RUSSIA'S UKRAINE LOSSES ARE A PETTY DICTATOR'S DREAM ARMY: BUT WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THE DAMAGE TO UKRAINE?

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RUSSIAN WAR LOSSES IN UKRAINE: 

Over 17,200 Russian troops killed since Feb. 24. Ukraine’s military have also reported taking out 1,710 Russian armored personnel carriers, 597 tanks, 1,178 vehicles, 303 artillery pieces, 54 anti-aircraft warfare systems, 96 launch rocket systems, 127 planes, 129 helicopters, 73 fuel tanks, 21 pieces of special equipment, 71 UAVs, and seven boats...

The question remains - who/how will Ukraine be rebuilt after Putin's carpet artillery barrages that targeted Ukraine's civilian infrastructure? (Despite Ukraine never having invaded Russian territory (as Russia invaded Ukraine) or fired back on Russian artillery that fired from behind Russian boundaries, will Russia again flaunt international standards by ducking its responsibility for asymmetrically invading and damaging Ukraine?)

The answer seems obvious - all the sanctioned and frozen Russian and Russian proxy assets should be made to pay to rebuild Ukraine.

REBUILD UKRAINE WITH FROZEN OLIGARCH AND RUSSIAN BANK ASSETS

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Briefly put and wishing to be quick with this suggestion: how should rebuilding Ukraine be done from all the terrible damage done to that country by Russia's unilateral invasion... without Russia having suffered in return across its own boundaries?  

Ukraine should be rebuilt using the frozen and sanctioned bank accounts of Russian oligarchs and of the Russian financial system itself. Sanctions should be continued until Ukraine is rebuilt.

(How more cynical and cowardly could Putin be sending missiles and artillery shells from 'off-limits' Russian territory just to destroy Ukraine citizens'  homes, hospitals, libraries, museums and theaters?)     

SENATOR TED CRUZ SHAMELESSLY EMBODIES HYPOCRISY AFTER SENATE HEARINGS ON JUDGE BROWN-JACKSON: ‘Hey, …my family deserves the best ..but hypocrisy pays the bills.’

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Overheard (or interpreted somewhere) from Senator Cruz (R-Texass) regarding his kids attending the enlightened (WOKE) Georgetown Country Day private school:

Cruz: ‘Hey, my family deserves the best and all that ..but hypocrisy pays the bills.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/us/ted-cruz-antiracist-school.html?algo=clicks_norm_diversified&block=1&emc=edit_fory_20220325&fellback=true&imp_id=864916174&instance_id=56789&nl=for-you&nlid=29022927&rank=2&regi_id=29022927&req_id=360013488&segment_id=86622&surface=for-you-email-wym&user_id=bd8978566c1c01203fa95372b13fd298&variant=0_combo_lda_channelsize5_unique_edimp_fye_step50_diversified

Ted Cruz’s Daughters Attend a Private School That Is ‘Antiracist’

The Texas senator aggressively questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson this week for serving on the board of a school “overflowing with critical race theory.”

March 25, 2022Updated 7:41 a.m. ET

JEN PSAKI - JEDI-MASTER OF PRESS SECRETARIES

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JEN PSAKI, White House Press Secretary

                                                                     'What Did Mom Tell You?'

Jen Psaki has proved to be that found diamond that is now a national treasure as White House Press Secretary. How she has managed to not only stand up to the Trumpist crazies but totally own them is a miracle and a show worth seeing at every opportunity. Even her name, ‘JenPsaki’, has the ring of a Star-Wars Jedi Master. But JP is real. JP operates like a Mike Tyson but with butterfly touch. Her style is that of an 'Ali': devastating yet with cool-headed science that dazzles and ‘majicks’ opponents who don’t even know that she’s sliced them with her mental razor so deftly that they stand dumbly amidst peer laughter not knowing their belts and ties lie in pieces around their ankles. Looking forward to Jen-Psaki on national TV after her tenure with the Biden administration. And speaking of President Biden’s cabinet and senior staff, quality attracts quality.

Putin - the Red Herring, False Trail Proxie of the Comintern (Comunist International)

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This post is written in reference to Russia's Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the West's response with huge economic sanctions .   [“Putin is not afraid of his population getting poor” (Gessen, ref. below), so correct! But it is incorrect to continue to speak of Putin as a lone actor,,,Putin is a sleeping proxy of the Comintern, the Communist International, whose historically consistent and openly stated objective is to topple Capitalism (and capitalism’s own proxies, the democratic nations of the ‘West’). Don’t forget, in 1975 Putin first came into view when he was put in place in the Russian security apparatus and subsequently rose to be head of the KGB and then to prime minister and now is nakedly the dictator of Russia..who wants to restore the USSR, the Soviet Socialist Republic. Putin is a proxy and Russia as the 'insane bad guy' is a facade, straw man and convenient target proxy to divert the West’s attention from the real threat, the Comintern plan to dominate the globe through destabilizing, by any means, western democracies, one by one, with Comintern puppet leaders. Donald Trump and Venezuela are prime examples supporting this notion. And meanwhile western democracies, especially in America's sphere of influence, South America and the Caribbean, are frozen in place and handcuffed, unable to fight back, by their capitalist-corporate interests..and the erosion of the Monroe Doctrine by a negligent America. The West’s corporate and oligarchic greed will be the downfall of democracy. 

[Refs.:  Masha Gessen: The West Is “Insane” for Thinking Sanctions Will Deter Putin | Amanpour and Company, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxJxfSCMvnE;  The Putin Files: Masha Gessen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9igTqTx9s]