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[QUOTE=PVMonger;2667679]"Signed and then didn't follow thru on the Minsk Agreement."
Ukraine has never had and does not currently have a nuclear weapons development plan. What they did do, however, was trade away their Russian-developed nukes for a bunch of worthless paper guarantees. In fact, in 1993, a paper was published that took the position that if Ukraine did that, they would be open for invasion by.


Russia. [URL]https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mearsheimer-Case-for-Ukrainian-Nuclear-Deterrent.pdf[/URL].[/QUOTE]A Mearsheimer article from 1993! You must be a real fan. How'd you like his book on The Israeli Lobby? That one was really popular.

Surely you've kept up with his work and seen this one from 2015: [URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4[/URL].

I heard from a commentator on the above-referenced show the real and true reason for why Putin felt emboldened to act at this time. It's because democracy in the United States is as weak as its ever been. And whose fault is that? Hmmm? Anybody remember who inspired January 6th? Think it's that same guy on his knees in front of Putin.

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2667754]You think wrong.

Trump loves Putin.

Golfinho loves Putin.

A huge chunk of GOP (15% actually) view Putin favorably. So, how about you stop talking for all Americans, huh?

[URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/23/republicans-view-putin-more-favorably-than-they-do-leading-democrats/[/URL]

But I'm glad, you've finally spoken. So far we've got a 1-1 draw.

Come on trumpers, don't be shy. Make your feelings known.[/QUOTE]Why do you keep fabricated lies? You provide absolutely no proof of anything you said and they are complete lies.

[QUOTE=EatALotOpus;2667670]Agree with your assessment one hundred percent although I don't think the Ice cream man will open up the American oil industry. I offer one plausible reason. He's pushing the Green Deal, getting us into electric vehicles, he doesn't have to try passing any budget to accomplish it. You make the fuel unaffordable and combustion cars will soon disappear by attrition. They did say yesterday they will tap the strategic reserve, which is nothing just a drop in the bucket!

Let's go Brandon![/QUOTE]He won't open up drilling because that is the intelligent thing to do. Expanding drilling in USA kills Russia. Lowers oil prices. Reduces inflation. Biden is to stupid to actually do something that helps Americans.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2667787]But the fascists in the crowd are too dim-witted to understand. They believe that is OK to punish their kids before they've actually done something wrong. Just like they believe that killing Black people is OK because they are eventually going to screw up. Just like, oh hell, there are just too many analogies and I'm tired of typing.[/QUOTE]Putin had been moving troops near the Ukraine border for weeks before the invasion. If tough sanctions would have happened when a Putin started moving his military into the region it might have been different. Biden stupidity thought if he threatened sanctions Putin would stop. Putin just laughed him off as a senile old man.

It appears forward looking USA stock market investors with real money on the line and not just blathering political gamesmanship at stake have not yet noticed any "senility" in Biden's economic or national security stewardship or "weakness" in him or his economy going forward.

They are not yet even showing signs of being particularly concerned about the state of today's historic global supply chain destruction inflation challenges that Biden inherited from Trump or the ones in energy triggered by Trump's and the Republican Party's much preferred "leader of the free world" Vladimir Putin.

[B]Dow climbs 800 points in its best day since late 2020 as investors weigh latest on Russia-Ukraine[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

"since late 2020".

They mean after Biden defeated Trump in a landslide. Hehe. But I digress.

We've seen gains in the USA stock market each day since Putin's War To Strengthen NATO began, snatching the S&P 500 Index back into mere sell-off territory at 9% below it's all time record high close on Biden's watch after tickling down around the edges of Correction territory for 2-3 days so far this year.

BTW, I hate to further alarm the inflation hysterics out there, but do you know what people usually do with the money they take out of the market during post all time record high sell-offs?

Yep. Buy stuff. Expand the economy.

Sorry.

[QUOTE=Golfinho;2667758]Point out failings of Senile POTUS and partisans who can only understand things in the most simplistic concepts assume you are not one of them and attack with name calling. The reality is that neither Senile POTUS or The Accidental POTUS is running American foreign policy on behalf of the American People. So what if Germans get fueled from Russia? Instead of shipping American liquified natural gas across an ocean, it can stay on the domestic market where it can lessen our fuel costs.

