The Official Russian Invasion of Ukraine Thread

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10:06a, 2/1/25
This is what the right wants.

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In reply to sycasey • 11:41a, 2/1/25
sycasey said:
This is what the right wants.
Not spending our tax money overseas is kind of a popular concept.
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In reply to Cal88 • 11:42a, 2/1/25
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This has been going on since 2014:


Were these family members of targeted officials or just random citizens? Either way it's brutal.
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In reply to sycasey • 11:47a, 2/1/25
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This is what the right wants.






*I will never pass up the opportunity. Never. Not once. I get the instinctual feeling that within 10 seconds of shaking hands with that guy and surveying the road kill on his head, you would sense you are in the presence of a weasel. One can only imagine the contents of the dossier Trump has on him (..and guys like Lindsey Graham).
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In reply to bear2034 • 11:49a, 2/1/25
bear2034 said:
sycasey said:
This is what the right wants.
Not spending our tax money overseas is kind of a popular concept.

Thanks for confirming!
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In reply to sycasey • 12:39p, 2/1/25
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This is what the right wants.


USAID has largely been a foreign policy instrument of political pressure and regime change. People like Samantha Power don't give a crap about the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians.
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In reply to Cal88 • 12:50p, 2/1/25
Cal88 said:
sycasey said:
This is what the right wants.


USAID has largely been a foreign policy instrument of political pressure and regime change. People like Samantha Power don't give a crap about the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians.
And you don't give a crap about the massacre of tens of thousands of Ukrainians.
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In reply to calpoly • 12:56p, 2/1/25
calpoly said:
Cal88 said:
sycasey said:
This is what the right wants.


USAID has largely been a foreign policy instrument of political pressure and regime change. People like Samantha Power don't give a crap about the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians.
And you don't give a crap about the massacre of tens of thousands of Ukrainians.

It's the exact opposite, but you wouldn't know, as you have the understanding of foreign policy of a teenager watching a Hollywood production.

That is the reason you never post any content that is relevant to this conflict or any other foreign policy issue.
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In reply to Cal88 • 12:58p, 2/1/25
Is the war over? Trump assured us it would take 24 hours. I think time is up.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- (maybe) Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
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In reply to sycasey • 1:09p, 2/1/25
sycasey said:
bear2034 said:
sycasey said:
This is what the right wants.
Not spending our tax money overseas is kind of a popular concept.

Thanks for confirming!

No doubt.

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In reply to AunBear89 • 1:10p, 2/1/25
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Is the war over? Trump assured us it would take 24 hours. I think time is up.

It's the first serious attempt at ending the war, but you're not interested in the subject itself, lowbrow tribal mudslinging is all you're capable of.
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In reply to Cal88 • 1:24p, 2/1/25
I'm interested in the fact that so many allegedly intelligent people believed him when he said it, and are now making excuses for why he hasn't fulfilled his promise.

It was a stupid claim, that no one with half a brain cell believed. Which explains why so many conservatives lapped it right up.

He lies about everything, and MAGA believed it all. I look forward to all the spin to come in explanation for all the other lies -er- broken campaign promises (003 prefers this euphemism).
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- (maybe) Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
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In reply to Cal88 • 1:29p, 2/1/25
Cal88 said:
sycasey said:
This is what the right wants.


USAID has largely been a foreign policy instrument of political pressure and regime change. People like Samantha Power don't give a crap about the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Thanks for confirming that you want the US to end foreign aid.
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In reply to bear2034 • 1:34p, 2/1/25
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sycasey said:
bear2034 said:
sycasey said:
This is what the right wants.
Not spending our tax money overseas is kind of a popular concept.

Thanks for confirming!

No doubt.





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In reply to sycasey • 1:40p, 2/1/25
There's nothing preventing you from donating to other public and private organizations, non-profits, and NGO's to help foreign countries. And USAID isn't what you think it is. It's just a way for the Deep State to meddle in other countries under the guise of foreign aid.
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In reply to AunBear89 • 1:45p, 2/1/25
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I'm interested in the fact that so many allegedly intelligent people believed him when he said it, and are now making excuses for why he hasn't fulfilled his promise.

