My first winter living in the San Diego area was the end of a seven year drought. I was driving down I-8 and in 30 seconds it went from dry pavement to an inch of standing water with visibility at about 40 ft. Of course I was probably driving into the squall. My next door neighbor got into a pileup. He said his insurance agent has handing out checks as fast as he could write/print them.
The Hotel Russian Empire is like the Islamic Caliphate. Once you’re part of it, you are destined to be part of it in perpetuity.
Hotel California brings back a bittersweet memory. My son and I were doing a climb in Colorado. We encountered a severe rainstorm and had to bivouac for the night. It was cold and uncomfortable. Lightening was flashing and rocks were falling down the face of the mountain. My son had an indomitable spirit and a love of doing hard things. While we began to settle in for the night waiting for the storm to pass, he sang “Hotel California.” He knew all the words. – I didn’t then. He saw the connection between our plight and the song. We had checked in to our lovely bivouac, but would we be able to check out?
Every time I hear the song, it reminds me of that adventure we shared. We made it out safely after the rain had passed and a new day arrived. Hopefully, the former Soviet nations will be able to actually leave as well. Buit the storm is raging now, and a new day seems far away.
What am I missing here?
Has a member State of the Russian Federation declared its separation?
Has Putin banned travel or emigration?
Geoffrey,
What planet do you live on? Have you ever heard of Chechnya ? Or Georgia? Or Belarus? Or Ukraine??????
Indeed. Or that the Crimea used to be part of Ukraine?
And that’s not even counting the various ‘stans, that are near Afghanistan.
Excuse… me!
Chechnya was and is part of Russia. The jihadist terrorist rebellion attempted to violently separate itself from Russia. The Chechnyan jihadists consider Chechnya to be part of the Ummah and were willing to use terrorism to achieve a Taliban style governance. Does the Beslan massacre of innocent children ring a bell?
Georgia, like the Ukraine is on Russia’s border, its incorporation into NATO was and is considered by Russia to be a potential strategic national security threat.
Something no competent military strategist will deny.
Prior to 2008, Georgia was a fully independent State. When NATO announced in the 2008 Bucharest agreement that Georgia and the Ukraine would be joining NATO, it threw down the gauntlet to Russia. That’s not just my personal interpretation, lots of highly placed and knowledgeable officials warned of the consequences.
Russia did not conquer the majority of Georgia despite easily being able to do so. That refutes the assertion that Putin desires to swallow as much territory as possible. As does his currently limiting his troops to eastern Ukraine. Until he expands his territorial expansion into western Ukraine, only supposition supports assertions that he is willing to use force to seize even more territory.
Belarus is also on Russia’s border, so similar strategic concerns exist. It’s thus not surprising that Russia backs a friendly government. And no, that’s not a denial of its authoritarian nature.
Regarding the Russian seizure of the Crimea. I’ve previously written of the factors that led to that. That’s not a denial that Putin used armed forces to make that seizure. Simply that the West’s passive aggression through NATO led to that action by Putin.
Passive aggressive bullshit*t.
“Passive aggressive” NATO vs Vlad’s tanks rolling across borders isn’t too clever by half, it’s half witted.
Vlad could have rained cluster bombs down on Tiblisi but he didn’t; what a kind touch that foe of the WEF and Dravos has shown himself to be. He’s not your friend Geoffrey.
And before you trot out the mockery line, does that great newspaper of record, The Babalon Bee, use satire and mockery, Geoffrey? They have talent, I’m just a man of little wit.
As they are mutually exclusive, I’ve never, even for a moment imagined that any dictator is a friend to liberty.
To understand the West’s passive-aggressive agenda as Russia and any competent strategist sees it, one must grasp the difference between potential and kinetic energy. A failure to grasp the interrelationship between the two will lead to dismissal of the former and the false conclusion that only kinetic energy is real.
The Sword of Damocles is a potential threat, one that can only be ignored at the sitter’s peril. Hiroshima was kinetic in nature.
Mockery, when appropriate, must be preceded by a factual and reasoned response to contrary assertions with a then corresponding refusal to respond similarly.
Absent a reasoned rebuttal, mockery is insult without substance and reveals a lack of character upon the mocking party.
