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To: marcusmaximus

Patton once observed that we should fight the Russians now, while we have the army here to defeat them, or we will surely have to fight them later at greater difficulty.

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14 posted on 09/20/2022 9:59:02 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: M Kehoe

“Patton once observed that we should fight the Russians now, while we have the army here to defeat them, or we will surely have to fight them later at greater difficulty.”

Patton was referring to the Soviet Union - wound up we never had to fight them.

As to Russia, now, same thing, we never HAD to fight them - we CHOSE to fight them.


16 posted on 09/20/2022 10:00:17 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 44 degrees)
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To: M Kehoe
Patton once observed that we should fight the Russians now, while we have the army here to defeat them, or we will surely have to fight them later at greater difficulty.

Germany attacked Russia in 1914, out of fear that within 5 years Russia would be too strong. So it was "now or never".

25 posted on 09/20/2022 10:02:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: M Kehoe

Yeah...that was 80 years ago. I think we can move on from the WWII equivalencies.

I have to hear how the Russians are used to hardship because...80 years ago.

I have to hear how Patton wanted to keep going...80 years ago.

The Russian mindset wants to go back to the late 1700s. Its absurd.

Russia is a massive country with resources THEY haven’t fully discovered. They could be a wonderful world power. But instead, they are pig-headed slavs who cannot see the world has changed and they allow their leaders to use them as fodder.

I am tired of all of this Russia stirring the pot because they are small minded people. No one wants your stuff. Stop lashing out at everyone.


161 posted on 09/20/2022 11:12:14 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: M Kehoe

He was right because that was the Soviet union this is a little different at least to some of us here

I thought Putin harbors dreams of an imperial Russia but I don’t see him as a Soviet even though his roots are obviously Soviet I think it was just a Main‘s for power to him he allows way too much free enterprise for a communist but then again in all honesty shows the CCP in fact their free enterprise system is more freewheeling than ours is as long as you don’t rub feathers or get political

It’s a strange world that I did not see coming I will be the first to admit and I do not think that Neil conservatives or Wolk globalist handle it very well in the interest of western civilization or American objectives traditional American objectives


250 posted on 09/20/2022 12:55:34 PM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic)
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