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2023-12-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Was the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan a mistake?

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Posted by badanov 2023-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top
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#1 They picked one of the few countries in the world that communism couldn't truly hurt economically. Problem is in their own way they were very freedom loving and the Soviet system doesn't tolerate that.

Posted by Ruprecht 2023-12-26 13:18|| 2023-12-26 13:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Afghanistan is a waste of everybody's time. Only state department types could get a hard on over it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 13:27|| 2023-12-26 13:27|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Opium

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-26 13:36|| 2023-12-26 13:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, we have plenty of pols, generals and NGO "officials" on the smack gravy train.

That doesn't make it right.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 13:46|| 2023-12-26 13:46|| Front Page Top

#5 ^I don't mean that. Afghanistan was/is main source for heroin in Soviet Union (just because they wouldn't even admit that they've a problem, doesn't mean it didn't exist - in fact, still does). So, they've invaded.
Why USA invaded after 9/11? Damfino.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-26 13:57|| 2023-12-26 13:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, Russian and USA pols recognize junkies as a very important constituency, pillar of the community if you will.

Snark aside, yeah, that's a huge grey / black market that the powers that be can't acknowledge but can't ignore either.

Damned if you do...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:03|| 2023-12-26 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 If you could say "all pols taking dope money disappear" and snap your fingers, a very huge storm would sweep the planet.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:05|| 2023-12-26 14:05|| Front Page Top

#8 They have created a situation where more rather than less of the economy is out of their control. Maybe a druglord will use bitcoin to buy keys of smack, street users will always be a cast or flesh trade market.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:10|| 2023-12-26 14:10|| Front Page Top

#9 cash not cast

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:11|| 2023-12-26 14:11|| Front Page Top

#10 The tech oligarchs who the pols are counting on to help them run the world are big on cutting out the middleman or being the middleman themselves.

As long as they get an untraceable piece of every transaction, they are happy.

Doesn't sound like a good tax regime.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:16|| 2023-12-26 14:16|| Front Page Top

#11 The people afraid of Bill Gates and Claus Shultz are so last century. Why do you think you don't hear anything about Larry Page or Sergi Brin these days?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:19|| 2023-12-26 14:19|| Front Page Top

#12 The people afraid of Bill Gates

So, you're using Unix?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-26 14:21|| 2023-12-26 14:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Well, NT was written by Dave Cutler, who hated UNIX. Unlike all the experts here, I can say Gates wrote almost no Windows code after Win 95 (Pre NT)

Believe what you want, that'll never change it (Warren Zevon, Looking For The Next Best Thing)

Gates owns less than .0003% of all US farm land but you will read about how he owns it all every day.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:28|| 2023-12-26 14:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Lots of people hate facts:

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:30|| 2023-12-26 14:30|| Front Page Top

#15 BTW, I think Gates is a dangerous shmuck. Not excusing anything he's up to.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:33|| 2023-12-26 14:33|| Front Page Top

#16 #13 But he controls the company.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-26 14:33|| 2023-12-26 14:33|| Front Page Top

#17 No. Also untrue. You have so many bad facts.

According to Forbes, as of March 2020, Bill Gates owned about 1.3% of Microsoft’s shares.

Do you have to step on your dick every time you post, Grom?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:37|| 2023-12-26 14:37|| Front Page Top

#18 ^It's a matter of size.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-26 14:39|| 2023-12-26 14:39|| Front Page Top

#19 All this information is free to the public. But lots of people gotta believe their tin foil hat bullshit.

Man, that's no way to live.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:41|| 2023-12-26 14:41|| Front Page Top

#20

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:43|| 2023-12-26 14:43|| Front Page Top

#21 "These facts bother my narrative! They can't be true!"

Geeze, Grom, you sound like a progressive...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:49|| 2023-12-26 14:49|| Front Page Top

#22 Gates owns 270,000 of 900,000,000 acres of US farm land. He is the biggest single landholder, but his holdings are fractionally insignificant.

Mr. maff man want to explain where the lie is in there?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:54|| 2023-12-26 14:54|| Front Page Top

#23 You're not an easy target, Grom. You're not a target at all. A target at least has to be made of paper...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 15:06|| 2023-12-26 15:06|| Front Page Top

#24 All tin foil hat wearers: The "facts you believe" can be checked instantaneously.

At least try.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 15:12|| 2023-12-26 15:12|| Front Page Top

#25 Fred: Is it unfair to bring actual facts to a slobber fight?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 15:16|| 2023-12-26 15:16|| Front Page Top

#26 Several Windows hating jackwagons here will ignore all the facts given and drool "muh Bill Gates" for the next ten years.

Fuck their ignorance.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 15:42|| 2023-12-26 15:42|| Front Page Top

#27

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-26 16:08|| 2023-12-26 16:08|| Front Page Top

#28 Can you two get a room?

Posted by Frank G 2023-12-26 18:25|| 2023-12-26 18:25|| Front Page Top

#29 Frank, you're an engineer. You shouldn't have trouble deciding facts vs batshit crazy here.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 18:47|| 2023-12-26 18:47|| Front Page Top

#30 Is this a private fight or can anyone jump in?

Posted by SteveS 2023-12-26 18:49|| 2023-12-26 18:49|| Front Page Top

#31 I ain't fighting.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-26 18:50|| 2023-12-26 18:50|| Front Page Top

#32 I suppose the cartoon was supposed to insult me. Pro tip: If i don't get your cartoon, it's not much of an insult.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 18:50|| 2023-12-26 18:50|| Front Page Top

#33 Well, it's said pain is the universal language, and I have to agree watching Japanese cartoons is painful.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 18:52|| 2023-12-26 18:52|| Front Page Top

#34 You don't get a lot of things, MM

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-26 19:14|| 2023-12-26 19:14|| Front Page Top

#35 More to life than getting.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 19:20|| 2023-12-26 19:20|| Front Page Top

#36 Gentlemen, that is quite enough.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-26 23:39|| 2023-12-26 23:39|| Front Page Top

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