jakee

That is not a fact, it is an opinion which does not naturally follow from any logical analysis. If you weren’t so rabidly anti-liberal you would see that.

NATO is not defending Ukraine. That’s kinda the whole point here.

Safeguards against one person doing something crazy with nukes. But we’re not talking about nukes, so how on earth do you think he’s addressed his concerns about every other piece of equipment? Eh? We need to be worried about A10s because they could be used to start WW3 but we don’t need to worry about people who have A10s? Maybe explain that one.

You’re worried about Ukraine starting WW3 with an A10. When it comes to the US military why the fuck are you suddenly talking about nuclear weapons as if they’re an equivalent? Try and leave the goalposts where you found them, dude.

No, but then you need to disband your own military too.

My view on this is that I think we should be able to trust by now that the Ukrainian government isn’t batshit fucking insane.

You do realise Trump is a Republican? True Christians like Obama and Biden are indeed doing that. Much better than pretenders like Trump who pretty much never set foot in a church his entire adult life before he hit the campaign trail.

That's an invalid conclusion. I said the phrase you used to explain the term was meaningless. I said nothing about the term itself. It did not. Telepathy isn't real. Lol. Tell me more about why it's bad to focus on character assassination.

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They’re calling it that but they’re not calling it terrorism. Strange, isn’t it?

So tell us a search engine that isn’t and we’ll find the same result using that one. If it turns out they’re all biased well damn, what a great way you’ve found to be immune to opposing information.

But you can be manipulated by ad hominem. You’ve just spent this whole page telling us how your approach to a discussion will depend on whether the other people are being polite or not. You’re wearing your lack of integrity like a badge of honour.

Thank you for the funniest joke I’ve heard this weekend.

That’s not the word you were looking for. That doesn’t mean anything.

If you’re basing that purely on the fact that a few mercenaries were killed, given the number of Russian soldiers killed with US weapons and intelligence over the last couple of months you’d have to rate Biden’s administration as being the best counter to Russian ambition that we’ve had since Reagan.

“the conflict eventually evolved into a proxy war between two superpowers as Russia committed its military forces to defending the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.” Tell me who the President of Syria is today. Now tell me who achieved their geopolitical aims in Syria.

Are you high? And is paying the price for it. I think we can all be pretty confident that Trump wouldn't give a flying fuck if it was happening under his watch.

I’ll admit that I’ve had the opinion over the last decade that Putin is very good at international politics. He’s been able to bluff and bully and use force in the right ways to re-expand Russian influence. He got his way in Georgia, he got his way with Crimea, he was in almost direct opposition to western aims in Syria and he comprehensively won… and then this. It’s quite staggering how badly he has got this wrong and undone almost every gain in Russian power and security he has made in his 20 years of power. Though unfortunately that still makes it even more crucial that he ends up with some gains in resources and economic potential from this conflict. He’s not going to retreat from the Ukrainian coastline and he’s not going to retreat from the oil and gas fields no matter how costly it continues to be for their military. Defeat of the Russian army in a long, brutal and bloody conflict that will destroy huge parts of Ukraine is the only way this ends ‘well’ no matter what we think about Putin’s incompetence.

In an irrational sense like Hunter Biden is your boogieman? No, of course not. But he’s a hyper partisan media personality who lies non stop. That’s worth pointing out about and obviously doesn’t reflect badly on the people who do point it out. He’s a you problem not a me problem, in other words.

The Abrams comes with functioning logistical support - it's rarely gonna be very far from a refuel. None of the Russian models appear to include that feature, so range is a bit more important for them.

You stand with a totalitarian dictator against a functioning democracy? Right, he is nothing less than an actor. In fact, he's a hell of a lot more. As trolls go, that's not even a good joke. Still, at least you've made it easy to see who the traitors are in this conversation. A new cold war is coming and you've chosen to side with the enemy.

Brent will be along again soon to lament the return of the nefarious Democrat algorithm, causing Twitter to behave….. exactly the same as it did last week.

Exactly the same level of reasoning you always use, but at least this time you only used one word instead of disguising it with a thousand others.

And then all the right wing voters will point at the Dems and say "This is all your fault, why didn't you bastards stop us?"

Banned? Of course not, they're reasonable people! They'll just ask for a doctor's referral, internal physical examination to confirm unprotected sex took place and then there's the one week waiting time to make sure it's really what you want.