Ted Rall for January 19, 2022

I bet they love this one in Moscow.

Brought to us by Ted Rall, paid columnist for Russia Today.

So which Canadian province has the USA already invaded in your scenario?

Luckily Canada is more subservient to the US than ever. Justin’s dad would have told the US to tamp it down.

Right on target as usual, though the metaphor is probably an unfortunate one in the circumstances. How do you put up with endless flow of mockery and insult from the gaggle of fake liberals who reliably infest the comments here? They eat the New York Times for breakfast and fart duckspeak all day long.

Since all my ancestors left countries bordering Russia 100-plus years ago (including from Ukraine) to avoid persecution, famine, or forced draft into the Russian army — my sympathy for the Russian autocracy and military should be understandably null.

Something existentially evil nests in Russia and spreads its wings to feast on its hapless neighbors at historical intervals. Those who admire its plumage and would grant it increased territory have not experienced its efficient raptor beak and claws. Spare your sympathy and tears for Russian government — it waters weeds.

Ukraine should have never given up its Nukes.

Ted forgets Chechnya, and how Putin came to power.

The reason Ukraine wants to be in NATO, Ted, is that they know that Putin will invade. Again.

This is just the prelude.

I’m not going to sample this food for thought, not when it’s Putin on the other side.

Do you side with that Texas congressman who said that we should teach both sides of the Holocaust?

The USSR has always been paranoid about its western neighbors invading it. It regularly fought with Lithuania, Sweden, Finland, Germany, and occassionally Poland. It was invaded by France under Napoleon and Germany under Hitler. The U.S. moved ballistic missles which could reach Moscow into Turkey (and Italy) after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Numerous citizens of Russia (including my grandparents) emigrated from it due to the pogroms and other limited conditions to which they were regularly subjected. Eastern Ukraine was forcibly joined to the USSR in 1922. Western Ukraine was annexed in 1939 as Stalin’s payoff for his nonaggression pact with Hitler. Other small regions were forcibly added to Ukraine between 1940 and 1945. However, none of this gives Putin justification, historical or otherwise, to invade Ukraine nor to stir up dissension among its citizens.

Very afraid poor Biden is repeating Chamberlain’s “appeasement” carrot… putin may be stubborn as a mule but he’s no donkey.

This one is so zany and off the wall, it doesn’t even make sense … And if it is supposed to be giving us the “Russian point-of-view,” why feel any sympathy for a regime that kills journalists?

Looks like Rall still writes and draws cartoons for Sputnik International, a news website platform established by the Russian government-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya (Россия Сегодня — Russia Today).

Russia asked for meetings with the U.S. and NATO in regards to Ukraine. Much like Obama did in Syria with the “red line in the sand”, Biden made Putin blink.

Guess Ted Rall forgot. Now that Trump is no longer POTUS, there’s no “big red button” on the oval office desk. Maybe Donny has a very small pink button in his Mar A Lago office? Instead of a “Nuclear Football”, Donny has a “TNT Golf Ball”?

Ted, I guess you actually believe there is such a thing as former KGB.

Would that be like being a former serial killer?

Give Ted a break here. I myself have wondered how I would feel with such threats surrounding the US. Russia, once an ally, should be one again, with monitoring, trust on both sides. not impossible.

“Very fine people — on both sides.” Right, Ted? Or maybe just their side?

Ted Rall: only against imperialist invasions when the US does it.

As a former Republican who has been a lot more receptive to the Left since 2016, it is somehow comforting to know there are still some Lefties I can see as lunatics. The crack in the second panel about Ukraine having fought alongside the Nazis is totally irrelevant and is just poisoning the well. First, by that logic, we can’t support Germany, Italy, or Japan. Second, considering the mass starvation that Ukraine underwent because of the Soviet collectivization of the farms, who can blame them for siding with anyone they perceived as liberators?

Ukraine joined the Nazis to get away from the Russians. And we know why such things happen. Russia is the bad guy here.

Wow is the money from Putin worth it Theodor?

At the time of the Cuban missille crisis, we had nuclear missiles in Turkey on the Soviet border. The deal was they wold be removed as would the weapons in Cuba. My father as an officer with NATO nuclear. inspected them several years later. The USSR feared the USA. We dropped two bombs on Japan…first and last nukes used in any war. Thanx Ted. haven’y thought about it years.

So if a neighbor wants to start an HOA, I can take the brass knuckles to their kids and feel good about it!

Thank you Mr. Rall for actually looking at the situation from the other side. As you can see by the comments above, the vast majority of people only want to look at one side. Again thanks for trying to show that there are always two sides to the story.