Turkey have supplied Ukraine with drones.......perhaps that was not in the hillbilly gazette?

Thinskin

 

Uh Oh .............

 

And when did that start...Ukraine using Turkish drones?...

 

Perhaps this was not covered by the hillbilly gazette as they are focussed on still and banjo thefts?



Thinskin

 

We see that yet again anon's lack of reading comprehension has caused him embarrassment;

"The president plans to spend the weekend at home, even though some criticized him for the optics of not caring about the ongoing conflict or the current state of the country by leaving Washington, DC."
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Shooter can help.
You see, Anon, the criticism was about the APPEARANCE (optics) of not caring about the conflict or the current state of the country. Now, Shooter is pretty sure, anon doesn't care a grasshopper fart about appearances, and frankly, neither does Shooter, but Shooter can see we're about to jump down the rabbit hole and get all bunched up talking about how Trump played golf and charged his body guards rent to stay at Mar a lago, and then someone will bring up how biden charged rent to the secret service when he was the VP (Biden Charges Secret Service to Rent Cottage Next to His Home | Fox News )and then anon or another despicable will point out how biden didn't gouge and besides, that was a long time ago, and then a deplorable will point out that biden has gone home to Deleware like 23 out of 36 weeks, and trump took 4 hours to play golf anyway, and before you know it we'll be lost.

Oh, and anon, the last time shooter played "victim" he was 6 years old and the little red haired girl from down the street tried to make him wear a ribbon in his hair.
She failed, and so do you.
Neither Shooter or any non despicable will be silenced by the spew of despicables.

Lets go anon!

 

Turkey claims these are simply sales to the government of Ukraine and is not to be interpreted as siding against Russia.

 

So, Trump didn't have to care about the optics? You've got double standards.

Oh, and your personal insults? Just shows you for the hypocrite you are.

 

Jumping up & down about a tank or missile unit being taken out in this war is like celebrating a destroyed German tank on D-Day

 

Ukraine president held a zoom call with members of Congress. They were specifically asked to stay off social media during the call for his security.

But if course a couple treasonous conservative Republicans could not resist grandstanding and had to tweet about it. But at least they didn't personally call Putin and give him the location.

 

OOOHH!
Thinskin is a bit bitchy today!


So, lets see do we understand thinskin's rant.
NATO can do nothing concerning Ukraine without bidens approval.
Biden refuses cause, you know, biden.
Shooter is a dick.

That about cover it?
Kay.
Lets proceed

NATO can do nothing concerning Ukraine without bidens approval.

Well, thinskin, this is incorrect. The United States, despite paying the lions share of NATOS costs, does not have veto power over what NATO does. In fact, Turkey established a "No Sail zone" blocking Russian war ships from entering the black sea through the Dardanelles and Bosphorus Straits. This has really pissed off Putin. And guess what? It didn't take a unanimous anything from NATO or it's members. Any more than sending military and humanitarian aid requires a unanimous agreement from NATO. So, your claim that America holds VETO powers in NATO is incorrect.
If you have something that says Biden can veto NATO actions in the Ukraine, lets see it. For the record, Shooter will reject any pundit opinions on the matter. Lets see the NATO charter or something equally official.​

Biden refuses cause, you know, biden.

Well the press secretary, Psaki, says biden doesn't want to be put in the position of shooting down Russians, you know, like we did in Bosnia and Libya, but now some American politicians are beginning to offer up the opinion that "fuck Putin, shoot the fuckers down". And they're pretty much all deplorables, so that probably causes your eyes to twitch, finding out that your position aligns with deplorables for once.
For the record, Shooter supports a no fly zone as long as it isn't US planes enforcing it, cause, you know, not really our fight, kind of thing. Same for putting troops on the ground.
This is, for now, a European problem and while the US has some interest in the outcome, and will be supporting our allies, it should not be our job to put boots on the ground and planes in the air and ships in the black sea to stop Russian aggression against Ukraine.
That's your dog to fight, at least for now, don't you agree?
Or is it you want the US to do your fighting for you again, cause you know, chickenshits?​

Shooter is a dick.

