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Must really bug you that Vlad's mighty army is getting its butt kicked by a country less than a third the size.

Not at all.  I’m glad.  I’m just not an advocate of WWIII and endless money to Ukraine.  I also acknowledge some of the reasons why the war happened in the first place.

Shiddy thinks the Russians went in to save the Ukrainians from Nazis!

It also happened because NATO broke its promise and expanded to Russia’s border.  After toppling the Ukrainian government in 2014 by coup.  But whatever.

This is verbatim a Kremlin talking point. For the record, no such promise was ever made and NATO expansion happened because a number of countries requested membership to safeguard them from Russia.

For context:

To understand Russia’s claims of betrayal, it is necessary to review the reassurances then US secretary of state James A. Baker made to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting on February 9, 1990. In a discussion on the status of a reunited Germany, the two men agreed that NATO would not extend past the territory of East Germany, a promise repeated by NATO’s secretary general in a speech on May 17 that same year in Brussels.
https://www.france24.com/en/russia/20220130-did-nato-betray-russia-by-expanding-to-the-east

lol. lmao, even.

Russia and the West finally struck an agreement in September that would allow NATO to station its troops beyond the Iron Curtain. However, the deal only concerned a reunified Germany, with further eastward expansion being inconceivable at the time.

"The Soviet Union still existed and the countries of Eastern Europe were still part of the Soviet structures – like the Warsaw Pact – which was not officially dissolved until July 1991,"  said Amélie Zima, doctor of political science at the Thucydide Centre (Panthéon-Assas) in Paris. "We cannot speak of betrayal, because a chain of events that would rearrange the security configuration in Europe was about to take place."   

In short, at a time when Westerners were offering the "guarantees" spoken of by Vladimir Putin, no one could have predicted the collapse of the USSR and the historic upheavals that followed.

"In addition, these promises were made orally and were never recorded in a treaty,” recalled Olivier Kempf, associate researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research. "The turning point of NATO enlargement came much later, in 1995, at the request of the Eastern European countries."

That year, NATO published a study on its enlargement before starting membership talks two years later with Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, all of which would become members in 1999. The addition of these new members has long sparked debate within NATO, thus undermining the Russian myth of a betrayal orchestrated by the West. "Even within the American administration, some thought that NATO should not expand because it would make it less effective, dilute its skills and become a financial burden," explained Zima.

I gotta say, "The mainstream media fooled me into supporting the Iraq war so I'm going to treat them with total skepticism while believing every word that comes out of a murderous dictator's mouth" is a very funny pivot.

Ukraine has banned Russian orthodox churches, and is now conducting raids among them.  This is not a good look for them at all.

Ukraine Raids Holy Site Amid Suspicion of Orthodox Church Tied to Moscow
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/world/europe/ukraine-russia-monastery-caves.html

But do you really think rooting out enemy agents in a Russian church after being invaded by Russia is "a bad look"? How stupid are you now?

At least the smart Republicans get paid well for carrying water for Putin. You do it for nothing.

Silence? You're much too stupid for that.