Senator Graham visited Ukraine and made an ass of himself, proving he do so on multiple continents. I have a suggestion that would fix the problem.
Lindsey Graham, Visiting Kyiv, Urges Ukraine to Pass Mobilization Law
The Washington Post reports Lindsey Graham, Visiting Kyiv, Urges Ukraine to Pass Mobilization Law.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called on Ukrainian lawmakers Monday to quickly pass a mobilization bill that would make more citizens eligible to be drafted into the military, and he sharply questioned exempting men under 27 from the fight.
Graham called for the swift legislative action — even as U.S. lawmakers remain unable to reach their own consensus on aid for Ukraine — while visiting Kyiv, his first trip to the Ukrainian capital since he abruptly turned against a $60 billion aid package for the country last month.
As he issued his advice on the draft, Graham, who met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday, could offer no true assurances about the pending aid package, instead telling reporters that he is “more optimistic than I’ve ever been that something will get out of the House pretty soon.”
Although citizens can voluntarily join the military starting at age 18, and men between 18 and 60 are banned from leaving the country under martial law, the draft has until now protected younger men — many of whom are students — from being forcibly mobilized.
“I would hope that those eligible to serve in the Ukrainian military would join. I can’t believe it’s at 27,” he told reporters Monday. “You’re in a fight for your life, so you should be serving — not at 25 or 27.”
Backlash Underway
Newsweek reports Lindsey Graham Faces Backlash Over Ukraine Mobilization Call
Graham, who has voted against the deal over concerns about the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, said on Monday, “If you want aid to Ukraine, you’d better start talking to American taxpayers.”
In response, Eric Chenoweth, director at the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe, posted on X: “Graham interferes with the carrying out of US foreign policy by negotiating directly with Zelensky.
“He undermines a sitting president on behalf of a former president promising to abandon Ukraine if re-elected. Again: we haven’t grappled w/ the success of Russian active measures.”
Graham criticized slow deliveries of U.S.-provided long-range ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile Systems) saying they “should have been here yesterday,” so that Ukrainian force could “knock the damn bridge down linking Crimea to Russia.”
Graham voted against aid to Ukraine but criticized slow deliveries of weapons.
That makes sense in some alternate universe somewhere.
Can you imagine if some foreign politician came to South Carolina and lectured the US or Senator Graham on policy?
I’ve Changed My Mind on Aid to Ukraine
I now support aid to Ukraine if Senator Graham and all the Senators who support aid personally lead the charge.
I suggest we put Graham on horseback with a sword and a Ukrainian flag to lead the other Senators into battle.
GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna wants to Force Members of Congress to Fight on the ‘Front Lines’ in Ukraine if they support the Schumer-backed $60 bILLION taxpayer dollars in military support to counter Russia
- Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that without Ukraine fighting, the U.S. could have boots on the ground to fight Russia in Eastern Europe
- Members who advocate for military support to Ukraine would have to serve ‘not fewer than six months to active duty in support of a contingency operation’
- The U.S. has offered over $75 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s invasion
I fully endorse the proposal by Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. Yes, I am serious.
And I want Senator Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer to lead the bipartisan charge.
If we could go back in time and apply the same principle to Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, and Syria we would not have been involved in any of those misguided wars.
McCain’s “Legacy” Lives On
On August 26, 2018, I wrote McCain’s “Legacy” Lives On: What “Legacy” Is That?
McCain’s Legacy
- In the 15-year war in Afghanistan wasting over a trillion dollars.
- In drone policy, where the US military gets to act as prosecutor, judge and jury, where innocent lives are tossed aside as “collateral damage”.
- in support of useless weapons systems like the F-35 that McCain supported.
- In asinine foreign policy in Syria and Iran.
- In hypocrites and comedians like Kathy Griffin singing the praise of McCain.
- In mainstream media looking the other way when thousands of innocent children are killed in Yemen.
- In support of torture programs despite McCain himself being tortured.
- In support of holding people with no charge in prisons in Cuba.
- In support of meddling in Ukraine while accusing Russia of meddling in the US.
- In support of sanctions that kill or harm innocent people.
What’s the Real Background Story Behind Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?
On February 24, 2022, I discussed The Real Background Story Behind Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.
What Happened in Ukraine?
The mess today in Ukraine has its roots in the 2014 when democratically elected Ukrainian President Yanukovych was toppled in a US-backed coup.
Q: Why did the US want to get rid of Yanukovych?
A: Because he was against Ukraine joining NATO.
McCain dined with Svoboda Party leader Oleg Tyagnibok. The Svoboda Party is a group of neo-Nazis.
The citizens of Ukraine were used as pawns in yet another US mission that backfired.
Well who cares about Neo-Nazis as long as they want Ukraine in NATO.
And that’s the rest of the story US media will not discuss.
This no way absolves Putin, but US meddling backfires again, and again, and again.
US Meddling
US meddling made a mess in Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syria, Israel, and damn near every place we have meddled.
The way to stop meddling is to impose a severe penalty of those who support such actions. Guess what. Meddling would stop instantaneously.
I propose Lindsey Graham should stay in Ukraine and lead the charge. Senator Chuck Schumer should join him Graham on the front line.
We cannot afford these idiotic wars and history suggests we should not try even if we could afford them. We wasted trillions upon trillions of dollars and all we have done is make more enemies.
Regarding recent foreign policy meddling, please consider What If Netanyahu Said Biden is Too Old and Should Drop Out?
