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[QUOTE=EihTooms;2670493]When a nuclear armed country imposes a no fly zone against another nuclear armed country in a state of war, at some point an aircraft of one side will have to be shot down. And not accidentally.

The USA might not need Russia's oil all that much but many other countries do. Imposing ironclad sanctions against Russia's oil in anything close to the kind of alliance unity required to matter would be doing undo and wildly counterproductive damage to our allies at the worst possible time. That is why Biden made an exception to it. Duh.

Zelensky is asking for everything, early and often. Good for him. His highest priority is the people of Ukraine, not the people of America.

Shocker! This current POTUS' priorities are the American people, our national security and our economy.

Yes, it sucks to be Ukraine right now. Maybe Zelensky should have been more interested in and applying for membership in some of these democratic Western alliances and done what was necessary to join them a lot sooner than when Putin started lining up troops at his border. Maybe his hesitation was that he fell for the Putin / Trump con that those alliances are yesterday's solutions, unnecessary, a waste of time and money, etc..[/QUOTE]Yes keep showing your support for Putin and Biden while they kill thousands if innocent people. Your support of Putin and Biden is sickening and you try to deflect their war by making comments about Trump. There were no wars under Trump. Keep supporting Putin and Biden. That is who you are!

Biden humbly touted his historic positive economic achievements right past the typically pro Repub Mainstream Media's refusal to mention it in favor of highlighting and promoting inflation hysteria instead.

[B]"Biden's approval rating jumps to 47 percent after State of the Union address[/B]

TheHill" [URL]https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/596890-bidens-approval-rating-jumps-to-47-percent-after-state-of-the-union-address?amp[/URL].

[QUOTE]"This is an unusual bounce," Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, said in a statement. "It gets him back to where he was pre-Afghanistan."

The last time Biden had a higher approval rating was in August, when it was at 49 percent. While presidents can sometimes get a bounce after a State of the Union, one of more than 4 points in an NPR poll has happened only six times since 1978.[/QUOTE]Actually, Quinnipiac was already showing incremental and steady increases in Biden's Job Approval Rating since the beginning of January. Possibly Gallup as well:

[URL]https://www.pollingreport.com/biden_job.htm[/URL]

Imo and, as I stated before, this is not coincidentally the same timeframe when Trump began to hit the Repub campaign trail, opening his piehole and reminding everyone why Biden beat the snot out of him in every presidential debate including the one where Trump tried but failed to infect him with Trump's Pandemic Virus and the one where Trump was too scared shitless to show up, followed by Biden's landslide victory against him in the most secure, free and fair election of all time.

This linked poll jump occurred mostly before the CDC announced that Biden's amazingly effective vaccine administration roll out has now led them to conclude more than 90% of Americans can drop wearing a mask under most circumstances and before that recent fantastic Biden / Dem Economic Recovery and Expansion jobs creation report.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2670583]Yes, we do want Russians to take to the streets. When Putin is replaced, the replacement might slit Putin's throat and hang his naked corpse upside down in the center of Moscow with its head touching the ground so the people of Russia can piss, shit and spit on it for the following few weeks.

But if Biden and the alliances impose sanctions on Russian oil, that oil isn't going to sit unsold in Russia. China will buy it. Somebody will buy it anyway because the world needs oil.

Russia would barely notice it if the USA stopped buying oil from them because we import so relatively little of it. But other countries, many of them our allies, rely quite a bit on Russian oil imports.

What Biden would be doing by rallying a hardline alliance sanction of Russian oil is asking our allies to make all the sacrifices while our oil purchasing adversaries benefit and while we skate from any real sacrifice over it. Not exactly the usual American way of doing these things.[/QUOTE]You're right, China might try to scoop up Russian oil, but:

1. Putin will have to sell it cheaply, he's out of bargaining chips.

2. How are they going to pay for it. In rubles, yuans? I really don't know.

3. Can China risk this kind of exposure as Russia continues its homicidal war?

4. Europe, I think, has finally realized they can't afford to depend on Russia anymore.

In any case, what's the alternative? To pay lip service to Ukraine while these degenerates are pounding at the nuclear stations? Can cost even more.

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2670587]Yes keep showing your support for Putin and Biden while they kill thousands if innocent people. Your support of Putin and Biden is sickening and you try to deflect their war by making comments about Trump. There were no wars under Trump. Keep supporting Putin and Biden. That is who you are![/QUOTE]Which America-hating enemies of democracy needed to shed blood on those counts while Trump was in office busy doing Putin and other authoritarian dictators' bidding to weaken democratic alliances, strengthen dictatorships by secretly refusing to enforce sanctions unless he got busted for it, wiping out millions upon millions of USA jobs, tanking the USA economy, nearly destroying global supply chains, inciting violent riots to overturn free and fair elections and overthrow American democracy with the added bonus of mass murdering more Americans than were killed in the previous several wars due to his utter neglect of our national security, his total cowardice and lies?