It was a stupid claim, that no one with half a brain cell believed. Which explains why so many conservatives lapped it right up.

He lies about everything, and MAGA believed it all. I look forward to all the spin to come in explanation for all the other lies -er- broken campaign promises (003 prefers this euphemism).


" When Hunter S. Thompson wrote about Nixon, he was responding to a man he saw as symbolic of his time, a kind of monster of his age. Nixon's personality represented this darkness that was at the heart of everything wrong with America at the time. And Trump is an equivalent figure in that way. But he's not the same kind of person as Nixon. Nixon had many levels to his personality; he was a thinker, well-educated, a schemer. Trump is just a bundle of disorganized urges. He's what a lot of Americans would be if they had a billion dollars: They'd build grotesque castles, bang models, and grow fat."
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In reply to bear2034 • 2:31p, 2/1/25
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There's nothing preventing you from donating to other public and private organizations, non-profits, and NGO's to help foreign countries. And USAID isn't what you think it is. It's just a way for the Deep State to meddle in other countries under the guise of foreign aid.


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In reply to sycasey • 2:38p, 2/1/25
sycasey said:
bear2034 said:
There's nothing preventing you from donating to other public and private organizations, non-profits, and NGO's to help foreign countries. And USAID isn't what you think it is. It's just a way for the Deep State to meddle in other countries under the guise of foreign aid.




We have killed tens of thousands of kids just in Gaza last year. What kind of hypocrisy is it to decry a potential reduction in a couple of food trucks when we have shipped to Israel the equivalent of 3 Hiroshima bombs?

The best aid the US could do is to stop f****** bombing and overthrowing dozens of countries around the world, that would be a monumental gift to the world.
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In reply to Cal88 • 2:40p, 2/1/25
Cal88 said:
sycasey said:
bear2034 said:
There's nothing preventing you from donating to other public and private organizations, non-profits, and NGO's to help foreign countries. And USAID isn't what you think it is. It's just a way for the Deep State to meddle in other countries under the guise of foreign aid.




We have killed tens of thousands of kids just in Gaza last year. What kind of hypocrisy is it to decry a potential reduction in a couple of food trucks when we have shipped to Israel the equivalent of 3 Hiroshima bombs?

The best aid the US could do is to stop f****** bombing and overthrowing dozens of countries around the world, that would be a monumental gift to the world.


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In reply to AunBear89 • 2:46p, 2/1/25
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I'm interested in the fact that so many allegedly intelligent people believed him when he said it, and are now making excuses for why he hasn't fulfilled his promise.

It was a stupid claim, that no one with half a brain cell believed. Which explains why so many conservatives lapped it right up.

He lies about everything, and MAGA believed it all. I look forward to all the spin to come in explanation for all the other lies -er- broken campaign promises (003 prefers this euphemism).

He obviously wasn't going to end the war in one day, and the chances he will in the next 6 months is something like 1 in 3, mostly because the warmongers in DC which you support will spin any settlement as appeasement to Russia. But at least there is a change in policy towards trying to stop the war vs feeding the slaughter to the last Ukrainian which Biden, Blinken, Nuland Graham et al have been pursuing because they don't give a damn about the 700,000 Ukrainian soldiers who have died in their war, or the several hundred thousand more who are going to die until the Russians arrive in Kiev.
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In reply to sycasey • 2:49p, 2/1/25
sycasey said:
Cal88 said:
sycasey said:
bear2034 said:
There's nothing preventing you from donating to other public and private organizations, non-profits, and NGO's to help foreign countries. And USAID isn't what you think it is. It's just a way for the Deep State to meddle in other countries under the guise of foreign aid.




We have killed tens of thousands of kids just in Gaza last year. What kind of hypocrisy is it to decry a potential reduction in a couple of food trucks when we have shipped to Israel the equivalent of 3 Hiroshima bombs?

The best aid the US could do is to stop f****** bombing and overthrowing dozens of countries around the world, that would be a monumental gift to the world.



Is Madeline Albright an "anti-DEI activist"?



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In reply to sycasey • 2:51p, 2/1/25
sycasey said:
This is what the right wants.


