You know how Putin started his war in Eastern Ukraine, right?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

By having armed “protesters” show up at the local government administration buildings.

That war is still raging, BTW.

Those were “very good people” too.

[KPN]

1. Right? That scenario is not totally unimaginable

with the narcissist occupying our White House. Far-fetched but that’s what I would have thought about so much that has already happened in the past 3 or 4 years.

[empedocles]

2. Seems like trump inner circle, considers and watches.

[orangecrush]

3. I would like to send Vlad some "foreign aid"

[roamer65]

4. [phone]

[DTomlinson]

14. No.

[sarisataka]

18. Well Covid would no longer be an issue

With billions fewer potential hosts in the world.

[orangecrush]

20. Not to worry...

Trump would say it was "fake news!"

[uponit7771]

5. Non-Whites should show up masked in the same gear all together and then the police will be called

[The Magistrate]

6. These People, Sir, Need To Be Told To Disarm And Disperse

And be shot if they do not.

These insurrectionists need to be put to the test of whether they shoot at an officer of the law, or obey the lawful commands of an officer of the law. Their pretense they are law-abiding patriots of heroic mien must be stripped from them, revealing they are outlaws or cowards.


"Kill one, warn one hundred."

[mountain grammy]

7. Yep.. that's what Putin whispered in Trump's ear.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. he also invaded crimea as well.

[DTomlinson]

9. Remember the "Brooks Brothers Riot" during the 2000 FL recount?

I seem to recall a certain Roger Stone, Jr. being involved.

Hmmm.......

[DTomlinson]

10. PS: I heard that the Koch RW billionaires network was funding these protests.

Any truth to that?

[erronis]

13. Probably true. DeVos's family is definitely tied to these paid actors (protesters.)

[TimeToGo]

11. Why weren't they arrested?

Seriously, arrest them.

[Igel]

15. They did nothing illegal.

Just having people at home saying "arrest them" doesn't get the law passed and on the books.

[TimeToGo]

17. Uh

Yea, if you threaten someone with a weapon -- that's illegal. Already on the books.

And I guarantee you they would have been arrested if they were left of center or non-white.

[DENVERPOPS]

12. Or even better yet

wait until it is below freezing, then hose them down with fire hoses, like was done with the Native Americans that were demonstrating.

I wish the F*** the Native Americans had had a Department of Homeland Security...........AND a border patrol......

[Igel]

16. It wasn't that simple.

The armed protesters were in the background. Unarmed protesters went in and took over (on camera).

The armed folk, in masks and making explicit threats against people and from time to time actually putting holes in desks, walls, and floors (not just being intimidating by standing there or protesting) tended to be off camera.

The armed folk also had on masks and uniforms, Russian but with the identification of country/unit/name removed.

What nobody's telling me is that the armed protesters went in, took hostages, rounded up people having threatened to kill them (and shooting some rounds to punctuate their speech), and promptly started to administer things themselves.

These aren't trivial differences. Students have gone in and done a more serious job of taking over administrative offices than these bozos did.

[sarisataka]

19. Perhaps the protesters should have been shot

To stave off a Russian invasion of Michigan.]

[UTUSN]

21. K&R