Biden is considering sending up to 50,000
troops as well as warships and aircraft
to NATO allies in Eastern Europe amid
growing fears of a Russian invasion of
Ukraine as second shipment of US weapons arrives
Daily Mail (UK),
by
James Gordon
&
Chris Pleasance
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/24/2022 3:54:59 AM
President Joe Biden could deploy up to 50,000 US troops as well as aircraft and warships to eastern Europe to counter a Russian military build-up that has sparked fears Vladimir Putin is about to invade Ukraine.The plan would see between 1,000 and 5,000 soldiers sent to NATO nations such as Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, which border Russian territory.Troop numbers could then be increased up to 50,000 if the security situation deteriorates, backed up by fresh deployments of ships and aircraft. Pentagon officials presented the plan to Biden during a summit at Camp David
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rama41 1/24/2022 4:53:14 AM (No. 1048892)
I wonder if the Taliban will let us borrow back some of that 85 billion dollars worth of military equipment. /s
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
avital2 1/24/2022 4:56:45 AM (No. 1048893)
Joe should never have taken troops off the table. it's late in the game now. i can't think of worst negotiators--except maybe present-day Germans. 50,000 is a joke.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mifla 1/24/2022 5:03:04 AM (No. 1048894)
Let me guess, the patch on their shoulder says WOKE.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/24/2022 5:43:48 AM (No. 1048910)
Just pray that he steps down before all h3ll breaks loose. Hope that someone goes into the oval office or his Delaware house and tells him he must go and be replaced before he starts World War III.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chance_232 1/24/2022 5:52:13 AM (No. 1048916)
The war will be over before the first company is loaded into a plane.
Putin has been building up for MONTHS. Brandon thinks that he can snap his fingers and Telenor 50,000 troops to defend against 200,000. Oh.....and that 200,000 has no supply chain issues.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LadyVet 1/24/2022 6:01:55 AM (No. 1048922)
If Biden is removed using 25th Amendment, we are stuck with Kamala. This is a real dilema. If we let Joe join Jimmah Carter in retirement, then we have a hysterical, cackling Kamala facing Putin in a war while she joins woke DAs in releasing massive numbers of violent criminals from jail to attack us in our homes while our defenders are in Europe.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951 1/24/2022 6:06:18 AM (No. 1048925)
This certainly would be a very big opening for China to decide that Taiwan needs to be reminded whom they belong to. FJB voters. Is this what you were hoping for, is this what you were voting for, think it can't get worse, it can. Demented fool with inept fools pushing his buttons.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
proactus 1/24/2022 6:29:21 AM (No. 1048937)
Will the soldiers get to put messages on their helmets like the NFL?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/24/2022 6:47:25 AM (No. 1048950)
If Biden thinks his polling numbers are low now, just wait until he deploys troops to Ukraine or Eastern Europe. Preemptive sanctions that hurt Putin are needed now, not after the invasion by Russia. Biden and Blinken are incompetent fools.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Creekrat 1/24/2022 6:51:31 AM (No. 1048953)
This is absolute insanity.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 1/24/2022 7:07:32 AM (No. 1048965)
Send the ladyboys in first... That way the enemy will laugh themselves to death.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rinktum 1/24/2022 7:10:08 AM (No. 1048971)
#4, The problem is if Joe steps down his replacement is worse. We are on the brink of war with Russia with no leader, our military stripped of warriors and generals who believe that breaking things and destroying the enemy is “not who we are”. Incompetent does not begin to describe the lot that did not fight to leave Afghanistan with all our people and equipment intact. Any kid in ROTC in high school knew that decision was a disaster in the making. We are well and truly messed up to the point that whatever Biden or even his successor does puts the whole country at risk. Facing off with Russia with this lot of fools? My goodness, it is a disaster. We are being held captive not only by an illegitimate administration but a totally incompetent one.
