taking skills people. This is 2022.

We're talking Putin, so I fixed that for you.

A firefight and at the end is another view of the earlier event you posted. Some are claiming it may have been an accident trying to avoid other things going on or even possibly an Ukrainian driver that lost control. Regardless, if the Russians aren't invading, this doesn't happen, period.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson/index.html The pick is in.

Canada ended that by freezing the bank accounts of everyone involved in honking horns at all hours of the day and night. Yet we can't get Germany and Italy to back similar measures as Russia invades a sovereign democracy in their backyard.

Ok. I'm not going to lie, for a second I took a few comments you made and started to wonder if Ukraine could outright push Russia back. This clarifies and is unfortunately, along the lines of what I had thought.

Is there an Intelligence belief that Ukraine can in fact win this? I've been happy to see some feel good stories, but I assumed the end result was inevitable. I have just been hoping for a good showing from Ukraine to help with citizen morale which could subsequently force an occupation if Russia wants to stay in control. More or less an Afghanistan style conflict that would hurt them long term.

If the goal isn't to take all of Ukraine for itself, but rather setup a puppet government like Belarus, my guess is that they are hoping this shock and awe campaign would keep the citizens at bay as they know if they overthrown the government, Russia might just walk right back in.

This is trending on Twitter. Rumors that a single Ukraine fighter took down 6 Russian jets. No idea if it’s real, I’m rooting him on regardless.

Tulsi isn’t wrong, it could have made a difference. Just as any one of us, if we just work hard, we could be billionaires soon. It could happen. If it was known Ukraine had no shot at NATO, and that was publicly stated, I do think that would have made it harder for China to turn its head like it has done. Still that doesn’t mean anything actually changes though.

I’m for appeasement. Call up Putin and let him know we’ll shrink NATO by one if he retreats. Once he retreats, expel Germany and Italy while adding Moldova. Fire up those nuke plants Germany and deal with it.

He was clear in what he was going after with these sanctions: - Russian banks, freezing assets not only in the US but sounds like quite a few other countries. Also prohibiting them from using a multitude of currencies. - Oligarchs - Russian state run companies - Tech imports He also followed that up with confirmation of full NATO support and went into describing article 4 a bit and indicated this isn't necessarily the end of our actions. So the high level view of our actions was there. I'm definitely interested in details as to what those sanctions look like specifically still though.

I didn't find the speech that bad, but yes, the Q&A was not good. Not even just the dazed and confused look when trying to select who to call on, but he didn't seem to confident in some of his answers. Would have loved to have heard more about SWIFT. In looking online right after that question, it looks like there are some concerns that could backfire where just yesterday I was hearing that was the 'nuclear option' in terms of sanctions.

Likely all he was able to give Putin about our defense abilities were limited to the logistics of putting a military parade together down Pennsylvania Ave.

Likely very little. My guess is that even POTUS is on a 'need to know' level of access, where just because he's president, if he's not specifically involved in something, he doesn't need to know what is going on.

To be fair, HLN is more or less a more light-hearted recap of news. A small portion I caught had Robin Meade interviewing a CNN correspondent from Ukraine. That is pretty much unheard off on that show. Just out of curiosity, I switched over to Fox News to see how they were responding. Not what I expected based on everything I hear about Tucker and some of Trump's garbled hot mess of idiotic speak on this. Very anti-Russia. I mean, it is FoxNews though so they did focus on some comments from various UN/Ukraine members that wanted sanctions in place due to the build up of forces alone and questioned if Biden didn't do enough to prevent this.

Just turned on the UN Security Council Emergency Meeting on CSPAN. Who is the current president of the Security Council, Russia of course. </facepalm>

He's not getting the Baltic's. Belarus is trying to court favor by being as much of an ally as possible, but their leaders should be watching their back. Moldova definitely would be next. And while I joked about Obama's dissing of Romney over Russia, Obama obviously was right that China as a major concern. China and Taiwan are very interested in how this plays out.

Absolutely, it takes time to regroup.