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Putin throws MORE ground forces at Kyiv
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Ring of steel goes back up at the Capitol: Fencing is erected and 700 National Guard troops are deployed for Biden's State of the Union address tomorrow amid fears Truckers Convoy is heading to Washington DC
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/28/2022 14:32 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought walls didn't work?
Posted by: Raj || 02/28/2022 15:53 Comments || Top||

#2  That's border walls that don't work. These walls separate groups ... define safe boundaries .... keep the undesirables out ...

Wait. This is a border wall, too! Don't tell Brandon!
Posted by: Bobby || 02/28/2022 16:05 Comments || Top||

#3  DC Beltway is terrified of the citizenry. This is how we know we don't live in any kind of a "republic"
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/28/2022 16:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Repetition #999 of It's not 'fascist' when we do it!""
Posted by: magpie || 02/28/2022 16:39 Comments || Top||

#5 
I thought walls didn't work?

Comrade, get with Narrative or go to Gulag!
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 02/28/2022 18:20 Comments || Top||


Britain
British Spy Boss: ‘LGBT+ Rights' Are What ‘Distinguish Us from Putin'
He’s not even an ass — that requires deliberation. He’s a plain-vanilla fool of the first water.
[Breitbart] “LGBT+ rights” are the most important “values and hard won freedoms” distinguishing “us” from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Richard Moore, chief of MI6, the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, wrote on Friday.

Moore did not specify if his use of “us” was a reference to the United Kingdom, the Anglosphere, or the broader West.

He expressed his sentiments via Twitter, relating his remarks to ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He included an acronym from “LGBT+ History Month,” with “LGBT+” for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans +.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And speaking of Andrew "gay hot priest" Scott, BKA "C" in some Bond flick...
Posted by: Cleling Panda1816 || 02/28/2022 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, isn't he right? I think he's spot on.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 02/28/2022 6:02 Comments || Top||

#3  There is a massive difference between tolerance and submission.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2022 6:57 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^^ best response I have ever heard. Hope you don’t mind if I use it.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 02/28/2022 7:57 Comments || Top||

#5  yep stealing that too P2K
Posted by: Chris || 02/28/2022 8:42 Comments || Top||

#6  It's not so much "submission" as gummint enforced validation of their lifestyle choices. But keeping the argument pithy and easy to understand is not a bad way to go.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/28/2022 9:41 Comments || Top||

#7  ..when you are told you are not to know what the state is indoctrinating your kids in school and that it includes imposing the gay mafia and their programs on them, it is submission. They want no opt out.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2022 12:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Riding Ukraine's nuts, yeah, we get it.

And to further calm my mind, I now know why the agit-prop Ghost of Kiev fighter pilot is now a pansexual transvestite. Slay'em Queen.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/28/2022 12:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Weak leaders and cowards conservatives invite chaos!

Russia will take Ukraine.

Once that buffer is established Russia will end conflict.

After that phase 2 begins with China taking Taiwan. More hand wringing and sanctions but western nations won't do anything.

Soon after that the Asian world order begins.

Then western hyperinflation begins. The end of western dominance is upon us.
Posted by: Black is a form of dirt || 02/28/2022 14:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Why on earth is America allowing the American led world order go up in flames?
Posted by: Omoluck Angolunter4109 || 02/28/2022 14:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Sunday Talks, Psaki Gives Away the Ukraine Game – Russia Is Needed As Fall Guy for Biden Energy Policy and Economic Damage
[ConservativeTreehouse] During an ABC interview today, White House Spokesperson Jennifer Psaki gave away the game for the Biden Administration’s intent on exploiting the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

Keep in mind, as the Biden team were getting pummeled for negative economic outcomes, massive inflation, skyrocketing energy costs and gas prices set to double, the White House worked to create an urgent defense by manufacturing the crisis.