Lindsey Graham used to be a name.. but is no more.. he’s up for sale though! He should just keep his mouth shut about the Ukraine.. we know how his broken and unsteady party feels about them.
These topics I believe Mish understands history wrong. I see strong doubts that we wanted Ukraine Pres. Yanukovich overthrown. Our Pres. Obama was opposed to such sentiments and acting on them. And exactly what part of what happened made it a “coup”? Ukraine’s parliament in response to the crisis scheduled early elections. Before another day had passed Yanukovich fled.
We should be concerned that so often our “meddling” backfires. And that even when we weren’t involved we are accused of meddling. What to do? I am pretty sure the furthest anti-American anti-war “isolationists” can provide suggestions. Refuse to fight for the powers that be who run this country. And go further than that, “recognizing” that the war we most need to be involved in is a second revolution to make effective fixes that Critical (Race) Theory complains against us. (/is it sarcasm?)
Perhaps the battle we most need to remember is the Civil War battle of Ball’s Bluff. In it the Union advanced across the Potomac, was checked and driven back into the Potomac. Col. Sen. Edward Baker, part of the Union command, died in the battle, the only Congressman to die in battle. Many of the union dead drowned in the Potomac, and their bodies floated down to Washington DC for the next several days.
“Understands history wrong”
ROFL
It’s a simple concept to grasp: how about the USA stop going all over the world overthrowing governments and destroying countries?
But you are IQ challenged, obviously
Anyone that does not understand the truth Mish has written on this subject should go watch the videos of Neocon Lindsey and John McCain giving pep talks to the Ukrainian Nazi’s back in 2014 when they started being used as cannon fodder to weaken Russia so the Nutjob Neocons and mother WEFers could take over Russia and asset strip their natural resources, just as Armstrong wrote in his book, “The Plot to Seize Russia”, which failed with the predicted collapse of the rubble and LTCM – link to armstrongeconomics.com.
Today, Blackrock has taken the place of LTCM, as they hope to make money rebuilding Ukraine and exploiting the vast natural resources in Russia. Ditto for the Middle East, where Genie Energy (think Dick Cheney) hopes to exploit bigger oil & gas fields than the Haus of Saad, and Israel wants to build a canal to replace the Suez, which just happens to go through Gaza. It’s also no coincidence that Russian pipelines go through Ukraine and Syria, or that money was on the move prior to 9/11, Ukraine, and the Gaza attack.
None of these Nutjobs in the WEF, NATO, and western govt’s are seeking peace because they need war for their own selfish reasons, which includes a distraction for the debt Ponzi scheme that will reach the end of its rope when new buyers of govt debt cannot be found to roll the old debt that was never intended to be paid off, which is coming fast because the biggest buyers (foreign govts) are not as blind as the Americans who don’t even understand how the game is played or know where the funding comes from to pay for the bogus promises of politicians.
Those that think kicking Russia out of SWIFT or confiscating their assets, or threatening the biggest buyers of our debt with war will not have sever consequences for the US have a VERY myopic view of the world, which is why I say they live in the Truman Show and are easily manipulated by propaganda. If you don’t want to do the research, at least do NOT trust ANYTHING coming from western Govt’s and their surrogates in the media.
Thank you Mish for great article exposing the hypocrisy of our leaders.
Leaders should be in the front line absolutely to stop human slaughter.
Inject some truth into the lies:
“The former chief of the Polish general staff said that Ukraine’s losses are estimated at “millions, not hundreds of thousands.”
“More than 10 million people are missing. According to my estimates, losses should be in the millions, not hundreds of thousands. The country has no resources, no one to fight. Ukrainians are losing this war,” said Raimund Andrzejczak in an interview with Polsat News.”
I’m not sure where he gets these numbers, from my readings I estimate Ukrainian losses at 600K dead now and 1,000K wounded, while according to the BBC, Russiain losses are about 50KIA and 300K wounded, maintaining the same ratio band, more or less, since the start of the war,of about 8 to 12 Ukro KIA for each Russian death. If you look at past wars, the ratio is usually around 1.5 to 1.75: 1 or less. The ratio is skewed higher here because of mass Russian use of artillery, and aviation bombs, and Ukraine suffers more deaths and less wuunded out of their total because of less effective medevac systems. This ratio is usually assumed to be 1 KIA to 3 wounded out of total losses.
I have no use for Ukrainians, but even I am almost feeling sorry for them at this point. OTOH if Ukrainians had any brains, they would have known they could not win a war with Russia, despite all NATO’s false promises, and should have never started it in the first place. But when you volunteer to fight America’s proxy war, you can expect it will end badly for you.
that number is total population not military total:/
America’s Favorite War Monger Closet Homosexual Senator.
All Lindsey needs is a Biden “Come to Jesus” moment since Lindsey’s biggest donor are the Jews:
link to opensecrets.org
Which “Jews” do you refer to. There are really good Jews & really evil ones. IMHO, it takes a good Jew to take on a bad one because they’re so highly intelligent.
Many appear to be idiot savants because their behavior always gets them in trouble and then they begin their endless whine.
Death and Debt. Certainly Ukraine in NATO will alleviate both.
Death + Debt= US Meddling
What a horrible post WWII legacy.
I wish someone would put him jail. he probably would like it. evil man.
Am I having trouble reading today, or is that “27” a typo for “17” or something. Kinda hard to figure out the idea that a military draft exempts males under 27. That sounds like leaving water out of your soup.
