mclumber1

Russia/USSR has given Ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars over the years

Basically, Putin is both shitting on and patting the back of the Soviet Union for creating the Union.

"Any of the Republics had the right to withdraw from the Soviet Union."

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"Lenin was the creator and architect of Ukraine."

"Modern Ukraine was created by Russia during the Bolshevik revolution."

Putin Speaking now: "Ukraine is a part of Russian history..."

Minster at this meeting: "The Javelin is not a defensive weapon" IDK, what is a person supposed to defend themselves with when facing a fucking tank?

I mean, yeah...That's a smart political move by Putin! Plus, I'd imagine that very few ministers would publicly go against the inertia at this point. If they did, they might just accidentally fall out of their apartment window tomorrow!

If you count his time as Prime Minister, Putin has been the leader of Russia for almost 24 years now. He's creeping up on Stalin (30 years) for longest serving leader of Russia/Soviet Union. Although I'm sure quite a few Czars were ruling Russia for a much longer time that Stalin.

Only after the Ukrainian President dug up/made up dirt about Hunter Biden though.

We are about 40 minutes from 0000 zulu time - which was a rumored start time for the actual blitz and invasion.

The Commissar beat me to it, lol. Is anyone else having difficulty fully displaying tweets? Even clicking on them within D1P causes the broken link image to appear.

Good advice, even if the threat is remote. I just filled up my truck and our little gas can. I'll have my wife fill up her car later today. FWIW, I went to the Chevron down the street and I was the only one getting gas. I've pretty much stopped getting gas from Costco because it's always a circus. I'd imagine that if a cyber attack does materialize, it's going to be mayhem at pretty much every gas station.

NBC getting the same info as CBS:

I would figure that there is an actual bureaucratic process to declassify actual paperwork, even when the President decrees it should happen. I'd imagine the process happens like this: 1. President: "I want XYZ declassified" 2. WH staff: "Yes sir" 3. WH staff gathers XYZ documents and the stamped classifications are modified to declassified, along with a paper trail that explains the order from the President. 4. Several days/weeks later, the documents are officially declassified, and used for whatever purpose the President intended.

Putin shall be the big babushka

I suppose this does show how small Russia's conventional military is. They probably couldn't fight a two front war - but then again, most countries probably couldn't, aside from the US and maybe China.

Yeah I was gonna say that Russia WANTS people to see what's happening. 21st century Meme warfare is real, folks.

Yeah the idea that the US would pull US troops from their Eastern European NATO allies is pretty insane.

If Russia invades from Belarus, that's a good indicator they want to take Kyiv, right?