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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.

If Craig sought out to find the worst possible folks to run his campaign, than I think it proves he has some remarkable leadership quality because he succeeded with flying colors. At the same time that's coming out, Bloomberg with some good news for Whitmer. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-16/michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer-leads-the-no-1-u-s-economy

Yup, that's a name I hadn't heard in forever. Reminds me of a buddy informing me about a celebrity death recently. "Ivan Reitman died today", followed up shortly with: "In other news, Ivan Reitman was alive as of yesterday"

Honestly that wasn't on my mind, but yeah, that was a mess. I was thinking more of W advocating for Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. I guess you could argue in hindsight, if that was done, Russia wouldn't be able to do what they did afterwards, but also, here we are several presidents later and even Ukraine's president was pleading for NATO to simply say yes or no to put that talk to bed just last week. Lot's of what if's. One thing I can say confidently, Putin has always been the constant in the equation.

It's not even about more nuclear development, but rather keeping what you have. They have roughly doubled the capacity of their energy grid in the last 20 years and did it on the back of renewables, which is fantastic. But due to Nuclear power being removed, coal and oil usage is down only minimally and natural gas usage is up. It just annoys me that they like to claim a higher morale 'green' policy and then do this crap. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/qa-why-germany-phasing-out-nuclear-power-and-why-now So yes, if we can get Germany to purchase from the US and other US allies, great for our oil companies and bad for Russia, but also tough on those that buy gas in the western hemisphere. Also bad for those that want to decrease carbon emissions.