27 is correct – Graham wants Ukraine to start drafting at 25
It is a pity that we do not have a national referendum process. (It would be best if any such referendum required 2/3rds of the popular vote to pass.) I think congress would soon be in a very defensive mode.
Excellent assessment Mish.
Pension funds and MMF change of behavior.
They were supposed to invest in x3 markets to reduce risk, but they invested 80%/90% in the Grande7 with a lot of sugar and cream. From now on they will diversify. The Nasdaq might get up to 40%/50%. That doesn’t mean that AAPL will not rise again. The regional banks might benefit the most from this rotation, for fun & entertainment only.
S&P 500 notches record close today! Even though I got burned by PUTs on housing, I am a knucklehead and a glutton for punishment so I’m shorting SPY. Loading up on SPY Puts for Sept 2024 expiry.
Let’s hope this train doesn’t get derailed and JPOW doesn’t let me down again. Choo! Choo!
Watching Bloomberg and they are all pretty bullish. They say rates are not restrictive. A small business survey said they are not having issues in paying back loans even with higher rates as inflation lets them charge more an their customers are paying.
Also, the median Checking and savings accounts are 40% higher than in 2019 and are not dropping.
Blue chip corporations issued a record amount of bonds in January thus current rates are not restrictive otherwise they would try to wait to the so called rate cuts.
BAC CEO was on Bloomberg and said a year ago they were forecasting a recession right now but instead, he says we will see GDP growth in 2024.
My #1 rule for trading is DO NOT TRADE RIGHT BEFORE A FED MEETING.
So why have I gone full crazy and broken all my rules?
I read this article on WSJ talking about how a clueless reporter scored 2000% returns doing 0DTE trading.
link to wsj.com
I associate that with the 1929’s shoe shine kid giving stock tips. We are at full bubble right now. My timing could be off, it was off with home builders so I may be wrong again but we’re getting close to a pop.
I am gambling the Fed may surprise markets, not with a hike, but with new language about inflation or something else.
I keep writing, “It’s turtles all the way down and inflation all the way up” and it signifies that we are in a Fed infinite regress state. The local economy rests on the Fed, the national economy rests on the Fed, the global economy rests on the Fed. Perhaps the whole galaxy and universe now rest on the Fed. It’s turtles (Fed) all the way down and we all know that state is impractical and impossible.
I only bought a dozen contracts so I won’t lose more than $1k as of today if I’m wrong. If I’m right, could be $200k+ profits.
I’m dreaming dreams,
I’m scheming schemes,
I’m building castles high.
They’re born anew,
Their days are few,
Just like a sweet butterfly.
And as the daylight is dawning,
They come again in the morning.
..
Fortune’s always hiding,
I’ve looked everywhere,
I’m forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.
At what strike price?
I am banking/betting on a 40% correction to SPY.
Careful, I suggest researching Russel Napier’s predictions for the last few years, and coming years.
He foresaw sticky inflation despite the Fed and a strong jobs market, most economists thought he was nuts.
I did try to warn you against shorting builders… I think Dave was in that too.
Bank of Japan raised rates today, first time in 17 years. I am expecting an inflation panic to hit soon. I’m not saying “It’s turtles all the way down and inflation all the way up” for giggles. It’s because we are entering a high inflation paradigm and mayhem will ensue.
link to cnbc.com
IN 17 years.
That is really strange news. Japan is in deflation mode all along.
Now it is predicting inflation ahead.
Again, check out Russell Napier. Buy EM’s with low debt.
Biden might order NY governor to fire Fatma James, order Merrick Garland to fire Jack Smith, Pepita de Mallorka (1956), release the Patriots, pardon Trump and support Israel & Ukraine bc he loves of Lara Trump.
His biggest donor is a Jewish organization despite being Baptist. Really shows where his loyalty is. Not with his own religion and not with his own country.
Yanukovich was a thug who stole elections, ordered the police to shoot unarmed demonstrators, and, in the end, literally run away to Russia. That said, the US never had the leverage or power in Ukraine to chase a Putin-backed Yanukovich away in 2014. It was the people of Ukraine who did it. All this stuff that MAGA uses to flood the zone is just barely warmed-up Putin propaganda. Why MAGA is in Putin’s pocket is (for me) a mystery.
You seem to be the ONLY one ever accusing Yanukovich of stealing elections in Ukraine….. Your gangster b$tch Vicky Nuland-Fck the EU and idiot Mc Cain were in Kiev at the time handing out cookies to the demonstrators. Blackwater mercenaries paid by the CIA were there too, surreptitiously raising hell, so was our corrupt Guy Verhofstadt standing on the barricades promising EU membership to Kiev while not one single EU member actually wanted basketcase Whorekraine to be a a member of the EU circus…. but thats what democracy is all about I presume…. You know what Albert ? You are a fn ignorant fool , that s what you are !
If you really believe this crap, I have $399 sneakers to sell to you. But I guess you are just trolling around.
He’s been trolling this blog for years, at one point admitted he’s Russian.
sure, a Russian born from 100% flemish ancestors….LOL ….Btw, one does t have to be Russian to be equipped with some common sense and being critical of our so called democratic leaders. In Belgium for example, our prime minister’s s political party, VLD, got 9% of votes in the last elections and yet mr De Croo is our fckn “president” France’s president , now trying to literally call the shots in the outrageous Whorekraine debacle, has lost all popularity in France. Who elected European president b$tch Von der Leyen ? Moron Charles Michel ? Drunk Borrell ? And yet we think we are in a moral position to criticize and judge Putin? Like I said, no need to be Russian to understand how we are being bamboozled by our corrupt bastards in our utopical ‘fantastic, Western world’ of total delusion…..
