Gonna be a long night for soldiers on both sides.
I've written about it enough. I still don't think this is our fight but we will get hit with the fallout (congrats to the hawks).
But ignore all that.
Tonight people will die. People will be in agony for years and might never truly recover from the mental trauma.
Suffering will be on display not for leadership of either side but for the poor souls carrying a weapon fighting for what he thinks is right.
Pray for them all.
War is a racket.
Dude gets classified briefings and can't keep his damn mouth shut. Please don't re-elect this ass hat.BREAKING: U.S. Senator Marco Rubio claims Russia's invasion of Ukraine "is now underway," provides no details or source
— BNO News (@BNONews) February 24, 2022
Global Hawk keeps tracking Donbas very hard pic.twitter.com/hQrTdQEZNF
— Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) February 24, 2022
Those ballsy Turk bastards. Pretty damn bold to zoom in like that with war imminent. Turks are crazy. Glad to have them on our side.Turkish air force’s Airbus A400M-180 arriving in Kyiv pic.twitter.com/S7Mfg65UcF
— Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) February 24, 2022
U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE BLINKEN BELIEVES RUSSIA WILL INVADE UKRAINE BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER - NBC NEWS
— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) February 24, 2022
They're going big boys.CNN confirms Russia closing airspace to civilian aircraft along North east border with Ukraine. Until May 18.
— Erin Burnett (@ErinBurnett) February 24, 2022
Russian voice circuit on 4649.5u. Conflicting reports as to who it might be - Russian Navy in the Black Sea has been suggested. Short extract attached... Any translators? Still running at 0001z #hfmilcomms #unid pic.twitter.com/SimOmNpaNn
— 'Transmitting in the red...' (@geoff_mcmaw) February 24, 2022
I'm trying to think how "rulers" of nations respond when impending doom is upon them.Zelensky speaks to the nation. The gravity of the situation looks to have really gotten to him.
— max seddon (@maxseddon) February 23, 2022
"Today I initiated a phone conversation with the president of the Russian Federation. The result was silence. Although it's the Donbas where there should be silence." pic.twitter.com/3TLEL5MO1s
I so wish I knew how to embed that one minute Kim Komando take on this but linking will have to do(What happens if Russia retaliates and the internet goes down?).
Short summary?
Expect disruptions if Russia decides to retaliate. Expect ATMs to go down, websites to get hit...basically a number of things (power grid?).
In other words Kim is saying things could go sideways.
Her recommendation?
Keep some cash on hand. One month of medicine. Didn't hear a thing about stocking food but she did mention to keep your gas tanks at least half full.
The weird thing?
Kim is kinda liberal. She follows the crowd and pretty much piggybacks on hot button issues in the tech sector.
My point?
If she's giving this advice then someone in the govt is saying it. Probably not loudly but its being said in the background so that if the bad stuff happens they have plausible deniability.
#Russia has closed the airspace along the northeast Ukrainian border for civil aviation according to #NOTAM (Notice to Airmen). #UkraineCrisis https://t.co/uezDbPKCUg pic.twitter.com/cUxmJyMAEo
— Donald Standeford (@Don_Standeford) February 23, 2022
My evolving thinking on Ukraine...
(1)
The Ukrainian leadership has been borderline insane. They had Nazi Brigades as part of their force. They have demanded to be part of NATO (even though they understand their history with the former USSR). They stated that the US/EU/NATO was being alarmist when word first came out about possible Russian actions.
(2)
Ukrainians know their history. Understand their relationship to Russia. Why didn't they forget joining NATO and insist on neutrality? I'm not sure this would have prevented all this but maybe?
(3)
I personally feel that another shot across the bow of forward deployment has been launched. I do my best to keep up and the number of exercises that NATO runs has been borderline obscene. Forward deployed forces that operate with vacillating political leadership is useless. I have to wonder. If Russia decided to attack Poland, would those forward deployed forces matter? If Poland could not repulse the attack how long would it take NATO to mobilize to take back the country?
(4)
Every country on that continent outside of France is begging for US troops. The EU needs to wrap its brains around the sorry facts. Its unsustainable! They're gonna have to get serious about their own defense or risk losing it all.
