Russia doesn't want to get into the quagmire that is the Ukraine. This is all positioning because they don't want an expansion of NATO to their borders. They are going to try everything they can to handle this diplomatically. Russia would rather let the Ukraine tear itself apart and then when it inevitably needs to be rebuilt and stabilized, that's when Putin is looking to step in and help.First on CNN: US intelligence indicates Russia preparing operation to justify invasion of Ukraine
The US has information that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine, a US official told CNN on Friday, in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion.www.cnn.com
Uh oh. This could get ugly on the world stage is this comes to reality.
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I don't know what's more amazing, companies who have been bragging about this while condemning better working conditions and pay, or how many people don't see what's really been going on. Ignorance is bliss I guess.
I assume you're referring to this op-ed?
I don't disagree with the analogy but FWIW Reginald Jackson isn't a political scientist.
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Guns are one of those things that's tied up in the mythos of America. We conquered the west with guns. We broke away from England with guns. While guns aren't necessary for life in a rural community--a life ranching or farming, guns are a tool that many rural people (ranchers especially) say they could barely do without. In these communities, responsible gun ownership is prized and children are taught gun safety at very early ages. And it's normally this group of people--rural, responsible gun owners--that the NRA and other pro gun groups point to when making the claim that Americans need guns. The other thing many pro-gun people will talk about is that given the insane volume of guns in America right now, the only people you would be taking them from are law abiding citizens, because criminals don't care about having illegal guns. Thus, you would be arming the criminals while leaving law abiding citizens no way to protect themselves. And it's this second argument, the argument that if criminals have guns, I need one for protection, that I think, is currently suppressing and anti-gun sentiment over here on this side of the pond. Legal gun ownership has gone up significantly since the pandemic with women arming themselves at a much higher rate than ever before. It's this nervousness in the zeitgeist, or maybe the very real rises in violent crimes since the beginning of the pandemic, that has kept guns from even being talked about. We should be going nuts over the fact that a foreign national was able to purchase a gun over here, but we aren't and probably won't do anything because people are genuinely concerned about the amount of tension and think that the best idea is to arm themselves.Was reading this article & my immediate thought is it's insane something like this can happen, why would you allow people to own guns, never mind let people play with guns in built up areas. I don't mean any offence but I think a lot of UK people's feeling is US gun policy is crazy. Obviously we have a very different culture and don't really understand the American culture when it comes to guns. (I thought I know a whole bunch of Americans on N&G who can help me understand). What's the general reaction from an American? What do people think about gun ownership in America?
British man killed by stray bullet as he lay in bed in Atlanta
Matthew Willson from Surrey was shot in ‘reckless’ shooting as he was visiting his girlfriend
