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EndlessWire

(8,103 posts)
11. I agree with this.
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 07:50 PM
Mar 2022

It does seem that Russia is making public statements just to provoke the West. They admitted they bombed a maternity hospital. They shelled innocent civilians just trying to flee. They shelled nuclear plants. They threatened the rest of the world with nuclear annihilation. Now they are mentioning chemical warfare, which ALL of us know is a trial balloon.

I think they shelled that bakery just to promote food insecurity.

The only good thing is that we are now arming up and deploying assets. This is not our fault, but needs to be done. If they sent planes into Ukraine (Wart Hogs, please) they would just be there for the inevitable defense we are going to have to make. I think Russia is really effing up big time. He's going to get his country destroyed.

It will be over in a heartbeat. China will not have time to get into this side of the fight. Not unless they launch in a nano second. It makes no economic sense to destroy the West.

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It's so upsetting Tickle Mar 2022 #1
We made a lie up about WMD and had a full fledged war in Iraq boston bean Mar 2022 #2
I agree with this. EndlessWire Mar 2022 #11
No matter what President Biden does he will catch hell. Texaswitchy Mar 2022 #3
We waited so long that we are left without good options. n/t femmedem Mar 2022 #6
When were there good options, and what were they, exactly? nt. Mariana Mar 2022 #9
Much of what we are doing now but much earlier, as laid out in this article from November. femmedem Mar 2022 #13
And Andrei Kozyrev, Yeltsin's first foreign minister, says we had a window of opportunity in '93-94. femmedem Mar 2022 #14
If you ask me, I'd say that Putin has already crossed over the line Poiuyt Mar 2022 #4
Putin has crossed the line. Texaswitchy Mar 2022 #7
If letting the Chernobyl reactor remain without power, using thermobarbaric bombs on civilians, femmedem Mar 2022 #5
Putin is nothing but a bully. Texaswitchy Mar 2022 #8
The Russian Army dumbcat Mar 2022 #16
Goes both ways. Texaswitchy Mar 2022 #18
Pooty is probably STILL getting his information bluestarone Mar 2022 #10
Yes. Texaswitchy Mar 2022 #12
This is my guess Darwins_Retriever Mar 2022 #15
good question RussBLib Mar 2022 #17
The US will no intercede in Ukraine. Full stop. SoonerPride Mar 2022 #19
Remember the "red line" Russia crossed by using chemical weapons in Syria?, that was sidestepped Shanti Shanti Shanti Mar 2022 #20
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