I just want to say one thing to those weak Republicans who refused to stand strong with President Trump when it was clear the election was stolen, that one decision has caused every bit of misery we have suffered this past year. Evil men stole what they could not win and cowardly indifference allowed them to succeed. All it took was a little pressure from the media and anti-Trumpers and Republican support vanished. Look what you have wrought.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/24/2022 7:22:48 AM (No. 1048984)
That's the ticket. Send troops to eastern Europe so people will be distracted and not notice empty store shelves, high inflation, pandemic lies, illegal jailing of people in Washington D.C., government corruption, and the southern border invasion.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Krause 1/24/2022 7:26:38 AM (No. 1048985)
Just think, they stole the election just to show us, and the world, how stupid, incompetent and corrupt they are.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/24/2022 7:41:56 AM (No. 1049001)
Send 50k transgender woke troops that would make the Russians drop dead from laughter.
Serious? Joe Biden is going defend the border of a corrupt s**thole country the size of California from the Russians. Laughter out loud on this one when our own southern border is wide open. One American soldier's life is not worth this. Medals Milley better give Joe a good shaking and talk him out of this one. Joe Biden is flirting with disaster or maybe Klaine (the real poser president) is. Let's go Brandon.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
TCloud 1/24/2022 7:48:05 AM (No. 1049004)
Putin and the Russian Military is NOT sweating the small stuff. Putin has no need for Western PCism/Wokeness/ROE and with Austin and Milley knowing neither victory nor defeat the military outcome is written on the wall!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 1/24/2022 7:49:42 AM (No. 1049006)
50,000 would be speed bumps.
If Putin jump's he could capture Keiv before we warm up the planes.
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Wag. The. Dog.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Pearson365 1/24/2022 7:59:05 AM (No. 1049016)
Wouldn’t it be better to transfer Hunter Biden’s Burisma contract to Putin’s family or girlfriend? Plus there surely are other Ukrainian companies plus the government which would each pay Putin’s family $1 million a year for no show jobs in Kiev.
In hindsight, the Ukrainian government should have done more in 2017-2019 to reveal the level of Joe Biden’s corruption with Burisma and Hunter. Now it faces a truly “big guy” on its border while Joe Biden continues to hide his 10% from Burisma,
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 1/24/2022 8:00:15 AM (No. 1049019)
The congress people who vote for this, their children go first.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
qr4j 1/24/2022 8:03:24 AM (No. 1049023)
Is the stupid old rooster we have in the White House gonna pull off a military response to the Ukraine crisis with the same level of competence he did pulling our folks out of Afghanistan? Is he listening to the same idiot military pros?
If so, we are in heap big trouble!!!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
singermom9 1/24/2022 8:05:38 AM (No. 1049025)
The pandemic no longer will allow their total control so now they will incite a war. Biden will then declare a national emergency and declare Marshal Law. Then he will cancel elections for November because of the danger to our democracy and all will remain the same. Dems really have no intention of losing power. They do not care about the low polls because they never intend to have an honest election again. They do not play fair or care about the American people.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/24/2022 8:07:26 AM (No. 1049027)
What are the actual NATO countries doing?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/24/2022 8:08:29 AM (No. 1049028)
20 posts and no one has said it yet so I will…
At least there are no mean tweets.
I was a 9 year old child during the Cuban missile crisis and this is beginning to feel a lot like that. TaliBiden is just the person to give us the Ukrainian version of the Bay of Pigs.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 1/24/2022 8:12:17 AM (No. 1049032)
We gave Afghanistan $85 billion in the most modern weapons, aircraft, equipment and military tech.
Now it all belongs to our enemies.
Now we're about to give $$$$$ to Ukraine in the most modern weapons, aircraft, equipment and military tech.
What if history repeats itself?
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Perhaps we could have a plan for our own border. Oh that's right we did and scrapped it because of the moron in the White House and his moronic pals who all suffer from serious TDS. Maybe Biden and his son can foot the bill for the Ukranian defenses with all the bribery money that they took over the years.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
jimincalif 1/24/2022 8:36:02 AM (No. 1049048)
What are our troops going to do there? Maybe check vax cards and masks on the Russians as they cross the border? Ask them for their preferred pronouns? Brandon has been wrong on foreign policy his entire career, why change now?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/24/2022 8:45:08 AM (No. 1049054)
Did any of these countries in Eastern Europe even ask for troops?
Biden is doing this to get all the attention off COVID and the economy.
Does Biden have a bunker in the basement of his house in Delaware?
