Why can't corporate civil disobedience occur in the US? Why don't oil companies just restart their closed down production? Why don't the pipeline companies start rebuilding? Why don't the frackers restart fracking? And tell Biden to "jump in the lake". Maybe start up again in a Republican state where any Washington led suppression can be countered by state and county forces. The US should not be a "tail between thee legs" nation. Some people have to stand up to those who have sold out to Russia and who are equally disastrous, desperate to sell out to Iran. Action must happen now!
Thank you for these “on the ground” reports. War is hell. I am proud of these Ukrainians fighting for their country. I believe I would fight just as hard for mine. I pray for peace, soon
But idiot Biden is still funding Putin’s war. So we aren’t taking Russian oil but someone else is. And he’s getting $120 plus a barrel. The way to defund Putin is to open the oil spigots in America to get that price down. Even saying ANWAR is open and the keystone pipeline will restart and the rules for federal lands will be eased would get the price down.
When you have a US president that is denied a phone call to Saudi or the UAE, you know you have an incredibly weak disastrous US president.
The Ukrainian people have not been served well by their government. Putin is a nasty guy, and NATO and the Ukrainian government have backed that nasty guy into a corner. And as always in war, all combatants are spinning their narratives through the media with War Propaganda:
How many times have we heard the expression: "Freedom isn't Free?" Ukrainians by the millions are living and dying today to keep their freedom. A recent Quinnipiac poll that asked whether Americans would stay and fight were America to be attacked was quite revealing. It was broken down by political party, group identity and age. I am not sure if it measured on part of the country versus another. I will not rehash the results here but it is obvious that younger Americans are less likely to defend this country than older Americans, a fact that comes as no surprise given the priorities and prejudices of our schools. Bari, I hope you will look further into this and have a roundtable or series of commentaries addressing this issue and if the polling is accurate what can and should be done going forward.
In contrast to the nationalism and courage of the Ukrainian people, ponder this (from Charles Cooke in NR: "As part of a recent survey of attitudes toward Russia’s execrable invasion of Ukraine, the polling firm Quinnipiac asked Americans whether they would stay and fight if the United States were invaded by Russia. The results make sobering — and often disgraceful — reading. Sixty-eight percent of Republicans said that they would “stay and fight,” with 25 percent indicating that they’d run away. Among independents, those numbers are 57–36. Among Democrats, they’re in negative territory, at 40–52. Among 50- to 64-year-old men and women, the stay/leave numbers are 66/28. Among 18- to 34-year-olds, they are 45/48." Sad, but unsurprising. Of course, what one says (or hopes) one would do is not always the case when faced with test but when only 40% of Democrats would even contemplate staying and defending their nation, it speaks volumes. And explains our deep and growing revulsion of them and their principles.
It is a funny contrast seeing these hard working blue collar Ukrainians fighting for their country that they love being hero-exploited by the American big city coastal elite bluechecks as those same American bluechecks work on denigrating and destroying American hard working blue collar Americans that would be relied upon to defend their country.
Our elite bluechecks are terrified to death of a virus. How do you think they would do in real war?
Heroizing the Ukrainians is a feel-good bit of pseudo-journalism that is nice clickbait, but does not do justice to the stupidity of Zelenskyy and his controllers. This cheap piece makes me question why I paid for a subscription.
The Ukrainian leadership could have avoided this whole situation by simply adhering to the Minsk2 agreement: do not join Nato, and grant autonomy to two eastern provinces which are majority Russian. These are concessions, obviously, but the reality is that they are the close neighbor and former territory of a vast empire next door. It's the geopolitical reality. In fact, they could still halt the war by agreeing to those conditions; the Russian foreign minister stated this just yesterday.
Nato was supposed to be a bulwark for the western democracies against the Soviet Union, and it should have stuck to that job. "Liberating" Libya from Qaddafi, at Obama's behest, was a deviation from that mission, and led to tremendous instability in northern Africa that has come back to haunt Europe.
Now wading into what is basically a border dispute between two neighbors in the far east of Europe is an ill-advised mission. It's highly unlikely that supplying the Ukrainians with massive amounts of arms and jets will cause the Russians to back down; it can only lead to a wider conflict, with vastly more bloodshed mostly on Ukrainian territory, and greater chances of escalating into a nuclear war that will kill us all.
Domestically, the feckless and stupid actions of the Biden Administration will surely lead to an electoral backlash in November, and probably again in 2024, but unfortunately the opposition's stance will likely be one of a stronger military posture versus Russia.
