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@scrowder
Three rules for marriage from Scripture but especially Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
(1) Wife thrives on love.
(2) Husband thrives on respect.
(3) Marriage thrives on forgiveness.
Doesn't mean Wife doesn't need respect or Husband doesn't need love, it's a matter of priorities.
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@Tom17121437
@Tendar
Ukraine's warriors with the best of NATO technology - unbeatable combination.
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@Tendar
Don't forget that Biden refusing to send our long range missiles (we have thousands) is providing cover for Herr Scholz.
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@KareemRifai
“I don’t understand the pushback on funding for Ukraine. You have spent trillions on preparing for a conventional war with Russia. And for a hundred billion Ukraine has destroyed their conventional army for you. That seems like a good return on investment to me…”
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@front_ukrainian
"I don't understand why we don't receive these weapons."
A very polite way of referring to Biden's two+ years refusal to give a single one of our long range missiles (ATACMS) with which Russia could be driven from Crimea. Plus delays on F-16'S, Abrams etc etc.
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@IAPonomarenko
"Why the outrage over applause for a 96 year old guy from WWII?
"Are you serious? He might have been involved in war crimes!!!!!!"
"Oh, so you're opposed to war crimes? So I assume you would also be in favor of stopping war crimes going on right now?"
"NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
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@DylanMAllman
"On August 21, 1992, Federal marshals shot my son Samuel in the back and killed him. He was running home to me. His last words were, "I'm coming, Dad." They shot his little arm almost off and they killed him by shooting him in the back with a 9-millimeter submachine gun. The gun
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@MykhailoRohoza
They've said some of this openly. Russian media salivating about the wealth – mineral and agricultural – of the territories they seized and look forward to keeping as part of Russia; the real reason for the invasion
If you believed Putin's lie that Russia wasn't planning to occupy any of the Ukrainian territories, listen to gov't official on state TV admit the opposite. Discussing Ukraine's vast mineral & energy resources Russia wants to pocket, state TV host says she is overcome with pride.
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@nykyt0sha
We're still seeing the consequences of pretending USSR was on the side of good in WWII. Stalin's horrors were downplayed, Russia never had to go through what Germany did (de-nazify) after the war . . .
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@anno1540
Russian media salivating about Ukraine's mineral/agricultural wealth:
If you believed Putin's lie that Russia wasn't planning to occupy any of the Ukrainian territories, listen to gov't official on state TV admit the opposite. Discussing Ukraine's vast mineral & energy resources Russia wants to pocket, state TV host says she is overcome with pride.
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@ChrisO_wiki
So, by "the rules" which seem to be assumed by the chamberlain faction in the west, if Putin says "Alaska is ours," would they respond "Let's negotiate!"?
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@JayinKyiv
I actually wouldn't be surprised if it came from Hungary via the Heritage Foundation, sad to say.
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@RaduHossu
A pleasant surprise is, that the House bill is actually better in some ways than the Senate one.
It requires Biden to send our long range missiles which are best in the world (ATACMS). We've only sent a few so far.
If they are the longer range version, they can hit anywhere in
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@jacksonhinklle
@TheGrayzoneNews
Thank you for doing us the service of discrediting yourself, so we know not to take you seriously on anything.
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@JoshEakle
There seems to be a 100% correlation between those who are outraged by his death, and those who are silent about Russia bombing Ukraine's hospitals which treat patients like him.
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@anno1540
And I suspect that the former victims of communism will be the most fervent warriors.
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I prefer the
@GovRonDeSantis
brand of winning, personally.
Trump won the 2020 election!
Kari Lake won her 2022 election!
And anyone who is afraid to say it is not on our side.
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@AllenDMartin
@pfizer
Worst part is they knew from very early that the shots were greater danger to young people than was covid.
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@RobertKennedyJr
You say "literally" like it's a bad thing.
"Police literally shopping at gun stores" - Oh my!
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@tedcruz
except they're not being sent "to fight in Ukraine."
I read the order you linked to - did you?
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@highbrow_nobrow
@Acyn
Ha ha. It wasn't Russia, it was USSR, and best part of that army was Ukrainians . . .