What a jerk.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/24/2022 8:48:17 AM (No. 1049059)
Biden thinks he can send troops anywhere without Congressional approval, or support of the U.S. citizenry. Biden will find out soon enough that Congress is not going to fund this. NATO is not going to help at all. Our military has been decimated by pushing out those not vaccinated or replacing merit with diversity. The military we have now is going to sit down, slow down. They may obey the orders, but it will be without any heart. Who wants to die for Biden? The Russians will only laugh. The Germans sent a million and a half troops, and that didn't work out, did it? There is no way we can support a supply line to Ukraine, and Putin knows it. Only Biden doesn't.
15 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Clinger 1/24/2022 8:53:00 AM (No. 1049066)
Putin is playing Biden forcing him to weaken the US by deploying assets to protect his own crime family gravy train. He'll bleed us dry just like Reagan did with Gorbachev. No that a very real war isn't a distinct possibility.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
aripeny 1/24/2022 8:53:40 AM (No. 1049067)
Is FJB sending troops to keep Hunter's dealings secret or detract us from empty shelves and high gas prices?
Wag the dog at its worst.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
joew9 1/24/2022 8:56:01 AM (No. 1049071)
Maybe they can go over there and bring us back some food.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
thomthomp 1/24/2022 9:00:08 AM (No. 1049077)
As a retired 23-year veteran I would not wish to be in the United States military right now. We don't even know who the Commander-in-Chief is (certainly not Joe Biden), but whoever it is is an idiot.
34 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
Trapper 1/24/2022 9:02:48 AM (No. 1049081)
NONE of our NATO allies, nor anyone else in Europe, seem to care what the Russians do regarding Ukraine, so why should we? And just for the record, exactly WHAT American interests are at stake in Ukraine, other than Biden family personal income?
29 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/24/2022 9:20:59 AM (No. 1049105)
we are in great peril in the United States if we allow this half-wit to continue to pursue whatever course he is taking our nation.
17 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Italiano 1/24/2022 9:23:13 AM (No. 1049108)
I'm just glad that my sons are out. That Iraq/Afghanistan fiasco was bad enough.
13 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/24/2022 9:40:21 AM (No. 1049139)
AND now the Pentagon has it's war...the military complex was unhappy when President Trump said...no more foreign wars...war is good for business...with an all volunteer military..have the dudes thought what happens when they loose all their personnel...probably not...they'll just "install" an all draft military...with Bubba Clinton at the head...since he was soooo upset with the draft...he demonstrated against America in Moscow...of course...a few extra female candidates would keep him happy...PIG!!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 1/24/2022 9:42:57 AM (No. 1049141)
Aspirin factory time.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/24/2022 9:46:48 AM (No. 1049150)
Plainly stupid, but then Biden is "Leader of the Free Loaders" and has to do something. The choice here is really simple: NATO backs down and says no to Ukraine membership, or war over Ukrainian sovereignty. NATO certainly won't fight as it is woefully unprepared and unwilling. Which leaves the USA, and the warmongers who are just spoiling to take on the Russkies, the Chinese, the NoKors and anyone else they think worthy of a nuke or two.
6 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/24/2022 9:56:00 AM (No. 1049171)
#12 I agree with you. Kamala is as bad or even worse. I believe the State Department would be next. How damn bad does it get??? Where does the witch Pelosi fit in? We are doomed!!!!
Time to pray.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/24/2022 10:05:28 AM (No. 1049190)
FJB could not find his bee-hind with a road map and both hands. He'd do well to consider his own SSA number or his personal attorney's name. Warships? My aunt Minnie.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 1/24/2022 10:06:15 AM (No. 1049192)
Warmongering lunatics.
Remember when the Democrats pretended to hate war (evenif most of them in the last 100 years were actually started by Democrats)
But now, they publicly embrace them.
Oh Well, 'Lizard Chainey' and her daddy should be happy Their Military Industrial Complex paymasters should be happy, wasting munitions that they get to replace at much higher costs, and a few hundred or thousand dead enlisted and NCOs and a few low level officers dead is a small price to pay ./s
6 people like this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 1/24/2022 10:17:13 AM (No. 1049210)
Leave it to Old Joe to get us into a conflict in the Ukraine to distract Americans from the complete disaster of his first year as President. Who will benefit? The Military Industrial Complex will make their money. The Chicoms will take Taiwan. Americans will die in the Ukraine. A possible nuclear conflict. Are there any Republicans or Democrats that will stop this insanity? Slim and none is the answer.
