Putin Is On The Verge Of Losing Crimea

[Grins]

21. YES!!! YES! YES!!

I remember all the hand-wringing after Putin invaded that a big reaction by the west would lead to Armageddon. "You're risking WWIII!" they would scream.

We can't give them F-16's. Can't give them Abrams tanks. Can't give them long-rage munitions. Can't give them our strategic intelligence on what Russia was doing and where to hit them back. Can't give, can't give, can't give - the things that would have ended this war years ago. And saved millions of lives and trillions of dollars in infrastructure.

And that "wider war" shit? Trump picked it up and publicly threw it in Zelenskyy's face.

The Russian military fails were everywhere, the Russian deaths were everywhere, the Russian draft, the off-the-street impressment of young Russian men, the Coup d'Etat attempt by Putin's own and murderous supporters, the sinking of Russian ships - and subs! - the destruction of 1/3rd of Russia's strategic bomber force in ONE HOUR (imagine if that happened to us!), the buying of munitions from Iran and N. Korea because Russia could not produce them, the luring of foreign mercenaries from Africa, Cuba, N. Korea to serve and die for Mother Russia because they couldn't field enough Russian "patriots," were everywhere illuminating that - RUSSIA IS A PAPER TIGER!

And, still, they stuck to that damn myth. And if we didn't have a Russian asset in the White House today, we would (I can only hope) be doubling down on our support