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Gotcha. Wasn't aware. Bob Woodward did the Lord's work back in the day. I'm sure him and Cy Hersh have the best intentions. I got by what Yevgeniy Prighozin said during the Wagner Mutiny.

What's Operation Mockingbird?

The news is what it is, that's true. I've gone back to doing this old fashioned thing called...reading books. That takes time, effort and concentration though, and we're addicted to instant gratification thanks to our Internet overlords...

Twitter/X is the MSM now. So I trust it about as far as I can throw Elon Musk. Glad you appreciate the classics!

As you lap up talking points from a media source wholly owned and operated by a US Government Employee? Oooooooohhhhhh, better watch out for all these Free Thinkers!

I've got a high stress job and there's so many people here who are so.damn.dumb. Makes things easy! Much obliged! I'm a big believer in James 5:16. Woooooaaahhhh hold on! You're not being sarcastic are you?

Nope. I'm not the one arguing that the Ukraine War needs to end because MoRaLiTy. I'll just keep chilling out while all these pompous hypocrites lord their enlightened opinions over us mere mortals. Let me know if you want to jump in on the virtue signalling!

Another sermon from our forum's most enlightened poster.

Xi Jinping and the CCP used their leverage over Russia to stop Putin from using nukes. Oh, *****. I forgot this was a clever rhetorical question.

Video after video?! Oh no! Has anyone told Chicken Little what's happening. That's fine, just keep isolating them and backing them into a corner. The world is a great place when Europe is militarized.

Then you're waaaaayyy to easy to scare?

Yup. It's a game that we started by choice because...reasons? All Trump had to do was twist arms behind the scenes to get Europe to do what he wanted. He's got the exact same leverage in private as he does in public to threaten withdrawals, tarrifs, whatever his little hear desires. Instead, he chose to make grandiose statements, snide lectures, and public threats. Now the EU is scrambling to centralize power in itself and remilitarize, not on the basis of an alliance with US interests, but because they think they're on their own and it's time to tool up. Of course Trump has to support the AFD and other Eurosceptics...because if they don't keep pulling Europe apart at the seems, this whole strategy blows up his face, and we end up with a centralized European megastate with it's own military capability and an agenda that is divorced from ours. Genius ***** diplomacy! Nothing ever goes wrong when Europe centralizes power and rearms itself! Europe is famously peaceful! We Americans have NEVER experienced blowback from hasty moves and picking fights we don't have to!

Hahahahahahah Tell me you believe what you're told without telling me. Here's the actual article. It has...nuance.

When was the last time we brokered a peace that ended in something besides: 1. A decades long commitment. 2. A collapsed former ally and our humiliation.

Hurray for Reaganomics!

Who's all? There's only two parties negotiating?

I get all my facts from a massive media conglomerate completely aligned with the current President of the United States. It's called X.

That's the spirit! But honestly, this just the pompous, long winded version of a much shorter article from 2023. The tensions between Moscow and the West can only be resolved by talking with the Ukrainian president’s foreign masters, Russia’s FM has said The West and Russia will eventually sit down to discuss their differences, but this dialogue should be held not with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky but with those using him as a stooge, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. So what if Russia Today is the government funded propaganda organ of the Russian state. We NeEd NuAnCe!

Outstanding. An actual Russian concession.

This PPP, nobody comes here to change minds, everyone comes here to have fun and agree that what Xitter says about people you hate is correct. Do yourself a favor and get a thicker skin. Because he is? Stopping war to end mass killing and mass dying is a good reason, so why isn't good enough to stop all the other instances of mass killing and mass dying? What's so special about Ukraine?

Well *****, I never knew a Ceasefire and Peace were the same thing! Someone go tell North and South Korea! Then he can go fix Rwanda, Sudan, whatever the hell is happening in Southeast Asia...

But People Are Dying, and America: World Cop needs to Stop People From Dying Right Now. But only in Ukraine and Russia, and no where else on the planet where people are being slaughtered. They can't really explain why people being slaughtered only applies to the Ukraine war and why it needs to stop, right now. But that's what they believe. It's magic thinking and hypocrisy.

If only everyone in the world was as moral, and enlightened as you are. It must pain you to live among so many mere mortals.

Of course I'd blame him. He's the best chance we've had to win it all in 35 years. However, I am a Buffalo Bills fan. Not a Josh Allen fan.

Or, hear me out... You could believe Yevgeniy Prighozin, former head of Wagner Group and part of the "SMO" since it was planned. Who stated Russia invaded Ukraine for national prestige and to generate a financial windfall for Putin and the Russian elite. No elaborate conspiracy. No principled stand against this or that. Just a jaded Russian ruling elite huffing its own fart until it convinced itself that it could make a pile of cash off a short, victorious war...