17 hours ago, Mike_Hunt said:

The appeasement of Putin needs to end.  He needs a punch in the face.  

 

BTW..I'm enjoying watching the slow collapse of the Russian economy and slow collapse of the Russian army. 

and that makes 2 of us, if the new set of sanctions get out, the funding of the Russian war machine will collapse  

20 hours ago, johng said:

 

Well yes   you don't get to where he is by being a choir boy.

My point is at least he is calm and rational  if he is overthrown/replaced/assassinated   then who knows what the next leader  will be like.

Me think that if Putin will get assassinated, maybe the next Russian president will get the hint.

5 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Me think that if Putin will get assassinated, maybe the next Russian president will get the hint.

Like Lyndon B. Johnson did after JFK ?

1 minute ago, johng said:

Like Lyndon B. Johnson did after JFK ?

You're talking ancient history here, now, any snot nose with a cheap gun goes out and become a name in history.

 

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

You're talking ancient history here

Yes history   from which we can learn ( a few things maybe)

JFK  wanted to stop the war in Vietnam  but his successor carried it on.

 

untill

 

 https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/lyndon-b-johnson/

 

 

The other crisis arose from Viet Nam. Despite Johnson’s efforts to end Communist aggression and achieve a settlement, fighting continued. Controversy over the war had become acute by the end of March 1968, when he limited the bombing of North Vietnam in order to initiate negotiations. At the same time, he startled the world by withdrawing as a candidate for re-election so that he might devote his full efforts, unimpeded by politics, to the quest for peace.

When he left office, peace talks were under way; he did not live to see them successful, but died suddenly of a heart attack at his Texas ranch on January 22, 1973.     

 

hmmmmmm   ????

Russian propaganda's response is that Russia is not a paper tiger.

It's a bear.

Like Winnie the Pooh?