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(I stand by my lack of promises that I'll remember to include this every day)
3/12: Weekend TOONs - War Criminal
3/13: Doonesbury - Remember: EVERY Day!
3/13: Non Sequitur - Spotify The Difference
3/14: Monday TOONs - World War Z
3/15: Tuesday TOONs - Doublethink
3/16: Wednesday TOONs - Courage
3/17: Thursday TOONs - Messages
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)Hekate
(90,686 posts)steventh
(2,143 posts)Thanks for links to prior TOONs
k&r
planetc
(7,811 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Comrade Tucker and friends
niyad
(113,306 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)crickets
(25,980 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,628 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)But....from what I am reading, without NATO, its still only a matter of time that he will take the country, and the capital.
Even if he has to flatten and bomb the country to rubble.
I hope I am wrong and Ukrainians plus foreign volunteers, plus military equipment brought in from other countries, plus Russian people being squeezed by sanctions plus more information leaking in.......that Putin will be forced to leave with his tail between his legs.
But I think it will be like watching a horror movie in slow motion over the next month or two.
I also think that NATO is making a mistake. Putin has already entered WW3. They must stop Putin now. If he gets his way, other authoritarian regimes will be more inspired with NATO's display of paralysis in the face of such blatant war crimes.
librechik
(30,674 posts)buckle up everybody.
soldierant
(6,874 posts)that there is no longer any Soviet state, (Also there is no communism there, even INO - so "Comrade" is also ionappropriate.) What Putin has in Russia is more like a Russian Orthodox Taliban ... which is one reason the GQP finds him so congenial.
JHB
(37,160 posts)They're both symbols of oppressive, murderous police states, and they have an emotional impact that "Russian Orthodox Taliban" doesn't.
"Democrats don't know how to message" is overblown, but one part where it often rings true is the elevation of the wonkish need for accuracy over telling the story you want to tell in ways people will remember. Wonkishness is a necessary thing, but not everywhere all the time. Especially not in advertising/persuasion/promotion/etc.
soldierant
(6,874 posts)how superior "Putin's Christian Values" are to the degenerate left (their language, not mine.) I think we need to respond powerfully.
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)Thanks Again for Your Work in Posting Them
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Haggis 4 Breakfast
(1,454 posts)I have very mixed feelings on this decision. But if our elected leaders think that creating one will push putin over the edge, they are wrong. He's already THERE. And I doubt that he will allow an exit that doesn't make him lose face, so . . .
We WILL get dragged into this one way or another, mark my words.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,242 posts)czarjak
(11,277 posts)Response to JHB (Original post)
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