It's a fairly common phenomenon that people who learn a foreign language often have a better grasp on vocabulary and grammar than the troglodyte hosts of right wing propaganda media outlets who lucked out on being born to that language's specific culture.
Trump is such an ass saying he could stop the wars going on in 24 hrs he's delusional and a coward he was invited to Ukraine and cowardly turned down the invitation just like he avoided the military by crying he had bone spurs funny how his bone spurs don't stop him from playing golf every day. Yes he is a moron no doubt I just don't get what people see in his empty promises he never did anything he promised while president..this famille rn rn never been as bad as I'ma is now
Plenty of Americans did not want to help Britain after Dunkirk in 1940. They just didn't have 24/7 cable "news" to tell them they were right in order to keep their eyeballs on the ads.
And that Roosevelt, he's so old. I don't think I've ever even seen him walk. Hitler just projects strength and competence. Why are we getting involved in this, sadly, lost cause?
Sadly. Sadly, Donald Trump, Wannabe Putin, playing the terrorist game in his own country, can do even more damage just by staying here and continuing to send his mini-me's out to do his battles for him.
" Zelenskyy said that if Putin isn’t ready to give back all the territory he’s stolen, YES ALL OF IT, and if Ukraine doesn’t have its full independence, then no, the war cannot be over. "
I've very much afraid that is what's going to be the end result... Russia will obtain a good chunk of the territory of what Ukraine claims if it wants to maintain its independence. I see sources that maybe aren't seen in the US, and apparenly even in the US and British media, Ukrainian military leaders are coming around to the view that the war is unwinnable. At most, what I read in the US media is a "whatif" sense that IF this or that weapon had been provided Ukraine would have stood a chance... but this or that weapon wasn't... and no guarantee that would have changed anything... not as if what didn't happen is of any relevance.
Zelensky himself appears to be more isolated from the leadership than ever, with hints of coups being bandied about by some of the less all-in (Russian or Ukrainian) commentators. Several generals have been forced out in the last week, suggesting something is up. The "pundits" could be wrong, of course, and often are, but I don't see any evidence that Ukraine can or will last much longer, when it can't even pay its basic civil servants (teachers, garbage collectors, etc.) and the average age of its fighting force is alarmingly high (men in their mid to late 40s, indicating a shortage of young adults) and they seem to be running out not just of ammo and planes and tanks, but of trained officers as well.
An extra rant, back when Russia first effectively annexed Crimea in the early 2010s, there was very cautious discussion of granting Crimean autonomy, particularly on the grounds that Ukraine could keep the rest of its territory more secure without it. Putin made it all moot by astroturfing a separatist insurrection in east Ukraine. All the problems here are Putin.
I'm afraid Zelenskyy doesn't quite understand that NOBODY explains anything to Sir WhinyTinyRapeyHands, because he won't listen. And if you don't let him dominate the conversation and say what he wants, he will simply get up and leave.
When the NYT's/Siena was doing their poll, I wonder if when asked about foreign policy whether they included the fact that trump would hand Zelensky and Ukraine over to Putin in a heartbeat. Because I really doubt it. Given that the press is never going to do its duty, it is up to us to spread that message because given the results of this poll the people questioned have no clue at all about anything.
Former President Donald Trump threw a tantrum in his $250 million civil fraud trial on Monday.
"This is unbelievable," Molly Crane-Newman of the New York Daily News reported. "Trump has been screaming insults at AG James in the front row — 'The fraud is her!' — and completely lost it at Engoron."
"He called me a fraud, and he didn't know anything about me!" Trump shouted. "You knew nothing about me…you believe this political hack back there!"
Trying to win a case by antagonizing the finder of facts doesn’t seem like a genius legal strategy to me. Must but that fourth dimensional chess Trump is always playing.
The propaganda is intense all over the world. So many of my Asian friends totally believe in Putin, it is scary. All I’ve got is personal prayers that good will triumph over evil.
I have a friend who is from Taiwan and he is going to retire to Mainland China. He reads and watches Mainland Chinese news (aka; propaganda). He is predicting that America won’t be an International Power in 10 years (I mean we shouldn’t be anyway so whatever…accident of being the only industrialized country in the world that wasn’t bombed to hell in WWI and WWII). But the Putin loving and how Russia should have Ukraine is a bit disturbing (because Ukraine is like Tibet or something…it really belongs to the Chinese). He keeps telling me I’m living in the Matrix. I’m also tired of people telling me that Biden could crook his finger and end the conflict in the Middle East. Just despair all around…All I can do is pray that good will triumph over evil. That is where I am now.
