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I see you have not responded to any facts I laid out and instead chose to characterize me as belonging to some hypothetical group of people that are still in denial about the election. This w/o any facts whatsoever. I suggest you follow the same criteria you impose on others' opinions to your...

Obama administration responded to Crimea by providing non lethal aid to Ukraine. This may not have provided a strong message to Putin. The Trump admin agreed to send Javelin anti tank missiles to Ukraine. This weapon, along with stinger missiles, has been credited for slowing the Russian...

“I need ammunition, not a ride”

Airforce are about to mothball dozens of A10s and F15s. I can think of a more productive use for them. (this was supposed to be in response to another one of your posts!)

Can't actually show that to be the case. Maybe coincidental he took Crimea in 2014 and now expands further into Ukraine in 2022.

Nah...I thought the same thing until I looked it up. It’s referring to what’s called a thermobaric weapon in form of bomb or missile that generates a lot of heat upon explosion than a typical explosion. Doubt it will be used on houses. This is used more for entrenched targets out in the field.

Planning and acting are two different things. Putin could afford to bide his time and wait out our fickle politics. He plays the long game.

I understand that but my point is as well they never should have been in this position to begin with. We are stupidly subsidizing Putin’s war machine while feigning outrage for his actions in Ukraine.

And would bring Russia to its knees. Why EU put itself in that situation is a whole other thread. US can help offset natural gas and oil supplies to EU but unfortunately we've gone from a net exporter to net importer of oil. There is no reason for US to be importing oil from Russia but here we are.

That's what I thought. Nord Stream will not really mean much in terms of sanctioning

ok, but Nord Steam is a natural gas pipeline. Russia continues to export oil to Germany and most of Europe and US. Sanctioning the oil exports will have the greatest impact. This is largely symbolic..

where have you heard about sanctioning the energy sector?