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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:52:14 -0500
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Paul S Person wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:49:19 -0500, Anonymous <anon@anon.net> wrote:
> 
>> Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> On 1/20/25 14:16, Anonymous wrote:
>>>> Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>>> On 1/16/25 12:02, Anonymous wrote:
>>>>>> Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>>>>> Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>      First bomb out of the rack from Russia
>>>>>>>> or its North Korean pal will result in a lot of
>>>>>>>> unplanned Russian demolitions and NK would be
>>>>>>>> be history.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Putin won't nuke the Ukraine because he views it as an integral part of
>>>>>>> his empire and he wants it whole and intact.  Or as whole and intact as
>>>>>>> possible.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But surrounding areas, he doesn't care about except in that they provide
>>>>>>> a zone of isolation around Russia... and Poland and Czechia can do that
>>>>>>> just fine whether or not they are habitable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now the question: is he stupid and crazy enough to do that in the face of
>>>>>>> invariable retaliation?  That's the one I can't answer, and the more that
>>>>>>> he isolates himself from the outside world the harder that gets to answer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>      If we had stood up to the Third Reich earlier
>>>>>>>> the Germans might not have advised the Japanese that
>>>>>>>> we were not fighters. Pacificistic Isolationists and
>>>>>>>> anti-semites kept Roosevelt from helping Europe until
>>>>>>>> we were attacked by Germany's Allies, the Axis.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Indeed.  On the whole, Chamberlain and Petain didn't go down very well
>>>>>>> in history.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>      Pacifistic intentions are fine until the invader
>>>>>>>> is at your door. Then you better hope that you have
>>>>>>>> learned from the past.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am very strongly against war in general.  But we have war:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You started it back in 2014.
>>>>>
>>>>>       Wasn't that when Putin stole Crimea and the USA did not
>>>>> raise much of a stink at this invasion of a sovereign state.
>>>>
>>>> That was the month following the US-backed Maidan coup.
>>>
>>>       Well I had to look that up and the following is a quote.,
>>>> The Maidan Revolution, also known as the Revolution of Dignity, was a series
>>>> of protests in Ukraine from late 2013 to early 2014 that led to the ousting of
>>>> President Viktor Yanukovych. It was sparked by his decision to reject a trade
>>>> agreement with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia,
>>>> resulting in violent clashes and significant political change in Ukraine.
>>>
>>>       So people acting within their own nation regarding their own
>>> government is "starting a war"?
>>
>> The Maidan coup was instigated by the US government. It was NOT people
>> acting organically within their own nation. The new regime then set
>> about trying to exterminate all Russians and Russian speakers within
>> the Ukraine.
> 
> Yet another PTTP (Putin/Trump Talking Point).
> 
> But keep right on living in alt-reality. Sooner or later you will find
> that /reality bites/.

How's that Great Ukrainian Counteroffensive going? LOL!