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The GOP is already blaming Biden. Drumpf has stated Putin is doing the right thing. Fox News is on Putin's side. Republicans no longer believe in or support democracy.

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It seems like a time machine just put us in 1939..

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I strongly agree, but have to mention that it's asking a lot from a nation (a) that can't be bothered to get vaccinated, mask up and take other reasonable precautions in the face of a public health crisis, and (b) where republican authoritarianism is accorded equal dignity to, um, legitimate public discourse. Not optimistic here.

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You can add to the list "doesn't believe in and/or give a sh*t about climate change either." OMG, this country!

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I think Trump et al have amply demonstrated they are not going to back any measures coming from Biden. They are certainly not Ukrainians, let alone Americans. I think "traitors" best typifies them. They are as deranged as Putin.

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Some are. But this may fracture the GOP a bit. Too much cognitive dissonance for reptile brains.

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I like the question: whose side are YOU on? I intend to ask it frequently, especially with elections going on right now. It would make a great bumper sticker or billboard.

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Im guessing, if the sanctions are hard enough, that Putin has a week to make this happen, then between the body bags, no money, no food, and a latent, but emerging Russian resistance will take care of the situation

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I think Putin agrees with you. He's already got his goons on the streets arresting anti-war demonstrators in Moscow and elsewhere. He know the whole thing could fall apart. Russia has always been a house of cards. The fall of the Soviet Union should have taught us that.

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Desperately hoping that Biden gets the seriousness of the situation better than Merrick Garland . . .

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Not wild about the Alamo reference, given that the Americans were by and large enslavers who were in conflict with the Mexicans who were abolitionists. Otherwise, yeah- make hard for Russians to interact in any way with the West.

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Amen to every word of this, Lucian.

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Does this make the orange one and his Republican followers traitors?

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Yup, but they already were 😡‼️

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For the record Matt Romney warned that Russia is the biggest geopolitical threat facing the west. Will He rally what’s left of the Republican Party to achieve a national unified consensus?

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What concerns me about Biden's talk today is that he did not emphasize the will of the Ukrainian defense forces. Whenever i see Biden speak i have the same feeling i had the first time i let go of my kid's seat without training wheels. Just hoping he gets from one place to another without a wreck. Not sure that Joe delivered today.

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Biden at press conference when asked if this is going to create another Cold War: “It’s going to be a cold day for Russia.”

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LKT4 for President!

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He's too well qualified. State or Defense maybe?

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No we are not Ukrainians nor are we slaves to NATO expansion…the thing the morons in the deep corrupt state want most: Republicans and Democrats. Russian should not have to live with NATO missiles on its border. How would we feel if Mexico had Russian missiles?

On that thought we might feel good if someone eliminated 50% of our South a de border slime….Amlo are you listening?

But the neocon foreign policy created by Ivy League skime ~~ever the toilet…serves no one unless they be in the permanent state. Remember the ever GD stupid military haven’t won’t war since Grenada….West Point sissies march, salute …think left and have toadies tie their failed slipper shoes…..How many of our foreign policy experts have dual citizenship?

I could write a thesis on this body of official lies…but life is short….and sometimes the truth wins….and sometimes the corrupt skime who run things should remember they are mortal and that in a peasant revolt dying is not fun……just some thoughts. Love is all ya need.

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