Yes. Shooter has a dick.
And no, Shooter has no questions for the likes of a dutch dickhead like you.
Now, back the fuck out of Shooters face. Your breath is awful.

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I have never seen a dog with such long, sharp teeth before.

 

Shooter knows that dog is all bad breath and growl, but no bite.
Like our dog; the only thing she's ever bitten is her food.
But to watch her go after the squirrels and rabbits you'd think she was defending freedom.

 

I ask a legitimate question and now you're worried about the Still and Banjo?...as they are the bedrock of certain life styles they are.

The earliest that I can tell a contract was signed in 2019 by Ukraine and the Turkish Governments, to buy some Drones...now I'm not sure if you tried to answer the legitimate question that I asked, or you're just being a dick...either way... if the Russians have convoys 40 miles long or what the fuck ever it is, the drones would make short work of the invasion if this wasn't such a dog and pony show that Crime Boss Biden and the Ho /NATO/Half cracker/Soros have pushed to create another crisis to take away from the destruction efforts of American Exceptionalism.

 

Ukranian foreign legion is growing........kudos to all of them!



Thinskin

 

The Russians have detained a US citizen......more chances to be spineless!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brittney-griner-wnba-russia-b2029466.html

Thinskin

 

Turkey blocks Black Sea access to Russian warships.



Thinskin

 

Ukrainian Grandma telling Putin what’s what

 

Russia needs to take Kiev to install a pro-Russia puppet regime.
Kiev is surrounded by rivers on two sides, so once taken, it will be relatively easy for the Red Army to isolate and cut off resupply to the insurgents.
Insurgencies often tend to be widespread but brittle; when they crack, they can crack all over the war zone.
As the Ukrainian resistance, especially in Kiev, begins to run out of ammunition and other necessary supplies, it will begin to suffer increasing losses in key personnel.
What happens then in Kiev and Ukraine in general (will it be like Syria or more like Afghanistan), only God knows.

And of course, this is all complicated tenfold by the completely incompetent Biden administration.
(Kamala: Ukraine is a country in Europe. Russia is a country in Europe. Russia is a larger country who has invaded a smaller country... Europe's on fire but hey, let's instead concentrate on domestic LGBQ+ issues. Or Anthony Blinken (AKA Captain Obvious)? His latest pronouncement is that we may have a refugee crisis brewing!! How does he even still have a job after the Afghanistan fiasco and now Ukraine?)

Lessons from Forecasting the Ukraine War
Richard Hanania
Feb 28

Given that I’ve made quite a few predictions about the war in Ukraine and how it would unfold, now is a good time to look back on them and draw some lessons. My record is mixed, having predicted that the war would happen but being, so far, mistaken about how strong Ukrainian resistance would be.
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My reasoning was similar (to Afghanistan) when it came to thinking about a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. I thought that there were difficult realities others weren’t facing, namely that Russia had overwhelming military power over Ukraine and it was in a tough security situation due to NATO expansion and deepening military ties between Kiev and Washington. Probably overlearning from Afghanistan, I thought an American client state without a strong conventional army of its own would fall relatively easily. I therefore predicted the Russian invasion (correct) and a quick collapse by the Ukrainians (wrong).
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I had written on why I thought there wouldn’t be an insurgency in Ukraine, which if my arguments were sound would have removed another reason why one might have expected Russia to think twice before invading. People talk about the American and Soviet wars in Afghanistan illustrating the dangers of occupation, but I thought this would be more like Syria, where Russia succeeded because it had effective partners on the ground, was willing to use as much force as necessary, and did not try to engage in social engineering. My thinking was that this wasn’t a US invasion, where troops are sent to the other side of the world to build girls’ schools for 20 years and form an entirely new society among people they know nothing about. Russia would be replacing a pro-American oligarchy with a pro-Russian one, either through installing a puppet regime or outright annexation. And it would be fighting to win a war, not provide jobs for NGO types or give politicians sound bites. That was my thinking at least, and this theory turned out to be mostly wrong, at least in its more extreme form. But it looks like Putin might have bought into the same logic, which is why he has invaded Ukraine and made some otherwise puzzling decisions along the way, like not fully utilizing his advantage in the air.
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Part of the reason I came to the right conclusion was that I was even more pessimistic than most anti-interventionists were about the degree of rationality present in American foreign policy. For example, my friend Max Abrahms was saying until very recently that Putin was hoping for some concessions that would allow him to avoid war (to be fair, Max has been more correct than me on the invasion running into difficulties). I thought that was possible too, but I had little hope that American politics would allow Biden to strike a deal. When it became clear that negotiating over the NATO open door policy wasn’t even on the table, I increased my estimate of the probability for war.
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Regarding the prediction that there would be no insurgency, it is not technically false yet, since the conventional phase of the war is still ongoing, but I have to be honest and say that I expected a lot less fighting than we’re seeing. As already mentioned, I thought it might be like the fall of Kabul, where the weaker side just melted away even if it could’ve theoretically held out longer.

