A new group formed to rally GOP support for Ukraine released an ad this weekend that said US spending on the war in Ukraine is good for the US because it “weakens” Russia.
The ad was made by Republicans for Ukraine, a campaign launched by Defending Democracy Together, an organization led by neoconservative Bill Kristol. The effort comes as support for arming Ukraine is waning among GOP voters, with a recent CNN poll finding 71% of Republicans were against Congress authorizing more Ukraine aid.
“When America arms Ukraine, we get a lot for a little. Putin is an enemy of America. We’ve used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine, and with it, they’ve destroyed 50% of Putin’s Army,” the ad says.
The ad is blunt and does not attempt to frame US support for Ukraine as a fight for democracy as the Biden administration does, and claims hurting Russia will also hurt China. “The more Ukraine weakens Russia, the more it also weakens Russia’s closest ally China. America needs to stand strong against our enemies, that’s why Republicans in Congress must continue to support Ukraine,” the ad says.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin used similar language in the early days of the war, saying one of the US goals in Ukraine was to “weaken Russia,” leaving no doubt the conflict is a proxy war.
Hawks in Congress have adopted similar talking points to justify more spending on the Ukraine war. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently said the US was getting its “money’s worth” in Ukraine because Russia is taking losses and no Americans are dying. The argument shows a lack of concern for Ukrainian lives.
“We’ve used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine, and with it, they’ve destroyed 50% of Putin’s Army.”
They don’t even bother trying to be believable.
Mark my words. Biden will be asking for a $Trillion per year for “defense” if he’s still around in 3 years.
It’ll be a miracle if we are.
Absolutely.
I think it’s a bit doubtful that Biden will be making those decisions in three years, but whoever is will probably be trying for the trillion-dollar MICIMATT jackpot.
Trifecta on the rise: Russia, China, North Korea. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$rolling in the MIC coffers. Wowzie!!!! USA, USA, USA……….
And if he isn’t, Trump will.
You’re probably right. But I’d like to think he would be less likely to foster wars.
You forgot new wars. Most Trumpsters toss that word in there to avoid the fact that he was just as belligerent as his predecessors when it came to bringing misery to other countries across the globe. And maybe when he hits the Trillion mark, he can have that military parade he has always dreamed about.
He increased drone attacks, more than Obama. Withdrew from two treaties with Russia. Provided Kiev with Javelin missiles.
Let’s hope Biden is gone… He seems to me WAAAAAY past his “sell by” time and needs to go quitely into the night. If not babbling into it….!! Should things remain mostly same, I will vote for RFK Jr. when, or if the vote happens…
Hope you change your mind about that, Mv; RFKjr is another bitch for Israel.
Rather, please check out Dr. Cornel West, the candidate for the People’s Party.
I will do research on Kjr’s Israel talk & acts What I have seen is his seeming avoidance of discussing this DANGEROUS topic. No matter how many children they shoot no one wants to talk about “it”… Look at what happened to LABOR in England and its easy to see why… One sympathetic word to a victim can get someone tarred as an anti-sodomyte or worse to them!!
He passed his expiration date many years ago.
As if the 200 megaton Russian nukes will only detonate at 100 megatons. As if their hypersonic missiles will only go half as fast… As if the ‘Great War On Terror made US stronger chasing terrorists around the globe while Russia & China spent the two decades upping their GREAT GAME of peer to peer rocketry and nuclear deterrence to far be ahead of the brain dead War on Islam FOOLS. We will probably never know how badly the Russians have done or the U.S. and its vassals Gnomes have done, but it seems to me that Russia is getting stronger and our proxy is getting DESTROYED. I am interested to hear YOUR take on who is winning and losing this fight…..!!!!!!
Winning: The US military-industrial complex and its hangers-on.
Losing: Literally everyone else.
Can you tell me the online site where I can get some Iodine???
Can you tell me the online site where I can get some Iodine???
Ukraine continues to make marginal gains with their attacks in the area of Robotyne and Verbove. But, less than 5 miles from where they started, they have lost tens of thousands of soldiers, dozens of tanks, and scores of armored vehicles. I don’t know how they can possibly expect to get to Tokmak with the forces they have available. But virtually everywhere else, Russia is either holding ground or making slow advances.
Ukraine may also have some special plans for Crimea. But they take are losing over 350 soldiers per week, and Russia continues to find new ways to disable the drone and missile attacks on Sevastopol.
In my opinion, Ukraine is losing its ability to fight. Russia is not. NATO’s attacks on Crimea are intended to raise the costs for Russia. But there is no real expectation of conquering the peninsula.
Thy guys at The Duran think the long range missile attacks on Crimea and Russia are to try and intimidate Russia into going along with the freeze the West is proposing, which would me another Minsk fiasco for Russia, giving the West time to bolster Ukraine to fight Russia later on.
“Minsk fiasco for Russia” – you mean the failure of Minsk Agreements was a great success for NATO? What they gained by sabotaging Minsk Agreements? Maybe people in EU now are better off than two years ago? If NATO is so happy about the failure of Minsk Agreements why they need a freeze now?
Yes, I did mean that the Minks Agreements were a fiasco for Russia as Putin trusted Hollande, Merkel, and Poroshenko to enforce the Minsk Accords.