None of the enemies of freedom and democracy needed to go to war against any of the hard fought and won American values and principles Trump was doing a bang up job tearing down on their behalf.

The first enemy to our enemies' decades long causes they saw in the White House since Barack Obama was Joe Biden.

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2670464]Deny and ignore the right decision. Typical democrat. Keep waiting to make the decision to sanction Russia oil until Russia defeats Ukraine. Biden will keep giving Russia $80 million a day to fund the war. Let's go Brandon.[/QUOTE]Here's an analogy for all of the trumpers who say that Biden should have placed sanctions on Russia before they invaded Ukraine: The Metropolitan Police Department of DC knew that there were a lot of trumpers in town and in the close-in suburbs on January 5th. They suspected that these trumpers were going to cause a lot of trouble on January 6th. So they decided to work with their counterparts in suburban Virginia and suburban Maryland and together they decided to arrest all of these trumpers on January 5th.

Got it now?

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2670587]Yes keep showing your support for Putin and Biden while they kill thousands if innocent people. Your support of Putin and Biden is sickening and you try to deflect their war by making comments about Trump. There were no wars under Trump. Keep supporting Putin and Biden. That is who you are![/QUOTE]Putin has made some bad decisions in this invasion and many of them are based upon bad intelligence.

One of the bad intelligence reports he received was from 71+ million doofuses in America yelling at the top of their lungs "Biden is weak", "Biden is weak", "Biden is weak". Putin, of course, was an idiot for believing that the collective IQ of these people could decorate a domino (not) but the voices from the wingers was loud. And Putin understands loud.

Guess what, wingers? Your cries of "Biden is weak", "Biden is weak", "Biden is weak" is one of the reasons Putin invaded. Why do you hate America? Why do you hate Ukraine? Why do you support Russia?

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2670583]Yes, we do want Russians to take to the streets. When Putin is replaced, the replacement might slit Putin's throat and hang his naked corpse upside down in the center of Moscow with its head touching the ground so the people of Russia can piss, shit and spit on it for the following few weeks.

But if Biden and the alliances impose sanctions on Russian oil, that oil isn't going to sit unsold in Russia. China will buy it. Somebody will buy it anyway because the world needs oil.

Russia would barely notice it if the USA stopped buying oil from them because we import so relatively little of it. But other countries, many of them our allies, rely quite a bit on Russian oil imports.

What Biden would be doing by rallying a hardline alliance sanction of Russian oil is asking our allies to make all the sacrifices while our oil purchasing adversaries benefit and while we skate from any real sacrifice over it. Not exactly the usual American way of doing these things.[/QUOTE]You just got to love supporters of the one-term, twice-impeached, fake-POTUS former guy. They blather on about things they know absolutely nothing about like no-fly zones, sanctions in general, oil sanctions, etc while telling all of us that what they really believe in is the "Ready. Fire. Aim. " MO of the Orange Fruitcake. In other words, let's do something without thinking it through. Then, when the blowback happens, tell everybody that it is somebody else's fault and not his.

They simply do not have the ability to understand a strategy that takes into account the realities of the real world. They prefer the "bull in a China shop" approach where America's interests are the only thing that matters and if what we do hurts other countries, so what!. After all, that's what Donnie's approach was.

They also don't understand that the strategy of yelling "Biden is weak" at the top of their lungs day-in-and-day-out is one of the reasons that Putin decided to invade Ukraine when he did.

I guess this post should have just said that supporters of the one-term, twice-impeached, fake-POTUS former guy just don't understand.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2670438]Another supporter of the one-term, twice-impeached, fake-POTUS former guy who simply [B]does not understand[/B] that Russia had every right to do whatever it wanted [B]within its own borders[/B]. The fact that everybody in their right mind (with the exception of FUX "News") knew that Russia would invade is immaterial. What you are suggesting is the same as punishing your kids before they do something wrong. "Marie, I know that you are going to get into some mischief tonight if you go out with your friends, so I'm going to ground you."

You, along with the majority of trump supporters are probably clamoring for a "no fly zone" or boots on the ground, aren't you?[/QUOTE]Why then do we have nuclear weapons? To play marbles in the school yard? or use them after the first one drops??

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2670530]While it is easy to say "Let's sanction oil and gas", let's not forget that the EU imports at least 10 x more oil and natural gas from Russia than does the USA. This is the middle of winter in most of Europe. If Russia cuts off oil and gas to Europe, how do the Europeans heat their homes. How do they run their public transportation networks?