My argument that Ukraine did not have a high enough TFR (Total Fertility Rate, usually simply described as the average number of children per woman which makes it an intuitive measure of fertility) to tolerate the casualties required for an asymmetric conflict may well have been motivated reasoning, based on my view that not having enough children is a sign of moral and spiritual decline. We’ll see soon enough if the view was well founded or not, as a Ukrainian collapse is still possible, even if it takes longer than I would have thought. Similarly, a source of wishful thinking here might have been my suspicion that, if there was a more sustained conflict, it would mean a great deal of Western involvement, which would raise the risk of nuclear war.

I also didn't anticipate the strength of the Western response. In part, this was because of how American and European leaders talked before the war. If you were going to cut Russia off from SWIFT, for example, why wouldn’t you announce it beforehand? The whole point of a punishment like that is supposed to be its deterrent effect, but if you don’t communicate that a specific action will happen, then it can’t influence behavior. The answer here seems to be a lack of grand strategy, with leaders responding to events according to emotion and public relations more than anything. Cutting off SWIFT, or even threatening to do so, seems extreme before an invasion occurs, but not after it has begun. This kind of irrationality is something I should’ve anticipated, given I wrote a book in which the main argument was that this is exactly how politicians behave.

Now, we shouldn’t get ahead of ourselves, as Russia is still making rapid progress. It took the US three weeks to take Baghdad, and as I write this we are still less than 5 days into the invasion of Ukraine and fighting has reached the capital. This might still work out for the Russian government, if not its people, if it takes Kiev, is willing to absorb the economic fallout, and then potentially negotiates from a position of strength as the US and EU face their own economic problems resulting from high energy prices and retaliatory sanctions. But even a “successful” war is going to cost a lot more than I thought it would in blood and treasure.

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/lessons-from-forecasting-the-ukraine?s=r

 

The only way to stop Putin is for the people of Russia to stop him so this is pretty significant.

Russia Detains More Than 2,500 Anti-War Protesters Across 49 Cities, Report Says



As Russian President Vladimir Putin continues his bloody invasion of Ukraine, a growing number of Russians have taken to the streets in increasingly risky protests. Reuters reports that more than 2,500 people were detained across 49 Russian cities on Sunday, citing Russia-based monitoring group OVD-Info. Those protesters face imprisonment for their dissent, and are often held for days without chance of due process. On Sunday, the monitoring group said, many of the protesters were beaten as they were taken into custody. The protests in Russia mirrored those across the world, with people gathering in European and American cities in support of Ukrainian people. “The screws are being fully tightened,” Maria Kuznetsova, OVD-Info’s spokeswoman, told Reuters. “Essentially, we are witnessing military censorship.”

Read it at Reuters

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russi...anti-war-protesters-across-49-cities?ref=home

 

Didn't think there would be political prisoners held by the Russian Government soon?

Fuck...we do it here in the U.S. why wouldn't Russia do it?