First of all, Minsk Agreements were proposed by Hollande and Merkel. Putin agreed with the idea, so what? Okay, they cheated Putin, armed Ukraine and started a war but where is a fiasco for Russia? Or you believe it is Russia who is losing the war? If Russia is losing the war, why NATO needs a freeze? It makes no sense at all.
I think that Russia has been winning the war by taking the Donbas regions away from Ukraine. Russia, like Ukraine, has suffered many casualties. Russia is up against the U.S. plus over 30 NATO nations. The U.S. is determined to break Russia into pieces for good. Do you think that Russia is any match for the full force and fury of the U.S. and NATO? The Neocons are not going to give up.
I don’t see where US and NATO are successful. Russian industry is working fine. Russian army is doing well. It is EU who has difficult times, not Russia. Yes, the war is bad but it is particular bad for the losers. It doesn’t look Russia is going to lose this war.
Nord Stream bombing by us hurt German economy. Pert of this is to hurt German manufacture. We do not want any competition. Unfettered capitalism??? I think not.
Probably, US hoped to damage both Germany and Russia. German industry was damaged successfully. Russia only got an extra motivation to intensify the economic cooperation with China and other reliable Asian countries. China definitely is more important for Russia than EU now and it is good for Russia. Now Russia is investing much more in development of high-tech.
I hope you are right. Have you seen the videos and pictures of the Russian Naval Headquarters in Crimea? More of that to come.
It is a war. Yes, the historical building is damaged but from the military viewpoint it is insignificant. I think, it is good for Russia that NATO gives to Ukraine sophisticated long-range missiles. It gives to Russia an opportunity to test anti-missile systems and improve them. In case of a big war with NATO, it will be extremely important.
Russia is and will be ok.
The media does not tell us the truth, that we, NATO, are waging a war against Russia, using Ukraine as the battle field. Using Ukraine soldiers and soldiers of fortune who have shown up (reports of several Americans caught up in the war and killed).
Russia is a match.
Dmitry Medvedev – “about the applause to the SS man in the Canadian Parliament, about the supply of Abrams to Ukraine and about the promise to give Kiev longer-range missiles: “It seems that Russia is being left with less and less choice, except for a direct conflict with NATO on the ground, which has turned into an openly fascist bloc like Hitler’s “axis”, albeit larger.
We are ready, although the result will be achieved at much greater cost to humanity than in 1945.”
I agree with you. and I think this war is turning into a genocide of the STUPID of Ukraine for getting mixed up with the U.S. Neocons. IT also seems o me that Ukraine gets worse off every day. And I believe that Ukraine will collapse before Christmas if the latest news isn’t a collapse now
Trusting Merkel was a particularly bad move.
No more. Then this: https://www.thedailybeast.com/viktor-sokolov-navy-commander-and-33-officers-obliterated-in-russias-biggest-blow-yet?ref=home?ref=home
I noticed Western attempts to buy time as well.
Putin will never agree… Fool me once, shame on you!!!! Fool me twice shame on me!! Fool me three times is not going to happen.to Anyone as strong as Putin..!!!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/viktor-sokolov-navy-commander-and-33-officers-obliterated-in-russias-biggest-blow-yet?ref=home?ref=home This is not good. We all know that Kiev could not have done this without our intel, targeting. What would we do if a missile were to take out Austin?
I’ve said it elsewhere. But the only way Ukraine could know the victims of that strike would be to have well-placed spies nearby.
Given the long association between Russia and Ukraine, there are probably lots of well-placed spies working for and against both sides. Especially in Crimea, which Ukraine ran until 2014.
I See the situation nearly the same as you. But I think the Russian speakers have caught on that I’ts a genocide on THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Poroshenko set out to terrorize the people of the Donbas. The ultra-nationalists in Kyev certainly set out to destroy their cultural identity.
I have seen efforts to establish evacuation corridors before and during major battles. In Kherson, Russia promised free land and a job to those who would flee. But I don’t have good information about the numbers or percentages of ethnic Russians who have been killed in this war.
There are over a million who have fled to Russia. https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine
I am sure that the ratio of AFU soldiers eliminated (KIA, or too wounded to return) to Russian soldiers eliminated is high. Statistical odds predict at least 3 to 1. Some sources estimate actual losses to be 10 to 1.
If it wasn’t so scary, it would be laughable.
Look at the bright side, Donna ( if you call it that). If we all die, we’ll go on to our greater rewards and live peacefully forever after.
Mine is a sunny meadow with a little stone cottage. No other people there: just all my furry loved ones and I’ll care for animals that were abused or neglected. My mare will carry me across a great river to get me there.
Personally, I look forward to it 🙂
The Cold War ened 30 years ago. What bad things has Russia done to the US? This is about taking resources from both the Ukraine and Russia. There is no justification for treating Russia as and enemy. The Globalist American Empire is evil. Putin is the only bulwark for individual freedoms to continue.
Good comment until this:
Putin is the only bulwark for individual freedoms to continue.
I agree, Wars … the last sentence doesn’t match the rest of the comment.
While Putin is a nationalist Russian and therefore opposes USUKNATO’s encroachment into Russia’s natural zone of influence, he has never shown he cares at all about “individual freedoms” for anyone in particular.
