Ok, but this is apparently a reliable, independent pollster:
Or do you think TPM’s putting out Russian propaganda?
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Remember how the Jr. Bush’s approval rating jumped after first invading Iraq, it did.
The best thing America and the USSR did for each other during the cold war is the Vietnam War and Invasion of Afghanistan respectively.
Since the end of the cold war the best thing America did for its adversaries was the second invasion of Iraq.
In all cases it had to do with not only public opinion over a long war costing much blood and other resources, but how it hurt national reputations and weakened the aggressor.
We do not yet know how far Putin intends to go, but either way in the long term he is the loser. That is either Putin must now continue to devour the entire Ukraine or stop with the disputed territory. Either way Russia loses and before to long Russians will realize it.
If Putin stops with the disputed territory, or to show his machismo, a little more, he will have lost any claim to not only the Ukraine but argument over its foreign policy to include joining the EU and NATO.
If he takes it all, Russians will both have to kill and die in a long occupation costing not only blood but economic treasures Russia can ill afford.
So like with Bush lying America into the disastrous war in Iraq, Putin will likely see his approval ratings high at the start but a year from now, 2 years from now and more Putin’s approval from this stupid war will look more like Bush’s from his stupid war.
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Jesus -I thought the new D.A. was supposed to be on board with this?
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Everyone has a price. If you claim you don’t, it’s because nobody’s offered you a sweet enough deal yet.
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@txlawyer discusses it here and in subsequent posts.
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Thanks.
Yes, good to get some explanation.
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He didn’t get to see the evidence until he assumed the office on Jan. 1, and that was the same evidence Cy Vance apparently didn’t think he could get a conviction on before leaving office.
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Is it unusual that the prosecutors and the DA would disagree?
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DA’s usually defer to their prosecutors, but they do get to make the final call, particularly in prominent cases where a loss might be embarrassing. It’s unusual for prosecutors to resign over such a disagreement (though one of these guys got hired in from private practice specifically for this investigation, so it’s no surprise he would be leaving the office).
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I thought the big news last week was Trump’s accountant quit because the Manhattan DA had the goods but maybe I misunderstood that it was the AG that had them over a barrel.
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Mazar’s specifically cited the AG’s investigation, and that’s civil.
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Thanks, sometimes it’s hard to keep all of the investigations straight.
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The different thresholds regarding criminal versus civil convictions should get a workout with this news.
Goldman has mentioned that recently
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Ugh.
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Putin’s version of the Reichstag fire.
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Yup, and he does not care about the humanitarian crisis that will follow. He and his minions are pure evil.
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Along with now two global hawks above Ukraine, which isn’t a good sign that we think any coming attack is just in the Donbas, here’s a very interesting route kind of illustrating just what it is taking to avoid the risk areas right now. Lotta empty space near the border regions (and the one just inside russia to the north is an unlisted one, so military).
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He will take over more than Ukraine.
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