^ liar
The question is why do you believe all the crap put out on the MSM? Anyone who was paying attention knows that the Maidan Revolution was orchestrated by the CIA with Victoria Nuland as cheerleader. $5 billion taxpayer dollars were spent for this outcome. Money flushed down the drain. Time for every American Patriot to say F@ck the neocons! Enough of their horse shit. This country has serious problems at home. We don’t need to be foment problems abroad.
Man.. I remember the cookies thing.. you’ve got it wrong man
Where is Tsar Bomba aimed at?
Stop lying Ukronazi supporter vermin
I have one request of Mish, regarding this statement –
“Ukrainian President Yanukovych was toppled in a US-backed coup. “
Provide evidence, beyond “Putin said…”
If you cannot provide evidence, in effect, you’re parroting foreign propaganda.
You must not have been following current events at the time. The U.S. was heavily involved in engineering a change of government in 2014. Nuland had her hands all over it. Absolutely qualifies as a “U.S. backed coup”.
Fri 7 Feb 2014 “The assistant US secretary of state, Victoria Nuland, has apologised after her phone conversation about the political crisis in Ukraine was leaked on the internet. The call between Nuland and a US ambassador focused on the future of the country if it gains a new government. Nuland declined to comment on ‘private diplomatic conversations’”
This is the answer I was hoping Mish would provide.
The Nuland dissent was strictly her opinion against Zelenski’s brother, whom she felt wasn’t the right person for political office (A boxer by trade).
He went on to win his election and has proven to be a great leader in the years since, especially in the time after Putin’s invasion.
The only thing that proves is that Nuland is opinionated, arrogant, a Karen in government.
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Close but slightly off target. Nuland was involved all right to prepare the ground for demonstrations which were to coincide with the Olympics.
But it was Biden and Obama who did the heavy lifting.
link to nbcnews.com
Obama called Putin with an offer to calm the situation. Putin said, all right. Apparently, the word calm means different things, because the following day the US went ahead with the coup…
How long have you been on Mars for ? I won t say on the moon, for it becomes more obvious by the day that nobody ‘s ever been there….
Were you ever able to get your rubles after SWIFT shut down in Russia?
How do you think other countries responded to kicking Russia out of SWIFT or confiscating assets of Russian citizens? Do you think it’s helpful to the US when the capital around the world that’s needed for growth get’s off the grid? You live in the Truman Show with no understanding of how the world is connected or what enables peace and prosperity (everyone benefiting).
We don’t know what goes on in secret behind closed doors. As Musk said most of the conspiracy theories about Twitter, were true. Poland just let the cat out of the bag, that there are NATO troops in Ukraine. For a long time it was a secret that the Minsk Accord was a sham, until Merckle admitted it. There are things that are self evident even before they are admitted to. NDAA 2013 allows the U.S. government to propagandize to us. We are inundated with self serving U.S. government propaganda.
There are no NATO troops in Ukraine.
Musk is an idiot, parroting rumors.
There are NATO instructors there, they’re been there for over a decade, they’re non-combatant, drill instructors…etc.
^ liar
Call for a medivac.
I’ve been shot by an instructor.
^ liar
^Moron
Provide proof you are not insane
I’ll take that as “I have none”
If the future of your country is existential, then yes, everyone who can possibly fight should be drafted.
It doesn’t matter whether you personally believe in whatever wars you are in or if you believe that all wars are bad or disagree with your leaders, etc., etc.
Your politicians and/or rulers make the big decisions.
If you aren’t happy about your possible exposure to those decisions, then you should look to move elsewhere. A lot of young Russians did that. I hear that it is quite easy to enter the USA from the southern border without any ID or papers.
As Goering said, that is the way the government plays the routine. The majority of people fall for it. They get played, to their detriment. There allegedly were negotiations to end the war in 2022, a few months after the invasion began. Boris Johnson thwarted the negotiations. I’ve read a claim that Nixon thwarted Lyndon Johnson’s negotiations on Vietnam. Nixon’s plan to end the war with honor resulted in four more years of casualties and ended with South Vietnam falling to the North Vietnamese.
When will Ukraine form Children’s Brigades? Over 80 Brigades? Why not Infant Brigades in armored baby carriages?
Ukraine and NATO have already been completely defeated, time to surrender before 0 Ukrainians are left.
You are so brave with other people’s lives!
Biden doesn’t know how to manage this country. He opened the southern border. He allowed Obama and the DOJ to run a regime change policy and prosecute Trump. Bernie runs finance. Nancy, Chuck and Obama open their mouths and run foreign policy. He is swinging in the wind incoherently. He hates criticism. He doesn’t prepare
a proper replacement. He is there to protect Hunter, his family and himself.
Lindsey’s solution will only result in more death, destruction, and displacement of innocent Ukrainians.
I stand with Mish and Anna Paulina – Let Chuck and Lindsey personally deliver the aid to the front lines.
This is new! Barely two days have passed since the last post on Ukraine and here we have another. It used to be once a week max. Should we now expect a Ukraine post a day?
See you tomorrow
This blog is better than Scott Ritter and col MickeyG blogs. They repeat the same anti Israel and the US bs twice a day. Chuck was infected by them.
