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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:31:17 -0500
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On 1/10/2025 11:50 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 1/10/2025 7:53 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> ...
>>> There is a bunch of warmongers on this board.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>
>> I'm not a war monger, but you seem to be Neville Chamberlain.
>>
>> This isn't something we can negotiate. Putin must be taken down.
>>
>> pt
> 
> Tell you what Pete, lets send your children to war this time.  I have 
> already sent my son to war twice.  The first time he came back to us 
> severely damaged (double concussion, wouldn't let him come home for a 
> month until his eyes start focusing) but better than four of his buddies 
> who did not come back.  One of his buddies died right next to him and 
> the Iraqi turncoat turned the AK on my son but had run out of bullets so 
> my son shot him ten times with his pistol.  The second time he came back 
> in fairly good shape even though his platoon were bodyguards to the US 
> Marine Colonel of their battalion and driving him all over western Iraq 
> for a year trying to keep a civil war from starting.
> 
> My son is now 41 and a noncommisioned officer (corporal).  He spent 8 
> years in the Corps (4 active, 4 reserve) and is subject to callup until 
> he is 46.  He figures that he will be an instructor if he gets called up 
> but we never expected him to get sent to 100 yards away from Syria and 
> constantly fighting gun and mortar battles with them from Iraq.  To this 
> day he cannot go to a fireworks display and it has been 18 years.

I thank you for his service, and understand how it informs your
attitude.

But again, I call your attention to the Munich Agreement and Neville
Chamberlain. The circumstances are remarkably parallel. Appeasement
didn't work then, and it wont work now.

Any ceasefire would be used by Russia to re-arm, and in 4-8 years
they'll just attack again, as they did after seizing Crimea. At
that point your grandchildren might get called up.

pt