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2022-12-31 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Consequences of the destruction of the USSR

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Posted by badanov 2022-12-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 Personally I have long felt Bush Sr botched the fall of the USSR although I'm sure my opinion of how it should have been done is very different than that of the Russians who want the Soviet Union back.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-12-31 10:14|| 2022-12-31 10:14|| Front Page Top

#2 How to do it different? Repeat the mistakes made at Versailles? Repeat the mistakes made at Yalta?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-31 10:18|| 2022-12-31 10:18|| Front Page Top

#3 "...the split of the fraternal republics" (!) ranks up with Whoopi Goldberg's "I know it wasn't rape-rape,..." 'Fraternal', my arse.

Posted by magpie 2022-12-31 10:39|| 2022-12-31 10:39|| Front Page Top

#4 I would start by buying their nuclear weapons. No handouts, they are proud people, let them buy wheat with nuclear weapons and nuclear warships. I would also not expand nato but work to make the non Russia Warsaw pact into a neutral defense pact between Germany and Russia to help make the both less paranoid.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-12-31 13:38|| 2022-12-31 13:38|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Profoundly intellient. So, it will offend Dale and Forkbeard.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-31 13:45|| 2022-12-31 13:45|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 Well put. Appears Murcek has his panties in a bind.

Posted by Dale 2022-12-31 13:59|| 2022-12-31 13:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Dale, anything upsets you eases my drawers back.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-31 14:02|| 2022-12-31 14:02|| Front Page Top

#8 #4: well put. Let them preserve their dignity.

Posted by irish rage boy 2022-12-31 16:45|| 2022-12-31 16:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Dale's gonna cry..

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-31 17:01|| 2022-12-31 17:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Ref #7: Perhaps its just me, but in the last couple of years, that left leg seems to be the most difficult.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-31 17:02|| 2022-12-31 17:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Cute little PT specialist during my recovery from femur breakage told me to avoid getting my ankles tangled in my boxers while putting them on.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-31 17:11|| 2022-12-31 17:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Upset?, who's upset. These responses are like the gratify on a bathroom wall.

Posted by Dale 2022-12-31 17:16|| 2022-12-31 17:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Dale has the usual awkwardness with English grammar.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-31 17:20|| 2022-12-31 17:20|| Front Page Top

#14

Posted by Uloling Chimp6457 2022-12-31 18:10|| 2022-12-31 18:10|| Front Page Top

#15 Enuf of that UC. It's the bloody Holidays.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-31 18:15|| 2022-12-31 18:15|| Front Page Top

#16

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-31 18:23|| 2022-12-31 18:23|| Front Page Top

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