Or not. I don't know the future. If you do, got any stock tips I can use?

It's a stretch. The US has more to gain. Also Biden as much as copped to it.

This ---- is months old. Got anything new? So what? Some people didn't want to be in a stupid war. How is this news? It's just old reruns because there's no good new news.

Back at ya. You are mirroring the Russian position. War is inevitable now. NATO involvement almost a given. Is there any off ramp short of total war?

I'm not in favor of wars. This whole thing was totally unnecessary.

Preventive wars are like committing suicide over the fear of death.

What you call for is frankly, insane.

Thinking Putin is the only one pushing the annexation of the Crimea and Donbass is as stupid as thinking only Zelinsky wants an, "intact" Ukraine. This war is bigger than their personalities.

The US incited most of it by playing the sectional tensions within the Ukraine against each other.

That, and arming and encouraging Nazi thugs to kill Russian speakers.

The Russians mostly seem to support the war effort.

If Putin is killed it will more likely be the hardliners against Ukraine who will do it.

And that would be very bad for world peace and stability.

You better hope his health stays good.

Putin isn't Russia. Russia is doing its own thing. I will still be here in the US,talking ---- about US hypocrisy and militarism long after Putin is dead and gone.

I'm not pro Putin,I'm Anti US hegemony and warloving incitement.

I am an American citizen who hates my Own country's foreign policy.

Change that and I'm all America all the time.

Why?

Want things their way? They were being killed and economically crushed by their "own" government. The US colonies separated from England for much less.

They didn't want to pay taxes to an unrepresentative sovereign.

Double standards,are hypocritical.

As to Russia intervening,they wanted the Minsk accords to be implemented and refused to accept the Donbass referenda before the war.

So much for a land grab there. Lying is all the US does.

I have no idea who FactHunt is. I have one handle, effeteposer. Is it impossible to believe others are not in lockstep with the prevailing opinions?

Why is that?

The US was responsible for that too. That's why they knew.

Who benefits? The US said sabotage was likely, a few days later,Viola, sabotage. If someone forced me to bet on who's responsible, my money would be on the US.

With allies like the US who needs enemies.

Right. Do you really believe that? How do we fix the flaws? Tell me.

Citizen$ United? Policy is the sale.Money is speech. Corporations have all the legal rights and protections of living persons but none of the legal liabilities that citizenship entails.

We are a Frank Oligarchy. More so than Russia.

Arguably more so than China or any other state.

Cuba takes better care of it's citizens health and well being.

Self delusion is strong here.

We will be shouting to the skies about our freedom while killing our own and other nations with impunity.

It's sad really. To watch the contorted logic of a failing empire calling itself a beacon of freedom while it oppresses and encourages oppression abroad.

Russia is a lightweight,we are the gold standard.

15 Dead? That would barely make the news in the US. Those Russians are lightweights at mass shootings.We should send some trainers over there to get them up to speed.

America leads the world at world at mass death,that's why the Ukraine loves our help.

Maybe they can learn something from us to help them kill the Russian speakers they hate so much.

We talk ---- about Russia, but our own society is at Least Equally ------ up.

America is built on war and genocide. Slavery is our original sin. Voting every four years doesn't erase that stain.

Militarism and aggressive war are our true colors. Ask half the world about America and they see a monstrosity.

Environmental destruction is more advanced here than in almost any other country. We have less old growth forest than many countries much older and more thickly settled than we are.

We are the ONLY country to use Nukes in Anger.

America ain't all that.

It's just Hubris and exceptionalist Bulls**t to think otherwise.

Where do you get that number from? I've read accounts of Russian prisoners being castrated by sadistic Ukies. I don't particularly believe them, but it's out there. I've also read that Bucha was Ukies killing their own people and pinning it on the Russians.

There's so much -------- online. So where do these numbers come from?

I know you are stupid and gullible but come man,get real.

Sources, or shut up with the nonsense.

Prove it.

Europe will glow in the dark first. And even if by some miracle they don't go nuclear, There are thousands of warheads scattered over eleven million sq. Miles. Those weapons won't be secured or under any control.

Regime change from without in Russia is a Very Bad Idea.

Imagine if ISIS got control of nukes.

That could happen if Russia collapses.

I sort of agree Danni. But I doubt that will happen. Nobody shot Hitler but himself.

This could have been avoided if they hadn't been so stupid to not believe the Russians meant what they said.

Putin isn't the most hard-line person over there either. He's actually a softy compared to many. If he gets killed it will be more likely for being too soft about the war rather than pushing too hard.

Be careful what you wish for.

If Putin gets killed by his own people the successor may be far worse.

The escalation far more dangerous. In
Russian government Putin is rather moderate And reasonable.

There would have been Nuclear War if the Soviets hadn't pulled the missiles out of Cuba.

If the Ukraine had just agreed to not join NATO and had implemented the Minsk accords there would have been no war.

Now we may see nukes and conventional war.

NATO is a force for war. Not helpful.

All brought to you by NATO, the peaceful alliance. Such a force for peace. With protection like them, who needs weapons?

I know I feel safer knowing they've prevented major war in Europe.

Not.

We agree on something. Sorry I called you an anti Russia bigot. You're right about the ME.

We agree on something. Sorry I called you an anti Russia bigot. You're right about the ME.

Because they were the leadership in the USSR?

You Are an anti Russian bigot. Nothing more.

No they wouldn't. Ukraine is a massively corrupt Nazi --------.

No, my position is that Ukraine could integrate with the West without NATO. NATO is not a defensive alliance, it is an anti Russia alliance. NATO has repeated bombed and attacked non member states. NATO membership is not the same as West looking policies and economic development. NATO is a military alliance,nothing more. Ukraine could have cleaned up it's act and joined the EU.They can trade freely with anyone they want.

Russia drew the line at Missiles and offensive weapons being deployed against them from the Ukraine.

The US would have done exactly the same thing in Russia's place and you know it.