This is neither sustainable for Russia nor does anything but further galvanize Ukrainians against the Russian terrorist invader.

They clearly learned nothing from London stoicism.

I assume embarrassment on the world stage helped move this along given the Olympics?

If I was religious I would definitely think he was the devil quoting scripture.

Fair points! In my mind I guess I was thinking cyber truck vs. Rivian truck.

Rivian seems better in literally every way, isn’t it?

Never once did I say that solely being against war with Iran meant someone was Putin’s puppet. Never. Either work on your reading comprehension or get your eyes checked.

What I did say is that those specific Republican members who are known Kremlin parrots conveniently oppose the war for ulterior motives. This much is clear.

To the contrary, I am conflating the fact that the alleged “anti-war” person (your words) suddenly wasn’t “anti-war” when Russia invaded Ukraine as being a Putin puppet; that, and the fact that US intelligence reports found that Russia was promoting Tulsi as the Democratic primaries candidate in 2020, among other things.

Bystanders take note how this individual is trying really hard to separate Tulsi Gabbard from the Kremlin. Like, really hard. Deflections and all.

Oh, so Tulsi Gabbard definitely 100% publicly denounced Russia’s unprecedented act of aggression and imperial invasion of Ukraine, right…?

… Right… ?

I’m just saying that it’s amusing the only anti-war Republicans in the administration and Congress are ones who’ve long looked, acted, and quacked like Kremlin assets:

• You’ve got Tulsi Gabbard literally echoing Kremlin propaganda verbatim on Western imperialism (yet not making a peep about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine)
• You’ve got Tucker Carlson flying to Moscow, simping for Putin, trying to show how great Russia is in contrast to the USA.
• You’ve got Rand Paul flying to Moscow hand-delivering letters on behalf of Trump.

There may be an intersection of my desire to not want to escalate for completely different reasons, and Kremlin operatives not wanting their ally and arms supplier to be crippled, but that is all.

Watching the divide in republican circles on Iran has been a great way to see who is under Kremlin control. Most are who we already knew: Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, Rand Paul, etc.

They stormed our Capitol building in broad daylight on January 6th, 2021. They brought pipe bombs, gallows, zip ties, and had death chants.

So that’s how they’re euphemizing ethnic genocide these days, huh?

Wonder what China is doing to prevent indoctrination of children with radical partisan CCP loyalism.

It may be the safest bet at dismantling this constant threat for good. Oftentimes the only way the bully learns is when they’re pushed back twice as hard.

Wouldn’t it be funny if all these various nations just did a reverse uno and like 20 different nations started invading Russia and slicing it up for territorial gain?

Russia is so weak right now.

I’ll take wins where I can get them these days, and at least Starmer seems to be fully in Ukraine’s corner. I appreciate his welcoming of Zelenskyy following the absurdity of Zelenskyy’s visit with Trump.

Are the kids still saying based? Might I nominate His Holy Basedness?

I remember a refrain between my dad and I over Biden’s term, “Could you just imagine what would happen right now if Trump was in office handling this…?” mostly in reference to Ukraine and even Gaza.

No imagination necessary now…

This is so myopic.

• Don’t blame the voters for not choosing the obviously better and more probable choice that would lead to protections for Palestinians than the guaranteed binary alternative outcome? Okay.

• Ignore the fact that much of the electorate is completely fucking ignorant and apathetic and duped by literally billions of dollars of misinformation flooding their media, both domestically but also including Israeli and Russian operations spreading disinformation? (something these Uncommitted voters became susceptible too in the boTh SiDes rhetoric, ind you)

I’m Pro-Palestinian. I’m Pro-Civilian. But if these couch-sitters really gave a fuck beyond empty moral grandstanding, then they should’ve focused on helping to inform their fellow voters why it’s important to help Gaza. After all, you want candidates to respect the will of the voters but ignore the ultimate reality that the electorate was clearly split on the issue just the same and made no attempt to influence the electorate? Put another way: instead of protesting the DNC convention, maybe you guys should’ve started protesting at church parking lots around the country and showing the horrors of Palestine, undercutting the media narrative? That would’ve been much more fruitful.

Because you’re lying to yourself if you think Harris would somehow be worse or equally unreachable like Trump.

Leaving aside the fact that you completely further enabled (a) a loss of LGBTQ+ rights in America, (b) Women’s rights by abortion access, (c) Climate change, and finally (d) became complicit in enabling Russia’s attempted genocide in Ukraine all the same. So please, step off the soapbox.

Unfortunately that path feels like it’s closing. Will probably need more shows like The Handmaid’s Tale to make learning entertaining. The more people are reminded of the horrors of fascism in parallel fictional arenas, the more likely they will connect the dots.

The child in me kind of wishes he had passed on 4/20 Easter, but alas.

That being said, while I’m not religious I appreciate a lot (not all) of what this Pope has done. His Apostolic Exhortation on the Idolatry of Money, and the gross inequality wrought by capitalism is worth a read.