He outwitted Republicans. That’s the bottom line. If these are surplus weapons then the White House can just say they’re free under “excess defense articles” and therefore Congress can’t do squat.
No they're not. I paid for them.
Yes. Not wanting their money funding foreign wars makes one a Putin apologist or some other dumb
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I understand, you think it's smart to be fascist.
Putin's not going to stop with Ukraine. The war will come for NATO eventually. If we don't stop Russia. In simplest terms.Not wanting their money funding foreign wars makes one a Putin apologist or some other dumb
IDGAF about NATO. If it were up to me we would've been out of them as well as the UN a long time ago.
That's silly. If they're struggling with Ukraine how do you think they'll handle NATO?
They’ll use asymmetric warfare and keep trying to push the boundaries in hopes that NATO won’t protect every square mile of territory. They’ll begin their campaign with major cyberattacks against Estonia like they started in 2007.
Would be a huge mistake for our security longterm. Like, stupid as hell.
Putin wants to retain power. Attacking a NATO country is a surefire way to lose power. They have a small percentage of the manpower and industry NATO has. It's not going to happen.
People said he’d never attack Georgia. Or Crimea. Or Ukraine proper. He keeps letting people underestimate him.
Look, it’s cute to think there’s a smarter way to maintain our hegemony but there’s really not. It’s about using carrots and sticks and lots of both. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, yadayadayada. But it’s all true.
Yes there is and we saw it working by the end of Trump's presidency with a historic degree of world peace.
Who said he wouldn't? But none of those are in NATO. Putin's M.O. is to attack former Soviet republics and carve off areas that are majority ethnic Russian. Got carried away trying to completely take over Ukraine. The Russians may ultimately win but they'll pay a terrible price for doing so. So much so that they'll never take on NATO.
Absolutely absurd. Every dictator he slobbered over was laughing at him and working him at every turn.
It's already been gone. The dollar is circling the toilet.
Don’t get in the way when those two great minds are strategizing.
It's the truth.
This is a hilarious comment given what we know about the past. So delusional is this comment that it says “no one” ever expected Putin to take Crimea or to fight to get regions of Ukraine back that were Russians, according to Putin to begin with? Actually, everyone said that. Both of those actions were telegraphed for months, and everyone knew.
Fantasy Island must be a great place.