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@GlasnostGone
@elonmusk
"King George's troops will continue to gain territory in the English speaking areas of the American colonies, but then there will be a stalemate when they get to the French, Dutch, and German speaking areas, and there will be a peace agreement."
Said no one ever.
Declaration of
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@IAPonomarenko
This lovely guy too:
Milchakov, commander of "Rusich" group fighting for Russia in Ukraine:
"I'm a Nazi, I'm a Nazi. I won't elaborate whether I'm a nationalist, a patriot or imperialist. I say directly: I'm a Nazi. I can raise my hand in Nazi salute"
(interview to Provsvirnin, Sputnik and Pogrom)
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@DNSWilson
Thank you - THIS is how to learn from history. As opposed to, "Wow those people back then were really evil."
Jesus pronounced woes against the people who said "If we were alive back then we would not have killed the prophets."
Who then proceeded to crucify him.
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Native Siberians and North Caucasians* are hugely overrepresented among the Russian casualties in Ukraine. Consider these estimates of the Free Buryatia Foundation. It looks like Russia is ready to fight till the last indigenous person, solving two problems at once
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@OliLondonTV
@Riley_Gaines_
Yes - and with support from their families, friends, etc., as it's become clear that institutions (Colleges, etc., threats about future exclusion from the sport) are not on their side.
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@MedvedevRussiaE
And I'm reminding you that Stalin/USSR starved to death millions of Ukrainians because they would not bow the knee. Russia inherited Stalin's legacy.
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@rshereme
To call it a crime you have to first establish that it was intentional. Israel showed evidence it was debris from an intercepted Hamas rocket.
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@saintjavelin
Plus Russia only agrees to pause fighting in order to regroup for later hostilities. Ask the Chechens.
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@AaronSiriSG
@RobertKennedyJr
Thanks. Also shockingly described in the book Turtles All the Way Down.
Probably, virtually no one in the general public is aware.
Thanks to
@DrPaulOffit
for unwittingly confirming this safety fraud done to us over many decades.
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A Russian Nazi on Russian TV calls for the destruction of Ukrainian cities “stone by stone,” but not “out of anger” or “bloodthirstiness” but because, you know, “c’est la vie.”
After all, one must conduct genocide calmly and coolly, right?
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@SenVancePress
@JDVance1
So, Zelensky's the bad guy.
Not Putin, who unleashed terror, torture, murder, rape, kidnapping, and is a wanted war criminal.
Please take "Christian" out of your bio.
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@JamesLLandis
Plus "Soviets" included Ukrainians.
Some would say their best fighters.
Which would explain what we're seeing now.
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@Gerashchenko_en
If we had a decent public education system, everyone would know about these two.
I wonder what % of people even know what Holodomor even refers to, compared to the word Holocaust?
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@igorsushko
Bonus to the "guided by human intelligence" part: Russians have to be suspicious of their own people.
Consequences of not paying your troops, etc.
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@DavidSacks
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Finland just joined NATO, doubling Russia's border with NATO countries, Putin did nothing.
Can't imagine why Ukraine would want to be in NATO.
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@MasculinityAce
Seems like you're assuming older women are immoral. Happily married for 35 years to a girl who was 36 when we married.
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@olex_scherba
Sacks also accuses Ukraine, with zero evidence, of killing Gonzo, while questioning the fact that Russia commits war crimes, like bombing hospitals.
Modern equivalent of a Holocaust denier.
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@Travis_in_Flint
Ukraine needs help against a genocidal criminal, which used to be a thing that people in the party of Reagan were in favor of.
Now I guess we're supposed to be trivializing the victims?
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@rshereme
Ignorance of Russian atrocities is the sequel to ignorance of Soviet atrocities, knowledge of which was discouraged by the fact that they were allegedly our allies against the Nazis.
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@MeyerLabin
My wife and I were both reminded of Jael (Judges 4-5), though not quite same scenario. Also there's that Proverb, If your enemy is hungry, feed him, in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.
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@Gerashchenko_en
If they wanted to eradicate Nazis from Ukraine, they'd have to go against their allies.