In fact, one of the major parts of his whole POV (and Xi’s) that I totally agree with is that each nation and people must be left free to devise their own internal system w/o imperialism imposed by others. Thus, he works with Syria and S Arabia and Iran (who are no believers in freedom) as well as India, Brazil, etc. who do believe in it.
If for you the individual freedom means only the freedom for lgbt to involve children into their ranks, you are right. Lgdp propaganda in schools is not allowed in Russia. About the rest you are wrong.
“If for you the individual freedom means only an imaginary thing that absolutely no one believes in …”
Errr, no, to me individual freedoms include some of the ones included in the Bill of Rights (free speech and religion, arms, unreasonable search, self incrimination, excessive punishment, etc.) and others. Putin could care less about most of them.
The situation with individual freedoms is definitely much better in Russia than in US where Christianity is systematically destroyed and replaced by anti-Christian “values”.
I wouldn’t personally classify the US as very good on individual freedoms, either. But please elaborate in more detail on the status of freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, the right to keep and bear arms, etc. in Russia.
Yeah as much as I hate the neocon/neoliberal cabal infesting DC Putin isn’t a champion of individual freedoms.
But he is one of the few to stand up to the NATO Empire, and that alone deserves credit.
Jullian Assange is the poster boy of American freedom. As he rots in Prison!!!
Is Russia worse or better…???????????????????????
One thing is sure, 55,000 Americans perished in Viet Nan and you can go to YouTube and see Macnaramera confess that the ship supposedly Attacked by Hanoi the Maddox was not hit by anything except sonar sounds. How many Vietnamese did America kill in that war….. ??????? The number is in the millions..
Was Putin vicious to invade after Russia had lost OVER THENTY MILLION PEOPLE to these SAME NAZI SCUM that Canada Cheered today and are now out to kill their Russian Speaking Ukrainian Folks today…. ??????.Wake up to how evil the American deep state has becum. There is no way to understand how their lusst th destroy any state that is or seeks power parity with OUR NEOCON MASTERS.. Obama, Biden Nuland, Hillary Clinton, Jeffrey Piatt and Biden And the luminaries of Neocon thought and military interventions
Did I say anything praising America’s wars or their warmongers?
No, Wars, Your handle says it alll!!!! I just jumped in your reply box to explain what I am thinking these days!!! Sorry if you thought my thoughts could be a rebuttal to something you wrote. I think of you as a kindred spirit…. Keep up Your good work.
Yaa , It’s all Putins fault that the Russians invaded. He had the temerity to ask / demand Ukraine be neutral and not join NATO who refused to agree to no nuke missiles in Ukraine…!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The stupid hubris infected Neocons thought the war on terror would make America strong, but it made America weak in Great Gamesmanship. Russian would NOT have challenged us in Ukraine if we were still the top military power. The Great War on Terror diverted our attention on Great Game military power & deterrence and killed our preeminence as THE superpower and killed our military preeminence as top dog in military power. The Afghan fiasco certainly put the frosting on the cake of the American military pre-eminance. This whole Ukraine mess never would have happened had America not gotten diverted from actual military power into the religious swamp of Middle Eastern religious doctrine and expectations: a disaster of statesmanship & planning!!!!!! Two decades of time lost and trillion (s?) of dollars…!!!!!! We can print/keystroke the money, but the time cannot per regained. It is an unforced error, unforgivable in our times of great power peace. The Neocons who hatched this conspiracy to “weaken Russia” and their corporate partners in warcrimes over at Rand Corporation should be dragged out and convicted of warcrimes and hung by the neck in PUBLIC until dead on the mall in Washington D.C. To attempt to challenge a peer nuclear power over any non-exitential issue ought to be a crime!!! And the penalty for risking all life on the planet should be DEATH..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My rescue dog just knoded in agreement…!!!!!!
Putin is the only bulwark for individual freedoms
This is what I responded to. America’s evils don’t change my opinion about Putin supposed concern for “individual freedoms”.
Can you explain what individual freedoms they lack in Russia?
The Duma can.
I have a friend who has been there several times. He had a grand time in Moscow.
You can have an even better time in Dubai … and it is not free at all …
My brother and a group of other doctors visited the Soviet Union many years ago. He loved Moscow, said Red Square was a sight to behold.
The young Russian men would approach the Americans and beg them to sell their blue jeans!
As someone who enjoys the good herb now and again, I would imagine Vlad would have a problem with that. You already covered the LBGT thing in another comment so I guess the question would be what you consider “individual” freedoms to mean.
Er, Wars…there are many states right here in Amerikkka where the herb will get you jail time…just not here in the Mitten where we reside.
No doubt. I wasn’t comparing countries. He asked me about Russia. I think Putin would be a right-wing republican if he were a US citizen. I don’t get the adoration.
Yes, narcotics are illegal in Russia. Do you think Philadelphia nightmare is a good example of individual freedom?
Free speech in Russia is definitely better than in US. Assange can confirm.
Religion freedom means the right of parents to bring up their children according to their religious beliefs. There are no problem with that in Russia. Only totalitarian sects are not welcome. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism are official religions of Russia, they have no restrictions whatsoever. In US, parents are deprived of the right even to control the education of their children. LGBT agenda is forced upon their kids in school. Don’t you know that LGBT is incompatible with Christian religion?
