That is the beginning of such a curious statement, we should explore all of it more carefully:
- Bulwyf: "All of us with actual experience and in the know..."
Who in the world are such people with "actual experience" and "in the know", and how are they/you posting on Free Republic?
"In the know" is not Free Republic, "in the know" are elitists Democrats and radicals of all stripes.
"In the know" is all about a cadre of superior minds who are going to rule over and direct all of us ignorant unwashed masses.So, on Free Republic, FRiend, you can take your "in the know" and shove it where the sun don't shine.
And what, exactly is your "actual experience" -- in the Russian army?
- Bulwyf: "...know Russia has shown great restraint."
Of course, Russia is "restrained" by any number of factors, including:- Restrained by the limits of its own military resources, especially manpower and weapons.
- Restrained by the perceived limits of Russian peoples' willingness to tolerate current deprivations in support of the Ukraine war.
- Restrained by the limits of Russia's allies and supporters, like China, NoKo & Iran, to supply Russia with weapons and people for the Ukraine meat grinder.
- Restrained by the limits of NATO allies to tolerate Russia's military aggressions near their borders.
- Restrained by the limits of self-destruction Russians are willing to tolerate if Vlad the Invader launches nuclear weapons at his enemies.
Notice that what's not included in the list of restraints on Russia's actions are any interest in issues of legality, morality, safety, economic or humanitarian concerns for even Russia's own people, much less Russia's enemies.
So, yes, Russia has shown "great restraint", but not for any reasons that need to concern us.
- Bulwyf: "What alarms us is that people don’t realize that and think they can just keep pushing."
What everyone not blinded by Russian propaganda does realize is that the only way to stop and defeat an aggressive dictator/empire builder, like Vlad the Invader, is to threaten or stop him militarily -- there's no other way.
The only real issue is: do we stop him while he's relatively small & weak, or must we wait until his conquests have made him too powerful to defeat with anything less than a global scale war? -- i.e., 1930s redux. - Bulwyf: "I guess most won’t be happy until the see the warheads coming, or if they’re lucky they’ll only have to send their kids to their deaths."
I'd call that Russians projecting their own mental pathologies onto their enemies.
- Bulwyf: "The war cry can be 'for the glory of the NWO!'["New World Order"] "
In reality, the Old World Order is the one established by the US and our Western allies beginning in 1945.
It is centered in Western-style democracies in North America, Europe and the Western Pacific, but includes many other friendly nations as well.
From 1945 to 1991 the "Old World Order" was strongly opposed by Soviet style Communism and since Vlad the Invader's rise to power around 2000, it's increasingly opposed by Russian Tsarist-style empire building -- so, Vlad's is the "New World Order" that he wants to replace our Old World Order. - Bulwyf: "...you’re all being played by your own and either too daft to see or don’t want to because you can’t admit you were lied to and it would ruin your worldview and the entire history as you were programmed to believe."
It does seem to be a standard claim of all our "in the know" elitists that, in effect: -- the rest of us ignorant & unwashed masses have been deluded & brainwashed into believing that good is bad, up is down, day is night, and the reality we see is not really real.
Such claims are at least entertaining, if worth entertaining only briefly -- pending some new & indisputable fact that can reveal what the "real truth" might actually be.
But I would not hold my breath waiting for such a "real fact" to be revealed by those "with actual experience" and "in the know".
I think the reality is that nearly all such claims are just scam & nonsense. - Bulwyf: "Another robot."
Another self description by one of our "in the know" pro-Russians.
