There may be another component to this to factor in. Food.

The West may believe in man made global warming, but I believe the Chinese and Russians hold a different view...

https://phys.org/news/2006-08-russia...global-cooling.

htmlhttps://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3022136/china-scientists-warn-global-cooling-trick-natures-sleeve

If some projections are correct, by 2030 there will be problems with crop zones in China, Russia, Australia, Canada and the US.

Ukraine is a "Bread Basket" You may note that the Chinese are buying up food assets world wide; Africa and the US.

For the Russians, Ukraine is a lot more existential for them then for us.

I think current Russian posturing by parking ships over underseas cables and incursions into Swedish airspace with drones etc is them telling us how serious this is to them.

They told us from Day 1 when the Soviet Union collapsed that they didn't want Ukraine in NATO and as far as I can tell, Germany and France still agree with them.

Flagg, Schooled, Thank you!

Now for a slightly different view of noble China, this is notable::)

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rec...atic-officials

china... literally sticking it up our ass

go figure

That’s just insane.

Why would a US State Department representative operating under diplomatic credentials submit to anything?

It is not only normalising the act of submission to the agents of communism, despite the diplomatic credentials to prevent it, but it is also a DNA and gut biome personal security risk.

I can think of few things worse at the individual level than having the CCP/PLA targeting me individually while in possession of genomic information.

Perhaps not an I,mediate existential threat today, but someday it will really matter.

Thats what I was thinking also now they have the DNA of everyone, including the station chief and everyone under him.

Pouring myself a finger or two of Kelt XO, the impotence of not being in position to augment serious change, leaves few alternatives to quiet the rage. How is it we have come this far, the sacrifices of many generations carved in stone, meaningless to the political class. On final exit, a consideration should not be to journey into that good night alone.

*meh* look at all the beta, soy-boys in State and you can see how they'd bend over for the opportunity for anything to penetrate them. Remember, they are still heavily infested with Obama-boys, trying to fundamentally change out Nation.

Now...can you imagine any of us being in that position? "Excuse me Hop Sing, you think you're going to do...what??!!! Best you put that away and we'll not speak of this again lest I run that through your squinty fucking eye."

But the VA's "Million Veteran Program" wants your blood and lifestyle history for genetic research and they promise, swear on a stack of Twinkies, that their researchers will do their best to safeguard your personal DNA information.

And we know no one here has ever had their information get out in the wind from the VA (or Treasury, or State, or the first VA release, or OPM...).

Penn,
Stolen

On final exit, a consideration should not be to journey into that good night alone

SnT

Putin, has done the math. he see's no real downside to his legacy of reuniting historical Russia, which for many Russians the breakup was never accepted, not much different from the 2020 election outcome. There remains a deep disappointment in our electoral system.

The comparison is based in emotion. They are one and the same. Putin, is in many ways a nationalist, he wants the prestige and honor of Russia restored, a worthy goal for any leader of any country. Likewise, we all look forward to the 2022/24 to right the societal wrongs of a misguided political philosophy.

The confrontation with Russia is manufactured, a constructed distraction which the Biden administration and the whole of MSM will decade all efforts to distract the American voting public from the past 30 months of internal domestic conflict that has sought to undermine the constitutional structure of these United States.

The D卐M☭CRAT Party will do whatever is necessary to limit the impact of lost in the election, be prepared to suffer socially and economically. Their (D卐M☭CRAT Party) only way forward to the total demise of our economy and social cohesion.

Side note: With 60% of Russian Ground forces and mech centered around in Ukraine, just think what a target rich AO exist, exploited, Russia would cease to be a threat.

Target RICH and with a little help from Global Warming,, a heavily mechanized army stuck in the Spring mud.
:munchin

800 soldiers from an Italy-based infantry battalion task force to the Baltic states
(The Herd)
Up to eight Air Force F-35 strike fighters from Germany to the Baltics, as well as an unspecified location on NATO’s southeastern flank

An attack aviation battalion with 20 AH-64 Apache helicopters, from Germany to the Baltics

An attack aviation task force with 12 Apaches from Greece to Poland

32 Apaches is an awesome amount of fire power

The gulf war proved how lethal Apaches were, Russian Armor impinge
in mud may be no different than fortified sand pits that the Iraq Armor employed.

Who's the huckleberry in this one?

Edit to add: Why would Putin have waited, when the outcome of his delay to attack, allow the repositioning of these forces? Which arguably, are extreme offense weapon platforms. What does Russia have to counter Apaches and their standoff capabilities?

As I watch events unfold around the world, one things becomes clear...

When the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus shuttered its door in 2017 - it had NOTHING to do with cruelty to animals or the exploitation of endangered species.

After the 2016 election leftists around the world realized that they had an unsustainable need for clowns. The circus was forced out of business because they had clowns - a existential commodity to activists and community organizers.

The clown shoes being used by the democrats no longer fit and the democrats needed to start cultivating a new generation of fucking circus clowns to help crash the government.

...now performing in the center ring under the big top - JoJo the Horse Faced Pony Soldier

***please remain seated until the show is over - we don't want anyone missing the show***

No wonder I dislike clowns so much, our so-called leaders put on that hideous clown suit everyday. Damn JoJo...

Hot tip - those aren't suits nor are they wearing a mask - that is what an honest to god scary clown looks like just before they put on the big foam nose...