Meanwhile, our real nemesis, the Chinese Communist Party, wins in the end. They get all the Russian energy and mineral commodities, while the West collapses. The longer the conflict is prolonged, the better for China. Stop and think about that, before printing off another Ukrainian flag and pasting it to your car window, and boycotting Smirnoff vodka (no relation to Russia) other empty gestures.
Ukraine ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. The reality is perhaps more complex than what described today, including oppression of ethnic Russians there. That said, there is no justification for the invasion and ongoing, heartbreaking onslaught.
It's so crazy how people in the comments can read what's happening and see the videos and photos of the people of Ukraine and make comments like "the Biden Administration and the US media are worse than Putin."
This should be required reading for everyone. If we've learned anything over the past two years, it's that way too many Americans lack perspective. We're soft. When it rains in Los Angeles, people act like the end is nigh. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, women and children walk around with Kalashnikovs slung on their backs.
Putin is transitioning to what's basically total war. Butchering civilians. Firing at residential housing areas, deliberately terrorizing the people stuck inside this hellscape. Hungry, cold, and scared out of their minds. No water or electricity.
In Mariupol, Russia did this for a week. Then they promised a safe passage, a humanitarian corridor so civilians could evacuate. Ukrainians walked into a trap, took mortar and sniper fire and had to go back. After 11 days, Russia again promised safe passage. And then the Ukrainians walked into a butterfly mine field.
Butterfly mines are small, about the size of your hand, and they look like toys. You know what that means. They're plastic, pressure activated, very sensitive. And they're nasty. Butterfly mines are meant to maim, not kill. The logic is to force at least one other soldier to attend to the maimed one, have him put a tourniquet on - essentially taking 2 out of the fight.
In Afghanistan, Putin maimed around 30,000 people this way, many of them kids. And he did the same exact thing in the Chechen War, in the siege of Grozny. Same ploy. It's a cruel method of psychological warfare, and it's devastatingly effective. The point is to suffocate hope.
Poland announces new fighters for Ukraine via US air base in Germany, and a few hours later the Pentagon denies. Not that I thought it was a good idea but this is another fiasco, US under this administration are a mess.
Why can't corporate civil disobedience occur in the US? Why don't oil companies just restart their closed down production? Why don't the pipeline companies start rebuilding? Why don't the frackers restart fracking? And tell Biden to "jump in the lake". Maybe start up again in a Republican state where any Washington led suppression can be countered by state and county forces. The US should not be a "tail between thee legs" nation. Some people have to stand up to those who have sold out to Russia and who are equally disastrous, desperate to sell out to Iran. Action must happen now!
Thank you for these “on the ground” reports. War is hell. I am proud of these Ukrainians fighting for their country. I believe I would fight just as hard for mine. I pray for peace, soon
Such bravery in the face of a madman.
But idiot Biden is still funding Putin’s war. So we aren’t taking Russian oil but someone else is. And he’s getting $120 plus a barrel. The way to defund Putin is to open the oil spigots in America to get that price down. Even saying ANWAR is open and the keystone pipeline will restart and the rules for federal lands will be eased would get the price down.
When you have a US president that is denied a phone call to Saudi or the UAE, you know you have an incredibly weak disastrous US president.
Breaking news from Los Angeles: My woke neighbor has replaced her faded “In this house…” yard sign with the Ukrainian flag.
The left has found a shiny new platform from which to broadcast their virtue.
Thanks for letting Ukrainian voices be heard.
The Ukrainian people have not been served well by their government. Putin is a nasty guy, and NATO and the Ukrainian government have backed that nasty guy into a corner. And as always in war, all combatants are spinning their narratives through the media with War Propaganda:
https://jeffcuttler.substack.com/p/war-propaganda?s=w
How many times have we heard the expression: "Freedom isn't Free?" Ukrainians by the millions are living and dying today to keep their freedom. A recent Quinnipiac poll that asked whether Americans would stay and fight were America to be attacked was quite revealing. It was broken down by political party, group identity and age. I am not sure if it measured on part of the country versus another. I will not rehash the results here but it is obvious that younger Americans are less likely to defend this country than older Americans, a fact that comes as no surprise given the priorities and prejudices of our schools. Bari, I hope you will look further into this and have a roundtable or series of commentaries addressing this issue and if the polling is accurate what can and should be done going forward.
