February 28, 2025Feb 28 51 minutes ago, BBE said: It is a matter for Congress per the TRA which expressly forbids the President from unilaterally changing policy on Taiwan. And Congress is run by *checks notes* Trump yes men. Gotcha.
February 28, 2025Feb 28 4 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said: He wants to get all his lost territory back, including crimea, that is not happening And rightfully so. There is no reality where even the slightest capitulation in a matter like this doesn't lead to the other dictators around the world looking around at their borders at weaker countries thinking it's finally time they don't have to worry about real consequences if they see something they want that's not theirs. If Putin is allowed to keep everything he took that's not his, where does it end?
February 28, 2025Feb 28 Just now, mayanh8 said: And rightfully so. There is no reality where even the slightest capitulation in a matter like this doesn't lead to the other dictators around the world looking around at their borders at weaker countries thinking it's finally time they don't have to worry about real consequences if they see something they want that's not theirs. If Putin is allowed to keep everything he took that's not his, where does it end? Yes he is right to want it back but that does not mean it is possible
February 28, 2025Feb 28 1 minute ago, The_Omega said: Yeah, he’s talking about the Europeans helping him form a big army to completely push Russia out. That’d be great but there’s no way it happens. Ok, I'm trying to find the interview but all I see are some clips and he doesn't say anything about that. The only thing I've seen in the news articles is his insistence on security agreements.
February 28, 2025Feb 28 19 minutes ago, NCTANK said: That was friggin awesome. Yeah, it really was great watching our country fall in line with a dictator that literally kills all of his opposition.
February 28, 2025Feb 28 4 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Ok, I'm trying to find the interview but all I see are some clips and he doesn't say anything about that. The only thing I've seen in the news articles is his insistence on security agreements. He’s very clear about it, and the fact that he’s not ready to quit fighting.
February 28, 2025Feb 28 2 minutes ago, The_Omega said: He’s very clear about it, and the fact that he’s not ready to quit fighting. He’s not ready to quit till he has security guarantees. The US refuses to give them those guarantees. I guarantee you if we would he would take the lines where they are now.
February 28, 2025Feb 28 1 minute ago, Joe Shades 73 said: What does that look like? how much money? Did biden lead a strong nato? thinking they can take back Crimea is living in fantasy land What’s the cost of future Russian aggression in Europe? Or do you think Putin will stop? NATO is as strong today as it has been in while, at least until the orange clown sided with Russia.
February 28, 2025Feb 28 11 minutes ago, Tnt4philly said: Obviously you haven’t been paying attention to current events. I have been. And the Taiwan agreement and the pivot to a China threat by the military make it a very different situation.
February 28, 2025Feb 28 1 hour ago, kiwieagle said: A trump supporter calling out another politician a grifter….. Now I’ve seen it all Truth sucks for TDS. Happy to help.
March 1, 2025Mar 1 Quote According to sources close to Zelenskyy, tempers had flared even before the event began. The Ukrainian president was apparently presented with a minerals for security agreement by the Trump administration prior to the press event, but the deal included no security guarantees to protect Ukraine from another Russian invasion. Zelenskyy had warned repeatedly ahead of his trip to Washington, D.C., that, in order to reach a mineral agreement, Kyiv needed these security assurances. Even so, he angered Trump and Vance by rejecting the deal, the source said. From Fox News - The security agreement is the deal breaker. Zelensky will give up territory and will sign minerals over to the US.
March 1, 2025Mar 1 Just now, Diehardfan said: Spot on Wrong. It is clearly Vance that escalates the tensions. Zelensky simply asked a reasonable question and Vance didn't like it. This entire thing was an ambush.
March 1, 2025Mar 1 Trump and Vance are Putin’s puppets. Pretty sure it’s common knowledge by now. So I’m not sure ambush is the right word here, Doc.
March 1, 2025Mar 1 5 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Wrong. It is clearly Vance that escalates the tensions. Zelensky simply asked a reasonable question and Vance didn't like it. This entire thing was an ambush. We disagree. It went off the rails when he drove it there.
March 1, 2025Mar 1 51 minutes ago, The_Omega said: Listening to Zelenskyy’s interview with Baier I can completely understand why he feels the way he does, but it’s totally unrealistic. He cannot accept that he is going to have to give up land. I really hate to say it but maybe they will need another leader who can accept reality. When did you turn into such a pu—y?
March 1, 2025Mar 1 4 minutes ago, Dave Moss said: Trump and Vance are Putin’s puppets. Pretty sure it’s common knowledge by now. So I’m not sure ambush is the right word here, Doc. Ok, setup
March 1, 2025Mar 1 32 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said: He wants to get all his lost territory back, including crimea, that is not happening Actually it could. Enough equipment and a decisive action, followed up by rapid maneuver would do the trick for most Ukrainian territory. Long range fires could them make holding Crimea untenable.
March 1, 2025Mar 1 23 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said: Yes he is right to want it back but that does not mean it is possible It's 10000% possible if someone that's strong enough stands up for the little guy.
March 1, 2025Mar 1 1 hour ago, Procus said: Do you think Putin is paying Trump to be his stooge? i don't know the reason why he's a pro-russian stooge...just that he is.
March 1, 2025Mar 1 14 minutes ago, BBE said: I have been. And the Taiwan agreement and the pivot to a China threat by the military make it a very different situation. We could pivot everything to China and it’s still not enough on our own. We’re going to need allies, like the ones we’re pissing off. Particularly ASEAN nations, aka the organization that our current SecDef doesn’t know the makeup of.
March 1, 2025Mar 1 Just now, Bill said: Actually it could. Enough equipment and a decisive action, followed up by rapid maneuver would do the trick for most Ukrainian territory. Long range fires could them make holding Crimea untenable. I think today ends US help. Europe will try to ramp up support, equipment, and materials but that will take time. Putin will go all in now. How long can Ukraine hold on with their current stockpiles plus minimal additions from wherever they can scrape them?
March 1, 2025Mar 1 5 minutes ago, Bill said: Actually it could. Enough equipment and a decisive action, followed up by rapid maneuver would do the trick for most Ukrainian territory. Long range fires could them make holding Crimea untenable. Yup. Biden's biggest problem in Ukraine was not giving them enough weapons. Well intentioned, but not decisive enough. About 10,000 times better than blaming Ukraine and offering them nothing though like the quivering sack of crap in charge right now though. Which is really saying something
March 1, 2025Mar 1 Just now, DrPhilly said: I think today ends US help. Europe will try to ramp up support, equipment, and materials but that will take time. Putin will go all in now. How long can Ukraine hold on with their current stockpiles plus minimal additions from wherever they can scrape them? I don’t know. I think their odds are pretty good to hold back quite a bit, but I don’t know for how long. The situation in Ukraine was more tenuous when I got there. They had just pushed them out of Kyiv, but they were making more rapid gains in the East than they are now. That stabilized a bit, and then the Kharkiv and Kherson counter offensives happened. The issue is that Ukraine took their foot off the gas to try and reconsolidate and that was a mistake, IMO. Every time we did that in WW2 we found out the hard way that the Germans were consolidating, too. Too many McClellans, not enough Grants.
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