‘Totally Unacceptable’: US Ambassador To UN Slams Putin’s Order To Put Nuclear Forces On Alert | Talking Points Memo

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, on Sunday condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s move to order Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces to be on alert for a “special regime of combat duty.”


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He’s got to be taken out, one way or another.

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Of course it was totally unacceptable. That was the point. Putin is trying to find out if Biden will blink. My guess is Biden won’t. He can’t.

It would nice to know if the Russian military is willing to go along with the end of the world.

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Good afternoon and welcome the the Hives’ musings on Vladimir Putin’s self-destruction. To provide fodder, watch as Russian forces seek to lay waste to a static military monument.

Bucha, outside of Kyiv pic.twitter.com/zjmeYCy1D0

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 27, 2022
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Did Churchill’s dictum include the possibility for “War, war, war and jaw, jaw, jaw…” ?

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What I find particularly worrisome about Putin’s nuclear escalation is that much of the Cold War infrastructure for back-channel communications, along with those who managed it, is gone.

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What no mention of the GOP!

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If I played poker wouldn’t want to with Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

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          The Merry Minuet keeps coming to mind.

We can ask to borrow Donbald Jr.'s direct line.

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Ukraine’s Armed Forces publishes a video showing a Turkish-made Bayraktar drone striking a Russian military column. https://t.co/ndf86CT3go

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 27, 2022

Hopefully, they find everyone of these in the field and deliver the same.

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"Putin cited so-called ‘aggressive statements’ by leading NATO powers and sweeping financial sanctions from the U.S. and other western leaders when announcing that he directed military leaders to put Russian nuclear deterrent forces on alert.”

Why can’t this guy just do what any US male would do, and buy a sports car to deal with “size issues”?

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That yacht alone should have done the trick.

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I got a fear that Putin is gonna roll fallout…

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Can’t get any good sports cars in russia. Sanctions, you know.

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He might be a little indisposed today.
:wink:

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Megalomaniac, sociopath, criminal. Donnie’s mentor and idol.

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That’s ok, it’s not like we’re gonna let him anywhere near that call.

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What the fuck is he on about?

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Critical Trucker Theory

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