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Drale

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10. Not really a suprise

Reply to leftyohiolib (Original post)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 07:49 PM

Feb 2014

Putin's stuck in the Cold War and will do anything to try and rebuild the former Soviet Union.

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looks like russia could be invading the ukraine [View all] leftyohiolib Feb 2014 OP

Oh ****! applegrove Feb 2014 #1

Russia loves to invade nations during and/or after the Olympics. morningfog Feb 2014 #2

whereas we do it whenever the fuck we want elehhhhna Feb 2014 #4

+infinity!!!! Nt newfie11 Feb 2014 #5

We never stop doing it. Waronterra foreva! morningfog Feb 2014 #7

...especially when we are being lied to by our glorious dear leaders. L0oniX Feb 2014 #37

The truth about South Ossetia polly7 Feb 2014 #16

THANK GOD we totally have a shitload of moral authority to tell them not to do that. elehhhhna Feb 2014 #3

^^^^this^^^^ yes really ^^^^this^^^^ L0oniX Feb 2014 #38

They are reporting it on MSNBC too. Cleita Feb 2014 #6

That's not going to happen. Russia has too many nuclear weapons to be involved in another world war JVS Feb 2014 #8

I hope so. n/t Cleita Feb 2014 #9

but i could mean an escalation to troops on the ground. theyll come home from Afghanistan leftyohiolib Feb 2014 #11

Are you talking about American troops? BKH70041 Feb 2014 #13

not american they are russian troops but rhetoric is escalating leftyohiolib Feb 2014 #17

Just so I'll understand... BKH70041 Feb 2014 #22

no i was speaking of us troops and that was speculation. i probably should have kept that to leftyohiolib Feb 2014 #26

No biggie BKH70041 Feb 2014 #35

And they know they'd get their asses kicked. AverageJoe90 Feb 2014 #29

They'd give as good as they get in a nuclear war. JVS Mar 2014 #42

Wouldn't really matter now, would it? AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #43

I'd chock it up to fearmongering, TBH. AverageJoe90 Feb 2014 #27

Not really a suprise Drale Feb 2014 #10

im watching a video of russian helicopter flying into ukraine leftyohiolib Feb 2014 #12

nothing a hot cup of polonium won't cure. Putin loves the stuff. Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #14

It would be helpful to describe *why* someone thinks "russia could be invading the ukraine" muriel_volestrangler Feb 2014 #15

put on cnn or msnbc . im not a reporter , well now there are tanks moving in leftyohiolib Feb 2014 #18

I don't have CNN or MSNBC. 'Tanks' is a useful thing to say, though muriel_volestrangler Feb 2014 #20

oh sorry there is video of troops on the ground a video on utube of helicopters flying in leftyohiolib Feb 2014 #21

More likely Crimea will ask Russia to take it dipsydoodle Feb 2014 #24

What they said is that there were reports of Russian troops Cleita Feb 2014 #31

Well, that's about 20 hours old now, if it's the 2 in Crimea muriel_volestrangler Feb 2014 #34

Well you know more than me and MSNBC is talking about the Cleita Feb 2014 #36

We need to stay out of it LittleBlue Feb 2014 #19

no we are not but u know the us will stick it's nose in it leftyohiolib Feb 2014 #23

Yep LittleBlue Feb 2014 #25

Which side would we take? I guess it would depend on what treaties Cleita Feb 2014 #32

Well, the status of the crimea is not as clear cut as some would have us believe. Democracyinkind Feb 2014 #28

Carnival in Crimea polly7 Feb 2014 #30

the last paragraph can not be repeated enough. nt Democracyinkind Feb 2014 #33

It is not "the Ukraine". It is just Ukraine. n/t RebelOne Feb 2014 #39

The Ukraine means border and that's what it was once called so I heard. I'm sure Cleita Feb 2014 #40

Thank you customerserviceguy Feb 2014 #41