Coffeesforclosers

Fun fact. The overwhelming majority of the votes against the EU embargo of Russia came from Communist and Fascist parties. Don't you just love it when Tankies and Brownshirts get together to declare their hatred of liberty? But hey, if anything will get them into bed together, it's the idea that Might Makes Right.

The EU Parliament just voted for a total fossil fuel embargo of Russia. I have no idea if it's binding (leaning strongly towards no), but that's quite the 180 from 8 weeks ago. Angela Merkel looks less and less like a pragmatist, and more and more like a fool every day. Putin thinks he wins because he's the only guy on the planet that believes in something besides peace and profits. Like any good fascist, he's just enough of a left win nutcase to hate capitalism and indiviualism, and just enough of a right wing nutcase to believe in he can slaughter his way back in time to a past Russia where everything was traditional and awesome.

I don't get the B-Man thing. He only posts tweets or retweets. He doesn't seem to have any original opinions and rarely if ever discusses things with anybody. I'm pretty sure he's a bot.

Russia's going further and further down the rabbit hole. The only way they can think of to get out of this is through slaughter, torture and deportations. Not that any of this is new, it was the Tsar's SOP the Communists' SOP, now it's Putin's SOP. Everybody is waiting for a big offensive by Russia, aimed at a breakthrough somewhere near Izyum. We'll see, hopefully nothing comes it. Ukraine's been pretty wily so far and punched far, far above their weight, but it ain't over until it's over.

Putin's savvy, calculating strategic genius at work. Letting your enemy know that if you stop fighting, you'll be murdered, and your wife and children will be raped and/or murdered, or tortured and imprisoned.

When St. Javelin appears, all Russian tanks take off their hats.

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

Obliged. So who are you looking for to lead? Who benefits from leading might be the better question.

It's not though, and the stakes are too high. Tsar Vladimir the Insane cannot lose, nor can he allow anything that looks like Ukraine winning. Ukraine likewise cannot lose, because then Russia will slaughter, torture and brainwash Ukrainians until nothing of the people or the country is left. Nukes buy Russia time, in the sense that they'll have to do something even worse than Irpin or Bucha to get us and Europe to throw down directly. India isn't strong enough, and China's happy doing nothing, though what good that does them is anybody's guess. We're in. We've already picked a side, and no 3rd Party has the combination of balls, guns and power to knock us, Europe's or Russia's heads together. We're all too big, too rich and too dangerous. Which means the war ends when somebody loses. Which I obviously hope is Russia.

I agree, but it doesn't seem likely, not with the fallout of Bucha, Irpin and the rest of Russia's atrocities still settling. Russian opinion also seems to be hardening in favor of the war. Which is what you'd expect when people have the choice between "we're just victims, woe is us" propaganda and confronting what their army is actually doing. Russian state propaganda is turning whole hog in support of a Holodomor style genocide. Their message is the only way Ukraine could be fighting this hard is because all Ukrainians have embraced Nazism. Therefore, all 44 million of them are fair targets for torture, reeducation, deportation or slaughter. I'm going to ahead and check back into Marco Rubio's Twitter, because I don't think he's been wrong yet on predicting Russia's strategy of murder and/or replacement of Ukraine's people with loyal Putinists. Their heads are screwed on so backwards they thing Zelensky is a Jewish globalist Nazi American Anglo-Saxon puppet. Which just goes to show they have no idea what those individual words mean, except to describe things they don't like.

Why give them that much credit, given their biases? The truth is that any people, any where have the right to defend their country to the death. Whether they want to or not is their choice. Saying one side has won and the other side has been ground to bits isn't saying surrender explicitly. Just like how Jesus told Judas "whatever you have to do, do it quickly" didn't explicitly say "Go betray me to the Romans". The founding fathers had no rational reason for rebelling against the British. They were all rich, respected, and if you compared their financial and military resources against the British, they didn't have a prayer. But they did it anyway.

