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How Putin is Reinventing Warfare
2014-05-08
Posted by:Uncle Phester

#12  Dexter's Laboratory sock off.

If he's not careful, he's liable to take back huge chunks of the Soviet empire. Any reason management would be any better this time around?

It doesn't have to be better for the aggregate of its members; he can do a different pattern, based on 17th century Venice, where the Party is geographically concentrated in one country and the 'prole' role is done by the colonies. As I pointed out earlier, they've got five or so colonies here in _this_ hemisphere, not counting the ones on the edge or 'sympathetic' like Argentina.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-05-08 17:12  

#11  If he's not careful, he's liable to take back huge chunks of the Soviet empire. Any reason management would be any better this time around?

PS - if he's looking west, he's looking in the wrong direction.
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division   2014-05-08 16:21  

#10  Yeah, but is he perfecting #hashtag warfare?
I know somebody who is...
Posted by: tu3031   2014-05-08 14:26  

#9  Tell it to the Hyksos, Peter.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-05-08 12:17  

#8  WTF, has America and the Press gone stupid?

Public education has taken its toll.
Posted by: Iblis   2014-05-08 09:17  

#7  Putin's playing the great game.
Emperor Zero's playing hand-shandy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-05-08 08:48  

#6  'How Putin is Reinventing Warfare'
By not doing it stupidly; use proxies, let them take the risks, don't announce your plans, use disorganization as a shield, above all, tell the press how smart they are. If you tell the press that they're smart, followed by a lie, they'll believe both lies.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-05-08 07:48  

#5  Most people have no history. History for them begins with the first retained memories of childhood. Anything before that is darkness and chaos.
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2014-05-08 07:42  

#4  @oldspook: yes. No.
Posted by: Glegum Elmomosh6059   2014-05-08 05:49  

#3  WTF, has America and the Press gone stupid? Do they not know of ANY of military history prior to 1990?
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-05-08 02:53  

#2  Gee, the soviets _never_ tried Divide-and-Conquer... well, except for all the times they did.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-05-08 00:50  

#1  So, Putin is smarter than Obama, big deal, damn near everybody is smarter than Obullshit.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2014-05-08 00:12  

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