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2022-03-06 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

There Is A Time-Honored Way To Help Ukraine Quickly Defeat Russia

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-06 00:23|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Yeah, that sounds good but in reality the neocons like Graham and Little Marco Rubio don't want to stop with weapons. They want NATO to go to war.

This guy gets it.

Not our circus, not our monkeys. We need to push for an off-ramp before we get sucked into another war.

This time, with a nuclear power that really dies have nukes with a leader who really will use them.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 02:36|| 2022-03-06 02:36|| Front Page Top

#2 The economic sanctions and boycotts directed at Putin’s Russia have been and will continue to be a complete failure.

It takes time as in the long view. See - Soviet Union. Meanwhile the Dragon to the East may find it easier in the end to supply itself from nearby resources than with a dangerously exposed world net of sea commerce.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-06 06:33|| 2022-03-06 06:33|| Front Page Top

#3 a cia operation in india making knock off vodka with organized crime from china and north korea and shipping by afghan drug lord mule train with ISIL CONAN named terrorist group!

Posted by Greng Black3494 2022-03-06 08:36|| 2022-03-06 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 A time-honored way to help Ukraine quickly defeat Russia without actually putting on monkey suits and joining the circus ourselves? Arming Ukraine and using it as a proxy army sounds like one of the things that was making the Russians twitchy in the first place.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-06 09:20|| 2022-03-06 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Random thought: #3 looks like a stage in a Natural Language Processing pipeline designed to generate posts on a topic. Debug output, maybe. You're almost there! A couple more turns of the crank and you'll have it.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-06 09:24|| 2022-03-06 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Shoot down enough helicopters and transport planes and the Stalin wannabe will fold. Plus Russia can't compete in international sports or Dancing with the Stars.

Posted by jpal 2022-03-06 11:53|| 2022-03-06 11:53|| Front Page Top

#7 A time-honored way to help Ukraine quickly defeat Russia without actually putting on monkey suits and joining the circus ourselves? Arming Ukraine and using it as a proxy army sounds like one of the things that was making the Russians twitchy in the first place.

It's also what they've been doing from 1960 to today with various groups, from the VC to the Rock and Roll Houthi Coup, and lots of groups in between.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-06 13:54|| 2022-03-06 13:54|| Front Page Top

#8 What "made the Russians twitchy" was insufficient non-Russians to tyrannical.

Putin wants an empire.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-06 14:15|| 2022-03-06 14:15|| Front Page Top

#9 from the VC

The VC were virtually destroyed in '68. From that time on the war was carried by the regular North Vietnamese army. After the fall of Saigon, what little was left of the VC for PR was quickly absorbed by Hanoi.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-06 15:17|| 2022-03-06 15:17|| Front Page Top

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