Phil1111

Putin only knows one response to any opposition to what he sets his mind to. Double down. Then double down again. He could easily call up another million men. He may eventually find a good general to lead them. Rest assured he has ordered 24/7 artillery shell production. NATO just can't do that. Ukraine currently has about a million men and women under arms. In reserve forces and regular military. Many of the artillery systems in Ukraine using old Soviet calibers will be completely out of ammo in another two months. That leaves them with NATO 155mm systems of which they may have 200?? artillery systems. NATO gave Ukraine over 700 rocket and artillery systems up to the start of December 2022. Soon they will be useless.

The UK is training Ukrainian solders, so is Germany and Poland. Keep in mind that Ukraine has been fighting Russian trained separatists since 2014. Most of the line of contact with Russia is quiet with little movement or engagement of forces. Ukrainian casualties have been consistent at about 100 killed a day So likely another 300 wounded. Russian casualties have been up to ten times that amount. Local defense forces may have had many of its best troops KIA or WIA. But Ukraine is concentrating in building up new units in reserve forces. Designed to be deployed if and when Russia launches its much vaunted "spring offensive".

January 4, 2023 "Talks of dictator Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus becoming Russia's vassal gained ground in 2020 when the regime violently crushed all forms of descent, with Moscow's full backing.{Including Russian troops and FSB backing] Two years later, Lukashenko's Belarus is barely independent from the Kremlin. The Belarusian economy is dependent on Russia's direct and indirect financial contributions, the Russian army is stationed all across the country, and its territory is used to launch missiles against Ukraine. Russia trains Belarusian troops, the country's opposition is in prison or exile, while the country's official language, Belarusian, is being actively suppressed by the authorities in favor of Russian. Belarus is also part of the Union State, a political union with Russia that used to slowly integrate Belarus into its warmongering neighbor. "

and spend more money on big defense projects to combat Chinese aggression.

“There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.” Lao Tzu also known as Sun Tzu

So a FOX-lite then!

Probably not. Ah! the US military industrial complex and its political connections. Mostly agree. Russia is not likely to flip over to an open democracy after Putin is gone. Just as China is not going to go democratic after Xi dies. IMO the western NATO countries closest to Russia have the best feeling for Russian warmongering. From Latvia to Poland defense budgets are on the increase. From Finnish, Swedish and Germany appeasement of Russia is over. All knowing that the Russian military is a paper tiger. Soon Putin will be resurrecting the gate guardian T-34 tanks for service. But as long as sociopaths in Russia can use a subservient media. As long as Russia is a kleptocracy led by gangsters. It can jail opponents, draft more fodder and start more wars. If it decided that Belarus is full of previously undiscovered Nazis Would anyone stop it?

"A leaked internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin’s executive office and obtained by Yahoo News lays out a detailed plan on how Russia plans to take full control over neighboring Belarus in the next decade under the pretext of a merger between the two countries. The document outlines in granular detail a creeping annexation by political, economic and military means of an independent but illiberal European nation by Russia, which is an active state of war in its bid to conquer Ukraine through overwhelming force." Within seven years according to Putin.

Pfffffft republicans are responding. The Biden laptop investigation will start soon. MTG has called for a "national divorce" of republican and democrat states. She hasn't laid out a plan on how to account for the huge subsidies GOP states receive from Dem states. Fox News host Tucker Carlson just received all the governments video footage of the January 6th insurrection from Kevin McCarthy. Expect something newsworthy soon from FOX. Or from RTV. "Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said in a new interview that he did not think people would find out about his resume fabrications because he “got away with” the same falsehoods during his unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2020" For the White christian evangelical GOP base. A new book lays it all out. "Preparing For War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--and What Comes Next." How GOP christian evangelical nationalists are preparing for war and the coming apocalypse in America.

So President Biden is in Kiev today. Giving support to Ukraine. Had trump stolen the election. trump would have been visiting Kiev today. Giving support to the Putin puppet government. Then likely flying on to Moscow to congratulate his bum buddy. For some more ass kissing. Clearly, jakee hasn't been around enough to poke, prod and keep you in line.

I saw that. My opinion of Musk has really fallen since the twit disaster. Now the twits seem to have coalesced.

Excellent as usual. Everyone has to keep in mind its Rupert MurDoch. That created the FOX propaganda machine. He has the same apparatus set up in Australia.

Thank you professor, Now I understand Brent!

US politicians have been working on that problem for 50 years and not come close. Of course its ridiculous. Unfounded counter accusations are standard GOP debating methods.They invented whataboutism. Brent has a MBA, not an economics degree. Unless FOX-U has given him one. The support staff for his retirement village. Commuting from under the underpass is right up Ron DeSantis's line of thinking. Don't give them election talking points.

I've heard that big US defense companies salivate when their guaranteed profit contracts are released. Then they get together and have lemon twists in their martinis to celebrate. Sweet.

