Showing posts with label Crimea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crimea. Show all posts
Monday, March 3, 2025

The Current Big Lie: There was an agreement in 1991 when the Soviet Union fell apart that prevented former Eastern bloc countries from joining NATO

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  ‘There was no promise not to enlarge NATO’ - Harvard Law School Mar 16, 2022 By Jeff Neal ...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Trump-Vance orchestrate an ambush of Zelenskyy, and when they are bested in the debate by Zelenskyy, Vance accuses Zelenskyy of orchestrating it for the media

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 The chutzpah is amazing. This is the moment when the whole meeting descended into chaos and hurtled toward failure. Here Zelenskyy explain...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

In his Feb 21 debate with the conservative historian Niall Ferguson, J. D. Vance said Trump was trying to achieve a lasting piece of Ukraine lol

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 A very unfortunate but accurate Freudian slip. And the idea that "we're not going to telegraph our negotiating posture" is ju...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: To watch our ally of 80 years, the USA, turn on us with ferocity and blithely team up with our declared enemy really is the end of days

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  Trump’s embrace of Putin is a Molotov-Ribbentrop crisis for Europe : The new regime in Washington is testing pro-American sympathies to br...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

Biden to George Stephanopoulos: I'm the guy that put NATO together, I'm the guy that shut Putin down

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 Joe was 6 when NATO was founded. Putin is still in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, and we're still spending billion$ to stop him.
Thursday, July 4, 2024

There's plenty of mendacity afoot on both sides, including from the isolationist click-farmers

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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

New video clearly shows Russian beach was not targeted and was collateral damage after Russian defenses downed Ukrainian missile

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    Here . Russia warns the U.S. to brace for retaliation after Kremlin blamed Washington for missile attack that killed four in Crimea  
Monday, June 24, 2024

Ukraine didn't target the beach in Crimea where Russians were collateral damage of Russian defense operations

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                  Video shows panicked beachgoers fleeing from falling shrapnel after Russian air defense intercepted the U.S.-supplied ATAC...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Scott McConnell: Joe Biden has had his hair on fire for NATO enlargement since at least 1998

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Anatol Lieven has pointed out that not a single hawk during the Reagan era (which today’s Democrats pretend to respect in counterpoint toda...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Ron DeSantis missteps, tries to weasel out of his characterization of the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a "territorial dispute"

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One message for Tucker Carlson viewers, another for "neocons". But trying to thread that needle is a fool's errand. Ron DeSant...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

GOP candidate positions on Ukraine demonstrate nothing but groveling to the anti-war right

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  And the kernel there is pretending things that are not true, the mark of an unserious country. Nikki Haley is simply incoherent. She says ...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Democrats underestimate the power of Crimea as a political liability

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  GOP Overestimates Power of Crime as a Political Issue Walter Shapiro, New Republic   AOC Receives Backlash At To...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Tucker Carlson is another one who thinks America will be to blame for a Russian invasion of Ukraine, omitting certain uncomfortable truths

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 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/12/08/tucker_carlson_ukrainian_lobbyists_have_all_of_washington_heading_for_war.html Tucker om...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Russia stole George W. Bush's balls when they invaded South Osetia and used those to invade Crimea

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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Politico's real story from January was that the DNC, the Hillary campaign, Alexandra Chalupa, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, journalists, government officials and intelligence operatives all colluded with Ukraine to take out Manafort and disrupt Trump's campaign

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You should read it to appreciate the four fingers pointing back at the Democrats every time they point at Republicans yelling "collus...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Rep. Maxine Waters strikes again, says Putin invaded Korea

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Korea, Crimea, Gonorrhea, they're all the same to this box of rocks. Story here .
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

In case you didn't get it the first time, Vladimir Putin thinks the CIA behind the Trump smear . . .

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. . . is the same CIA which overthrew the democratically elected but pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych, president of Ukraine, in 2014. No...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson throws down the gauntlet in South China Sea

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Hooah Rex! From the story here : In comments expected to enrage Beijing, Rex Tillerson told his confirmation hearing before the U....
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Crimean Regional Parliament Votes Unanimously To Join The Russian Federation

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So reports the BBC here  (you wouldn't know it was unanimous from US news stories): 11:27: To recap: Members of Crimea's regional pa...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Is Crimea Payback For Cyprus?

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I haven't heard anyone say this yet, but Russians lost a lot of money when the EU "bailed out" Cyprus by bailing it in. More t...