“Mach 5 monster: Germany to get Dark Eagle missile” The 4,000 mph advanced hypersonic missile could strike the heart of Moscow in just 21 minutes
“Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable … The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.”
— John F. Kennedy
It was inevitable.
The madness that US President John F. Kennedy foresaw in the early 1960s of his administration, has come to pass.
Mankind is now making weapons that simply cannot be stopped.
This week, the US Army’s 56th Artillery Command, based in the Western District of Mainz-Kastel, Germany, held a quiet recommissioning ceremony, UK’s The Sun reported.
It was a move completely ignored by the rest of the world, but it sure made a splash at the Kremlin in Moscow. That, you can bet on.”
The Geoffrey dictionary is deployed again. This time to declare what constitutes mockery and whether it is deserved. That’s not what it is or how it works.
Sword of Damocles? Try Occam’s Razor for a change.
Pathetic
And where is this low bid, only 4000 mph, hypersonic wonder weapon comming from Geoffrey? Who makes it? Is it nuclear armed? If so who is giving the Germans that payload? So by Geoffrey logic Vlad must attack Germany.
It could be worse, it could be 13 minutes. But Germany is where those Nazis came from the first time, not like in Ukraine? So Vlad must not accept being totally defenseless, again.
OM @ 11:27 – I am reminded of the SNL skit where Dan Ackroyd said to Jane Curtin “Jane you ignorant slut”. You have attacked all statements that go contrary to your ideological lens as mis-information like all totalitarians do. The prism which you view the world is the Fukuyama “End of History”. Geoffrey and I view it through the Huntington “Clash of Civilization” lens. When you question and hector him I demand that you back your assertions with research which I have not seen you produce yet. That tells me you are a dilettante. Research and post your objections. That is the challenge.
I was stationed in Poland for several years in the late 90’s. My main plant was 10 miles from Auschwitz. I have weeped over the killing wall. I have a bone fragment from the pits from Oven #2 that surfaced over time. The Nazi death camps were commanded by Germans and staffed by Eastern Europeans. That is a fact. I talked with a man who went searching for his uncle with Pope Jean Paul II right after the Russian past through it.
His uncle was worked to death in the Bayer subsidiary camp.
Ivan Demjanjuk was UKRAINIAN. So your last post is uninformed.
Do serious research or stick to being quiet. You might learn something.
om,
“And where is this low bid, only 4000 mph, hypersonic wonder weapon comming from Geoffrey? Who makes it?”
Had you bothered to even briefly view the link, you’d have seen that it is an American made hypersonic weapon just deployed to Germany.
You’re so filled with contemptuous arrogance for anyone who offers an opinion with which you disagree, that you play the fool and that, is pathetic.
I am Spartacus:
Stick to elections. Stick to elections in corrupt Michigan and fight that. That will keep you plenty busy.
Why you chose to take bone(s) from Auschwitz is problematic IMO. I know about the HIWIs from WWII. There were French, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Baltic, and other Europeans that helped with the Holocaust. GM ran factories for Hitler, Opel. Ugly isn’t it.
Vlad used the de-Nazification of Ukraine as one pretext for invasion, fool. Did you miss that? Tom Grey has noted the Azov Battalion in eastern Ukraine as well. They exist, are they running the country? Are they fighting for the WEF/Davos too? Is Zelensky a Nazi as well?
Don’t be a fool for Vlad. Your choice.
Stick to elections.
Geoffrey:
Is it nuclear capable? 26 minutes to Moscow. How many minutes from Kaliningrad to Berlin, Geoffrey, with the missiles Roosia already has? Nothing to see, nothing to see. One can count on you to spin for Roosia.
The Geoffrey dictionary is deployed again, this time disagreeing with Geoffrey principally, becomes “anyone.” It takes a special kind of arrogance to redefine words so self servingly.
Geoffrey and I am Spartacus:
Here is something serious for you to read if you can take your focus off of WEF / Davos / and Vlad be good!
“The People’s Republic of China does not have to aggressively take our status as the premier world power. It appears that we are willingly giving it to them, sooner more than later. ….”
