Posts by William Cooper11

Ronald Chavez2 said:And just how exactly would he have done that?

Abolish the county system, slash the national debt, and stop letting those Šegon types run wild...

Ronald Chavez2 said:It’s honestly pathetic. While the Republican Party spends every single day looting and squandering our nation, you’d think the biggest crisis facing those Ukrainian fighters would be anything other than Zoki's comments regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine—statements that apparently don't sit quite right with Washington, D.C.

Zoki had a golden opportunity back in 2011 to stop the bleeding and rebuild everything from the ground up since the Republican Party was absolutely crawling. But he's a coward who prefers to feast on what's left rather than actually having the guts to change anything.

I hope Zoe—that old Russophile—is sitting there watching his "wherever Russia goes, they stay" theory fall apart right before his eyes. 🤣

Joshua Myers432 said:I wasn't talking about the Ukrainian or South Vietnamese militaries. I was talking about the ones sitting there acting like they own the place. 🍿

The Russians strike me as a far more serious force than these amateurs, though I wouldn't exactly dismiss the ARVN either—they were anything but an unserious outfit.

If Russia didn't have all those old Soviet stockpiles of weapons and ammo, they would've been stripped bare in Ukraine within a month—just like how they got picked clean in the north back in March.
That’s the whole truth about the Russian military today, in a nutshell.

Joshua Myers432 said:That’s the exact same thing Afghans said, and before them, the South Vietnamese. ☕

Do you honestly think the Ukrainian military operates like the Union or the South Vietnamese army?
Or do those Russian fridge thieves strike you as being as fanatical as the Taliban or the Viet Cong?

As long as Americans, Brits, and Pole2 are standing shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine, they don't have to worry about anyone pulling the rug out from under them.

The ones doing the heavy lifting for Ukraine—the US, the UK, Poland, the Scandinavians—don't give a damn about Russian gas anymore. They’re going to do whatever it takes to make sure Russia bleeds out, especially since they were foolish enough to walk straight into their own trap.
Russia is just plain old aggressors at this point, and the only real solution is to kick them out of Ukraine for good.

I still have a hunch that this assassination was orchestrated by one of those oligarchs who's absolutely fed up with Putin's war—someone whose entire lifestyle and future plans just went down the drain because of all the sanctions.
The target, if you ask me, was definitely Alexander Dugin.

Word is that when Dugin and his daughter were heading home from the theater last night, they swapped cars. Apparently, she was driving his, while he took hers—which is why she’s the one who didn't make it instead of him.

wiredseal7 said:It looks like they’re getting a real lesson in reality out in the Donbas—turns out when that idiot from Kyiv decides to play by Cosa Nostra/Mossad/Al-Qaeda rules, things get messy quickly.

The only thing is, they were such amateurs that they ended up killing the daughter of the guy they were actually trying to take out.🤦

They’ve gone and activated some sleeper cells in Russia and Crimea. There are plenty of Ukrainians living in Russia, so I guess finding candidates isn't exactly a struggle—not to mention the CIA and British intelligence are likely pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Give me a break. It’s much more logical that one of the oligarchs finally lost his mind over this Putin adventure—which was inspired by Dugin's imperial nonsense—and decided to take out Dugina, but the daughter ended up caught in the crossfire by pure accident.

We all know exactly who’s actually stepping up for Ukraine and who’s just playing politics.
I mean, look at the USA, the UK, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Czechs, the Slovaks, and the Baltic states—they’re always the first ones on the scene when it comes to real, tangible support.
Everyone else? They’re all talk, secretly seething with resentment toward those who actually show up.

rowdyraven112 said:Cuba wasn't a threat to the USA either, yet they still wouldn't let them put missiles on their soil to deter an attack.☕

Neither Iran, Iraq, nor Syria were threats to anyone. Even the Kurds aren't a threat to Turkey, yet there they go again, having regular military picnics inside another country's borders.☕

Sure, this kind of resistance from Ukrainians was expected, but it's nothing new. You saw it with ISIS—despite being outmatched technologically and militarily by the forces trying to kick them out of cities, they still put up hell of a fight.