Scott Ritter is pro US and anti Israel. I’m not a big Ritter fan but he’s consistent. Israel is not a friend of the US. They helped to assassinate JFK, the attacked the US Liberty, they knew about 9-11 and did’nt tell us, they leach off the American tax payer, all while spitting on Christains visiting the holy land.
Maybe, because it has the potential to become an escalating situation rapidly.
And, because the content was new.
It’s news when a US war-mongering U.S. Senator leaves the U.S., visits Kiev, and begins pushing more conscription upon Ukraine citizens and spending 75 billion more of U.S. taxpayer dollars. My math says that’s about $500 per taxpayer for just the additional spending. Perhaps you don’t like more stories that are highlighting it because you want more Ukraine spending and intervention. I’m okay with you contributing $500 for me in addition to your share.
Still, why are certaing folks/political parties trying to constantly squelch stories they don’t like, jail candidates they don’t want to face or censor ideas they oppose?
Wouldn’t it be just grand to debate and discuss ideas and let the better ideas, policy and candidates work their way to the top through discussion, legislation and election?
I often don’t read MSM or get a chance to go to Twitter and see what’s going on but I always read Mish, for 20+ years. If you don’t like the coverage of Ukraine when the topic at hand occurred yesterday and is timely, relevant and EXPENSIVE, it’s okay to dismiss it and wait for the next bit.
But for someone that didn’t care for it I see a vast number of comments from you. So, from the blogger’s perspective this IS the type of post that garners attention!
As N C says, “See you tomorrow”. And yes, I’ll read your comments as well as Militon Friedman, Papa Dave, MPOV42, etc.
I obviously differ in my views from you, but upvoted you for the civility.
Why not ?? In your position you probably don t like people to know what s going on, allegedly living in a democracy though, we definitely are entitled to know how we are being fooled and lied to by our (not so)elected corrupt idiots , aren t we ? CNN and the NYT won t tell us , so Mish is definitely doing a good job….THANKS MISH !
Just because you are paid to make comments here doesn’t mean that everyone who comments against you is a paid CIA agent. We just don’t think you are right.
“We”… who the F*ck is we? Is that the little UkroNazi mouse in your pocket Dougy Boy.
I hope the first Hypersonic nuclear missile flies right up your A$$.
Exactly. Why are these f-ing aholes pro war. They must be a tool of the MIC. Can’t understand any other reason they could support this.
If you are a young male Ukrainian, what are you fighting for? Why waste your life? Is Russia more corrupt or less democratic than Ukraine? Fighting for “freedom”? What “freedom”? Getting kidnapped off the street into almost certain death? Russia’s economy is doing well, Ukraine is flirting with hyperinflation. What’s the point?
You clearly know exactly Jack and Shite…and Jack left town.
Russia is massive oppressive, ruled by an iron fisted Dictator and has NO freedom of much of Anything anymore except to vote for Putin or fall out of high windows.
Have several friends and business contacts from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, some who lived here in the US, some who traveled here for business.
Putin is a scumbag and simply kills his political opponents.It’s night and day difference between Russia and Ukraine, which is why they’re fighting against imprisonment and death and torture.
If ya don’t know shite…stop flapping yer lips or clacking the keys.
Pretty sure there are plenty of political killings in Ukraine.
For that matter there are plenty here too. Just ask the families of those who have had relatives who have been the victim of Arkancide 🙂
“pretty sure” doesn’t sound like you have any proof to back up your statement.
The kettle calling the pot black. Sorry little Jojo can’t come out and play today.
One of the most corrupt regimes anywhere. Ranked as being more corrupt than Russia.
[rotflol]
Ukraine is so corrupt it makes Mexico look like Switzerland.
Now what exactly happened to JFK and Epstein? 🧐
CIA, Mossad, Jewish mob hit!
Ashli Babbitt comes to mind. But love the Arkancide reference!
Remind me again when Zelenski has scheduled elections in “democratic” Ukraine?
Very sad that people buy into the propaganda like you . Young men are dying by the thousands and others are dying from the collateral damage of war. These mostly young people are dying for what ? It doesn’t matter if they are Russian , Ukranian , Chinese or American it is a trajedy They want a peaceful life for the most part and have little choice in the matter . I leave you with this coming from a war criminal facing imminent execution but tells the truth more than the leaders that are running the countries today .
“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
― Hermann Goering, Germany Reborn
Goering must have been disappointed that Germany lost the war with all his belief that you can get people do whatever you want them to do and all that.
It sure certainly worked in 1914, which Goering witnessed. 3 years later in U.S. Sgt. York going after the nasty Kaiser.
Well, it leveled the whole goddamn country and left a big fucking chunk of it Commie, but you like the last part don’t cha Dougy.
Blah, blah, blah. About a thousand or more Ukrainians are killed every day in a futile war – that many Ukrainians know is pointless. Your ‘day and night’ is false.
You seem to have little to offer but empty insults and nonsense. Russia is objectively less oppressive than Ukraine. Zelensky refused any election unlike Putin. Russia has a better economy (IMF). Ukraine is flirting with demographic extinction according a number of experts, including internal ones. Surrendering Ukranians are asking not to be traded back to Ukraine (testimony today).
“You seem to have little to offer but empty insults and nonsense.”
Indeed, that’s you, here to promote a foreign adversary’s agenda and insult Americans opposed to violent invasions.
