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2022-03-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian military claims US, NATO involved in invasion planning

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Posted by badanov 2022-03-09 10:20|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 Why? Those areas are a meat grinder and with zero strategic value for the US.

I'm not above believing that our bumbling "elite" won't stumble their way into WWIII though.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-09 10:58|| 2022-03-09 10:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Weird how the trolls aren't here to spit on obvious Russian propaganda.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-09 11:12|| 2022-03-09 11:12|| Front Page Top

#3 What has always worried me is that very bumbling elite has a strategic politico/economic network which is strategic for them, as The Bee so easily pointed out the scramble to save Hunter Biden's priceless artwork.

I would like to point out that every nation able to field a mechanized army has been gaming those areas since before 1940.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 11:23|| 2022-03-09 11:23|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Right now, if any site with a .ru suffix was to tell me the sky is blue, I'd take a trusted team outside with me to check.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-03-09 12:04|| 2022-03-09 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 The critical element is not whether you think it's true.

It s whether the Russians believe it's true and how they will react to it.

Scoff all you want, but the Russians are controlling the narrative now.

Posted by badanov 2022-03-09 13:07|| 2022-03-09 13:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Scoff all you want, but the Russians are controlling the narrative now.

Bezos and Sulzberger are Russians? News to me

Posted by Porthos 2022-03-09 13:09|| 2022-03-09 13:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Just looking at the headline makes me want to say "So maybe that's why the invasion isn't going well, the US and NATO helped plan it...." but I'm a cynic.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-09 15:01|| 2022-03-09 15:01|| Front Page Top

#8 That said, I think the fantasy that there was going to be a solution to Donetsk and Lugansk in Ukraine's favor was a major weapon of Putin's. It's why so many of Ukraine's forces were in a bad position to deal with the invasion. And that the Rasputina in Ukraine may be cutting both ways.

(Not to mention the Rasputina in Washington.... )

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-09 15:04|| 2022-03-09 15:04|| Front Page Top

#9 ...Right now, if any site with a .ru suffix was to tell me the sky is blue

At night in the appropriate non-urban locations its usually black. Sunlight and our atmosphere make it appear blue. Throw in a volcano eruption here, a volcano eruption there and enough matter in the atmosphere and it won't be that blue at all.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-09 16:15|| 2022-03-09 16:15|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ You can't fool me. Skies will always be blue, thanks to sunlight reflecting off all that blue water!

Posted by Glemble McGurque1699 2022-03-09 20:31|| 2022-03-09 20:31|| Front Page Top

#11 the sky is blue

The sky is sky-blue, which is different than blue-blue - at least in Russian. I have no idea why they have two separate words.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-09 21:20|| 2022-03-09 21:20|| Front Page Top

#12 The sky is sky-blue, which is different than blue-blue - at least in Russian. I have no idea why they have two separate words.
"We have two words, because our sky-blue is outside. Yours is the paint on your survival bunker"

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-09 21:30|| 2022-03-09 21:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Quoth Master Vermeer, "Tell me, girl,
What color are clouds... or that pearl?"
Sez she, blushin' scarlet --
O heart of a harlot! --
"Well... watch while I give it a twirl!"

Posted by Glemble McGurque1699 2022-03-09 22:14|| 2022-03-09 22:14|| Front Page Top

#14 The Russian High Command have offered humanitarian corridors and promised safety and good treatment to all Ukrainian POWs (Nazis are excluded, as are foreign mercenaries, they will be interrogated and shot).
This is why The world respect Russia, no American faggotry human rights homosexual transgenders….politics. Straight rational business.

Posted by Baldassarre 2022-03-09 23:08|| 2022-03-09 23:08|| Front Page Top

#15 Typical Russian humanitarianism:

Marioupol: Russia had promised to open a humanitarian corridor to let Mariupol’s besieged residents flee but the plan fell apart after Ukraine’s government accused Russian forces of shelling it.

Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-09 23:14|| 2022-03-09 23:14|| Front Page Top

#16 Here you go, Baldassarre: a reminder of how it worked last time:

How Russian 'safe corridors' worked in bitter Syria war

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-09 23:22|| 2022-03-09 23:22|| Front Page Top