Seems that someone else “checked in”—and even stayed for quite a while—in the “Presidential Suite”….
(Looks like he’s still there…With more-than-occasional side trip to the Kyiv Hilton…):
“Trump asks Putin to hand over dirt on Hunter Biden: Ex-President claims Russian leader ‘knows’ why ‘the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave Joe’s son $3.5million'”— https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10664487/Trump-urges-Putin-hand-related-Hunter-Bidens-dealings-Russian-oligarchs.html
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Key grafs:
“The ex-president accused Joe and Hunter Biden of profiting from the payment allegedly made by the late Moscow mayor’s widow to an investment firm.
“Details of the allegation came from a 2020 report by Senate Republicans.
“It cleared Joe Biden of wrongdoing but found his son may have improperly leveraged his connections in his foreign business dealings.
“Hunter Biden was on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father was vice president and leading ant-corruption efforts in Kyiv.
“His work on Burisma and other overseas dealings are the subject of a federal investigation out of Delaware that has picked up speed this week.”
See, apparently undeniable proof of Trump’s “collusion” with Putin—more than enough of a reason to impeach Trump every day of the year—is that the Biden’s received all kinds of money from sources in both Russian and Ukraine.
– – – – – – –
And how about the Beijing Intercontinental?…
“Sens. Grassley, Johnson allege $100,000 payment from Chinese oligarchs to Hunter Biden, provide receipt”— https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-johnson-allege-100000-payment-chinese-oligarchs-hunter-biden-provide-receipt
To be sure, chump change….
…If you do plan to check in, though, make sure to bring your own private food taster. (Otherwise, you may, in fact, find it very possible to check out.)
“Roman Abramovich asked ‘Are we dying?’ after he was poisoned at peace talks – as experts say First World War chemical agent Chloropicrin or low dosage Novichok was used in attack”—
“Investigative journalist Christo Gorev said WWI chemical agent was used in plot.
“A panel of experts all agreed Chloropicrin was the most likely method.
“But it usually emits a strong smell, meaning Novichok is also possible.” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10666877/Roman-Abramovich-poisoned-WWI-agent-Chloropicrin-low-dosage-Novichok-experts-say.html
When NATO announced in the 2008 Bucharest agreement that Georgia and the Ukraine would be joining NATO
Again, the actual quotation from the communique has been supplied on these threads and does not say what you claim.
Took the time to read Geoffrey’s latest ‘blame the US for poor Vlad’s woes’ on the US Army’s reactivation of a US Army unit with a prototype system in Germany. Does Geoffrey understand what the word prototype means? And of course the evil US and the doubly evil NATO would risk nuclear armageddon with a prototype system.
Otay, Geoffrey.
Last I heard it was Vlad threatening to nuke Europe and others (?) “over” Ukraine.
Truly pathetic.
om,
Re: the “We Choose Decline” article and “you do have to accept the simple fact that the leadership the American people have put in charge of their security simply are not interested in funding it.”
That comes as no surprise, in fact it’s obvious.
Re: the article about the US ‘prototype’ hypersonic weapon; publication date is November 14, 2021. Well before Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine. That establishes US intent to put in place an unstoppable nuclear offensive weapon system just 21 minutes away from Moscow. If put in place on Russia’s border, it would ‘officially’ reduce the flight time to 13 minutes.
Art Deco,
“NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.” [my emphasis]
All the ‘qualifying’ language in the world doesn’t change will become…
Again, the full quotation is what you keep neglecting to offer.
I would bet the Venn diagram of people who STILL defend Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Iraq War and people who mindlessly parrot the Biden Administration on Ukraine is two completely overlapping circles.
Mike
“Again, the full quotation is what you keep neglecting to offer.“
Does the full quotation end “…and everything we just said is a bunch of BS that means nothing?”
Because the two sentences offered up by GB are all that anyone in Russia is going to care about. You have to be an child to think otherwise.
Mike
Geoffrey:
What part of prototype do you fail to grasp, it seems to be all of it? Is the concept of in the future systems versus an operational system another foreign concept?
But it continues, first 13 minutes now 26. Another shiney object in the Vlad spin machine.
Totally useless.
