Putin is a prototypical expansionist tyrant of the kind that the world has known since time began. He will keep expanding until he can’t. He is gathering his few allies to prepare for the next step.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says he expects to discuss the possible deployment of Iskander and S-400 defense systems to Belarus with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the coming days.
“[Thursday or Friday] we will talk with the President of Russia about how to strengthen ourselves here in the western direction,” Lukashenko told state news agency Belta Thursday.
“Today we consulted with the military, and we see that it would be desirable to put Iskanders [missile systems] there and place a battalion or two with S-400s somewhere so that we can actually monitor the situation all the way to Berlin,” Lukashenko said.
That is not an argument for direct U.S. military action. Russia is still much weaker than it was during the Soviet days. There is a decent chance that they blow their wad in Ukraine if the Ukrainians put up a fight. I’m not confident of that. The next layer is for Western European nations to defend themselves. I don’t think Putin is crazy enough to attack a NATO country yet, but if he has an easy time in Ukraine, he might.
The biggest worry for Americans is the acceleration of Russian cyberwarfare against America’s economy. They are stepping up that effort. This is not WWII. There are more battlefronts.
Solzhenitsyn (!) suggested that Putin would be happy with Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
There’s not much incentive for him to annex anything else–and lots of dis-incentives in places like Poland, or even Latvia/Estonia/Lithuania.
And trump is still licking vlad’s boots:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/world/europe/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html
Sure Lying Karen Le Roi, give us a link that you have to sign up to get tge new from a crap newspaper.
You are such a moron.
Obama dis-armed Ukraine, then installed his own government. Ukrainians got rid of Obama’s corruptocrats and installed new ones. But BOTH bought Joe Biden and his meth-head kid! Nice work, Joe.
Now Joe lays down the law to Putin. How’d that work out for the Ukrainians, LeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeRoy?
“Obama dis-armed Ukraine”. Utter nonsense. You must still be hung up on the “pillows and sheets” claim from trump.
I heard Trump live when he made those comments with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. I cringed at the time, not because what Trump said wasn’t solid truth, but because of how the left’s tenuous grasp of reality would spin it to prop up the demented one.
Putin is evil smart, never forgives or forgets, does have absolute control over his country, and has painted NATO into an entirely defensive stance. Trump’s assessment of Putin is correct. Trump’s assessment of Obama 3.0 is also correct. Don’t expect Trump to join the parade of fools propping up Obama 3.0 out of some misguided sense of patriotism.
So far it looks like Putin’s assessment of Obama 3.0 is also correct. The fact that Putin has successfully played his adversaries can’t be denied.
I agree with Merlin, Putin is no dumvasd like Senile Joe and most of the leaders in Europe. He doesn’t play the woke game, especially not like the liberals here like Senile Joe,, Sloppy Seconds Harris, Lying Karen Le Roi and Maley.
The United Nations owes Ukraine security from aggression under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum under which Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for said security. Care to guess which two superpowers drove that agreement into existence? One of them just invaded and the other is hiding behind pointless punitive sanctions.
Poor li’l LeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeRoy doesn’t have much reading under his belt. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/when-obama-left-ukraine-defenseless/
In 1994? Ah, yes! Clinton!
Another strategic genius like Obama and President Pantsfull.
NYTimes reports that Biden gave RED CHINA all the intel we had on the Russkie buildup–and Red China promptly sent it to Putin.
Maley and LeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeRoy voted for this miserable failure.
Congratulations!
>NYTimes reports that Biden gave RED CHINA all the intel we had on the Russkie buildup–and Red China promptly sent it to Putin.
What are the odds that Mark Milley was the conduit?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/26/politics/donald-trump-barack-obama-ukraine-military-aid-sheets-pillows-fact-check/index.html
And then there was the time trump played quid pro quo with $$ approved for the Ukraine. Looks like we just read different things, dud.
You have to cut Mying Karen Le Roi some slack. All he reads is the extremist liberal media that hates Peesident and think Senile Joe is a God.
He doesn’t know any better. His very tiny and few brain cells are beainwashed.
He just know any better.
He’s just like a trained seal. When the trainer tells the seal to do something, the seal dies it. When the extremist liberal media tells Lying Karen Le something, he reacts to it and repeats what they said, making him look like a fool 99% of the time and o there 1%, he is incoherent.
50% of this country ( including the vast majority of this board ) appear to be both admirers and appeasers of Putin .
Putin must be enjoying it .
“All he reads is the extremist liberal media that hates Peesident and think Senile Joe is a God.” False, in so many ways.
Read your post, look in the mirror, and see the real moron and fool.
I knew it wouldn’t take more than a day for Leroy to belly in here and bring up Trump. Must be painful to have such a canker of hatred for a person to try to spin people dying and trying to survive just to try to throw some shade at a man.
Hey Leroy, post up your address. I’ll send you a Get Better card… What, I know you’re not sick… we just want you to get better at everything.
From your very own link Leroy… if your narcolepsy riddled brain and beer belly could have been bothered to read more than the title…
>While it never provided lethal aid, many of the items that the Obama administration did provide …
>The Trump administration did approve the provision of arms to Ukraine, including sniper rifles, rocket launchers and Javelin anti-tank missiles, something long sought by Kiev.
