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He's half dead. What do you expect out of someone in his condition?
This is what you get when power hungry and corrupt people trot out a candidate for president who couldn't possibly be more unqualified for the job.
We were in much better shape when Orange Man Bad was in the driver's seat. Putin wouldn't have dared pull this stunt.
Quite a story but Putin wanted Trump to get re-elected and knew he was no fan of NATO, but go on with your belief that this would have never happened under Trump, maybe he would have Tweeted him to death.
Quite a story but Putin wanted Trump to get re-elected and knew he was no fan of NATO, but go on with your belief that this would have never happened under Trump, maybe he would have Tweeted him to death.
With all due respect, this is a pretty simplistic response. While Trump was no fan of NATO, this world definitely knew where he stood on matters and he kept Putin and the Russian army at bay, together with the leaders of North Korea and China.
I certainly will stand by my belief. I don't know Trump any more than I suspect you know Putin and what's in his head, but one thing is certain: the world is a lot less stable and more dangerous than it was on January 20, 2021.
Enjoy your evening.
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too little. We need to military invade the capital, , decapitate the regime, and get special forces in there, since NATO will do nothing. His generals won't press the nuclear button once they sense a superpower invasion. They want that nut gone too. As do most russians. You cut the head off the snake. You dont chop its tail.
If we just sit by, today its Ukraine tomorrow its all of Europe. Then you have a bigger problem. You dont negotiate, you dont reason with nuts and sociopaths. You ever watch Stephen King's The Stand. Yea...
Crazy people do NOT change. They just want more power. Sociopaths don't become angels. they just continue to make life hell for everyone. And if you give them a green light "Oh I can destroy more crap" they will. There is no rehabilitating these people. Sorry to say. And you cant talk sense to them either. Since they don't response to sense.
I have a lifetime's worth of experience of dealing with nutjob people and sociopaths with no conscience , and I can uniquivicably say they will never change. They need to be removed from power
Speaking of what Biden has done so far, I just came across this article today. There was a meeting at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine of NATO leaders and Biden. Biden got everyone to mobilize along NATO's eastern borders.
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The day after Russian tanks and troops poured across the Ukrainian border on Feb. 24, NATO leaders received a deeply frightening message. The alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, opened an emergency video summit by warning that President Vladimir V. Putin had “shattered peace in Europe†[...]
However unlikely, Mr. Stoltenberg told the leaders, it was no longer unthinkable that Mr. Putin would attack a NATO member. Such a move would trigger the collective defense clause in the North Atlantic Treaty, opening the door to the ultimate nightmare scenario: a direct military conflict with Russia.
President Biden, who had dialed in from the White House Situation Room, spoke up swiftly. Article 5 was “sacrosanct,†he said, referring to the “one for all, all for one†principle that has anchored NATO since its founding after World War II. Mr. Biden urged allied leaders to step up and send reinforcements to Europe’s eastern flank, according to multiple officials briefed on the call.
Within hours, NATO had mobilized its rapid response force, a kind of military SWAT team, for the first time in history to deter an enemy. It was one in an avalanche of precedent-shattering moves, unfolding in ministries and boardrooms from Washington to London and Brussels to Berlin.
Maybe Daryl G earlier in the thread was right. I don't know what "eastern flank" means, exactly. Does it mean there are NATO troops along Poland's border with Ukraine, and Romania's, along with Hungary's and Slovakia's? Or that they're amassing in the capitals, ready to deploy? More info needed.
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too little. We need to military invade the capital, , decapitate the regime, and get special forces in there, since NATO will do nothing. His generals won't press the nuclear button once they sense a superpower invasion. They want that nut gone too. As do most russians. You cut the head off the snake. You dont chop its tail.
Actually, you don't cut its head off, because 3 more will grow back in its place. You strike at the heart. Presto: one dead serpent! Unfortunately, that only happens in fairy tales.
He probably has a protocol in peace for if Moscow (including the Kremlin) gets invaded. Like our Presidents do. He'd have a bunker or an escape hatch of some sort. It wouldn't be that easy to get close to him. And the Kremlin is an ancient fort. It would be easy for the army to defend it. The White House doesn't have anything like that.
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Biden is doing too little, and what little he is doing should have been done a couple months ago. If he had taken stronger actions sooner, maybe Ukraine and the world wouldn't be in the mess it's in today.
"MAYBE this or maybe that, we dont know, putin is dead on ukraine, so i doubt sanction gonna stop him early or later
With all due respect, this is a pretty simplistic response. While Trump was no fan of NATO, this world definitely knew where he stood on matters and he kept Putin and the Russian army at bay, together with the leaders of North Korea and China.
I certainly will stand by my belief. I don't know Trump any more than I suspect you know Putin and what's in his head, but one thing is certain: the world is a lot less stable and more dangerous than it was on January 20, 2021.
Enjoy your evening.
Trump admired Putin and put him first over our allies. He believed his word over his own intelligence, which is a first for a president. And he's still praising him today. He didn't keep Putin at bay. Putin seemed to keep him at bay by all the praise. Do you really think Putin was scared of Trump. Why is that.
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