Biden's MO is "Ready. Aim. Fire. " Let's figure it out with our allies and do what is best for everybody.

The Orange Fruitcake's MO was "Ready. Fire. Aim." Let's stop buying Russian oil. Wait? What? Gasoline prices are rising? How come oil producers didn't pump more? Oh, well, I don't take any responsibility for it."[/QUOTE]Sanctions on Russian oil going to USA does not hurt Europe. It may even help Europe if Russia can't sell their oil. Oil producers in USA can't produce more oil faster with all the stupid regulations Biden put on drilling in his first days of office. Biden controls USA oil production. Biden controls the transportation of oil in USA. The only way domestic oil production increase rapidly is if Biden eliminates the stupid regulations he imposed and starts drilling on federal lands again. Also he needs to fast track the pipelines he cancelled. Biden is supporting the terrorist countries like Russia and Iran. Trump had Iran oil sanctioned so that would cut funding for Iran nuclear development but Biden is allowing Iran to sell $1 million barrels a day and about half to USA. Why is Biden so friendly to terrorists? I guess Biden and you think Russia and Aidan are our allies.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2670493]When a nuclear armed country imposes a no fly zone against another nuclear armed country in a state of war, at some point an aircraft of one side will have to be shot down. And not accidentally.

The USA might not need Russia's oil all that much but many other countries do. Imposing ironclad sanctions against Russia's oil in anything close to the kind of alliance unity required to matter would be doing undo and wildly counterproductive damage to our allies at the worst possible time. That is why Biden made an exception to it. Duh.

Zelensky is asking for everything, early and often. Good for him. His highest priority is the people of Ukraine, not the people of America.

Shocker! This current POTUS' priorities are the American people, our national security and our economy..[/QUOTE]I never heard a socialist like you ever worry about a safe border. Don't worry. Biden will make USA border safe like he made Ukraine border. Putin today warned Biden to not seek a no fly zone over Ukraine as it would impede his invasion. Biden has no comment and will evaluate it over the next few months. By then the Biden war in Ukraine will be over.

And yes it is Biden's job to put sanctions against our enemies. But Biden isn't that smart. He would rather finance our enemies military than sanction them.

Shocker is Biden doesn't give a shit about the American people. He is protecting USA border like he is protecting Ukraine border. He does nothing and the idiots applaud him. He isn't worried about inflation. It doesn't affect him. He doesn't worry Americans are suffering with $5 has because it doesn't affect him or his family.

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2670462]Exactly correct. Where the wall is completed it works well. That has been proven and verified by border patrol. But a wall that they can just walk around doesn't work. Ironic that Pelosi and her fellow democrats have huge walls around their houses with cameras and other security devices. If walls don't work then why do they have them.[/QUOTE]The wall does not work to stop people, they just go through them as evidenced by the 3000 breaches that have been found so far. No need to go around. The Berlin Wall had guard towers, the Great Wall had guard towers, prison walls have guard towers. The reason being that if there is no one guarding the wall then people find it easy to go through or over or under with little more difficulty than no wall at all.

Let the schools (Financed by foreign countries) educate your children!

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix5yu2Jt_-c[/URL]

Generations lost.

Slava Ukraini!

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4hvLqNfqo[/URL]

[QUOTE=EatALotOpus;2670788]Why then do we have nuclear weapons? To play marbles in the school yard? or use them after the first one drops??[/QUOTE]We certainly don't have them to steer shit with a nuclear country. What are you out of your fucking mind?

The concept of this nuclear equilibrium is MAD. It's a flowed concept that doesn't take into account the volatility of a megalomaniac's mind, risks of devastating technical glitches or consequences of mass hysteria, but after the genie was out of the bottle that's the only thing that's kept the world spinning so far.

[QUOTE=Canada;2670799]I never heard a socialist like you ever worry about a safe border. Don't worry. Biden will make USA border safe like he made Ukraine border. Putin today warned Biden to not seek a no fly zone over Ukraine as it would impede his invasion. Biden has no comment and will evaluate it over the next few months. By then the Biden war in Ukraine will be over.

And yes it is Biden's job to put sanctions against our enemies. But Biden isn't that smart. He would rather finance our enemies military than sanction them.

Shocker is Biden doesn't give a shit about the American people. He is protecting USA border like he is protecting Ukraine border. He does nothing and the idiots applaud him. He isn't worried about inflation. It doesn't affect him. He doesn't worry Americans are suffering with $5 has because it doesn't affect him or his family.[/QUOTE]Evidently, you don't care whether or not the US exists. Sure, let the US enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine and shoot down Russian aircraft. Russia nukes the US because of it and we nuke them in retaliation. Bye bye.

Well, at least the US won't have trumpers to worry about.