Col MacGregor: Slo Joe will take the blame

[Matt]

Ireland simmering? Woke Indians? The Irish are too busy celebrating Rugby. You are mistaking a few protestors in Paris for revolution. East German Marxists of course want to go back to the world of soviet communism, and told what to by Russia. But the majority of Europeans, particularly on the states bordering Russia, still back Ukraine. And I note your litany of dissent missed out the protests in Georgia where the government were forced to drop a Russian inspired law.

I call Bull crap, You clearly are not nearly as informed as you seem to think you are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/protests-and-strikes-france--pensions-reform-emmanuel-macron
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-protests-against-increased-retirement-age-turn-violent/
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230307-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-french-roads-fuel-deliveries-blocked-by-protesters

And as to why it has mainly been in Paris.... What was the capital of France... you know where Macron's at... Oh Yeah that would be PARIS....

Also:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/21/ireland-anti-refugee-protests-far-right-uk-politics
https://www.irishtimes.com/video/video/2023/03/21/there-is-nothing-out-there-say-protesters-on-lifting-of-eviction-ban/
 
" You are mistaking a few protestors in Paris for revolution."
You have lost your F'ing mind. that whole damn country is on the verge of civil war, just like we are here in the US, maybe you're just are not privy to such information in the UK.

Not sure what the FARA bill in Georgia has to do with anything, the US has one, Russia has one,  the UK wants one and so do several other countries. What is the problem with knowing if a portion of an entity's funding is coming from a foreign government?

So many of you older folks are really clueless as to what this world has become, I also blame y'all and the generation before you for letting it get to this point, I blame my generation for not trying to change it sooner and I blame the later generations for just being batshit crazy and useless. JMO.
 

[Goldie]

I agree about everything said Matt. I also think it is a travesty that someone can call a person un american for showing a clip of a well respected military colonel. Very strange indeed. Only question I have to you is I am 72 years old so I guess I am the older folks you're talking about so the generation before me would be the generation that won world war 2 like my Dad and uncle which by the way took care of Hitler. Later generations you elude to must be the Gen Z generation which by the way I agree with. So that must make you either a millennial or generation X which actually produced the batshit craziness and useless ones. Whew, glad I got that in order.

[Dee]

So everybody picks their own brand of poison, and declares THEMSELVES to be the most informed on world events.

So English Bob doesn't know whats going on in France, but someone 4500 miles away in Alabama does?

Not jabbing at anyone here, but I've been been saying this for years. For every well respected colonel giving his synopsis of world events, I can post an equally vetted Colonel, or general for that matter, with an opposing view.

ALL OF IT BOILS DOWN TO WHICH "SO CALLED SOURCE" YOU CHOOSE TO SIDE WITH.

Everyone here on GBO gets their "world opinion" one of two ways. Either by TV news networks, or the internet, or a combination of both.

EVERYONE HERE, forms their own opinions based on someone elses opinion. A person whom most likely, they've  never  met.

It's like the southern border situation. I'm more aware of the situation down here in Texas than someone in say Missouri, but Goldie is more aware than me cause he's even closer to the border than me.

And all this is the problem. None of us know anymore than what we read, or watch on a video, but some of us think we do.

[Goldie]

So the people that think we do as said makes us UN Americans ?  Still makes no sense to me. But in todays idealoligies I guess assumptions can be made by anyone and who's to say is right or wrong.

[Dee]

So the people that think we do as said makes us UN Americans ?  Still makes no sense to me. But in todays idealoligies I guess assumptions can be made by anyone and who's to say is right or wrong.

You have to understand that for the better part of a year now, TM has declared anyone who disagreed with him concerning Russia, and Pootun, was automatically a Biden supporter, with absolutely no gray area as far as he was concerned.

THATS where the un-American remark came from, and Bills remark was no more outrageous than TMs stance on those that disagreed with him.

I've said all along that both Pootun AND Zelenski are thugs, and have expressed my sympathy for the Ukrainian civilians that are suffering.
TM automatically, and dogmatically deemed me as a supporter of both Biden, and the war, with no gray area. That  gets old.

[Dixie-Dude]

My wife's family left the Ukraine years ago.  They hate the Russians.  The Soviets killed 20-30 million Ukrainians in the purges of the 1920's.  They moved ethnic Russians into the Dombas region and into Crimea.  The Dombas region is where all of the Ukrainian mining operations were, coal mostly.  The Russians in the 1920's under Stalin wanted this region to supply Russia with coal, thus moving out or killing Ukrainians and moving in ethnic Russians. 

None of this is brought up, but the stresses between Russia and Ukraine go at least this far back. 

Russia wanted Crimea because of the huge naval and air bases there that the Soviets built.  They also want the Dombas because of the coal.  The language difference is more like Spanish vs Portuguese, or American English vs Brittish English.  Many of the same words but differences. 

The Ethnic Ukrainians want to join NATO.  Russia doesn't want this.  Most eastern Europeans joined NATO because of he memories they had under Soviet Communism, and want no part of Russia.  The Soviets were worse than the NAZI's.

[ironglow]

My wife's family left the Ukraine years ago.  They hate the Russians.  The Soviets killed 20-30 million Ukrainians in the purges of the 1920's.  They moved ethnic Russians into the Dombas region and into Crimea.  The Dombas region is where all of the Ukrainian mining operations were, coal mostly.  The Russians in the 1920's under Stalin wanted this region to supply Russia with coal, thus moving out or killing Ukrainians and moving in ethnic Russians. 

None of this is brought up, but the stresses between Russia and Ukraine go at least this far back. 

Russia wanted Crimea because of the huge naval and air bases there that the Soviets built.  They also want the Dombas because of the coal.  The language difference is more like Spanish vs Portuguese, or American English vs Brittish English.  Many of the same words but differences. 

The Ethnic Ukrainians want to join NATO.  Russia doesn't want this.  Most eastern Europeans joined NATO because of he memories they had under Soviet Communism, and want no part of Russia.  The Soviets were worse than the NAZI's.

    ^^^THAT^^^ 100%...

    My sister-in-law was born in Europe, sometime after her parents were freed from Auschwitz.  They soon emigrated
    here, where her two brothers were born.
   Many years later, after she married my brother, they went to the Ukraine to visit her great aunt back in the Ukraine, in about 1976.

  Her great aunt was living in a partly bombed out building..and living very shabbily. The family here sent money regularly back to the Ukraine.
  The Russians would grab, say 10,000 tons of the good Ukraine wheat..and replace it with 5,000 tons of crappy Russian grown stuff.  That was Soviet "central planning" at it's best.

   The decent standard of living the Ukrainian people have enjoyed up until the invasion...was brought on by the
    Ukranian people ever since the collapse of the USSR.   Can you blame them for wanting to remain "Russia free"??