I don't know about the Matrix crap, but why is Chinese propaganda any less biased than western propaganda when it comes to how we ... outside the west... view the world? Certainly, I apreciate, and benefit, from "western values" but after 500 years of western dominance (going back to the "Columbian Exchange" the "west" is no longer the center of cultural and political control.
I don’t disagree with you. China was suppressed for only about 150 years as compared to the literally thousands of years of exquisite civilization. That the “west” became the center of cultural and political control was because Asia (with the exception of Japan) simply closed it self off to ‘industrialization’…perhaps believing too deeply in its millenniums of civilization. And yes, Asia will take its rightful place in the world. (Re: the Columbian exchange: the real damage to Asia did not occur until the very late 18th century).
One slight (very slight) misunderstanding.. The Colombian Exchange was not necessarily "bad" (where would Thai food be without Mesoamerican chiles?) but that it's a calendar date we can use to mark the ascent of the "west". It's speculation,but perhaps the "west" is now shutting itself off from whatever it is now. Check back in a couple centuries.
Huh a politician that used "terrorist" correctly. That's uncommon.
It's a fairly common phenomenon that people who learn a foreign language often have a better grasp on vocabulary and grammar than the troglodyte hosts of right wing propaganda media outlets who lucked out on being born to that language's specific culture.
Everybody always talk about "territory". Nobody seems to care that this "territory" comes with actual people.
if we care at all about stuffing putin, we have to give Zelenskyy everything he needs to win.
what's the alternative, let putin win in Ukraine and wind up fighting him as he takes part of Alaska?
Trump is such an ass saying he could stop the wars going on in 24 hrs he's delusional and a coward he was invited to Ukraine and cowardly turned down the invitation just like he avoided the military by crying he had bone spurs funny how his bone spurs don't stop him from playing golf every day. Yes he is a moron no doubt I just don't get what people see in his empty promises he never did anything he promised while president..this famille rn rn never been as bad as I'ma is now
put tfg in charge of the war in Ukraine and he would end it as fast as he could negitiate an unconditional surrender to his buddy putin.
Put him in charge on the Russian side then. Let the Russians surrender.
Plenty of Americans did not want to help Britain after Dunkirk in 1940. They just didn't have 24/7 cable "news" to tell them they were right in order to keep their eyeballs on the ads.
And that Roosevelt, he's so old. I don't think I've ever even seen him walk. Hitler just projects strength and competence. Why are we getting involved in this, sadly, lost cause?
Sadly. Sadly, Donald Trump, Wannabe Putin, playing the terrorist game in his own country, can do even more damage just by staying here and continuing to send his mini-me's out to do his battles for him.
Trump’s idea for ending the war is to end all aid for Ukraine and give double that amount to Russia.
" Zelenskyy said that if Putin isn’t ready to give back all the territory he’s stolen, YES ALL OF IT, and if Ukraine doesn’t have its full independence, then no, the war cannot be over. "
I've very much afraid that is what's going to be the end result... Russia will obtain a good chunk of the territory of what Ukraine claims if it wants to maintain its independence. I see sources that maybe aren't seen in the US, and apparenly even in the US and British media, Ukrainian military leaders are coming around to the view that the war is unwinnable. At most, what I read in the US media is a "whatif" sense that IF this or that weapon had been provided Ukraine would have stood a chance... but this or that weapon wasn't... and no guarantee that would have changed anything... not as if what didn't happen is of any relevance.
Zelensky himself appears to be more isolated from the leadership than ever, with hints of coups being bandied about by some of the less all-in (Russian or Ukrainian) commentators. Several generals have been forced out in the last week, suggesting something is up. The "pundits" could be wrong, of course, and often are, but I don't see any evidence that Ukraine can or will last much longer, when it can't even pay its basic civil servants (teachers, garbage collectors, etc.) and the average age of its fighting force is alarmingly high (men in their mid to late 40s, indicating a shortage of young adults) and they seem to be running out not just of ammo and planes and tanks, but of trained officers as well.
