As China promises eternal luv or strategic alliance, or help with NATO, or whatever lie Xi says today, I have to point out what any honest historian would know.
The Chinese Communist Party is Fundamentally Dishonest. They don't keep treaties. Neither does Putin. The CCP knows that. The Soviets were Fundamentally Dishonest too.
Somewhere in a CCP bunker complex the Chinese Army has a big map of Eurasia and is pushing markers across it gaming out how far West they can go. The Urals? The Danube? The Caspian?
There are maps of the extent of the Mongol Empire. That counts as "historically chinese" too.
I'm against both Vladimir the Killer and Joe's* policies about him.
Come on man! Barack even said out loud his opinion of Biden's* competence. Negative and obscene.
Even if you assume Barry & George are actually running things, they aren't for American, Western, or Citizen's best interests. Red Skull or Dr. Jill in charge, the policies are evil. Guaranteed to get women and children killed, and Soros richer.
None of those truths mean I'm pro-Vladimir.
I was against the North Vietnam invasion and terrorism, AND against LBJ's insane policies there. While I watched my school mates graduate, get drafted, and return as a coffin weighted with sand.
Unlike John Kerry who committed treason aiding the Enemy, I didn't support calling my friends baby killers. I didn't wave Enemy flags. I didn't have illusions the Enemy was fighting for good.
I also didn't have illusions that the President was right. Later in life I found LBJ was terrified that the Chinese would send millions of troops like in Korea. That was illuminating. It didn't make the policies less insane or useless.
I'm not against helping Ukraine. I'm against uselessly and harmfully Pretending to. Especially as a distraction from the destruction of my country by the Biden* regime.
Full disclosure, I tend Jacksonian on war fighting. ( I'm more Jeffersonian on other subjects ) If you must fight, fight to win, or don't get involved! Half hearted, faked support, imaginary "red lines", get innocent people killed.
It was a hypersonic, not supersonic, missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, first time ever used in warfare. It was a strategic message to the US that Putin is willing to go to nuclear war. Do you still love your Russian masters, Tpehak?
Russia used it to destroy the hard to reach military ammunition facility on the west of Ukraine. It is more effective way to do this than using another ways.
Putin sent this message far before this missile was launched. You have to listen to Putin carefully.
It is not about what I love, it is about what is right. Protecting people in the eastern republics and eliminating nazi in Ukraine is the right thing. This war existed for 8 years with no any sight of the end, and Russia is going to end it.
The Russia Loving Troll on this thread totally missed the point that a hypersonic missile was used for the first time in the history of warfare. Adolph Putin could have used an ordinary cruise missile. The Russian War Criminal sent a signal that he is willing to go to nuclear war against the US.
Living in Seattle warps the brain. It must be their statue there honoring Lenin.
When you shoot a regular missile through the long distance there is a good chance the missle will be intercepted and eliminated by the enemy. The target of the missle was on the another end of the country, this is huge distance, and the target was also valuable enough to use the tool which has higher success rate than regular missle.
By the way, Putin does end the war, once Ukraine will be demilitarised and nazi leaders will be neutralized the war will be over.
A regular Party Propaganda website would go all out to Cancel such an opinion. We're not like that.
Besides, a Leftist Lies. End of story. We KNOW Putin lies. What we don't know is how much the praise for Ukraine is lies. Our pfake pfan here certainly appears to parrot the Putin agitprop. What he/she/it actually believes is unknown. See first line, this paragraph.
I assume Jen Psaki lies. She Almost Always does. So I take everything she says as provisionally False.
Jimmy Carter was fairly honest. He was often horribly Wrong. The Deep State Permanent Bureaucracy types often gave him evil advice. State department dweebs told him the Ayatollah was a Holy Man who wanted nothing but peace. That The Soviet Murder Machine was misunderstood. So James Earl gave Iran to a murder cult.
Bill Clinton was a pathological liar. He lied for self promotion. Hillary too. Barry is an ideological pathological liar. His Religion gives him an Excuse for dishonesty. He's an Alinsky Communist. It's in his Bio.
Joe* just lies to seem cool, probably since childhood. Fundamentally Dishonest in every way.
