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WHY YOU CAN'T BE AN IRAN HAWK AND A RUSSIA DOVE
Institute for the Study of War ^

Posted on 05/19/2024 2:46:10 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE

A Russian victory is an Iranian victory. Moscow and Tehran have formed a military bloc with the aim of defeating the United States and its allies in the Middle East, Europe, and around the world. Russian and Iranian military forces have been fighting alongside one another in Syria for nearly a decade.

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To: Chad C. Mulligan
No!   I only got to the point where I saw that it was some obscure Russian who died in 1926 and stopped reading because it is irrelevant to anything happening in this day and age.   It is about as relevant as Francis' fixation on the importance of France in the American Revolution (not).

Totally obscure.   Get back in your time machine and dial it to sometime between 1917 and 1987.   Nobody wants you here.

141 posted on 05/20/2024 2:45:39 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: higgmeister
.....because it is irrelevant to anything happening in this day and age...

What's relevant is that Putin is lionizing this mass murderer. Tells us who he is and what his objectives are.

Imagine Germany putting up a statue of Himmler.

142 posted on 05/20/2024 3:17:59 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: higgmeister
Nobody wants you here.

YOU don't want me here because I keep fisking your posts. Tough.

143 posted on 05/20/2024 3:21:30 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: higgmeister
BTW....USA-FRANCE is not entirely wrong. As the Constitution was being drafted, James Madison made a request to Thomas Jefferson for a large number of books on classical forms of government to be sent to him. Jefferson obliged and sent the books, from Paris....in France.
144 posted on 05/20/2024 3:31:11 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: USA-FRANCE
America without its allied countries (its customers) would not be functional

When it comes to America’s military presence around the planet, it’s what guarantees its security and preserving its true independence today.

It’s a way to resist the ever expanding GINSCA (Globo-Islamo-NeoSoviet-Commie-Alliance) which is everywhere and hates America.

Countries hate us because we waltz in like we own the place and tell them what to do. Tell me, why were we in Vietnam? Korea? Panama? Mogadishu? Iraq the first time? Why do we have a presence in Africa at all?

giving them all the necessary leeway to massively expand themselves even further everywhere - spreading like cancer.

I don't see how that's our problem, or even a problem in the first place.

America’s isolationism would be an act of extreme anti-nationalism... and it would be a pro-globalist act.

Our enemies (especially Russia and China

How are either of them enemies?

Here is my general response to you

Go be a globalist elsewhere, because wanting to be spread all over the world is what the globalists want.

145 posted on 05/20/2024 3:38:41 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
I'll grant you that Jefferson was very devoted to Voltaire who died in 1778.   I am sure Voltaire's works would have been in any library he sent to Madison along with all of the Ancient Classics.   When I visited Monticello in the late 1960s, the bust of Voltaire was on a pilaster in his combination Bedroom, Study and Solarium.
Voltaire, the great French philosopher and writer, died six years before Jefferson arrived in Paris. Jefferson admired his works and included them among a list of books of ancient and modern history, mathematics, astronomy, and religion recommended for the education of his nephew, Peter Carr, in 1787.

Jefferson's library included Voltaire's works published by Beaumarchais at Kehl, which he visited. A little more than a year after Jefferson arrived in Paris, he wrote, "I find the general fate of humanity here most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil."[2]

"Voltaire distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the masses."   In that, our Constitution was influenced by Voltaire more than the Constitution of France with their mob rule.
146 posted on 05/20/2024 4:20:19 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
What's relevant is that Putin is lionizing this mass murderer. Tells us who he is and what his objectives are.

Imagine Germany putting up a statue of Himmler.

You make no sense.   What are you referring to?

147 posted on 05/20/2024 4:22:45 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: USA-FRANCE; higgmeister
Do I have to remind you that the American constitution was in large parts copied and pasted from French revolutionary values, practices and theories?

The biggest load of Bull Shite from the Horse Manure Frog yet.

James Madisonis the primary and leading author of the Constitution, and his notes, records and the Federalist Papers (by Madison and other authors) prove that.

Much thought and Principle was garnered from the Magna Carta, English Common Law, John Locke, Edward Coke and William Blackstone.

The small contribution of French thought came from the WRITINGS of Baron Montesquieu who died in 1755, not participating in either the American or French Revolutions.