While Joe Biden ate his pudding, the people behind the scenes told Zelenskyy and Putin that Ukraine was about to enter NATO {December 2021}. The White House then seeded details through China knowing the intel would get back to Putin. Russia took the bait and intervened.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 02/28/2022 08:16 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course it is the "fall guy." We've discussed this here for weeks. BTW, where is that worthless POS Hunter these days? Where is the media reporting on Julian Assange, or Ghislaine Maxwell, Jan 6 protestors ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2022 9:06 Comments || Top||

#2  ah....no.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2022 10:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Corrupt Biden administration. They think the voters are fools.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 02/28/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  They think the voters are fools.
And they have often been proven correct.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/28/2022 10:40 Comments || Top||

#5  ..at least a corps of 25% of the them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  That's not 'corps,' it's 'corpse,' er, core...
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/28/2022 12:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Your nation's cretin president encouraged Ukrainians to hope for NATO membership and then you left them hanging in the wind.

Now that cretin is destroying your economy and your position in the world. $150 oil. Hyperinflation everywhere. Millions of Americans thrown into poverty.

Soon there will be war in Asia. War in the Middle East. Nations lining up to get their own nukes.

Why are you doing this? Why didn't you force Zelensky to be reasonable and accept partition? You could have backed it up with a serious threat to Putin -- not your stupid useless sanctions but a serious nuclear threat -- as a way to force a lasting durable peace agreement from both sides.

Instead you made promises you weren't willing to keep and enabled Putin to commit this atrocity.

Man up and admit that your idiot president bears a large responsibility for what we know now is the destruction of the world's security and prosperity. Man up. Stop denying.
Posted by: Enver Shelet3218 || 02/28/2022 12:52 Comments || Top||

#8  I blame Clinton and the idiots that came after him. Instead of throwing a party and disbanding NATO after the Soviet Union fell and trying to establish ties with Russia, they pushed NATO right up to the border of a very paranoid and humiliated nation and sought to punish them.

The aggressive and paranoid Russia we have now is a direct consequence of those actions.

I still blame Putin for being an asshole though and support the Ukraine in spite of our feckless political class.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/28/2022 13:10 Comments || Top||

#9  If you had a president who was not braindead, you could force an end to this war right now.

Zelensky is in Belarus for peace talks. You can still tell him to accept partition - Russia now dominates the east and south and has secured their land bridge to Crimea. Zelensky is still alive and his big cities have not yet been leveled. And you could threaten Putin with a real stick - a thermonuclear strike unless he accepts the deal MF pulls back to the Novorossia line.

Where is the American president?

Nero, fiddling little girls while the world burns?
Posted by: Gerthudion Tojo8231 || 02/28/2022 13:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Where is the American president?

The real one, down in Florida. He would have kept his warning. And we all probably wouldn't be posting. The Ukraine would be the least of the Russians worries. The Chinese would be moving north and west to mop up.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2022 13:31 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: Black is a form of dirt || 02/28/2022 14:06 Comments || Top||

#12  1. Insulting the US President is not gonna get a rise out of anyone on this board. We know.
2. I agree with Darth Vader except I blame Bush sr who was in charge when the wall came down. the should have taken the Warsaw Pact (without ex-soviet states) and pushed for a neutral alliance between West Europe and Paranoid Europe.
Posted by: ruprecht || 02/28/2022 17:13 Comments || Top||


Congress drops mask mandate ahead of Biden’s State of The Union speech on Tuesday
Posted by: badanov || 02/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Game is up. How long after Texas and Florida?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2022 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Re-activating the Keystone could be another political move as we approach the midterms.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2022 9:02 Comments || Top||

#3  ..nah, they're the monkey with their hands clutching the green candy in the bottle. If it was the master grifter Bill Clinton, they could pivot. They're Bolsies "From hell's heart I stab at thee... for hates sake I spit my last breath at thee".
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Two years of economic warfare against everyone they could put in the hurt zone, and its, "Well, enough of that then. Move on, shall we?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/28/2022 10:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Kahn from Star Trek or Moby Dick. I prefer Kahn!
Posted by: Unomosh Glose3832 || 02/28/2022 11:51 Comments || Top||

#6  To continue the contradictions of media as they switch from two years of covid expertise into two weeks of military expertise:

Shutting down Russia's pipelines: designed explicitly to damage Russia's economy.