Pavel Gubarev, Russia's "DPR" figure in Donetsk, states their intent towards Ukrainians: "We aren't coming to kill you, but to convince you. But if you don't want to be convinced, we'll kill you. We'll kill as many as we have to: 1 million, 5 million, or exterminate all of you."
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@BadBalticTakes
Odd - both sides of the American war for independence spoke the same language . . .
I'm trying to figure out why that should matter.
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@olex_scherba
Perhaps US's biggest failure is not to give you, for two years, any of our 1000+ long range ATACMS missiles, as if our motto was "keeping Russians safe in southern Crimea."
“Reminder: President Biden can respond to this escalation by sending Ukraine 1200 ATACMS using Section 506
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@thisisfoster
I remember a pastor saying, 40+ years ago, that he had never counseled a woman who committed adultery who had not also been addicted to "soap operas."
And now we've got some pretty malignant social media.
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@thatbrian
Very glad for you, as some with your background would grow up and imitate the behavior they loathed when they were on the receiving end. And family background isn't everything, Cain and Abel had the same parents. One was righteous, one was a liar and a murderer.
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@Mylovanov
Kind of amazing, after all of Russia's war crimes, people just believe whatever they say.
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@secretsqrl123
I had similar experience with ultrasound tech - asked about her accent, said she was Russian, "But I'm not political!"
Oh and her husband is Ukrainian.
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@Mylovanov
"Ukraine is corrupt" is just an excuse, when if you scratch the surface, what they really means is "We're scared of Russia's nukes."
If one country cannot help another country because it is not free of corruption, then nobody could help anybody, since no country is entirely free
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@P_Kallioniemi
Seems like most commentators missed the most important part (why???).
That Putin justified Hitler's invasion of Poland to start WWII.
"Because they wouldn't negotiate" (same excuse Putin's using now for Ukraine.
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@Tendar
Requiring Biden to send ATACMS is a pleasant surprise.
It does leave a loophole but hopefully the heat will be on Biden not to use the loophole.
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@RpsAgainstTrump
Birds of a feather:
Holy crap 😳 No wonder Trump hired her. She’s a horrible person.
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@Riley_Gaines_
@IWF
@icons_women
If the girls ignore the threats about future participation, etc., just all boycott events where males are competing, this would end quickly. And the girls need backup from family, coaches, everybody else.
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@bayraktar_1love
I see it's dawning on people that Biden has only been pretending to be doing all he could do.
Two ATACMS (plus 20 last fall) is the tip of the iceberg as far as what we could have given
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@historyinmemes
Reminds me there was a Soviet officer on a sub during the Cuban missile crisis who convinced his captain that depth charges were being dropped not to attack them but to bring them to the surface. The captain was talked out of nuclear strike.
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@PamelaE28888080
Benjamin's story was one of the 1st I read about. Because of reading such things, my wife and I (both late '60's) were never vaxed (and we're fine 2day). Ben and so many others are victims of a crime I fear will never be charged (except on Judgment Day). Thank you for persevering
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@rshereme
I've noticed that the "NATO narrative" usually starts with "the West tried to get Ukraine into NATO", ignoring that Ukraine wasn't interested. Also ignoring past Putin statements where he correctly pointed out that countries are free to make alliances they want to, and he had no
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@secretsqrl123
There's a scene like that from D-Day in Saving Private Ryan. German machine-gunners on fire from flame throwers, begging to be shot - no way after you just killed so many of us.
Easy to judge if you weren't there.
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@LaurenWitzkeDE
Colonel MacGregor is the last place to go to for facts.
Casually reminding everyone of Tucker Carlson's interview with Douglas MacGregor back in 2022, and the deluge of bad takes this ex-Colonel generates.
Let's review some bold 2022 predictions:
1) "The first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle. They've now
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@RealJakeBroe
I expected it to have nothing newsworthy but I was wrong.
Huge own goal scored by Putin, sticking up for Hitler invading Poland to start WWII.
Time to de-nazify the Kremlin.
Tucker Carlson assured us that he is a russian propagandist and Putin confirmed that is a delusional dictator. This was not an “interview.” It was two hours of propaganda and lies coming from Putin, who lives in an alternative reality with his own version of a history.
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@CryptidAnalysis
You have it backwards. Russian Nazis go to Ukraine to fight for Russia and brag that they're the "real Nazis."