Not only does your link not disprove what Dad said, it points out that Trump did more in his 4 years to arm and protect Ukraniane Citizens than Obozo ever did. You’re a dumpster fire.
>50% of this country ( including the vast majority of this board ) appear to be both admirers and appeasers of Putin .
C’mon, man! That’s a rather massive leap of logic. Acknowledgement of an opponent’s skill set doesn’t necessarily involve either admiration or appeasement, but it must be the basis for future planning. Underestimating your adversary usually only works to your own detriment. You certainly don’t coach without an accurate assessment of the opponent’s skill sets on the court, on the bench, and behind the clipboard. I suspect you don’t do business that way either.
Trump’s I-know-you-know-I-know statesmanship in this case is not likely admiration or appeasement, but a warning to be considered should Trump return to political office.
Of course I could be wrong. Miller Time!
>Acknowledgement of an opponent’s skill set doesn’t necessarily involve either admiration or appeasement, but it must be the basis for future planning.
The left can’t think that cognitively. For proof of my statement of fact, select any post by Leroy in the past two years. Your honor, the defense rests.
Jason foresees: “ I knew it wouldn’t take more than a day…”
Seething is all Le Chatte has left to hold on to. Humiliated by his demented chosen one, void of any positives, he cannot come to this board (or anywhere, in reality) and attempt to lead a “cheer” in any category, least his rote imbecility be noted yet again and again and again.
Just like…
Jason notes the obvious: “ Not only does your link not disprove what Dad said, it points out that Trump did more…”
Even a fifth-grader would have ascertained that. But Nortumous cannot see past his personal failure and so can only find comfort staying in his well-tread lane.
Nord,
Trump is not president. You may want to up your medication.
From the NY Post: “The survey released Friday from the Harvard Center for American Political Studies (CAPS)-Harris Poll found that 62% of Americans believed Putin would not have pulled the trigger if Trump were still president, The Hill reported.”
k:
Finally you make a true statement. Congratulations.
And, if you haven’t noticed, neither are Clinton or Obama. But they aren’t singing the praises of putin like trump is, and has been since 2016.
Maybe you should adjust your HCQ and Ivermectin dosage.
Trump has lived in the White House, many mansions, and skyrise hotels.l in his life time. Yet he has never lived in more spacious accomodations than Leroy’s empty head.
Oh nord.
Obma….Putin took Crimea
Trump… Putin did nothing.
Biden….Putin takes Ukraine.
Democrats are weak and impotent. Keep your eye on the facts, not the squirrels in your head.
k:
And what would you know about facts, Mr. 6000 YO Earth?
And Lyibg Karen Le Roi just admitted he is wrong by attacking a person’s religion and not bringing up any facts.
Troll Boy strikes again.
Wrong again, mar. I didn’t attack his religion, I questioned his habitual misuse of the word “facts”. Proof of that is the “?” at the end of the sentence. A highly educated guy like yourself should have picked up on that.
Meanwhile; as freedom loving Ukrainians are fighting for their lives and country, 45 is whining about the Canadian PM. You think maybe putin sent him the script? (Note the ? at the end of the sentence).
Just another bullshit lie, Pervert Boy Le Roi. Y you attacked his religion.
And racist Blackface Trudeau (you have a lot in common with Black Face, Le Roi) ran away from his city because of some honking trucks and a bouncy house.
But the Ukrainian president is staying put during the war. Black Face Trudeau is about as brave as Senile Joe, Lying Karen Le Roi and General William Hull.
Yet you worship at the feet of the orange-faced cadet bone spurs. Or do you, as cadet bone spurs, now pledge allegiance to putin?
Lear to write Lying Karen Le Roi. Who were you addressing that to?
Should be “learn”
>Or do you, as cadet bone spurs, now pledge allegiance to putin?
Question mark or not, that’s a lie. For as outraged as you appeared between Jan 2017 and Jan 2021 with the supposed lies told by 45, you sure do lie a lot more.
Le Roi is a total idiot? Le Roi, may be able to read, but he can’t comprehend? A question mark means these were not attacks or insults? Will I take English lessons from lyin’ Le Roi? I can’t respect someone’s intelligence and political savvy, but dislike him/her and there policies intensely MHM Maley? Le Roi questions what Kevin knows about facts one comment after literally congratulating for making a true statement aka fact?
Does this make any more sense than Le Roi or Maley?
I feel like a 60s Batman narrator…
International Relations and Geography For Dummies, by Kamala Harris.
“Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine so basically that’s wrong.”
Well, it was nice that Senile Joe stands with the Iranian people but apparently not the Ukrainian people.
Pervert Boy Lying Karen Le Roi blathers how Putin controls President Trump.
Well, I might be wrong, but I don’t it was Trump who took a $3.5 million bribe from the wife of a former Moscow, Russia, not Idaho, former mayor.
As we seeing, a sack of potatoes is still smarter than Senike Joe, Sloppy Seconds Kamala and Lying Karen Le Roi combined.
But I changed my mind about Putin, he certainly is smarter than those above but he is also very evil, the devil’s second coming.