Bunge returns with his favorite, Iraq and the axis of evil; Bush, Chenney, and Rumsfield.
Another dead horse.
I would bet the Venn diagram of people who STILL defend Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Iraq War and people who mindlessly parrot the Biden Administration on Ukraine is two completely overlapping circles.
You’re not in a position to describe other people as ‘mindless’.
Because the two sentences offered up by GB are all that anyone in Russia is going to care about. You have to be an child to think otherwise.
IOW, I ‘have to be a child’ to fancy Russian policy-makers might read whole paragraphs and observe actual behavior. I don’t know what I’d do without your wisdom.
@MBunge
I would bet the Venn diagram of people who STILL defend Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Iraq War and people who mindlessly parrot the Biden Administration on Ukraine is two completely overlapping circles.
Then I’d utterly clean you out, and I am not a betting man. But then again, it really isn’t a bet considering how many of the worst COVID Karens and people screaming about Ukraine like barking seals are those who still- even after more than a decade and a half- peddle utterly idiotic nonsense about “No Blood for Oil”, and tie themselves in pretzels trying to explain to me how the Sarin Artillery Shells that many servicepeople (some of whom I am honored to call friends) risked life and limb to destroy weren’t “WMD” in spite of the clear legal and scientific truth staring people in the face.
I have not liked the Bushes for more than a decade now and it pains me to defend them, but to quote a certain pundit with more-squishy-than-I’d-like-views but trenchant sloganeering, Facts don’t care about my feelings. Facts like Zarqawi and many AQ and Taliban VIPs being sheltered in Saddam’s Baghdad for priority wound treatment, Saddam’s multiple violations of the Gulf War Ceasefire, and this indirect complicity in 9/11 don’t care about my feelings about the Bushes now or what they were then.
Does the full quotation end “…and everything we just said is a bunch of BS that means nothing?”
Because the two sentences offered up by GB are all that anyone in Russia is going to care about. You have to be an child to think otherwise.
You have to be a child to paint all Russians with the same brush and act as if they are a hive mind.
Especially when- in spite of the instinctive push to rally behind the flag and support the troops- the Allies and neutrals can point to things like what Putin signed at Astana in 2010 (two years after the 2008 agreement that you and Geoffrey like to play up as the cause of the war).
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A reference to “It Never Rains in Southern California?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXkk65PdKyM
“But man, it pours.”
My first winter living in the San Diego area was the end of a seven year drought. I was driving down I-8 and in 30 seconds it went from dry pavement to an inch of standing water with visibility at about 40 ft. Of course I was probably driving into the squall. My next door neighbor got into a pileup. He said his insurance agent has handing out checks as fast as he could write/print them.
The Hotel Russian Empire is like the Islamic Caliphate. Once you’re part of it, you are destined to be part of it in perpetuity.
Hotel California brings back a bittersweet memory. My son and I were doing a climb in Colorado. We encountered a severe rainstorm and had to bivouac for the night. It was cold and uncomfortable. Lightening was flashing and rocks were falling down the face of the mountain. My son had an indomitable spirit and a love of doing hard things. While we began to settle in for the night waiting for the storm to pass, he sang “Hotel California.” He knew all the words. – I didn’t then. He saw the connection between our plight and the song. We had checked in to our lovely bivouac, but would we be able to check out?
Every time I hear the song, it reminds me of that adventure we shared. We made it out safely after the rain had passed and a new day arrived. Hopefully, the former Soviet nations will be able to actually leave as well. Buit the storm is raging now, and a new day seems far away.
What am I missing here?
Has a member State of the Russian Federation declared its separation?
Has Putin banned travel or emigration?
Geoffrey,
What planet do you live on? Have you ever heard of Chechnya ? Or Georgia? Or Belarus? Or Ukraine??????
Indeed. Or that the Crimea used to be part of Ukraine?
And that’s not even counting the various ‘stans, that are near Afghanistan.
Excuse… me!
Chechnya was and is part of Russia. The jihadist terrorist rebellion attempted to violently separate itself from Russia. The Chechnyan jihadists consider Chechnya to be part of the Ummah and were willing to use terrorism to achieve a Taliban style governance. Does the Beslan massacre of innocent children ring a bell?
