Polish and Lithuanian authorities are working on plans to send Ukrainian men of fighting age currently residing within their borders back to Ukraine. It is estimated that there are 300,000 - 400,000 such men now living in Poland.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/poland-and-lithuania-pledge-to-help-kyiv-repatriate-ukrainians-subject-to-military-draft

Obviously, you aren't the only one who cares. To keep suggesting that ridiculous BS over and over is beyond absurd.

Appeasement leads to more war (more deaths)... not less.

You don't care how many tens of thousands of Ukrainians have to die...

It's a stupid question. If Russia was invading Canada, then we obviously wouldn't care. Duh. :)

My "egging on" comment was about how US/NATO continues to provide Ukraine with only just enough support to keep the war going while at the same time nixing prospects for an early negotiated settlement.

This appeasement crap again!? Also, "egging on" means to incite or urge someone to do something that is foolish. It isn't foolish to defend your sovereignty from a foreign aggressor; what would be beyond foolish is to appease them.

Anyone who's read Russia's aggressive proposals/list of demands (which I have posted directly from Russia wherein anyone can easily translate) can tell you it wasn't a serious attempt at negotiation. If Putin was concerned about NATO on Russia's western border, why would he attempt to reclaim Ukraine only to create the very conditions he claims are intolerable?

None of this is rocket science.

Ukraine wants to remain free and independent and not Putin's property. It's their decision.

"Live free or die" ain't that hard a concept to grasp.

Your constant cries for the world's appeasement of Russia are again duly noted. :)

Seriously? You don't care how many tens of thousands of Ukrainians have to die or have their entire lives upended while the Western powers support Ukraine with just enough military aid to keep the war going in the fashion that it has for the last two years, all in a so far failing attempt to weaken Russia?

And, where do you suppose Ukraine is going to find the numbers of soldiers it needs to keep the war going indefinitely?

I quoted your post [11]

Actually, you misquoted my post [11] and then failed to read my explanation for what I wrote.

SIGH.

I do agree with part of this.

The “just enough to keep Ukraine fighting” is quite true! The West know that so long as the war continues,

(1)
Being bogged down in Ukraine keeps Russia from starting their tenth invasion since Putin took power. This gives Europe time to get their acts together.

(2)
War in Ukraine is degrading Russia’s military strength every day.

Regarding your “egged on” Ukraine, Ukraine needs no motivation in this existential threat to their existence. Ukrainians would fight with sticks and rocks. Putin is inflicting genocide on the Ukrainian people.

I have made so such claim.

My "egging on" comment was about how US/NATO continues to provide Ukraine with only just enough support to keep the war going while at the same time nixing prospects for an early negotiated settlement. That is the sort of behavior on the part of Western powers that I find despicable and, indeed, offensive. Am I the only one around here who actually cares about the future of a sovereign Ukraine?

Here is an exerpt from an interesting piece I read recently in Foreign Affairs:

By the end of March 2022, a series of in-person meetings in Belarus and Turkey and virtual engagements over video conference had produced the so-called Istanbul Communiqué, which described a framework for a settlement. Ukrainian and Russian negotiators then began working on the text of a treaty, making substantial progress toward an agreement. But in May, the talks broke off. The war raged on and has since cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides.

A final agreement proved elusive, however, for a number of reasons. Kyiv’s Western partners were reluctant to be drawn into a negotiation with Russia, particularly one that would have created new commitments for them to ensure Ukraine’s security. The public mood in Ukraine hardened with the discovery of Russian atrocities at Irpin and Bucha. And with the failure of Russia’s encirclement of Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky became more confident that, with sufficient Western support, he could win the war on the battlefield.

The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine

Please stop purposefully misunderstanding my point of view.

MtnCaddy is not amused.

That certainly applies to the situation Ukraine finds itself in with regard to the support it is receiving from those who have egged them on in this war. Pretty darn despicable if you ask me.

But, who knows, perhaps there is another counteroffensive in the offing!

Back to this nonsense, huh?

For the record the war began in 2014 with Russia invading Crimea and Donbass.

Why do you keep claiming that Ukraine was “egged into” war with Russia?

Well everything has to do with pie.

Bet we could find evidence?

*be right back*

https://www.pinterest.co.kr/pin/835980749561976931/

David pecker, Anthony Weiner and dick swett should start a law firm.

Heh... but about those letters: How come David's "pecker" and "dick swett" are smaller while Anthony's "Weiner" is big? It has something to do with pie?

My estimate of the actual size of Ukraine military aid may have been, ah, too liberal. Heh.

Nope. You should actually perform that "careful read of the legislation" you've already claimed. That way, you could (perhaps) cease in your endless folly of equating "Ukraine military aid" solely with weapons/military hardware. :)

Where did I do that?