“In US, parents are deprived of the right even to control the education of their children.”
There are 50 US states, with differing degrees of freedom to control the education of children. My children were homeschooled and my wife and I had absolute control over their education.
“Don’t you know that LGBT is incompatible with Christian religion?”
There are a bazillion variants of “Christian religion,” some of which LGBT is incompatible with and some of which it isn’t.
But you start with drugs, which are a pretty good barometer of “individual freedom.” Either YOU decide what you eat, drink, smoke, or otherwise ingest/inject, or the state decides that for you. The former is individual freedom, the latter is the opposite of individual freedom.
I am glad to learn that not all states of USA succumbed to anti-Christian Federal Government. The pressure from LGBT will increase and if you just sit and wait, in the end they will convert your children into their way of life.
Christian religion is based upon Bible. They are keeping Bible in the most holy place of church which is Altar. Bible, both New and Old Testaments, condemns homosexual relations. If Church does allow it, it means, this particular Church is not a Christian Church any more.
“Either YOU decide what you eat, drink, smoke… or the state decides that for you” – I don’t think there is a state which allow people to drive a car while drunk. The reason is, it is dangerous for other people. They also have a right to be protected by state. That’s what the state is for. The same about narcotics. If someone is making money by selling narcotics, he is dangerous to other people. In Russia, if one is caught with a small amount of narcotics for his own consumption, he can be fined about $100 and that is all. If one consume narcotics in public places, he also would face about the same fine. But if one is selling narcotics, he is risking to go to prison. I think, it is fair enough.
“The pressure from LGBT will increase and if you just sit and wait, in the end they will convert your children into their way of life.”
“They” didn’t “convert” my transgender daughter, who is a congregant at our local Metropolitan Community Church, an especially LGBT-friendly Christian denomination.
What then of Christian churches that don’t condone slavery “in keeping with” what that same Bible(s) says ?
And “anti-Christian Federal Government” ??? If you’re talking the USA you’re right-mad, Madds Mikhailovich. The US gov’t is just barely not a Christian theocracy.
Yes, narcotics are illegal in Russia. Do you think Philadelphia nightmare is a good example of individual freedom?
I think what I do with my body is the epitome of individual freedom.
Free speech in Russia is definitely better than in US. Assange can confirm.
I wasn’t comparing countries. I commented on this:
Putin is the only bulwark for individual freedoms.
That is a load of bullshit.
LGBT agenda is forced upon their kids in school.
And not allowed in Russia. How is that proof that Putin is the only bulwark for individual freedoms?
Don’t you know that LGBT is incompatible with Christian religion?
I’m an atheist. I could care less what Christianity is compatible with. And that has nothing to do with what I commented on.
Our civilizations are based upon the traditional religions. Europe, Russia and America are based upon Christianity. We all, Christians and atheists, belong to our civilization. It is not in our interests to undermine the foundation of our civilization.
It is natural that there are a lot of different ideas about how it should develop but what is the most important, we should condemn the lies. Every anti-Christian ideology is always starting with lies. If you are standing for the truth, you can’t be anti-Christian, even if you don’t agree with Christian Church. The cornerstone of Christianity, besides the love of God, is the organization of human society where people are treating each other the way they themselves wish to be treated. No one wants be cheated, so don’t cheat. No one wants be killed, so don’t kill, etc.
The United States is not only not based on the Christian religion, its founders made it explicitly clear in 1797 in the Treaty of Tripoli: “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
Furthermore, there are a huge number of variants of “the Christian religion.” The first major split was between those who followed the religion Jesus taught (a form of Judaism) and those who followed Paul off into his paganized offshoot.
There are LGBT and LGBT-friendly “Christians.” You don’t have to like that fact. It’s a fact whether you like the fact that it’s a fact or not.
US is not a separate civilization. It is a continuation of European civilization.
In Catholic Church there are a lot of pedophile-friendly “Christians”. Also there are a lot of Nazi-friendly “Christians”. I don’t consider them as Christians. You may have your own opinion about Christianity.
Most Christians presumably don’t care whether you consider them Christians or not. They don’t require your approval to be what they are.
US authorities also don’t require my approval when they call their puppet regime in Kiev a democracy. They may have their opinion about Kiev regime, I have mine. My opinion is based on the fact that a political system where no opposition is allowed can’t pretend to be a democracy. The same about those “Christians” who refuse to follow Christian teaching.
No True Christian would do such things !!! (to borrow a meme, /sarcasm)
Just to chime in…low-end estimates for different Christian denominations worldwide is ~25,000. At the high end, ~44,000.
Our civilizations are based upon the traditional religions. Europe, Russia and America are based upon Christianity.
We all, Christians and atheists, belong to our civilization.
It is not in our interests to undermine the foundation of our civilization.
Start out with a falsehood and then use that falsehood to prove the other falsehoods. Slick. I won’t even comment on the rest of it. Not coming from a guy who says the women of Ukraine deserve their fate and a nuclear first strike from Russia would be a good thing.
You demonstrate the ignorance about history of our civilizations.
Ideas of democracy and socialism originated from Christianity. Christ proclaimed the equality of people and his followers developed this idea of equality as they could in the politics.
And you demonstrate your gullibility in believing in fairy tales. And do all Christians think the women of Ukraine deserve their fate? Or that a Russian first strike might be good for humanity?
