US has no good options in Ukraine

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Anonymous wrote:I hope he let the US evacuate his wife and kids.

+1

From the latest reports I read in WaPo it sounds like the family all remains in Ukraine.

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Anonymous wrote:Y'all, at the moment, Biden has played this as well as possible. Putin is isolated, traditionally neutral countries are rallying, and the global community is responding.

If the world comes out of this with the message that humans can come together to do good things, and strenthen global and instituationalism it will be a win for the planet.

GOP can rally on about the libs and Biden being old or whatever, but it is entirely possible the US and the small L liberalism get a huge boost.

I’m amazed. Not at The Biden Admin, but just the fact that it seems the people in charge actually listened to the IC. Like, they actually listened to the legitimate intel and then acted appropriately. I truly was beginning to think we spend trillions of dollars on intelligence in order to bury, or cherry pick it.
Shocked.

I don’t understand why these countries don’t come together and create a no fly zone over Kyiv, or over Ukraine for that matter. Putin is done. This is not the way it was supposed to go for him — he’s trying to withdraw.

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Anyone?

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Speaking of DWTS I’ve been following Maksim Chmerkovskly’s Instagram account since Thursday and IMO it’s pretty incredible. He’s stuck in central Kyiv at a hotel and I believe was supposed to fly out Thursday but then the war started. He posts regularly.

The importance of social media from him and from anyone else in Ukraine has never been seen before during a war conflict. The entire world can see, every person with a phone becomes a journalist.

I haven't seen that social media but the UK should shut down the London Laundromat for Putin cronies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/26/roman-abramovich-russia-sanctions/

Lots of fine stuff and money to add to UK and USA assets. Meanwhile a brewery in the Ukraine has a special edition product for sale https://www.pravda.beer/en/pravda/ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224940967928849&set=a.10211702079244906

A prior regime, the USSR, ran into major difficulty after hiding Chernobyl and a hideous 10 years in Afghanistan. Putin sent his own troops into Belarus through and into the Cherobyl exclusion zone.

Meanwhile under new NYC voting laws, will the G visa types in the Russian UN goon squad get to vote in local elections?

Good question.

And their children born here are automatically US citizens.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Speaking of DWTS I’ve been following Maksim Chmerkovskly’s Instagram account since Thursday and IMO it’s pretty incredible. He’s stuck in central Kyiv at a hotel and I believe was supposed to fly out Thursday but then the war started. He posts regularly.

The importance of social media from him and from anyone else in Ukraine has never been seen before during a war conflict. The entire world can see, every person with a phone becomes a journalist.

I haven't seen that social media but the UK should shut down the London Laundromat for Putin cronies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/26/roman-abramovich-russia-sanctions/

Lots of fine stuff and money to add to UK and USA assets. Meanwhile a brewery in the Ukraine has a special edition product for sale https://www.pravda.beer/en/pravda/ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224940967928849&set=a.10211702079244906

A prior regime, the USSR, ran into major difficulty after hiding Chernobyl and a hideous 10 years in Afghanistan. Putin sent his own troops into Belarus through and into the Cherobyl exclusion zone.

Meanwhile under new NYC voting laws, will the G visa types in the Russian UN goon squad get to vote in local elections?

Good question.

The answer to my question is nothing excludes even the head of the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN from voting on the mayor, ballot initiatives, etc
"Under a new bill approved by the New York City Council, any eligible non-citizen New Yorker would be able to start registering to vote as a “municipal voter” on December 9, 2022. Once registered, they could begin voting in local elections as of January 9, 2023."

Sloppy work https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-03252

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Honestly, explain to me how come no country ever sanctioned the U.S. when you bombed Serbia without NATO approval? Instead, Serbia was under sanctions? Or when the U.S. invaded Iraq? Or Afghanistan?
Bcs the U.S. holed the power in the world, politically, economically and militarily.
But, when Russia does it, oh, no? They are bad!

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, explain to me how come no country ever sanctioned the U.S. when you bombed Serbia without NATO approval? Instead, Serbia was under sanctions? Or when the U.S. invaded Iraq? Or Afghanistan?
Bcs the U.S. holed the power in the world, politically, economically and militarily.
But, when Russia does it, oh, no? They are bad!

Russia is bad, they are murdering innocent children, you jerk. At least when the US bombed thise countries, it was in response to histile actions. Ukraine hadn't done anything except exist. And you think murdering children is ok. What a jerk you are.

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A lot of eastern europe is pretty racist. Keep that part quiet for now though.

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A lot of eastern europe is pretty racist. Keep that part quiet for now though.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, explain to me how come no country ever sanctioned the U.S. when you bombed Serbia without NATO approval? Instead, Serbia was under sanctions? Or when the U.S. invaded Iraq? Or Afghanistan?
Bcs the U.S. holed the power in the world, politically, economically and militarily.
But, when Russia does it, oh, no? They are bad!

Russia is a shithole of a country and a bad actor on the global stage. It’s got a monstrous inferiority complex and always resorts to stirring up diplomatic BS just to attract attention and remind the world it exists.

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A lot of eastern europe is pretty racist. Keep that part quiet for now though.

Ok, don't keep it quiet lol.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, explain to me how come no country ever sanctioned the U.S. when you bombed Serbia without NATO approval? Instead, Serbia was under sanctions? Or when the U.S. invaded Iraq? Or Afghanistan?
Bcs the U.S. holed the power in the world, politically, economically and militarily.
But, when Russia does it, oh, no? They are bad!

Russia is a shithole of a country and a bad actor on the global stage. It’s got a monstrous inferiority complex and always resorts to stirring up diplomatic BS just to attract attention and remind the world it exists.

Ok, and the U.S. is a great nation with millions of people living in poverty and in tents? And the U.S. is not full of BS?

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I am not saying there isn't racism there, but Zelensky's point wasn't that he only cared about blonde haired blue eyed kids.

His point was that these children are Europeans, like, hey Europe, why not care a little bit when these kids are no different than yours.

Ukraine is "otherized" in the EU and Zelensky is saying, badly, no, we are not "the other."