Donald Trump, otoh, is full of crap. When he tells a falsehood, it could be poor understanding and just being wrong, or insanely over the top self promotion. He was, after all a New York City Democrat for most of his life. Those were the people demanding bribes to do business in Gomorrah. Trump didn't switch Parties until the 21st century and his entry into politics at the dismay of the Establishment.
So with our wee troll, consider the possibility of mistaken assumptions! Or simply contrarian reflex.
If this was a typical Woke Bastion of Forced Conformity, & THANK YOU ALL IT IS NOT! then his posts might be the opposite spin.
Putin is guilty of war crimes. Hitler would be proud of this former KGB tyrant who knowingly bombs hospitals and theaters with innocent women and children inside. There are reports of Chernobyl's radiation monitors are no longer operational which could threaten Western Europe. Brave Russians are standing up to Putin who is threatening them with Gulag or Death. May Russia suffer the reprisal of a hundred Chechnya uprisings until their Stalin wannabee is removed.
Putin is also trying to bring back the Soviet Informant Society with a 15 years for Traitors policy.
Keep in mind... With cynicism!... that while the war against Ukraine is not popular, Putin has a 90% approval rating. ( according to his own minion polling ) So speaking out against Putin is, officially, if not actually, unpopular.
Putin is popular for a couple of reasons, though I think 90% is fake.
He got the pension payments running again.
He crushed the Evil Oligarchs that stole/were given, the National Resources and business.
The first one is real. The collapse of the Soviet Empire led to mass poverty Worse Than Normal, since so many were State Employed and Russia, like Europe, is in major demographic decline. More retired than new young workers to pay for them. With the Collapse, the KGB basically split up the resources and businesses between themselves. Screw the peasants.
The second part is almost real. Putin did crush the Oligarchs that wouldn't cooperate with him. And installed new ones, utterly beholden.
A twisted analogy would be a Donald Trump who was actually as evil as the CNN types said.
Imagine Donald firing most of the government. Putting in his cronies. Imprisoning & vanishing the CNN types. And while that sounds good compared to Just Joe* & President Harris*, an evil Donald would have ultimately been very very bad.
If you insist on making specious arguments and accusations, then please use proper grammar. Otherwise, the reader might infer your lack of reasoning capability as well as education.
Once again, please spell correctly. You lose your audience by simple mistakes. You are very tiresome for someone who claims to be a Buell enthusiast. I've been to Russia and it was one of the most creepiest experiences of my life. You? I've lived in Seattle and luckily it was a far different second, yet horrifying.
Please defend the bombing of innocent women and children in hospitals and theaters. I am eagerly awaiting your first reasoned response which has been sadly lacking for this audience. If not, then are you willing to admit that you are simply nothing but yet another obnoxious troll who periodically infects Badweb? We have seen your kind for years. You are nothing but full of drek.
You are a tiresome, lonely troll sadly screaming for an audience increasingly bored with you. As am I, who is on the verge of ignoring your ignorance. There is a cure for Seattle. It is called education. Would you like to meet my sister there? You would be happy together as pigs in you know what.
The rumors leaked through a Hong Kong meme site, ( and how's THAT for a prime source? ) that is very Eurocentric ( picking on Americans and especially our refusal to use the metric system ) and anti-Putin...
Anyhoo, the Rumor is massive rail line breaks in Belarus, and a possible threat to the Belarus Dictator, in the future. From the supposed rebels.
Speculation, On...
Facts. Rail lines are very easy to sabotage with basic hand tools. Well know fact. If you have the manpower to move rail segments, @100 pounds a foot, so lots of motivated men, you can delay repairs by days.
An internet semi organized flash mob type "gathering of the clans" doesn't need to gather in any one place to wreak havoc on a rail system. There's no need to concentrate where the Police ( think Gestapo & Stasi ) can round up your "same thinking enemies of the regime". You just have people all over quietly go for a walk and do sabotage. Everyone knows where the rail lines are, you can hear them for miles. People from farms and towns just walk to the tracks where they're out of sight, and do a bit of work.
Very effective and hard to stop. Worth remembering, eh?
And speculation! While pundits may say that the Belarus Dictator is vulnerable as He loses troops, ( probably true ) it's going to take a well organized rebellion to remove him. And THAT may well freak Putin. The third atomic bomb dropped on a city may well be in Belarus, to abort a coup. What's NATO's response to that? An internal dispute beyond their borders and reach?