War In Europe: Scope Of Russian Invasion Emerges At Daylight | Talking Points Memo

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.

The scope of the Russian attack continues to come into focus Thursday, but reports suggest a combined air, sea, and land offensive as part of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine:

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1405961
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Слава Україні.

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Putin has made a classic blunder.

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From Empty Wheel. This is pretty devastating toward T rumpp.

Sure, Putin didn’t get Trump to carve up Ukraine as President. But he got so much more from Trump’s presidency.

Putin did get Trump to do real damage to NATO. He got Trump to largely abandon Syria. Trump made a humiliating deal with the Taliban that would result in the US withdrawing its military from Russia’s back door. After years of Russia having to work hard to highlight American hypocrisy on human rights, Trump did things like pardon war criminals, forever tainting America’s claim to be exceptional.

And through it all, Trump created his own authoritarian-supporting militias, heavily armed troops inspired by resentment who have the ability to make the United States ungovernable. Trumpist Republicans are making localized efforts to dismantle democracy. Trump’s Supreme Court nominees have abandoned legal precedent.

Which brings us to this moment.

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So will the massacre and destruction be shown on TV today here? Will the GOP still be rooting on TFG’s BFF or will the horror set in?

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The wait time for using Flightradar24 is about 27 minutes and climbing.

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Promising ne a good time, eh?

GOP Michigan Candidate Warns He May Be Assassinated By Clinton Operatives

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I posted this last night on the first invasion thread ( my word, first!)

Russian media is featuring Tucker’s and Pompeo’s praise if Putin in their media.

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If it weren’t for the fact that we’d be living in some kind of dictatorship, I’d wish that all the lefty monsters these idiots make up were real and as powerful as they’re made out to be.

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Lord Whore Whore and Moscow Mike.

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Josh M shared this earlier, but worth a re-up. Decent Twitter list for following: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1494877848087187461

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Moscow Mike indeed.

“Don’t blame Putin, it’s all Biden’s fault.”

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Congrats, Republicans and Fox News. You are literally Russian propaganda now.

https://twitter.com/BillyRay5229/status/1496570629432438786?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email

I wonder how Fox News will respond and react to last night’s events?

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Should be a doozey of a speech
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Indeed. I am really starting to like the Ukrainian people.

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Worth reading

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Perhaps that’s what the Murdoch’s want. If they didn’t, Tucky-Woo would have been gone, already. Organ grinders, monkey, eh what?

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GOOD LORD.

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