Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
No dealings with China, right then, forget shopping for a while, are you wearing anything NOT made in China. When Covid hit we needed masks and PPE for goodness sake. We RELY on what they supply. Not to mention what we SELL them in raw materials.
You know what else China supplied? Covid.
Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
His timing and strategy is not indicative of an unstable man.
This cannot be a serious statement.
Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
The world is not a friendly warm and fuzzy place, he is doing what is best for Russia
Precisely how is invading a free, independent and sovereign nation that poses absolutely no threat to Russia, "doing whats best for Russia". Look at the consequences. The ruble is in freefall, inflation is currently around 70%, the people have been limited to ATM withdrawals of $20 to avoid a run on the banks further destroying the economy. They are cut off from their international foreign currency reserves, their banks and major institutions are cutoff from SWIIFT and unable to do business, the airspace of the entire western world is now closed to Russian aircraft. And the suffering has only just started. I won't even bother mentioning the thousands of dead Russian soldiers, the majority of whom seem to be bordering on children.
Russia is rapidly becoming a pariah state, like NK and Iran.
Yeh, Putin is doing whats 'best' for Russia alright.
Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
taking back what is theirs and building a buffer from NATO forces.
Whats 'theirs'? What the hell exactly is 'theirs'. What is literally the first point of the Budapest Memorandum, signed by Russia in 94?
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Respect Belarusian, Kazakh and Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.
Explain to me how a single inch of Ukraine is 'theirs'. That the Russians want a buffer to NATO does not legitimize their efforts to create one.
Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
The US invaded Libya why? Certainly not to help Libya. What about Iraq and those pesky non existent WMD?
Oh of course, the tried and true US whataboutism that is trotted out by every Putin lapdog whenever the inexcusable actions of their Government are brought into focus.
Putin is a psychopathic kleptocratic lunatic, bent on restoring the soviet empire. There would be few people on earth who care less about the welfare of the Russian people than him, given his course of stealing everything they own over the last 20 years, and now taking action that has effectively condemned them to economic hardship for a generation or more.
Absolutely nothing about his current course of action is justified, warranted or even sane. The only safe way out of this mess is for his circle of power to realize the path we are on and to drag him out of his Ural mountains bunker and hang the bastard.
Slava Ukraini