Only you are raving here about Ukrainian women. What they have to do with the foundation of our Christian civilization?
I only asked about Ukrainian women because you said they deserved their fate. I was just pointing out your hypocrisy. Would Jesus think Ukrainian women deserve their fate? Would Jesus be an intolerant jerk like you?
Too many people have it in their heads that Putin is evil incarnate when they really should focus on the U.S. instead and all of the demons running the U.S. Government. Tell me how the politicians in the U.S. care more about their people then Putin? And what’s wrong with a leader that puts his country first? That’s what a leader of a country is supposed to do, not sell out the country for individual gain like the Biden Crime Family. See the story on Menendez, that’s the typical concern most U.S. p0liticians have for their constituents. Doing the same thing as Biden, selling out the country. Like him or not, Putin took a country that was a complete basket case after the Soviet Union fell and has turned the country around and he apparently has the support of most of the Russian citizens.
I see, the propaganda works. People are repeating it without thinking. Usually they know about Russia only what the corporate media say.
Putting your country first is not = freedom … nationalism and patriotism is not = freedom. The original poster claimed that Putin is “the only bulwark for individual freedom to continue” and that is just not so.
No, he’s not. That goes for the U.S. as well.
Award for best comment of the day, Bill! 🏆
Thanks Gypsy33
“Putin is the only bulwark for individual freedoms”.
As far as I know, I have never written the above sentence, have never been to Russia and would never write that about a country I have NOT visited and I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THEIR LANGUAGE.
Also I imagine my list of important freedoms would be very different than Putin’s. However he seems like a very responsible leader for his people to me. I always like to point out that Putin has NOT flattened the Ukrainian Parliament building………Which I would have taken out in the first week or two. BUT Believe he has good reasons to NOT DEMOLISH THE “RADA” and I respect that he hopes to be able to live in Peace with Ukraine as soon as the NAZIS that OBAMA Neocons put in positions of power, can be removed. and their murderous hate for their Russian Forebear, and purge the haters. What else can explain his tolerant actions?
There are two likely possible reasons why he hasn’t demolished the Rada building.
One is that he’s not capable of doing so. I doubt that that’s the reason, because no matter how well protected it is, he probably could fire enough missiles to eventually take it out without creating a serious shortage of missiles to use elsewhere.
The other, more likely, reason, is that he doesn’t think doing it to would confer any advantage on him with respect to his objectives.
The least likely reason is that he’s “tolerant.”
I didn’t attribute that to you. I was just pointing out what my comment was about because it seemed like people thought I was praising the US with what I said. They didn’t really defend Putin as much as tell me how bad the US was in comparison. Things I agree with.
The war is about to get much, much worse: https://www.thedailybeast.com/viktor-sokolov-navy-commander-and-33-officers-obliterated-in-russias-biggest-blow-yet?ref=home?ref=home
Not good, V, not good….
My kitties are nodding in agreement with you and your pup 🙂
It bears repeating: just because we in the west are led by corrupt, illiberal, warmongering cretins does not mean the opposition leaders are necessarily on the side of liberty, peace, good governance or justice.
Why doesn’t he go to Ukraine and put his physical person on the line rather than waging a proxy war in which people far away are killed and maimed. So vicious.
“We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us” – Walt Kelly, Pogo Comic Strip.
I remember ” The Funnies”.. Whatever happened to them?
At least there was something worth reading in the daily newspapers.
Calvin & Hobbes ruled.
“Calvin, what was the capital of Poland until 1600 ?” That one still slays me.
Because he’s a coward, nothing more than a mighty armchair warrior, one of many.
Non—MAGA Republicans join progressives in backing the Ukraine proxy war. At least the Non-MAGAs don’t pretend that the reason is anything other than the drive for US hegemony.
But that still won’t matter to warmongering supporters. They will move the goal posts. GW Bush first tried to assert that Iraq was behind 9/11. That didn’t work, so it became WMDs.
While MAGA republicans want the focus to be on China. Also not pretending that the reason is anything other than the drive for US hegemony.
Senator Josh Hawley is a perfect example of what you are saying.
More schleimgeist from another neocon.
I had to google “schleimgeist.” LOL. Good one. But he, himself, looks more like schleimgeist than schleimgeist!? If you don’t believe me, look at his picture again. (Sarcasm)
I understand that Ukraine has a hit list of people who object to helping Ukraine and speak the truth about the war. Maybe Russia should have a hit list too.
They do. Where have you been?
Can you show me an article that tells us about that hit list and who is on it?
DJ:
We would all enjoy your company much more if you weren’t so abrasive…
Say what you have to say, respectfully and STFU.
Speak for yourself, Donna ! 😉
“Putin is an enemy of America” – Putin is an appointed enemy of America by neocons.
“they’ve destroyed 50% of Putin’s Army” – it is a BS faced lie. No more than 3% of Russian army was destroyed in Ukraine. Those 3% were replaced by other 50% and much more sophisticated weapons. Russian army and Russian military industry became much stronger than ever before. Besides, in those last 19 months, Russian military cooperation with China, Iran and North Korea got on a new level, also much higher than ever before.
The only achievements of neocons in those 19 months is the degradation of EU industry and a huge redistribution of US budget money in favor of MIC and corrupted politicians.