In this comments section, and I believe it will be educational for you if you actually read (or maybe re-read) your own actual comments versus other posters having to rub your nose in your own spit. You've got a newly forming pattern wherein you make a claim of "show me" (not a quote) regarding comments you've posted, and I would wager without a scintilla of hesitation that I'm not the only person who's noticed its recent emergence. I hope this bullshit isn't going to become a permanent modus operandi. If it is, do not blame any of the rest of us who believe you are "losing it" based on the evidence you're freely providing.

Though, it does seem that there needs to be a careful read of simplistic comments. Heh.

Words matter. But, yes, your comments are usually "simplistic" (your term) and frequently incorrect... a hallmark of repetitive right-wing propaganda, disinformation, and misinformation. :)

Well, that "not rocket science" comment equally applies to me knowing full well you wouldn't (because you couldn't) show everybody here how you (or anybody else) could come to the conclusion in your comment at [8] claiming "careful read of the legislation."

That certainly applies to the situation Ukraine finds itself in with regard to the support it is receiving from those who have egged them on in this war.

So you're on the path back to blaming Biden and/or America for Putin's revanchism and making the claims you keep insisting you've never made. MtnCaddy will be thrilled to "hear" it. /sarcasm

Pretty darn despicable if you ask me.

Yes, your repetitive spewing of the Kremlin talking points fits that description.

I reiterate, it isn't rocket science that the United States can't keep sending war hardware to Ukraine unless they keep replenishing it... which has already been done approximately 55 times and will keep happening. The "excess stores" that have been replenished are actually part of the future deliveries (written into the bill you likely didn't even read) and some actually stored in Europe.

But, who knows, perhaps there is another counteroffensive in the offing!

As far as "who knows," you have proven beyond doubt who actually does not know and didn't carefully read a dang thing. :)

Trump is using this trial, even without cameras in the courtroom, as a campaign event. And, unfortunately for the Biden campaign, this case sets up perfectly for the former president's bid for another term in the White House. I can see there being more than enough reasonable doubt as far as the jury is concerned but also, and more importantly, as far as the average voter is concerned.

Add to that all of the problems the current president is facing as far as his re-election campaign is concerned and Democrats have quite a lot to be worried about. Mostly because the Biden team doesn't seem interested in changing how their campaign is being run, never mind even tweaking their messaging about issues of most concern to voters.

For example, Trump and the GOP - despite their collective ineptitude, generally speaking - are still seen by most voters as the best stewards of the economy! And, after the economy, all other issues pale in comparison with the American electorate.

I think the pertinent question here is what can Democrats do to change their poor electoral outlook as it stands at the time of this writing. Perhaps, many may think the answer is nothing and that Democrats will prevail in the only poll that counts come November. Good luck with that.

Getting back to the endless coverage of Trump trials, I'm afraid that

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-breakdown-of-whats-in-the-95-billion-foreign-aid-package-passed-by-the-house

Where did I do that?

Though, it does seem that there needs to be a careful read of simplistic comments. Heh.

That certainly applies to the situation Ukraine finds itself in with regard to the support it is receiving from those who have egged them on in this war. Pretty darn despicable if you ask me.

But, who knows, perhaps there is another counteroffensive in the offing!

It seems that upon careful read of the legislation just passed by the senate, Ukraine will actually get about half of the 61 billion dollar figure being talked about in the media with the rest going to bolster US stockpiles.

Incorrect. The House obviously sent the legislation to the Senate as a single package that required only an up-or-down vote. Since you claim to have made a "careful read" of the legislation, show/tell us where you came to your conclusion:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8035/text

Obviously, there are funds earmarked that will rebound in order to replenish stocks because of concerns of past Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), but the bill also grants the president billions of dollars worth of further PDA which when combined with the approximately $4 billion remaining from previously authorized PDA means President Biden can also in the future transfer about $12 billion worth of "excess weapons" from stocks of the U.S. without need of further congressional approval.

The United States can't keep sending "excess stores" as they are doing unless they are replenished after having sent them previously, which has obviously been done and will keep being done... rinse and repeat.

This isn't exactly rocket science. :)

I also wonder, were Douglas Adams alive right now, if he'd pen "The sentient beings of the galaxy vs zaphod beeblebrox," wherein zaphod complains about some earthling stealing his act.

Definitely... minus the third upper appendage but infinitely smaller hands. ;)

Re. Aid for Ukraine

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68872783

It seems that upon careful read of the legislation just passed by the senate, Ukraine will actually get about half of the 61 billion dollar figure being talked about in the media with the rest going to bolster US stockpiles.

So, as has been the case from the get-go, Ukraine is getting just enough support to stave off big Russian advances. And, so it goes ...

Of course, the biggest challenge facing the Ukrainian effort to substantially push back Russia continues to be a less than adequate number of soldiers.

the news 4 years ago today, bureaucrat Rick Bright complained that he was fired from the CDC for pushing back against President Trump's orders to fast-track the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for treatment of COVID-19.

I find that quite impossible to believe. Were you stranded on a desert island at the time, or something?

Please explain why you didn't title this article:

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Depends. Maybe he would be extra careful not to lose control of himself and soil his diaper on live television.