When Putin attacked Ukraine, American right-wingers kissed his ass. They're backing off now he's been denied a quick victory

He’s just the hired help

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I’m sure there is a technical term for conquering soldiers taking whatever they want

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Liberal and Jewish. Also a funny, decent, actually brave human being.

He checks all their hate-boxes

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Pop Tv Burn GIF by Schitt's Creek

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Those voters weren’t liberal democrats even if they believed themselves to be.

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Tulsi’s political career is dead. She’s irrelevant at this point and I don’t see her ever being relevant again.

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Perhaps dead on the left, but never count the right out of a grift.

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She’ll probably be popular at conservative conferences for a while, but her career in politics is done.

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“It might be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious, ‘What is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much?’”

Geez, Carlson. Putin invaded Ukraine on the pretext that he was dealing with their Nazi problem, or maybe liberating breakaway independent regions. So, yah, he wasn’t accusing me of being racist. But the U.S. has had our own Nazi flag wavers in recent years. Maybe you want Putin should invade U.S. soil? Or are we free from consequences of harboring neo-nazis cause might makes right, whereas Ukraine (without a U.S.-strength military) should have just sucked up to the powerful nation next door?

Or maybe you’d actually enjoy having a few U.S. regions break away. Say, Texas becoming its own republic again.

We must all hang together or we will surely hang separately you plutocrat-loving jackass.

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I have no idea whether Putin is a fool or genius or what have you, but I am completely certain that Trump is an incomplete idiot—and I have a few other choice words to describe him, but I’ll just leave it there.

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And never call? A new level of ghosting. What mothers will believe this?

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I see Tulsi Gabbard’s Twitter profile contained the phrase ‘plant based’ - which must be the polite way of describing her as a ‘vegetable’.

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Russia is a net food exporter although it imports things like citrus and processed dairy products. Turning off the grain supply is not an option for the West any longer.

Its biggest weakness is that it imports high technology; Russia can’t make competitive microprocessors, cars, software, civilian aerospace - and the UK, US and EU are targeting those in particular. And China is equally bad at many of those - aviation in particular where it has been hoping to rely on Russian technology for things like wing design and engines.

I see a lot about Russia’s cash reserves - but where are they stored? Are they in Russia itself, or is their wealth fund held in Western banks and therefore no longer accessible?

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Fridman was born and raised in Ukraine, so besides wanting to protect his business interests (including banks, so probably too late for that) he likely has some genuine love for the place. Deripaska publicly opposing a Putin initiative is more of a surprise, though they had a big falling out in the past, maybe he’s been harboring resentment all that time.

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Tulsi? I wouldn’t say that. Politics here in Hawaii, even national office, is very local.

It’s the third day. France took 6 weeks to fall in 1940. Stalingrad went on for 5 months. To be saying “The Russians are losing” because they didn’t take it immediately is extremely premature.

I don’t think they are yet at Grosny-level barbarism, but if Ukraine survives that, it will be a true win. Putin seems to be holding off the big dogs for some reason (no cruise missiles obliterating government buildings-- something the US started the Iraq War with). When he does, schoolteachers with Molotov cocktails wont be much help.

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There is a lot of territory to cover.

And although the Russian military can eventually get the job done, I’m not sure that their economy or Putin’s political capital can hold up for as long as that will take.

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