(I also posted here, believe it or not.)
My Wordpress post basically asks why the hell the Democrats aren’t coming up with ads attacking Repugs for a host of issues, and one of them is their “bromance” with that lunatic waging war in Ukraine, but at least The Lincoln Project is stepping up (and yeah, I know they’re basically rebranded Republican grifters, but they’re doing good work once more)...
...and Ali Velshi speaks with Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security adviser under Obama, about all of the ways that Generalissimo Trump did his best to put us on a glide path to the current ruinous circumstances unfolding in that area of the world...
...and Thom Hartmann tells us about Franklin Graham saying we should “pray for President Putin”...I MIGHT be amenable to this for the sake of peace overall if Graham had said something equivalent to Biden, which he didn’t of course (and boy, did James Madison among our founders envision this insanity...and I also realize that the fluid nature of the war currently being waged is making some of these clips a little more dated than I would like)...
...and Mehdi Hasan gives us a bit of a history lesson on bad Russian behavior under Putin since about 1999, with Nina Kruscheva and author Yuri Felshtinsky...
...and Beau brings us some more important context on all this (and oh yeah, there's this too)...
...and to be fair (and given this), it’s safe to say that Putin played Dubya, as noted in this clip, but he also played a few current and former U.S. politicians as well (as well as many of the adoring throng in that audience, it would seem... Boris Nemtsov, Boris Berezovsky, Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, Sergei Magnitsky, Natalia Estemirova, Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergei Yushenkov, Yuri Shchekochikhin...all were Puitin critics who died under suspicious circumstances, as noted here)...
...and by the way, I would call this pretty emphatic....
Look at the size of anti-war protestors in St Petersburg, Russia. Wow pic.twitter.com/dHg9Uwt9RQ
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) February 24, 2022
Update: As Will Bunch said, not all "leaders" have bone spurs (here).
...and I realize that this tune was birthed during the era of The Sainted Ronnie R and the mutually missed oportunity of nuclear deterrence, which is a wholly other matter than Putin's catastrophic incursion into Ukraine, but if for no other reason, presenting this once more serves as a reminder of the long-simmering hostility that helped bring us to this awful point.
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