PugJesus @ PugJesus @kbin.social

Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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Well, that's not ominous phrasing at all.

It's harder when you still have diplomatic relations with a country.

like Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden when they went from our buddies to no-no bad guys that we deny ever actively supporting.

Bin Laden we didn't support, though. Just Saddam.

Seizure of Russian funds clears the way, conceptually, for further seizures.

There’s a really good chance that most other countries simply don’t have that much war materiel to dump into Ukraine compared to the US.

Yeah. During the intervention in Libya, our NATO allies ran out of precision munitions after less than a month of bombing.

The US is the only member of NATO which is ready enough and large enough to back Ukraine in the short-term.

These aren't just appeasers we're dealing with. These are silver shirts.

You ever talk politics with many of the Christians you know?

Gambashidze, Tupikin and their colleagues proposed narratives they hoped would destroy Zelensky’s image in the West as “the hero of a small country fighting a global evil,” one of the documents sent in April shows. They suggested portraying Zelensky as an actor only capable of following a script written for him by the United States and NATO, and his Western backers as tiring of him. They proposed distributing fake Ukrainian government documents as evidence of corrupt military procurement schemes, and suggesting that Zelensky and his family had Western bank accounts, the document shows.

The plans led to hundreds of articles and thousands of social media posts translated into French, German and English that targeted Zelensky, the document trove shows.

I think I know a few who have been repeating these talking points.

Sanders has old professor charisma. He's passionate and articulate about the issues that matter to him.

But as he himself notes, and you point out, he's not quite a 'people person', not one for small talk.

Because Harris has no charisma and Newsom lacks the name recognition.

"Challenges Biden"

Greek detected, opinion rejected.

Yeah, anyone who thinks that the war is gonna end by one side or the other literally running out of warm bodies doesn't understand modern war. The tipping point is when the warm bodies no longer tolerate being sent to the front under the current conditions.

If memory serves, Romney voted to convict on both impeachments.

Anti-elephant wagon. Think of it more like a semi-mobile wall than an offensive weapon.

Sooner have people question satire, though, than take it as fact.

Henry Barbour, a Mississippi committeeman, said he believed “most RNC members will go along” with Trump’s vision for the committee, “unless there is a play to use RNC funds for President Trump’s legal bills.”

lmao, as if.

They'll kiss his ring faster than Lindsey Graham when he comes knocking for the RNC to cover his legal bills.

I was all-in for Bernie, but there's often a difference between what we want and what is happening. It was honestly a miracle that Bernie ended as well as he did in 2016.

Now, 2020? 2020 we had a shot, but we were out-politiked. Not illegitimate, since politics inherently involves politiking, but I am salty about that still.

Oh God, more border gore and another century of internecine conflict incoming

The article suggests it's as simple as putting up a few conditions for aid, and finding people 'outside' of the traditional power structures to lead. That's not realistic, as past conditions for aid have shown, and as attempts to impose new power structures on societies from external pressure show.

Anyone except Israel or Hamas.

Unfortunately, Israel has put great effort into reducing the options to those two choices.

Uh... the article seems to have a very... simple view of the situation on the ground.