9 people like this.
Reply 44 - Posted by:
red1066 1/24/2022 10:19:26 AM (No. 1049213)
Biteme better consider keeping those 50,000 troops around to protect himself and the rest of cabal in government. The American people are in no mood for another conflict that doesn't benefit us. Except perhaps another American revolution.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
VietVet68 1/24/2022 10:42:33 AM (No. 1049257)
The democrats hate the military except when they need something to make them look tough on aggression. Then after their photo op it's back to hating the military.
"A democrat is a person who will lay down YOUR life for his country".
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
columba 1/24/2022 10:42:37 AM (No. 1049258)
Biden and (of course) continue to pretend that the Soviet Union remains.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Kafka2 1/24/2022 10:52:49 AM (No. 1049270)
As Biden and the Democrats have welcomed the invasion of millions of illegals across our southern boarder, he now proclaims that the US and NATO must prevent the invasion of Ukraine's boarder by Russia. We, of course, would like to see a peaceful diplomatic solution, BUT, to get things off to a bad start, the right to have Ukraine join NATO is non-negotiable though we might not object to a "minor" incursion of Ukraine by Russia.
Let's consider the facts.
1. The other NATO countries have no desire to have Ukraine join NATO..
2. We have no strategic interest in having Ukraine join NATO.
3. Unwise alliances lead to World War I as a result of a single assignation. Do we really want to recreate circumstances for history to repeat itself?
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/24/2022 10:55:38 AM (No. 1049276)
Cannon fodder?
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 1/24/2022 11:11:35 AM (No. 1049301)
I could see Russia moving into Belarus before laying a finger on Ukraine. Then Ukraine would be surrounded on 3 sides. Kiev is fairly close to the Belarus border and would be under great pressure if Russian tanks were just 1 hour away.
3 people like this.
Reply 50 - Posted by:
cold porridge 1/24/2022 11:13:39 AM (No. 1049304)
Remember? Hillary was wanting to go to war against Russia when she was campaigning in 2016. Joe who's azz has been wiped is just fulfilling her wish.
4 people like this.
Reply 51 - Posted by:
JackBurton 1/24/2022 11:30:43 AM (No. 1049323)
After Afghanistan, we all KNEW this was coming.
Four years of Trump. No wars. Kimmy stopped lobbing missiles. Russians and Iranians starved for oil revenues.
Vote fraud has its consequences.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/24/2022 11:42:24 AM (No. 1049346)
#23: What are the actual NATO countries doing?
Nothing. Joe left them out of the loop in Afghanistan, and I don't think they're stupid enough to come to our assistance anymore.
9 people like this.
Reply 53 - Posted by:
TLCary 1/24/2022 11:46:59 AM (No. 1049351)
The last time England took on Russia in Ukraine, (this keeps happening), their "Charge of the Light Brigade" went very wrong. I don't think they are going to want to repeat that situation. This Saber-Rattling is nothing but bad theater.
6 people like this.
Reply 54 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/24/2022 12:20:56 PM (No. 1049379)
Or, #24, has biden the cheater set us up for another Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Kumoan 1/24/2022 1:07:09 PM (No. 1049439)
Call me paranoid, but I fear the purging of the US military will continue, with professional war-fighters who are patriots being replaced by commie wannabes fresh from the universities and other pestilential funk-holes. I'll bet big money that most American citizens abandoned in Afghastlistan fit the Republican voter profile. We all know about the military purges of the un-vaxxed, mostly professional war-fighters who are patriots. Next up? Taiwan or Ukraine. Or both. The way will be led by the professional military of today, largely made up of professional war-fighters who are patriots. A phone call or nine by such as Thoroughly Milquetoast MIlley to the CCP and/or Putin's military outlining our battle plans in detail will ensure that a large number of professional war-fighters who are patriots are eliminated, to be replaced after the humiliating defeats, by reliable demorat zombies, and the patch on their shoulder says WOKE. They may be incompetent, but they owe allegiance to the party. And, they will be good enough for internal control and the "wet work" it requires.
