FWIW, Navalny weighs in (from prison):
Replies to: FWIW, Navalny weighs in (from prison):
And Here Come The Irish ....
Closing with:
"The Ukrainians are making successful military offensives in the northeast of the country, and Russian men are fleeing Putin’s Russia in droves; by some estimates more men have left Russia to avoid service in Ukraine than have served there.
Donald Trump posted on his social media site, “The Russia/Ukraine catastrophe should NEVER have happened, and would definitely not have happened if I were President.”
He may be right. If Trump were president, he would be in Putin’s pocket and America would not be helping Ukraine.
It has long been assumed that a nuclear weapon would never be used again because of the consequences. But what if you’re dealing with a malefactor with no concern for consequences? A modern Greek tragedy."
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine-nuclear.html
Indeed...there's more to this puzzle than just Vlad...hopefully, the eventual peace plan involves
a new "Org Chart" in Russia before all sanctions are lifted.
Another quality OpEd from America's newspaper of record:
(no message)
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine.html
Amazing this could get out to the world. He has to know he will pay a price for this.
This is a bite sized bit of truth: "Second, the view of war not as a catastrophe but as an amazing means of solving all problems is not just a philosophy of Putin’s top brass, but a practice confirmed by life and evolution. Since the Second Chechen War, which made the little-known Putin the country’s most popular politician, through the war in Georgia, the annexation of Crimea, the war in Donbas and the war in Syria, the Russian elite over the past 23 years has learned rules that have never failed: War is not that expensive, it solves all domestic political problems, it raises public approval sky-high, it does not particularly harm the economy, and — most importantly — winners face no accountability. Sooner or later, one of the constantly changing Western leaders will come to us to negotiate. It does not matter what motives will lead him — the will of the voters or the desire to receive the Nobel Peace Prize — but if you show proper persistence and determination, the West will come to make peace."
The West needs to prepare for the long game.
Putin and comrade Trumpsky should be locked up.
(no message)
Washington Compost. Same newspaper with 15 corrections to 1 article.
(no message)
It's good you read the opinion - Not many would.
Oh, I get it, you actually didn't read it and wouldn't because you have you nutties who will tell you what to think.
Discovery is only when a pal tells you something you want to hear.