Are you going to fight the Russians? Apparently, you don’t want war as much as you say you want war. It’s not important enough for you to go and fight.
Show us on the doll where Putin touched you.
Even an American with a Ukrainian wife and children, Gonzalo Lira, was imprisoned by the Ukrainian government and killed just for saying things that have gradually been proven almost entirely true.
If you are a young male Russian, what are you fighting for? Why waste your life? Has Ukraine invaded Russia? No, so why are you fighting Ukrainians?
Best reply on this page.
The Eastern section of Ukraine IS Russia.
Kyiv is the Homeland of the Rus People.
People like you really are the worst form of ignorant fucktards.
Sadly, you and your buddy Frilton are living in the Truman Show constructed by the Neocons and NATO, who must promote the Russian boogieman to justify its existence. Don’t you realize that both Russia and China are no longer Communist? Communism died by its own economic collapse, just as is happening in the West now. When you crush freedom and liberty, you also crush the entrepreneur spirit and access to capital.
Your statement could be said about the US’s meddling since Vietnam, where even former Defense Secretary, Robert McNamara, explained that Vietnam was a big mistake, admitting they were wrong about thinking the Communist wanted to take over SE Asia. Even Johnson admitted we were shooting at whales in the Gulf of Tonkin –
link to armstrongeconomics.com.
It’s all been false flags to drag patriotic Americans into planned wars, as Goering warned. Why do you think Eisenhower warned about the MIC?
The US knew an attack was coming on the Lusitania, because Germany took out ads in US newspapers warning they would target it because it was transporting weapons to Britain. The US didn’t care about the passengers, just like they didn’t care about the people that died at Pearl Harbor or on 9/11, where the US was aware both attacks were coming. Do you not know that WMD’s were a lie?
Russia came to the defense of eastern Ukraine because the region is 95% ethnic Russians. You need to research the history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Nazi’s, who we didn’t prosecute after WWII because they also hated Russians. In fact, the CIA has been funding and training them ever since for the moment in 2014 when they were unleashed on the Donbas simply because they wanted to secede, as Crimea had done before hand.
The current plot by the mother WEFers to destroy the West to Build it Back “Better” using the Great Reset involves depopulating the planet and conquering Russia and China, as they would never go along with the insanity of One World Govt. Their people have already lived through Communism and have no interest in going back. Many in the US are too stupid because they’ve never lived through Totalitarian regimes, although they are now getting a glimpse – link to armstrongeconomics.com.
“Sadly, you and your buddy Frilton are living in the Truman Show constructed by the Neocons and NATO, who must promote the Russian boogieman to justify its existence.”
Tell me about Navalny
There will come a time when Russian war mongers are paraded in front of the ICC and sentenced to be executed for their war crimes.
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ICC issues arrest warrants for two top Russian commanders
By Stephanie van den Berg
March 5, 2024
THE HAGUE, March 5 (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for top Russian commanders Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov for suspected war crimes in Ukraine, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
The ICC, based in The Hague, said there were reasonable grounds to believe that the two were responsible for “missile strikes carried out by the forces under their command against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure from at least 10 October 2022 until at least 9 March 2023”.
“All wars have rules. Those rules bind all without exception”, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said, adding that he would continue to seek cooperation from Russia, which has so far refused to engage with the ICC.
This is the second set of warrants for the arrest of Russian officials related to the war in Ukraine.
Russia’s defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In March last year, the ICC issued warrants for the arrest of President Vladimir Putin and Children’s Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova on war crimes charges related to the abduction of Ukrainian children.
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link to reuters.com
Don’t hold your breath. Do you really expect some entity to enter Russia and forcefully extradite Russian nationals?
No, not unless they are beaten by Ukraine/NATO and dragged to justice.
But in the meantime, those with warrants are very limited as to where they can safely travel in the world and not face arrest. The warrant is one reason that Putin didn’t attend some big world leader meeting some months back and instead gave a speech via the internet.
These people also have to be careful whose airspace they fly over if they are traveling from one safe spot to another. I don’t recall the details but there was some political activist or reporter who was wanted by Russia? and was flying over a Russian satellite country. They forced his plane down in that country and took him off the plane.
Also, any money they have in the EU/USA is frozen.
It’s not peaches and cream to be named in such a warrant.
AGREE totally eighthman..
Ukraine = no freedom of the press
Ukraine = no freedom of religion
Ukraine – a cesspool or corruption and cronyism
Ukraine = no freedom of is
Ukraine = not a NATO member and never should be
The US and all fighting age men should get out and stay out!
Kudos to you! You brought your boy Kyle up in the right fashion!
If even 1% of these Ukraine supporters had even 1% of the courage and pluck as the average jihadi, Russia would’ve lost the war in 2022. But look at these guys.
” Is Russia more corrupt or less democratic than Ukraine?”
Yes, absolutely without question, in Russia, political assassination is now accepted practice by the public, political rivals accidentally die of poisoning, falls from windows and in prison.
Political protest is punishable by imprisonment, there is no freedom of the press.
Ukraine has it’s problems, but not like this.
Sounds almost as dangerous as the south side of Chicago.
In 2004, during the Orange Revolution, Putin told then-Ukraine president Kuchma to get the tanks out to roll over the pro-democracy demonstrators in the Maidan. Kuchma simply told Putin: Ukraine is not Russia.
Is Russia more corrupt and less democratic than the US? I’m not sure… but the MSM will surely tell you otherwise.
