Posted on 04/28/2022 8:51:44 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
You picked just one word out of his entire sentence?
“to see Russia weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine...”
That is to weaken specifically so it won’t invade its neighbours
“I myself haven’t had an “accident” for quite a few months now, LOL! It’s hell getting old! winking face face with tears of joy face with tears of joy”
At your age you should know that the kind of insulting language you used to describe another senior is vicious and cruel and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. And you can’t just laugh it off with a little smiling self-deprecation.
Demographics is not always destiny.
England ruled a large chunk of the world when its population was tiny. Ditto for the Mongols, Spain, Portugal, etc.
The fact that it is ridiculous doesn’t stop the Russian mindset from wanting a Eurasian empire
Eff the pantz-shizzing puppet.
Get over it. We're at war with these child-molesting scum.
Yes, and Luxembourg could rule the world today if it possessed Star Trek-type technology.
Britain dominated China (with 10X the population) because it had a few gunboots - and because Chinese society was in cultural decline. Those days are gone. The technological disparities are not as great as they once were. The world has grown smaller. Youths in remote African villages that have only recently emerged from the Stone Age have iPhones and can chat with European hipsters and Portland leftists about the latest episodes of their favorite online shows.
Today, demography is destiny.
Demography is upstream from culture which is upstream from politics which is upstream from "boots on the ground."
Regards,
OH NO!
We (NATO) must therefore do everything in our power to help Putin remain in power!
Regards,
Because that's our job.
A great presidential candidate in 1992. I wanted to vote for him, but he'd already conceded by the time the primary came to California in June.
That is a non-expert opinion of course, as more and more countries in Europe submit to gas for rubles scheme, and ruble is now trading above 7 year average to Euro.
Do you know that a cruise missile costs the Russian military $187k? How much Javelin costs NATO?
About 2 weeks ago, I observed a retired Russian aircraft mechanic talking about the changes in Russian education in the 1990s. Funding for apprentice programs collapsed. People asked why and the typical response was that they were going to buy western equipment, which was more dependable and bring in those technicians for maintenance. So as each Russian aircraft mechanic went into retirement....fewer existed.
Look around at Russian military hardware....lot of this is contracted out to Belarus companies now (no longer manufactured in Russia).
FYI, up to the end of December....a fair amount of the parts for the Russian cruise missiles....came from Ukrainian companies. Same issue for engines for the helicopters and fighters. Did Putin or his generals grasp that? I doubt it. The parts depot for the Army is probably shaking their heads over an extended war, and how they won’t be able to sustain the requirements.
What you are saying was true until 2014, and then in part.
. . . Thus, the new, or newly revealed, goal of U.S. policy in Ukraine is not just the defeat and retreat of the invading Russian army but the crippling of Russia as a world power.
The sanctions imposed on Russia and the advanced weapons we are shipping into Ukraine are not only to enable the country to preserve its independence and territorial integrity but also to inflict irreversible damage on Mother Russia.
Putin's Russia is not to recover soon or ever from the beating we intend to administer, using Ukrainians to deliver the beating, over an extended period of time.
Since Russia is invading and devastating Ukraine, Russia can end its supposed beating by withdrawing to its own borders. In effect, Pat seems to think that we are unfairly hurting Russia by making Ivan's fists hurt as he beats up on Ukraine.
The Kh-25 cruise missile was mostly built with Ukrainian parts. The Mi-17 helicopters were mostly built with Ukrainian parts.
Based on these plants being mostly in the eastern part of the country, there may be some logic to Russia taking that part of the country, and restarting the industrial complex.
BS. Kh-25 is not produced anymore, the only Mi-17 part of Ukrainian origin is TVZ-117 engine. Maintenance kits for it of Russian origin exist, although the engine is obsolete and replaced by newer VK-2500 in Russian service.
Your signup date is 1/10/2002. How do you figure that’s 25 years?
Pat was an AmericaFirster long before Trump came along. But there’s plenty of his jibberjabber that I don’t agree with.
Then it makes sense to show them their manifest destiny.
Then you come to the old Soviet Union ‘drama’...that things were better when Moscow ran things. Thanks to TV propaganda over the years...probably one-third of Russians do believe in that attitude.
***Things WERE better... for the average Russian. But not for their vassal states’ citizens. The framework of Russia is that it operates as a parasite, feeding off its host. That was how the black plague devastated Europe, when the host rat body died, his fleas jumped to the nearest mammal.
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