2 people like this.
Reply 56 - Posted by:
dman 1/24/2022 1:09:01 PM (No. 1049444)
Now that the Dems have squandered our treasure,, they want to "wag the dog" and spill our children's blood.
The converse of "peace through strength" is war through weakness.
That's what the Democrat "War Party" and their RINO pro-war accomplices do.
Time to get WOKEN. Pray for and work for a new MAGA party, if it is not already too late.
3 people like this.
Reply 57 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/24/2022 1:43:41 PM (No. 1049484)
How many children of the big shot leftist, progressive, and socialist DC Democrats is Biden going to send to Eastern Europe to stop the Russian military from invading Ukraine? You better believe that the Democrats will not answer that question.
Now Biden’s minions are claiming that the US troops are not going to enter Ukraine, but will be deployed to the Eastern European NATO countries to protect those countries from the Russians. But currently Putin and the Russians do not appear to be interested in invading those NATO countries, as almost all of the 127,000 Russian troops are deployed along the Russian-Ukraine borderline with the obvious target of the Russians being Ukraine, where Biden’s crew says they are not sending any US troops. Is this another Biden crew and military-industrial complex “snow job” on the American people?
4 people like this.
Reply 58 - Posted by:
bobn.t 1/24/2022 1:50:39 PM (No. 1049493)
Who will be the first american to die in biden's russia war?
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 1/24/2022 2:03:27 PM (No. 1049509)
Let’s send our best and most advanced technology, then Brandon can leave all of it behind when he tucks tail and surrenders to Russia! Let’s Go Brandon!
4 people like this.
Reply 60 - Posted by:
Chicagoan 1/24/2022 2:26:39 PM (No. 1049540)
Sleepy Joe has to protect Ukraine. Isn't his son Hunter still being paid by them?
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/24/2022 2:38:16 PM (No. 1049549)
Biden is considering baking cookies and having a cookie exchange party with Russia and China.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
ToryWhite 1/24/2022 5:46:23 PM (No. 1049665)
This looks more and more like Biden's Afghanistan gig. Joe doesn't want Ukraine to be okay, as that country had had , for a long time, the goods on his son and family. Joe would like Ukraine to go away. This is so obvious, by Joe's being so late at the party, now, by his comments this week, saying yea, Russian will win in the Ukraine, by his sneers to Britain, again, our main ally over there, by his idiot video call planned today with the E.U. (REALLY??), by his closing an embassy in Ukraine that is far from a thus far only feared incursion. Not an ounce of strategic awareness in his whole body. Just venality.
2 people like this.
Reply 63 - Posted by:
deerejon 1/24/2022 7:16:48 PM (No. 1049731)
Well there goes are Country for sure,Everything this Idiot touches goes to hell.Anything do divert attention from His failures,Now he's going to make more failures.
3 people like this.
Reply 64 - Posted by:
gto1344 1/24/2022 8:20:34 PM (No. 1049779)
Do you trust Brandon with the nuclear football?
1 person likes this.
Reply 65 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 1/24/2022 8:55:27 PM (No. 1049791)
Regardless of how this proceeds, not one single country in Europe will step up and help Ukraine. Every one of them are a bunch of socialist ninnies who will beat up their own population but not raise a finger to help anyone else in need.
2 people like this.
Reply 66 - Posted by:
rochow 1/24/2022 9:57:54 PM (No. 1049828)
Re # 1, we should have sent all that equipment to the Ukraine to begin with. When we withdrew from Afghanistan discussions were already in the works about Russian invasion etc. Having a moron in the WH who can barely manage 20 words without messing that up he and his clown administration could not handle more than one disaster for the world to see.
From what I read today it appears the first corrupt moron was mad that the Ukraine was not paying his corrupt son any more bribes. So, he obviously was not even thinking about the Ukraine as a 'situation' that has to be dealt with, but he gave the Russians the green light to amass their troops in front of the Ukrainian border. I guess the first incompetent moron needs to look for new pastures that 'pay' his son!
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