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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:09:21 -0800
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On 1/10/2025 1:43 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 1/10/2025 10:23 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> ...
>> I don't want to just see Ukraine get back its territory.
>>
>> I'd like to see the Russian Empire broken up, and simply
>> unable to attack the West again.
>>
>> We're getting close:
>>
>> The Russian economy is getting mighty shaky, with 18%
>> interest rates, and about 20% inflation.
>>
>> Russia is rapidly running out of war machines, and can't
>> manufacture them at anything like the rate at which they're
>> being destroyed.
>>
>> Similarly for manpower - he's having to bring in troops
>> from North Korea, and Russian meat wave tactics run through
>> men very, very quickly.
>>
>> It looks like he can keep it up for less than a year before
>> things collapse.
>>
>> We need to keep the pressure up.
>>
>> pt
> 
> Yeah, putting pressure on the guy who owns 14,000 canned sunshine 
> missiles is going to go well.  Not.
> 
We have canned sunshine too and ours are much more likely to actually work.

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