Georgia, like the Ukraine is on Russia’s border, its incorporation into NATO was and is considered by Russia to be a potential strategic national security threat.
Something no competent military strategist will deny.
Prior to 2008, Georgia was a fully independent State. When NATO announced in the 2008 Bucharest agreement that Georgia and the Ukraine would be joining NATO, it threw down the gauntlet to Russia. That’s not just my personal interpretation, lots of highly placed and knowledgeable officials warned of the consequences.
Russia did not conquer the majority of Georgia despite easily being able to do so. That refutes the assertion that Putin desires to swallow as much territory as possible. As does his currently limiting his troops to eastern Ukraine. Until he expands his territorial expansion into western Ukraine, only supposition supports assertions that he is willing to use force to seize even more territory.
Belarus is also on Russia’s border, so similar strategic concerns exist. It’s thus not surprising that Russia backs a friendly government. And no, that’s not a denial of its authoritarian nature.
Regarding the Russian seizure of the Crimea. I’ve previously written of the factors that led to that. That’s not a denial that Putin used armed forces to make that seizure. Simply that the West’s passive aggression through NATO led to that action by Putin.
Passive aggressive bullshit*t.
“Passive aggressive” NATO vs Vlad’s tanks rolling across borders isn’t too clever by half, it’s half witted.
Vlad could have rained cluster bombs down on Tiblisi but he didn’t; what a kind touch that foe of the WEF and Dravos has shown himself to be. He’s not your friend Geoffrey.
And before you trot out the mockery line, does that great newspaper of record, The Babalon Bee, use satire and mockery, Geoffrey? They have talent, I’m just a man of little wit.
As they are mutually exclusive, I’ve never, even for a moment imagined that any dictator is a friend to liberty.
To understand the West’s passive-aggressive agenda as Russia and any competent strategist sees it, one must grasp the difference between potential and kinetic energy. A failure to grasp the interrelationship between the two will lead to dismissal of the former and the false conclusion that only kinetic energy is real.
The Sword of Damocles is a potential threat, one that can only be ignored at the sitter’s peril. Hiroshima was kinetic in nature.
Mockery, when appropriate, must be preceded by a factual and reasoned response to contrary assertions with a then corresponding refusal to respond similarly.
Absent a reasoned rebuttal, mockery is insult without substance and reveals a lack of character upon the mocking party.
“Mach 5 monster: Germany to get Dark Eagle missile”
The 4,000 mph advanced hypersonic missile could strike the heart of Moscow in just 21 minutes
https://asiatimes.com/2021/11/death-at-mach-5-germany-to-get-lethal-dark-eagle-missile/
The Geoffrey dictionary is deployed again. This time to declare what constitutes mockery and whether it is deserved. That’s not what it is or how it works.
Sword of Damocles? Try Occam’s Razor for a change.
Pathetic
And where is this low bid, only 4000 mph, hypersonic wonder weapon comming from Geoffrey? Who makes it? Is it nuclear armed? If so who is giving the Germans that payload? So by Geoffrey logic Vlad must attack Germany.
It could be worse, it could be 13 minutes. But Germany is where those Nazis came from the first time, not like in Ukraine? So Vlad must not accept being totally defenseless, again.
OM @ 11:27 – I am reminded of the SNL skit where Dan Ackroyd said to Jane Curtin “Jane you ignorant slut”. You have attacked all statements that go contrary to your ideological lens as mis-information like all totalitarians do. The prism which you view the world is the Fukuyama “End of History”. Geoffrey and I view it through the Huntington “Clash of Civilization” lens. When you question and hector him I demand that you back your assertions with research which I have not seen you produce yet. That tells me you are a dilettante. Research and post your objections. That is the challenge.
I was stationed in Poland for several years in the late 90’s. My main plant was 10 miles from Auschwitz. I have weeped over the killing wall. I have a bone fragment from the pits from Oven #2 that surfaced over time. The Nazi death camps were commanded by Germans and staffed by Eastern Europeans. That is a fact. I talked with a man who went searching for his uncle with Pope Jean Paul II right after the Russian past through it.
