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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:39:59 -0800
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On 1/10/2025 6:15 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 1/10/2025 8:09 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Got proof that our canned sunshine is going to work ?  The USA has not 
> tested a nuclear weapon since 1992.
> 
> Russia is even worse, they last tested a nuclear weapon in 1990 
> (actually Soviet Union).
> 
Our military is much more competent and not so corrupt that officers 
sell critical parts and components on the black market and our enlisted 
are not permanently drunk.


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