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NFO's avatar

Tony Blinken just showed up in a Kiev bar playing Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" on guitar as Kharkov burns. Words fail.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Beyond irony--in a country that's canceled elections.

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Mike richards's avatar

I would rather live under communism while having strong cultural and family values than under capitalism with neither.

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Brother Ass's avatar

Let’s just say family values don’t fare well under either regimes.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

"By preserving traditional values of the West, which are originally the values of Western Christian European civilization, Russia can become a guardian of these values. This may seem like a paradoxical idea, but it is nonetheless true. Therefore, it is incorrect to say that the West is our enemy.''

I like this quote and it resembles the same spirit of old Russia following the demise of the Byzantine Empire. It was Russia who assumed the role of protector of the Eastern Orthodox Faith. This was one of the major causes of the Crimean War and like today France and England are aligned against Russia. Although this time around the Turks appear on friendlier terms with Russia today than in 1853 when the Ottoman Turks declared war on Russia and received help and support from Europeans powers. It always seems to come back to the imperialism of European powers in the middle east.

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Retired FL LEO's avatar

Add to this Jens Stoltenbergs of NATO statement “we will only rebuild Ukraine if they win” must give the remaining Ukes still alive a warm and fuzzy feeling.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

These European light weights really come off as mindless twits.

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ML's avatar

Honestly, what these fools spew forth makes no sense and changes from day to day. Just recently we were to believe that Russia was to pay to “build back” Ukraine! And compare our Sec Def to Russia’s new one! As an old friend once said, “I could, but I’d rather not!”

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Isn't that the truth. I found this take on the WEF style leaders amusing.

https://zorkthehun.substack.com/p/the-wef-casting-agency

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Mark Wauck's avatar

And can you imagine how that comes across to any people around the world with an IQ above room temperature.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Sort of puts that ,"We care" mantra of the international left into perspective. They care that Ukrainians are dying and they are not.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

My guess is his focus will be on more of developing and production of drones and the associated technology that is changing warfare. Basically the industrial military complex that supports the Russian military. Simplicius mentioned this. A current weakness of the Russian military is relying on cobbled together Chinese technology in the drone area.

The U.S. is oblivious to the issue, and are still in the large drone such as Reaper Era, which are great for counter insurgency, but fail against a technology peer.

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