The 'Mockingbird Minders' are alive and well at Fox too. Normally, they run Fox as 'controlled opposition', this isn't one of those times.

Oh forcing that second li k directly to CIA was hilarious foul.yeah gg

One thing is certain, the geopolitics of Ukraine joining NATO will send a strong message to the Russians, and especially Putin.

Ukraine has always been the bread basket of Russia and its loss to the west would be insurmountable.

I worked with a Ukrainian-American. He told me his Grandma told him the Bolsheviks even raked out their root cellars.

The Soviet Union may have been dissolved but Russia is still a strong military power, especially in its own back yard. ;)

Oh forcing that second li k directly to CIA was hilarious foul.yeah gg

It's just EweToob. If I was sending you to cia.gov, I'd warn you. BTW, The Company's 'World Factbook' is a good resource for learning the scoop on other countries. Use at your own risk (which is probably nil). I didn't force anything.

(Edit) If you want a laugh, search EweToob for 'Humans of CIA.' Bidet's new and improved company is hilarious. Their idea of 'wetwork' now involves a lot of peeing.

The whole issue from Putin’s perspective, is that he is cutting the financial pipeline between Washington DC Poltiicians, and their children, and Ukraine. Ukraine is a fantastic place to launder money. That is what one of their major sources of income is, as the Russian mob, along with many other criminal enterprises moves money through the Ukrainian central banks.

Russia has a vested interested in securing Ukraine and that interest comes from the idea that they would like to be able to farm again, since most of the radiation from the Chernobyl incident has become minimal compared to what it was 35 years ago.

Ukraine has rich black dirt, and they were the breadbasket of the Soviet Union. Putin sees an opportunity and it’s not like Obama didn’t have “flexibility” and that sleepy Joe doesn’t have that same kind of “Flexibility”.

It’s just corruption, nothing more and a war to benefit the elites’ children.

I think you're wrong, B. I'd much rather have Vlad as my prez than the Bidet, who is the defacto ruler of Ukraine. Russia isn't as oppressive as the US, UK, Australia or the EU is now.

NATO? Shit, man. They're more commie than the Norks.

It’s just corruption, nothing more and a war to benefit the elites’ children.

I know, Tommy. I've just got a burr up my ass about the US being destroyed while the assholes bluster about a country halfway around the world like it was Iowa.

I'm guessing that St. Paul is a hell of a lot more violent then St. Petersburg. It's doubtful that somebody is going to push me off the platform in front of a train at the Finland Station like they do here.

a hell of a lot more violent

My ex partner got picked up by the cops in Chicago on the west side where the Puerto Ricans lived near Humboldt Park.

They had him in the back seat asking questions. What are you doing around here? He told them, "You know, man. I come here to get weed. They have good weed here." One of the cops said, "How come you don't have a gun? We don't even come here without guns."

Anyway, they kicked him out of the car in the wrong neighborhood. He was not near where the people he knew lived. When they kicked him out of the car, he had the pen gun (.32 short) in his shoes. He took it out and put it together.

He was walking down the street and the Ricans were sitting on the front porches. they were hollering, "HEY WHITEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING AROUND HERE?"

One of them grabbed his arm and spun him around. He shot that guy with the pen gun. He told me, "I ran my ass off the get back to my car."

That is a very old story. Lucky to recall it now, and the pen gun is long gone along with everything in my ammo safe. It was plundered at the workshop. :-/

Two nights ago, someone shot up the area. 4 gun shots, no real target. Cops found the casings. I checked my house to see if it had been hit. Saw a truck drive away like nothing happened and two people walking around completely oblivious. It’s strange to see people fleeing TO the area instead of away from it.

Then again.. Nothing makes sense in clown world.

Then again.. Nothing makes sense in clown world.

A strange game, indeed. I'm too old to be afraid, so I'm just gonna roll with the crazy.

I really don't want to carry a firearm again, I'm thinking about a Byrna Mission 4 for the house (AR-15 platform), and an SD for carry (Glock type). If they get close enough to me, I'll kill them with their own gun. I'm tired of losing guns to the cops in "incidents." That and I'm "WHITE". They won't make the "Rittenhouse Mistake" again. I'm glad the kid's doing OK, but a little pissed about his decision to have the most famous AR-15 clone ever destroyed. He should've had it taken apart, each part laser etched with his name, the lower demiled so it couldn't be reused again. I understand what the kid's feelings are, but I'm sure there's plenty of fellas out there that would easily pay $2,500 for a genuine KR selector lever. The $1,500,000 demiled lower is out of my budget. The gas tube would be worth $1,500. I'd hate to think what the complete upper would sell for, maybe $3,000,000. That puppy's a piece of American history, not much unlike the Liberty Bell.

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