Trudeau needs distractions from time to time. Emails show Trudeau minister's office quashed details of $6,000-a-night London suite "Federal government staff were prepared for reporters to find out about the exorbitant hotel bill, including a more than $6,000-a-night suite, that politicians and government staff incurred while in London for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Internal documents show Global Affairs Canada (GAC) staff discussing weeks after the funeral how to avoid the embarrassment happening again with the coronation of King Charles."

What about touching or using doorknobs? Or this week "Most recently, fired Russian Interior Ministry Major General Vladimir Makarov was found dead this week in an apparent suicide, The Moscow Times reported." "A former Russian police general who had been in charge of cracking down on protesters has been found dead in an apparent suicide following his dismissal by President Vladimir Putin, state media reported. Major General Vladimir Makarov, 72, had helped oversee Russia's crackdown on opposition activists in his role as deputy chief of the Russian police's anti-extremism unit. Putin dismissed Makarov, who was described as “once the main organizer of the ‘hunt’ for opposition activists and inconvenient journalists,” in late January." It appears as if suicide and falls from windows may soon become the third leading cause of death in Russia. With "Special Military Operations" as number one. Vodka as number two. Perhaps my suggestion a week or so ago that Putin should watch out for a Makarov shot to the back of his head. Was misinterpreted.

When people get a perverse sense of superiority from the feeding. The feeding will continue

The EU has just announced that it is banning the sale of gas power cars by 2035. Get ready for a GOP EPA to announce that its great news. Because it frees up more gas for America.

Here is about 40% of the cause. From New England Journal of Medicine. May 2022 "the leading cause of death among children and adolescents, defined as persons 1 to 19 years of age.4 Since 2016, that gap has narrowed, and in 2020, firearm-related injuries became the leading cause of death in that age group (Figure 1). From 2019 to 2020, the relative increase in the rate of firearm-related deaths of all types (suicide, homicide, unintentional, and undetermined) among children and adolescents was 29.5% — more than twice as high as the relative increase in the general population. The increase was seen across most demographic characteristics and types of firearm-related death" The US vrs OECD 19 So guns and keeping the rich rich and the poor poor. But at least abortion is restricted.

See, that answers perfectly Joe's concerns about the lack of Canada's spending on defense. The F-22 pilot can paint a red balloon kill under his cockpit canopy. Both Canada and the US can feel good about it all. The money Canada saved on deferring the purchase of new F-35s. Can pay for some new hip replacements of Canadian seniors. A win all around!

I'm thinking more along the lines of a transfer to the Ukrainian front.

Keep in mind that President Biden and America have probably been responsible for delaying NATO weapons deliveries. Poland wanted to give Ukraine Jets over eight months ago. Biden and America have held that up. Poland, the Baltic states wanted to send tanks over six months ago. Finally the UK and Poland stepped up. America and Biden dejectedly came along. Germany just announced a commitment of over 130 tanks total to be sent. The US is not expected to have its tanks in theater for another half year. The UK and Poland are ready to send combat jets tomorrow. Foot dragging on weapons has probably cost 25,000 Ukrainian freedom fighter 's lives. All because President Biden doesn't want to offend Putin's warmongering. When this war first started I suggested 1,000 M1 tanks as a good start. Some of the German tanks are the older Leopard 1's with 105s. The same class as the US M1 of which 2,300 are in storage. Also armed with the smaller 105mm cannon. I'm reluctant to criticize President Biden. But facts are facts. Furthermore those old M1s will likely never see service again. So the US taxpayer is really out nothing. The sooner Putin is defeated. The sooner another Russian FSB officer is likely to unholster his Tokarev. To give Putin his just reward. At least then the Russian trolls in SC would have to change their tunes. Oh! and of course there is that sucker factor as Ken mentioned.

Brent is a Sovereign Citizen. "is a loose grouping of litigants, activists, tax protesters, financial scheme promoters and conspiracy theorists, who claim to be answerable only to their particular interpretations of the common law and believe that they are therefore not subject to any government statutes or proceedings, unless they consent to them" So quit attacking his religion.

"The son of a former Arkansas lieutenant governor and grandson of a former governor was sentenced Friday in federal court to 52 months in prison on one count of transfer of a machine gun. Louis Henry Rockefeller, 25, son of the late Lt. Gov. Win Paul Rockefeller and grandson of the late Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller, pleaded guilty...In addition to the four years and four months he will spend in prison, Rockefeller was also ordered to serve three years on supervised release and to pay a $100,000 fine.... a number of 3D printed drop-in auto sears and what are known as "Glock switches," which convert AR-style rifles and Glock semi-automatic pistols to fire a full magazine with one trigger pull... Gibbons testified to several sales of machine guns and auto-sears between Rockefeller and undercover officers, as well as a cooperating witness who came to police attention after he was arrested with a converted Glock pistol during a drug interdiction operation. During a recording of one transaction played in court, Rockefeller could be heard telling the confidential informant how to install a drop-in sear into an AR style rifle and offering him a discount if he would bring him more customers." Why? Are you and Brent going into business together? He has a sort of laissez-faire idea of gun laws. BIGUN has proven Brent wrong on many questions of gun laws.