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Morning Joe: Hard to Subdue Ukraine—People Have a Million Guns!
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/08/2021 1:10:56 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Wait! Was that an NRA spokesman on Morning Joe today, making the case for the Second Amendment?

Nope, turns out it was actually David Ignatius. But the hyper-establishment Washington Post columnist/editor and Morning Joe foreign-policy maven unwittingly made a strong case for the right to keep and bear arms!

"He's going to face a guerrilla warfare, extended partisan warfare in Ukraine. There -- I counted 400,000 people who've received some kind of militia training. There are a million guns floating around Ukraine. I mean, it's a place where it’d be hard to subdue the population."

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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Putin looks like his smirking at J0Bama.


21 posted on 12/08/2021 2:34:11 PM PST by mykroar (There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. - Sun Tzu)
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To: NorseViking

Crimea was mostly Russian and they wanted to be in Russia.


22 posted on 12/08/2021 2:41:27 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

People who think like Scarborough would nuke Ukraine to get their way.


23 posted on 12/08/2021 2:42:29 PM PST by Bullish (This is the most bloated and most inept govt in history.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That’s the idea.


24 posted on 12/08/2021 2:58:35 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: Hardastarboard

An accident such as you describe would cause the level of the lake to fall, not rise. When the guns were in the canoe, they were displacing their weight of water, but after they spilled, they were only displacing their volume of water.


25 posted on 12/08/2021 2:59:51 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: chapin2500

I am just used to that. I still refer to Istanbul as Constantinople. I need to be re-educated.

“The Ukraine” used to be a frequently used form in English throughout the 20th century, but since the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine in 1991, “the Ukraine” has become less common in the English-speaking world, and style-guides warn against its use in professional writing. According to U.S. ambassador William Taylor, “the Ukraine” now implies disregard for the country’s sovereignty. The official Ukrainian position is that the usage of “’the Ukraine’ is incorrect both grammatically and politically.


26 posted on 12/08/2021 3:41:47 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
All that matters is how I feel about it. 😁

Good point, though.

27 posted on 12/08/2021 4:00:15 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oops!!!! Wonder how he will walk that back?


28 posted on 12/08/2021 4:05:33 PM PST by kalee
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To: jroehl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZcYtqg


29 posted on 12/08/2021 4:27:33 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: jroehl

Cool man. Why were you there? I’m Ukrainian but haven’t been able to visit.


30 posted on 12/08/2021 4:48:33 PM PST by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: alexander_busek

Here is the chart-
https://www.statista.com/statistics/215655/number-of-registered-weapons-in-the-us-by-state/

Don’t know where those numbers from, guns are not registered in TX. (Unless they are class III.)


31 posted on 12/08/2021 9:12:28 PM PST by matthew fuller (Resist this coercion like it’s slavery. It is. Kevin Homer, MD)
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To: elpadre
Putin is playing games with Biden and NATO. He doesn’t want a NATO country still more NATO countries on his border and is making a point.

You are apparently unaware of the fact that there are already five* NATO countries bordering Russia. Ukraine would merely be the SIXTH.

Regards,

*The three Baltic states, Poland, and Norway.

32 posted on 12/08/2021 10:06:17 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
An accident such as you describe would cause the level of the lake to fall, not rise. When the guns were in the canoe, they were displacing their weight of water, but after they spilled, they were only displacing their volume of water.

Yeah! You win the Internet today!

Regards,

33 posted on 12/08/2021 10:10:56 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: 82nd Bragger

I fell in love with a French Gypsy girl and chased her all across Europe.


34 posted on 12/09/2021 3:33:41 AM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: alexander_busek

right you are, Alex!


35 posted on 12/09/2021 4:38:42 AM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: absalom01
there’s an active discussion about how to a) get a significant civilian reserve trained and b) equipped.

Interesting. Could be such a thing. I will ask friends and contacts as well. Nearly all men have been through army conscription, so have basic training. Although now conscription has been reduced to 4 months. Taiwan doesn't even have enough manpower to fill its 225K army.

My other complaint is that its "elites" either already live in China, doing business, etc... or they and their family have foreign passports and bolt-holes in USA, Japan, etc... Its very common for Taiwan's richest and most powerful. It demonstrates they not very committed to Taiwan's future.

36 posted on 12/09/2021 6:47:33 AM PST by PGR88
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Welcome to the party, pal...

So, 400,000 people with militia training and 1 million guns will keep a superpower at bay. Maybe, maybe not...but it’ll definitely be a bloody takeover if that’s what Putin decides to do.

But Joe, if that’s true in Ukraine, how much more true is it in the US, where about 20 million have not merely militia training (and another 100 million or so own guns), but military training and (in many cases) combat experience...and there are about 1/2 billion guns? How’s THAT going to work out for you Leftist tyrant-wannabees?


37 posted on 12/09/2021 7:45:45 AM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: jroehl

Ooh. That’s funny as hell.


38 posted on 12/09/2021 1:00:20 PM PST by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: OldWarBaby; All
Our 300 million plus rules

Currently at 479+ million, End of November, 2021.

39 posted on 12/09/2021 3:34:11 PM PST by marktwain (Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
An accident such as you describe would cause the level of the lake to fall, not rise. When the guns were in the canoe, they were displacing their weight of water, but after they spilled, they were only displacing their volume of water.

An excellent understanding of basic physics...

40 posted on 12/09/2021 3:36:04 PM PST by marktwain (Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
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