Once Putin started the Ukraine invasion, there was no practical way of stopping him. I left active Army duty during the early stages of the Vietnam war, and it was still dragging on years later. My employer enrolled me in some advanced economics courses where one of the professors compared continuing the war to throwing good money after bad - the lives lost were sunk costs. This is the mode Putin is in now. The only way to defeat him is for the USA and our NATO allies to engage in ground action which would be sure to escalate. Trump will not be president for long and a cessation to the war now might allow Ukraine to recover somewhat. And maybe Putin will stumble and fall from, a great height.
Granted there are 50 million illegals woven into our economy which some of us do not see as a plus. It does not have to be that way. The school systems where I live and where my granddaughter teaches are overloaded with students who do not speak English. The urgent care facilities are overloaded. The businesses in several areas primarily inhabited by illegals generally serve only that population. Deportation of most of the violent and dishonest and non-self-sufficient illegals would be a good start toward gaining control of immigration.
And Mr. Trump is offering short-handed businesses a newly unemployed labor pool.
The Russian army can be beaten and has been beaten. Recently.
The Afghan mujahedin beat them by bleeding them over a decade, similar to our experience in both Vietnam and Afghanistan. They've already taken much higher losses in Ukraine than they did in Afghanistan.
The Ukrainians are willing to fight for their freedom and homeland. It should be their choice, and in the end it will be. Trump can't stop the fighting if Putin won't withdraw. He can only fail to support the freedom fighters and cost more of their lives as opposed to the lives of invaders.
As to immigration, the balance of studies show that it is a net plus for the economy. That's especially true in a country with a declining birthrate. If people want to come here and be good, hardworking Americans, we should make that easy while deporting the violent criminal elements.
Putin is not Gorbachev. Gorbachev withdrew from Afghanistan and "tore down that wall" in Berlin. That was a different type of war - a guerilla war fought in a primitive, sparsely populated environment with ill-advised aid from the USA and China.
The only sources I have seen that claim an invasion by millions of unvetted illegal immigrants is a positive thing have been academics with Hispanic names. There are probably others, but I believe none of them. The invasion is dangerous and detrimental to our way of life.
Immigration that is strictly vetted and controlled at a rate that can be assimilated can be a good thing.
Eww. That image from DALL-e is truly frightening. Compound fractures are never pretty.
Once Putin started the Ukraine invasion, there was no practical way of stopping him. I left active Army duty during the early stages of the Vietnam war, and it was still dragging on years later. My employer enrolled me in some advanced economics courses where one of the professors compared continuing the war to throwing good money after bad - the lives lost were sunk costs. This is the mode Putin is in now. The only way to defeat him is for the USA and our NATO allies to engage in ground action which would be sure to escalate. Trump will not be president for long and a cessation to the war now might allow Ukraine to recover somewhat. And maybe Putin will stumble and fall from, a great height.
Granted there are 50 million illegals woven into our economy which some of us do not see as a plus. It does not have to be that way. The school systems where I live and where my granddaughter teaches are overloaded with students who do not speak English. The urgent care facilities are overloaded. The businesses in several areas primarily inhabited by illegals generally serve only that population. Deportation of most of the violent and dishonest and non-self-sufficient illegals would be a good start toward gaining control of immigration.
And Mr. Trump is offering short-handed businesses a newly unemployed labor pool.
The Russian army can be beaten and has been beaten. Recently.
The Afghan mujahedin beat them by bleeding them over a decade, similar to our experience in both Vietnam and Afghanistan. They've already taken much higher losses in Ukraine than they did in Afghanistan.
The Ukrainians are willing to fight for their freedom and homeland. It should be their choice, and in the end it will be. Trump can't stop the fighting if Putin won't withdraw. He can only fail to support the freedom fighters and cost more of their lives as opposed to the lives of invaders.
As to immigration, the balance of studies show that it is a net plus for the economy. That's especially true in a country with a declining birthrate. If people want to come here and be good, hardworking Americans, we should make that easy while deporting the violent criminal elements.
https://ordinary-times.com/2024/04/18/the-zinky-boys-russia-in-afghanistan-and-ukraine/
Putin is not Gorbachev. Gorbachev withdrew from Afghanistan and "tore down that wall" in Berlin. That was a different type of war - a guerilla war fought in a primitive, sparsely populated environment with ill-advised aid from the USA and China.
The only sources I have seen that claim an invasion by millions of unvetted illegal immigrants is a positive thing have been academics with Hispanic names. There are probably others, but I believe none of them. The invasion is dangerous and detrimental to our way of life.
Immigration that is strictly vetted and controlled at a rate that can be assimilated can be a good thing.
???? Sounds like a nut job intruder.
Likely a bot.
Thanks.
The DOGE website wasn't secured properly and was cracked.
Hilarious.
What a simplistic post
What a simplistic comment
???? What the hell???
Bot.