It's not even a fair comparison. ISIS fighters aren't looking to survive a battle; they're looking to die in it.
If you gave ISIS the kind of support Ukrainians have right now, they wouldn't stop until they hit Moscow.
But Ukrainians aren't fanatics. We already saw what happens when the Russians go up against a slightly less extreme version of that mindset back in Afghanistan in the eighties.

I told myself there was absolutely zero logic behind Putin attacking Ukraine, and I was wrong. Now? Honestly, nothing from Russ could catch me off guard anymore—not even if they decided to set off a nuke.

It all went downhill the moment we let students and parents believe they have all the rights and absolutely zero responsibilities.
No politician out there has the backbone to step up and say this isn't working—that school is supposed to be a place of work and learning is a job, and often a damn hard one at that.

Nathan Evans78 said:Alright, so if we have yet another dictator holding more cards than Brussels, then tell me—what is actually the point of pulling EU companies out of the Russian market if they're just going to be replaced by some Turkish equivalent?

Honestly, these sanctions fascinate me more and more every single day with all their little nuances. I swear, if this wasn't pushed through by the "Greens" to force a rapid transition to renewable energy sources, crazy Putin would have just been the perfect excuse to pull it off even faster. 🙏

That argument falls apart if you assume Turkey actually has an equivalent for everything on the European market. They don't.
They're even importing optics for their Bayraktar drones from Canada.

Nathan Evans78 said:Honestly, no. I mean, does anyone actually sit there and read the full thing anymore in 2022? Not really. It’s just the Mainstream Media playing the game—you skim the headlines, glance at the first paragraph, and move on. Personally, I find myself clicking most often when I see that one specific keyword: "furious."

Brussels is absolutely FURIOUS.

Right at the end of the article, they explain why this behavior from Turkey is being tolerated. Apparently, Turkey acts as a dam against migrants trying to reach Europe. You can basically boil the message from Europe to Turkey down to: "Just don't let those Iraqis, Syrians, Iranians, Pakistanis, or Afghans into the EU, and we'll look the other way regarding your business deals with Russia."

Nathan Evans78 said:

Between March and July alone, American businesses exported $2.04 billion worth of goods and services to Russia—that’s an extra $624 million compared to the same period back in 2021. This kind of spike really highlights how little Turkey cares about official sanctions. It’s clear their companies aren't about to walk away from Russian business for "moral reasons," unlike so many corporations based in liberal democracies.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, exports to Russia surged by 75 percent year-over-year last month; we're looking at a jump from $417 million in July 2021 to $730 million in July 2022.

And here we are, sitting in NATO with them. 🤦

Did you even finish reading the article?

Donna Harris11 said:Compared to the 2021 budget, the surplus for January through July has basically tripled:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...lion#xj4y7vzkg

The European Union is still the biggest buyer of oil and gas

That's what Dmitry Konstantinovich from the Federal Reserve is saying. 🤣

wanderingmaker3 said:It’s definitely wrecked, but life is slowly starting to crawl back.

Yeah, right. Just like how things "returned to normal" in Vicksburg back in '91 after everything fell apart.

Nathan Thomas12 said:The real takeaway is that sanctions take years to bite—long enough for Russia, and every other autocrat out there, to realize that grabbing territory comes with a massive price tag.
Russia’s been stockpiling hardware for 70 years—they’ve got plenty to go around—so yeah, sanctions aren't suddenly gonna make them fold and walk away from this.

Exactly. Putinites whine about how Ukraine spent eight years preparing for war, conveniently forgetting that Russia was the one who started the whole mess they've been prepping for since 1945.
If we were only talking about Russian weapons and ammo produced from 1991 until now, they would have run dry a long time ago.
Most of this massive pile of artillery and hardware is leftovers from the USSR era. It takes time to grind through all that, but if the West stays focused, they can pull it off.
The only thing Putinites actually have a reason to complain about is the lack of manpower. Modern-day Russia has half the population the old USSR had, and they don't have enough cannon fodder left to send in endless waves against Ukrainian bunkers.
They know it, and that's why they're whining.