Can’t the U.S. evacuate people via cargo planes, like they did in Afghanistan?
⚡️ Russian airstrike destroys maternity, children's hospital in Mariupol.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, there are still adults and kids under the rubble. The number of victims is yet unknown, local authorities report.
Video: Mariupol City Council pic.twitter.com/dBGWRzEQrw
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 9, 2022
Day 14 of Ukraine resistance. Russia is exacerbating humanitarianism catastrophe in Mariupol, small towns Bucha, Irpin near Kyiv. There's no electricity, heating, food and water. People melt snow to drink. Hospitals destroyed by airstrikes.The West still hesitates to provide jets
— Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) March 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/olgatokariuk/status/1501617934891896836
A sliver of sanity?
Democratic and Republican warmongers are now of tw0 minds on how to handle the Ukraine/Russia war going forward.
Hardliners like Vinman, Hill, Nuland, Elon Musk, etc., want to expand the war.
The others are opposed to stumbling into WW III with no-fly zones, MIG fighter jets from Poland, and American troops on the ground.
Zelensky has repeatedly called for negotiations with Putin, which he did again today, because he knows that the alternative is to watch as Ukraine turns into late 1944 Warsaw.
Hardline warmongers prefer to slowly bleed Russia in the same way that the people of Afghanistan did in the 1979-1989 war.
So far Biden has taken their advice.
The problem with that approach is that Putin will turn Ukraine into “desolation row” (bd) in the process.
Putin has no interest in repeating the Afghanistan/Russia War debacle.
Nor does he intend to occupy Ukraine or attack and occupy Poland or the Baltic states.
It’s long past time for Biden to take pity on the Ukrainian people and talk to Putin directly and publicly about establishing a country-wide ceasefire.
“Masters of War” (BD)
NATO has become a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States and that’s too bad.
The unfortunate fact is that nearly half of the American people would rather wipe out humanity in a nuclear holocaust, then negotiate with Russia about its legitimate security concerns over NATO’s eastward expansion.
Before NATO makes overtures to countries like Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan or even Belarus about joining the organization it should take Russia’s legitimate security concerns into consideration.
The insane warmongers are furious that the saner warmongers haven’t already started WW III.
Insane warmongers Adam Kinzinger, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, Anne Applebaum and the Atlantic, Evelyn Farkas, John Herbst, Malcolm Nance, Thom Hartman and Zelensky to name a few are lobbying for the start of WW III.
The MSM is all pro-war all the time.
Now that “we the people” are the proud owner-operators of Ukraine thanks to the largess of the US Congress, what should “we” do with the place?
Congress gave Ukraine $14 billion.
$7 billion to prop up whatever is left of its economy and
$7 billion for its military.
Which is exactly the amount that Ukraine normally spends on its military every year.
That Joe Biden refuses to call for a general ceasefire in Ukraine at this late date borders on the criminal.