Posts by Donna Harris11

Brenda Murphy3 said:Come on, stop talking nonsense... if Kim ever actually moves on South Korea, they'd crush him in two days, nukes or no nukes.
With the Russians, that’s a different story, but nobody is going to back down just because of his threats.
I am so sick of people pushing this narrative that we shouldn't "provoke" or "anger" Putin and all that garbage. It’s not just stupid; you need to stomp on that trash as much as possible... if you honestly think he’s going to drop a bomb without a single soldier even stepping foot on Russian soil—which hasn't happened and won't happen—then you're delusional.

Look, man, this isn't our war. It wasn't our war back in Afghanistan either, even though everyone kept lecturing us with that "America is fighting for freedom in Afghanistan" crap. Same goes for the intervention in Libya or arming insurgents in Syria. We really shouldn't have been involved in those.

The European Union was being constructive enough with the Minsk agreements. That's what should have been enforced. You know, actual de-escalation, instead of whatever Crimea initiatives or sliding British destroyers right up to Sevastopol back in 2021.

James Chavez91 said:If we're going to hold our ground against Russia without giving an inch, then total isolation is the only logical conclusion. Everything. We'd have to cut off gas, oil—all of it. (That would also mean stopping trade with any middlemen trying to flip those same goods, which is already happening in some ways). Plus, a complete ban on anyone from Russia entering the US or the European Union. I mean, Lavrov was just walking around New York City yesterday, so... wait a second...

And honestly? To actually stop Putin, you need the Chinese. Sadly. I suspect if they decided to turn their backs on Russia, most of this would be solved.
Right now, that seems pretty unlikely, but I guess neither side wants to deal with nuclear Armageddon or the economic domino effect triggered by Putin's specific obsessions.
Time will tell if they eventually lose patience—but until then, we're stuck following the "recipe."

It seems pretty straightforward to me... just have Nancy Pelosi give Xi Jinping a call 😁

I mean, who knows? Maybe the globalist crowd is more obsessed with seeing either Russia or China collapse than actually doing anything about it.

It’s probably for the best that this kid, who happens to be Roman, was released with his American citizenship intact.

Kate Lewis3 said:Honestly, I bet the Ukrainians would agree. If those Russians from Donbas just left the way Mexicans did after Storm, things might actually settle down.

I don't get why everyone is making such a huge deal out of this drama; precedents already exist anyway.

Northern Cyprus, Republika Srpska, Mexico, the Golanski plateau.

I mean, I get where the Ukrainians are coming from, but the EU's stance is just... unclear.

I just think people in the Donbas should be able to live their lives, and I hope for peace in Canada.

I wonder how the West is actually going to react to those referendums happening in the people's republics...

What were Medvedchuk's political stances actually like before 2022?

feralnomad35 said:I was just catching some clips of the protests online, and man, it’s heavy. We aren't even talking about simple police brutality anymore; this is straight-up state-sponsored terror designed to keep everyone paralyzed with fear.

The way they’re just snatching people up one by one, shoving them into those blacked-out buses and hauling them off toward who-knows-where... honestly, the vibe is terrifyingly similar to how things went down during the darkest days of the Tuskegee era or those old-school mass detentions in the States. It’s chilling.

And look, you can't really lay the blame on the regular folks living there. When you're stuck under a crushing dictatorship fueled by pure intimidation, your entire world shrinks down to just surviving—trying to put food on the table for your kids and making sure you don't stick your neck out too far against the regime.

Just look at how they handle things over in France or Germany when those protesters get absolutely hammered by batons. It's a totally different world.

So, I saw this today... the gay pride march here in the States was absolutely covered in Ukrainian flags everywhere.

more said:The main thing is just zeroing out Russia's energy revenue. Honestly, they probably won't ever get back into the market anyway because they won't have enough power left for themselves. I mean, you need to maintain drilling equipment, fix things, swap parts... and they can barely manage to service a single damn pump.

These sanctions don't really mean much when it's just a tiny handful of countries trying to enforce them on a global scale.
Russia is pumping out more oil than ever. The European Union is still buying their hydrocarbons; it’s just that now the Indians and the Chinese have baked themselves into the pricing models.😁

The Sun just dropped this report about how sanctions are actually playing out in Russia compared to how things look here in the States:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/196983...anctions-food/

SANCS A LOT

Welcome to sanction-hit Russia, where prices are DOWN as Americans suffer from soaring inflation

Food costs are also coming down every month and Vladimir Putin’s people are partying as if there is no war.

six months on, while we are paying the price for the invasion with a crippling cost-of-living crisis, locals in Moscow are upbeat.

