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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton learned that lesson the hard way Friday when she presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a gift bearing an incorrect translation -- one that implied hostility, rather than peacemaking.

Clinton presented Lavrov with a gift-wrapped red button, which said "Reset" in English and "Peregruzka" in Russian. The problem was, "peregruzka" doesn't mean reset. It means overcharged, or overloaded.
 
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Putin's fears of a unified, stronger Europe are fast becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy

Russian President Vladimir Putin's assault on Ukraine is turning his fears of a more resolute Europe and NATO alliance into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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In short order, Europe's leading powers have shifted into a position of heightened defensiveness toward Russia.


"We have to realize that we are now faced with a new normal for our security," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday in an interview on CNN, noting the beefed-up NATO troops' presence in its eastern countries and weapons deliveries to Ukraine. "This is just the beginning of the adaptation that we need to do as a response to a much more aggressive Russia."

On Sunday in Berlin, Germany's new Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered a rousing speech to parliament declaring that the country would spend more than 2% of its GDP on defense — Putin having accomplished what former President Trump sought for four years, and President Obama before him. Scholz also announced a special 100-billion euro fund (about $111 billion) to upgrade the country's army, a fundamental shift by Europe's most powerful nation after a long stretch of limited military spending in the decade after the European debt crisis.

Describing Russia's war on Ukraine as "a turning point in the history of our continent," Scholz told lawmakers, "it is clear that we need to invest significantly more in the security of our country."
 
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Russian artillery kills 70 Ukrainian soldiers at military base, official says: Feb. 28 recap

More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after Russian artillery hit a military base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv. More updates.
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Countries tightened the vise around Russia's economy on Monday, announcing new sanctions on its central bank and individuals, with even Switzerland breaking its neutral stance to join the EU in is actions.

The moves came as Ukrainian and Russian delegations met at the Belarusian border for their first direct talks since Russia's invasion began on Thursday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office said it would demand an immediate cease-fire.

In response to Russia's invasion, the U.N. was meeting in two separate forums: The General Assembly gathered for only its 11th emergency meeting, and the 15-member Security Council came together again to discuss the crisis in Ukraine.

Battered by global sanctions, Russia's Central Bank dramatically hiked interest rates to try to slow the ruble's plunge.

Russia’s conventional military assault on Ukraine moved toward the end of its fourth day with fighting in the streets of the country’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, and troops moving closer to the capital Kyiv.

Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has formally made his appeal for membership into the European Union.

Zelenskyy signed an application to grant Ukraine membership in the EU on Monday after urging the union publicly to expedite the process under a special procedure.

The request came after the European Union announced new actions against Russia, including plans to close its airspace to Russian airlines, bankroll weapons for Ukraine and ban pro-Kremlin media outlets.
 
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Can we agree to agree on Ukraine? Truckers fighting ‘tyranny’ shamed by the real thing

We’d like to believe that the sight of real tyranny has already made some Americans less likely to throw that word around where it does not apply. | Editorial
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The Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Mon, February 28, 2022, 6:00 AM


Democrats are standing with Ukraine. Republicans, too. Yet even now, even on this, will we stand together, or continue to pretend there are differences where none exist?

If we hate each other more than we hate the evil that the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is visiting on his neighbors, and would like to export further still, then ”we the people” as a people really are too far gone to endure. If that’s the case, then everything that we all say about loving democracy is a lie.

We’ve already called out those “leaders” who in wartime can think of nothing more inspiring to do than exaggerate our divisions on a matter of almost universal agreement.

But since they have for some time followed their voters rather than the other way around, it will be up to all of us to reject their attempts to keep us fighting for no reason other than the fact that outrage is good for fundraising.

We’d like to believe that Putin’s unwelcome reminder of what real tyranny looks has already made some Americans too ashamed to keep throwing that word around where it does not apply.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve written about the pain caused by hysterical and antisemitic comparisons between commonsense public health measures and the Holocaust.

Could Russia’s brutal invasion of a sovereign nation bring back some perspective?

Maybe that’s why one of the truck convoys protesting the “tyranny” of the same kind of lifesaving vaccines that have been mandatory in some U.S. schools since 1850, and in all since 1977, ran out of gas before its planned arrival in Kansas City on Sunday.

Maybe not, since other such convoys are still rolling toward Washington.

But could we at least let the horror of what’s happening in Ukraine remind us what unity feels like? And what real bravery, shared sacrifice and moral courage look like?

We are still a generous people, who in recent years have so glorified selfishness that we sometimes seem to have forgotten how to prioritize the common good. Truly standing together now, even if only in support of Ukraine, would at this point require more of us than giving up Russian vodka for Lent. But if we could manage it, then matters on which we really do disagree might not feel so insurmountable.
 
Funny.......when Russia took over Crimea, the world barely noticed. Everyone looked the other way.

Once Ukraine is annexed, everyone will be lining up for the cheap oil Putin will undoubtedly flood the market with.

This is how the world works. Very short memories.

Hope I'm wrong but history says otherwise.
 
This is why it is so dangerous to have all the power in the hands of one person like dictator PUTIN. He now disregards any election and plans to hold power as long as he wants and do anything he wants. This type of governing is actually looked up to and coveted by wannabee dictators and we need to do everything we can to prevent lunatics with that agenda from ever getting hold on America!!!

It is beyond reason that this chit is happening in 2022....but a one man show...putin...hitler....stalin...napoleon can do this BS
 
movetheboat said:
This is why it is so dangerous to have all the power in the hands of one person like dictator PUTIN. He now disregards any election and plans to hold power as long as he wants and do anything he wants. This type of governing is actually looked up to and coveted by wannabee dictators and we need to do everything we can to prevent lunatics with that agenda from ever getting hold on America!!!

It is beyond reason that this chit is happening in 2022....but a one man show...putin...hitler....stalin...napoleon can do this BS
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"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Sir John Dalberg-Acton
 

Donald Trump Slammed After Claiming Credit for NATO, Arming Ukraine​

BY NATALIE COLAROSSI ON 2/28/22 AT 1:14 PM EST
Former President Donald Trump met with sharp criticism on Monday after he released a new statement taking credit for the success of NATO and claiming to have helped arm Ukraine.

Trump, who has opposed NATO policies for a long time and even discussed pulling the U.S. out of the military alliance, claimed in his new remarks that "there would be no NATO" without him. "I hope everyone is able to remember that it was me, as President of the United States, that got delinquent NATO members to start paying their dues, which amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars. There would be no NATO if I didn't act strongly and swiftly. Also, it was me that got Ukraine the very effective anti-tank busters (javelins) when the previous Administration was sending blankets. Let History so note!," Trump said in the statement released on Monday.

Critics of Trump quickly condemned this statement, noting his historic opposition to NATO and pointing out that his administration previously withheld military assistance from Ukraine in order to seek information on Joe Biden.

In late 2019, Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations that he held hundreds of millions of dollars in aid hostage and pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden. He was later acquitted by a Republican-led Senate in February 2020.

"It was trump that undermine U.S. national security & froze military assistance to Ukraine, leaving that lion of a nation, vulnerable to attack. It was Trump's attacks on NATO that encouraged Putin to believe NATO was fragile," former Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who served under Trump, wrote on Twitter.


WHAT BALLS!!
 
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this is going to put new bur up Putin's ass..........
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EU is over expanded not to mention it takes years of scrutiny and a member vote for inclusion. EU has everything to lose if they make a special exception for Ukraine including the security of Europe!
 
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