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The Russian generals will be reluctant to engage their armour, the Ukrainian's have NLAW and Javelin missiles which are highly effective, they will turn Russian tanks into urns. The last place you would want to be in Ukraine is inside a Russian tank.

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"turn Russian tanks into urns"

I like that.

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Zoomer go Brr wrote:
Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:13 pm
On cue Democratic Socialists of America (AOC, Bernie) blame America for Russia invading Ukraine:

If this comes true, get for the second dark age
I don't interpret the point that certain socialists are making as part of socialism. I am not a socialist, and my view is that Western leaders and Nato didn't think strategically enough, deeply enough with respect to the Eastward European expansion of Nato. No evidenace of any lateral thinking at all! They may claim that their ojectives were peace, peace, and more peace, but it wasn't thought through.
Anyone can copy Caesar's "Si vis pacem para bellum", as in the case of expanding Nato, and say "yeah! we will have peace" but its a good idea to think it through first.

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John, one observation that was proposed as a reason for the dismal performance of the Russian Army that would fall in the area of Generational Theory is that the average Russian soldier is very hesitant or opposed to shooting Ukrainians because they see each other as “kissing cousins.” I remember my driver and radio operator who was born in the Ukrainian and married his girlfriend or a Russian immigrant. I heard from all the Southern-born (south of the Mason-Dixon line) soldiers that the reception was “a lot of fun.” The Russians and Ukrainians share similar religions (orthodox) and other cultural traits. This could be a major factor that Russian soldiers are giving up and the Ukrainians are generally speaking treating them according the Geneva Convention. They are even letting them call mom at home to her know that he is ok. I and all my soldiers had the unwritten rule to keep the last bullet for ourselves when we fought the Taliban or aQ. Russian military operations in the Caucasus and Syria were savage and the opposition was held in contempt and or dehumanized as “alien.” Also with social media, everything is almost live like a sporting event.
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Russian Ruble Is Now Worth Less Than 1 U.S. Cent After SWIFT Bank Sanctions

Wiemar Currency made for good wallpaper.

https://time.com/6152156/russian-ruble-plunges/

Perhaps the Russians should have focused on being decent human beings, then Eastern European countries would not have asked to join NATO.

The British Secretary of Defense said in the House of Commons last week that there had never been any document or agreements signed about restricting NATO to Western Europe. He had never even heard of such an agreement.

It will be interesting to see how Russians like living in the early 1990s again as all of the economic gains have been wiped away...

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** 01-Mar-2022 World View: Shelling Kharkiv


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  • A school in Kharkiv bombed by Russian shelling (London Guardian)

utahbob wrote:
Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:45 am
> John, one observation that was proposed as a reason for the dismal
> performance of the Russian Army that would fall in the area of
> Generational Theory is that the average Russian soldier is very
> hesitant or opposed to shooting Ukrainians because they see each
> other as “kissing cousins.” I remember my driver and radio
> operator who was born in the Ukrainian and married his girlfriend
> or a Russian immigrant. I heard from all the Southern-born (south
> of the Mason-Dixon line) soldiers that the reception was “a lot of
> fun.” The Russians and Ukrainians share similar religions
> (orthodox) and other cultural traits. This could be a major factor
> that Russian soldiers are giving up and the Ukrainians are
> generally speaking treating them according the Geneva
> Convention. They are even letting them call mom at home to her
> know that he is ok. I and all my soldiers had the unwritten rule
> to keep the last bullet for ourselves when we fought the Taliban
> or aQ. Russian military operations in the Caucasus and Syria were
> savage and the opposition was held in contempt and or dehumanized
> as “alien.” Also with social media, everything is almost live like
> a sporting event.
Thank you for your service. It's greatly appreciated.

There are some things about the attack on Kharkiv that are not being
widely reported. The Russian troops are indiscriminately shelling
civilians in Kharkiv, killing women and children, committing war
crimes, same as in Chechnya and Syria, though they haven't (yet)
started using chemical weapons.

What isn't being widely reported is that Kharkiv, which is on the
border with Russia, is a Russian-speaking city, whose residents have
friends and family across the border in Russia. So Putin is
committing war crimes and genocide against Russians, and this is
certain to blow back against him. Not that he cares.

