@QMS

I have been getting the same thing off and on over the last few days. I was going to post the " screen shot of the message" but was not able the login to do so.

again, (site error, broken) was it something I said?

@Pluto's Republic
a demographic problem.
Current population is 145 million+/- on a landmass the largest on earth.
Recall they are still recovering from a loss of 25 million+/- in WW2 and millions more during the 90s with the collapse of the USSR.
IIRC they were offering free homesteads to any young families who were willing to learn Russian and emigrate there.
Most of the Ukrainians who fled to Russia already spoke Russian.
A win/win for Russia/Ukraine.

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Russia does not need to use a nuclear weapon to dispense with Ukraine.

My pet peeve during this inane season of world history is the notion that the people running America are ... too stupid to realize their policies are all doomed to failure.

Us random nobodies in cyberspace can easily understand that a nuclear power with five times the population of Ukraine can do whatever it wants to Ukraine.

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Russia is not in Ukraine to kill Ukrainians. During this Special Military Operation, the Russian army has remained close to Ukraine's eastern border with Russia. The army has not invaded most of the very large Ukrainian state, which is the second largest nation in Europe. Russia has had no further interest in dealing with Ukraine's corruption. Not since the turn of the century, when Ukraine began stealing the gas flowing through the Russian pipelines that crossed Ukraine on its way to Europe. This missing gas resulted in much winter suffering in Europe. Russia was already paying Ukraine a transit fee for the pipelines, but the Ukrainians could not stop stealing the gas. (I suspect that Ukrainian oil companies, like Burisma, got their start that way.) Rather than dealing with the Ukraine government, which was unable to reform, Russia invested more than a decade building alternate European pipelines that bypassed Ukraine — one in the north and one in the south. in the north and south. Russian gas then made it to Europe, unmolested. Europe also imported gas from many sources, including North Africa, the North Sea, and the African continent. Russia had been discounting Europe's gas costs for many years, as a matter of diplomatic policy. But when the US conspired with the European Neocons to bomb and destroy Russia's new Nord Stream pipeline, they also destroyed Europe's only source of gas that held down Europe's overall energy costs. This has already ben a blow to Germany's robust industrial economy, which is much diminished over the past year.
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But Biden, Blinken and Nodd just can't wrap their pea brains around it, and fantasize about this leading to Regime Change in Moscow.

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While Ukraine is hopelessly corrupt, Russia still considers Ukrainians to be 'Russians'. Ukraine is almost entirely composed of lands attached to it by various Russian leaders. Kiev was once Russia's capitol, but because of constant invasions from the West (Europe), Russia kept moving its capitol city further east. In the end, Russia sees Ukraine as a junkyard of lands, some stolen by Ukraine (from Poland, for example) and other large parcels attached to Ukraine by Russian rulers, who thought these wild territories would slow down potential invaders from the West..

Lands gifted by the Russian Tzars.

Dark Blue Area = Original Ukraine

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Places Where Ukrainian is Actually Spoken

A Conglomeration of Captured Foreign Lands

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The Russian People, and Putin in particular, have no stomach for killing Ukrainians.

Recall that millions of Ukrainians also fled to Russia when the SMO began, rather than Europe. They have since been settled, housed, and employed in Russia. Those who wish to stay on in Russia have been put on the path toward citizenship. They will be issued Russian passports so they can travel more easily.

What if the US treated refugees from Latin America like that? It's unthinkable, isn't it? In fact, most of the basic and declared human rights are unthinkable in the US — and no USian is educated enough to ask for them.