[Thunder90]

I’m not a big fan of Communists winning. Putin happens to be a Communist, trying to restore the Soviet Union.

[RandFan]

I understand where you’re coming from but if you REALLY want to defend Ukraine then you need to consent to 100,000+ troops going there and fighting the Russians.

I dont think ANYONE wants a proper war with Russia and to properly defend (liberate?) the Ukraine.

A proxy type war is stupid and likely futile....

[dforest]

“Putin happens to be a Communist, trying to restore the Soviet Union.”

This is hogwash. He no longer has the power to restore the USSR and he obviously isn’t doing that. LOL

[Hostage]

Putin doesn’t need communism for Mother Russia and he’s not a communist, he’s an oligarch.

Putin heads one of the three ruling families in Russia. These families are like Mafia families, they control Russia through organized crime networks. They control everything, oil, gas, gold, diamonds, etc. Putin is his position to keep peace among those three families.

[Jan_Sobieski]

I’m not a big fan of Communists winning. Putin happens to be a Communist, trying to restore the Soviet Union.

You must be young. So for the sake of empathy, I inform you that Putin’s Russia is not the communist Russia of the 50s. In many ways Russians are more free than us in the US. They teach the Bible in Schools and promote business. Go to Resorts around the world. You see average Russians vacationing. The communists who destroyed Russia in the Cold War left and came here. We are slowly being strangled by them while Russia grows. Yes there are bad people, but what country doesn’t have bads? Russia is for Russia…like we used to be.

[BobL]

“Putin happens to be a Communist, trying to restore the Soviet Union.”

Link please. He has talked out restoring Russia, which is significantly less than the Soviet Union, but I don’t know of him ever saying anything about restoring the Soviet Union.

[Always A Marine]

I’m not a big fan of Communists winning. Putin happens to be a Communist, trying to restore the Soviet Union.

I keep hearing that assertion, but without evidence. The first tenet of Marxism is the progressive (graduated) income tax, which Russia dumped in 2001 when it instituted a 13% flat tax. We Americans are the ones still burdened with the progressive income tax.

[BobL]

“I’m not a big fan of Communists winning. Putin happens to be a Communist, trying to restore the Soviet Union.”

This is the ENTIRE post that I responded to. Where, in this post do you state it was a ‘logical deduction’ as you now claim, or otherwise not state it as a fact as to what Putin intentions are?

Hint: It’s best to quit while you’re behind.

[Widget Jr]

#12. That is why Putin needs to lose.