Comments on: Open thread 5/4/22 https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 06 May 2022 12:05:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/#comment-2622246 Fri, 06 May 2022 12:05:17 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116592#comment-2622246 Related:
Not sure if anyone would really want to get inside Putin’s mind…but on the chance that one might just happen to…

“Former Putin Adviser Andrei Illarionov: Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin;
“Before the Russia-Ukraine war began, most analysts did not believe Vladimir Putin would actually invade—until he did.;
“Andrei Illarionov was one of the few that accurately predicted what was to come;
“From 2000 to 2005, he was chief economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Putin’s personal representative at the G-8. In 2005, he resigned and became an outspoken critic of Putin and the Kremlin.”—
https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-putin-adviser-andrei-illarionov-inside-the-mind-of-vladimir-putin_4448118.html

]]> By: PA+Cat https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/#comment-2622045 Thu, 05 May 2022 02:19:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116592#comment-2622045 The open thread seems like the only place to post this little tidbit about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, aka the Nerd Prom: this year’s party turned out to be a fer-sure superspreader event: “Employees of CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and other outlets have all reported positive COVID-19 tests after the event, which saw host Trevor Noah joke about its potential as a ‘superspreader,’ according to a report. . . . One ABC reporter, Jon Karl, who has since tested positive, was seen shaking hands with President Joe Biden at the event.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/journalists-test-positive-for-covid-19-after-white-house-correspondents-dinner

Biden’s gonna put us all back in masks– the chains will come later.

]]> By: Robert Shotzberger https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/#comment-2622033 Thu, 05 May 2022 00:51:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116592#comment-2622033 President John Tyler has 2 grandsons living until recently, I believe. Tyler married late and had a son with her rather late.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/#comment-2622032 Thu, 05 May 2022 00:36:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116592#comment-2622032 Geoffrey fienting with Hong. Is the Moskva fienting towards Sevastopol too, Geoffrey? That port that used to be leased from Ukraine. Just a little nibble, A?

Is the May 9, 2022 Victory Parade going to be special this year?

LOL.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/#comment-2622030 Thu, 05 May 2022 00:24:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116592#comment-2622030 Russia never sent enough troops to seriously demonstrate an intention to take Kiev,

You keep recycling this from your sources. Whatever your sources fancy is ‘enough’, they did attack Kiev, so they did in fact have that intention.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/#comment-2622023 Thu, 05 May 2022 00:05:46 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116592#comment-2622023 Geoffrey:

There is a basic concept you seem to have never learned about foreign affairs, threats and bluffs are a thing. Even when it comes to nukes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sxOO0hCCSk4&t=2020s

By the short hairs. 13 minutes.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/#comment-2622021 Wed, 04 May 2022 23:46:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116592#comment-2622021 Geoffrey continues to play up Vlad’s threats and carry Roosian water, stuck in the Nuclear Freeze of the 1980s.

You see, the Donbas and Transnistria are just little nibbles from Ukraine and Moldova.

Existential threats you see from the mind of Geoffrey. Certainty is another word that doesn’t mean what you think. Hubris much?

]]> By: Geoffrey Britain https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/#comment-2622018 Wed, 04 May 2022 23:39:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116592#comment-2622018 om,
I no longer read your ramblings.

Art Deco,
“That’s the improvised plan B after they couldn’t implement plan A.”

Nice support for the mass media and UniParty’s line. Russia never sent enough troops to seriously demonstrate an intention to take Kiev, a neccessary precondition to conquering the Ukraine. It was a feint, to prevent the Ukrainian military from concentrating the majority of its forces in fully contesting the Russians intent to seize the Donbas region.

“Simply because country C, D, and E are NATO members and, attacking C, D or E would draw it into war with the US*” GB

Some people are gamblers, Geoffrey.

No nation ‘gambles’ with the near certainty of nuclear war. Such a gamble would necessarily imply a suicidal death wish.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/#comment-2622000 Wed, 04 May 2022 22:13:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116592#comment-2622000 For Geoffrey:

A = Russian Federation
B = Ukraine
C = Moldova.

D, E, F, G = not sure, but since you are in intimate conversation or in a cosmic mine meld with Vlad we can surely trust your judgement.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/05/04/open-thread-5-4-22/#comment-2621999 Wed, 04 May 2022 22:04:57 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116592#comment-2621999 Geoffrey plays with his Playschool blocks while Vlad tries to consume Ukraine one bite at a time. Schools us about WWI and somehow can’t remember those little territorial adjustments that preceeded Poland in 1939.

We are not worthy to sit at his feet. Or in his estimation?

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