None of the candidates who ran against Biden are dead.
They’re fighting and dying for Blackrock, and RTX, Monsanto, DuPont, Cargill, and other Corporate American multinational companies. Women who put Ukraine flags on their facebook profiles and men who get Zelensky tramp stamps should just do the Blackrock logo instead.
Openly speak badly of Blackrock in America, you get a conversation.
Openly speak badly of ODP or Putin in Russia, you eat poison, accidentally.
I don’t think the F35 is a “useless weapons system”.
It’s actually quite good.
It’s not useless but it appears it’s rapidly becoming useless.
The last couple of years has shown that cheap drones do virtually everything expensive fighters do without risking lives. You can buy thousands (if not tens of thousands) of drones for the cost of a single fighter (and that’s before adding in maintenance costs and downtime when the plane is not available).
Future warfare won’t require many fighter planes but will instead increasingly use drone swarms.
Youtube is replete with footage of drones in action, some amazing stuff.
Read up on the “Jeune École Doctrine”. There are parallels.
UK to supply more than 10,000 drones to Ukraine
Ministry of Defence and The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP
7 March 2024
Britain steps up support to Ukraine today with a complete package of £325 million for cutting-edge drones to help fight Putin’s illegal invasion.
The investment, which will deliver more than 10,000 drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces will harness the UK’s world-leading defence industries to deliver advanced new drone capabilities to Ukraine throughout 2024.
The announcement was made today by the Defence Secretary during a visit to Ukraine, his third visit to the country. Accompanied by the Chief of the Defence Staff, he met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, where they reiterated their commitment to Ukraine.
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link to gov.uk
You can’t tell these CIA MIC Cheerleaders anything. And they will be in the bunkers safe and sound when the nukes start flying. They think that they and theirs will not only survive, but will thrive. These Folks aren’t meaningfully different in their beliefs than any other authoritarian socialists: including the National variant, which they fully back in Ukraine.
National socialists are a step up from the Soviet variety. If you want to be truely red pilled, you need to cast off all the lies surrounding WW2. I’d suggest you begin that journey by reading the book. “Twas a Famous Victory” by Benjamin Colby. Then you can proceed to the book “Gruesome Harvest”,
link to archive.org
Follow the MONEY . . . its spent by Washington and comes back to Washington . . . Nothing has changed in 75 years its just gotten worse and will eventually be the downfall . . . This will end badly because the WEST continues to underestimate PUTIN and RUSSIA . . . This time they are in IT for the long term . . . just like the CHINESE.
The USSR LOST and its power diminished and there are almost a dozen new free democracies because of that.
Russia will lose and break up too because they are way less powerful than the USSR at its peak. Get off yer arse and wake up son.
Russia and China are both democracies, just ask their presidents that got millions of votes! Same as USA, Biden gotz millions of votes!!
Oh look, it’s a visitor from “psychological operations” in support of the worst of America, the anti life ” welfare bums” comprising the US Military Welfare Tick Complex.
Rest assured they follow every word posted here.
Were the host – they’re the ticks. Look up a pic of that moose in Mass. with 100,000 ticks. It’s like that. Soon the Moose and the ticks will all be dead.
In totality US Mil.
A net drain on all accounts. Contribute nothing to anything.
Provide the means for mediocre people to replicate. Their replicants (military families) do the same.
Sucking the remaining life out of the US.
100% dependent upon the functional productive people to feed, house, clothe, medicate, pension and educate the Beetle Bailey loafers and tolerate the financial rape of the future to keep them going.
Their mangers must create endless enemies out of thin air / the spice must flow.
Endless propaganda is required to get the host to “thank the ticks for their service.”
The term is “”Parasitization”.
Nothing great about America has ever come out of the volunteer military. Farm boys in WW2 are nothing like this crew of lazy, unmotivated, uninspired, mediocre, shirking men and women. Not to mention their penchant for alcoholism.
I have ex military friends who will not disagree with any of this.
Graham hoping Ukrainian lawmakers lower age of conscription.
Zelensky hoping US Congress gives him $60 billion in weapons.
What could possibly go wrong with adding more fuel to an out-of control inferno?
Let’s not forget Russia tried to open peace negotiations in February and the United States refused preferring to simply spend hundreds of billions more and kill more 23 year old Ukrainians. Maybe Mr Graham should offer to be shot out of a cannon at strategic Russian targets. I mean we are low on munitions. Be a problem solver!
Gang breaks into your home, takes your wife & kids hostage, after 2 a day standoff they offer a compromise, you can keep some of your house and family.
Don’t be a warmonger, take the deal.
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False analogy. The next door neighbors were building a large arsenal and continuously creeping towards your yard after repeatedly promising not to.
Were they wearing suspicious-looking hoodies?
No, uniforms from NATO countries
Two countries get involved in a war. You can either mediate a peaceful settlement or spend hundreds of billions you don’t have to try to help one of the combatants regain a slice of territory that has no strategic significance to your own country while ensuring that massive numbers of people die.
And attempting a peaceful settlement is just outrageous. It’s much better to buy bombs and start world war 3 than find a peaceful path out.
Maybe you should join Senator Graham on the front lines to alleviate your war boner.
“And attempting a peaceful settlement is just outrageous. It’s much better to buy bombs and start world war 3 than find a peaceful path out.”
