Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anonymous Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:52:14 -0500 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 03:52:15 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="c4af4a3027e8317d29ea238d8aa6bb2f616aa3fc"; logging-data="938790"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4369 Lines: 69 Paul S Person wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:49:19 -0500, Anonymous 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  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!