Posts by Jeremy Peterson4

Richard Cooper3 said:So you're putting Mexicans and those idiot, criminal-minded Vučić tabloids in the same category? Give me a break!
If the Russians were really the masters of propaganda and soft power instead of Americans, that 2014 coup wouldn't have even happened—and that's where this whole horror story started. If Americans were in Russia's shoes, half of Ukraine would already be leveled.
Man, who am I even talking to here... 🤦

More than half of Mexicans back Vučko, so what's your take on that?
If they didn't support him, he wouldn't be running the damn country.

Russian forces just hammered an evacuation corridor.

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Richard Cooper3 said:It's that classic American cowboy attitude—you're either with us or you're against us. But I guess that's why they're seen as the beacon of democracy.
Just look at how this Russian invasion compares to when the US went into Iraq—the Americans bombed everything first, and then they finally started the ground offensive.
I think this is just the beginning, too. Things paused because Zelenskyy was given 24 hours to agree to negotiations.
The Bosphorus, the pipelines? Don't worry about it. It's just business as usual. Everything stays open. ☕

Let's be clear here: I don't support, and I never have supported, any American invasions in the East, aside from the fight against ISIS. Those Eastern nations should have been left to handle their own defense; they should've been given military aid like what Ukraine is getting now, and let them deal with the assholes themselves.

Michael Davis10 said:I mean, you're basically reading the same stuff from Western or Ukrainian outlets anyway. It's all just breaking news without any actual proof. Just that random breaking news stuff you see on Twitter.

Oh, really? Is it the same thing as reading the New York Post or the Courier? The Courier is always gonna spin whatever serves their "influence" in the US—or in this case, Russia.

The other day they actually had the nerve to report that Ukraine attacked Russia. How much of a rat do you have to be to fall for that kind of stuff?

The Russians and Mexicans are absolute gods of propaganda. Even the Chinese can't touch them.

Kyle Nelson2 said:I wonder if they'll end up on the list for "denazification" too?

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if he just starts swinging at every single former USSR country that doesn't fall in line with him.

So, Kazakhstan basically told Russia to kick rocks when it came to recognizing the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk. It’s a pretty wild move considering how tight they usually are with Moscow, and it's definitely something that's got Putin scratching his head.

Whoa, okay, didn't see that one coming.

Gritty said:Zelenskyy isn't even a legitimate president.

There weren't any elections held in Donbas, and back then, both Ukraine and Russia considered Donbas part of Ukraine anyway. Same deal with Crimea—no elections there either, even though only Ukraine actually claims it as their own territory.

Crimea is absolutely Ukrainian territory that's currently under Russian occupation. If you actually knew anything about history, you wouldn't be posting this nonsense.

execv said:And what's that supposed to mean?

Weaponry from Europe. 😁

The Americans just shipped out some more military gear today.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mblaszcza...C44aeOqscpAAAA

urbanotter said:But who exactly is going to be the one to step up and stop him?

The idea of "tough" sanctions🤦

Personally, I am just hoping for a swift end to the fighting. My biggest wish is that we can get everyone back to the negotiating table as soon as possible,
specifically bringing in people who might actually be willing to listen more effectively than those who have been sitting at the table up until now.

So, you really think someone’s gonna pull up a chair to an eight-meter table? Like, seriously? That’s not even a dining setup anymore; that’s basically a runway for a suburban banquet. You’d need a GPS just to pass the salt to the guy at the other end. It's like trying to host a dinner party in a converted warehouse in Chicago—you spend more time traveling between courses than actually eating them. Probably better to just grab a burger at a local diner and call it a day. 🤣
You don't sit at the negotiating table with an occupier. Period.

William Nelson59 said:And that’s your president right there, just a total clown👎. Playing piano with a pipe or whatever. I saw a clip today—can't figure out how to post it here. People call Donald Trump a circus act, then you see this guy acting like a complete degenerate. I guess any mother would be embarrassed by a son like that. 😁

When we can finally get someone like Draleta into Congress, then maybe they can have a comedian for President. Honestly, at least he actually finished college, which puts him miles ahead of our local "intellectuals" around here.

Betty Murphy3 said:Hypothetically speaking, if Scotland somehow pulled off independence and then immediately decided to join forces with China and Russia, would England just sit there twiddling their thumbs? Or would they be like, "Oh, go ahead, Scots, buddy up with whoever you want, it's your right"?

Where did this insane logic come from—this idea that everyone can just wander off wherever they please and it’s nobody else's business?!

It's not like we're living in the Stone Age where you don't have the freedom to pick your own partners.
Look at how Mexico is partnered up with Russia. By that logic, NATO should just roll in and launch a military intervention in Mexico because, hey, they're right on the border. It's honestly a joke.

Brenda Taylor13 said:This is actually a pretty solid read—it lays out the whole timeline regarding NATO expansion and all the messy fallout from moving into former Warsaw Pact and USSR territories. Now, look, this doesn't justify Russia’s invasion or their aggression against Ukraine by any means, but it does try to dig into the "why" behind it—basically explaining why Putin feels like Russia got totally played and betrayed by the West.

And honestly, this is the root of Putin's rage: back in the 90s, the U.S. Secretary of State promised Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO wouldn't expand a single inch east of Germany. From their perspective, it was a total bait-and-switch.

The current clash between Russia and the West is fueled by a ton of grievances, but the big one—the absolute kicker—is the belief in Moscow that the West stabbed the former Soviet Union in the back by breaking those end-of-the-Cold-War promises from 1989-1990 about NATO not expanding eastward. In that famous speech he gave back in 2007 at the Munich Security Conference, Vladimir Putin went off on the West, accusing them of ignoring those guarantees and basically leaving international law in the gutter.

If you ask me—and I've been thinking about this a lot—it feels like Putin has had this planned since 2007. He just spent the intervening years playing the long game, focusing on beefing up the Russian economy and, more importantly, building a military that could actually pull this off. When you look at how much they've modernized and pumped money into their armed forces since then, it all starts to click. He laid out his stance in 2007, and then spent the next 15 years rebuilding a military that was basically a total wreck after the fall of the USSR.

They aren't going to stop expanding and just sit there while Russia tramples over other countries. If the moment ever comes where Russia starts making demands of those nations and they say "no," we already know how that story ends. Besides, nobody in Europe is interested in communism anymore. These countries are hungry for freedom and want to call their own shots.