Like it or not, the US owes Ukraine under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, unless of course it wants to be a traitor to Ukraine just like Russia

 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances

As usual Americans are mentally ill, wanting mutually exclusive things

74% want a no fly zone!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-americans-broadly-support-ukraine-no-fly-zone-russia-oil-ban-poll-2022-03-04/

But fewer than half want the broader war that implies.

 

Not a serious country.
 

 

Gotta luv the Ukrainian spirit

 

The West late Saturday finally does the right thing against Russia on the third day of its Ukraine invasion

 

EU, UK, Canada, US pledge to remove selected Russian banks from interbank messaging system SWIFT :

WASHINGTON —The United States, European allies and Canada agreed Saturday to remove key Russian banks from the interbank messaging system, SWIFT, an extraordinary step that will sever the country from much of the global financial system.

“This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally,” the global powers wrote in a joint statement announcing the significant retaliatory measure.

Moscow’s exclusion from SWIFT, which stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, means Russian banks cannot communicate securely with banks beyond its borders. Iran was removed from SWIFT in 2014 following developments to Tehran’s nuclear program.

SWIFT is an independent enterprise based in Belgium that serves as an internal messaging system between more than 11,000 banks and financial institutions in over 200 countries and territories.

Trump's tone-deafness on Putin on the 22nd is no different than his dismissive COVID-19 response in early 2020, which he never understood frightened away America's older voters

Europe is finally uniting against Putin on the third day of the Ukraine invasion, passing restrictions and sending arms and support, and Trump is calling Putin's machinations to invade Ukraine "smart", "genius", "very savvy", and "pretty savvy".

He's clueless. Putin has clearly over-reached and is leading Russia into permanent pariah status on the world stage.

I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, “This is genius.” Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.

So, Putin is now saying, “It’s independent,” a large section of Ukraine. I said, “How smart is that?” And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force… We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who’s very savvy… I know him very well. Very, very well.

By the way, this never would have happened with us. Had I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened. But here’s a guy that says, you know, “I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent,” he used the word “independent,” “and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.” You gotta say that’s pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response. They didn’t have one for that. No, it’s very sad. Very sad.

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Republicans will pay a heavy price for backing this lunatic again.

 

Russia threatens neutral Finland

 

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Friday that any attempt by Finland to join NATO would have “military and political repercussions.” ...

On Thursday, Finish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said the Russian invasion would shift the long running debate in Finland around NATO membership.

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Blueberry Coffee, Kadets'kyi Hai St, 6а, Kyiv, Kyiv city, Ukraine, 02000

 

And just like that we have a Russian invasion of Ukraine from every direction

 Vladimir Putin obviously cares less about the money he can make off oil exports than he does about reincorporating Ukraine into Russia.

CNBC won't tell the truth that Russian forces have invaded Ukraine: Gotta play it down so as not to spook the markets

 Russia "sends forces", "sends troops", lol.

Miserable cretins.

 

Drudge nearly mum on Canada abuses in wall-to-wall Ukraine coverage

 

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

 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/12/08/tucker_carlson_ukrainian_lobbyists_have_all_of_washington_heading_for_war.html

Tucker omits that Russia lost the Sevastopol naval base to Ukraine from 1991-2014 after the fall of the USSR, after which Putin took it back by force in the annexation of Crimea, an act of aggression unanswered by Obama. But Russia had paid rent to Ukraine for use of the base during that intervening period. It's not like they were or are entitled to it, Tucker.

George W. Bush set the precedent for all that in the first place by not answering Russia's aggression in South Ossetia in 2008.

Tucker also omits that Germany is hostage to Russian natural gas by choice, having embraced the madness of green ideology and abandoning their own sources of energy.

This spirit and habit of appeasement shouldn't be continued or encouraged, especially one in the service of a banal, libertarian, materialistic understanding of "American interests".

Sean Davis of The Federalist only pretends that wars in Ukraine and Taiwan will be wars of our choosing

We can bolster the defenses of these nominally free states in order to prevent Russia and China from attacking them, or we can do what he says and do nothing, inviting their demise.

He is profoundly mistaken.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/09/following-debacles-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-failed-interventionists-are-now-agitating-for-wars-in-ukraine-and-taiwan/

Ukrainian partisan Alexandra Chalupa has spent way too much time in the deep fryer of German hatred, comes out scorching two Jews as Nazis

Why the DNC ever gave this woman a position to import foreign hatreds to American soil tells you everything you need to know about Democrats.

Doug Schoen's 2016 book PUTIN'S MASTER PLAN makes more sense learning he's been on the Ukraine payroll for years

Republican Paul Manafort is not the only one who has been making millions off the Ukrainians for years. Democrats have also long been contesting that ground. 

The Wikipedia entry on Schoen says he was making $40k a month from Pinchuk starting in 2000. That's the almost $500k annually "to start" Schachtel mentions in his thread, so yeah, big money for nearly 20 years straight. Schoen, of course, is a Democrat and was closely involved with the Clintons in the past. The Clinton Foundation itself is said to have received as much as $25 million from Pinchuk.

First Obama tried to take out Trump with Russian collusion, now Biden with Ukraine: Photos emerge of so-called whistleblower with Joe Biden ally Michael Carpenter years ago

This impeachment was a "trumped up" political operation by partisans.

Which John Bolton is telling the truth about Trump and Ukraine, the August 2019 John Bolton or the January 2020 John Bolton?

Video.

"Warm and cordial calls" or "abuse of power"?

GAO report says Trump's OMB violated 1974 Impoundment Control Act by temporarily withholding Ukraine aid

Story.

Wow, the timing, what a coincidence.

Good start but Ukraine abuse of power, Epstein suicide, booming economy hoaxes, etc. are missing, otherwise . . .

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Guy who got away with shaking down Ukraine basks in the glow of approval from guy who got away with blackface

Pelosi today said impeachment isn't about Ukraine, it's about . . . Russia

About the 7 minute mark.

Here.