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Kiev surrounded, says the mayor.

https://california18.com/live-kiev-surrounded-follow-the-news-of-the-w
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Kiev surrounded, says the mayor.

https://california18.com/live-kiev-surrounded-follow-the-news-of-the-w
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly urged members of the NATO alliance to “close the skies.” This appears to be a request for a “no-fly zone” — deploying NATO aircraft to Ukrainian airspace in order to block Russia from using its air force in support of the invasion.

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Michael Savage: Had Trump been President this would not have happened.

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All flights out of Russia, commercial or otherwise, are prohibited from flying over Europe.

That's huge...

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All flights out of Russia, commercial or otherwise, are prohibited from flying over Europe.

That's huge...

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Sounds racist to me.

Oh. Not this time, huh?

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Putin is still trying to avoid using concentrated missiles and airstrikes to destroy Ukrainian defensive positions, to preserve his narrative of this not being a real war and not requiring that sort of use of firepower.

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IKEA joke: Unfortunately they will come shipped in a bunch of pieces that you have to assemble with an Allen wrench.

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IKEA joke: Unfortunately they will come shipped in a bunch of pieces that you have to assemble with an Allen wrench.

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Grandpa Dementia and his crack team at the White House seem intent to sideline American leadership. He has surrounded himself with progressives who harbor an animus against the historic role of the United States.

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IKEA joke: Unfortunately they will come shipped in a bunch of pieces that you have to assemble with an Allen wrench.

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Here's another joke: The Russian Ruble sank to a new all-time low, trading at 117.62 RUB/USD. Since Jan. 1, 2022, the ruble has depreciated by as much as 47.33% against the USD. Conflict in Eastern Europe is fueling the currency's destruction. At present, I measure Russia’s inflation at 69.4%/yr.

@Angry_Staffer
This. Russia is clearly returning at least partially to their Syria tactics. Cluster munitions, MLRS (rockets) fired indiscriminately into population centers, etc.

@evangershkovich
the images coming out of Kharkiv right now may be the most heartbreaking yet. civilians laying dead in the streets still holding the jugs of water and bags of food they had run out to get

https://www.cnn.com/webview/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-28
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Russian Central Bank to raise key interest rate from 9.5% to 20%

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/27/bp-abandons-stake-russ
ian-oil-giant-rosneft/

BP to ‘exit’ its $14 billion stake in Russian oil giant in stark sign that Western business is breaking ties over Ukraine invasion

These don't feel small. They don't feel like decisions that get undone if a cease fire, or Peace is agreed upon. These feel loooong term.

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What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.

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For the life of me I don’t understand why Dems aren’t falling over themselves to praise how Biden has handled things and express immense relief that he, rather than a fully compromised Trump, is leading the global response, but this delusional nonsense is what’s filling the void:

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Grandpa Dementia and his crack team at the White House seem intent to sideline American leadership. He has surrounded himself with progressives who harbor an animus against the historic role of the United States.

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https://jabberwocking.com/democrats-need-to-back-biden-more-loudly-on-
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.

Hey G, sad how ignorant some here are. They are clueless because they are blinded by hate.

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What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.

Hey G, sad how ignorant some here are. They are clueless because they are blinded by hate.

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I think you are right to ignore them.

I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.

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I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.

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I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.

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What may eventually give the Russians victory, especially in the crucial battle for control of Kyiv, is that there is a corps of veterans of the war in Syria. Some of these are experienced in urban warfare and participated in retaking the city of Aleppo from rebels against the Syrian government. However, the effort to do that involved massively bombing and destroying buildings in Aleppo to the point that it is a wrecked ruin. Will Putin irrationally do the same to the beautiful and historic city of Kyiv?

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Americans tend to see the world in much the same way as President Joe Biden frames it in his speeches, divided neatly between “democracies” and “autocracies.” But the reality is that authoritarian states exist on a political spectrum depending on how much power is exercised by a single individual—and where states land on this spectrum has a big impact on matters of war and peace. At one end, you have civilian-run regimes, like Hu Jintao’s China or Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union, where political power is checked and shared within a ruling party. At the other, you have personalist dictatorships like that of, say, Saddam Hussein, where rivals are purged, loyalists are rewarded, cults of personality flourish, and all authority runs through the glorious leader.

