Trump/Zelensky deal turns into Jerry Springer episode

Ceiling Cat

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- Russia is already the most sanction nation on earth

- Russians will NOT withdraw their troops especially from the territories they consider theirs: Crimea and Donbas

- Is USA and EU ready to escalate and go to war?
So, If I have already kicked you in the balls, does that mean I can not put one of my spiked galoshes up your ass?
 

Shaquille Oatmeal

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Marco Rubio reveals that what Zelensky did before cameras started rolling is reason why he should apologize

Nothing in that article suggests any inappropriate behaviour by Zelensky.
Zelensky refused to entertain the possibility that Ukraine's sovereignty was debatable.
The white house is looking to Zelensky to show subservience and make them look good.
And Zelensky rightfully isn't playing ball.
Also, this is an example of MAGA mental gymnastics.
Trump does something stupid.
His entire band of yes men intellectualize, rationalize and try to make it more palatable.
Only cults and dictatorships behave this way.
 

Shaquille Oatmeal

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Article 5 sounds great until a conflict escalates and Canadians have to go and die in a war.

The whole thing about trust and narrative is very one sided. Every news and information source from the opposite side has been silenced, deplatformed, banned etc. Yeah yeah, I know, it's all Russian lying propaganda. Ukraine - 100% truth, Russia - 100% lies.

The entire conflict was all about resources and influence. Ukraine is a country that has oil, gas, fertile soil, metals and minerals etc. They couldn't be allowed to stay under Russian influence. This was a conflict decades in the making.
So far Article 5 seems to have avoided Canadians having to go and die in a war.
That means it works and is reason enough to believe that it is a good deterrent.
Also yes, there is censorship of Russian views in the west.
However, I think we can all agree that invading a nation is 100% wrong and it is 100% Russia's fault.
Any conflict should have been resolved via diplomacy even if it took several years.
 

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After 1917 revolution countries such as Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia were formed, not liberated.
The Soviet Russia called it "liberation" that's why I put quotes around it. I believe they propped up local communist militias and absorbed these former regions of Russia into the Soviet Union.
 

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Article 5 sounds great until a conflict escalates and Canadians have to go and die in a war.

The whole thing about trust and narrative is very one sided. Every news and information source from the opposite side has been silenced, deplatformed, banned etc. Yeah yeah, I know, it's all Russian lying propaganda. Ukraine - 100% truth, Russia - 100% lies.

The entire conflict was all about resources and influence. Ukraine is a country that has oil, gas, fertile soil, metals and minerals etc. They couldn't be allowed to stay under Russian influence. This was a conflict decades in the making.
Article 5 sounds great when the Russians come over the North Pole for our minerals and our NATO allies come to help what few Canadian soldiers we have. Sad that our greatest ally, and one who Canadian soldiers died alongside of supporting their misguided, dishonest and brutal maladventures in Iraq, Afghanistan etc.
 
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Not trusting, or supporting an adjudicated fraud and daily liar is a virtue. Supporting and making excuses for a lying fraudster with a self-admitted and adjudicated history of sexual assault also speaks to ones character.
More Virtue Signalling to appease the circle jerk Leftard mentality

The Leftard Cirlce Jerk Club will be in full force for FOUR years! Stock up on a 1,000 bottles of baby oil…you‘re gonna need it boys.
 

WyattEarp

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What's interesting is that left-wingers are usually all about peace, and they have now become warmongerers.

And right-wingers who usually like war, have now become peacenicks
Much if this seems to be acrimony harbored towards Russia that has carried over from the 2016 Hillary fiasco.

Phil, you're probably like me. You note with bemusement that they didn't care when Putin was chewing off pieces of Ukraine in Obama's second term.
 

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Ghawar
They were not just defending Ukraine. But all of eastern Europe as if Putin had easily get Ukraine he would have pursue and conquer much easier countries all around.
As far as I can see defending Ukraine is not the primary
objective of the proxy war. The proxy war is more about
weakening Russia. By now Putin and Russia has been considerably
weakened. Not likely they could wage another all-out war
after Ukraine which will be saved from conquest by Russia
by Trump's crafty peace-by-extortion scheme if things work out.
 

Shaquille Oatmeal

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As a hypothetical, let's just say that NATO didn't exist. Why would anyone attack Canada knowing that USA will 100% intervene? Who would be even capable of attacking? We are on a different continent that almost everyone else.
Russia isn't that far from Canada via the Arctic or the West.
And the US would only intervene because of NATO.
Otherwise why would they?
 

Phil C. McNasty

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Phil, you're probably like me. You note with bemusement that they didn't care when Putin was chewing off pieces of Ukraine in Obama's second term
Great point.
But now that Trump is involved they suddenly care about the Ukrainian people
 

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They're going to have to move their conscription age even lower....In short they're running out of men to put into this meat grinder.

This and how many young men just picked up and left the Ukraine.

This is all scary and I'm not sure the American and European press is adequately covering the war.
 

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As a hypothetical, let's just say that NATO didn't exist. Why would anyone attack Canada knowing that USA will 100% intervene? Who would be even capable of attacking? We are on a different continent that almost everyone else.

Nothing hypothetical about it. The answer was Russia. The answer since Trump has come into power is now the United States.
 
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