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Discussion in 'In the News' started by Ed Wilson, Feb 13, 2022.

  1. Don Alaska

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    Poland is a member of both.
     
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    Thanks for the help,I knew it was at least one.
     
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    How do you take over a country? Feed them with free weapons and let them destroy themselves in a futile war." -- Steven Magee
     
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    Now that we are shipping F-35s into the Ukraine theater, we have certified them to carry nuclear weapons. It looks like we are getting ready to make a nuclear strike on Russia as well as sending troops to Ukraine. It is all very disquieting as the governments play the propaganda games. Russian elections are just a few days away, and if Putin gets re-elected, he will take it as a mandate to launch further attacks in Ukraine. I suspect it is coordinated with China and perhaps even Iran to bring all the fronts online at the same time or sequentially. Drug shortages from the pharmacy hack is still continuing and diabetics and asthmatics will soon be affected directly.
     
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    French President Macron was scheduled to visit Kyiv this week, but the Russians announced that he would be a target should he decide to visit Ukraine. Macron cancelled his trip and has sent out requests to other countries asking them to return any French weapons they have been sold as France is running out of weaponry. Interesting. Russia has massive occurring throughout Russia in an attempt by Ukraine to destabilize the Russian election tomorrow.
     
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    Oh my! Nazi troops sponsored by Ukraine and supplied at least in part with Western weapons are staging sorties into Russia in an attempt to disrupt the elections there. Polling places are reportedly being firebombed and set on fire by other means to prevent people from voting, as Ukraine thinks Putin will win in a landslide even bigger than is predicted. It is quite ironic that WE are arming the Nazis to invade Russia and disrupt their elections. Practice for November in the U.S. perhaps, as the mail-ins and the drop-offs will be counted but those who vote in person--mostly Conservative, traditional folks--will perhaps be prevented from voting. Interesting. The president of Latvia has announced that he wants Russia wiped off the maps. Latvia, with their massive army of 17,250 personnel are threatening the Russians:rolleyes:. The mouse is roaring.

    It is also interesting the the troops invading Russia--about 2,500 strong with a small number of tanks--are the very Nazis that Putin originally said were committing "genocide" against Russian-speaking Ukrainians before the start of the war. The Anti Defamation League declared these troops to be neo-Nazis, but are now silent on the crossing tf the Russian border. Russia will soon have no choice but to react in some way. We have been pushing and pushing and crossing so-called Red Lines, and soon will have 100,000 NATO troops on Russia's border. Americans are totally unaware of all this since there has essentially been a news blackout on the Ukraine war for several weeks now. The uninformed will be taken totally by surprise when the SHTF.
     
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    This doesn't make sense. Putin has been winning elections by margins of 90% for decades. I don't think he even had a serious competitor. What do the Ukrainians hope to accomplish? They are not that stupid.

    There are some cases where individuals disrupted polling sites. One set fire to a polling booth. One woman tried to throw a Molotov cocktail type thing into a polling station, but her aim was too bad. These are individuals still upset over Putin's assassination of Alexei Navalny.

    Which explanation makes more sense? The Ukrainians are stupid, or someone is trying to portray Ukraine as the enemy?
     
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    Could be either or both. The Ukrainians are being driven by NATO to do stupid stuff. Poland is reportedly sending people who took refuge in Poland to escape the war back to Ukraine at the request of Zelenskyy. There are certainly people who may be angry that Navalny died in "captivity" but Zelenskyy has also imprisoned his political opponents so there isn't a difference there. Putin has certainly killed the opposition before but why imprison him first? He hasn't before. I don't think Putin won elections by 90%, but he has been over 80% in stuff I have read. Just as believable as Biden getting more votes sitting in his basement than Obama did while he campaigned.
     
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    Day two of the Russian election:

     
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    Perhaps this could be the beginning of a new thread, but for convenience I will post here. Putin has of course won the Presidential election in Russia with around 89% of the vote. 80% was pretty secure based on polls taken prior to the election, but the percentage may have been boosted a bit by Ukrainian incursions attempting to disrupt the election. After all, attacks on the homeland always solidifies patriotism, misguided or not. Putin's tone in his speeches has changed to much more belligerent since his victory in the elections, telling me that he does in fact care about public opinion somewhat. He has become much more ominous and threatening towards the West.

    The U.S. and NATO appear to be planning some type of direct intervention in the early summer somewhere, based on open-source intelligence involving naval forces in particular. It could be in the Black Sea, or it may be against China in defense of Taiwan and the Philippines. Only time will tell. Things are also slated to heat up in Europe as the fields dry up and the weather becomes friendlier for air, drone and missile attacks.
     
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    Russia recently stated that France has to announce troop deployment into Ukraine, since a number of the French troops already in the war have died and the numbers of French dead can no longer be covered up. Guess what? France announced today that they ARE sending troops into Ukraine--2000 troops supposedly. I wonder how many other NATO nations have troops dying in Ukraine?
     
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    Romanian "troops" have entered Russia and admitted doing so. It is a Romanian faction attacking into Russia using weapons obtained form NATO since Romania is a member state of NATO. The Polish defense minister says NATO troops are already in Ukraine and I think he is predicting 230,000 NATO military personnel in Ukraine by the end of the year, as Ukraine's army is collapsing and something has to be done. NATO has been pushing Russia trying to get Russia to launch a "surprise attack" that would justify their actions, but so far Putin has not taken the bait. We'll see what comes next.
     
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    News has now been released that Zelenskyy has purchased a 20-million pound mansion in the UK as his retirement home. Your tax dollars at work, as this was undoubtedly purchased with American and NATO aid money. He was not a rich man prior to the war. (Neither was Obama or Clinton but that is another story). The Russians appear to be massing for a large offensive on the Ukraine border at several sites. Rumor has it that Putin wants to obtain some large objective by or on April 25, since that is the days that the Soviet army entered Berlin in WWII, and it will be celebrated on May Day, a Russian workers' holiday. It is possible that Zelenskyy is preparing to go into exile in Britain and to form a government in exile there. NATO forces would then enter in full force and continue the war in conjunction with remaining Ukrainian forces. All conjecture, but Putin wants to get this over with before NATO can get into the war in a big way.
     
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    I am not in the least surprised.
     
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    The recent bill that gave Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel a ton of money we are borrowing form our enemies and printing imaginary money also included the okay for Biden to seize all Russian assets in the U.S. and send the money to Ukraine. That is essentially a declaration of war against Russia. Are you all okay with that? Assets can be frozen, but if a nation seizes the assets of another country, that has always been considered to be a declaration of war. We are also sending "advisors" to Ukraine in a similar manner to that used in Vietnam. That worked out well, though, didn't it?
     
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