Putin was always committed to friendship with the U.S. – and that’s the whole problem. Even as the U.S. encroached on Russia and crossed its red lines, Putin was desperately pleading not to force him to push back. Even as Senators John McCain and Chris Murphy cheered the Maidan mobs in Kiev in 2014, Putin negotiated the useless Minsk agreements, with which the banderites wiped their asses and laughed. Putin is the problem.
It looks, Putin couldn’t believe that EU elites could act so openly against the interests of their own people.
About one year ago Putin said that Minsk Agreements were a mistake.
Putin was designated the current bogyman after Wash. tired of fighting Islam.
Washington still has North Korea. Assad.
Ok, Doom Stermz; Whatever you say.
But do make sure to continue repeating that. It actually helps Ukraine.
Russia’s economy, military and society is far stronger now than it was in February 2022.
It also has more geopolitical influence and support.
Russia doesn’t need America or the West.
You Americans need to be very concerned about this small neocon elite in DC. They are insane, delusional and extremely dangerous. Stop them – before they bring America to its knees.
Yes Scipio I am with you on everything…. Seems to me America is already down on one knee and wobbling towards two..; The ENTIRE weaken Russia project is a miserable failure. Our MORON neocons like Nuland have so misjudged what their proxy war will precipitate, that they have not learned what I knew bin fifth grade grammar school. “Do not unite your foes, but be cautious to keep them at odds with each other. ” Hectoring China on Taiwan while running a hot war against Russia it the very essence of idiotic hubris. Especially now that they are far ahead in military prowess.
“Hectoring China on Taiwan while running a hot war against Russia it the very essence of idiotic hubris.”
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Are you kidding Mv? Amerikkkans are already laying prostrate on the ground.
Russia is probably stronger now than at anything in the last 25 years.
Longer than that.
‘Globalists for USA’ Ad Says Ukraine War Is Good Because It ‘Weakens USA’
The failure to condemn Russia at the G20 this month illustrates your point.
I also suspect that Trudeau’s comments about India assassinating Hardeep Singh Nijjar are actually a threat in response to India’s warming relationships with Russia and China.
Trudeau’s willingness to speak publicly about the killing may well be related to that geopolitical issues, but it’s very likely that Nijjar was indeed assassinated by Modi’s agents.
I know that he is considered to be a terrorist facilitator who seeks to carve a separate Sikh country out of India. So, it’s entirely possible that he was assassinated. But I don’t know the details of his death.
The Hindu-extremist Modi government considered him, as they do most other Sikhs in the diaspora who advocate for an independent or autonomous Sikh homeland, as a terrorist. Sikhs mostly call him an activist and supporter of an independent Khalistan.
I expect we’ll learn more about the killing as the Canadian legal case develops, but it has all the earmarks of an assassination. Nijjar was killed in the parking lot of his gurdwara by a pair of masked shooters who fired dozens of rounds.
I just checked the relevant Wikipedia entry, which has way more details about Nijjar than I previously knew. Worth reading.
It may be that Trudeau is also playing domestic politics. Support for Ukraine plays into the Liberal Party’s need to shore up support in Ontario (with a sizable Ukrainian population) and the Prairies (also with a big Ukrainian heritage; tho the Prairie provinces are basically worthless in federal elections. Ontario and Quebec are all that matter).
In terms of Mr. Nijjar’s Pretty Definitively Assassination And Not A Rare Random Act of Violence, Surrey’s large (and BC’s considerable) Sikh population is of political value (not that BC is in federal elections). BC is kinda Justin’s “second home” and to be seen as losing ground here in the next election (the Conservatives are gaining ground with their b.s. plays to the middle and working classes) would be a major failure in optics.
A sociodemographic profile of Ukrainian-Canadians
Where did they get the money to run this ad?
The group is funded by different sources, but according to Open Secrets one of the interesting funders is Omidyar’s group … very left and very never Trump. In other words, Globalism, Inc.
Yup (although Omidyar is “left” only in the context of our very “right” society). Read on down:
Neocon dark money front launches desperate ad blitz as support for Ukraine forever war craters
Yup, agree … the “corporate left,” all identity politics and minimal economic policy.
It’s a brilliant scheme, if you’re one of the Owners. Keep the masses fighting over abortion, gender identity, race and pandemic issues while you laugh all the way to your counting room.
In the first quarter of 2023, 69 percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.4 percent of the total wealth.
Would you mind providing a link? I didn’t know Open Secrets tracked this kind of thing.
I don’t want to give God ideas on how to torture me when I get to hell.
But I hope he doesn’t make me listen to this ad on replay for eternity. Hell fire is probably more merciful. …What’s that? …He’s listening? …DELETE, DELETE, DELETE! Oh no, the DELETE button is not working! (Sarcasm)
hE knows when you’ve been naughty
hE knows when you’ve been nice
hE knows when you’ve been bad or…
Wrong guy? I always get them two mixed up.
LOLOLOLOL…. Love you, man!
Ditto that…
Who DOESN’T love Wars! ❤️
Everybody except those who fight them and pay for them. Not the gov. or Wall St. and the MIC and others connected to the slaughter who benefit. Marx was right, it’s all about MONEY, some lose it some gain it.
