Posted on 01/31/2023 8:33:11 PM PST by Antioch
The Russians live in a country with a very harsh climate.
They have endurance.
[Yet here we are draining the lifeblood out of a new nation and for what? ]
I’m talking about Ukraine. Russia is doing fine after round 10 of sanctions.
So Afghanistan withdrawal is a successful U.S. policy?
>> They have endurance.
The US suffers from Youth Soccer
Yes, according to Thoroughly Modern Milley.
You’re f’in d*mn right it is.
A rather bizarre and inaccurate assumption given how many Ukrainians are being fed into the Russian meat grinder daily.
That’s Moscow. Sochi is far better
Are you blind? Have you no concept of national debt?
The debt is not just a number on paper. It is real money to be paid back with interest. In fiscal 2023 US Treasury will pay out 2/3 Trillion dollars in interest alone on national debt. We are a bankrupt nation. Every dollar spent in foreign wars adds to national debt because of chronic budget deficits.
31,500,000,000,000 debt already!
The problem with this analysis is that the roles are reversed.
Vietnam was a great victory for the USSR. The US is playing the role of the USSR this time around. The Russians are the US. Maybe Russians need to learn from other people?
Or Afghanistan. The US won there too, by supporting the Afghans. The Soviets were also the US.
Other people make mistakes too.
The problem with US political controversies is that everyone is terminally parochial.
The problem with this analysis is that the roles are reversed.
Vietnam was a great victory for the USSR. The US is playing the role of the USSR this time around. The Russians are the US. Maybe Russians need to learn from other people?
Or Afghanistan. The US won there too, by supporting the Afghans. The Soviets were also the US.
Other people make mistakes too.
The problem with US political controversies is that everyone is terminally parochial.
” In the decades following his 1991 pronouncement, the United States has been at war in one form or another for all but two of the 32 years that have followed.”
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And running up $31 trillion of debt in the process, which is more of a threat to our national security than Russia is.
You are woefully mistaken.
Yep. For what?
I have learned the hard way by experience from both individual personal as well as national experience, the Biblical admonition:
"Never take up someone else's offenses."You will likely hurt not only yourself, but every else involved when it is none of your business.
"How does any rational or caring human being watch us lose a 20-year war against cave-dwelling barbarians, and not just lose that war, but lose it in the most humiliating fashion imaginable, and less than a year later already have a war-boner for Ukraine?" -- John Nolte, 3/5/2022
Interestingly, the cave dwelling barbarians depended on regular arms supplies from the Pakistanis. In this case the US is the Pakistanis.
Russia’s soldiers are dying in Ukraine, not ours. Russia is in a quagmire.
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