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Why Vladimir Putin has already lost this war
theguardian.com ^ | 28 Feb 2022 | Yuval Noah Harari

Posted on 02/28/2022 4:41:32 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

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To: jimwatx

Thats because it didn’t happen. He’s making crap up


41 posted on 02/28/2022 5:24:35 PM PST by roving
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To: Toespi
As they said in The Death of Stalin, time to catch a pig for the pot.
42 posted on 02/28/2022 5:26:23 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: Rummyfan

And then even after the Germans got the Sudentenland, he makes Slovakia independent, then brings Hacha to Berlin and tells him he’s got four hours to guarantee the Czechs will allow the Germans to march in unopposed. Hacha suffered a heart attack right afterwards.


43 posted on 02/28/2022 5:26:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Putin will end up occupying Ukraine, the question is - what then?

Putin needs Ukraine and he’s not going to just give up.


44 posted on 02/28/2022 5:28:11 PM PST by bigbob
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To: frogjerk

Especially the reaction of the Centurion when Jesus gives Ben Hur water. “No water for him.”


45 posted on 02/28/2022 5:32:31 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Arcadian Empire; Blood of Tyrants

Putin was basing his plan on 2014. His maculated everything, basically. He didn’t realize Ukrainianian’s had shaken off the corruption of the Yanukovych years and are now hardened by 8 years of war. Putin doesn’t now have Merkel to bully the Ukrainians into surrender. If Merkel was still around no way Germany does what they have now.

Putin figured he could roll the Ukrainians and/or they would run out of ammo like 2014. He was wrong on both accounts. The Ukrainians are fighting like tigers and modern ammo is flooding in from NATO. This war is about to massively escalate.


46 posted on 02/28/2022 5:40:23 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Local Home Depot is out of blue and yellow spray paint.


47 posted on 02/28/2022 5:40:42 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: dfwgator

No different than what Hitler said about Czechoslovakia in 1938, it was created after WWI by Britain and France to keep Germany in check.


The battles are being fought on the same land. Except this time the Hitler is coming from the east. We know what happened the first time.


48 posted on 02/28/2022 5:41:29 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I don’t know about the war, but Pooty has lost his mind.


49 posted on 02/28/2022 5:42:36 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I wonder if Putin called this invasion Operation Barbarossa.


50 posted on 02/28/2022 5:45:01 PM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

This battle is for the survival of Russia as a nation.

If Russia collapses now because it’s been cooked off from every market that it occupies (energy) then it will collapse.

NATO is full of corruption. Warsaw Pact nations keep their distance.

If Ukraine becomes NATO then NATO will choke off Russia... all for vast amounts of petro dollars.

If Russia collapses China will happily carpet bag it. They’ll pour people across the border like a tsunami. China will dominate 50 percent of the planet.

And China will come after us.

My only hope of Russia is defeated is that Moscow and the Kremlin scorch the earth and destroy all military assets.


51 posted on 02/28/2022 5:47:42 PM PST by Celerity
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To: Berlin_Freeper

My money is on Putin being unsuccessful. His effort has too many things going against it. And, he isn’t going to use nukes. Russia spent 20 years trying to take Afghanistan, and it was a lost cause for them. And, Putin has even greater political obstacles with Ukraine.


52 posted on 02/28/2022 6:04:31 PM PST by eastexsteve
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Russia isn’t a commie state anymore.

Ge , I learn something never every day here/s

Moron.


53 posted on 02/28/2022 6:05:13 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: jimwatx

I think you more accurately described Russia!


54 posted on 02/28/2022 6:07:07 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: frogjerk; chajin

There is no law inside the arena


55 posted on 02/28/2022 6:11:25 PM PST by PlateOfShrimp
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To: algore

this is like declaring the presidential primary winner based on early returns from Iowa. Insta-punditry is just dumb.


56 posted on 02/28/2022 6:21:06 PM PST by Tipllub
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To: Renfrew

Russia will no doubt conquer the government, but the people?

They will remember.

I believe the Russians will have to brutalize the Ukrainians constantly or there will be a Resistance to oppose them.

Horrible times. People rounded up by truck at night. Show trials. Execution and exile to the Gulag.

Opposing that? Assassinations, murders, bombings, ambush in the dark, back-alley knife in the back, honeypot traps, to name a few.


57 posted on 02/28/2022 6:28:55 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Rummyfan
They had to take Slovakia and the Slovaks as otherwise the Czechs would have been outnumbered in their own country by ethnic Germans.

Or should Bohemia have been regarded as predominately German with a significant Czech minority? Ah, what mischief lurked in the old Austro-Hungarian mixing bowl. Hitler, of course, was an Austrian. He did not regard Bohemia, or Hungary, or Budapest, or Vienna as foreign. Woodrow Wilson thought he could solve such problems by drawing arbitrary lines on a map. We are still paying for his blunders.

58 posted on 02/28/2022 6:32:32 PM PST by sphinx
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The beatings of Ukrainians will continue until morale improves.


59 posted on 02/28/2022 6:32:55 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I understand hatred. I experience it every day knowing the demonrats exist.


60 posted on 02/28/2022 6:42:37 PM PST by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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