War in Ukraine

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The only true way that Putin slows down is if the campaign in Ukraine goes bad for him. If he gets bogged down into an ugly war like the USSR faced with Afghanistan, then he won't be able to advance and the Russian people will turn on him.

However if the campaign is very successful, he will be more popular among the Russian people and harder to stop.

The Nazis and Hitler got a very big boost with the German people when they defeated France.

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, people like wars that they win and take land. People hate wars only when it really starts to him home with a lot of casualties and economic hardship.

So, we really need to cheer on the Ukrainians right now, if they can hold Russia, it will stop a lot of issues here.
 
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Burhead said:
It’s totally surreal to be watching a European war unfold live.
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I was watching MSNBC coverage last night on YouTube (it was the first free stream I found with live coverage). Never thought I'd hear air raid sirens sounding over a capital city in Europe in 2022, but here we are.

Appreciate your posts and insights btw. Do you think the West will use the "economic nuclear option" and kick Russia out of SWIFT?
 
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volbound1700 said:
The only true way that Putin slows down is if the campaign in Ukraine goes bad for him. If he gets bogged down into an ugly war like the USSR faced with Afghanistan, then he won't be able to advance and the Russian people will turn on him.

However if the campaign is very successful, he will be more popular among the Russian people and harder to stop.

The Nazis and Hitler got a very big boost with the German people when they defeated France.

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, people like wars that they win and take land. People hate wars only when it really starts to him home with a lot of casualties and economic hardship.

So, we really need to cheer on the Ukrainians right now, if they can hold Russia, it will stop a lot of issues here.
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Yes. This is why people need to pray Ukrainians hold the line and create many Russian deaths.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
I was watching MSNBC coverage last night on YouTube (it was the first free stream I found with live coverage). Never thought I'd hear air raid sirens sounding over a capital city in Europe in 2022, but here we are.

Appreciate your posts and insights btw. Do you think the West will use the "economic nuclear option" and kick Russia out of SWIFT?
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Ripple says Hi! SWIFT is not the only (and certainly not the best) game in town anymore
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Vol737 said:
Eric Swalwell tweeted out that Republicans are rooting for Russia. This is why people believe liberal left democrats are completely insane.
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Well, Eric Swalwell is a bit of an idiot, and this is coming from a liberal. I wish everyone would have at least waited a day or two before we jump on our respective sides and use Ukraine as a political hammer on each other, but that is probably too much to ask these days.
 
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Majors said:
Or you were led to believe that. Media is a hell of drug in mind altering thoughts.
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You want to see delusion. Look at democrat spin.

You can't convince these nutcases Putin waited until the Biden administration was in charge because the spin is in their best interest. If this was the middle of year 2 of Saban coaching Alabama they would try to convince you it wasn't a good hire.
 
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hog88 said:
Funny coming from a Mr. Putingate.
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If Donald Trump is ever publicly critical of Vladimir Putin for this most recent incursion into the Ukraine, then I will admit that the whole Russian collusion investigation was an unjustified waste of time and taxpayer money.

I will also admit that the Mueller probe was a hoax, because Donald Trump couldn't possibly be a Russian asset, if he can denounce Putin for this act of aggression.

... but so far, Donald Trump has only sought to flatter Vladimir Putin with lavish praise for this attack. That is exactly how you would expect a Russian asset to respond to Putin's military aggression.

Donald Trump calling Vladimir Putin's justification for the Ukrainian incursion "genius" and "savvy" is just flat out weird. The Republican Party used to be the party of Ronald Reagan. I feel safe in saying that "the Gipper" wouldn't have handled it the same way.
 
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rjd970 said:
If we are going to continue to tie this business to climate change and BLM we are past screwed. If full blown WW3 breaks out we won’t have a greatest generation hardened by a depression ready to step up, we will have blue haired millennial liberal Twitter warrior brigade screaming about feelings and how they have been offended by words.
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In their defense, have we tried sending in social workers to deal with Putin?
 
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