His uncle was worked to death in the Bayer subsidiary camp.
Ivan Demjanjuk was UKRAINIAN. So your last post is uninformed.
Do serious research or stick to being quiet. You might learn something.
om,
“And where is this low bid, only 4000 mph, hypersonic wonder weapon comming from Geoffrey? Who makes it?”
Had you bothered to even briefly view the link, you’d have seen that it is an American made hypersonic weapon just deployed to Germany.
You’re so filled with contemptuous arrogance for anyone who offers an opinion with which you disagree, that you play the fool and that, is pathetic.
I am Spartacus:
Stick to elections. Stick to elections in corrupt Michigan and fight that. That will keep you plenty busy.
Why you chose to take bone(s) from Auschwitz is problematic IMO. I know about the HIWIs from WWII. There were French, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Baltic, and other Europeans that helped with the Holocaust. GM ran factories for Hitler, Opel. Ugly isn’t it.
Vlad used the de-Nazification of Ukraine as one pretext for invasion, fool. Did you miss that? Tom Grey has noted the Azov Battalion in eastern Ukraine as well. They exist, are they running the country? Are they fighting for the WEF/Davos too? Is Zelensky a Nazi as well?
Don’t be a fool for Vlad. Your choice.
Stick to elections.
Geoffrey:
Is it nuclear capable? 26 minutes to Moscow. How many minutes from Kaliningrad to Berlin, Geoffrey, with the missiles Roosia already has? Nothing to see, nothing to see. One can count on you to spin for Roosia.
The Geoffrey dictionary is deployed again, this time disagreeing with Geoffrey principally, becomes “anyone.” It takes a special kind of arrogance to redefine words so self servingly.
Geoffrey and I am Spartacus:
Here is something serious for you to read if you can take your focus off of WEF / Davos / and Vlad be good!
https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
We Chose Decline
“The People’s Republic of China does not have to aggressively take our status as the premier world power. It appears that we are willingly giving it to them, sooner more than later. ….”
Seems that someone else “checked in”—and even stayed for quite a while—in the “Presidential Suite”….
(Looks like he’s still there…With more-than-occasional side trip to the Kyiv Hilton…):
“Trump asks Putin to hand over dirt on Hunter Biden: Ex-President claims Russian leader ‘knows’ why ‘the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave Joe’s son $3.5million'”—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10664487/Trump-urges-Putin-hand-related-Hunter-Bidens-dealings-Russian-oligarchs.html
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Key grafs:
“The ex-president accused Joe and Hunter Biden of profiting from the payment allegedly made by the late Moscow mayor’s widow to an investment firm.
“Details of the allegation came from a 2020 report by Senate Republicans.
“It cleared Joe Biden of wrongdoing but found his son may have improperly leveraged his connections in his foreign business dealings.
“Hunter Biden was on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father was vice president and leading ant-corruption efforts in Kyiv.
“His work on Burisma and other overseas dealings are the subject of a federal investigation out of Delaware that has picked up speed this week.”
See, apparently undeniable proof of Trump’s “collusion” with Putin—more than enough of a reason to impeach Trump every day of the year—is that the Biden’s received all kinds of money from sources in both Russian and Ukraine.
– – – – – – –
And how about the Beijing Intercontinental?…
“Sens. Grassley, Johnson allege $100,000 payment from Chinese oligarchs to Hunter Biden, provide receipt”—
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-johnson-allege-100000-payment-chinese-oligarchs-hunter-biden-provide-receipt
To be sure, chump change….
…If you do plan to check in, though, make sure to bring your own private food taster. (Otherwise, you may, in fact, find it very possible to check out.)
“Roman Abramovich asked ‘Are we dying?’ after he was poisoned at peace talks – as experts say First World War chemical agent Chloropicrin or low dosage Novichok was used in attack”—
“Investigative journalist Christo Gorev said WWI chemical agent was used in plot.
“A panel of experts all agreed Chloropicrin was the most likely method.
