#13 The Ukrainian military mined their own waters. It's the mines preventing grain shipments,not a "blockade". The Ukrainian ultranationalist obsession with "territorial integrity" is the problem. Why do they want regions that don't want to be part of the Ukraine? They want the land and infrastructure.

The people will be slaughtered if they win.

They DON'T want them.

But that's all good, right?

The sanctions aren't "necessary". They are a stupid ineffective means of coercion. If they want to fight Russia,they should do that. Sanctions just hurt innocent people.

Putin is not hurt by the sanctions. Poor people in developing countries are starving because of them,not Putin.

The sanctions show how weak NATO really is.

If the sanctions are causing the default,and Russia has the means and desire to pay, the sanctioning government's are responsible for the default. The creditors should go to THEM for payment. Alternatively,Russia could pay in rubles. If the creditors don't want their money that's their problem.

This is an artificial problem, created by the sanctions. The Russians are not at fault.

The sanctioning powers that are hamstringing them are.

I thought conservatives were against judicial activism? I thought they hated legislating from the bench? I thought small government was their big priority?

All Lies.

They just want THEIR WAY all the time.

Everything else is just whatever BS they have to say to get elected. No values at all.

Pure Nihlism.

Good.

Better toys for fondling? I'm surprised you seem to support banning high caliber guns. I thought you loved BIG guns.

Dude, you're a psychopath. What you propose would cause a nuclear war. Just shut up about things above your pay grade.

You're an Idiot.

Dude, you're a psychopath. What you propose would cause a nuclear war. Just shut up about things above your pay grade.

You're an Idiot.

Artillery gets it done. It's primitive and slow,and not remotely sexy, but it will defeat the UkieNazis.

Unless the West disrupts the process. Even then...Maybe Not.

They knew what they were signing up for. Mercenaries are human ---- anyhow. Just Scum killing for money.

The UkieNazis can fight for themselves,we're giving them everything else already.

Dumbasses who want to fight over there are expendible.

Are Dubya's assets being frozen? How about Cheney's? Are Bill Clinton's? War criminals all.

Where did the Clinton's get their big money?

From oligarchs seeking favors.

Hmmm,seems almost Putinesque.

Why is everyone so interested in this man's assets? It's his ----. I thought respect for property rights was a cornerstone of capitalism and the American Way.

Russia is a capitalist economy. What's the problem?

Really? I don't think so. People form unions because getting fair treatment from an inherently unequal relationship is difficult. Especially if the laws are on the employer's side. None of that is evidence of "mistreatment". It's just a power arrangement that favors the owners.

Irrelevant has beens. They are much of the problem themselves. No Clinton's,no NATO expansion, no Serbian bombing. No Libya debacle.

No NAFTA. Probably no war in Ukraine.

Bill Clinton is arguably as ------ a former president as Dubya was.

Hillary will never be president.

Who cares what these losers think about anything?

Because he's not Hitler? He's his own unique manifestation of resistance to western ideals.

We're not all that, you know.

"Barbarians" can be as civilized as Sophisticates.

Was she raped and abused? Or was she treated humanely? The silence about abuse is telling.

Not much propaganda value here? It makes the Russians look like normal people.

Move along now, nothing to see here.

Those Nazis are getting schooled. Bet they wish they left the Russian speakers alone now. Too bad. It's too late.

It's not nice to persecute people. Nazis love to do it though.

The Donbass will be free.

The US is more militaristic and paranoid.

The Russians are doing no more than the Americans do for far less real reason.

The Sanctimony is very odd and misplaced given the blood soaked history of American "interventions".

NATO sucks. Even the Pope knows it. They pushed them into a corner and pointed missiles at them.

The Russians said, Whoa, back off. Stop pointing missiles in my face. For years, this continued. Then they fomented a coup and destabilized the Ukraine, Russia took control of the Crimea. This caused a civil war. The Russians helped the separatists. The Ukrainian government began a long siege on the Donbass.

Thousands were killed. The Ukrainian's were persecuting their own people.

Now war.

Don't know. It's just my way. Live And let Die.

That's Putey's way. War. But he's not Hitler.

He's stopping those dang Nazis. Why isn't the West helping?

They wanted to be accepted by the West. They wanted to be part of NATO and the EU. Chauvanism by the West kept them out.

Now people Are being killed because of that snobbery.

It's not nice to be exclusionary.

Sanctions for peace? No more ammo. That's one good effect of sanctioning the Russians and Chinese. Just stop the madness.

No ammo,no shootings. I like it.

Putin is the Anti-Hitler. Like Lex Luthor.

At least he doesn't think he's Hitler.

Peter the great was a modernizer, a Tsar who looked West.

There are worse Tsar's he could be in awe of.

The West spurned Putin's attempts over the years to become as they are.

That's what he sees in Peter the Great.

Who was also not accepted by the Western Powers.

So he made War.

This is different. It's Slavs fighting Slavs. It's really almost a civil war. I don't think they ever really wanted western Ukraine. That was a feint. They knew the Donbass wasn't gonna be a walkover. This ain't over. I think Russia's gonna win. In the narrow sense of taking the Donbass.

Will they regret, "Winning"?