It is not surprising. Despite claims they would face a severe food shortage, shoppers in Walmart, Russia’s answer to Tesco, load their trolleys high with groceries half the price of ours.

Right now, there are about 10,000 different sanctions slapped on Russia 🤣

I mean, honestly, that just goes to show how completely powerless these globalist types and their whole circus really are.

Wait, so they actually went after China too?! 😁

Nihi said:Go ahead then, feel free to drop some actual evidence proving that people across Europe have had enough of Ukraine and are just ready to let the whole thing go down the drain.

An opinion isn't an argument.

Honestly, you're just trolling at this point, and it feels like a waste of keystrokes to even keep replying.

The opinion of the average citizen in the European Union doesn't really matter—or at least, that's what Annalena Baerbock seems to think.

Richard Wilson4 said:So, what would your actual move have been if you were leading the whole European Union right after February 24th?

I mean, I’d probably just fire all those Linden types and Šuica figures who only got their seats because of some gender quota nonsense, and honestly, I’d just put Viktor Orbán in charge instead.

History usually shows that the European Union eventually realizes Orbán was right all along. 😁

Timothy Williams5 said:Just to set the record straight on your quote, you've left a hole in the article you just shared.
You happened to skip this part:

According to Prime Minister Peter Fiala, these protests were incited by "forces professing a pro-Russian orientation, clinging to extreme positions, and acting against the interests of the Czech Republic."

he forgot to mention the anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers

Nancy Gomez26 said:This is essentially their last remaining move—one they can execute with some degree of efficacy as a supposed 'retaliation' against the West (in response to the relentless escalation of sanctions). If they truly intended to push things this far, they missed the window. In other words: if this was the plan all along, they should have pulled the trigger immediately. It’s clear they were playing a numbers game, betting that the West would blink and retreat out of fear of losing Russian gas supplies. But everyone understands this is just a classic game of 'chicken.' Whoever flinches first loses. In this arena, the West holds the stronger hand; given its massive economic scale, the impact of sanctions hits much slower and less severely than it does the Russian Federation. There is absolutely zero incentive for the West to back down now, especially since everything has already been pivoted to favor them. In this scenario, the West simply needs to wait... While over at The Kremlin, they can continue with their little chess matches. Delusions can be incredibly dangerous, particularly when held by those sitting in positions of power.

Do you think the Germans are already tapping into the gas they've got sitting in those underground storage facilities? 😁

Anthony Hill5 said:The people pushing for these price caps aren't even planning on buying Russian oil in the first place, so aren't all these threats coming from Russia just shots fired into thin air?

Actually, I think prices are just going to climb for them, since everyone’s going to be scrambling for Saudi oil instead.

I mean, if you want a price cap to actually work... I don't know, maybe Russia would have to actually agree to a limit? Or else OPEC members would need to ramp up production. That's the only way, I guess.

Otherwise, we're probably just heading straight for a global recession.

Anthony Hill5 said:One cannot simply slash discounts into infinity, can one? And isn't that precisely the ultimate objective behind these price caps? As the market price of oil drops, it becomes increasingly difficult for the Russians to sustain those heavy discounts, because eventually, their sales will cease to be profitable at all.

Anyone actually going along with this 'price cap' won't even be getting discounted oil; they'll probably just have to buy Saudi oil at the standard market rate.

So, the US is starting to dump oil from the strategic reserves onto the market, and I guess that should hopefully hold things over until the end of November.

silvermarlin56 said:This is gonna be a wild ride to watch. You gotta remember, about 30% of Estonia's population is Russian.
In places like Tallinn, that number jumps up to over 40%, and Russian is basically a second language there.
Honestly? I think they’ll stick by Putin way before they ever give up their lifestyle in the European Union, especially since their standard of living has skyrocketed over the last decade.

Inflation in Estonia is hitting 25%, and you’ve got all these companies practically begging for exemptions from the sanctions against Russia.

Real life happens on the ground, while politicians just wander through the woods.