“But it usually emits a strong smell, meaning Novichok is also possible.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10666877/Roman-Abramovich-poisoned-WWI-agent-Chloropicrin-low-dosage-Novichok-experts-say.html
…as those masters of deception sniff deception in the air…
‘Ukraine’s Military Says Russia Now Partially Withdrawn From Kiev; Pentagon Calls It Deceptive “Repositioning”‘—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-signals-intent-cut-military-operations-around-kiev-chernihiv-after-positive
When NATO announced in the 2008 Bucharest agreement that Georgia and the Ukraine would be joining NATO
Again, the actual quotation from the communique has been supplied on these threads and does not say what you claim.
Took the time to read Geoffrey’s latest ‘blame the US for poor Vlad’s woes’ on the US Army’s reactivation of a US Army unit with a prototype system in Germany. Does Geoffrey understand what the word prototype means? And of course the evil US and the doubly evil NATO would risk nuclear armageddon with a prototype system.
Otay, Geoffrey.
Last I heard it was Vlad threatening to nuke Europe and others (?) “over” Ukraine.
Truly pathetic.
om,
Re: the “We Choose Decline” article and “you do have to accept the simple fact that the leadership the American people have put in charge of their security simply are not interested in funding it.”
That comes as no surprise, in fact it’s obvious.
Re: the article about the US ‘prototype’ hypersonic weapon; publication date is November 14, 2021. Well before Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine. That establishes US intent to put in place an unstoppable nuclear offensive weapon system just 21 minutes away from Moscow. If put in place on Russia’s border, it would ‘officially’ reduce the flight time to 13 minutes.
Art Deco,
“NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.” [my emphasis]
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm
All the ‘qualifying’ language in the world doesn’t change will become…
Again, the full quotation is what you keep neglecting to offer.
I would bet the Venn diagram of people who STILL defend Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Iraq War and people who mindlessly parrot the Biden Administration on Ukraine is two completely overlapping circles.
Mike
“Again, the full quotation is what you keep neglecting to offer.“
Does the full quotation end “…and everything we just said is a bunch of BS that means nothing?”
Because the two sentences offered up by GB are all that anyone in Russia is going to care about. You have to be an child to think otherwise.
Mike
Geoffrey:
What part of prototype do you fail to grasp, it seems to be all of it? Is the concept of in the future systems versus an operational system another foreign concept?
But it continues, first 13 minutes now 26. Another shiney object in the Vlad spin machine.
Totally useless.
Bunge returns with his favorite, Iraq and the axis of evil; Bush, Chenney, and Rumsfield.
Another dead horse.
I would bet the Venn diagram of people who STILL defend Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Iraq War and people who mindlessly parrot the Biden Administration on Ukraine is two completely overlapping circles.
You’re not in a position to describe other people as ‘mindless’.
Because the two sentences offered up by GB are all that anyone in Russia is going to care about. You have to be an child to think otherwise.
IOW, I ‘have to be a child’ to fancy Russian policy-makers might read whole paragraphs and observe actual behavior. I don’t know what I’d do without your wisdom.
@MBunge
Then I’d utterly clean you out, and I am not a betting man. But then again, it really isn’t a bet considering how many of the worst COVID Karens and people screaming about Ukraine like barking seals are those who still- even after more than a decade and a half- peddle utterly idiotic nonsense about “No Blood for Oil”, and tie themselves in pretzels trying to explain to me how the Sarin Artillery Shells that many servicepeople (some of whom I am honored to call friends) risked life and limb to destroy weren’t “WMD” in spite of the clear legal and scientific truth staring people in the face.
I have not liked the Bushes for more than a decade now and it pains me to defend them, but to quote a certain pundit with more-squishy-than-I’d-like-views but trenchant sloganeering, Facts don’t care about my feelings. Facts like Zarqawi and many AQ and Taliban VIPs being sheltered in Saddam’s Baghdad for priority wound treatment, Saddam’s multiple violations of the Gulf War Ceasefire, and this indirect complicity in 9/11 don’t care about my feelings about the Bushes now or what they were then.
You have to be a child to paint all Russians with the same brush and act as if they are a hive mind.
Especially when- in spite of the instinctive push to rally behind the flag and support the troops- the Allies and neutrals can point to things like what Putin signed at Astana in 2010 (two years after the 2008 agreement that you and Geoffrey like to play up as the cause of the war).