Shutting down Keystone: for your own good.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/28/2022 12:01 Comments || Top||


Biden energy policy enriched Russia, emboldened Putin, enabled invasion of Ukraine, critics claim
[JustTheNews] The Biden administration's energy policy — from canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline to acquiescing to Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline and canceling federal oil and gas leases — has helped enrich and embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin, facilitating his invasion of Ukraine, critics argue.

When President Joe Biden first took office, he revoked permission for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, banned new leases for oil and gas production on federal land, and planned on restricting methane waste emissions from natural gas drilling on public lands. While the U.S. pipeline construction has stopped, a Louisiana federal judge's ruling has delayed the Biden administration's plan to restrict natural gas drilling.

Largely as a result of such sharp restrictions on U.S. energy production, gas prices at the pump have jumped by $1 a gallon from a year ago, and oil prices have skyrocketed to $90 a barrel — the highest levels since the Obama administration.

Last year, Biden also lifted bipartisan congressional sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was to deliver Russian natural gas to Germany. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Biden announced that he would reinstitute the sanctions, an announcement that came a day after Germany halted certification of the pipeline.

The only option for Biden to "affect Russian behavior — is to kick them out of the international banking system, and he wouldn't do it," former Deputy National Security Advisor KT McFarland told Fox News on Thursday at CPAC. "Why? Because the Germans and the French and the Italians — nobody wants to go along with it. Why? Because they all rely on Russian energy, Russian oil and natural gas."

New Jersey Democrats Sen. Bob Menendez and Rep. Bill Pascrell also recommended removing Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) payment system.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  FAKE NEWS Update:



1) Russian tank that ran over a civilian car in Kyiv was a Strela-10 Ukrainian air defense system. NOT Russian.

2) Photos of Zelenskyy in military garb with a helmet on are from a 2021 Ukrainian border inspection trip.

3) The “Ghost of Kyiv” MiG-19 shooting down a Russian Su-35 was from a Digital Combat Simulator animation.

4) The “Ghost of Kyiv” identitified as Samuyil Hyde is actually a pic of SAM HYDE, an internet prankster.

5) Photo of two children (girl in pink with teddy bear, boy saluting) watching convoy pass, are from 2016.

6) The photos of a woman saying goodbye to her man, going off to fight Putin’s Russians IS FROM A MOVIE.

7) Snake Island “martyrs” actually were NOT killed, and a video shows all 82 being transported to Sevastopol.

8) “Her Blood Is On His Hands” old lady photos that were on the front pages of The Sun, The Mirror, and The Guardian are actually images from years ago.
Fuck you America cia for creating this mess
Posted by: Black is a form of dirt || 02/28/2022 14:22 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2022-02-28
  Putin throws MORE ground forces at Kyiv
Sun 2022-02-27
  Day 4: Operational information on the Russian invasion
Sat 2022-02-26
  Day Z + 1. On the outskirts of Kiev
Fri 2022-02-25
  Day 2: Ukrainian Su27 jet shot down over Kyiv as capital comes under attack from 'cruise missiles', Putin's tanks move within 20 MILES of city: Zelensky rages at Biden for leaving his country 'alone', says Kremlin marked him 'target No.1' UPDATED
Thu 2022-02-24
  Putin attacks all over the Ukraine
Wed 2022-02-23
  Breaking: Nordstream 2 contract is canceled!
Tue 2022-02-22
  Russian 'peacekeeper' troops enter Russian controlled east Ukraine
Mon 2022-02-21
  Stray Nigeria airstrike kills 7 children in Niger
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  AQAP confirms two of their turbans airstruck
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  Nigerian Army Kills Top Boko Haram Commander, Others
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