Knock off the Lying.

148 posted on 05/20/2024 4:55:38 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
You might learn something from this, but I sure won't be holding my breath, because when faced with reality, you use the all too convenient claim of having stated a straw man argument, though you refused to elaborate. You argue like a Democrat when they can't come back with some snappy response.
149 posted on 05/20/2024 5:23:22 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: higgmeister
You make no sense. What are you referring to?

Do you not know who Heinrich Himmler was? Commandant of Hitler's SS? Seriously?

150 posted on 05/20/2024 5:25:25 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Robert DeLong

Robert, you DO know what is meant by a straw man. You keep assigning to me ideas and arguments that I have never expressed, so what else am I to say?


151 posted on 05/20/2024 5:30:56 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Svartalfiar
Projecting our power over 5,000 miles, crossing an ocean, would face difficulties. The supply line would not go unchallenged. Missile and drone attacks would take a toll.

Not many difficulties. We have plenty of experience doing this. Maybe you have no clue what the US Army is - it's the number one logistics company in the world. Those of us in combat arms is barely 1/8 of the Army, everyone else is there to support us. 7/8 of us is just beans and bullet delivery.

I mean contested logistics in a WW3 scenario. I doubt the Army is suddenly going to sprout a Navy. Trying to deliver supplies while Russia or China is trying to stop you differs from uncontested logistics.

Does the Army have a fleet of combat warships to transport about a million men and equipment without being sunk? What does an Army transport ship do when an enemy warship or submarine shows up?

Links only due to source, Army Times and Defense News.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2024/02/12/army-activates-first-overseas-watercraft-unit-in-decades/

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2022/10/10/us-army-heightens-focus-on-contested-logistics-in-pacific/

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2023/03/29/us-army-has-a-gigantic-problem-with-logistics-in-the-indo-pacific/

152 posted on 05/20/2024 5:55:26 PM PDT by woodpusher
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To: Navy Patriot

So you agree with me!
Montesquieu indeed! But there is way more to all this...

Beyond the fact that the US constitution was ratified just about a year before the French Revolution, and that BOTH the French and US revolutions were partly inspired by french thinkers (especially Montesquieu)... it’s highly important to recall another fact (more important than the US constitution itself): it’s the essential fact that America won its war of independence in the first place!
It was won in large part thanks to... France’s massive military help in troops, weapons, ammunition shipments, savvy military organisation and know-how.
All that was a needed prerequisite which permitted America to later envision and craft constitution.
If America would have remained British, there would be zero US constitution. Right?

No wonder Trump stated this about France:

“President Donald Trump, during a visit to Paris for Bastille Day, said, “France is America’s oldest ally. A lot of people don’t know that,” and added, “France helped us secure our independence, a lot of people forget.”

Navy Patriot? Are you disagreeing with President Trump??

Also, here is a nice read for you:

“Few Want to Admit It, but the French Saved America During the Revolution”
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/few-want-to-admit-it-but-the-french-saved-america-


153 posted on 05/20/2024 6:53:22 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (The only thing needed for Evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Darksheare
Trust neither, because Russia will enslave you for decades and NATO will protect you for decades.

Makes perfect sense.

154 posted on 05/20/2024 8:33:16 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

What protecting has NATO done in the mideast?
October 7 happened, NATO decided to say “stop picking on Hamas”.
And again, Libya, Egypt, and Syria.
Face it, NATO doesn’t stand for protecting anything but globohomo now.


155 posted on 05/20/2024 8:37:00 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare
What protecting has NATO done in the Mideast?

I don't know how to break this to you, but no nations in the Middle East are members of NATO.

156 posted on 05/20/2024 8:49:18 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

I hate to break it to you but we weren’t doing anything in the mideast without other NATO countries involved.


157 posted on 05/20/2024 9:05:05 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare
And again, Libya, Egypt, and Syria.

NATO didn't protect non-NATO members? Tell me more!!!

158 posted on 05/20/2024 9:16:49 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

So why is Ukraine something to protect then because they aren’t a NATO member.


159 posted on 05/20/2024 9:25:19 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare

Tell me more about NATO encroaching.


160 posted on 05/20/2024 9:27:30 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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