The political science literature suggests that personalist dictatorships are more erratic and dangerous to the outside world than other sorts of autocracies.

Researchers have found they are more likely to start wars, for instance (institutionalized civilian-run regimes are about as apt to use force as democracies), and also tend to perform worse militarily (not surprising, since their leaders are often surrounded by yes men). But while civilian-run regimes might be less apt to launch destructive, harebrained conflicts in the short term, in the long term they can still be ticking time bombs.

That’s because as they age, their intricate power structures often devolve and allow dictators to consolidate personal control. In a forthcoming paper, Andrew Leber and Matthew Reichert of Harvard University and Christopher Carothers of the University of Pennsylvania theorize that this tends to happen when there’s no influential old guard of political elites who can stop them. All of which pretty much sums up what has happened in Russia over the last two decades.

While the world’s news readers may long have thought of Vladimir Putin as a dictator, most Russia analysts and policymakers saw the Kremlin differently. And for most of Putin’s nearly 23-year journey in power, they were right to do so. What once existed, but not now, was a complicated regime beyond one man where lots of people exerted influence and could check Putin’s impulses.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/ukraine-invasion-putin-is-
ruling-alone.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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It's amusing watching Ted just drink up all the diarrhea.



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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

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What an evil selfish prick Putin is. Does anyone but him benefit from this? And now? After 2 years of covid crap? Kill thousands and crash the world economy so he can redraw a MAP?!?? What fcking dinosaur. I look forward to watching this blow up in his face.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/world/europe/putin-speech-russia-uk
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If they can cut off bank accounts to an entire nation, the Freedom Convoy never stood a chance.

The New World Order is in control now.

Look back fondly on 2019 and before it. Because the life we used to know will never be again.

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Russia, China, and Iran are the New Axis powers. Between them they have everything they need (armies, nukes, oil revenues) to take over half the world, especially when the weak and woke West is "too civilized" to do a damn thing about it.

During 1945 when Russia was invading Germany from the East and then sacking Berlin, the Russian Army was actually encouraged by their officers to terrorize the civilian population. As many as 3 million German women and girls were brutalized and raped, often gang-raped. I wonder how CNN and the rest of their oh-so-progressive ilk will live with that reality playing out in front of their smug self-righteous retarded faces.

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Televangelist Pat Robertson came out of his retirement to say Russia’s president Vladimir Putin was “compelled by God” to invade Ukraine.

The televangelist added that Mr Putin’s attack on Ukraine was in preparation for a massive “end times” invasion of Israel.

The 91-year-old insisted this was all a part of an “end times” battle and that Mr Putin was just following God’s plan.

Mr Robertson said: “People say that Putin’s out of his mind. Yes, maybe so. But at the same time, he’s being compelled by God. He went into Ukraine but that wasn’t his goal. His goal was to move against Israel, ultimately.”

The ageing televangelist continued to say that Russia was using Ukraine as a “staging area” and God had put “hooks” in the Russian president’s “jaws” for a reason to draw him to this stage.

“Is Putin mad? Is Putin crazy? Perhaps. But God says I am going to put hooks in your jaws, I am gonna draw you into this… whether you like it or not,” he said.

Mr Robertson made an appearance on The 700 Club on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) on Monday and claimed God had his plan that was being implemented via Mr Putin.

“All of those troops there are going to be coming against Israel in the latter days. And God says, ‘I am going to take care of it’,” he said.

He told the viewers to “read your Bible because it’s coming to pass”.

Meanwhile, Kyiv was rocked by massive explosions just hours after Russian and Ukrainian delegates held ceasefire negotiations in Belarus.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/televangelist-pat-robertson-says-
putin-052511159.html

It is not only Pat Robertson who believes this:

In Ezekiel 38 and 39, a description is given of a war between Israel and a nation which many have identified as Russia. The two chapters mentioned describe the invasion of the land of Israel by the armies of Russia and the nations that are associated with her. The Scriptures are plain that this is a military invasion and reveal many details about the situation existing at the time of that invasion.
More at https://bible.org/seriespage/10-king-north

Many Bible Verses about the King of the North (aka Putin):
https://www.google.com/search?q=bible+revelations+king+of+the+north+an
d+south

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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