Erroneous use of the word “started”
As long as you, and people like you, want a convenient life free of fear, people like Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Kim Jong…will take.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
– Benjamin Franklin
So, Baker and Bush I promised when Germany reunited that NATO would go one inch to the east of the Elbe River. How has that worked?
NATO has now gone ALL THE WAY EAST!!!
Russia simply wanted to protect ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine while they were being massacred by actual fucking Nazis.
You really are a bitch aren’t you. Of course you already know this because you and your ilk have already sold your souls. You have no redeeming value.
Don’t forget Bush, Nuland, Clinton, etc.
There’s a 0% chance Frilton Miedman will go fight on the front lines. He’s not cut out of the same cloth as the jihadis who went to Afghanistan on their own dime and defeated the combined Russian & Ukrainian forces, and later on the combined American and Western European forces. Some men are talkers, some men are doers. “Ukraine supporters” are big talkers and their politicians are big spenders on losing wars, while jihadis quietly go win their war with rifles and homemade bombs.
I served my country.
I suspect you’re currently serving yours, at a desk, behind a computer.
Don’t forget that some people will say it’s your fault essentially because you exist and if you hadn’t existed then there would never have been a problem in the first place.
Except you’ve been beating and killing your own kids and the “gang” is Child Protection Services. According to the UN’s own numbers, thousands of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts, including hundreds of children, were killed by the Ukrainian government from 2014-2021.
The USA used the same justification to invade Iraq, that Saddam Hussein had killed a comparable number of Iraqi Kurds (with American chemical weapons and American support).
Actually, they sent a draft treaty proposal in Dec 2021 before this operation got started. They tried to get UA to implement UN Res 2202 (Minsk), which has the force of international law. Twice they got the LDNR militia’s to halt operations (Debaltseva & Ilovaisk) when they had the UA army surrounded. They warned in 2008 in Munich. US diplomats have understood since the reunification of Germany that expanding towards Russia’s Western border, let alone stationing NATO gear in UA, is the reddest of red lines. They 2× refused Russia as a member in the European Security Architecture (NATO) in 1956 and 2001.
Clearly the US does not want peace.
Hell, the plans for the “redevelopment” of Sebastopol were circulating in 2013 already.
From the guy who doesn’t have his own skin in the game.
Maybe Defense Contractors donations are what really– is at stake?
Wonder why the US economy is motoring on? Just look at this chart of Federal spending. We have credit card prosperity! Enjoy it while it lasts. This isn’t going to end well.
link to fred.stlouisfed.org
Meanwhile, the C-suite executives’ effective tax rates for the beneficiaries of that spending is single digit.
Lindsey Graham is a disgusting war mongering creep (much like his boy friend John McCain). I like Mish’s suggestion of having limp wristed Linsey leading the troops. I’m sure if he had to, he’d be a peacenik.
“I now support aid to Ukraine if Senator Graham and all the Senators who support aid personally lead the charge.”
And all military age males in their immediate and extended families. What is good for the young gooses in Ukraine is good for the old ganders like Lindsey Graham.
Lindsey will goose the ganders.
Graham is a reptile.
Gen Z & Millennials all over europe are LINING-UP to fight Lindsey’s war, right?
Shouldn’t Lindsey be stationed in Odessa + leading by example?
Will Graham co-sign for Ukraine’s pending “loan”?
What’s the difference between Ukraine and any other war? Those who start them never fight. It’s never the farmer or factory worker of any country that starts wars. What possible benefit does war bring the citizens of any country? The best outcome for the average person is to come home alive and well with a family still waiting for them; at least in the past, a soldier could plunder the battlefield.
This is the problem with republics: people like Graham get rich off of war and never fight or have children that go to the wars they start. And the rest of us must put our lives in danger at the pleasure of the elected leaders. Not to mention pay for conflicts. I want to vote on sending cash to Ukraine or sending kids to die. DC is full of Grahams drooling at the prospect of war.
Your first paragraph is actually almost identical to what Hermann Goering told Gustave Gilbert when Goering was a prisoner in Nuremburg:
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”
Your statement reminds me of a Goring quote
“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”― Hermann Goering
Back in the Bush years, there was a web site-“chickenhawk.com”. On this page one could learn how their favorite politician dodged the draft. Most were unfit for service like Biden and Trump. What a country, the least are forced to serve while the dodgers send them to war.
Lindsay already owns an AR15 so just give him a full magazine and drop him on the line. Chuck is a fierce critic of the 2nd Amendment, mostly due to Mike Bloomberg Bucks, so we need to supply him with an AR15 along with one full mag. Then drop him next to Lindsay. Why not give them more ammo? Well, we don’t want to supply the Russians … Nothing is ever clear cut in great power competitions but it is without doubt that the American Empire is often at odds with the United States. I am a citizen of the United States, not an Imperial subject.
I suggest that all their offspring also all be given an AR15 + 1 mag to fight along side them.
Can you imagine if some foreign politician came to South Carolina and lectured them on their policies?
I am going to add that to my post. I said the same thing the other day about Israel
I think Zelensky came to US and lectured Congress on policy and walked away with a lot of cash. He even got a standing ovation from Congress and the adoration of our press .
The difference is Zelensky was praising policy supported by the Biden administration.
Zelensky, sure
But much more significantly: Every Israeli head of state for the past 50 years.
Of course: As opposed to The Dumbest Lindsey Ever Born, those guys are at least mostly quite good at their jobs. Good enough to set up their moronic American counterparts to take every fall for them, in their ever more desperate quest to defy all possible reality, in fact.