Meh, we can beat anybody except the Colts, and KC from time to time. KC without Hill is a whole different animal on offense so we'll see about that too. We should be favored in 95% of our games, with 11-13 wins a year minimum.

That's a more than reasonable concern, and I'm inclined to give Zelensky the benefit of the doubt *for now*. In light of the massacres that are being uncovered in Bucha and the rest of Kyiv Oblast's towns and villages, I hope he keeps a level head.

I was talking about how our leaders were obviously intimidated by Putin and his military hardware, and nobody predicted Russia's weakness or incompetence. What are you talking about?

The quote is from Col. Douglas MacGregor. He didn't say it was time for peace, he said it was time for peace because Ukraine has been ground to bits. I did get his rank wrong. “The war is really over for the Ukrainians,” Macgregor continued. “They have been grounded to bits. There’s no question about that despite what we report on our mainstream media. So the real question for us at this stage is, if there is an agreement, Tucker, are we going to live with the Russian people and their government? Or are we going to continue to pursue this sort of regime change dressed up as Ukrainian war?” Of course, which is why I said we didn't need Posobiec's "spin" in my post. Zelensky fired two generals, Jack said he "purged" them. Did he add anything meaningful to the article's content, or provide an insight with his retweet text?

I'd ask why you bother posting Jack Posobiec's useless opinions and spin, but it's a useless exercise. Like that General Tucker Carlson had on that said a week ago "Russia has won, Ukraine has been ground down to nothing, it's time for peace". Almost like Ukraine has a "duty to retreat" or something...

There are now videos of Russians panic buying gas in Belgorod, along with other essentials. They don't know what kind of fuel depot was hit, and they're afraid of it happening again. Lines of cars bumper to bumper for blocks.

The infuriating thing is that three presidential administrations (Bush II, Obama, Trump) bought into Russia's bluffing and bull####. It took Ukraine's resistance to show that Russia is a kleptocracy run by a con man who's started believing his own lies. How did we not kick these guys to the curb years ago, instead of inflating them to supervillain proportions. *****.

So the Ukrainian 93rd Mechanized Brigade just destroyed 4th Guards Tank Division and drove the remnants over the border. That's Russia's premier tank unit taken care of, and with it, Russian control of the territory between Sumy and Kharkiv.

I'm not a military man, but generally...it's bad when you're dug in, reinforced with tanks and APCs, and you still get overrun, right? Don't look now, but Ukrainian counter attacks are breaking the sieges of Chernhiv and Sumy. Hopefully they're completely successful. Mariupol though is still pretty *****.

Contrarian...more like too smart by half. With the way the rules are, it's harder and harder to win with size. But the Pats keep trying.

Rush of blood to the head. Russia can't win, but Ukraine can still lose given enough Russian brutality.

You know what's awesome? How badly Ukraine is kicking Russia's ass right now. Paper tiger "Great Power" led by an Emperor with No Clothes. It's like everyone in the Kremlin filled a paper bag with oven cleaner and are huffing away. To think they got away with this bluff, bluster and bully foreign policy for 20 years.

Russia hasn't budged on "Denazification, Demilitarization" and special protections for the Russian language. Whatever the ***** all that crap means. Ukraine's said that it will not trade people, land or sovereignty for peace. It will trade NATO membership, but wants Article 5 style protection from other countries. These countries would be obligated to commit real, live troops to Ukraine's defense in future invasions. The Turks said Russia is still demanding recognition of Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea. Turkey described these demands as "maximalist" and "unreasonable". So we've moved on to the beginnings of horse trading, sorta. Russia is no longer demanding the end of Ukraine as an independent, sovereign country. That's progress. Edit: the last time Russia brought up "Demilitarization", they pushed for an 80% reduction in the size of Ukraine's army as their starting point. Now they're saying their withdrawal from the Kyiv area is a goodwill gesture. Which is bull####, they're getting their asses kicked around Kyiv and want to save the troops and supplies for operations in Donbas, where Russian attacks are making gains.

Why trade Tyreek Hill just to turn back around and blow the same wad on DK Metcalf?