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2022-04-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the US aim is to make Russia so weak it can't invade another country again

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Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2022-04-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Now how exactly is Lloyd going to convince Russia to go Woke?

Posted by Airandee 2022-04-26 06:36|| 2022-04-26 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Really Russia has already been weakened seriously

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-04-26 07:56|| 2022-04-26 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 ^^ Only because they don't subscribe to 'diversity and inclusion', Garth. Then all would be well.

Oh and they apparently aren't good at PowerPoint, either.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-04-26 08:10|| 2022-04-26 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Forgot the /sarc tag.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-04-26 08:11|| 2022-04-26 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Russia already can't replace the hardware it has lost and even if the war ended today, the tech embargo would stay and it will be very, very hard for Russia to get its modern weapons replaced.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-26 08:40|| 2022-04-26 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 They'll never catch up:

"Navy to fly in year's supply of crickets, mealworms and mice to feed shrikes under $3.8M grant."

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the US aim is to make Russia so weak it can't invade another country again

Interesting. So Haitians jumping our border are.....?

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Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-26 10:49|| 2022-04-26 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ They'll never catch up:

Applies to Austin and Blinkey as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-26 11:22|| 2022-04-26 11:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Boy, Lloyd, I wish I had a nickel for every time Russia "invaded" another country. I might, well, have a nickel.

Too bad Lavrov didn't go to the UN Security Council and show off a vial of something. A "slam dunk" sure would have helped. I guess he didn't read Powell's book.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-04-26 11:49|| 2022-04-26 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Tell me, after the Afghanistan withdrawal, does anyone believe anything Lloyd Austin says? Can you say credibility problem?

This has nothing to do with Russia invading other countries. You wanna talk about invading other countries? Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Ukraine and most likely others that we never even heard about. The ~~Biden Administration~~Deep State wants to be free to go around the world telling people who can run their countries and who can't. And now they're going after Russia so they can put Hunter on the Gazprom board of directors at $1 million a month.

Does anyone seriously believe that Joe Biden gives a rat's ass about democracy in Ukraine after what happened in our own 2020 election? I don't. This is all about American hegemony brought about by Javelin missiles...because they think Russia is so weak they can do it on the cheap. Maybe they're right about Russia being weak but if they are then how is Putin a threat to Poland? I think it's more like America being a threat to Russia.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-04-26 12:41|| 2022-04-26 12:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Russia already can't replace the hardware it has lost and even if the war ended today, the tech embargo would stay and it will be very, very hard for Russia to get its modern weapons replaced.

DarthVader.. you are an imbecile if you believe your narcissistic American trash propaganda.. with the western countries stealing Russian individuals properties you can kiss your trademarks and patent’s rights. Russia and China will now going to benefit

Posted by Thanks to the cia Ukraine Is Novorossiya Now 2022-04-26 16:35|| 2022-04-26 16:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Persuading people by calling them names: The Afternoon Edition.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-26 16:49|| 2022-04-26 16:49|| Front Page Top

#12 you can kiss your trademarks and patent’s rights. Russia and China will now going to benefit

With regard to Russia, Western companies have been manufacturing their products in local factories with local staffs since the 1990s, so if the locals could do it on their own they already would be; with regard to China, where Western factories have been operating almost as long, the key difference is between being able to manufacture a thing and choosing to manufacture it up to Western standards— that’s a cultural issue, not a knowledge one.

And for your own information, my dear Thanks to the cia Ukraine Is Novorossiya Now, the idiom is you can kiss XX goodbye. Not that that would be a change in China’s behaviour since President Nixon went to China, so the West’s response is already firmly established.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-26 17:09|| 2022-04-26 17:09|| Front Page Top