Sounds like you have learned about Putin from the Main Stream Media. Such a trusted source!

+1 FFA Yes , Putin signed two peace agreements.
He has shown this Admin to be clowns.
Those people were sick of the Color Revolution installed puppets who raped the country and used it as an international money laundering machine as I said before , Soros and his ngo’s are the washer , the IMF isthe detergent, and US tax money is the water.

Unlike the US invasions to 'promote democracy' (aka serfdom), Russians are welcomed in Donbass by the majority pro-Russian residents.

maybe they do know history and are using it to their advantage to get what they want

Well, Putin did go into eastern Ukraine after all under the pretense of peacekeeping.. Now he is waiting to assess the situation before he invades the entire country

we are always being set up for what the powerful want us to do. Putin is a lot smarter than our dumb ass biden, and will win this one for sure. I think he is waiting to see what the reaction of the world is to his "peacekeeping" force, and then he is going to go whole hog into ukraine. The locals will react over time and make putin's life misearable, but he will just kill off the people who dont want to be russian. Then there are baltic states, and poland and romania to get next. at some point biden will have to do nuclear war, or at least ground fighting with US soldiers to mask his deficiencies and spend more money. Trump was right...

There seems to be a lot of history repeating itself lately and it's happening faster and faster. It's looking like the people that may know it are not in the right places.

Putin is a Nationalist . Russia doesn’t need the land or the Ukrainian debt. When they tried to get Russia into war the last time , Turkey shot down a Russian plane. Putin didn’t Bite. Let’s think outside the box📦 for a min. ThinQ Uranium One,
A deep state plan to set Russia up as they had hoped to set off a nuke with The Uranium ones finger print. Trump stopped it by smashing Obozos Isis into little pieces. I believe he coordinated with the Russians for that specific mission. Many sources have said that in Syria they had advanced Iranian eQuipment to enrich some diverted uranium from Urianium One by the Canadian Co. in charge of monitoring it. The company’s founder is the guy who put up Prince Harry and Markle in his mansion in B.C. after they supposedly left the Royalty ( haha)
Any way , Do you think Putin kn9ws about the Money laundering circus that Ukraine is? Of course he does. How about Mueller delivering a sample to Moscow, or how about the $3 million for example that the Moscow mayors wife gave Hunter? He has the real treasonous dirt on all these Satanic scumbags.They would love to be rid of Vlad . Oh Putin hates the power the IMF has on him. The IMF is like the detergent in a $ washing machine , Soros (ngo’s) is the agitator in that machine and OUR tax $ is the water.

+1 to cxl the downvote.

Looks more like a secession of people seeking freedom (Donbass) from an oppressive, corrupt government (Ukraine supported by the Deep State) to me.
Naturally that is a good reason for a war to the 'union' (aka NATO.)
Next Buy-dem will wrap himself in the flag and start comparing himself to that thieving scumbag war criminal Lincoln.

You're correct, it didn't work with Hitler taking the Sudetenland and this situation looks eerily familiar in that respect. Before the previous Ukraine government was overthrown this problem wasn't really a problem. It is now, though, and it would be a mistake for Putin to invade Ukraine and I think he knows it. The rhetoric in the US is starting to sound like war is a done deal almost like we're being set up for something.

I suppose Ukraine could give up the Russian separatist territory and maybe Biden pulls back? This approach Didn’t work with hitler tho

I hope not and I don't believe Putin "really" wants a hot shooting war when concessions and more $$ for Russian oil and gas is the superior option. The wild card in the mix are the pro-Russian separatists, who are citizens of Ukraine of Russian descent and customs. As FFA pointed out above I wouldn't be surprised if they are somehow goaded (C_A?) into precipitating a shooting war (shelling a kindergarten was not a good move, but raises the ante). I truly believe there are evil forces inside the USA that are pressing the buttons for a hot war with Russia and have been doing so for 5 or 6 years now - at least since Hitlery was secretary of state. Recall how hard they tried to get Trump to start a war in Syria with Russian troops and then the "Russians paying Taliban to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan" hoax - there are other examples, too, but don't come to mind as I write this.

So do you think Russia will invade Ukraine? Then China invaded Taiwan and Russia goes after Baltic countries and Poland?

Re Kuwait, IMHO even at the time, though Sadam was a murderous tyrant, why would the USA expend its citizens blood to place a monarchy back on the throne? I was appalled at that. If Europe needed Kuwaiti oil let Europe do the work or at least set up a Constitutional Republic when Kuwait gets "liberated". I recall at the time while American soldiers were putting their lives on the line, Kuwaiti princes (military age) and princesses were partying it up all over the world. American "commoners" did the bleeding while Kuwaiti royalty did the dancing. The whole thing stunk to high heaven.

FFA , I listened to the discussion the Ambassador had with Saddam. She absolutely did not try to dissuade him from his move into Kuwait. That “no opinion” is accurate in my recollection.
The Bush(Scherf) family was very successful in decades of anti-American, RINO, Satanic Globalist crony business, drug dealing , pro-Nazi actions and worse I suspect. The Bushes were more connected to 911 than Saddam. After all the Walker / Bush security company had the WTC contract for at least a year and during the attack.

GHWBush (aka 'no new taxes') not Shrub was POTUS who wasted valuable lives in Desert Shield.
https://history.army.mil/html/bookshe...

It was stated later that GHWBush actually misled Saddam into invading Kuwait and then invaded Iraq after giving Saddam the ok.
According to the book Unholy Babylon by Adel Darwish and Gregory Alexander (Gollancz Paperback 1991):

"The US before the first Gulf War gave Saddam to understand that it would not interfere in its quarrel with Kuwait. US Ambassador April Glaspie conveyed the message to Saddam that the US 'had no opinion' on Iraq's future intentions with regard to Kuwait. "
https://rense.com/general69/41.htm
(I do not claim the above to be true, and I haven't read the book. The MSM could have made it all up so Bill Clinton could be POTUS.)

