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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Nov 11, 2021 12:12:02 GMT -5
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Post by minx on Nov 11, 2021 13:38:26 GMT -5
We're going to be seeing a lot more of this type of stuff. People are desperate, and they're going to leave their homeland if they can.
And when you've spent all you've got and all your extended family has, you're not just going to turn around and leave. I'm honestly surprised that we're not seeing stuff like this at our southern borders.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Nov 12, 2021 11:13:39 GMT -5
Absolutely. The part of this I was more focused on when posting, which is better emphasized in other headline stories, is the continued belligerence on the part of Putin's puppet in Belarus. www.cnbc.com/2021/11/12/belarus-threatens-to-choke-off-eu-gas-supply-over-border-dispute.htmlbut getting back to Poland.... it's not exactly the place to look for warm fuzzy feelings like we had back in the says of 'solidarity', although last I heard they were a NATO member and wasn't there some kind of blood pact to protect Poland from another invasion? |
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Post by minx on Nov 12, 2021 16:26:31 GMT -5
I believe they are still a card-carrying member of NATO, and depending on where the invasion was coming from, everyone would come in to help - especially if the invader was Putin. Not sure if we'd protect them from Belarus, even though they're the closest thing to Russia out there.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 13, 2022 10:50:44 GMT -5
Things are getting sticky-er by the day over there. Apparently Putin is very unhappy with the rigged US election and our new President hasn't gone on tv to say that he believes Putin (won't invade Ukraine) so he's gonna go on ahead and keep massing his military on their border. www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-us-nato-talks-so-far-unsuccessful-2022-01-13/Obviously the US doesn't have a lot of high ground here (think Iran) but at the same time NATO might, and as one may recall, this is part of the reason NATO exists to begin with. I think another attack on Crimea, Ukraine, Poland, or any of these sovereign nations and more importantly, former USSR states, is a huge move to try and get the US and NATO to show it's hand. |
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 13, 2022 11:03:22 GMT -5
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Post by minx on Jan 13, 2022 13:33:26 GMT -5
We want to bask in the glow of not being at war for the first time in 20 years, while simultaneously blaming Biden for the pullout of troops.
Another way of saying we're going to go back to our isolationist ways and not intervene until it's too damn late. Unless of course, there's something in it for us (*cough* Kuwaiti oil *cough*).
Not good at all.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 13, 2022 15:24:31 GMT -5
not being at war for the first time in 20 years I LOL'd and I'm not even sure why. |
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Post by minx on Jan 13, 2022 16:14:21 GMT -5
Sorry - it wasn't declared, so a 'major conflict'. Is that better  |
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Post by bobathon on Jan 16, 2022 5:26:31 GMT -5
Whatever happend to a good old fashioned police action?
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 16, 2022 8:32:53 GMT -5
Police actions are so 1950. Only appropriate for countries at war with themselves.
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