BashiChuni

Tulsi is a fantastic pick. Looks like Pete stepped in it. 💩

Agreed. “Check out this cool shit” type of talk. Completely unnecessary and the players in that chat had zero need to know.

Ouch

they're both bad, but the Hilary private server was EGREGIOUS

why the fuck would you invite a journalist to join a signal chat? i'd fire Waltz immediately

that is wild...idle at 150' in those winds...hard to not point the finger where it belongs

i am glad you are sir!

curious why you aren't happy getting rid of illegal alien gang members? bet you wouldn't want them in your neighborhood...

fantastic overall post. WW3 isn't worth it for a country no one in the US cared about pre-invasion...well no one but the biden family that is.

wow -6 we are so fucked. dork.

he's a good guy IRL wish he wouldn't have left. we disagreed, but the debate was fun.

the irony is musk is trying to let you keep more of YOUR money...the amount of government waste and fraud they are uncovering is wild...why anyone thinks taxes should be higher after the BULLSHIT spending musk is highlighting is beyond retarded but keep telling yourself that you're not the thick-skulled one around here...

i've told Huggy this, but when I was in HS back in the early 2000s I went to Oshkosh and met huggy! didn't know it at the time, but fast forward 20 years later and connected the dots when going thru old pictures and saw him standing in front of the t-38. kind of cool and small world type of thing.

Russia will not turn around and go home because home is at their backs. regardless of how you feel, the Russians perceive nato seducing Ukraine as a dire threat to their country. They have complained about NATO expanding east since the breakup of the USSR; I have cited numerous historical articles, speeches, intelligence assessments, and videos in this thread proving so. it's a different sort of calculus for them than what we were operating under in vietnam, iraq, or afghanistan. i predict you will disagree with their rationale and reasoning, but know thy enemy and such.

bro you can't even spin it to be a "pro russian coup". the government removed in 2014 was pro russian. why would putin stage a coup on his own guy? lol. the evidence is overwhelming of western involvement. from 2014: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/john-mccain-ukraine-protests-support-just-cause "We are here to support your just cause, the sovereign right of Ukraine to determine its own destiny freely and independently. And the destiny you seek lies in Europe," said McCain, a leading Republican voice on US foreign policy. McCain is in Ukraine with a Connecticut Democrat, Senator Chris Murphy. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, McCain said: “What we're trying to do is try to bring about a peaceful transition here, that would stop the violence and give the Ukrainian people what they unfortunately have not had, with different revolutions that have taken place – a real society. This is a grassroots revolution here – it's been peaceful except when the government tried to crack down on them, and the government hasn't tried that since. Asked about Russian president Vladimir Putin's role in the crisis, McCain said: “There's no doubt that Ukraine is of vital importance to Putin. I think it was [Henry] Kissinger, I'm not sure, said that Russia, without Ukraine it's an eastern power, with Ukraine it's a western power. This is the beginning of Russia, right here in Kiev." "The reality is that, after two decades of eastward Nato expansion, this crisis was triggered by the west's attempt to pull Ukraine decisively into its orbit and defence structure, via an explicitly anti-Moscow EU association agreement. Its rejection led to the Maidan protests and the installation of an anti-Russian administration – rejected by half the country – that went on to sign the EU and International Monetary Fund agreements regardless. No Russian government could have acquiesced in such a threat from territory that was at the heart of both Russia and the Soviet Union. Putin's absorption of Crimea and support for the rebellion in eastern Ukraine is clearly defensive, and the red line now drawn: the east of Ukraine, at least, is not going to be swallowed up by Nato or the EU." https://truthout.org/articles/the-ukraine-mess-that-nuland-made/ Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs “Toria” Nuland was the “mastermind” behind the Feb. 22, 2014 “regime change” in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible US mainstream media that the coup wasn’t really a coup but a victory for “democracy.” Much of what has happened, of course, was predictable and indeed was predicted, but neocon Nuland couldn’t resist the temptation to pull off a “regime change” that she could call her own. Her husband (and arch-neocon) Robert Kagan had co-founded the Project for the New American Century in 1998 around a demand for “regime change” in Iraq, a project that was accomplished in 2003 with President George W. Bush’s invasion.

i don't disagree about the election point. this is a good step in the right direction...at the start of the conflict ANY dissent and you were labeled "pro putin". at least now some are acknowledging that this conflict is complicated and problematic. much like during COVID...any push back on mandatory vaccines, masking, natural immunity effectiveness, or social distancing and you "wanted grandma to die" and instantly labeled "anti vaccine" and "conspiracy theorist". the messaging propaganda used is the tell that you're on the wrong side

There are many questions to be answered on our involvement in Ukraine. It’s not black and white. at first glance this seems good...securing biological agents...all for it. but what's the "modern, safe (key word that triggers my interest) and secure diagnostic health labrotory and a national NETWORK of epidemiological monitoring stations" part about? like @tac airlifter says sometimes the most lethal and dangerous programs are concealed with the most generic sounding names and labels. what's that all about? knowing how devious some of the federal power players like Fauci turned out to be during covid, i have a hard time believing our intentions setting up labs in ukraine were all rainbows and sunshine.

this is my problem with the ukraine situation. if the US hadn't been messing around in Ukraine, destabilizing governments, running coups, establishing bio labs, putting the crack head son of the Vice President on a Ukranian gas company's BOD, having the Vice President blackmailing Ukraine with 1 billion of USAID money... if all that wasn't happening and russia invaded...that's a clean kill...id be all for supporting them against russian "aggression". but the same government fucks that lied to us during covid and trampled the constitution in unprecedented ways are the same government fucks who were playing around in ukraine. i'm sorry but they burned ANY trust i have in them...they DO NOT get the benefit of the doubt. and i assume they have bad intentions. so when guys like chris murphy and other democrats cry wolf about protecting ukraine from the russians it rings on deaf ears.

one of those was in my sq...got RIF'd, airline job, then a few years later came back under a bonus. or at least that's how my brain remembers it happening. anyway we were all pumped it worked out really well for him!