Hi Lilly,
Gypsy, I believe, was referring to our friend here called ‘wars r us’.
Yes I was, Donna 🙂
Thank you. The feeling is mutual.
Wars, if I’m ever a widow, I’d kind of look at you as my permanent fiancé, if you’re not attached 😁
You’d have to move down here though, I’m not quite tough enough to be a Yooper! 😉
I’m flattered. But it would take a gun pointed at my head to leave my happy place. What’s great about living up here is that no one else wants to. And as a hermit, I couldn’t be happier.
Well I’m a toughie Wars. Problem is that I have Reynaud’s syndrome, which means that my hands get cold very quickly and very intensely. There ain’t a pair of gloves on the planet that can keep my hands warm.
The UP is beautiful. I don’t blame you for not wanting to leave!
And you.
Right back at ya.
NA, there’s a special place in heaven for folks who do great sarcasm 😁
If you fear Hell, put your faith in Jesus. You have the most to gain and lose in the next life (if you believe in one). Even if it really isn’t true, you’ll get peace.
Or Taoism ! No Hell concept; and no untidy trinitarian tri-omni god with writing to make current MCU writers blush with embarassment.
Here’s a link on the Tao’s concept of hell. It’s like purgatory and prepares the soul for the next incarnation, but who wants to comeback again and again? I don’t. But, I guess we’ll see someday. https://learntaoistmagiconline.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/the-ten-levels-of-hell-in-taoism-a-path-to-correction-and-purification/
I’d like. to come back as a dolphin. 🙂
OK, but you gotta dodge those Orcas. It will save on clothing and shelter, good choice.
Donna, I believe we live 12 lives, one for each sign of the Zodiac, beginning with Aries.
As a Pisces, I’m on my last reincarnation, which suits me just fine.
I have very vague recollections of previous lives. In one, I was a male farmer ( very old times); in another, I was a medicine woman who healed with herbs. ( Not that particular herb though, Wars 😉)
I think my reputation as a stoner is now universal. Bragging, not complaining.
😂
What then of Ophiuchus ? Add it to the zodiac & you get a 13th incarnation, like The Doctor !
You’re too kind, Gypsy!
Not a-tall, NA! Credit where credit is due!
Sadly, Chomsky agrees that is objectively what’s happening, i.e., Washington benefitting immensely by weakening Russia.
links?
YouTube interview with Katerina (?) I happened on this morn , wherein he states his agreement with recent Foreign Affairs piece by Anthony Cordesman. He gets very surly when Katerina hints a conflation with moral approbation, … very strange, uncharastic of philosopher-Chomsky … losing his aplomb.
Even Chomsky can’t take it anymore. Only saw him get a little uppity once before, but never surly. Everybody has their limits.
He was embarrassed at parrotting the Washington line … albeit under the claim of “objectivity”, and getting called on it. But maybe he still has family over there??
I hear them say that Russia is our (their) enemy but I never hear about what Russia has done to deserve this designation. From what I’ve seen over the past 30 years they have bent over backwards to try and be our friend.
I think the Russian Federation’s “crime” was not suffering a complete and total crushing loss in the Cold War. I very much believe that neocons and our new neolib mutants carry a grudge dating back to ’89 thru ’91, when America found it hadn’t so much won the Cold War as the Soviet Union really just stopped playing.
Actually they did suffer, but Putin somehow pulled them out. Maybe that’s why he’s so popular? Compare that to the US politicians low ratings. Now Trump is ahead of Biden, the clown show goes on and on, but I’m not laughing anymore. It’s getting as serious as an H bomb.
Suffered, sure – but the anti-Red “true American” neocon/neolib wanted the Soviet Union smashed into smithereens and wanted to know it was the USA standing triumphant over a charred corpse.
To them it was like a death row inmate dying instead of natural causes. They didn’t get the satisfaction they crave now (if not ever since).
Yep. Psychopaths are never satisfied and never give up on their agendas for more ego and wealth at the expense of others.
“. . . when America found it hadn’t so much won the Cold War as the Soviet Union really just stopped playing.”
This.
The Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/viktor-sokolov-navy-commander-and-33-officers-obliterated-in-russias-biggest-blow-yet?ref=home?ref=home This is not good. My guess is now the “slow war” in Ukraine is going to speed up.
McConnell USA best interest to assist Ukraine against Russia, deterring other adversaries and confronting Vladimir Putin because [It ‘Weakens Russia’] without American troops.
Ukraine’s Lt. Colonel Bitaly Berezhny: “out of the 100 individuals who joined the units last fall, only 10-20 of them remain, the rest are dead, wounded or disabled.” (globalresearch.ca, September 16, 2023)
I have friends who also believe in phantom enemies and cannot see the world is uniting against the US. It is difficult to imagine a way of life that includes a need to make phantom enemies. Sergey Lavrov put it bluntly to punks like Senator Richard Blumenthal, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Bill Kristol; “You want to settle up on the battlefield? Fine. So be it.”
The world is plainly seeing that Russian weapons are superior to the US and the US has not won a war since it was on the winning side in ww2. Soon the American people will realize the are paying the biggest military budget on earth to fight phantom enemies hiding under coward’s beds. What happens when the average American tax payer joins with the rest of humanity and understands the pervert scam called the US government?