I'm certainly more of a dove than a hawk, but I can't help thinking that, a generation ago, many right-wing politicians had served in the military, or at least their fathers had. Now, less so, which would seem to explain their new isolationism.
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In reply to Cal88 • 2:52p, 2/1/25
> We have killed tens of thousands of kids just in Gaza last year..

yeah, though technically we just looked the other way as israel shamefully embraced the genocidal thing with uncle sam gifted bombs.
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In reply to Cal88 • 2:55p, 2/1/25
Cal88 said:
sycasey said:
Cal88 said:
sycasey said:
bear2034 said:
There's nothing preventing you from donating to other public and private organizations, non-profits, and NGO's to help foreign countries. And USAID isn't what you think it is. It's just a way for the Deep State to meddle in other countries under the guise of foreign aid.




We have killed tens of thousands of kids just in Gaza last year. What kind of hypocrisy is it to decry a potential reduction in a couple of food trucks when we have shipped to Israel the equivalent of 3 Hiroshima bombs?

The best aid the US could do is to stop f****** bombing and overthrowing dozens of countries around the world, that would be a monumental gift to the world.



Is Madeline Albright an "anti-DEI activist"?




I'm not sure that "stop all foreign aid" must necessarily follow from "stop wars," but you do you.
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2:58p, 2/1/25
Les than 10% of USAID funding goes to humanitarian aid. Where does the rest of the 90% plus go to? Their budget is larger than the State Department.
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In reply to Cal88 • 4:30p, 2/1/25
Deflection and goal post moving. Vintage 88.

Add the assumption I support war mongers (coming from a full throated supporter of Putin) and it is impossible to take anything you say seriously.

You're just a pseudo intellectual Eurosnob.
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In reply to bear2034 • 9:44p, 2/1/25
bear2034 said:
Les than 10% of USAID funding goes to humanitarian aid. Where does the rest of the 90% plus go to? Their budget is larger than the State Department.

If this were actually their problem, then Rand Paul and Matt Walsh should say "Let's make sure the money actually gets to where it should" and not "Abolish all foreign aid." These are two very different things.
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In reply to sycasey • 11:52a, 2/2/25
sycasey said:
bear2034 said:
Les than 10% of USAID funding goes to humanitarian aid. Where does the rest of the 90% plus go to? Their budget is larger than the State Department.

If this were actually their problem, then Rand Paul and Matt Walsh should say "Let's make sure the money actually gets to where it should" and not "Abolish all foreign aid." These are two very different things.

I'm not sure if people in DC are ready to have an open discussion about USAID. Some important questions are bound to come up.


You don't hear the media talk about U.S. taxpayers funding Covid. Why?
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12:21p, 2/2/25

Zelensky is asking the same question we're asking. Where's all the money?
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In reply to bear2034 • 2:22p, 2/2/25
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Zelensky is asking the same question we're asking. Where's all the money?
Agreed, we should have done a lot more to arm Ukraine.
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In reply to sycasey • 2:34p, 2/2/25
sycasey said:
bear2034 said:

Zelensky is asking the same question we're asking. Where's all the money?
Agreed, we should have done a lot more to arm Ukraine.
We did, but apparently, the money went somewhere else.
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In reply to bear2034 • 3:00p, 2/2/25
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sycasey said:
bear2034 said:

Zelensky is asking the same question we're asking. Where's all the money?
Agreed, we should have done a lot more to arm Ukraine.
We did, but apparently, the money went somewhere else.

Get those Ukrainian arms out of the bureaucracy and to the front lines NOW!
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In reply to sycasey • 4:42p, 2/2/25
sycasey said:
bear2034 said:
sycasey said:
bear2034 said:

Zelensky is asking the same question we're asking. Where's all the money?
Agreed, we should have done a lot more to arm Ukraine.
We did, but apparently, the money went somewhere else.

Get those Ukrainian arms out of the bureaucracy and to the front lines NOW!

Yes, this is going to change the outcome of the war.

Will we also provide the cannon fodder to keep the one-sided massacre going? I guess they could step up their rounds and abduct a few thousand more hapless Ukrainian men in city streets...







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In reply to bearister • 10:25p, 2/2/25
Nixon certainly had his flaws but he was one hundred times the man that he replaced as president.
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