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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:06:20 -0600
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On 1/15/2025 8:42 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Go watch the new Napoleon movie.  Towards the end of his career,
>> Napoleon takes 650,000 French and German troops to Russia, intent on
>> taking Moscow.  When he gets to Moscow, no one is there and it is
>> torched while they are in it.
>>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia
> 
> Everything else aside, is the movie good?  I have seen Abel Gance's movie
> and read Tolstoy's discussion from the other side.
> 
>> My point is that the Russians have been willing to go to extreme lengths
>> to fight off invaders.  And at this point, they consider Ukraine to be a
>> extended part of Russia.
> 
> This is absolutely correct, but it doesn't change what the right thing
> to do is.  And because it's absolutely correct, it means any capitulation
> now is just going to kick the can down the road a bit, which the Ukranians
> know perfectly well.  Because the Russian attitude won't change.
> 
> I don't think kicking the can down the road is a ever a good strategy,
> although it sort of worked for the Germans at the "end" of WWI.  Kind of.
> 
> Dealing with monarchies is a weird thing, because it comes down entirely
> to figuring out what the monarch is thinking, which isn't always what he
> is saying either domestically or to the foreign press.  Whatever happened
> to Kremlinologists and Sovietologists anyway?
> --scott

I enjoyed the new Napoleon movie and relearned a lot of European 
history.  The battle scenes were amazing.

Lynn