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I think the distinction here is recommending pressure in response to an invasion vs. pressure in response to an entire system of government. So it's like the UN boycott of Saddam Hussein in 1990? A response to his invasion of Kuwait? They lasted until the US invaded Iraq in 2003. Thirteen years or ...

I think the distinction here is recommending pressure in response to an invasion vs. pressure in response to an entire system of government.

Not a big non-alcoholic beer drinker as most of it is not good, and the good ones aren't good enough to have more than once in a long while. Guinness was weirdly behind in putting out an n/a product supposedly because they were working on getting the taste right. I tried the new canned Guinness 0.0 ...

That's where I think starting to kick Russian citizens out of universities and so on makes sense. It's easy to treat this as a game of "who really knows what's going on." Important to make it clear this isn't a game. Things could get extremely out of hand.

I care less that his wife is mentally ill than that rather than recuse himself, it appears he weighted in (1-8) to protect her.

Whole lot of executed civilians. Some of the shot down aircraft appears to have been propaganda, but there are foreign sources on what's going on in some of these liberated areas. It worked for them in Chechnya and Georgia, and in Syria. Why change their game plan? Putin is counting on the civilize...

Whole lot of executed civilians. Some of the shot down aircraft appears to have been propaganda, but there are foreign sources on what's going on in some of these liberated areas. This whole thing is also reminiscent of how some said Afghanistan would have gone better if we "took the gloves off...

One of the weird things to me about it was the sort of liberal racism involved. It's very, very hard to imagine Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt smacking a presenter and then being allowed to accept an award. You almost have to assume, "Yeah, sometimes black actors are going to thug out so we will prete...

Dave Chappelle should do 20 minutes on the Smiths for his next Netflix special. He murdered Jussie Smollett. Comics having to worry about somebody coming up on stage sucks. Don Rickles RIP. 57-year-old with a very small neck getting popped like that, I'd assume he's concussed and may be loopy for a ...

People are being very tight-lipped about where Clarence Thomas is.

HIs wife apparently lives in kooky town.

I don't understand your logic. "Denazification and a Jewish President"." I don't understand your logic. Do you think a Jew can't be a Nazi? Or do you think if Nazism is directed not against Jews, but against Russians, then this is not Nazism? There may be a translation issue here, bu...

Maybe Putin simply wants... Or maybe because the United States pumped up Ukraine with weapons and did not give guarantees that Ukraine would not join NATO? Maybe because the United States stuffed Ukraine with laboratories for the development of biological weapons? Maybe because Zelensky said he wou...

You can turn on English subtitles under settings:
https://youtu.be/oS8ktqe5LEY?t=617

This guy is going to be lucky to not catch a bullet when he gets home. Pretty brave.

If Obama had stepped on Nuland and Kagan in 2014 we wouldn't be in this mess. Who is "we" and what mess? We - the American people, the dumbasses who elected Barack Hussein Obama then let him play nation building in Ukraine, Syria and Libya. Nuland was supervising the Ukraine fiasco. Salon...

Gene wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:13 pm If Obama had stepped on Nuland and Kagan in 2014 we wouldn't be in this mess.

Who is "we" and what mess?

Putin: We need the best possible strategy for putting Kyiv under seige. SS: Under Seige? I'm your man. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a84bb4914c3c5cebdfbdab42513b99831d0c83a3/0_256_5728_3436/master/5728.jpg?width=620&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=792ba0727e66f7e514aad738...

Analysis of Russian vs. Western military culture and effectiveness. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/w ... truggling/

Europeans finding a spine with sanctions is very welcome. China and Taiwan are watching, so the more they do without getting involved in the shooting the better.

Despite the criticisms, it seems like the US intelligence community did a pretty super job and the Ukrainians are determined to deny Putin a quick victory. I was speaking with someone last night about this and made the same point. The US had limited options, but straight out said, "Putin's gon...

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1496849053824471041 It sounds like the airport is back in Ukrainian hands and 200 Russian paratroopers are dead. Video of air defenses shooting down a bunch of Russian aircraft tonight. Ukrainians not rolling over. Despite the criticisms, it seems like the...

It's weird watching Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden (who mocked international fears of invasion) so obviously shill for Russia at this point. When Citizen Four came out and the IC community was accusing these two of being Russian shills, I thought they were obviously lying about them. I can't tel...

Will Bill, among far worse things, Putin is making you look very silly tonight.

Wild Bill, Russia has some of the most lenient immigration laws in the world. If you live in an even worse place, Russia will take you.