This feels huge. Not sure about you, buy my wife I have discussed we have no idea (yet) of the

[NewHendoLib]

depth of the impact - how long it will take to play out - and that life for us a week or so ago - that was then. This - tonight is now. It isn't a video game - it isn't something to just watch from the comfort of our home and think it doesn't - and won't - touch us all, in some shape for form.

It is surreal - it is really unfathomable. And it is impossible to understand (yet).

We also keep telling ourselves - beware the fog of war - the endless "Breaking News" chyrons. Like with COVID, this is going to take time to sort out - a lot of time

In case you wonder what I am talking about, it is Ukraine, and Russia - of course.

What makes it all worse is the TFG cult has decided they love themselves some Putin. Holy fucking shit - that is simply impossible to comprehend.

[elleng]

1. Absolutely beware the fog of war.

[babylonsister]

2. I'm hopeful this will be over soon. Putin has too

much ill will working against him thankfully.

[NoRethugFriends]

7. sadly, I have to say dream on

[gab13by13]

3. This will go on for months,

Putin may install a puppet, hopefully Zalensky can govern from another country. Ukraine's insurgency can outlast the Russian army, sooner or later Putin's army will have to go home.

What is going on feels like a punch in the gut, only it's worse.

Putin is getting a lot of heat back in Russia, I wish that people there would stage a coup on him. He sounds so delusional, something is wrong with him. I wish Russia had a 25th Amendment.

[wnylib]

19. Russians have turned on leaders in the past.

May Putin go the way of the czars.

[stopdiggin]

4. You're right. A GOP that has (any) sympathies for Putin/Russia

is something to simply boggle the mind. You can be assured that there is a lot of grave spinning going on in military plots.

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[Cheezoholic]

8. Fuck the grave spinning

we need to make sure this current crew of sociopath's here never get elected. We need to fight for our brothers in Ukraine and Russia. If we let these crazy fucking repukes get elected we will have bailed on every freedom loving Ukrainian who is potentially giving their lives to protect the very freedoms we take for granted!!! WE ARE IN THIS WITH THEM!!! We have to vote in our little corner to change our bigger corner to help them in their bigger corner so we all can GET THE FUCK RID OF THE CORNERS!

[stopdiggin]

10. if you say so

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[Cheezoholic]

15. Inappropriate about the grave spinning

I apologize I misread your post. But the rest of my post I am passionate about

[stopdiggin]

16. Cool. no prob. -(nt)

[Gore1FL]

5. I think Alexander Vindman out it well prior to the invasion:

Take a look at the 5:00ish mark if you don't want to watch the whole thing.

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/vindman-rips-gop-cheerleading-putin-they-will-own-this-when-blood-flows-133896261703

[stopdiggin]

14. wasn't Vindman also playing the 'Biden weak' card?

(might have been in a different interview) - but I'm kinda' taking a dim view of that kind of BS right at this moment.

[Gore1FL]

17. That I cannot speak to.

I am with him on his assessment of the Putin lovers on the Right, though.

[Mr.Bill]

6. I take some solace in the fact that

Joe Manchin is somewhere pounding his head against the wall trying to figure out how to get back in the headlines.

[MyOwnPeace]

11. He's not the only one......

did you see what this F-ing idiot Marsh Blackburn put out......

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-biden-jackson-blackburn_n_62190a28e4b03d0c80383917

My Gawd, when do these 'leaders' start doing their jobs and doing what's best for OUR COUNTRY!

[Mr.Bill]

13. Yes, I did see that.

That's a special level of stupidity.

[crickets]

18. Ha! Joe can take a number. Getting a little break from his nonsense is a relief. nt

[orleans]

9. i keep flashing on Iraq / Afghanistan (and the early days of 9/11)

the run up to war, the lead up, the machines of war, the civilians, the children, the bombing, the death numbers/estimates

[MyOwnPeace]

12. Not a pretty picture, is it?

Why is it that we never learn?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

22. Because so many of us have such a flawed concept of a leader. n/t

[SleeplessinSoCal]

20. Found on Instagram by Bryan Baeumler, Canadian on HGTV

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaXfrnOJMaW/?utm_medium=copy_link

[AwakeAtLast]

21. You always seem to

Oh so eloquently, put my rambling jumble of thoughts into a concise format. I have had the same feelings all week.

[NewHendoLib]

23. That means a lot. Thanks for your kind words

[Wounded Bear]

24. Yeah, all "breaking news" needs to be taken with a grain of salt...

kind of like the mass shootings here at home, the intial reports are always subject to correction and change as the facts get sorted out.