Good news, you boss wants to talk to you about strategy, bad news your boss wants to talk to you about strategy. If you disagree with him you go to jail, if you agree with his insane invasion you will lose the war, and a lot of your troops will die.
Nightmare time.

Kind of think those attorney fees he is going to have to pay are going to be astronomical. Easy to blather on in the media, really is a dangerous thing to do in filing court papers against major companies.

Turkey would have nowhere to turn if they left, or were tossed out of NATO, but to Russia, a really bad ally since the Russians demand their allies be servile to the point of slavery. That makes me think that Turkey's opposition is a negotiation tactic. Hope so.

Russia was on the path to democracy and being a homeland for free people, but along the way the "big boys" took over and turned it into a paradise for oligarchs and other gangsters, and to achieve that, they killed democracy there and also murdered the independent media...echoes of what trump tried to do and will try to do.
Putin's war will be remembered, most likely, as the single stupidest thing a leader has done in our lifetimes.
Well, I am still alive at 75, so there is time for someone else to do the same. Putin even surpassed George W.

Come the 2024 Presidential election, one that promises to be the ugliest in American history, I can only hope that the Democrats hire tons of security and refuse to let candidates walk "among the people" since a few of those people are being energized by hate media, just like in Rwanda. These are scary times indeed.

Imagine if the UN had a provision, as NATO does, that an invasion of one is cause for all to come to its protection, and if the aggressor is in the Security Council, that country loses its veto power. Then the UN would have some real justification for existing in this dangerous world.

Capitalism demands a pyramid with a few rich at the top running the show, and the rest of us huddled at the bottom fighting each other for the scraps. And, of course, to keep order, capitalism demands a police force run by the rich that will enforce the cruelty of hunger, poverty and homelessness with bullets.

"Russian media" is synonymous with "quislings in the hire of the aristocracy of the oligarchy".

Sorry, one does not have to be a top level genius to have seen that Trump was a clear and present danger to our democracy. Apology not accepted.

It is all fine and good to point out that today's Republican Party is...wow, I am having trouble finding one word that describes their arrogant disregard for the rights and needs of fellow Americans, maybe, really, a fascist party? But don't forget that they are aligned with the most ancient of organizations that has worked for centuries to keep women in their place, as beasts of child bearing burden...the Catholic Church.
Politicians won't speak of it, for they are afraid of alienating the huge voter base of Catholics, but in truth, we are being "judged' by fanatics.

Holy crap, if this stands, when you combine it with the Jan. 6 hearings, this midterm election cycle is going to be, hmmm, what is the word, cutthroat. Every dem against every member of the insane Republican Party, not just against their policies, but against them.
Could be, in some states, this will be the main decider, and most Americans favor women's reproductive rights.
I used to be pretty middle of the road when it came to fundamentalist churches but no more. The Catholic Church is an undemocratic dictatorship run from a foreign country, the Vatican, against our own Constitution and against American women.

I suspect that there are going to be some bitter battles at the family dinner tables of fundamentalist Republican Party members with teenage girls. They will, sooner or later, understand that daddy or mommy want to take away their reproductive rights, though if rich I have little doubt the right to abortion is going to always be an option.

Trump was right about one thing, he could go out on Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and he would get away with it. And since he put in a lot of the Republican Party judges, well, this republic of ours,, it is a shame what might happen to it.

Fellow humans are being murdered by the tens of thousands in Ukraine, and the UN is powerless to stop the carnage. So of course, it makes sense to first try to get Russia to stop its war of aggression, and when that proves impossible, to help the Ukrainians defend themselves. Now, if the UN hadn't been turned into a debating and chowder society by the Cheney-George W. Bush administration, maybe the entire world could have been involved.
Russia is a gangster government which will always be against democracy and democracies because democracy requires checks and balances and a peaceful transfer of power. Nothing that the Capone type Putin thugs would ever contemplate.

Just invest all that money on making CNN better, and the world be a better place. As it is, I have a renewed respect for CNN because of their coverage of the war in Ukraine. Great job. Still, no more subscriptions please...

As an atheist, I consulted my high priest of atheism, me, and I decided he is wrong. Besides, his guy, Putin, is murdering tens of thousands of Ukrainians so, while that is old testament life, supporting a murderer is to be an accomplice to that crime.

Remember the movie War Games? The conclusion that saved them all was that sometimes, the only way to win a game is not to play. Russia, if it had just accepted the new powers and status of Ukraine, as a friendly state, well, NATO would be still weak and the Russian Army would be seen as invincible.
Putin, if he ever stands to lose the land he stole from Ukraine, will be tempted to use tactical nuclear weapons. The world really is always a button push from hell.

All I know is, if Trump runs again, the 2024 elections will be the ugliest since 1860, and perhaps the most dangerous for politicians who need to get out to shake hands, and meet the people, some of whom...

Just means test social security for about twenty years, during the largest part of the demographic bulge. Or tax the rich more, or tax corporations like they were taxed during the 1950's.

Says the left hand of the murderer in chief, Putin.

He is the personification of Stalinist ideals, and Stalin set up Eastern Europe to be a prison state, pretend socialist, so that Russia would not have to fear another attack from the West, including Germany.

And now Putin wants to slowly, or not so slowly, do the same, murdering his way to power over the states ringing Russia, and putting in a puppet who would make sure the dictator in Moscow is safe. And yeah, if I lived in Finland or Sweden, even if I were a pacifist, would be voting to joint NATO and spending more on armament.

I still wonder why Trump does't just threaten to run as an Independent, as Pat Robertson did, to force the Republican Party to support him or lose the 2024 elections. Trump wouldn't win, so he wouldn't have to worry about all those pesky meetings a President has to attend. He could screw up the Republican Party and play as much golf as he wanted.
If he runs as a Republican Party member first the primaries and then the general election would be the goofiest elections American has had in a bunch of years, scary, but also insane.

Wow, one can only hope that a serious discussion is held over whether Russia deserves that veto vote, and that they fall back to being just another member of the General Assembly.

Imagine if Mitt ran as an independent along with Liz Cheney as VP. That actually would be a strong ticket considering the way America is going.