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Taxation is theft. Pass it on. https://video.nostr.build/ab8512eea198ad00f3698dfec1a0bfb6f3202584a70b3121d3daeb8707b743b1.mp4
Imagine 80 million americans that voted for Trump simply saying "go fuck yourselves, We are done funding our own destruction."
This needs to be a movement.
Respect, what a baller🤪
I always heard it as ....
"you're the average of your five best friends"
Nobody should use a Ledger, they are putting lives at risk. Criminally negligent (IMHO). Let's put them out of business by spreading the word of pathetic and dangerous incompetence.
“Debanking is a real problem and we need to work across the aisle to solve it.” - Elizabeth Warren, Leader of the “Anti-Crypto Army” https://video.nostr.build/4743014522f9521ae3a2d1ac4e4330fe4d94689c2fa7ffee87cb5e597fb76033.mp4
I give zero fucks what this grifter has to say!
Yeah, seems like i only see the same dozen or so people posting notes. Maybe, i just havent gone deep enough down the nostr rabbit hole.
Just two more of these beers and ill be able to put out that fire....then nap time.
Has Thomas Massie ever sponsored a bill that actually became a law?
I wonder if i should give a discount for old unvaxxed sperm?
I think I got this.....Democrat slushfund USAID to be replaced by Republican sovereign wealth shitcoin slushfund.
GOOD MORNING NOSTR.
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Good morning !
Biden Must Explain What The Ukraine War Was For
Biden Must Explain What The Ukraine War Was For
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/biden-must-explain-what-the-ukraine-war-was-for/
It is no longer easy to tell what the Ukraine War was for. Very early on, U.S. goals got grafted onto Ukrainian goals, and the hybrid braid became hard to disentangle. “This is a war that is in many ways… bigger than Ukraine,” the State Department https://www.cato.org/commentary/washington-will-fight-russia-last-ukrainian?utm_source=chatgpt.com
in the first weeks of the war. But, whatever those goals, few of them remain: There will be no NATO membership for Ukraine, there will be no recovery of all of its territory, and there will be no weakening of Russia.
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Former President Joe Biden has a lot of explaining to do, as does Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky will need to explain to his exhausted nation why choosing the path of war over the path of diplomacy after the Istanbul talks in March and April of 2022 was worth the cost. At that time, what still seemed to be the Ukrainian goals—continued sovereignty and the withdrawal of Russian troops to pre-war boundaries—might have been met. Zelensky must explain why he succumbed to Western pressure to pursue wider ones.
He is going to have to explain why pursuing those wider goals was worth the loss of so much life, limb and land. And, if he is to survive politically and, perhaps, even physically, he is going to have to find someone to blame.
He already fired Valery Zaluzhny, who served as Ukraine’s military commander-in-chief until last year. Now, Ukraine’s security service has https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/world/europe/ukraine-commanders-detained.html
two generals and a colonel on the charge of failing to protect Ukrainian territory from Russian advances.
But blaming the generals won’t be enough to acquit Zelensky. The war went on after Zaluzhny and continued to worsen. And no one will buy the blaming of field commanders. “We were defending a huge swath of the border, we fought to the death in the first hours of the attack,” said soldiers in one brigade after their former commander was arrested. “We were short of people, ammunition and support but we fought, we fought under the leadership of our commander!”
Ukraine no longer has the capacity to field the men nor the weapons to hold off the Russian advance. More land will be lost the longer the war goes on, and more men and weapons are not on their way. “The problem with Ukraine is not that they’re running out of money,” Marco Rubio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB72ZwiROK4
at his confirmation hearing for his nomination as secretary of state, “but that they’re running out of Ukrainians.”
Zelensky will need to blame someone higher up than the field commanders. In recent weeks, he’s laid some of that blame on Biden, https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-airs-his-grievances-outgoing-biden-administration-2016281
in a podcast interview, “I don’t want the same situation like we had with Biden.”
One day, Zelensky will need to explain to Ukrainians his part in the tragedy. He will have to defend his decision to yield to the West’s pressure not to sign anything with Russia but to “just fight,” as then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lt4E0DiJts
in his first Oval Office interview, "Zelensky... shouldn’t have allowed this to happen either. He’s no angel. Zelensky decided that 'I want to fight.’”
But that does not exonerate the U.S. or mean that Zelensky is unjustified in blaming Biden. Biden, too, is one day going to have to explain what the war in Ukraine was for subsequent to the promising talks in Istanbul.
The Biden administration repeatedly promised Ukraine whatever they needed for as long as it takes. But that promise evolved into whatever we agree to for as long as convenient. And a clear answer to the question “Whatever they need to do what?” was never provided.
According to Biden National Security Council official Eric Green, U.S. support for Ukraine was never intended to push Russia out of its territory, recover its lost land, and reassert its territorial integrity.
“We were deliberately not talking about the territorial parameters,” Green https://time.com/7207661/bidens-ukraine-win-zelensky-loss/
in an interview with Time. “The more important objective,” he explained, “was for Ukraine to survive as a sovereign, democratic country free to pursue integration with the West.”
But reclaiming territory was all that was left for the Ukrainians after the West pressured them to keep fighting rather than abandon aspirations to join NATO. Neutrality for Kiev was “the key point” for Russian negotiators, https://www.yahoo.com/news/head-ukraines-leading-party-claims-205150773.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9vcmlnaW5hbC5hbnRpd2FyLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMgG_qhDYi6Pi9E1mZQj7kXq4qBpNQcgmch1sDQoomR8hCkBja69onSxhnORJH1HxhBe7DI3bHzG6tCJ-1cODhl7W6tHpfmOQxWapcUnuqogOeCv8TnELHq_W3z5HTdvf6OA8wdjfGn1drki_eWuoQ5Vf3OqDo62vZOj4k8hd7fy
to one Ukrainian lawmaker who participated in peace talks. If an agreement had been made, a still-sovereign Ukraine would remain free to pursue economic and cultural—but not military—integration with the West.
Green’s assertion, at first, seems unlikely. The U.S. pushed Ukraine to carry out a counteroffensive in the Donbas and endorsed https://www.reuters.com/world/us-diplomat-says-ukrainian-strikes-military-targets-crimea-are-legitimate-2023-02-17/
on military targets in Crimea.
But that was for public consumption. Privately, they https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-lack-of-weaponry-and-training-risks-stalemate-in-fight-with-russia-f51ecf9
it was not “a wise move” to recapture Crimea and were not “actively encouraging Ukraine” to do so.
If Biden was not prepared to give Ukraine whatever it needed to reclaim its territory, and if he was not prepared to offer Ukraine NATO membership, then what was American support for the war all about? Was it really just about weakening Russia or asserting NATO’s unchallenged right to expand wherever it wants, including right up to Russia’s borders? If so, then the people of Ukraine have been cruelly used by America.
In the first weeks of the war, there was a plausible hope worth exploring that Ukraine might retain much of its territory while avoiding catastrophic bloodshed and destruction of lives. Washington chose a different path, and it is incumbent on Biden to explain why.
https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden
Sun, 02/02/2025 - 08:10
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-must-explain-what-ukraine-war-was
Not hard to figure out it was a massive money laundering operation.
Doomed to backfire.
The nanny state will give them free drug rehab with full pay at some exclusive resort in the Caribbean own by Nancy Pelosi.