Thanks for the update Boris.
Johnson?
An extra rant, back when Russia first effectively annexed Crimea in the early 2010s, there was very cautious discussion of granting Crimean autonomy, particularly on the grounds that Ukraine could keep the rest of its territory more secure without it. Putin made it all moot by astroturfing a separatist insurrection in east Ukraine. All the problems here are Putin.
24 minutes or less? Can Trump even go 24 seconds without demonstrating that he is a moron?
I'm afraid Zelenskyy doesn't quite understand that NOBODY explains anything to Sir WhinyTinyRapeyHands, because he won't listen. And if you don't let him dominate the conversation and say what he wants, he will simply get up and leave.
Mmm. Zelenskyy so hot.
When the NYT's/Siena was doing their poll, I wonder if when asked about foreign policy whether they included the fact that trump would hand Zelensky and Ukraine over to Putin in a heartbeat. Because I really doubt it. Given that the press is never going to do its duty, it is up to us to spread that message because given the results of this poll the people questioned have no clue at all about anything.
O/T https://www.rawstory.com/trump-courtroom-tantrum/
Former President Donald Trump threw a tantrum in his $250 million civil fraud trial on Monday.
"This is unbelievable," Molly Crane-Newman of the New York Daily News reported. "Trump has been screaming insults at AG James in the front row — 'The fraud is her!' — and completely lost it at Engoron."
"He called me a fraud, and he didn't know anything about me!" Trump shouted. "You knew nothing about me…you believe this political hack back there!"
So, it's going well /s
Trying to win a case by antagonizing the finder of facts doesn’t seem like a genius legal strategy to me. Must but that fourth dimensional chess Trump is always playing.
"Trying to win a case by antagonizing the finder of facts doesn't seem like a genius legal strategy to me"
It's not. It's PAB/MAGA legal strategy (wear them down).
Lock him the fuck up
The propaganda is intense all over the world. So many of my Asian friends totally believe in Putin, it is scary. All I’ve got is personal prayers that good will triumph over evil.
Asians, Latin Americans, Africans... afraid the "west" not selling its products all that well any more.
Nice friends you got.
I have seen people I used to think of as educated and rational drift to the dark side…and them keep telling me that I am the one living in the Matrix.
Really? Asians from which countries/ ancestries?
I have a friend who is from Taiwan and he is going to retire to Mainland China. He reads and watches Mainland Chinese news (aka; propaganda). He is predicting that America won’t be an International Power in 10 years (I mean we shouldn’t be anyway so whatever…accident of being the only industrialized country in the world that wasn’t bombed to hell in WWI and WWII). But the Putin loving and how Russia should have Ukraine is a bit disturbing (because Ukraine is like Tibet or something…it really belongs to the Chinese). He keeps telling me I’m living in the Matrix. I’m also tired of people telling me that Biden could crook his finger and end the conflict in the Middle East. Just despair all around…All I can do is pray that good will triumph over evil. That is where I am now.
I don't get people who trust the most powerful.
Thanks for the information.
I don't know about the Matrix crap, but why is Chinese propaganda any less biased than western propaganda when it comes to how we ... outside the west... view the world? Certainly, I apreciate, and benefit, from "western values" but after 500 years of western dominance (going back to the "Columbian Exchange" the "west" is no longer the center of cultural and political control.
I don’t disagree with you. China was suppressed for only about 150 years as compared to the literally thousands of years of exquisite civilization. That the “west” became the center of cultural and political control was because Asia (with the exception of Japan) simply closed it self off to ‘industrialization’…perhaps believing too deeply in its millenniums of civilization. And yes, Asia will take its rightful place in the world. (Re: the Columbian exchange: the real damage to Asia did not occur until the very late 18th century).
One slight (very slight) misunderstanding.. The Colombian Exchange was not necessarily "bad" (where would Thai food be without Mesoamerican chiles?) but that it's a calendar date we can use to mark the ascent of the "west". It's speculation,but perhaps the "west" is now shutting itself off from whatever it is now. Check back in a couple centuries.
In case Zelenskyy needs graphics for PAB, I've made a helpful diagram that should explain things clearly for the Dotard.
https://substack.com/profile/156971334-satanic-pancake/note/c-43167684