What are the people who run foreign policy for the current Senile POTUS really trying to accomplish? War is diplomacy by other means. What are the premises of US foreign policy? Let's let The Only Economist Who Matters, the legend himself, Dr. Michael Hudson explain it for us:

[URL]https://michael-hudson.com/2022/02/americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies/[/URL][/QUOTE]Read that drivel. So basically, the diabolical America made gullible Putin invade Ukraine so that Germany had an excuse to shut down Nord 2. Oh my!

Legend indeed. Where do the crackpots find those clowns?

Next!

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2667332]Now that said, the question must be asked: on who's watch did this travesty take place? Answer, Brandon. And who the fuck enabled this attacked by ending American's oil independence, cutting the Keystone Pipeline and all the regulatory BS on oil, natural gas ect thus allowing the Russians to become the predominant supplier of natural gas to Germany and Western Europe? A deal that brought in billions for the oligarchs and made Western Europe energy dependent on Putin's Russia. Answer, Brandon.[/QUOTE]Firstly Keystone was a Canadian project to ship oil to the US to be exported. This oil is being transported by rail currently. Keystone has not impacted the oil supply as it still would not have been completed now. So Keystone has no impact and never had any impact on US oil independence as the oil has always been available.

Second the reason for the fall in oil production is that during the great Trump pandemic the oil price collapsed. The industry had borrowed huge amounts of money to achieve the rapidly expanded oil production initiated by Obama. Many financiers went broke, many oil and gas producers went broke so now noone is leaping to invest huge amounts of money in developing production that for years delivered low then negative returns. Strange that the free market republicans only care about the free market when its convenient.

Thirdly Europe has depended on Russian gas for decades. The big difference was Nordstream which was built to bypass Ukraine. How you can blame Biden for Europes dependence on Russian gas is unfathomable. There is no logic or evidence supporting that.

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2667855]. So basically, the diabolical America made gullible Putin invade Ukraine so that Germany had an excuse to shut down Nord 2.[/QUOTE]Simple reading comprehension is clearly beyond you, so easy does it now, stick to your script:

[URL]http://thesaker.is/and-now-a-few-words-from-our-wannabe-overlords/[/URL]

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2667790]Please see the picture. It is the real reason why Putin didn't invade when the one-term, twice-impeached, fake-POTUS former guy was president.[/QUOTE]Good grief. TDS much. The impeachments were really BS by the democrats. And from the looks of it the whole Russian dossie seems to be a plot by Hillary and the democrats. But logic and sense doh work with people who have TDS.

[QUOTE=EatALotOpus;2667215]Bradon's deterrence and fourty+ years of diplomatic know-how worked out well for Ukraine Eh? And he did that all by himself! Stand by! With the impotence of this POTUS China is acting next

We got long black winter ahead of us and it'll last for three more years.

Let's go Brandon![/QUOTE][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/mclaughlin/congress-hispanics-primary-putin/2022/02/25/id/1058573/[/URL]

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2667954][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/mclaughlin/congress-hispanics-primary-putin/2022/02/25/id/1058573/[/URL][/QUOTE]Whomp whomp, indeed.

"Is Trump's hold on the Republican Party getting weaker?" [URL]https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2022/02/08/is-trumps-hold-on-the-republican-party-getting-weaker/[/URL].

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2667843]Putin had been moving troops near the Ukraine border for weeks before the invasion. If tough sanctions would have happened when a Putin started moving his military into the region it might have been different. Biden stupidity thought if he threatened sanctions Putin would stop. Putin just laughed him off as a senile old man.[/QUOTE]So what you said was "Let's punish Putin (with sanctions) before he actually did anything [B]illegal[/B]."

Please tell me how that is different from punishing your kids before they do something wrong? "Johnny, I know that if you take my car tonight, you're going to speed so I'm not going to let you use the car."

Since [B]you knew[/B] what Putin was going to do before he did it, please tell me what tonight's Powerball numbers will be. That way I can be sure of buying a winning ticket.

[QUOTE=Trinimoses;2667935]Good grief. TDS much. The impeachments were really BS by the democrats. And from the looks of it the whole Russian dossie seems to be a plot by Hillary and the democrats. But logic and sense doh work with people who have TDS.[/QUOTE]Logic and sense for sure don't work with the 71+ million Americans afflicted with Trump Cult Syndrome (TCS).

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