GHWBush was a stinking, lying, looting NWO traitor, imo.

Shrub was POTUS in the 2nd invasion of Iraq using 9-11 as an excuse to invade a country with zero evidence they were in any way connected to 911.
I have never seen any solid evidence that Saddam had WMD's, and that was just an excuse to invade when they couldn't find any link to 911.
It was lying rubbish then and it's still lying rubbish. The feds haven't had a good reason to lose lives in foreign wars since 1945.
War is the health of the federal government's tyranny and the ongoing excuse for our enslavement.

So am I. Bush the Elder only had one term and didn't engage in any foreign wars I'm aware of. GW was the one involved in the Iraq War, ie Operation Desert Shield -> Operation Desert Storm, probably one of the most overwhelming and one-sided affairs in the history of warfare both in terms of man and machine. It was he who claimed Saddam Hussein also had WMD's - which claim was later proven at least partially true.

Now you can argue that the ongoing occupation of Iraq wasn't in the US' interest and there could be a rousing debate there, but I'm simply pointing out the tactics used by the Democrats. Don't try to turn that into a default approbation for Republicans. A -> C doesn't necessarily mean B -> C.

Well, I was writing about Shrub, not that lying pig 'no new taxes', but neocons conspiring with dems were the ones behind all the wars since the late 80's, and that was the point of the post.
Neither you nor I know the evil conspiring that instigated the first Iraq 'war'. Was it a vital US interest to honest Americans worth losing American lives ?
imo, it isn't worth the time given all the current events.

Meh. Not buying Bush. Iraq did invade Kuwait and Kuwait did ask for US help. One may argue that Bush was looking for an excuse to pay his cronies in the defense industry, but it was a pretty legitimate excuse. To top it off, Bush got Congressional approval for that war - unlike these little 30-day flings authorized solely by the President under the War Powers Act.

Neocons love this tactic, too, e.g., Bush, WMDs,the Dept of Fatherland Security aka US-SS.
It's a favorite of tyrants everywhere in every party and every country.
War is the health of the State.
Honest people are just cannon fodder and genocide is just collateral damage to these traitors.

This is a time-honored tactic by the Democrats: incite a war to distract from scandals and failed policies. One can definitely point to Bill Clinton and both Kosovo and Africa and to Obama and ISIS but I think it goes back to the Vietnam war as well. Nothing like a crisis to enable Democrats to run roughshod over civil liberties in the name of a "public good" we know is code for lining their own pockets.

Gosh , what a brilliant ploy by the shifty Russians.
Let’s see planning a long term takeover of Ukraine..... wait for the Afghanistan disastrous withdrawal , watch the disarray, don‘t act then wait till news about the Admins culpability in a COOP
Is revealed .the US starts to say Putin’s getting ready to invade . The US Ignores the Ukrainian PM who denies the threat of invasion.
Russia in a brilliant tactical move shells a kindergarten.

Self pats on back and Nobel Peace prizes all around.

Here's the text:

Artillery Shelling Reported in East Ukraine Amid Conflicting Statements

By Jack Phillips February 17, 2022 Updated: February 17, 2022

The eastern Ukrainian village of Stanytsia Luhanska village was shelled with heavy weapons from the “occupied Donbas” area, according to Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Twitter post on Thursday.

“Civilian infrastructure damaged. We call on all partners to swiftly condemn this severe violation of Minsk agreements by Russia amid an already tense security situation,” he wrote on Twitter.

Since 2014, the Donbas area has been occupied by what Ukrainian and Western forces say are pro-Russian separatists. A photograph posted online allegedly showed damage to a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy alleged that pro-Russian forces had shelled a kindergarten, in what he called a “big provocation.” For its part, the Kremlin said Moscow was “seriously concerned” about reports of an escalation after the separatists accused government forces of opening fire on their territory four times in the past 24 hours.

The self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, one of two rebel regions, said Ukrainian forces had used mortars, grenade launchers, and a machine gun in four separate incidents on Thursday.


“Armed forces of Ukraine have crudely violated the ceasefire regime, using heavy weapons, which, according to the Minsk agreements, should be withdrawn,” the separatists said in a statement.

Responding to the reports of shelling, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, who is in Brussels for a NATO conference, said the United States is looking into claims that the kindergarten was shelled. The incident, he said, is “certainly troubling” and asserted “we have said for some time that the Russians might do something like this in order to justify a military conflict so we will be watching this very closely.”

For weeks now, White House officials have repeatedly warned that Russia—which they say has amassed well over 100,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders—would invade its neighbor. Moscow has categorically denied those allegations and has said it’s the United States and NATO that are trying to spread propaganda to cause the pretext for a war in Eastern Europe.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday claimed Russia has the resources now to conduct “a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine” with little-to-no warning. In a dispute of Russian and Belarussian statements that their troops are conducting military drills in the area, Stoltenberg said it is “not a normal exercise.”

“And that is what makes this situation so dangerous,” Stoltenberg told reporters. “So we know about their capabilities but of course we don’t know with certainty about their intentions, so it remains to be seen what they will do.”

This week, there were reports claiming that Russia would attack on Feb. 16, which never materialized. Responding to allegations Russia now might launch an attack on Feb. 20, Chief Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described such statements as false.

“It looks like another fake has been coined. I hope that at least you and me will not trust such falsehoods,” he told the TASS news agency. “There have been many dates, and far more specific ones … all turned out to be falsehoods, irresponsible fakes, but none of their authors eventually acknowledged they were wrong,” Peskov said.

Reuters contributed to this report.