Time to Get Real About Ukraine

Discussion in 'Latest US & World News' started by Destroyer of illusions, Feb 19, 2023.

  1. Thingamabob

    Thingamabob Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Jan 12, 2017
    Messages:
    14,267
    Likes Received:
    4,465
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    They're just blowing smoke. When the heat gets to be too much for them they drop out of sight and pop up on some other thread and start it all over again. Their only joy in life is to upset good people but it's slim pickings because no one is falling for it. 8)
     
  2. ButterBalls

    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 2, 2016
    Messages:
    51,854
    Likes Received:
    38,204
    Trophy Points:
    113
    And I told you I don't clear as a bell :)

     
    Last edited: May 29, 2023
  3. ButterBalls

    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 2, 2016
    Messages:
    51,854
    Likes Received:
    38,204
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Up to you! They're your chosen side :)
     
  4. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    May 25, 2012
    Messages:
    55,945
    Likes Received:
    27,464
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    And I support them in other ways. :)
     
  5. ButterBalls

    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 2, 2016
    Messages:
    51,854
    Likes Received:
    38,204
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Ya I do too! We all do, doesn't mean I support them or the Russians..
     
    Last edited: May 29, 2023
  6. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    May 25, 2012
    Messages:
    55,945
    Likes Received:
    27,464
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    I don't know why you wouldn't support the Ukrainians, though. They're fighting to repel a fascist invader and conqueror to protect freedom and liberty, values that conservatives in this country used to hold before they drifted more towards fascism themselves.
     
  7. ButterBalls

    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 2, 2016
    Messages:
    51,854
    Likes Received:
    38,204
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Because, like Russia, Ukraine is also a corrupt nation.
    ukraine history of corruption - Search (bing.com)

    We Americans deal with corruptions ourselves! No need to start financing it globally, just my opinion..
     
  8. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    May 25, 2012
    Messages:
    55,945
    Likes Received:
    27,464
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Russia calls for Lindsey Graham’s assassination after controversial comments about ‘dying Russians’
    Head of Russia’s RT reacts with anger over comments made by US Senator that have been taken out of context

    Russian government officials and state media called for Lindsey Graham’s assassination this weekend after a video of his comments to Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky was edited to make it look like he made a disparaging comment about killing Russians.

    ...

    The head of state news channel RT, Margarita Simonyan, referred to a Soviet operative famous for his involvement in the assassination of Leon Trotsky, Pavel Sudoplatov, saying: “If Lady Graham really said that the money for the killing of Russians is the best money the US ever spent... I hope that in our country, the sons or grandchildren of Sudoplatov are alive, his pupils, or the descendants of his pupils. It’s not even hard. We have his address.”

    ...

    Mr Graham later told Reuters: “It has been a good investment by the United States to help liberate Ukraine from Russian war criminals… Mr Medvedev, if you want Russians to stop dying in Ukraine, withdraw. Stop the invasion. Stop the war crimes. The truth is that you and Putin could care less about Russian soldiers.”

    ... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...m-assassination-zelensky-russia-b2347561.html

    When "Lady Graham" is right, he is right. Ukraine is a great investment for us and for all in the free world, because it is an investment in protecting that freedom and stopping the next Hitler in his bloody tracks.
     
  9. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    May 25, 2012
    Messages:
    55,945
    Likes Received:
    27,464
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    We Americans know that "corruption" can't be plural.

    As for corruption in Ukraine, that is something that they and many other former Soviet satellites are contending with. We are not financing corruption by helping Ukraine resist this invasion, however. Our aid comes with requirements and expectations that the corruption will continue to be dealt with.
     
  10. Bill Carson

    Bill Carson Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Apr 3, 2021
    Messages:
    6,440
    Likes Received:
    5,084
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Same :icon_shithappens:, different day. Our resident 'projection' expert. The only fascists are in the D party and those ****ing nazis in ukraine. Seems it was obvious until the US ministry of truth gave everyone their new marching orders after February, 2022.
    [​IMG]
     
    ButterBalls likes this.
  11. ButterBalls

    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 2, 2016
    Messages:
    51,854
    Likes Received:
    38,204
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Oh my! :shock::shh:
     
  12. ButterBalls

    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 2, 2016
    Messages:
    51,854
    Likes Received:
    38,204
    Trophy Points:
    113
    You seem to know their corrupt then in the same breath defend it and condone financing it :) I know we all joke around about our respective BuBBLES, but you sir, well, you Sir :)
     
    Bill Carson likes this.
  13. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    May 25, 2012
    Messages:
    55,945
    Likes Received:
    27,464
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Fact is that Muscovy invests heavily into influencing operations, known at least in Soviet times as "Active Measures." The internet has made this far easier and evidently far more effective for them, too. Right now, they really want us to stop supporting Ukraine in this conflict. If we do that, the naZis will have a much easier time taking Ukraine.

