(12-08-2021, 06:23 PM)GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote: Has anyone considered that if Putin goes to war with/invades Ukraine that he will lay his hands on proof of all of Pedo Joe and Hunter's dirty dealings with Ukraine? And Obama's dirty dealings with Ukraine as well?
Maybe, just maybe, all of this administration's eagerness to put the US into a war with Russia is just an attempt to cover their own asses.
That is the only notion that makes it make any sense to me. I can think of no compelling reason that the US should be obliged "protect" Russia from Russia, and make no mistake the Ukraine is a part of Russia, always has been, always will be. Also, the Democrats, and an ever increasing number of Republicans, seem not to have gotten the memo that the Soviet Union is no more - it's been gone 30 years, replaced by Russia. Yet they still try to drum up unreasonable fears of Russia by employing old Cold War fears that "The Soviets are coming! The Soviets are coming!" when there are no more Soviets to come.
Oligarchs? You betcha - oligarchs have owned and operated that nation ever since the Tsar's government fell to the communists, but the Soviets themselves no longer exist.
But telling Putin to back off from the Ukraine is like Putin telling Trump to back off from building The Wall - it's in HIS sphere of influence, not ours, and none of our business. What I think is really going on here is that Russia is providing a distraction for the CCP to make a move under cover of smoke, Russia is making the probe of the perimeter so that the CCP will know the lay of the land without actually getting it's own hands dirty. And BidenHarris, being in cahoots with the both of them, is leading us right down the Garden Path they want us to tread.
American leftists have two faces, speak with forked tongue. On the one hand, when the American South broke away and formed it's own nation, they fought like demons to force it back under their umbrella by forcibly annexing it - but now they would deny that same right to Russia in reference to the Ukraine. This action would be like the Tsar telling Lincoln to keep his furry mitts off the South, or else he was going to take a good ol' Russian ass-whomping.
In reference to Patton's assessment of Russians as "a bunch of drunks", I once asked a mail order Russian bride why so many Russian women wanted to come to America. She responded that "All Russian men drink, all time. We think maybe Americans not so much, maybe make better husband". So Patton's observation does seem to bear up under scrutiny.
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