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Brezhnev came to regret the Afghanistan War.

I think Putin will regret the Ukrainian War.

1 posted on 02/23/2022 8:45:55 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Afghanistan/Ukraine

Comparing Lavash with Borscht.

2 posted on 02/23/2022 8:50:51 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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Maybe. But Brezhnev didn’t colonize Afghanistan with Russian civilians.

Putin is almost certain to colonize Ukrainian areas with Russian loyalists.

It’s a historical tradition.


3 posted on 02/23/2022 8:58:17 AM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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“I think Putin will regret the Ukrainian War.”

Different animal.


According to the 2001 census, ethnic Ukrainians form 58% of the population of Luhansk Oblast and 56.9% of Donetsk Oblast. Ethnic Russians form the largest minority, accounting for 39% and 38.2% of the two oblasts respectively.[58] Modern Donbas is a predominately Russophone region. According to the 2001 census, Russian is the main language of 74.9% of residents in Donetsk Oblast and 68.8% in Luhansk Oblast.[59] The proportion of native Russian-speakers is higher than ethnic Russians because some ethnic Ukrainians and other nationalities also indicate Russian as their mother tongue.[citation needed]

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4 posted on 02/23/2022 9:04:13 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: SpeedyInTexas; piasa; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/us/no-cia-officers-will-be-dismissed-over-double-agent.html

The Director of Central Intelligence said today that no one would be dismissed or demoted for the “systemic failure” of the Central Intelligence Agency in the case of Aldrich H. Ames, the spy for Moscow who flourished inside the C.I.A. for nine years.

Instead, the Director, R. James Woolsey, said he was sending letters of reprimand to 11 former and present C.I.A. officials, including his director of clandestine operations, Ted Price. . .

Though Mr. Woolsey would not identify the 10 other people he reprimanded, they included the agency’s Deputy Inspector General, Burton Gerber, who ran the Soviet operations division. . .


13 posted on 02/23/2022 8:35:31 PM PST by Fedora
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