Putin Invades the Ukraine

[donquixote99]

^^^ Could not have happened to a nicer navy....

[Oerets]

The fact is unless forced to back down, he will never stop pushing forward. Getting more and more emboldened committing ever increasing heinous crimes.

There comes a time when facing an adversary, for me you just say FK it lets dance.....

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Oerets

The fact is unless forced to back down, he will never stop pushing forward. Getting more and more emboldened committing ever increasing heinous crimes.

There comes a time when facing an adversary, for me you just say FK it lets dance.....

According to John Mearsheimer it is coming to that.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

According to John Mearsheimer it is coming to that.

I certainly agree that Ukraine is a better place to stop Putin than Latvia. Just have to stop him with a certain degree of finesse, to keep the world from getting blown up. Keep your fingers crossed.

[Chicks]

NYT op-ed pitches an 'obvious solution' to crippling Vladimir Putin's financial stronghold

https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/obv...ladimir-putin/

”An obvious solution is staring us in the face," they wrote. "President Biden could liquidate the tens of billions of dollars the Russian central bank has parked in the United States as part of its foreign exchange reserves; by some estimates, those funds may total as much as $100 billion."

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

NYT op-ed pitches an 'obvious solution' to crippling Vladimir Putin's financial stronghold

https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/obv...ladimir-putin/

Russian-government and private assets may be seized as spoils in accordance with the laws and customs of war, should we go to war with Russia. But as of now we are not in a state of war. Russia's conduct give very adequate cause for us to declare war, but until we do we obey international law, even if they do not. Otherwise how can we criticize their conduct as being destructive of lawful international order?

[Oerets]

Will this world allow evil to wipe out a nation leaving total devastation behind? Pure aggression and a useful distraction at home to preserve one own power.

Because the country has oil to sell and nukes it will be excused?

If so then, that is game set match for freedom loving countries who believe in rule of law.

[RickeyM]

Ol' Pootin can declare his special military action a success and bring his troops home. He wants Ukraine but does he want a Ukraine that's been reduced to rubble? Does he want to occupy a nation of people who loath him and all things Russian? Afraid of Pootin using nukes? Putin should be afraid of using nukes. Him using nukes is an admission that Ukraine's military kicked his military's ass. He's "warned" Western nation about helping Ukraine but that's just so much smoke being blown. The last thing he needs right now is having to go up against Western powers or NATO. He's got a strong propaganda operation at home. He could just convince the people that approve of his "military action" that it was a success and now he's bringing his boys home.

[bobabode]

Not that I'm particularly religulous but on this Easter Sunday I can't help but wish that a friggin' meteor would land on Vlad Pootin's head and squash him for all the murder and destruction he's visited on Ukraine.

That is something I could celebrate.

signed a lapsed Christian cynic.

[Chicks]

I wonder whether Franklin Graham invited his pal Pootin for Easter dinner today?