Putin Invades the Ukraine

[Chicks]

[Chicks]

EU to purchase and deliver weapons to Ukraine in historic first

https://www.axios.com/eu-weapons-ukr...194d95619.html

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

Old quip: "How does a libertarian stop a panzer division?"
"The market will handle it."

And it did. The Red Army being the hired help.

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Originally Posted by Chicks

EU to purchase and deliver weapons to Ukraine in historic first

https://www.axios.com/eu-weapons-ukr...194d95619.html

This is good. It's time for the EU to assume leadership. This and the German one year defense budget increase may be an unexpected flanking movement from the Tzar's perspective.

[bobabode]

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." Rogers

[bobabode]

Voice Of America reporter Fatima Tils posted a video showing a Georgian oil tanker refusing to help refuel Russian ships.

According to the video, the Russian ship asked to be refueled, begging, "Come on, let's leave politics aside." The Georgian ship refused, echoing the military message from those who refused to surrender to Russia on Snake Island.

The first few days of the Russian military strikes, the Russian military told the soldiers over an announcement to surrender. The Ukrainian military members replied, "Go f*ck yourself."

The sentiment was echoed this weekend from the Georgians as well. "Russian ship, go f*ck yourself. Glory to Ukraine!"

They went on to tell the Russian ship that they have oars and could row their ship instead."

https://www.rawstory.com/ukraine-rus...4HK4I#cxrecs_s

Too funny.

[BigElCat]

Only one in existence, now it's history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYScakP1yqo

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Originally Posted by bobabode

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." Rogers

An elf whose name I cannot recall slipped me The Hobbit.

I read The Fountainhead having seen the movie. The main character wasn't at all like Gary Cooper.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

EU to purchase and deliver weapons to Ukraine in historic first

https://www.axios.com/eu-weapons-ukr...194d95619.html

Even more historic is Germany's break with its historic-since-WWII anti-militristic norms, vastly increasing their defense spending, and scrapping the prohibition on sending weapons to active combatants.

[Chicks]

US cutting off Russia's central bank from US dollar transactions
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/polit...und/index.html

"No country is sanction proof," a White House official said. "Putin's war chest of $630 billion in reserves only matters if you can use it to defend his currency, specifically by selling those reserves in exchange for buying the ruble."

"After today's actions that will no longer be possible, and fortress Russia will be exposed as a myth."

Thankfully we have real leadership in the WH today. Donny, of course, would be doing anything and everything to try to profit personally from this conflict, and would be cheering Pootin on.