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The Other America (Or the Three Missed Chances to Avoid World War III)
Strategic culture ^ | 01/29/2023 | Matthew Ehret

Posted on 02/02/2023 8:25:37 AM PST by MarMema

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Trump is irreplaceable.
1 posted on 02/02/2023 8:25:37 AM PST by MarMema
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To: MarMema

If people EVER thought that the Cold War was ‘over’, they were deceived and misinformed.

The West intends to own Russia and all it’s territories and resources.


2 posted on 02/02/2023 8:41:08 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: MarMema
the Three Missed Chances to Avoid World War III

1. On Feb. 22, 2022, Putin could have refrained from invading Ukraine.

2. After having invaded Ukraine, Putin could at any time have then withdrawn his troops. Instead, he expanded his invasion and even began annexing Ukrainian territory.

3. This morning while shaving, Putin didn't accidentally cut his own throat.

Regards,

3 posted on 02/02/2023 8:47:56 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: MarMema

I agree about Trump, and I’ll also contend he actually won reelection in 2020.

If we don’t do something about election fraud—we can’t even TALK about it on social media—that will be our TRUE end.

In order to have a nuclear war, Putin has to begin it by firing a missile with a nuclear warhead. We won’t be first, but we will respond in kind. I’m not talking about Joe Biden, or politicians, responding. Everyone thinks that the President with the “football” is the only way. Not so. This response will happen because it is on a hair trigger, and will go off if any one nation starts it. Probably every country with nuclear weapons would then use them also. It becomes use them or lose them.

Putin knows this.

We won’t “make” him use nuclear weapons. He’s not some autobot programmed to reach some decision tree.

In any case, let’s all make sure that doesn’t happen.


4 posted on 02/02/2023 8:58:25 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: MarMema

This is a great piece and right on target.

Thank you for posting it.

And yes, there’s only one Trump.


5 posted on 02/02/2023 9:08:17 AM PST by katie didit
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To: MarMema

‘who additionally chose to declare Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism”’

Well, duh, Russia has been the largest state sponsor of terrorism for many, many decades. Just about every terror group on the planet can be connected back to Russia. Russia opened a university specifically to train terrorists from around the world, Russian embassies were basically terrorist safehouses and bombs and weapons were smuggled for them in Russian diplomatic pouches. And that didn’t all magically end when the Cold War ended either.

We just refrained from making a big stink about this openly, for diplomatic reasons, but it is certainly true.


6 posted on 02/02/2023 9:10:43 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: MarMema

Bookmark


7 posted on 02/02/2023 9:14:20 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: larrytown

“The West intends to own Russia and all it’s territories and resources.”

LOL! Nobody in the West wants Russia, because then they would have to try to govern Russians, and you can’t pay us enough to put up with that. The Chinese can have it if they want.


8 posted on 02/02/2023 9:14:31 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: MarMema

Label your opponents nazis...this is an old stale democrat stunt. Article is rubbish.


9 posted on 02/02/2023 9:14:42 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Boogieman

Where did you learn this?

Our very own CIA has been sponsoring terrorists all over the world for at least 50 years.

Maybe it is a superpower thing.


10 posted on 02/02/2023 9:15:15 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: Alas Babylon!

“We won’t “make” him use nuclear weapons. He’s not some autobot programmed to reach some decision tree.”

Well, to the morons parroting Russian propaganda, that’s exactly what Putin, and all of Russia, apparently is. They are just puppets dancing around doing what the WEF cleverly tricked them into doing, so nothing, no matter how barbarous, is ever their fault.


11 posted on 02/02/2023 9:18:42 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: MarMema

“Where did you learn this?”

I read a lot.

“Our very own CIA has been sponsoring terrorists all over the world for at least 50 years.”

Nah, usually just revolutionaries and insurgents looking to topple a single government. Not international terrorist groups looking to commit global jihad. Though Obama did dip his toe into that pool.


12 posted on 02/02/2023 9:23:32 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: RedMonqey

Look what I found.

“And advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool”


13 posted on 02/02/2023 9:24:10 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: Cronos

“It was former National Security Advisor Brzezinski who outlined the needed carving up of Russia in his 1997 Grand Chessboard under Washington diktat could also be smelled across the pages of the PNAC white papers.”

Some help for you here on US History since you are not an American..


14 posted on 02/02/2023 9:27:08 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: Alas Babylon!

“We won’t be first, but we will respond in kind.”

Given the state of our current government and military, I am not sanguine about the will or capability to “respond in kind”.


15 posted on 02/02/2023 9:27:26 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: larrytown

The deep state and CIA were determined to continue the Cold War and now they seek a shooting war. We had multiple chances to end a confrontational policy after the Soviets fell but alas we had to have an enemy.

While the deep state and CIA fools were still fighting the Cold War they allowed and encourage the Chicoms to become a major power in the world. What’s sad is these deep state/CIA fools still don’t realize they have managed to get the Russians and Chinese who were played off against one another quite well in the Cold War, to unite as allies against the US and Europe. Well done deep state and elites, you bloody fools!

Bush 41 through Obumbler the US government has been played like a fiddle by the Chinese, the fools in the deep state/CIA and now we have backed ourselves into a corner with the Europeans as our allies and they are no real military threat to anyone other than in name only. And now we through a stupid war that the CIA and the Russians bumbled their way into we are bankrupting ourselves and emptying our weapons depots to the point we can’t fight a war ourselves.

All the while the same usual suspects buy all the crap the CIA/BiteMe shovel’s like it’s gospel from on High. The deep state made it clear to conservatives in 2020 they hate our guts and they alone would SELECT the president and would eagerly go to war against conservative Americans. These same conservatives continue to lap up their drivel like its steak and conveniently forget how these same government agencies stole and election and despises their existence.

These same conservatives are now in the camp of their CNC BiteMe, his moronic Harvard faculty lounge he calls a cabinet and the deep state all of which they profess to oppose.


16 posted on 02/02/2023 9:40:02 AM PST by sarge83
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To: alexander_busek

Regard your own damn self


17 posted on 02/02/2023 9:49:06 AM PST by webheart
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To: webheart; All
Regard your own damn self

Thank you for your valuable contribution to the discussion at hand!

Regards,

18 posted on 02/02/2023 9:57:33 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Bonemaker

Everyday we are inundated with propaganda from every side.

Choosing what to believe or not believe, whether sanguine or uncertain, is for us all to decide.

I don’t believe much of what I hear from anyone nowadays.

Even people posting here have agendas, narratives, and points to make, often clothed in insults and viscousness, innuendo and above all politics.

It’s not up to will was my whole point. Things have put in place decades ago that remain ready to fire. These systems were put in place to avoid a wavering political nondecision. For all the political talk, one doesn’t see changes. It’s not like diversity decided to look at a particular missile warning satellite or sensor site.

Anyway, my statement stands.

M.A.D. It is, after all, the only thing we have going to ensure it doesn’t happen.


19 posted on 02/02/2023 10:01:58 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Alas Babylon!
Choosing what to believe or not believe, whether sanguine or uncertain, is for us all to decide.

The time is coming when people will be forbidden from getting news from "non-official" sources, just as the Nazis made listening to foreign broadcasts punishable by law.

20 posted on 02/02/2023 10:03:13 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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