The Ukrainian army pulls out from another eastern village as Russia smashes defensive positions
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-army-pulls-another-eastern-140226915.html
@LoriQuaid I wonder if this surprises anyone. Did people really think that #Ukraine would beat #Russia?
@realcaseyrollins with the help of Western allies they absolutely could have.
Unfortunately, the Western allies dropped the ball and screwed it up. We should hold them accountable for that.
Folks like Biden snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
@walkman meh I guess I'm not assuming anything.
I'm saying they could have had a victory if they wanted to, but Western allies behaved in a way that they did not.
If you ask me, I guess I would assume that they would have wanted one, but regardless, whether they wanted a victory or not they didn't operate in a way that would get one.
No idea, my brother did two tours there and said when Biden pulled. What was it for in the end?
@leyonhjelm @realcaseyrollins @volkris @walkman I've wondered about that. If true, they could fund their own operations without any Congressional oversight.
Rumor is they’ve been free of actual need for decades between that and their coke ops. The government could “disband” them and they’d probably just still operate fine for their own purposes with no reason to play along with the US anymore. Or so goes the theory.
@realcaseyrollins @volkris @walkman
@walkman @realcaseyrollins @volkris Not only that, the U.S. doesn't declare war anymore. So the Senate's constitutional role in constraining military action on the part of the executive branch has kind of evaporated.
But the same can be said of treaties. Supposedly, the Biden administration has entered into all sorts of "bilateral agreements" regarding Ukraine to tie Trump's hands in the event that he elected. If he takes office, he should submit these as treaties to the Senate.
@LoriQuaid Well right, that's the key: we should always emphasize that without Senate approval any agreement is simply a handshake agreement from the president that has no binding for the next one.
It's weird how many countries don't seem to understand how that works. Or they pretend not to understand. Either way.
We should all emphasize to the world that without an actual treaty it's just what the current president personally thinks and the next one is free to do otherwise.
@volkris @walkman @realcaseyrollins I'm still wondering what the hell our military objective was in Afghanistan...