(5)
Despite all the talking heads and sermons being preached the American people ARE NOT behind taking action in Ukraine.
(6)
Those sanctions are gonna come back and bite us all HARD!!! By Nov (assuming the sanctions remain intact) I believe we will be in a full blown recession. I don't understand the mechanism behind it but I even heard a report about fears of deflation (don't understand that with rising prices but I gotta work out and don't have time to look it up).
Got more but I'm going lift. Talk to ya'll soon. Tell me how right or wrong I am.
Breaking news. Pro-Russian citizens in 3rd Ukrainian oblast of Kharkiv (Ukraine's 3rd city after Kiev & Donesk) call for Putin to "rescue" them from Ukraine by sending in Russian Army "peacekeepers". Next page of Putin's playbook revealed. pic.twitter.com/0UT5uCjIky
— New Variant Peter Caddick-Adams, PhD, FRHS, FRGS (@militaryhistori) February 23, 2022
There is a reason why the Biden administration and a FEW talking heads are now speaking about sacrifice here at home. These sanctions aren't just gonna hit the EU and Russia. America is gonna take another body blow from this drama.The potential of armed conflict between crop heavyweights has raised fears of a price surgehttps://t.co/0RmQ8iIAl2
— RT (@RT_com) February 23, 2022
"Speak plainly, Sergei"
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 22, 2022
Vladimir Putin presses Russia's spy chief during meeting with officialshttps://t.co/n7C78XPK3P pic.twitter.com/SEHTQRiaK4
Interesting.Hombre asesinado y colgado de una valla en un parque de #Herat. La realidad en #Afganistán que ya no interesa en los medios. La fotografía es muy dura, pero no voy a endulzaros el holocausto talibán. El hombre presuntamente era ex miembro del ejército. pic.twitter.com/bIHrViIgvg
— Amador Guallar (@AmadorGuallar) February 23, 2022
Inflation will kill any plus up of the budget. Congress will pass a bigger budget, inflation will eat into it, the services will fight over a shrinking pie and national security hawks just made European defense primary while China sits back and chills. We're led by idiots.Stealth contracting:
— Giovanni de Briganti (@JoedeBrig) February 23, 2022
Pentagon hides quadrupling of value of F-35 logistics contract to $2.1 billion by tacking it at the very end of yesterday's contract announcement.
Result: good chance it will be overlooked, hiding another F-35 budget bust from public pic.twitter.com/gFd5klyTmz
A few things from watching a bit of coverage of the Ukraine issue.
(1)
Stop coupling Ukraine with Taiwan. WE HAVE A DEFENSE PACT WITH TAIWAN! We don't have one with Ukraine! Linking the two issues is just plain dumb. China isn't watching Ukraine and thinking "wow, we can invade now". That's idiocy.
(2)
Understand that troops being on alert in NATO is just window dressing for the masses. There has been NO INDICATION that Russia has any ambitions beyond Ukraine. The globalist and national security hawks are all aflutter but its just a lot of noise and NOTHING else.
(3)
NATO is impotent. It's an organization from a bygone era. The entire Western Europe AND the United States arrayed against Russia? They should be flattered. NATO isn't a sign of strength. Not anymore. NATO is a sign of fear.
(4)
Sanctions are overused. Do you not think Putin met with the Chinese leader for shits and giggles? I guarantee they'll get all the chips they want. I don't know the banking system but I'm betting work arounds have been in place for awhile now because we've used them too damn much.
(5)
Pay attention to the pipeline. Germany suspended it. They didn't cancel it. Sounds great to the masses but at this point its alot of noise and nothing else.
(6)
Watching Blinken talk now. He is so slimy it makes me want to punch him in the face, not take him seriously.
(7)
We're lining up for another referendum election for president (in the USA). Between Hillary and Trump we decide to take a chance on the outsider because Hillary was so slimy. Between Trump and Biden we picked Biden because so many were put off by Trump's behavior (note, not his policies). The next election (assuming Biden runs) will be another referendum election. He'll get stomped and hopefully the Republicans will put forward someone halfway decent (doubt it..confidence is not high but I can hope).
But forget what I think. How much did I get right and wrong?
