"The 1980's are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

Putin really knows how to get Tucker Carlson and the rest of the American Right worshipfully tonguing his asshole, doesn't he?

"Minor incursion."

So Putin is just saving Ukraine from itself? He will be a hero!

Ukraine crisis: Russia orders troops into eastern Ukraine

Welp... And away we go.

The lack of intellectual curiosity in the US knows no bounds. We have a major news network stating that at no point in Donald Trump’s administration did Putin make moves on Ukraine. And the only reason he is now is because Joe Biden is weak. Completely ignoring the last two decades of Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine.

I'm a fan of neither but of the two Biden seems to be the one more likely to take military action.

Well sure, but only because Trump doesn't like war unless he wins or gets to look tough. And because all a potential enemy needs do is stroke his ego or offer him business deals or dirt on his rivals.

"They may possibly have done a bit of ethnic cleansing and a smidgen of political murder, but we need to check"

"Just the tip."

I did not inhale

What are Europe's best alternatives for oil and gas outside of Russia?

The shift that's happening of Republicans basically becoming Russian bootlickers is simply astounding to watch

Not just over a decade ago they'd be leading the charge against Putin doing what he's doing now

All because they don't like who's in the White House today

One of the many reasons why these people are just the worst

Leaving it the fuck in the ground?

That's not an option right now, given how widespread it's being used. Lives literally depend on it (food production and distribution for example)

So, what are Europe's best options outside of Russia?

No, it's not just that.

They like that he can freely do what they have pesky laws stopping them doing. Rigging elections. Openly jailing LBGTQ+ folk. Locking up political rivals. Making oligarchs pay actual fealty instead of mediocre "lobbying" payments.

Trump wanted to be Putin. Luckily, the US is not - for all its faults - a dictatorship. Yet.

said Senator Palpatine to Queen Amadala

Biden’s going to do what the war machine wants him to do and it takes away focus on inflation and gets to ignore the crisis on our own border.

How lucky is Biden that Putin is in his corner and manufacturing for him the perfect distractions from inflation and a border crisis!

So are you. And you'll enjoy it.

Shivering through the cold?

The Canadian truckers probably don't count as a "crisis," but OK.

I wish at his news conference, Biden had simply said, "He's fucked around, and now he's going to find out." then left.

I was talking about our southern border.

Cuba?

Mexico