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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Russia's Potemkin power
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 12:46:17 +1100
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On 5/11/2024 6:38 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 09:49:35 -0800, wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/3/24 19:53, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>> On 4/11/2024 11:51 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 17:39:16 -0700, Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11/3/2024 5:26 PM, Don Y wrote:
>>>>>> <https://mwi.westpoint.edu/russias-potemkin-army/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> First Vlad begs covid test kits from Trump (gee, makes
>>>>>> you wonder how good the russian vaccine was if they
>>>>>> can't even TEST for the disease!)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then, goes, hat in hand, to China for help.  "Here,
>>>>>> Vlad, come sit on my lap...".  Then, to NKorea.
>>>>>
>>>>> And, let's not forget Iran!
>>>>
>>>> And let's also not forget that Russia isn't fighting Ukraine alone,
>>>> but all the countries who've supplied arms and training to Zelensky.
>>>> IOW, an undeclared war with NATO effectively. I'd say that makes
>>>> seeking a bit of external assistance entirely justifiiable!
>>>
>>> You would, but you are a gullible twit. More perceptive observers note
>>> that Russia invaded Ukraine, and NATO is merely supporting the Ukrainian
>>> efforts to repel that invasion.
>>>
>>> We all know why Russia invaded the Ukraine - the country was being run
>>> well enough by Zelensky and his ministers to highlight how corrupt and
>>> incompetent Putin's regime is.
>>>
>>> The best is the enemy of the good - though Putin's Russian regime
>>> doesn't even make it to mediocre.
>>>
>>>>>> It must be humiliating to have turned his country
>>>>>> into a second (third?) world power in such a short time!
>>>
>>> And humiliated people do lash out.
>>>
>>>>>> One wonders when China will start eyeing their neighbor
>>>>>> to the north with the idea of acquiring some additional
>>>>>> *chinese* real estate (using Russia's argument re: Ukraine
>>>>>> as justification)?
>>>
>>> Who would want the bits of Russia immediately adjacent to China?
>>>
>> Depends on what's in the ground, just like in Eastern Ukraine (Lithium,
>> in that case). Putin doesn't give a damn if the next door neighbor makes
>> him look bad, he wants the Lithium for when the world finally stops
>> buying his oil.
> 
> He really wants the Russian Empire back and he wants to be czar. He
> hates "the west."
> 
> Like in Cuba, the dictators are happy, even eager, to push out the
> troublemakers, the thinkers, and leave a loyal, patriotic, poor,
> stupid population.

Trump seems to have the same game plan for the US.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney