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Would You Like to Play a Game, General Petraeus?
Flopping Aces ^ | 10-24-22 | Larry Brandes

Posted on 10/24/2022 9:52:12 AM PDT by Starman417

Exciting news this week!  General Petraeus (former commander in Afghanistan 2010 and 2011), during an interview in France, stated that a "multinational force" led by the U.S. may intervene in Ukraine." Apparently, Biden already authorized the deployment of approximately 4,700 U.S. troops with the 101st Airborne Division near the Ukraine border in Romania.  According to the division's Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John Lubas, "Yeah, this is not a training deployment, this is a combat deployment for us. We understand that we need to be ready to fight tonight depending how the situation escalates across the border."  That sounds like a well thought out plan-sort of like Viet Nam (FUBAR I) and Afghanistan (FUBAR II). What could possibly go wrong?

An ancient philosopher, Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War and said, "That the greatest victory is that which requires no battle."  He also believed that "war is to be avoided as much and as long as possible because of the potential for catastrophic loss."  Sounds like a smart dude.

Unfortunately, it is very plausible that our mumbling, bumbling (not so smart) Commander in Chief has never heard of Sun Tzu, desires war and couldn't care less about catastrophic loss of life.  Biden may accidentally or on purpose, "let slip the dogs of war" and start WWIII.

WWIII will be similar to WWII...until some moron comes up with the brilliant strategy of using tactical nukes on the battle field. That is a game changer and could quickly escalate the war and totally destroy most of the planet.  Bummer.  I really like this planet.

Now, global nuclear war does have a down side, but some lucky individuals will survive and still have to pay their cable bill.

While attending a Catholic grade school during the Cuban missile crisis, The Sisters of Holy Child of Jesus taught us to avoid the devastating effects of a nuclear blast.  Those nuns were a tough bunch and a nuclear blast would never, ever deter their God given mission to educate the crap out of us kids.  Sisters directed us to hide under our desks until the initial blast had passed and then to resume our studies (they weren't big fans of slacking off).  Recently, I purchased a bunch of those classroom desks for my home and now my family will be safe from any and all nuclear blasts.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogkaren; blogpimp; nuclear; putinsdramaqueens; putinspoodleplatoon; russia; ukraine
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1 posted on 10/24/2022 9:52:12 AM PDT by Starman417
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To: Starman417

You earn your red star for the day. Nice work comrade.


2 posted on 10/24/2022 9:53:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Starman417

So, General Betrayus is back again for another 15 minutes of fame. /s


3 posted on 10/24/2022 9:56:04 AM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: Starman417

One word of advice, Biden: DON’T!


4 posted on 10/24/2022 9:56:50 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: Starman417

this whole damn thing smells like the Guns of August.

I can only bloody hope to heck NOT!


5 posted on 10/24/2022 10:01:32 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Starman417

Does the Biden collection of idiots imagine in their wildest dreams what will happen to the volunteer part of our military should they OK this? No intelligent being will go to a military run by left wing woke pervs. None.


6 posted on 10/24/2022 10:05:17 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Starman417

I remember the Cuban Missile crisis - was in second grade

Playground scuttlebutt had that the Russian had targeted the
school which we thought was pretty cool

NO MORE SCHOOL !!


7 posted on 10/24/2022 10:05:58 AM PDT by njslim
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To: Starman417

“Now, I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed up just a bit!”


8 posted on 10/24/2022 10:08:57 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Oh, the mad fools!")
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To: Vermont Lt
You earn your red star for the day. Nice work comrade.

I have seen your posts since I started in 2004 but was kicked off for criticizing Hitler’s Pope (Pius 12). I joined back in under a different pseudonym (original was NoFoxholeAtheists). Why are you besmirching people who simply post conservative websites and our view of this debacle in Ukraine? Some of us served the US Military proudly as enlisted and Officers. We can’t disagree with Democrats and RINOs for pushing us into war our sons will fight? Are you crazy?
9 posted on 10/24/2022 10:09:51 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Vermont Lt; SpeedyInTexas; marcusmaximus; UMCRevMom@aol.com; Monterrosa-24; dennisw; familyop; ...

I wonder if this threat of non Ukraine soldiers is why Putin has accused Ukraine of planning to use a dirty bomb. Maybe this is Putin telling the US and NATO, you use these troops and we will DB someplace important, like maybe Kherson. That would certainly explain why they are trying to hard to get their people out of Kherson.


10 posted on 10/24/2022 10:11:00 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Did congress vote to send troops cause that’s not an executive order thing….


11 posted on 10/24/2022 10:12:22 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: Vermont Lt

Brilliant refutation of the article’s content. Have not seen reasoning so detailed and erudite since leftists screamed about Russia hacking the 2016 election.


12 posted on 10/24/2022 10:15:53 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Starman417

“Fight Tonight” that is the slogan of the US Army on the DMZ with North Korea. Weird coming out of someone in Europe in 2022.


13 posted on 10/24/2022 10:16:55 AM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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14 posted on 10/24/2022 10:18:04 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: gleeaikin

Blackmail is certainly Comrade Putin’s modus operandi.


15 posted on 10/24/2022 10:23:48 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: gleeaikin

Walk either of them through, and you’ll see just how utterly stupid the Russian false flag accusations truly are.

1. Ukraine uses a dirty nuke on its own city, Kherson - or takes the dam out.

2. By doing so, it would be killing its own troops and potentially up to 60,000 of its own loyalist civilians (after the Russian sympathisers have all fled).

3. Ukraine would commit this atrocity even if NATO troops arrived in Kherson Oblast to assist in the retaking of Kherson.

4. Why would Ukraine do this? Because it’s what NATO wants.

Remember when the Vatniks kept saying “why would Russia destroy its own stuff” as if that explains why they wouldn’t blow up German stuff, or Ukrainian stuff that they’ve stolen/commandeered.

They do have a point. Russia doesn’t bomb its prize assets in Russia. It bombs liabilities. Sure it might occasionally bomb a few of its own expendable conscripts by accident but only if they’re unimportant and in the way.

That’s actually a really good point. If the troops and the kit are less important than the mission, then sure Russia would blow them up or risk them getting blown up (like that elite para group in the first weeks).

Would NATO do the same thing? Really?
Bus in a few hundred of its top American guys, give them the best kit ever, send them into Kherson, and tell a grinning Zelenskyy to hit the plunger?

It really is so utterly utterly stupid that one has to wonder if the Russians deliberately make it stupid in order to doubly humiliate the stupid people who fall for it.

People who fall for Russian propaganda despite it being so obviously stupid, are so stupid that people who fell for Nigerian princes needing a middle man can look at them and cheer themselves up with a “Jeez, well at least I wasn’t THAT stupid.”


16 posted on 10/24/2022 10:25:15 AM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: Vermont Lt

So to you it makes you a communist if you don’t want a nuclear war?

What the heck is going on at FR? Deep State lovers all over it. Starting to feel like I need a shower after I read some of the globalist agenda pushing comments from posters like you.

LOL.


17 posted on 10/24/2022 10:33:20 AM PDT by Codeflier (Screw Ukraine. America is burning, and we need to concentrate on our own collapse taking place.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Not too mention our woke military is a friggen joke . Afghanistan was just a year ago. Does anyone think our military would fair any better against the Russians? We would get our asses kicked at some point , prob get nukes home here as well. We can’t beat goat bangers like the taliban . Let’s just stop the tough guy talk because we are not a tough country we are weak and don’t win actual real wars.


18 posted on 10/24/2022 10:37:20 AM PDT by BillyCuccio (MAGA)
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To: njslim

The Cuban Missile Crisis that was caused by the Soviets responding to the US provocation of putting IRBMs in Turkey? That Cuban Missile Crisis.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.


19 posted on 10/24/2022 10:47:23 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: al baby

OK, I’ll bite.

Who’s the lady with the Kriss machine pistol?

Are we supposed to just know?


20 posted on 10/24/2022 11:05:38 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Oh, the mad fools!")
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