*** ‘Horrendous’ rocket attack kills civilians in Kharkiv as Moscow ‘adapts its tactics’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... of-kharkiv

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You’ll be surprised! This war will end with China finally taking back control of its lost lands Russia absorbed only centuries ago under the Tsars that China felt had been theirs for millennia. There was genuine Chinese anger with demonstrations outside the Russian embassy in Beijing a few years ago when Xi and Putin signed an agreement settling the matter with the status quo. Putin tellingly had to get assurances from Xi at the Winter Olympics before he moved his eastern armies to Ukraine. China will be tempted after seeing how weak Russian forces are being bogged down far away in Europe. And of course Russia will have no friends. It’s not Taiwan China will invade first. Vast unprotected lands in its borders have all the natural resources it could ask for.

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Xeraphim1 wrote:
Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:53 pm
Cool Breeze wrote:
Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:16 am
Xeraphim1 wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:16 pm


Snowden has been a traitor for a long time. Stealing classified information and giving it to an enemy and seeking asylum from an enemy kinda fits the definition. They fact that you don't see this says something about you.
Americans understand that the government always had the potential to be an enemy, it's literally the foundation of our country. That you don't see that they steal information from us and use it as a cudgel (against we the people) is more sad than baffling to me.
You seem to be of the opinion that's it's "either/or" instead of "and".

They fact that the US government invades citizen's privacy and uses that information in sometimes dubious ways doesn't change the fact that Snowden IS a traitor.
Yes, and George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were "traitors" to the crown. So what, it's irrelevant from a semantic point of view. The US government is a TRAITOR to its own Constitution. Fact.

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** 01-Mar-2022 World View: A Chinese Communist surprise?
Guest wrote:
Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:04 pm
> You’ll be surprised! This war will end with China finally taking
> back control of its lost lands Russia absorbed only centuries ago
> under the Tsars that China felt had been theirs for
> millennia. There was genuine Chinese anger with demonstrations
> outside the Russian embassy in Beijing a few years ago when Xi and
> Putin signed an agreement settling the matter with the status
> quo. Putin tellingly had to get assurances from Xi at the Winter
> Olympics before he moved his eastern armies to Ukraine. China will
> be tempted after seeing how weak Russian forces are being bogged
> down far away in Europe. And of course Russia will have no
> friends. It’s not Taiwan China will invade first. Vast unprotected
> lands in its borders have all the natural resources it could ask
> for.
That certainly would be a surprise, and it's possible since Putin has
transferred many of his forces in Siberia and the Far East to the west
to fight in Ukraine. So this point in time presents a good
opportunity to the Chinese Communists.

It also fits the paradigm that history doesn't repeat itself, but it
rhymes. Hitler double-crossed a desperate Stalin by invading Russia
after promising not to, and Xi could double-cross a desperate Putin by
invading Russia after promising not to.

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John wrote:
Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:39 pm
** 01-Mar-2022 World View: A Chinese Communist surprise?
Guest wrote:
Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:04 pm
> You’ll be surprised! This war will end with China finally taking
> back control of its lost lands Russia absorbed only centuries ago
> under the Tsars that China felt had been theirs for
> millennia. There was genuine Chinese anger with demonstrations
> outside the Russian embassy in Beijing a few years ago when Xi and
> Putin signed an agreement settling the matter with the status
> quo. Putin tellingly had to get assurances from Xi at the Winter
> Olympics before he moved his eastern armies to Ukraine. China will
> be tempted after seeing how weak Russian forces are being bogged
> down far away in Europe. And of course Russia will have no
> friends. It’s not Taiwan China will invade first. Vast unprotected
> lands in its borders have all the natural resources it could ask
> for.
That certainly would be a surprise, and it's possible since Putin has
transferred many of his forces in Siberia and the Far East to the west
to fight in Ukraine. So this point in time presents a good
opportunity to the Chinese Communists.

It also fits the paradigm that history doesn't repeat itself, but it
rhymes. Hitler double-crossed a desperate Stalin by invading Russia
after promising not to, and Xi could double-cross a desperate Putin by
invading Russia after promising not to.
The Chinese surprise attack is coming but nobody knows for sure where it will be or what it will look like.

While I don't wish harm on anyone, the idea of the Chinese moving on Eastern Russia for living space instead of a nuclear surprise Pearl Harbor style attack will be better for the overall outcome of the World War.
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; - Exodus 20:5

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