WTF!!!!!!!! I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARSB THAT CANADA HAS GONE ABSOULTELY NEOCON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But to glorify NAZIS is beyond the Pale…
A mini lesson in EMPIRE:
“But once you passed “the Pale,” you were outside the authority and safety of English law, and subject to all the savageries of rural Ireland. “Beyond the pale” then became a colloquial phrase meaning “outside the limits of acceptable behavior or judgment.”Oct 10, 2016.
You and I gotta love it to see what the NEOCONS have done in CANADA…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Turned a peaceful and prosperous country into HATE FILLED NAZI CHEERING PLACE FOR NAZIS and their HATE OF ALL THINGS RUSSIAN…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW MANY CANADIANS DID THE NAZIS KILL in WWII ?
Who would have thought it was possible to turn CANADA into a cheer leader of NAZI ZIONIST STRONGHOLD OF a NAZI ZIONIST HATE OF ALL THINGS RUSSIAN…
Or is it just me that takes offense at seeing what transformed CANADA HAS BECUM… ACCIDENTALLY the HEADER SAYS
Canadians like here south of the border are very similar in their apathy to governmental atrocities around the world and their human rights being taken away.
Weakening Russia is a major objective to reduce its ability to invest in the “Stan’s”, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Even Vietnam. Same for China.
The “underbelly’ of Russia and China has replaced Western an Central Europe as our geopolitical center of interest. Hence Biden’s visit to Hanoi. This is a semi cold war with high stakes: oil, gold and strategic minerals which W+C Europe cannot provide for our new industrial revolution.
It will all be buried by global warming and climate change hence the continuation of the war in Ukraine is utter madness.
Woke up this morning to Canada giving a standing ovation to a NAZI…!!!!!!!! Canada has been going Neocon ever since Stephen HARPER. All the CRAZY anti IRAN stuff Canada has produced tells the story that one would think that Iran was located between the U.S. and Canada. Once the Neos get their nose in the tent they spew their hate openly. Thank g-d they have abstained from the nuclear club. I cannot imagine what the safety of the world would be with Nut-jobs like Harper able to initiate nuclear war. Iis a miracle of good luck that level headed Putin is on the other side. Do you realize that the Rada, Ukraine’s parliament building is still standing! If I had been running “The Special Operation” I would have leveled it on day one…!!!!!!n. But I do know anything about the Slavic mentality. And presumably Putin does. Does he envision Ukraine as a peaceful neighbor once their Nazis bare driven out or neutralized…??? Can anyone here think of any other reason that Russia hasn’t flattened the Rada???? Please no answers like “Rational Thinker” claiming that Russia is not able 2 demolish the Rada, Even with it’s hypersonic weapons. Obviously these posters have just given up any semblance of objectivity to attempt to paint Russia as feckless but Ukraine a non-nuclear nation of farmers as a contender in Great Powers status.
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Yes, they did it. Veteran of Ukrainian SS division Galitchina, 98 year old war criminal, probably, never in his life had such an honor.
You…you know our (I’m Canadian) Deputy Prime Minister’s grandfather ran a pro-Nazi newspaper in Ukraine, and this same DPM has cheerled supporting the Ukronazis this whole time ?
And people here think Trudeau is the embarassment…!
Calls for Rota to resign. See my post above. And Trudeau had the audacity to call the truckers ‘nazis’.
Good post ! Now, I liked Darcy Rota when he was with the Canucks, but this new Rota is a clown.
Yes, Trudeau furthered Canada’s deep slide into Authoritarianism by claiming Nazis where there weren’t (Freedom Convoy) and ignoring where they are (Ukrainian military forces & gov’t). His is a gov’t that Can Do No Wrong and is anong many that are walking illustrations of the Argument From Authority fallacy.
Can anybody nazi* that the West is going down the drain and Ottawa is passing up Wash. on the way down? “House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota is facing calls to resign after apologizing to the House of Commons after inviting, recognizing and leading the chamber in a standing ovation for a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.”Google really buried that story today and didn’t even mention it yesterday after it happened.
*pun.
https://theworldnews.net/ca-news/deeply-embarrassing-for-canada-s-parliament-rota-called-to-resign-over-nazi-veteran-invite
Here’s another way our billions of dollars are fighting for freedom in Ukraine. That story was also buried by the MSM. “Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko on Friday ordered the closure of 74 churches belonging to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), citing its alleged “direct ties” to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. The newly sequestered sites may be handed over to the OCU or the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which is in communion with Rome, or could even be demolished as “illegal objects” given the government’s annulment of lease and use contracts.” GIVING THE CHURCHES TO A ROMAN CATHOLIC SECT WOULD BE LIKE GIVING LUTHERAN CHURCHES TO ROME, OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND!
https://www.rt.com/russia/583031-kiev-orthodox-church-crackdown/
“‘Republicans for Ukraine’ Ad Says Ukraine War Is Good Because It ‘Weakens Russia’ -The ad campaign was launched by Defending Democracy Together, a group led by neoconservative Bill Kristol”
There he goes again! Evil arch villain Bill Kristol spouting his fascist lines same as always.
What’s next “Kristollnacht” for any Slavic or Slavic Russian in the West?
As an aside, Kristol always looks like he has a corn cob stuck up his back side in photos and interviews!