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Hillary tried to reform healthcare in the 90s and killed the issue for 20 years. When she got her butt kicked in the primaries by Obama, she commissioned an incredibly detailed analysis of her defeat, read it...then repeated all the same mistakes against Trump. Sorta weird that she's married to one of the most effective politicians since Regan, and didn't seem to learn much.

From your lips to Congress' ears. Doing more might feel good, but it also feels like interrupting your enemy while he's making a mistake. Then again, Putin could go completely insane.

No doubt, but it's because Putin, in an odd paradox, also lives in an America-centric world. We're the ones who destroyed the USSR, we're the ones who control the EU, we're the ones who control NATO. He honestly doesn't think their is a truly independent country between Moscow and the East Coast. He also honestly thinks every country that was once part of Russia is now led by a tiny elite of American stooges while its people yearn for the Russian Motherland. He can't frame a view of the world without an American boogieman hiding under every bed. It's like Sherpa said. He's nuts. No one is left to tell the Tsar that he's got no clothes on.

Makes sense. He thinks the EU and NATO are all just US puppet states, and that democracies are inherently "weak", whatever that means, and morally corrupt. But at the same time, his country is being brought to it's knees by resistance in a land they thought would welcome them as liberators. And while America hasn't committed a single soldier, plane or ship into action with Russian forces. I'm not really going to by the whole "Putin has a master plan, this all just looks like a trainwreck because that's what he wants us to think" angle.

All this talk of "interests", does anybody that uses this word have a clue what they are talking about? It's a buzzword, it's jargon, it's a BS term people repeat to sound smart. Russia's an authoritarian state and Tsar Vladimir the Insane decides what it does. In theory. Whether his people follow the orders, or his government executes them effectively, or whether his enemies decide to kick him square in the balls, that's another thing entirely. "Russia" does not have "interests". People in power in Russia have made choices based on information, and mannnny of them were very, very wrong. But I guess Michael Flynn thinks it's not in America's "interest" to get Russia thinking "This is what happens to you if you invade a country we like. Do you *really* want to invade a country legally allied with?". You know, like Tsar Vladimir the Insane said he would do whenever he wanted to before all this started so he could rebuild the Russian Empire? Gee whiz, I wonder how Flynn conveniently forgot about that.

Let me fill in the line. "The truth is whatever Twitter tells me it is, because I do my own research consisting of people I agree with on Twitter".

Get some Sal Capaccio

Yeah, this board is great at vacuuming up all Bills news/tweets and putting them in one place. Ever since Marcel L-J went down to Miami, there hasn't been 1 go-to Twitter account. YardsPerPass is amusing, Cover 1 is pretty good. Marcel's replacement doesn't seem to break much news.

Why is it that anyone who calls Tucker Carlson a shill, a hack, and a fellow traveler is part of this..."Radical Left"? Have you ever had a conversation with me about politics? No? Ok then. All I do is read the words that come out of his mouth over and over and over again.

He's trying to reach Lord Haw Haw/ Fr. Coughlin levels of 5th column. But don't worry, Twitter talking heads are here to tell us the truth about a bunch of tangental crap and save us from...something? Russia is not really the problem, in fact the real problem is anything but Russia, like (insert your favorite enemy here).

Tucker's beta male simping for Russia.

Tubgirl references? What next, two girls one cup?

Ok.

Well, what are you looking for as proof? The war was supposed to be over in 96 hours, we're on day 16 and the Russians have lost over a thousand vehicles alone. They still haven't taken any major cities. That's pretty strong evidence that "organized" resistance is happening.

Huh, what makes you think the Ukrainians don't have an "organized military"?

New England gets 2 in the 3rd round.

What's good for Ukraine is good for Ukraine, and we can't hold their choices against them. We aren't fighting. But those terms would let Putin spin this as a victory, and set him or a successor up for round 2. It would guarantee Ukraine's short term survival at the cost of any guarantee of long term security. If Ukraine gave up Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea forever in exchange for NATO and EU membership, they'd actually be a sovereign nation. Instead of trusting Tsar Vladimir the Insane or whoever follows him...

We definitely won in this trade

Ukraine's apparently got 5 tank brigades they've been sitting on, and 90% of Russia's mobilized troops are in the field. It's a ripe time to hit back...unless those brigades are all the mechanized troops Ukraine has left. Hopefully things keep going ***** for Russia, but eventually Ukraine's got to hit back somewhere. Probably in the south between Mariupol and Odessa, where Russian forces aren't a total clown show. Put paid to the most successful Russian advance, and protect the forces facing Luhansk, Donetsk, and holding Kahrkiv from encirclement.

We're suffering from a massive case of the boy who cried wolf. Ever since the forever wars started, we've been fed a line about the next Hitler, mushroom clouds, wmds and whatever. Now when there's an actual maniac who wants to reconquer a dead empire, everyone on all sides of the political spectrum is fed up. It's ***** sad that we've come to this. because everyone is torn between standing up to Tsar Vladimir the Insane and starting ANOTHER war that goes on and on and on and on.

If you can boil them down to "wake up sheeple, the (insert his favorite bad guys here) are lying to you", why bother with the SAT word salad?

What do you think of the author's essay? I read it and it's the sort of sneering, elitist alphabet soup you'd expect from some Ivory tower egg head spinning his pet theory like it's scripture.

Yeah...why do you think that is? The other thing is why the hell is 1st Guards Tank Army deployed near Kharkiv, rather than leading the drive on Kyiv or Mariupol? It's supposed to be Russia's A Team in terms of gear, training, and quality of leadership. But it's doing a fixing/screening mission against Ukraine's best units instead of trying to win the war?

Indeed! The French equivalent of a panzer division, the Division Legere Mechanique (DLM) actually got to fight the Panzer divisions head on in Belgium and stopped them cold... But they couldn't redeploy to Sedan/Meuse fast enough to seal off the German breakthrough, or coordinate counter attacks to cut off German spearheads. Then the French leadership completely imploded into backstabbing and defeatism and that was that. Sorta the opposite of Ukraine so far. *I'm going to be typing "so far" a lot, because I can't see into the future.

List of Russia's Vehicle losses with photo/video evidence for each vehicle As of today, Russia has lost 656 tanks, trucks, APCs/IFVs, self propelled artillery pieces, and anti-aircraft vehicles. That's destroyed, damaged, abandoned and captured. This site has Ukrainian losses as well. If he's right, Ukraine could replace it's battlefield losses with captured Russian gear AND equip new units with the leftovers. Now for the grain of salt. The countryside isn't exactly swarming with Ukrainian civilians looking for pictures of their own destroyed stuff. But if we had lost 656 vehicles and admitted to 498 KIA and 1500+ wounded in 1 week of Iraq, well no one would believe our casualty figure, and conclude we were getting our asses kicked so far. There's really no basis for comparing Russia and Ukraine with the US and Iraq. Our invasion of Iraq is a model of military planning compared to what Russia is trying right now. Which is sad in itself.