Chit Chat

By Ted Belman

From now on comments on every post must relate to the content of the post.

Comments that don’t relate to the post must go here.

Any person who contravenes this demand will be put on moderation. Also their offending comment will be trashed.

The reason for this demand is so that people who want to read comments which pertain to the post, don’t have to wade through the chatter.

Everyone will be happier.

April 16, 2020 | 7,903 Comments »

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  1. Grist for the standup comic’s mill? “Hey, some of my best friends are Druze.” “Funny, you don’t look Druish.” 😀

  2. @Laura

    What Medvedev means is:

    Either Ukraine will be a Russian friend (like Belarus) or it will be taken over by the West and will cease to exist (it will lose its sovereignty, it will be used to attack Russia regardless of the damage it would have to suffer, its resources will be plundered, its land will not belong to it anymore). Russia wiil not stop fighting to give them a reprieve.

    This is from me about Ukraine::

    Ukraine was in very good shape in the USSR compared to where it is now.

    Historically, Ukraine has not been able to function on its own and to have its own state other than when it was under or with Russia.

    Soon after the Soviet Union ceased to exist, Ukraine was taken over by the Western Ukrainian nationalists who dream about the way things were in WWII when they were occupied by the Germans, and in that part of Ukraine the hatred of anything Russian is almost inborn (the Polish influence).

  3. Only acceptable outcome for Putin: Ukraine’s complete destruction

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-only-acceptable-outcome-putin-120000144.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CORE&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20241220-0&bt_user_id=UnJqRWknihpZfQjxBaqFqK6UWk4xlBZwIfoMIQOlTnghS5TMa%2Fdd7%2BlkV8rE5od4&bt_ts=1734708716765

    The Kremlin is not in pursuit of peace or a ceasefire. Just listen to former-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who recently said out loud what Moscow is thinking, “Today, Ukraine faces a choice to be with Russia or to disappear from the world map altogether.”

    So much for this war being about a territorial conflict or Russia’s imagined NATO threat to itself.