In contrast to the nationalism and courage of the Ukrainian people, ponder this (from Charles Cooke in NR: "As part of a recent survey of attitudes toward Russia’s execrable invasion of Ukraine, the polling firm Quinnipiac asked Americans whether they would stay and fight if the United States were invaded by Russia. The results make sobering — and often disgraceful — reading. Sixty-eight percent of Republicans said that they would “stay and fight,” with 25 percent indicating that they’d run away. Among independents, those numbers are 57–36. Among Democrats, they’re in negative territory, at 40–52. Among 50- to 64-year-old men and women, the stay/leave numbers are 66/28. Among 18- to 34-year-olds, they are 45/48." Sad, but unsurprising. Of course, what one says (or hopes) one would do is not always the case when faced with test but when only 40% of Democrats would even contemplate staying and defending their nation, it speaks volumes. And explains our deep and growing revulsion of them and their principles.
If they had only listened...
https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/07/donald-trump-warned-united-nation-relying-russian-oil-german-delegation-laughed/
It is a funny contrast seeing these hard working blue collar Ukrainians fighting for their country that they love being hero-exploited by the American big city coastal elite bluechecks as those same American bluechecks work on denigrating and destroying American hard working blue collar Americans that would be relied upon to defend their country.
Our elite bluechecks are terrified to death of a virus. How do you think they would do in real war?
Heroizing the Ukrainians is a feel-good bit of pseudo-journalism that is nice clickbait, but does not do justice to the stupidity of Zelenskyy and his controllers. This cheap piece makes me question why I paid for a subscription.
The Ukrainian leadership could have avoided this whole situation by simply adhering to the Minsk2 agreement: do not join Nato, and grant autonomy to two eastern provinces which are majority Russian. These are concessions, obviously, but the reality is that they are the close neighbor and former territory of a vast empire next door. It's the geopolitical reality. In fact, they could still halt the war by agreeing to those conditions; the Russian foreign minister stated this just yesterday.
Nato was supposed to be a bulwark for the western democracies against the Soviet Union, and it should have stuck to that job. "Liberating" Libya from Qaddafi, at Obama's behest, was a deviation from that mission, and led to tremendous instability in northern Africa that has come back to haunt Europe.
Now wading into what is basically a border dispute between two neighbors in the far east of Europe is an ill-advised mission. It's highly unlikely that supplying the Ukrainians with massive amounts of arms and jets will cause the Russians to back down; it can only lead to a wider conflict, with vastly more bloodshed mostly on Ukrainian territory, and greater chances of escalating into a nuclear war that will kill us all.
Domestically, the feckless and stupid actions of the Biden Administration will surely lead to an electoral backlash in November, and probably again in 2024, but unfortunately the opposition's stance will likely be one of a stronger military posture versus Russia.
Meanwhile, our real nemesis, the Chinese Communist Party, wins in the end. They get all the Russian energy and mineral commodities, while the West collapses. The longer the conflict is prolonged, the better for China. Stop and think about that, before printing off another Ukrainian flag and pasting it to your car window, and boycotting Smirnoff vodka (no relation to Russia) other empty gestures.
The comments on here are a dumpster fire.
Thank you, Bari, for giving a voice to these people. Pray for peace; pray for miracles.
Ukraine ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. The reality is perhaps more complex than what described today, including oppression of ethnic Russians there. That said, there is no justification for the invasion and ongoing, heartbreaking onslaught.
It's so crazy how people in the comments can read what's happening and see the videos and photos of the people of Ukraine and make comments like "the Biden Administration and the US media are worse than Putin."
This should be required reading for everyone. If we've learned anything over the past two years, it's that way too many Americans lack perspective. We're soft. When it rains in Los Angeles, people act like the end is nigh. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, women and children walk around with Kalashnikovs slung on their backs.
Putin is transitioning to what's basically total war. Butchering civilians. Firing at residential housing areas, deliberately terrorizing the people stuck inside this hellscape. Hungry, cold, and scared out of their minds. No water or electricity.
In Mariupol, Russia did this for a week. Then they promised a safe passage, a humanitarian corridor so civilians could evacuate. Ukrainians walked into a trap, took mortar and sniper fire and had to go back. After 11 days, Russia again promised safe passage. And then the Ukrainians walked into a butterfly mine field.
Butterfly mines are small, about the size of your hand, and they look like toys. You know what that means. They're plastic, pressure activated, very sensitive. And they're nasty. Butterfly mines are meant to maim, not kill. The logic is to force at least one other soldier to attend to the maimed one, have him put a tourniquet on - essentially taking 2 out of the fight.
In Afghanistan, Putin maimed around 30,000 people this way, many of them kids. And he did the same exact thing in the Chechen War, in the siege of Grozny. Same ploy. It's a cruel method of psychological warfare, and it's devastatingly effective. The point is to suffocate hope.
Poland announces new fighters for Ukraine via US air base in Germany, and a few hours later the Pentagon denies. Not that I thought it was a good idea but this is another fiasco, US under this administration are a mess.