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https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/31/polit...tin/index.htmlDonald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t make a military move into Ukraine – even though Putin already has done just that, seizing the country’s Crimean Peninsula.
“He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want,” Trump said in an interview on Sunday with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week.”
“Well, he’s already there, isn’t he?” Stephanopoulos responded, in a reference to Crimea, which Putin took from Ukraine in early 2014.
Trump said: “OK – well, he’s there in a certain way. But I’m not there.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/polit...nce/index.htmlIn the 24 hours after Russian ships opened fire on and seized three Ukrainian vessels near Crimea, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May, the foreign ministers of Germany, the UK and Canada, European members of the Security Council, including France, Sweden, Poland, the Netherlands and the UK, as well as several US lawmakers expressed grave concern and called for a de-escalation.
During that time, the President and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo remained silent on the serious escalation in tensions between the two countries. After Trump spoke to reporters, a day and a half after the confrontation, Pompeo released a statement expressing “deep concern,” condemning Russia and calling for restraint from “both parties.”
As a suggestion; maybe edit the OP with a note about the change, and a link to where the current invasion started? So new people opening the thread see the immediate redirect to current stuff, rather than the months of hypothetisizing over dozens of pages?
Obviously not a major issue, but could help pre-empt some confusions, if you've got a moment.
The problem with this quote is the problem concerning everything right now, that is we all have a differing definition of what the word "retarded" means. To some Russia invading is that word, to others the "Woke" crowd is that word. As an American even me self censoring that word "Retarded" is prove that over 10 to 15 years the culture you live in changes you, since even 10 years ago I would have flung that word around with out care, and more importantly without fear of consequence because these days even if true you get fucked.
We all have differing versions of what words mean these days, and the less impressionable of the under 35 to 40 year old crowd think their the new definition of words they have been taught are reality when it is not because those definitions have taken human nature out of the equation and replaced it with what we all want humans to be, sadly we are not there yet and given that we have tried to suppress our animal nature for 80 odd years, this is what we get, a new war that will show the entire world that the leaders countries that did not forget that we are animals and will pounce upon weakness and remind the rest of the world that all animals fight. Be it over territory, resources, or at the basest level the woman/man we want to fuck, animals take what they want if they think they can and a good portion of the world has tried to move past that a bit too soon because half the world does not agree yet.
This is why the world after 80 years is now going through this, and trust me the current battle is just that, a battle not the war that will come. This battle is just the opening act to the war that is now starting.
We now get to see, according to Darwin, who is going to be right for the next century.
One again, the Russian government is led by a murderous asshat. Meanwhile, right-wing asshats from across my own country are now praising him.
If you think the build up of this and me just sitting back and watching, since there is fuck all any of us can do about it is a "Are you serious?" moment then you like me are part of the problem me for my apathy and you for your inaction or whatever. Me calling out that times are being decided right now because we tried to move past humans being animals too soon is not my problem. It is yours for not seeing it, and the weakness that people trying to overcome their animalistic nature have exposed because it was done too fast and too soon.
Everyone rightfully bitching at Putin, but what about Lukashenko? That slimy old fuck. He's culpable too.
That's very likely to be true, and much as I lament such a direction I could hardly blame them. Going the way of peace and moderation when there's an imperialist power at your doorstep is suicide. Europe is also definitely going to remilitarize to not be next on the chopping block.
It is all that is left unsaid upon which tragedies are built -Kreia
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UK banned Russia civil aircrafts over its space :S