Milchakov, commander of "Rusich" group fighting for Russia in Ukraine:
"I'm a Nazi, I'm a Nazi. I won't elaborate whether I'm a nationalist, a patriot or imperialist. I say directly: I'm a Nazi. I can raise my hand in Nazi salute"
(interview to Provsvirnin, Sputnik and Pogrom)
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@secretsqrl123
The other question is what is the quality of their troops?
63 year-old retired lieutenant colonel Alexander Yermolayev from Volgograd Region says he has been called up to fight in Ukraine
He suffers from diabetes and cerebral ischaemia but said he hasn't undergone any medical checks and was passed fit to serve by a military doctor
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@nexta_tv
Neither do you want them to win, apparently.
“The White House seems to think it is playing five-dimensional chess by drawing out US support in dribs and drabs. In the process, they are making the war longer and bloodier than it needed to be. This is a logistics war, and depriving
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@randymot4
Some responses have mentioned Crimea's natural gas. Seems Ukraine's mineral/agricultural wealth is a major reason for the invasion.
If you believed Putin's lie that Russia wasn't planning to occupy any of the Ukrainian territories, listen to gov't official on state TV admit the opposite. Discussing Ukraine's vast mineral & energy resources Russia wants to pocket, state TV host says she is overcome with pride.
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@MrAndyNgo
They should sue the feds for implementing a welfare program in the '60's that incentivized fatherless families, making our cities into criminal factories.
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@wandalouh
@KareemRifai
Yes, and the world is finding out that Russian super-weapons are junk, demand for US Patriots is skyrocketing . . .
⚡️ Zelensky: "Patriot" is the most effective Air Defence system in the world today ... I must bow deeply to its creators ... Both Russians and our partners are in shock."
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@JP_Quixote
@randymot4
It's Biden who is being too cautious, facing criticism from a good percent of those "across the aisle."
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@SenRonJohnson
The bill isn't about securing Ukraine's border, it's about killing Russian war criminals.
You and Putin being very upset, is a great look.
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@rshereme
Here's Congress urging Biden to send ATACMS - which no other country can provide - with which Ukraine could hit anything in Crimea. He could have done so a year+ ago.
“October 2023: Shorter-range variants of ATACMS missiles make their battlefield debut by destroying numerous
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@HarriKlingsten
@Lavrovskyi
The party as a whole is not "pro-Russia," but there's a disturbingly high % who make a lot of noise and take every excuse (from "not our fight" to "Ukraine is bad too" to "shouldn't we care more about our own borders?") not to help Russia's victims, which comes across as and
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@nedalalamari
He doesn't care what the truth is, just makes money off of hits. Best to ignore him.
In today's
#vatnik
soup I'll introduce an American troll and opportunist, Jackson Hinkle (
@jacksonhinklle
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@JuliaDavisNews
"We should have taken Tblisi [Georgia, 2008], then we'd have a straight shot to Armenia . . . they hate us anyway" (so no downside from acting like who we've always been).
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@Chris_Opines
I could never understand how any R could support him after claiming Ted Cruz won Iowa by cheating, and Cruz's Dad was in on the JFK assassination. Why didn't GOP laugh him off the planet in 2016 primary season?
Of course , I know big part of the answer was CNN etc gave him
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@randymot4
Which means could have repeat of last year, not much happening but then sudden big abandonment (Kherson on west side of Dnieper late summer, then Kharkiv in November).
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Russian definition of being "human" = "using cluster munitions and wiping out entire towns where Ukrainian soldiers' wives, children and parents live."
Meanwhile in Russia: Vladislav Shurygin told Vladimir Solovyov that Ukrainians are animals who don't understand anything human. He suggested using cluster munitions and wiping out entire towns where Ukrainian soldiers' wives, children and parents live.
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@Tendar
One of the best parts is that it requires Biden to send our ATACMS missiles (unfortunately not specifying a big number or that they should include the longest range ones), and also that he articulate a strategy, which so far has been missing.
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@ukraine_map
Ones that Biden could have sent two years ago.
ATACMS.
They say they'd need to be used in concert with Taurus or Storm Shadow
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