    The way they are trying to go about this is by spreading the kind of lies and propaganda that you are posting right now, this crap about corruption in Ukraine. They want us to think that any aid given to Ukraine is wasted and not going to Ukrainian defense, and that they will lose this war either way. And it seems that this is what you want.
     
  14. USVet

    USVet Banned

    Joined:
    Jan 1, 2018
    Messages:
    2,615
    Likes Received:
    2,198
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    You have been reposting the same FAB photoshops for the last 15 months. Get new material.
     
  15. LangleyMan

    LangleyMan Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Nov 14, 2017
    Messages:
    45,110
    Likes Received:
    12,577
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    You and @Vitaliy? I tell ya, I'm damn impressed.
     
    Durandal likes this.
  16. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    May 25, 2012
    Messages:
    55,945
    Likes Received:
    27,464
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Kievan Rus predates both Ukraine and Muscovy. They and Belarus emerged from it.

    Modern Muscovy has no claim over Ukraine.
     
    USVet and Imnotreallyhere like this.
  17. ButterBalls

    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 2, 2016
    Messages:
    51,854
    Likes Received:
    38,204
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Look, let's go with they are and were just as guilty of corruption as Russia and be done with it..

    As for Ukraine's contribution to world exports, pffffffffffffffffff! Not even measurable, and hardly worth all the tax dollars we have invested in them! If they were to disappear overnight it wouldn't even make a ripple worldwide!

    We certainly don't need corn from them ;) looks to me like NATO and all those paying a very small tribute to war should be kicking in a lil more!
    upload_2023-5-29_14-8-22.png

    I know fear mongering is probably the biggest export Ukraine is exporting to the DNC, and the only reason it's so valuable is that their base consumes and digests all of it :) The other nations, sit back and watch while the U.S. pisses away much needed tax dollars, fight over raising U.S. debt, care very little for U.S. infrastructure and NO CONCERN to threats of millions of Americans SS and welfare at risk because of excessive spending on bullshit like Ukraine! In fact, it seems clear that even our own brothers and sisters care very little about the future of the U.S. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
    Bill Carson likes this.
  18. ricmortis

    ricmortis Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 17, 2018
    Messages:
    3,684
    Likes Received:
    2,255
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Sorta like Russia erecting statues of Stalin again or better yet the current blood thirsty and brutal dictator Putin.
     
  19. Jack Hays

    Jack Hays Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    Nov 3, 2020
    Messages:
    28,575
    Likes Received:
    18,125
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    If you think that's a dodge then we have little in common. We are not mercenaries who fight only for material gain. We fight in defense of our principles and support those who also fight in defense of those same principles.
     
    Last edited: May 29, 2023
    USVet, Durandal and ricmortis like this.
  20. ButterBalls

    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 2, 2016
    Messages:
    51,854
    Likes Received:
    38,204
    Trophy Points:
    113
    That was depressing to read :) Principles? But I suppose, a corrupt party shares the same fleas as their pack :)

    2022 Corruption Perceptions Index: Explore the… - Transparency.org

    Btw, the U.S. isn't fight jack squat :) We are funding a proxy war and spending our children's treasure, I'm sure some are very pleased with that reality :)
     
    Last edited: May 29, 2023
    USVet likes this.
  21. Bill Carson

    Bill Carson Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Apr 3, 2021
    Messages:
    6,440
    Likes Received:
    5,084
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Fake vets apparently can't goggle headlines. All there, none fake. Sorry not sorry
     
  22. USVet

    USVet Banned

    Joined:
    Jan 1, 2018
    Messages:
    2,615
    Likes Received:
    2,198
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Sure, Bill, sure. Happy memorial day even if it isn't memorial day where you live.
     
  23. Thingamabob

    Thingamabob Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Jan 12, 2017
    Messages:
    14,267
    Likes Received:
    4,465
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    I try to please as many and as often as possible.
     
  24. Green Man

    Green Man Banned

    Joined:
    Apr 10, 2023
    Messages:
    3,133
    Likes Received:
    1,465
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Golly, you mean a whole bunch of Africa depends on Ukraine for food! You don't suppose they will be the last ones fed when the wheat dries up, do you?

    Score one for Global Government- famine and starvation in Africa.
     
  25. Jack Hays

    Jack Hays Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    Nov 3, 2020
    Messages:
    28,575
    Likes Received:
    18,125
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Yes, principles. The amount of money spent has been insignificant. The money is only complained about by those seeking a coward's exit.
    "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
    ― John F. Kennedy
     

Share This Page